^ .^^ -. 
 
 
 
 ■/ v; 
 
 * .c- 
 
 
 
 ^:.:>^'^'^° c; 
 
 ■o- 
 
 ,'^<^. 
 
 ^ ", 
 
 
 ^ .0" 
 
 
 .v^\ 
 
 
 "bo^ 
 
 
 
 cP^ 
 
 J^^ 
 
 
 C- V 
 
 
 
 
 
 • 
 Q- ^ 
 
 ■'<< C 
 
 ^<^^ 
 
 A"* 
 
 °^ * ., K ^ \# 
 
 
 
 .-^■^ 
 
 '-^ 
 
 
 
 
 
 o 
 
 /•VJ o 
 
 
 v^ 
 
 ■'^•■.'| _i- ^ S 
 
 C3 
 
 "o '". , 
 
 
 
 : \0 °^.. 
 
 
 
 
 s 
 
 y 
 
 !' o . ^ ,# 
 
 V . 
 
 .•^^ c, 
 
 ,A 
 
 ^^"^^-V^' --. 
 
 
 j^' 
 
 .^^^ 
 
 •^. -^ o , V -^ ,0 
 
 ^ 'C' v> ^ ^ * " /• -- 
 
 
 -:s- 
 
 ^'. 
 
 -o 
 
 L' 
 
 
 N^- 
 
 
 » ^ ... 
 
 
 ..< 
 
 x^^' '^-^ 
 
 
 
 
 
 .f 
 
 
 
 
 i--/^^^ 
 
 cP 
 
 
 '^CA 
 
 ■<S 
 
 A 
 
 ■"00^ 
 
 ^^^ 
 
 ^^ -^c. 
 
 
 
 ■/ 
 
 O. 
 
 ■^00^ 
 
 ^^^ V^^ 
 
 V 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 c 
 
 * N - .^^> 
 
 i^ 
 
 
 
 
 ' ^ V 
 
 ,\ 
 
 
 ..^^ 
 
 ,V 
 
 .0^.. 
 
 ^ 
 
 Nil. 
 
 
 
 ^ ^"^ 
 
 
 
 
 ' -A' '^ ,i'-.-'>=; \^ "p r ■r' >>> * 
 
 0_ X ---J-^ « 
 "^Z- * s ^ V 
 
 
 
 
 .#■ %_ ' 
 
 
 ,^^ '\. 
 
 '■i' 
 
 ' A "^ 
 
 'a 0^ 
 
 .-^^ 
 
 
 .^^. 
 
 >c 
 
 <J> 
 
 
 .^^ 
 
 JBL 
 

 '<; 
 
 
 c^. 
 
 ,.-^' 
 
 
 c 
 
 
 ■0^ 
 
 
 
 
 .x^ 
 
 ^■•. 'it- \V "-^ * 8 1 
 
 ?• f? ^ * - A"' ^ ' "^ - . - a'* 
 
 « •< ^ - _ '^' -^ -^^ ^ 
 
 
 v'^ 
 
 -^ 
 
 r\ ^ "* . . !■> o 
 
TO 
 
 MY FATHER 
 
 ACHILLES J. VAWTER 
 
 THE MEMORY OF 
 
 WHOSE WISDOM AND GENTLENESS 
 
 HAS EVER 
 
 BEEN A SOURCE OF 
 
 COMFORT AND STRENGTH 
 
 THIS VOLUME 
 
 IS AFFECTIONATELY 
 
 DEDICATED 
 
/ 
 
Achilles J. Vawter 
 
THE 
 
 VAWTER FAMILY 
 
 IN AMERICA 
 
 WITH 
 
 THE ALLIED 
 
 FAMILIES OF 
 
 BRANHAM 
 
 
 CRAWFORD 
 
 WISE 
 
 
 LEWIS 
 
 STRIBLING 
 
 
 GLOVER 
 
 
 MONCRIEF 
 
 BY 
 
 GRACE VAWTER BICKNELL 
 
 ?» 
 
 INDIANAPOLIS 
 
 THE HOLLENBECK PRESS 
 
 1905 
 
 V> 
 
Copyright 1905 
 By Grace Vawter Bicknell 
 
 LIBRARY etOONQRCM 
 Ont CoDy RecrWM 
 
 JAN 22 1906 
 
 Copyrlffrt Entry 
 /tLASS CK. XXc. NO. 
 ^ ' COPY B. 
 
 
 P<^ 
 
 \ 
 
 ^ 
 
 6^ 
 
A PERSONAL WORD 
 
 My father had some old records in his possession which came 
 to him from his father. These were yellow with age and falling 
 to pieces. In another generation they would probably have been 
 lost. In looking these records over the thought came to me: 
 "How can these be saved?" It was then that the present history 
 was begun, with no hope or prospect of pecuniary reward, but 
 with the desire of preserving to our children the records of their 
 fathers. 
 
 In a work of this character must necessarily occur many 
 omissions and inaccuracies, for which indulgence is asked. It 
 will be observed that more space and fuller details are given in 
 regard to certain persons than to others. This is due chiefly to 
 a desire to bring into prominence some of those strong men whose 
 characteristics have given direction and distinctiveness to suc- 
 ceeding generations of the family. It is due in part also to the 
 fact that some of the pioneers took pleasure in writing their ex- 
 periences in diaries or in publishing reminiscences in the local 
 newspapers of their day, and these records have been in part 
 preserved and freely drawn upon in this history. These diaries 
 and recollections are doubly valuable because they not only re- 
 veal the character of the men who wrote them, but they also con- 
 vey a vivid picture of the manner of life and customs and hard- 
 ships of the people among whom they lived. 
 
 Of those now living some wrote freely in answer to inquiries, 
 taking great interest in the progress of the history; others sent 
 the briefest facts. Where lines have not been followed out it 
 is because knowledge concerning them could not be obtained, but 
 
VI 
 
 A PERSONAL WORD 
 
 all branches have been given as fully as the available information 
 made possible. Five years have been spent in correspondence with 
 the representatives of the various branches wherever a trace of 
 them could be obtained. Visits have been made to the older mem- 
 bers of the family,, national and state archives have been searched, 
 and information has been gathered from every possible source. 
 
 The first impetus to this work, aside from the papers left by my 
 father, was given me by Edwin J. Vawter, of Ocean Park, Cali- 
 fornia, who had been carefully gathering and preserving informa- 
 tion for years. The discovery of the coat of arms in that branch 
 of the Valletort family from which we are directly descended is 
 due to Miss Emma Vawter, of Santa Monica, California. The 
 first trace of the family of Richard Vawter, son of Philemon, was 
 found after great effort by Charles P. Vawter, of Lexington, 
 Kentucky. Milton Vawter, of North Madison, Indiana, who is 
 an authority on the family history, has given much valuable in- 
 formation. 
 
 So many others have been actively helpful in the collection of 
 this great body of material from every part of the country that 
 I despair of expressing to them individually my gratitude and 
 appreciation. But I am consoled in this omission by the certainty 
 that every one of them will feel amply repaid by the knowledge 
 that he or she has contributed to the completeness and accuracy of 
 
 this record. 
 
 The Vawter family of the early days was of a deeply religious 
 nature. The members in Virginia were Episcopalians. Jesse and 
 Philemon united with the Baptist Church. Jesse himself and a 
 number of his descendants have been Baptist ministers. Philemon 
 was also a Baptist minister. Beverly, a son of Philemon, became 
 a Christian minister and in his line are many ministers of the 
 same denomination. 
 
 David, the father of Jesse and Philemon, was a soldier in the 
 
A PERSONA lNv'ORD 
 
 Vll 
 
 Revolutionary War. Jesse also enlisted and served a few months. 
 Some reports, not fully authenticated, state that Philemon en- 
 listed, but his extreme youth at that time lends color to doubt 
 upon this point. Many of the descendants of Jesse and Philemon 
 served in the Civil War, the descendants of Jesse being entirely 
 on the Union side, and of those of Philemon some were in the 
 Union and some members of the Confederate Army. The family 
 was generally strongly opposed to slavery, but a few were slave- 
 holders. 
 
 The Vawters have not, as a rule, been prominent in public life, 
 though se\-eral of them have been influential members of the In- 
 diana legislature. 
 
 The descendants of Jesse Vawter number one thousand five 
 hundred and twenty-seven direct and five hundred and thirty-five 
 related by marriage into the direct line. The descendants of Phile- 
 mon number one thousand sixty-six direct and three hundred 
 and fifty related by marriage into the direct line. The number of 
 children of Jesse and Philemon were eighteen ; grandchildren, one 
 hundred and forty-three ; great-grandchildren, five hundred and 
 sixty-nine ; great-great-grandchildren, one thousand one hundred 
 and sixty-three; great-great-great-grandchildren to this date, six 
 hundred and ninety-three. The total number named in this rec- 
 ord, including the families of Edward and Russell Vawter, which 
 are not at all complete, are two thousand seven hundred and 
 eighty-two direct and nine hundred and forty by marriage into 
 the direct line, making three thousand seven hundred and twenty- 
 two in all. 
 
 Fresh from a close and extended study of the history of this 
 family, the conviction is strong within me that it tells the simple 
 story of sturdy courage, honest living, citizenship unpretentious, 
 yet shrinking not from the citizen's responsibilities ; the story of 
 very human endurance, not without faults, but measuring up 
 
viii A PERSONAL WORD 
 
 fully to the hope expressed by one of the living members of the 
 family, who, with the wisdom of almost four-score years, wrote : 
 
 "You are putting great labor on that tree. It must be large, 
 with many branches heavy with fruitage. But how about the 
 fruit? Would all pass inspection as first or second, or even third 
 class? In so large a tree, so old and of such wide-spreading 
 branches, there must be some knotty, some bad at core, some 
 worm-eaten. Let us be glad if in the main it is marketable." 
 
 Grace Vawter Bicknell. 
 
 Chicago, May i, 1905. 
 
■m 
 
 ABBREVIATIONS 
 
 b.=born 
 
 d.=dead 
 
 d. s.=died single ♦ 
 
 m.:=married 
 
 Name in parenthesis indicates maiden name, except 
 in index, where it indicates name of father 
 
VALLETORT 
 The Name from Which Vawter was Derived 
 
NAME 
 
 In the seventeenth century, about the year 1685, three brothers 
 came from England, probably from near Plymouth, to Virginia. 
 These men were John, Bartholomew and Angus Vawter. Some 
 members of the family think that the name has come from the 
 French name Vautier or Vautie. While this name sounds or 
 rather looks more like Vawter, it is probable that our name has 
 come from the French name Valletort, which is pronounced 
 Va-ye-tor. 
 
 In the "Virginia Cousins," by C. Brown Goode, p. 460. we find 
 tlie following : 
 
 "The barony of Harberton, granted to the family of de Val- 
 letort in the time of King Henry I, became extinct about 1307. 
 The name has since become known as Vaulter." (It is also given 
 in English records as Vaw^ter. ) 
 
 From 1 100-1300, the line of descent in the Valletort family, as 
 given in the "Virginia Cousins," is as follows : 
 
 1. Reginald de Valletort, Lord of Harberton. 
 
 2. Roger de Valletort. living in 1108. 
 
 3. Ralphe de Valletort, living in 1168. 
 
 4. Joel de Valletort. of Tawton, married Emma, daughter of 
 Sir William Botreaux. 
 
 5. Sir Philip de Valletort, living in 1230. 
 
 6. Sir John de Valletort, -living in 1250. 
 
 Lord Harberton, the first Valletort of whom we have a record, 
 lived in England in the time of Henry I. The name began to 
 change in spelling about 1300 and, in 1637, we have a record in 
 Plymouth, England, which gives the name as Vaw^ter and shows 
 that the name had been Valletort. It seems that at that time the 
 name was sometimes written Vawter and sometimes Vaulter. 
 
 When the Vawter brothers first came to Virginia, the name 
 
2 THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA 
 
 was usually written Vawlter or Vaulter (see reminiscences of Col. 
 John Vawter, p. 24. The 1 was afterwards dropped and the 
 name was variously written as Vauter, Vauters (see revolution- 
 ary war record of David Vauters, p. 8), Vaughter (see mar- 
 riage license granted Jesse Vawter, foot note, p. 11), and Vawter. 
 The descendants of John, Bartholomew and Angus Vawter now, 
 we believe, uniformly spell the name V-a-w-t-e-r. 
 
 In a book, entitled "The Plymouth Armada Heroes," by Mary 
 W. S. Hawkins, is this account : 
 
 "In 1544, William Hawkins purchased the Manor of Sutton 
 Valletort or Vawter of Sir Hugh Pollard for (1000) one thou- 
 sand marks." 
 
 In the genealogical table of the Hawkins family, same book, 
 the above William Hawkins is designated as the Lord of the 
 Manor of Valletort. It appears, p. 162, that the manor was sold 
 in the year 1637-8 by the grandson of Sir John to the city of 
 Plymouth. In the records (Received Accounts), there appears 
 this : "Item : for a present given Mr. Risdon to procure out of 
 his hands such writings as concerned Vauter's Fee, lately bought 
 by the town of Mr. John Hawkyns, and a man and two horses 
 two journeys to fetch said writings." 
 
 "It is easy to see," said General Hawkins of Indianapolis, In- 
 diana, "how Valletort could be corrupted into Vauter or Vawter. 
 The double 1 being mouille and the final t not pronounced. As it 
 recjuired two horses two journeys to carry the load of records 
 pertaining to the property, it is probable that they go back very 
 far and contain valuable Valletort (Vawter) history." 
 
 The coat of arms which belonged to this branch of the Valle- 
 tort or Vawter family is described in the "Virginia Cousins" as 
 follows : 
 
 "Arms : Gules three bends, argent, on a border sable, ten 
 plates, or : or three bends gules within a border sable, bezanty." 
 
 In an article in the Encyclopedia Britannica on "Plymouth" we 
 find the following paragraph : "In Domesday, Sutton Manor oc- 
 curs as Sutone and afterwards, it was divided into the town of 
 Sutton Prior, the hamlet of Sutton Valletort and the tithing of 
 Sutton Ralphe — a part of it having been granted to the Norman 
 
THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA 3 
 
 family of Valletort, while the greater part belonged to the priory 
 of Plymouth." 
 
 Judging from the evidence before us. our ancestors were of 
 Norman origin and came to this country from near Plymouth, 
 England, about the year 1685. 
 
EARLY VAWTERS IN AMERICA 
 
 (1665). I. /o/?;;, Bartholomew, Angus. 
 
 (1691). 2. John, son of John/ married a Beverly (prob- 
 ably). 
 
 Children: Bartholomew, Angus, Richard, 
 Beverly, David, Margaret, Winifred. 
 
 (1718). 3. Beverly, son of John,' married . 
 
 Children: Beverly, a daughter, Alpha, 
 Nancy, Anne. 
 (1720). 3. David, son of John,- married Mary Rucker. 
 
 Children: Jesse, Philemon, William, Wini- 
 fred, Margaret, Mary. 
 (1755)- 4- J^sse, son of David, ^ married Elizabeth Watts, 
 daughter of John and Sarah (Barnett) Watts. 
 Children : John, William, James, Frances, 
 Mary, Sarah, Julia, Achilles, Ann. 
 (1762). 4. Philemon, son of David, ^ married Anne Vawter, 
 daughter of Beverly. 
 
 Children : Richard, Elliott, Frances, Nancy, 
 Jesse, Beverly, Lucy, Elizabeth, David. 
 
 2. Edzvard, son of John, Bartholomew or Angus (it 
 
 is not certain which ) . 
 
 Children : William and others. 
 
 3. William, son of Edward," married Anne Ballard. 
 
 Children : William and others. 
 (1765). 4. William, son of William,^ married Margaret 
 Henderson. 
 
 Children : Elizabeth, John Henderson, Anne, 
 Jean, Mary, Elliott, James. 
 
 *The dates of birth of John,' John,^ and Beverly' Vawter, given above, are 
 approximate dates only. 
 
THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA 5 
 
 (1800). 5. /o/iw H^^icf^^ow, son of William,* married Clara 
 S. Peck. 
 
 Children : John William, Elizabeth Mary, 
 Margaret Anne, Louis Addison, James 
 Elliott, Charles E., Allen Henderson, Ma- 
 tilda Ellen, Sarah Josephine, Joseph Sny- 
 der, Clara Virginia, Henry Alexander, 
 George W. 
 
THE EARLY VAWTERS 
 
 This record begins with John/^ Bartholomew and Angus Vaw- 
 ter, who came to Virginia from England (probably from near 
 Plymouth) about the year 1685. We are descended from John. 
 
 Nothing is known of the first John, except that he had children 
 and one of them was named John. Of this second John, we find 
 in an old Virginia record (a copy of which is in the William and 
 Mary Quarterly, vol. 5, p. 90) that, in 1737, John Vawter was 
 appointed administrator of the estate of James Jamieson of Essex 
 county, Virginia. There was also an Edward in the second gen- 
 eration, but it is not certain whether he was the son of John, Bar- 
 tholomew or Angus. 
 
 John, the second, was married, probably to a Beverly. The 
 Beverlys were famous in the early times in Virginia. Robert 
 Beverly wrote a history of Virginia in 1705, which was published 
 in England in 1722. It is a very rare and valuable work now, 
 one of the original copies in the Newberry Library at Chicago 
 being valued at many hundreds of dollars. Robert Beverly lived 
 in Essex county, Virginia. There are also other noted Beverlys 
 who are mentioned in histories of Virginia. There are sketches 
 of the Beverly family in the book "Lee of Virginia," by Edmund 
 Jennings Lee, and in the bound volumes of the William and Mary 
 Quarterly of Virginia. 
 
 The probability of the wife of the second John having been a 
 Beverly comes from the fact that one of her sons was named 
 Beverly, and it was then, as now, a common thing for a son to 
 be given the family name of his mother. The name Beverly runs 
 through all branches of the family and this seems to have been 
 its first appearance. 
 
 *In the Virginia Historical Magazine, vol. 7, p. 300, is a copy of an old Vir- 
 ginia record which gives the date of inventory or probate of will of Bartholo- 
 mew Vawter in Essex county, in 1717, which shows that Bartholomew, the first, 
 died in 1717. In a list of things appraised is a "parcel of old books at 15s." 
 
/ 
 
 THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA 7 
 
 The children of John, the second, were : Bartholomew, Angus, 
 Richard, Beverly, David (born in 1720) , Margaret and Winifred. 
 
 Beverly, son of John second, married . 
 
 Children : 
 
 1. Beverly, killed in the Revolutionary War. 
 
 2. , who married Mr. Hill. 
 
 *3. Alpha, who married Robert Shelton. Their children 
 were : Smedley, who married his cousin, Melinda White. 
 
 4. Nancy, who married a Wilhite. Children were: 
 Nancy, Melinda, Ely, Elliott, Anne. Nancy married, second, a 
 Mr. Hawkins. 
 
 5. Anne, who married her cousin Philemon Vawter. 
 David, son of John, the second, was married to Mary Rucker 
 
 in Culpeper county, Virginia. It is believed by some of the 
 family that the wife of David Vawter was Mary Beverly and not 
 Mary Rucker. Our authority for believing the name to be Rucker 
 is that John Vawter, a grandson of David and Mary, in an ac- 
 count of his life, said that the maiden name of his grandmother 
 was Mary Rucker and that, after the death of David Vawter, she 
 married a Rentfrow (see p. 25). The name of Beverly seems to 
 have come into the family back of David, as one of David's 
 brothers was named Beverly. 
 
 Little is known of David Vawter, except that he was born in 
 1720; was an Episcopalian; served in the Revolutionary War; 
 lived in Culpeper county, Virginia, and had six children. That 
 David Vawter was in the Revolutionary War is shown by the 
 following, which was copied from the Virginia Magazine of His- 
 tory and Biography (1893- 1894). 
 
 "A Muster Roll of Captain Ambrose Madison's Company of 
 Foot in the Regiment of Volunteer Guards at the Barracks in 
 Albemarle county, where Francis Taylor, Esq., is Commander to 
 June I, 1779. 
 
 "Privates. 
 ■ "David Vawter, enlisted January 17, 1779. Discharged June 
 
 I- I779-" 
 
 David Vawter lived in Culpeper county and enlisted in Albe- 
 
 *In Culpeper county records the date of this marriage is given as 1790. 
 
8 THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA 
 
 marie county, which is the adjoining county. Culpeper county at 
 that time inckided what is now known as Madison andrJOrange- 
 counties. It was in the part now called Orange county that David 
 Vawter lived. 
 
 A communication received from the Military Secretary of the 
 War Department at Washington says : "The name David Vawter, 
 nor the name Jesse Vawter has been found on the rolls in this 
 office. It is shown by the records, however, that one David Vau- 
 fers served as a private in Captain John Camp's Company in the 
 First Virginia State Regiment, commanded by Colonel George 
 Gibson. He enlisted March i, 1777, to serve three years, and his 
 name last appears on the company muster roll for February, 1778. 
 The date of his separation from the service is not stated." 
 
 There is no doubt but this is the same David Vawter, as many 
 of the Vawters at that time spelled the name V-a-u-t-e-r. Even 
 if the name had been given as V-a-w-t-e-r, it might have easily 
 been written down as V-a-u-t-e-r-s. The name is often called 
 Vauters to this day, by those who do not know the spelling. 
 
 The time of the second enlistment (which was mentioned first) 
 does not at all overlap the time of the first, and both together do 
 not quite fill out the time for which the first enlistment was made. 
 
 The children of David and Mary (Rucker) Vawter were: 
 Jesse, Philemon, William, Winifred, Margaret and Mary. 
 
 The descendants of Jesse and Philemon will be given later. 
 
 William Vawter, son of David, was married and had a son, 
 Lewis, who lived in North Carolina. It is not known where Wil- 
 liam Vawter lived. It may have been that he came to Kentucky 
 later than Jesse and Philemon. In the records of Fayette county 
 are found these items : 
 
 "ist. William Vawter and Mary, his wife, sold a tract (169 
 acres) of land in Jessamine county, Kentucky, in 1803. 
 
 "2d. William Vawter and his wife, Mary, sold five hundred 
 acres in Campbell county, Kentucky, in 1805. 
 
 "3d. William Vawter and his wife, Mary, sold 1000 acres in 
 
 *W. G. Stanard, the Corresponding Secretary and Librarian of the Virginia 
 Historical Society of Richmond, Virginia, will, for a consideration, give a cer- 
 tified statement of the record of David Vawter. 
 
THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA Q 
 
 Gallatin county, Kentucky, in 1809. They lived at that time in 
 Woodford county, Kentucky." 
 
 Philemon Vawter lived in Woodford county, Kentucky, and 
 Elliott Vawter, son of Philemon, lived at one time in Gallatin 
 county, Kentucky. This William Vawter, if not a brother of Jesse 
 and Philemon, must have been closely related. 
 
 A daughter of David Vawter married Achilles Stapp. Their 
 children were Ely, Milton, Nancy and Mary, all of whom married 
 Branhams. Achilles Stapp and family lived near Lexington, Ken- 
 tucky. 
 
JESSE VAWTER 
 
 CHILDREN AND GRANDCHILDREN 
 
 John' 
 John* 
 David^ 
 Jesse Vawter* 
 
 (1755-1838) 
 
 m. 
 
 Elizabeth Watts 
 
 (1762-1830) 
 
 John m. 
 
 Polly Smith 
 Jane Smith 
 Ruth Minton 
 Mrs. Martha Pearce 
 
 I g e s 
 
 II. William m. 
 Vawter 
 
 Frances 
 
 s < 
 
 C 
 
 o 
 
 a 
 S 
 
 ^ in 
 
 « e 
 
 ■ c = 
 
 CO 
 
 r 
 
 III. James m. Sarah Watts - 
 
 'S.B^,^X^^< 
 
 a 
 o 
 
 S 
 
 • 3. 
 !n 
 Pi 
 
 IV. Frances m. John 
 Branham 
 
 Mary m. Linsfield 
 Branham 
 
 VI. Sarah m. Thos. 
 Stribling 
 
 VII. Julia m. Matthew 
 Wise 
 
 VIII. Achilles m. Martha 
 Smith 
 
 IX. Ann m. Abner 
 Moncrief 
 
 c 
 a 
 
 rt "o 
 
 ^ IS 
 c ^ 
 
 §.2g £ 
 rt x: := ::: E 
 
 o >- - 
 
 fe 5 ™ 
 
 > C rn 
 
 1) rt 
 
 CS 
 
 a 
 
 o 
 
 
 — D 
 
 , > M 
 
 C N 
 
 o ^ — 
 
 a 5 a 
 
 ^ 0) C 
 
 c 
 
 a 
 2.:2 . rt 
 
 3 
 
 o 
 
 u 
 
 J3 
 
 
 J3 
 U XI 
 
 C CO 
 nl 
 
 
 _ ^ _ d 
 
 to w E ^ < 
 
 CO 
 
 <u 
 
 in 
 2 « 
 
 — CO 
 
 CQ 
 
 DC _ _ 
 
 Z < S i^P 
 
 •s -^ 
 
 CO CO 
 
 
 ■a x; 
 
 U w S Ph Oh 
 
 V 
 
 o 
 
 CO 
 
 
 CO a> 
 
 ^1 
 
 .2,i£Qffi "^i 
 
 3 
 XI 
 
 XI "^ 
 
 CO n 
 
 e«i 
 
 CO >^ _ 
 ^ C CO 
 
 fcj) '^ 
 
 CO 
 
 n 
 □ 
 
 LW - =^;SJ5<S< 
 
JESSE VAWTER 
 
 Jesse Vawter was born in Culpeper county, Virginia, December 
 I, 1755. His parents were Episcopalians and he was sprinkled in 
 infancy and his name enrolled on the church record. He was 
 married to Elizabeth Watts, the daughter of John and Sallie 
 (Barnett) Watts, on March 29, 1781. Elizabeth Watts was born 
 December 30, 1762. Nine children were born to them: John, 
 William, James, Frances, Mary, Sarah, Julia, Achilles and Ann. 
 
 Jesse Vawter was, in his early manhood, apprenticed by his 
 father to a mechanic ; was a soldier in the Revolutionary War 
 for a short period; was baptized in a Baptist Church (Rapidan) 
 in Culpeper county, Virginia, October, 1774. 
 
 About the year 1782 Jesse Vawter, with his wife and infant 
 son John, moved from Virginia to the Holston river country, 
 which is near where the three states, Virginia, North Carolina 
 and Tennessee, now join. Their twin sons, William and James, 
 were born there. In 1785 Jesse, with his wife and four children, 
 returned to Virginia for a visit. They left William, one of the 
 twins, there, with his maternal grandparents. In 1787 Jesse 
 visited Kentucky and decided to move there. He and his wife, 
 with the infant Sarah, went for a farewell visit to Virginia in 
 
 1789, and in 1790 the family removed to Kentucky. On the way 
 they passed the Crab Orchard country, old Milford Court House, 
 stopping over night with Joseph Delaney, where Richmond, Ken- 
 tucky, now is, crossing the Kentucky river, passing through Lex- 
 ington, Kentucky, and arriving at Achilles Stapp's September 22, 
 
 1790. Jesse Vawter leased a farm from Hugh Shannon for five 
 years from the fall of 1790. In 1795 he moved to Scott county, 
 Kentucky, and settled on his own farm on the north side of the 
 North Elkhorn river, three or four miles from the forks of the 
 
 Note. — In Culpeper county records is the following : "Jesse Vaughter 
 married to Elizabeth Watts, March 29, 1781." 
 
12 THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA 
 
 two Elkhorns and seven miles from Frankfort, In 1796 Frank- 
 lin county was formed, and his house was then in Franklin county. 
 (A fuller account of this part of Jesse Vawter's life will be found 
 in the "Reminiscences" of his son John.) 
 
 In 1806 Jesse Vawter lost his land through a defective title. 
 That same year he moved to Indiana and located on a hill over- 
 looking Madison, on what is now known as the Michigan Hill 
 Road. He called his home and farm Mount Glad, because he was 
 glad there to rest from his wanderings and hoped to spend his 
 days in peace. Madison was a very small settlement at that time. 
 The Vawter family is inseparably connected with its early history 
 and with the history of the Baptist denomination in Indiana. 
 
 Jesse Vawter began to preach in about the year 1800. He was 
 ordained in 1805. In 1807 he assisted in the organization of the 
 First Baptist Church in Jefferson county, which, at that time, was 
 called the Coffee Creek Baptist Church. This church was organ- 
 ized at Mount Glad. At its constitution there were but fifteen 
 members, and these were all of them connected with the four 
 families who had come together from Kentucky in the fall of 
 the year before. These four families were the Vawters, the 
 Underwoods, the Edwards and the Jacksons. In 1808 these 
 members built a meeting-house of logs on the hill east of the 
 Michigan road near the present site of Fairmount Cemetery. 
 When Jesse Vawter learned of a new settlement being formed, 
 he visited it and held religious meetings. As the country devel- 
 oped his preaching tours were enlarged, covering great portions 
 of the counties of Jefferson, Ripley, Switzerland, Jennings and 
 Clark. In some cases these settlements were reached by traveling 
 from twenty to forty miles through the wilderness, much of the 
 way being marked only by blazed trees and broken-down under- 
 brush. 
 
 In 181 2 the Coffee Creek Church built a new frame meeting- 
 house on the North Madison hill, now west of the railroad, and, 
 with that change of location, also changed its name, afterwards 
 being called the Mount Pleasant Baptist Church. This church 
 was again moved and became the First Baptist Church of Madi- 
 son. From its first formation until 1831 Jesse Vawter was al- 
 
THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA I3 
 
 most its only pastor, Jacob Cox and William Vawter and Reuben 
 Morey serving some of the time during the later years. 
 
 In the minutes of the Madison Association for 1838, we read: 
 "Jesse Vawter was preeminently useful in the ministry and did 
 much to advance the Messiah's kingdom here on earth, especially 
 among the Baptist churches from their first organization in In- 
 diana, but more particularly in the bounds of what was and is 
 known as the Silver Creek, Coffee Creek, Loughery, Flat Rock 
 and Madison Associations. He was without doubt one of the 
 most pious men of his day, and, as a doctrinal, practical and ex- 
 perimental preacher, his qualifications and ability for evangelical 
 preaching was far above mediocrity, and as a peace-maker he was, 
 perhaps, without his equal in the congregations of which he was 
 a member." 
 
 Elizabeth, wife of Jesse, died September 10, 1830. Afterwards 
 Jesse lived with his daughter, Polly Branham, for a while, and 
 with another daughter, Ann Moncrief, for a part of the time. 
 He died March 20, 1838, in his eighty-third year. 
 
 Jesse Vawter was a quiet, thrifty, brown-eyed, peace-loving 
 man. His granddaughter, Mrs. Frances (Vawter) King, of 
 North Vernon, Indiana, in speaking of him said : "Grandfather 
 was of a gentle nature. Every one loved him. He used to ride 
 down horseback from Madison to see us. We would run to meet 
 him, and he would say, 'There come my chickens.' He had lost 
 the sight of one eye in an accident. We used to slip up on his 
 blind side and kiss him. and he would always jump as though we 
 had surprised him greatly. He never was impatient with us." 
 
 Mrs. Nancy (Moncrief) Amsden, of Madison, Indiana, an- 
 other granddaughter, said : "I can remember grandfather well 
 and I love his very name. He lived at my father's for some time 
 before he died." 
 
 Elizabeth, wife of Jesse, was a woman of strong character, and 
 her grandchildren stood somewhat in awe of her. She was an 
 excellent housekeeper. Her great cleanliness was a matter for 
 joking among her neighbors. They said that she never could 
 endures flies — that she chased them out of her house and down to 
 the Ohio river. In speaking of her fondness for scrubbing, they 
 
14 THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA 
 
 declared that they believed she scrubbed even the stumps in her 
 yard. 
 
 JESSE VAWTER's story, AS TOLD BY HIMSELF, 
 
 May 5, 1835. 
 
 I, Jesse Vawter, being in my eightieth year, do this day begin 
 to write a journal of my life. I was born December, the first day, 
 1755, in Culpeper county, Virginia. I was sent to school in my 
 eighth year. About this time my father moved into Orange 
 county, and I worked on a farm for about ten years. I was the 
 oldest child of six, and had by nature a mechanical turn of mind. 
 I did some coopering, and made me a lathe and did some turning ; 
 I also made some wheels with a millwright. In 1774 my father 
 hired me to a house carpenter and joiner. In 1775 my father set 
 me at liberty to act for myself. At this time there was a great 
 call for flax wheels. I joined my Uncle Oppill. We prepared our 
 timber, built us a shop with two rooms, chimney in one and stove 
 in the other. Each of us had a lathe made and mended wheels 
 until in November, i yjy, when I drove a team and moved a family 
 out to Holston, three hundred miles, where I attended a farm 
 with two negro men for Joseph Early. 
 
 In December, 1778, I went back to Virginia, and followed 
 house carpenter's and joiner's work until November, 1779, when 
 I drove a team for Uncle I. Coper, when I had three uncles and 
 a brother all in a company moving to Holston. We unloaded our 
 wagons the second day of December, 1779. I had bought of Jo- 
 seph Early four hundred acres of land, on which my brother 
 Philemon and Jonathan Underwood settled at that time. In the 
 next year, 1780, I labored on a saw and grist mill for old Mr. 
 Key wood. In December I went back to Virginia, and in 1781 was 
 married, March twenty-ninth day, and in June was drafted for 
 two months' tour. I got back to my wife's father's late in August, 
 and was three months sick. My wife has told me that they sat 
 up with me forty nights and thought every one might be the last. 
 
 The next winter and spring I made myself a light wagon and 
 had it ironed nicely. In January, 1782, our son John was born. 
 
THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA 1 5 
 
 In the latter part of April I geared three horses and loaded our 
 little property and set out for Holston, three hundred miles, and 
 unloaded the 17th of May on my own premises, and raised a 
 tolerable crop of corn that year. 
 
 In the fall of 1783 I went to old Virginia with my wagon and 
 moved Aunt Underwood to Holston. In 1785 I, with my wife 
 and children, went again to Virginia on a visit, and was gone 
 from the 13th day of September to the 24th of November. I 
 had built me a shop, and followed making and mending wagons, 
 and other work, as also attending to my farm until 1790. In 
 December, 1787, I went to Kentucky on a visit to see my friends, 
 and in 1790 I sold my land and moved to Kentucky, and landed 
 there in September, 1790. In 1789 my wife and myself, with 
 Sally our baby, went on horseback to old Virginia on a visit 
 to bid our friends a final farewell, as we expected to move to 
 Kentucky the next year. We unloaded our horses at Brother 
 Stapp's, September 22d. I took a lease on Mr. Shannon's land 
 for five years, put up a log cabin and moved into it in November, 
 1790. August 13, 1 79 1, I left home and went to Holston to aid 
 my Brother Philemon to move to Kentucky, and got home 
 again September 20. 
 
 August 7, 1793, I left my home and went to Virginia to aid 
 father Watts in moving to Kentucky, and got home again the 
 1 8th day of November, 1793. In 1795 I moved to the north 
 fork of Elkhorn, three miles above the forks, and we lived there 
 until September 6. 1806, when we moved over the Ohio to 
 Indiana. During our residence in Kentucky I made looms, made 
 and mended wagons, made and mended wheels, reels, and did 
 other mechanical work, but never neglected my farm. And also, 
 while I kept house in Indiana, I had a shop and did do almost 
 all kinds of mechanical work, yet never neglected my farm. I 
 have observed on a minute-book that I had earned in my shop 
 $344, and that I had received for marriages $151. In 1830 v/e 
 broke up housekeeping, and on September tenth my wife died, 
 and I have made my home with Polly Branham, but am a great 
 deal of my time absent. Since the death of my wife I have not 
 confined mvself to labor, but have done some little jobs, and have 
 
1 6 THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA 
 
 received about forty dollars for marriages. Julia Wise died 
 May lo, 1834. 
 
 September, 1835, I attended at Loughery Association, and 
 came home sick, and am yet quite feeble this first of December. 
 
 A LATER STATEMENT BY JESSE VAWTER 
 
 At the request of one of my friends I now sit down to record 
 some of the occurrences of my past life. 
 
 I, Jesse Vawter, was born December i, 1755. My parents 
 were David and Mary Vawter, members of the Episcopalian 
 Church. I was sprinkled in infancy and received as a member 
 of that church, and could read my Bible in my eighth year, and 
 was brought up to farming, but had by nature a mechanical turn 
 of mind. 
 
 At ten years of age I had serious thoughts of religion and 
 heard a parson preach from these words : "Who among us 
 shall dwell with devouring fire, who among us shall dwell with 
 everlasting burnings?" Isaiah xxxiii:i4. That subject made 
 a deep impression on my mind, although I understood nothing 
 more than a local fire. About this time I committed the Lord's 
 Prayer, which I would repeat when I would lie down at night 
 and in the morning, in order to get religion, but finally concluded 
 that I would live moral and sober until I married and then I 
 would get religion, concluding that religion did not suit young 
 people and when I was settled in the world it would be easy to 
 obtain it. 
 
 As stated above, my mind inclined to mechanical labor. In 
 1774, in my nineteenth year, my father consented to hire me to 
 a house carpenter and joiner. In the course of that year our 
 work led us twenty miles from my father's, and in the bounds 
 of Baptist preaching. Perhaps in the month of May I went to 
 the first meeting. The preacher was Thomas Amnions ; his text 
 was Job X :i5 : "If I be wicked woe unto me, but if I be righteous 
 yet will I not lift up my head." These words came home to my 
 heart with such light and power that they made me tremble. I 
 
THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA 1/ 
 
 had never felt the hke before. I strove to be composed and not 
 let any person know I was affected, but all in vain, the tears 
 would run. I did not think I was as wicked as some, but thought 
 I was not altogether right — that there was some little wrong 
 about me, and now I thought the Lord had called on me to repent 
 and seek Him, which I was determined to do. I thought by 
 praying, reading and reforming that I should soon atone for my 
 past sins and bring God under obligations to me (alas! poor 
 blind man) . 
 
 Instead of that, I discovered the corruption of my nature 
 and the deceit of my heart, and that all my efforts had been 
 selfish and, of course, sinful, and that God says, "Son, give me 
 thy heart," which I had not done. I now did believe that God 
 had called me, and if I had sought Him through Jesus Christ, 
 I might have obtained mercy; but now it appeared to me as if 
 all hope was gone forever. I yet would try to pray, but thought 
 my prayers only added to my guilt. I concluded God was angry 
 with me, that his law condemned me, and it was in vain to ask 
 His mercy, for I thought my case was finally fixed forever. Yet 
 my heart would pray for mercy if it could be bestowed according 
 to the divine government, for I did believe God was right and 
 His law was right, and if I was condemned forever it would be 
 right, too. I concluded justice would not suffer me to live on the 
 earth when right appeared. I thought I should be in eternity be- 
 fore morning, and in the morning that justice would terminate 
 my life before night. 
 
 One clear morning in July, 1774, I thought I would retire 
 and try to pray once more before I died. When I got to the place 
 I thought I dare not ask for mercy, yet my heart seemed to 
 crave mercy, but I could not see how God could have mercy 
 on me consistent with His divine perfection. Finally I con- 
 cluded my fate was fixed to go down to ruin forever, and I rose 
 up to go to my work. As I arose a reconciliation took place 
 in my mind — the will of the Lord be done. With this recon- 
 ciliation I had a view of Jesus and His righteousness. I thought 
 all nature shone with His glory. I could now see how God could 
 have mercy upon poor sinners and be just and justify him that 
 
l8 THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA 
 
 believed in Jesus. I did believe He had lived and died for sin- 
 ners and rose again for their justification, and that I was one of 
 those poor sinners that He came to seek and save. My soul was 
 filled with love. I thought I could tell to my companions how 
 good God was, and they would feel as I did, but they under- 
 stood not what I told them. In the month of October our work 
 led us into the bounds of another Baptist church, to which I 
 offered myself and was received and baptized. The first Satur- 
 day meeting I ever attended I thought was the prettiest sight 
 I ever saw. The church was called Rapidan, in Culpeper county, 
 Virginia, but now Madison county. 
 
 I thought I would work as much as would keep myself in 
 clothes and spend my time in going to meeting and be with the 
 preachers ; which I did for some years. I would sing and pray 
 and close meetings for the preachers. In 1780 I began to think 
 it was best for young persons to marry, and on the 29th day of 
 March, 1781, I was married to Elizabeth, daughter of John and 
 Sarah Watts, of Culpeper county, Virginia. In January, 1782, 
 the 8th day, our first son, John, was born, and in May we moved 
 to Holston, where we lived eight years, and had two sons and 
 three daughters born, and joined a Baptist church, whose monthly 
 meetings were twenty miles off. The preacher would come to 
 my house and have meeting in our neighborhood. Having lost 
 all hope of a Baptist church near us, we moved to Kentucky in 
 1790, where we joined the Great Crossing Church in Scott 
 county, and lived there five years. While there I appeared to be 
 a silent member. In 1795 we moved down on the north fork 
 of the Elkhorn and moved our membership to Melonal's Run, 
 where I was more active. 
 
 In 1799 a revival of religion broke out on the Ohio, and in 
 1800 it appeared to spread over the whole state. A number of 
 my neighbors and four of my children had obtained hope in 
 Jesus, which led us to form ourselves into a church and build us 
 a house. About this time my mind got exercised about preach- 
 ing, which soon led to my ordination. 
 
 Here Vv^e lived five or six years in great harmony, until I lost 
 my place. In 1806 we moved to Indiana. It may be proper here 
 
 I 
 
THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA I9 
 
 for me to state the difference in my mind as respects preaching. 
 I thought that preachers were a grade higher than common mem- 
 bers and that it would be wicked in me to think of preaching, but 
 to sing, and to pray, and to exhort was the privilege of every 
 member, and also to tell how good the Lord was, which I did do 
 for many years, with delight to myself and some others. When 
 my mind took a turn for preaching it was the greatest trial I had 
 ever met with, for I thought no man ought to preach but such as 
 the Lord called to that work, and I could not believe that I was 
 called to preach, and to run before I was sent would be wicked, 
 and to refuse to do what the Lord enjoined on me would be 
 wicked. It appeared like death to go forward and death to be 
 silent. 
 
 About this time I heard two brethren preach; the first was 
 from the words of Jeptha : "I have opened my mouth to the 
 Lord and I can not go back." The other was : "Woe to him that 
 striveth with his Maker." I had opened my mouth to the Lord 
 and was unwilling to go back; and I thought I would rather die 
 than to strive against the Lord. Finally, I concluded to submit 
 my case to my brethren, for they all appeared to encourage me 
 to go forward ; and to this day I am made to wonder how it is 
 that my brethren do invite me onward. But I do believe the 
 best evidence that a man can have that it is his duty to preach 
 is the voice of his brethren, for no man is a proper judge of him- 
 self; he will judge too high or too low of his own performances. 
 
 I have this day entered my eightieth year. I have been a 
 citizen of four states, was born in Virginia, lived there twenty- 
 five years; then moved into the edge of North Carolina, and 
 lived there ten years ; and then moved into Kentucky and lived 
 there sixteen years, and in 1806 moved into Indiana. I have 
 been a member of eight churches, and have in general sat under 
 the same doctrine that I first believed, which was the total de- 
 pravity of human nature; the divine character and sonship of 
 Jesus Christ ; salvation alone by free and sovereign grace, effect- 
 ual calling, justification by the righteousness of Jesus Christ im- 
 puted, and the final perseverance of the saints ; and that the 
 atonement made by Jesus Christ is general in its nature, but 
 
20 THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA 
 
 special in its application, and that the change that takes place in 
 the sinner is by the spirit of God illuminating the eyes of the un- 
 derstanding so as to discover the purity of God's laws and the 
 nature of sin, and the way of life and salvation by Jesus Christ, 
 and where this faith is found it will produce a corresponding con- 
 versation and deportment. I believe also in the overruling grace 
 of God and the freedom of the will, and that God will judge the 
 world by that man whom He hath ordained, and that there will 
 be a resurrection of all in that day. 
 
 I have been at the constitution of twelve churches, and have 
 aided at the ordination of eight ministers ; have baptized persons 
 in eighteen churches; the highest number at any one time was 
 1 8, and the greatest number in any one church was 127. I have 
 been at the formation of three associations, and have served as 
 moderator twenty-three years in succession ; and have solemnized 
 perhaps little short of two hundred marriages. In the year 1834 
 I attended three associations. In the year 1835 I attended three 
 associations and have baptized three persons this year. In 1836 
 I was at Coffee Creek Association, but was very feeble. In 1837 
 I was at Madison Association, and was very feeble. 
 
 Jesse Vawter died March 20, 1838, eighty-three years old. 
 
 JESSE VAWTER's will. 
 
 In the name of God, Amen. 
 
 I, Jesse Vawter, of Jefferson county and state of Indiana, do 
 make and ordain this my last will and testament. 
 
 Item : My will and desire is that whatever may remain of mine 
 at my death shall be equally divided among my children, to wit : 
 John, William, James, Fanny, Polly, Sally, Julia, Achilles and 
 Ann. 
 
 Item : I appoint and ordain my two sons, John and William, 
 to be the executors of this my last will and testament. 
 
 Written with my own hand this 13th day of April, 1832. 
 
 Jesse Vawter. 
 
 Acknowledged in presence of Thos. T. Stribling, M. M. Burns, 
 Elias Stapp. 
 
THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA 21 
 
 Codicil to what I have already written. 
 
 1. My will is there shall be no court to prove my will. 
 
 2. That M. Wise shall receive the same as if his wife were 
 still living. 
 
 3. My will is that those indebted to me shall not be pressed 
 for money under one year, and that without interest. 
 
 4. My wish is that my executors shall make ample satisfac- 
 tion to those of my friends who shall wait on me in my last hour. 
 
 Written under an impression that I shall die soon, this 27th 
 day of December, 1837. Jesse Vawter. 
 
 Thomas T. Stribling. 
 M. M. Burns. 
 Elias Stapp. 
 
 Codicil attested before assigned. 
 
 OLD people's meeting. 
 
 "On Wednesday, April 2, 1862, all the living children of Jesse 
 Vawter, deceased (it being the birthday of William and James 
 Vawter, each being that day seventy-nine years old), by invita- 
 tion of these two brothers, met at the house of Williamson D. 
 Vawter, the son of William Vawter, in the town of Vernon, and 
 partook of an excellent dinner prepared by W. D. Vawter and 
 wife. On this occasion the children were John Vawter, in the 
 eighty-first year of his age; Wm. Vawter and Francis, his wife; 
 James Vawter and Sally, his wife; the widow, Sally V. Stribling; 
 Abner Moncrief and Ann V., his wife; the widow. Patsy Vaw- 
 ter, wife of Achilles Vawter, who died after the meeting was 
 agreed to be holden in his own town. The only one of the liv- 
 ing adopted children absent was Matthew Wise, who was unable 
 by disease and age to attend. All of these people were among the 
 first white inhabitants in and near where the city of Madison now 
 is, while it was yet a heavy forest. The entire number present 
 now are, and nearly all were at that early day, members of the 
 Baptist denomination. 
 
22 THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA 
 
 "On coming together, John Vawter, after an exchange of sal- 
 utations and inquiries about absent friends, and recounting old 
 times and hard times, old age and its infirmities, proposed, as a 
 sentiment and as a rule of action for each, this language of the 
 poet: 'Come, let us anew our journey pursue,' etc. All seemed 
 to harmonize in the sentiment and, after singing the hymn twice, 
 we were invited to the dinner-table, and after dinner were in- 
 vited by Smith Vawter to take tea with him. All parties agree- 
 ing to do so, we repaired to his residence and partook of an ex- 
 cellent supper. After this social interview the company sepa- 
 rated, perhaps never all to meet in time again. A list of the age 
 of each was made out by W. D. Vawter and the number of chil- 
 dren and grandchildren of each. Wm. Vawter and wife have of 
 children, grandchildren and great grandchildren, sixty or sev- 
 enty." 
 
 The above was written for the Vernon Banner, April 4, 1862, 
 by John Vawter, who was then living at Morgantown, Ind. 
 
,%*•• 
 
 
 v\ 
 
 John Vawter 
 
 William and Frances Vawter 
 
 James Vawter Achilles Vawter 
 
 The Sons of Jesse Vawter 
 
JOHN VAWTER 
 
 John Vawter, the son of Jesse and EHzabeth (Watts) Vawter, 
 was born in Orange (now Madison) county, Virginia, January 
 8, 1782. He was married four times, the first time to Polly 
 Smith on December 17, 1805. Polly Smith was born December 
 30, 1781 ; died July 19, 1825. Their children were Smith, Jane 
 and Emily. After the death of Polly S. Vawter John Vawter 
 married Jane Smith, a sister of Polly. She died October 4, 1826, 
 leaving no children. Then John Vawter married Ruth Minton, 
 who was born in January, 181 7, and had three children, Marion, 
 Mary and Allan. Ruth (Minton) Vawter died September 2, 
 1850, and John Vawter married, October 17, 1850, Mrs. Martha 
 Pearce, by whom he had one child, Emma, who was born May 
 II, 1854, and killed by falling lumber November 13, 1859. Mrs. 
 Martha (McGannon) Pearce Vawter was born March 8, 1822; 
 died January 21, 1892. 
 
 "John Vawter was licensed as a Baptist preacher in 1804, and 
 removed from Kentucky to Madison, Indiana, in 1807. He was 
 the first magistrate of Madison, and was soon afterwards elected 
 sheriff of Jefferson and Clark counties, and in 1810 was appointed 
 U. S. Marshal for the state. He served as frontier ranger dur- 
 ing the Indian campaign of 1811-13; was elected colonel of 
 militia of Jennings county in 1817; founded Vernon, the county 
 seat of Jennings county; laid out Vernon and gave every third 
 lot to the town. He was pastor of the Baptist church in Vernon 
 from 1821-48, a member of the legislature from 183 1-5, and in 
 1836 of the senate, where he was instrumental in securing the 
 adoption of a policy of internal improvement by the state. He 
 removed to Morgan county in 1848, founded Morgantown and 
 
24 
 
 THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA 
 
 presented a brick church to the Baptist congregation of that place. 
 He died August 17, 1862." 
 
 The following is an account of the early life of John Vawter, 
 written by himself. He says : 
 
 ^ "I now am an old man in the eighty-first year of my age. I 
 was born January 8, 1782. My father was Elder Jesse Vawter. 
 My mother's maiden name was Elizabeth Watts. My parents, 
 poor, frugal, honest and industrious, were both born in Culpeper 
 or Orange county, Virginia; Jesse, on the first day of December, 
 1755 ; Elizabeth, his wife, on the 30th of December, 1762. They 
 were married on the 29th of March, 1781, and lived to see all of 
 their children, nine in number, grown and married. The eldest 
 was myself, John. The others were: William and James 
 (twins), Fanny, Mary, Sally, Julia, Achilles and Ann. I was 
 born in Culpeper or Orange county, Virginia. It is now Madison 
 county. William, James, Fanny, Sally and Mary were born in 
 North Carolina, now Sullivan county, Tennessee, called the state 
 of Franklin at that time. Julia, Achilles and Ann were born in 
 Kentucky. 
 
 "On my father's side we are descended from Saxon families. 
 Toward the close of the sixteenth century three brothers, John, 
 Bartholomew and Angus, came from England to the colony of 
 Virginia. The three brothers originally spelled their name 
 V-a-w-1-t-e-r, but for some unknown reason dropped the T after 
 coming to Virginia, and to this day the entire family of the three 
 brothers and their numerous descendants all spell their name 
 V-a-w-t-e-r. 
 
 "My great, great grandfather's name was John, and that was 
 also the name of my great grandfather, who had four sons, Bar- 
 tholomew, Angus, Richard and David,* and two daughters, 
 whose names were Winifred and Margaret. David was my 
 grandfather. David had three sons, Jesse, Philemon and William, 
 and three daughters, Winifred, Margaret and Mary. Jesse was 
 my father. 
 
 "Jesse in his youthful days was naturally a mechanic, and his 
 
 *Mr. Vawter has evidently forgotten to mention Beverly here, who was one 
 of the children of John.^ 
 
THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA 2$ 
 
 father, David, consented to his learning a trade. While working 
 as an apprentice in 1774 or '75, and during the Revolutionary 
 War (of which he was afterwards a soldier), he heard of certain 
 traveling preachers in Virginia. He attended one of the appoint- 
 ments at which Thomas Ammons was the preacher. His text 
 was in the book of Job, tenth chapter and fifteenth verse : 'If I 
 be wicked, woe unto me,' etc. This sermon, under the influence 
 of God's Holy Spirit, opened the door of hope in the sure mercies 
 of God's dear Son. He was soon afterwards united with the 
 Baptist church in Culpeper or Orange county, Virginia, and con- 
 tinued a useful and exemplary member of the Baptist order to 
 the day of his death in the eighty-third year of his age. Jesse 
 was the first-born of six children. The others all died before he 
 did. His wife, Elizabeth, died nearly eight years before him. 
 
 'T do not remember my father's mother. Her maiden name 
 was Rucker. After the death of her husband, David Vawter, 
 she married a Rentfrow and died in Kentucky. 
 
 "Elizabeth Vawter, wife of Jesse and my mother, was a 
 daughter of John and Sarah Watts of Orange county, Virginia. 
 John Watts was a small man, of English stock. His wife was a 
 Barnett, of fine figure, rather portly and of English descent. I 
 remember these grandparents well. They came to Kentucky to 
 live in the year 1793. They both lived to a good old age and 
 both died in Kentucky. Grandmother outlived grandfather sev- 
 eral years. 
 
 "I can remember as far back as the year 1785, when my father 
 and mother, with four of their children, went on a visit to Vir- 
 ginia and left my brother William with mother's parents, John 
 and Sarah Watts. I have a distinct recollection of the closing 
 scenes, of the weeping, of my feelings on the return to Holston, 
 of crossing New river, etc. 
 
 'T remember my father's visit to Kentucky in 1787, when the 
 new country was called by the name of Levisa Country. In the 
 year 1788 or 1789 my father went to Keywood Mills and put me 
 on a sack of grain on the back of a rough-riding horse. Going 
 down a steep descent, off I went with the sack on top of me. I 
 carried bruises for many days made by the sharp, hard stones. 
 
26 THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA 
 
 "I remember when my father and mother went to Virginia in 
 the year 1789 on horseback with Sally, the infant babe. They 
 brought brother William back with them. William would say, 
 'Your Daddie' and 'Your Mamma.' He would not own his 
 father and mother until compelled to do so. 
 
 "I remember being sent by my mother in company with my 
 brother William to bring home the cows. We got lost and trav- 
 eled many miles and crossed to Keywood Mills, and then we 
 knew the way home. We abandoned the cows, thinking that 
 they didn't intend to go home, and yet they went directly there. 
 
 "I have a distinct recollection of the winding up of matters in 
 the Holston country and of the family moving to Kentucky in 
 1790. My father was thrown from his horse with his rifle into 
 Beaver creek on the first day's travel. We waited at Bean's 
 Station for additional immigrants to meet and increase the safety 
 of the company in their march through the wilderness. They did 
 not come. While at the station we were greatly alarmed one 
 night by some cow-drivers throwing a bundle of cane on the fire. 
 It made a great noise while burning. We decided to move on 
 though few in number. I remember that a raven for several days 
 advanced ahead of us, alighting on the trees and keeping up a 
 continual squawking; of crossing the Clinch river; the turning 
 out of the horses to graze ; the men going across the river to fish ; 
 that I was swamped in attempting to go to them and came near 
 being drowned; of father's horse, with a leather sack of shop 
 tools on his back, trying a near way to get up a steep bank and 
 falling back with the sack of tools into the valley below. 
 
 "I remember well seeing many bones of individuals who had 
 been killed by the Indians and their bodies buried so close to the 
 surface that the wolves had dragged them out; of the Indian 
 blinds, behind which they concealed themselves. These were 
 made of bushes stuck in the ground. At the time we saw them 
 the bushes were dry. I remember riding on one of the pack horses 
 and carrying a large basket of provisions for many days to ac- 
 commodate those who were hungry between meals ; also of sister 
 Fanny falling off of the animal on which mother rode; of the 
 
 i 
 
THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA ly 
 
 horse treading on her leg and bending it so much that, at first, 
 it was thought to be broken, but it proved otherwise. 
 
 "On the day's travel before reaching Crab Orchard, Uncle 
 Achilles Stapp was so exhausted that he sat down at the root of 
 a tree, determined to remain there alone, saying that if the Indians 
 came, come they must, he could not and would not go any farther. 
 Presently, along came Molly Jackson, a cousin to my father, and 
 gave the tired man a bottle of whisky. He drank, and it so re- 
 vived him that he traveled on with the rest. That night the most 
 of the company reached Crab Orchard. All except mother lay 
 down as if all danger was over. She armed herself with a small 
 ax and kept watch, but in the morning all were safe. The next 
 day we passed the old Mil ford Court House. At night we reached 
 Joseph Delaney's, where Richmond now is, in Madison county, 
 Kentucky. The next day was rainy. We crossed the Kentucky 
 river. One of the pack horses lay down in the river with mother's 
 feather beds. We passed through Lexington that same day and 
 arrived, all tired out, at Achilles Stapp's about sundown on the 
 22d of September, 1790. 
 
 "In the fall of 1790 father took a lease of Mr. Shannon for 
 five years. I remember the cabin and other buildings put up on 
 the place; of making ten pounds of sugar there on New Year's 
 day in 1791 ; of four polecats finding their way to father's meat 
 barrel in a rail pen ; of father's determining to make them leave 
 the barrel, and how they punished him for driving them out by 
 spoiling his meat. I also remember when a weasel caught a hen. 
 Brother William picked up the hen, and the weasel let go the hen 
 and buried its teeth in William's thumb. 
 
 "The first school I was sent to was kept by a man named Henry 
 Jenkins. No books were then used in the school except Del- 
 worth's spelling-book, a common primer and the New Testament. 
 At that time it was customary to turn the teacher out a little be- 
 fore Christmas until after New Year's. It was a time of great 
 frolic and fun among the scholars. It was all right, too, with the 
 parents. The school was continued about six months. The second 
 school teacher in the same place was Benjamin Quinn. Father 
 sent William and James to Benjamin Quinn and sent me to make 
 
28 THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA 
 
 Up their lost time. Although I was not a regular scholar Quinn 
 called me up and whipped me until he drew blood for cutting off 
 his hogs' tails, as he said. The charge was wholly untrue, and 
 I determined that when I became a man I would punish Quinn by- 
 whipping him, but on arriving at manhood I thought better of it. 
 
 "I have a lively recollection of the first money I ever owned. 
 A traveling man came to the school while I was there and in- 
 quired the way to a neighbor's. It being play time, I went with 
 the man and showed him the way, for which he gave me six and 
 one-fourth cents. The older boys got around me and gave me an 
 old written copy-book, a few sheets of paper and a ball for my 
 money. On going home, elated with my treasures and good for- 
 tune, father threw away the ball, and the paper was worthless. 
 The next money I received was for a hand-rake I made for Mr. 
 Joshua Stapp. He gave me six and one- fourth cents for the rake. 
 I took care not to purchase old copy-books, paper and balls with 
 the money, but laid it away until friend Stapp employed me to 
 do a second job of work, for which he gave me twelve and one- 
 half cents, called nine pence. The next piece of money owned by 
 me I found in the hay loft of an old horse mill. It was customary 
 in those days to cut up the money and make, if possible, nine 
 nine-pence pieces out of a dollar, or five quarters. Nearly all the 
 silver change was thus cut up for many years. 
 
 "About that time my father sent me to help a man in taking 
 corn on horseback to a merchant in Georgetown. The man 
 thought that he must treat all the boys to what they could drink 
 for their services. The w^eather was cold and the argument was, 
 'Drink and get warm.' I yielded and felt myself quite a man. 
 I lost all fear and shame and could talk with any one and every 
 one. 
 
 "The next summer my father set me to plowing with Grand- 
 father Watts's black horse. The flies were bad, and the horse 
 would sweep his tail continually over the lines to drive off the 
 flies. In order to remedy the evil I cut all the hair off the horse's 
 tail and then denied it. This is the first time I recollect doing 
 wrong and denying it. This was in the year 1 794. 
 
 "In the year 1795 father moved from his Shannon lease in 
 
THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA 29 
 
 Scott county on to the land he had purchased on the north side 
 of the North Elkhorn, some three or four miles from his first 
 settlement, three miles from the two forks of the Elkhorns and 
 seven miles from Frankfort. This was the second settlement made 
 in the woods by father after coming to Kentucky, and each time 
 the commencement was in Woodford county. In the winter of 
 1 790- 1 79 1, Scott county was formed out of a part of Woodford 
 county, and that time father was in Scott county. In like manner, 
 in 1795-96, Franklin county was formed from Woodford county, 
 and father's new residence was in the county of Franklin. The 
 Indians did considerable mischief near these settlements in steal- 
 ing horses and in killing several people. 
 
 "In the year 1 795-1 796 peace was made on our northern fron- 
 tier. 
 
 'Tn the year 1796 seven of father's family were all taken down 
 with the genuine shaking ague and fever. I was attacked in the 
 month of August and did not recover for about sixteen months. 
 For one month I had two shakes a day. Father and sister Mary 
 were the only ones who escaped the disease." 
 
 At this point the story was cut short by the death of the writer, 
 who was then eighty. An article was found, however, at North 
 Madison, Indiana, in an old scrap-book belonging to Mrs. Sarah 
 Stribling, which was written by Col. Vawter and published in 
 the Madison Courier in the year 1850. This article, which fol- 
 lows, carries on the story with a break of only a few years. 
 
 "Father, with six or eight other Kentuckians from Franklin 
 and Scott counties, visited what was then called the new purchase 
 at a very early date. A part journeyed by land and a part by 
 water. The land party crossed the Ohio river at Port William, 
 the others descending the Kentucky and Ohio rivers in a pirogue 
 to a point opposite Milton. The pirogue answered the double 
 purpose of carrying forward the provisions of the company 
 and enabling the men to pass from one bank to the other, swim- 
 ming their horses alongside. The company made their head- 
 quarters in the river bottom in the eastern extremity of the city 
 limits of Madison. In the day the company divided into two 
 parties, exploring the adjacent highlands to the head of Crooked 
 
30 THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA 
 
 creek and the neighboring lands of Clifty. They met at night and 
 reported their discoveries. To Crooked creek they gave the name 
 of Mill creek; to Clifty, Hard Scrabble; but subsequently, on 
 learning the name of each stream, the red man's name prevailed 
 with the settlers. 
 
 "At that time, December, 1805, Elder Jesse Vawter selected 
 for his residence the spot where Judge S. C. Stevens now resides 
 on the hill. He returned home and made every arrangement for 
 taking possession of his new home early in the spring of 1806. 
 He, with others, made the first settlement in and about Madison. 
 Nearly all the settlements made in that year and the two or three 
 succeeding years were made on the highlands. Among the first 
 settlers in the county were Elder Jesse Vawter, James Under- 
 wood, Joshua Jackson, Colby Underwood and James Edwards, 
 all of the Baptist denomination. East of Crooked creek were Col. 
 John Ryker, Paul Froman, Ralph Griffin, Joseph Lane and others, 
 the last two families being Baptists. West and southwest were 
 Col. Samuel Smock, James Arbuckle, Michael and Felix Monroe, 
 Isaiah Blankinship, Amos Chitwood and others. The first corn 
 was raised in Jefferson county in the year 1806, most of it being 
 planted as late as June. The first preaching in the early settle- 
 ments within the bounds of Jefferson and Switzerland counties 
 was by Baptist ministers. Elder Jesse Vawter, John Taylor, Phil- 
 emon Vawter and John Reese were early settlers and the only 
 resident ministers at that time in the vicinity of what is now the 
 city of Madison. From the year 1805, their first visit, until 1810, 
 the Baptist was the only organized church in the limits of what 
 is now Jefferson and Switzerland counties. In March, 1807, at 
 the home of Jesse Vawter, a Baptist church was organized called 
 Crooked Creek Church, afterwards Mount Pleasant Church. 
 
 "The first settlement made in the river bottom near Madison 
 was by William and John Hall in 1806 or 1807, a little above 
 Isom Ross's tanyard (purchased by Jonathan Lyon in 1808). 
 The second was made by John H. Wagoner on the high bank 
 a little west of Main street, in Madison. Wagoner unloaded his 
 boat on the loth day of May, 1808, and immediately commenced 
 building a house to live in. The third person who settled in the 
 
THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA 3I 
 
 limits of the present city was Robert M. Trotter, afterwards a 
 justice of the peace; the fourth was Joshua Wilkinson, a single 
 man; the fifth was Joseph Strickland, afterwards justice of the 
 peace, and with Strickland came a man by the name of Schofield 
 and perhaps others not recollected. Next came John Booth, 
 the first innkeeper ; then John Sering, Samuel Burnet ( second inn- 
 keeper) ; then Charles Easton with a number of others, which 
 brings us down to the time of the first sale of lots in Madison in 
 February, 1811. During all the above time, all the preaching for 
 twenty to thirty-five miles up and down the river and through 
 the county was of the Baptist order. The first sermon ever de- 
 livered within the chartered limits of Madison was by Elder Jesse 
 Vawter, among the cottonwoods on the river beach, a little above 
 the stone mill. The text was the first verse, first chapter of John's 
 Gospel. It was a funeral occasion, the death of widow Slack. 
 Mrs. Jonathan Lyon, mother of Philemon Vawter, closed the 
 service. This was the first death and funeral preached within the 
 vicinity of Madison. 
 
 "After the land sales in May, 1808, and the sale of lots in 
 Madison in 181 1, the town and the country commenced fill- 
 ing up pretty rapidly with settlers. The first man who 
 preached in Madison, other than Baptist, was of the name of 
 Hawkins, a hell reductioner, who afterwards became a convert 
 to Baptist belief. Some time after the establishment of courts in 
 Madison, and during the sitting of the court, Elijah Sparks, an 
 attorney-at-law and Methodist minister, and Jesse L. Holman, 
 a Baptist exhorter, both of Dearborn county, during the court 
 week, preached for the people at the house of Philemon Vawter, 
 near the Crooked creek graveyard. This was the first Methodist 
 preaching in the immediate vicinity of Madison. After public 
 buildings were erected in Madison, Col. Brown, a Methodist 
 preacher, preached in Madison and another by the name of 
 Frame; and so did old Dr. Fiske. About this time, if I mistake 
 not. Dr. Oglesby commenced preaching in Madison, also a man 
 by the name of Strange, also Squire Strother (of Kentucky) and 
 Amos Chitwood. In the year of 1812 or 1813, not earlier, a Meth- 
 odist meeting-house was built in Madison, and from that time 
 
32 THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA 
 
 Methodism began to take root and grow in the country. About 
 this time Elder Wilham Robinson, a Presbyterian preacher, 
 moved into Madison and commenced preaching, and soon organ- 
 ized a church of his order. He was succeeded by a man by the 
 name of Searl. So much for the early religious denominations 
 about and in Madison. 
 
 "I was the jfirst justice of the peace within the vicinity of Madi- 
 son while it was in Clark county. My commission bears the date 
 the 1 6th of July, 1808. The first judges for Jefferson county were 
 Gen. William McFarland, president of the Court of Common 
 Pleas, and Samuel Smock and William Colton, his associates. 
 The first clerk and recorder was Col. John Paul ; second clerk, 
 Richard C. Talbot. First sheriff, John Vawter, commissioned 
 such the 14th of December, 1810, retired from the office by virtue 
 of a commission dated 29th of July, 181 3, as United States 
 marshal for Indiana Territory. The second sheriff was James 
 Vawter ( I am not certain but Basil Bentley v/as second sheriff in 
 Jefferson county, but very soon retired from office). The third 
 sheriff, Thomas T. Stribling. The first court ever held in Jeffer- 
 son county was held in a log cabin owned by John H. Wagoner, 
 in February, 181 1. The sale of the first lots in Madison (old 
 town) was in the same month; the first proprietors. Col. John 
 Paul, Lewis Davis and Jonathan Lyon ; the first addition west, 
 surveyed by me for Col. John Paul. The first court house, called 
 the Buckeye House, was built in 1811. It was built by myself 
 for the proprietors. The first jail was a square log house, builder's 
 name not now recollected; first public house was kept by John 
 Booth ; second, by Samuel Burnet; third by Major Henry Ristine. 
 The first store was owned by John Sering & Co. ; a drug store 
 was started about the same time by Dr. Drake & Co. ; the third 
 store was opened by S. C. Stevens ; fourth by myself; fifth by J. & 
 N. Hunt; sixth by McCabe & Co.; seventh by Mr. Clarkston; 
 eighth by John Mclntire. The first physician was of the name of 
 Fiske ; second James Hicks ; third John Howes ; fourth David H. 
 Maxwell. The first attorney-general, Alex. A. Meek ; the second, 
 a man by the name of Oulds ; third, Gen. William Hendricks. The 
 
THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA 33 
 
 first dray ever used in Madison was owned by Simeon Reynolds, 
 and managed by his most excellent son, William L. Reynolds. 
 
 "I was personally acquainted with the first proprietors of the 
 town. A more excellent or upright good man than Col. Paul was 
 hard to be found. He was one of Gen. Roger Clark's bold, ad- 
 venturous soldiers, who aided in the capture of Kaskaskia and 
 Vincennes. He was elected one of the representatives from Clark 
 county in the year 1810. This was previous to the formation of 
 Jefferson county, and Col. Paul then resided at Madison. He was 
 also one of the members for Jefferson county who formed the 
 present constitution of Indiana. I was crier of the first sale of 
 lots in Madison, but had nothing to do with the surveying or 
 laying out of the same. Laid out the first addition west of Broad- 
 way for Col. Paul in the winter of 18 14 and 181 5. Had nothing 
 to do with any addition to the town. 
 
 "My second visit to Indiana was in May, 1806. I came in a 
 pirogue and landed a little above the stone mill opposite Milton, 
 visited the highlands east and west of Crooked creek, continued 
 at my father's half-faced shanty until near the middle of June in 
 order to assist him in getting his corn planted ; returned in the 
 same craft with my mother and other relatives to Frankfort, Ken- 
 tucky. In September, 1806, my father moved his family from 
 Kentucky to Mount Glad, the place where Judge S. C. Stevens 
 now resides. In December, 1806, I made my third visit to Indiana 
 in company with John Branham, a brother-in-law, and James 
 Vawter. We aided in driving my father's cattle and fattened and 
 stock hogs from his Kentucky residence to his new home in what 
 was then a wilderness. At this time I made a selection of a place 
 to move myself and family to in the coming spring. It was the 
 identical spot where the depot and machine shops of the railroad 
 company are now upon the hill. In March, 1807, I arrived with 
 my family, wife, and one child, at my original selected site in the 
 woods. In 1808 I built a house nearly opposite Godman's pork- 
 house on the hill and resided there until 18 12. In this year I pur- 
 chased property in Madison and moved to it. The property pur- 
 chased by me was two lots on Main Cross street, east of Polley 
 and Butler's iron store and west of Mulberry street. In 18 14 I 
 
34 THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA 
 
 sold both lots to Mr. David McCkire. In the winter of 1815 I 
 purchased of Col. John Paul the corner now owned by George 
 M. Phelps, and built a large frame house (large for the size of the 
 houses in Madison). Had the water conveyed by pipes, in con- 
 nection with Col. Paul, from the hill at Hite's tanyard to the same, 
 expecting to live and end my days there. In the same year I sold 
 it also to David McClure, moved to Vernon in November, 181 5, 
 and continued to reside there until November, 1849, with my 
 family. Since November, 1849, have resided in Morgantown, 
 Morgan county, Indiana. John Vawter. 
 
 "April 13, 1850." 
 
 Perhaps the personality of John Vawter can best be realized 
 by giving some stories that are told of him by his neighbors and 
 friends and by giving something of his life in Vernon. He had 
 a wide acquaintance, traveled around a great deal for those days 
 and kept in touch with all his relatives. A number of these stories 
 were taken from an article by Caroline Pabody Frost, which was 
 published in the Vernon Journal, and the rest were told by other 
 friends. 
 
 "Col. John Vawter was United States surveyor for a portion 
 of the Northwest Territory. He came to the place where Vernon 
 now stands in 181 3. He was greatly struck with the beauty of 
 the country and determined to make it his future home. He plat- 
 ted the town in 181 5 and moved there the same year. At this 
 time there was but one white family in Jennings county. In this 
 wilderness Col. Vawter left his young wife and little children 
 while he went upon his surveying tours, giving strict injunctions 
 that no Indians be allowed to enter the house or get any liquor. 
 One day soon after Col. Vawter left home two Indians came to 
 the door, and pushing in without leave, demanded 'fire-water.' 
 Mrs. Vawter told them that she had none for them, and to ap- 
 pease their anger brought out some ribbon. They were delighted 
 with the gift of a yard or two apiece of orange colored ribbon. 
 Smith Vawter, the small son of Col. Vawter, was sitting in the 
 chimney corner watching the savages with absorbing interest, 
 when one of them suddenly sprang to his feet with a blood cur- 
 
THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA 35 
 
 dling war-whoop and, swinging his tomahawk high in the air, 
 stood with it poised over the boy's head for what seemed an age 
 to the boy, who thought his time had come, but who looked the 
 savage calmly in the eye. The Indian dropped the tomahawk and 
 sat down, saying that he was a brave boy and would make a 'heap 
 good Indian.' The Indians then ransacked the cabin for liquor 
 and, finding a treasured bottle of peach brandy, each took a drink, 
 and, generously leaving the bottle, departed." 
 
 "In the year 1816 three houses were built in Vernon, and little 
 clearings with cabins in the center began to dot the surrounding 
 wilderness. The first school house was built by Col. Vawter on 
 the 'Commons' near where the railroad bridge now stands. In its 
 one room Mrs. Lard (Vernon's first teacher) cooked, slept and 
 taught. The older pupils read in the English Reader, the younger 
 ones in the spelling-book, which they were required to spell nearly 
 through, both off and on the book, before beginning on 'In 
 Adam's fall. We sinned all' and 'Young Obidias, David and Jo- 
 sias, All were pious.' Each one did sums on his slate. The Murray 
 Grammar and parsing finished the list." 
 
 "The first church (the Baptist) was organized in Vernon in 
 
 18 16, and John Vawter was one of its seven members. 
 
 "The first board of commissioners met in Vernon, March 5, 
 
 1817. John Vawter was appointed clerk and also 'to act as agent 
 for the transaction of all such duties as are required by an act of 
 the late territorial legislature for fixing the seats of justice in all 
 new counties that may be set off.' Ordered at the same meeting 
 'that John Vawter have the use of the public grounds to sow a 
 crop of oats, he to sow the same with timothy or blue grass.' 
 
 "On April i, 181 7, the board ordered the report of the com- 
 missioner for fixing the county seat be recorded as soon as the 
 recorder's office be established, John Vawter and David McClure 
 having offered to the commissioners various lots of land and 
 sums of money 'on condition of the seat of justice being estab- 
 lished on the public grounds in the town of Vernon.' The land 
 consisted of seventy town lots, besides the public ground; two 
 acres of land for a burying-ground ; three lots of an acre each for 
 places of religious worship, school-houses, etc., all in suitable 
 
36 THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA 
 
 places; a donation of land on the north and south of town. The 
 land east of said town, and west of the creek, was ever to remain 
 'open and common to the inhabitants of said town and county.' 
 
 ''In the year 181 8, John Vawter, treasurer of the county, pro- 
 duced his vouchers showing he had received and paid out $265.50. 
 
 "At the meeting of the board December, 1822, appears the 
 first mention of the 'Jennings County Seminary.' 
 
 "Col. Vawter, trustee, reports a long list of fines paid to him 
 by justices of the peace. The following fines were imposed on 
 divers persons by sundry justices: Profane swearing, $4.00; as- 
 sault, $0.01; fighting, $0.50; Sabbath breaking, $1.00; profane 
 swearing, $1.00; assault, $0.50; selling liquor without license, 
 $2.00." 
 
 "The first newspaper, The Vernon Visitor, was owned and ed- 
 ited by John Vawter and printed by Richard Randall. The outfit 
 of this paper consisted of a meager supply of type and one of the 
 old-fashioned Washington hand-presses, it being necessary, in 
 order to print the paper, for a boy to roll the type with a large 
 brayer at every impression. The first account of payments and 
 receipts in this printing office is dated March i, 1840. 
 
 ACCOUNT. 
 
 Paid for. 
 
 Fire wood $1 50 
 
 Two reams paper 20 00 
 
 Pai^er 25 
 
 Door lock I 50 
 
 Ball of twine 38 
 
 Books, this kind 93 
 
 Postage 16 
 
 Four cjuires paper 20 00 
 
 Candles 75 
 
 Freight on paper 37 
 
 For blanks i 00 
 
THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA 37 
 
 Received from. 
 
 Noah Noble, for paper $i 50 
 
 Wm. Browning', for paper i 50 
 
 David Heller, for paper i 50 
 
 Benj. Hobbs. for paper i 50 
 
 Benj. Hobbs, horse bills 2 50 
 
 T. L. House, horse bills 2 00 
 
 Samuel Wilder, paper 75 
 
 Wm. Cory, bills 2 00 
 
 Cash. jNIcMenard, blanks 2 00 
 
 Wm. Griffith, news i 50 
 
 Granville Griffith, news i 50 
 
 Wm. D. Vawter. paper 75 
 
 E. P. Smalley 75 
 
 D. T. Whitney, hand bills i 50 
 
 Alex. Adams, three papers i 50 
 
 John ^^^alker, Wm. R. Walker, H. 
 Tripp and Baxter Butler, subscriptions 
 
 paid in rent 3 00 
 
 Amos Knapp, paid in potatoes i 50 
 
 Lewis P. Grinstead, paper i 50 
 
 Here the account ends without saying how long a period of time 
 it covers. The paper was sold early in the forties to Amos Frost. 
 
 "Col. Vawter and Dr. Pabody were among the early legislators 
 for the new state of Indiana. They both served for several con- 
 secutive terms, the former in the senate, the latter in the house. 
 They made the journey to the capital on horseback, carrying 
 their wardrobes in their saddle-bags. These two legislators were 
 Whigs and advocates of 'internal improvement,' which was the 
 'bone of contention' between the two parties. 
 
 "Col. Vawter was a zealous advocate and untiring worker for 
 the construction of the Madison and Indianapolis Railroad, much 
 to the disgust of some of his neighbors, who saw in the building 
 of that road only ruin to the country. Steam cars, they said, 
 would do away entirely with hauling, deprive the workingman of 
 
38 THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA 
 
 work and wages, horses would lose their value, frightful accidents 
 would occur from the frightening of cattle and horses by the 
 locomotive, and lastly, there would not be enough produce be- 
 tween Madison and Indianapolis to load one train of cars. The 
 wordy war was long and loud. When the surveyors appeared in 
 Vernon and proceeded to run their line through Col. Vawter's 
 front hall, the rejoicing of his opponents was great; but he, 
 stanch to his principles, told them to go ahead, he would get his 
 house out of the way, and so he did. He moved it across the 
 street (where it now forms part of the house near the railroad 
 bridge) and he saw his garden and orchard covered by the em- 
 bankment without a murmur. 
 
 "During the building of the road occurred the 'Irish riot,' the 
 most exciting episode in Vernon history excepting perhaps the 
 'Morgan raid.' The Irish laborers belonged to two clans, the 
 Corkonians and the Fardowns, which were constantly on the 
 warpath. The latter outnumbered the former and made an effort 
 to have the Corkonians discharged by the contractors." 
 
 There are many anecdotes told of John Vawter while he lived 
 in Vernon and in Morgantown. He was a minister, but in those 
 days a minister was compelled to make a living in other ways 
 than by preaching, as he did not receive compensation for his 
 services. As a minister Col. Vawter was able to indulge his love 
 for match-making and, as Taylor Vawter said, "He just loved to 
 marry people for fun." 
 
 Caroline Pabody Frost said that it was expected that matri- 
 mony was the impending fate of any one who worked for Col. 
 John Vawter. 'Tn one instance a bashful young man employed 
 in his printing office was invited over to take Christmas dinner 
 with him. He was duly admonished on his arrival to clean his 
 feet on the door mat, and at the table to eat all that he took on 
 his plate. When dinner was over he was taken into the parlor. 
 Col. Vawter left the room, but presently returned, bringing with 
 him the buxom lass who had cooked the dinner. A chair was 
 drawn up beside the young man and she was seated upon it. 
 'There,' said Col. Vawter, as he left the room, 'I have done my 
 
THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA 39 
 
 part, now you do yours.' What followed did not then transpire, 
 but this time it was not a wedding." 
 
 It was said that Col. Vawter had a great deal to do with the 
 marriage of Williamson D. Vawter and his first wife, Mary 
 Tighlman Crowder. Neither one of the young people was of age, 
 and the father of Williamson was very much opposed to the mar- 
 riage on that account. Col. Vawter persuaded the young woman 
 to go on a visit to a friend in an adjoining county and stay there 
 a sufficient time until the license could be procured. Then he 
 furnished Williamson, who was working for him at that time, 
 with a horse and money to go to the place where she was and 
 get married. 
 
 "When Col. John Vawter was a widower for the second time 
 his son Smith was going to see a girl by the name of Minton. 
 His father said to him : 'Now, Smith, I want you to stop going 
 to the Minton house.' Smith, like the good son he was, stopped 
 going, thinking his father had some objection to the family. The 
 first thing Smith knew his father was about to be married to Ruth 
 Minton himself. The day the wedding took place Smith climbed 
 one of the tallest trees in his father's front yard, and as the wed- 
 ding procession was returning from the church and Col. Vawter 
 and his bride were passing under the tree where Smith was con- 
 cealed, Smith sang out, 'O, good Lord, what have I done, I've 
 married the father instead of the son !' 
 
 "Col. Vawter was married four times himself and his son Smith 
 five times. It is told that at the funeral of Smith Vawter's third 
 wife there were a number of ministers who talked in an affecting 
 manner, and then Col. Vawter arose. He said : 'My son, we all 
 sympathize deeply with you in your affliction. You are just bury- 
 ing your third beloved companion while I am living with my 
 third. When my second wife was dying I said to her : "Oh, my 
 dear, what shall I do?" She replied: "John, the Lord will pro- 
 vide." I say the same to you, my dear son Smith. The Lord will 
 provide for you.' 
 
 "WTien Col. John Vawter was in search of a fourth wife he 
 went one day to the door of the house where Mrs. Martha Pearce 
 lived. She asked him to come in. 'No, no, Sister Pearce,' said 
 
40 THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA 
 
 he, 'I am just on a little matter of business. I am going to Madi- 
 son to-day and will be back to-morrow. I want to know if you 
 will marry me. I will stop for your reply when I return. Good 
 day, Sister Pearce.'* 
 
 "When Smith Vawter, the son of John Vawter, wished to join 
 the church and was being questioned by the ministers in regard 
 to his belief, he said : 'I believe in Christ, but further than that 
 I can not go.' One of the ministers said : 'Then, my son, I can 
 not baptize you.' Col. John Vawter said : 'Well, I will then, my 
 
 son,' and he did. 
 
 "Col. Vawter was very particular about what he ate and the 
 manner in which it was prepared. While out on a preaching tour 
 he and a number of others went to a house for dinner. As soon 
 as they were invited out to dinner, he said to the hostess : 'Have 
 you any corn bread?' 'No,' replied she, 'no corn bread to-day.' 
 'Well, friends, we will go back into the parlor and wait until 
 Sister Jones makes her corn bread.' She made it." 
 
 Another thing of which Col. Vawter was very fond was coffee. 
 He always carried his favorite kind around with him and would 
 ask the lady of the house to make him a cup. The one who made 
 the coffee exactly right stood very high in his favor. 
 
 Col. Vawter was also very particular about his person. He had 
 a clean shave every morning and bathed his feet every night be- 
 fore going to bed. 
 
 "Chief among the peculiarities of Col. Vawter was an intense 
 antipathy to dogs and to tobacco. If a friend called at his home, 
 who had unfortunately allowed his dog to follow him, he was left 
 standing at the door with outstretched hand while his host gave 
 chase to the dog and securely fastened it without the gate. He 
 sometimes descended from the lofty pulpit in the old Baptist 
 Church, in the midst of his sermon, in pursuit of an unlucky 
 canine that had chanced to wander in. He would chase it around 
 
 *This fourth marriage took place soon after the death of the third wife. 
 When John T. Vawter, a grandson, was written to for the purpose of finding 
 whether the dates were correct or not, he replied: "There is no mistake. I went 
 with the Colonel, my grandfather, when he asked Mrs. Pearce to marry him, 
 and they were married in five or six days thereafter. 
 
THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA 41 
 
 and out the door, then would mount the steps and go on preaching 
 as if that were part of his program. 
 
 "At the Association once in Vernon, Col. Vawter, who was 
 very hospitable, said : 'Now I have a new house out here and I 
 want you all to come to my house for dinner. I will entertain 
 you every one and you are welcome, but I don't want any one 
 to bring dogs or to spit on my clean floors.' " 
 
 Wm. H. McCoy, of Franklin, used to live in Vernon and knew 
 Col. Vawter there. He told this anecdote: "Col. Vawter was 
 opposed to collections for missions. He didn't believe in missions. 
 At the Association, which met in Vernon, there was present Mr. 
 Crabb, who was the state collector for missions. On Saturday 
 before the Sunday service some of the ministers wanted to vote 
 that a collection for missions should be taken up. 'No, no,' said 
 Col. Vawter, 'I will leave if you do.' The matter was dropped. 
 The next day there were a number of ministers on the platform 
 to speak. Col. Vawter was always the man to take a nap just 
 whenever and wherever he wanted to. While one of the ministers 
 was speaking Col. Vawter dropped off behind the platform, lay 
 down on a log and went to sleep. Mr. Crabb observed this.' He 
 spoke next, cut his remarks short and asked that a collection be 
 taken for missions, and it was. When the minutes of the Associa- 
 tion were read, the secretary said : 'and a collection for missions 
 was taken.' 'Hold on,' said Col. Vawter, 'no such thing!' 'Yes, 
 said the others, the collection was taken while you were asleep ' 
 'What next?' said Col. Vawter." 
 
 General Breckinridge of Minnesota, talking to Williamson 
 Vawter, told this anecdote about Col. John Vawter, whom he 
 knew. He said : "Vernon was famous in the early history of the 
 country for its courts. There was at North Vernon at that time 
 a well-known Irish lawyer. Col. Vawter was subpoenaed on two 
 cases being tried by this lawyer. He was a witness on the side 
 the lawyer wished to win in one case and a witness on the side 
 the lawyer did not wish to win in the other case. The lawyer, in 
 summing up the first case, said : 'And who is this Col. John Vaw- 
 ter? He is the marshal of the Territory of Indiana, founder of 
 Vernon and defender of the oppressed.' In summing up the 
 
42 THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA 
 
 second case, he said : 'Who is this old John Vawter ? He is the 
 hirehng of the United States Government, the nabob of Vernon 
 and a secrater of nagers.' " 
 
 "A Hoosier was travehng in Michigan, and, while stopping at 
 a hotel, incidentally revealed the fact that he originally lived in 
 southern Indiana. The landlord quickly inquired of his guest 
 whether or not he knew Col. John Vawter. of Vernon, to which 
 question the boarder replied in the affirmative. 'Then I must tell 
 you my first impression of Col. Vawter,' said the landlord. Tn 
 an early day, before the railroad was built, I was traveling from 
 Madison to Vernon, and, nearing the town of Vernon, I saw a 
 surveyor and his chain carrier, working near the road. I inquired 
 for a place in Vernon where I could stop for the night and have 
 my horse stabled and fed. The surveyor at once kindly told me 
 where the boarding-house was located, and said that a man there 
 would take care of my horse. At supper time the surveyor and 
 his gang came in and I soon learned that the man with the com- 
 pass was the proprietor of the hotel. After supper I asked direc- 
 tions to a store. The landlord said that he would walk up town 
 with me. Upon arriving at the store I found a general stock of 
 goods, and then learned that my escort was owner and proprietor 
 of the establishment. While I was puzzling my brain as to how 
 one man could attend to so many different vocations. Colonel 
 Vawter asked me if I would like to go to church. I went, and 
 you may imagine my utter astonishment on reaching the church 
 to see the man I had already thought overburdened with business 
 walk into the pulpit and preach a most able sermon. That night 
 I walked home with a surveyor, landlord, merchant and minis- 
 ter, but Col. John Vawter was the only man with me.' " 
 
 A copy of the inscription on the tombstone of John Vawter at 
 Morgantown, Ind., follows.' It was composed by John Vawter 
 himself: 
 
THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA 43 
 
 With all his Titles. 
 
 Here lies the remains of 
 
 ELDER JOHN VAWTER. 
 
 Born in old Virginia — 
 
 Jan. 8. — 1782; 
 
 Died Aug. 17, 1862; 
 
 The effort of his long life as a 
 Christian was to nourish and build up 
 The true Christian Church on the 
 Original Apostolic foundation. 
 
 As a statesman he was a progressive 
 Conservative, believing The state 
 Legislature held the great material 
 Interest of the body politic in its 
 Hands; that the prosperity of the State 
 In education, agriculture, internal 
 Improvements, mechanical arts, finance 
 And commerce could be advanced by 
 Judicious, or retarded and crypted 
 By unwise Legislation. — 
 
 LETTERS WRITTEN BY JOHN VAWTER TO HIS BROTHER, 
 WILLIAM VAWTER. 
 
 Vernon, 25 October, 1828. 
 Brother William — I send you by your son $2.56 cts., the 
 amount of your hauling (by Taylor Vawter). I heard news 
 when in that was to me unexpected and unpleasant. It was 
 that you were disposed to absent yourself from meeting and had 
 done so in one case ; that you had said that some of your friends 
 were your enemies. If this be true, you are in a state of mind 
 that is far from enviable; you are, in short, childish and wrong 
 
44 THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA 
 
 and do not know it. My dear brother, it is too hard. Let me 
 pray you not to reproach your friends by thinking or saying they 
 are enemies, and above all, not to lessen that favorable station you 
 hold in the good opinions of your brethren wherever you are 
 known. It is much easier to lose a good name than to gain it. 
 You have been laboring for your's upwards of twenty-five years, 
 and now do not destroy it by any improper course, such as you 
 may rest assured you will do by absenting yourself from meeting. 
 
 I would advise you to ever lie at the feet of your brethren as 
 the proper place. I have done so for years, otherwise I would 
 have been expelled from society long ago, for many only wished 
 me so to act that they might have wherewith to charge me. I 
 now enjoy much comfort with my brethren, and so may you 
 should you not want to be chief. You must not ask others to 
 look through your eyes, and you must remember that the Re- 
 deemer did not refuse to eat with publicans and sinners, yea, 
 with one who denied Him, yes, with' one who betrayed Him. All 
 this is a lesson to proud you and me to do likewise. We are not 
 to judge hearts, and be assured we have nothing to boast of our- 
 selves. I have never seen the time when I could not meet with 
 such as could meet with me, poor me, and could always partake 
 of the supper with all who could with me. 
 
 Let me pray you now, as a brother who truly loves and has 
 admired your prudent. Christian conduct heretofore, to stop, 
 pause and think what injury you are doing yourself, how you 
 are detracting from your own good name and sinking your family 
 connections by neglecting your solemn church covenant. My 
 brother, you must fall at the feet of your brethren and there re- 
 main. I speak freely, because I believe you delight in honesty 
 and plain dealing, and let no word I say break in on that good 
 understanding that has so long subsisted between us. 
 
 Respectfully, your brother, 
 
 John Vawter. 
 
 MORGANTOWN, INDIANA, 3d Octobcr, 1 858. 
 
 Brother William Vawter — On Saturday morning I left 
 home for the purpose of coming to see you and family. On arriv- 
 
THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA 45 
 
 ing at Vernon heard you had been able to go about, then went on 
 to Madison, intending to visit you on Monday. On reaching 
 Vernon again found you had been able to visit your daughter, 
 Frances, and finding I could save a day, took the freight train and 
 went on to Indianapolis. Returned home last evening. While 
 about, visited Hickman Branham, Newton Vawter, Brother 
 Jenkins, his mother being there, and Brother James (who sends 
 you this minute), Brother Abner Moncrief and Brother Wise. 
 Attended meeting on Sunday at Harbert's Creek in company with 
 Brother James Vawter and our only two living sisters. Four 
 out of the six of us now living were together at one time, and 
 that where father, mother and one sister were buried — a thing 
 I never expect to occur again in my lifetime. 
 
 I heard Brother Henderson preach a sermon which affected 
 my whole internal man. Oh! it was a soul-stirring sermon, 
 worthy of being admired by all God's dear children. I do not 
 suppose I ever will forget it. Brother Thomas Hill was there. 
 We dined together at Moncrief s, suppered, lodged and break- 
 fasted together at Matthew Wise's. 
 
 We are all well, and so are my children, who are here. Jane 
 Storey and her Emma are here for to-day, by whom I send you 
 this letter and minute. 
 
 Affectionately yours, 
 
 John Vawter. 
 
 MoRGANTOWN, INDIANA, 2d February, 1859. 
 Brother William Vawter — Your letter of the 31st Jan- 
 uary, 1859, came to hand to-day, for which accept my thanks. 
 I only got home on Monday evening from my visit and meetings. 
 I have been for four days and five nights off with a bad cold, 
 mostly located in my head. It did seem as if my eyes and nose had 
 the consumption and would waste my whole life away by con- 
 stant running. Cold brought on by walking from Shelbyville, 
 some twelve or fourteen miles, after 2 o'clock, to Brother 
 Hurst's by 7 o'clock. I had to walk, as the Rushville railroad 
 cars failed that day to make a trip. I went to see my cousin, Sally 
 Hurst. She is suffering very much with a cough and cold ; looks 
 
46 THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA 
 
 very poor. I very much doubt whether I will ever see her again. 
 Old Brother Hurst is as well as when I saw him in May last to 
 , all appearances, 
 
 I do not recollect whether I wrote you that I did receive a 
 letter from Jephtha Vawter not long since. He wrote me fully 
 about himself, family and children, brothers, sisters and father. 
 We do commonly write each other about twice a year. It does 
 me good to hear from him and his friends. They were all in 
 common good health when he wrote me. 
 
 I am sorry you did not write me about Brother Allen Park's 
 daughter, I am anxious to hear from her, Hope she will do 
 well. We are generally well here, Hope these lines will find you 
 and all the friends well or improving at least. 
 
 Believe us as ever your friends, yours, 
 
 John Vawter. 
 
 MORGANTOWN, INDIANA, 1 2th JuUC, 1 862. 
 
 Elder William Vawter : Dear Brother — Yours of the 
 8th instant at hand to-day, for which you have my sincere thanks. 
 We are glad that you have it in contemplation to visit us, and 
 hope that health and everything else will favor your effort to 
 come at the time named in your letter, say the 20th of this month, 
 I do expect to leave here to-morrow in order to attend meeting 
 at Amity on Saturday and Sunday next, it being their regular 
 meeting days. From Amity I will go to Indianapolis, if my 
 health permits, so as to be at the convention on Wednesday, the 
 i8th of the month, I may leave Indianapolis for home on 
 Wednesday evening or Thursday morning, so as to come home 
 on Thursday the 19th of this month, but my every movement de- 
 pends on my health. 
 
 Since I saw you I have visited Franklin, Indianapolis, Sharps- 
 ville (saw your granddaughter), Vernon, Columbus and Rush 
 county. Saw my old cousin, Sally Hurst, She is greatly afflicted 
 with rheumatism. Old Brother Hurst is suffering, as I am, with 
 continual pain in the head. Emmons, his son, is afflicted with a 
 bad disease of the throat, bronchitis I do suppose. Daniel Web- 
 ster Pearce came home from Franklin two or three days since. 
 
THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA 47 
 
 down with chills and fever. Our last news from Thomas Allen 
 Pearce he was well and near Corinth in Mississippi. He says 
 all our boys that went from here with him are well. I do not 
 know where the Story boys are now. The last accounts they 
 were in Missouri. It is said that our boys that went from here 
 and wintered on the Potomac (a part of them) failed to stand 
 up to the work at Winchester in the late retreat under Banks. 
 Banks deserves great credit for having managed his retreat so 
 well. 
 
 Will you write us if anything intervenes to prevent your com- 
 ing? Friends here all well. 
 
 I am, as ever, your friend and brother, 
 
 John Vawter. 
 
I. 
 
 JOHN VAWTER5 
 
 (Jesse*, Davids John'S Johni) 
 
 (1782-1862) 
 
 m. ist 
 
 POLLY SMITH 
 
 (1781-1825) 
 
 Children" 
 
 I. Smith Vawterm. 
 ist Jane Terrell 
 
 ad Elizabeth 
 Smith 
 
 3d Spicy Car- 
 roll 
 
 Grandchildren'' 
 
 (i) JohnT. Vaw- 
 
 ter m. 
 Jane V. Storey 
 (2) Hickman N., 
 
 d. s. 
 
 G. Grandchil- 
 dren' 
 
 Clara (adopted) ra. 
 Lafayette Pence 
 
 G. G. Grandchil- 
 dren* 
 
 ^ Lafayette Vawter 
 
 r (3) Samuel m. 
 J Maria Bright 
 
 I (4) Mary Jane, d.s. 
 
 (5) Edwin, d. s. 
 
 (6) Emily m. 
 
 Dr. Beechly 
 
 C Irene m. 
 
 George Banta 
 
 Mary J. m, 
 Isaac N. Smith 
 
 Charles B. m. 
 
 Mrs. Leila 
 
 Hunter 
 
 Jennie m. 
 John Jenkins 
 
 4th Huldah 
 
 Kendricks 
 
 5th Mrs. Sarah 
 G. Maynard 
 
 (7) Sarah m. 
 
 Elijah Read 
 
 (8) Ezra, d. s. 
 
 [^ (9) George, d. s. 
 
 f (10) Smith K. m. 
 Mary Brown 
 
 (11) Hattie Lilly, 
 
 d.s. 
 
 (12) Carrie m. 
 George Rowan 
 
 ' Virginia m. 
 
 Wm. Reamer 
 Alice, d. s. 
 Smith H. m. 
 Daisy Belle m. 
 
 Pearly Sprague 
 Bert m. 
 
 Alice Richcrick 
 
 Edna 
 
 John 
 
 (^ Louise 
 
 Vawter 
 
 Maria, d. 
 Clara, d. 
 Frank 
 
 Milton V. 
 No Children 
 
 Carrie 
 Virginia 
 Vawter, d. 
 
 Roscoe 
 Virginia 
 
THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA 
 
 49 
 
 2. Jane Vawter 
 
 (1809-1864) 
 
 m. 
 
 Thos. J.Storey 
 
 (1796-1878) 
 
 (i) John V. Storey 
 m. 1st 
 Mary J. Storey 
 
 2d 
 
 Mrs. A. Moore 
 
 (2) Emily, d. s. 
 
 (3) Mary ra. 
 John T. Vawter 
 
 (4) Smith Wm. m. 
 ist 
 
 Martha Wise 
 
 2d 
 
 Lena Carlisle 
 
 (5) David, d. s. 
 
 (6) Thomas Henry 
 m. 
 Titia Sharp 
 
 ' Martha Jane m. 
 J. L. Smith 
 
 Wm. David, d. s. 
 
 Ezra 
 I Cora V. 
 j Frank, d. s. 
 L Charles 
 
 I No children 
 
 ( Clara (adopted) m. 
 / Lafayette Pence 
 
 Kate m. 
 Lincoln Dixon 
 
 Blanche 
 Smith Wm., Jr. 
 
 r Cora Edith m. 
 Shaw 
 
 Walter 
 
 Alma 
 
 Elmer 
 
 Roy 
 , Emma 
 
 (7) James Mar- 
 shall m. 
 Lucia Barnum 
 
 (8) Riley Clark m. 
 Rose Schaefer 
 
 (9) George W. m. 
 ist 
 Hepsiejohnson 
 
 2d 
 
 Alice Stone- 
 brook 
 
 (10) Emma Julia 
 m. 
 
 Daniel Latti- 
 more 
 
 Lafayette Vawter 
 
 Esther Claire 
 Donald Storey 
 L Dorothy 
 
 I 
 
 r 
 
 -{ No children 
 
 L 
 
 ' Guy 
 
 Grace m. 
 Thos. Larkins 
 
 John T. m. 
 Meta Mella 
 
 Oscar Sears 
 ^ Infant, d. 
 
 Thos. Andrew m. 
 Olive Hamilton 
 
 r 
 
 ■{ Smith William 
 
 I 
 
 ' John V. 
 
 Ralph G.,d. 
 
 Mabel Emma 
 . Frances C. 
 
 Mabel V. (adopted) 
 
 m. 
 Willis Bradley 
 
 Speare 
 
 Storey 
 Elizabeth 
 
 Margaret H. 
 
50 
 
 THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA 
 
 3. EmilyVawter 
 
 (1814-1877) 
 
 m. 
 
 Allan Campbell 
 
 (1808-1881) 
 
 f (i) Mary, d. 8. 
 
 (2) Smith Vawter 
 m. 
 Carrie S. Davis 
 
 John m. 
 Margaret Coan 
 
 Emily D. m. 
 
 Edward F. Wol- 
 fart 
 James Burt, s. 
 Sarah Scott m. 
 
 Geo. B. Baker 
 
 Vernon Otterman 
 
 (3) Solon B. m. 
 
 Carolyn Otter- - 
 man 
 
 Mary 
 
 Carrie Margaret 
 
 Janice Findus 
 Hazel 
 
 Joseph Allan 
 Garnette Carolyn 
 Glenn Solon 
 Kemper Bramwell 
 ^ Gladys 
 
 (4) JohnD. m. j Several children 
 
 JOHN VAWTER 
 
 m. 2d 
 
 JANE SMITH 
 
 (No children) 
 
 JOHN VAWTER 
 
 m. 3d 
 RUTH MINTON 
 
 (1817-1850) 
 
 4. Marion Vawter 
 
 (1830-1880) 
 
 m. 
 
 Rebecca Mahafy 
 
 (1832 ) 
 
 (i) Charles Minton 
 ra. 
 ist 
 
 Carrie Tim- 
 mons 
 
 Fred Allan ra. 
 Stella Crichlow 
 
 2d \ Eva May, d. 
 
 Alice Campbell / Maud 
 
 (2) Wm. Riley m. 
 Emma Ketcham 
 
 (3) Mary E. m. 
 Richard Dun- 
 ning 
 
 (4) Jesse Segal m 
 Ella Brown 
 
 i 
 
 No children 
 
 Carrie, d. 
 Earl Raymond 
 Tillie Allan 
 Luella, d. 
 
 George 
 Grace 
 
 15 
 
 Charles Desmond 
 esse 
 
THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA 
 
 5t 
 
 5, Mary A. Vawter 
 
 (1836-1897) 
 
 m. 
 
 George Obenshain 
 
 (i) Martha Jane m. 
 Joseph L. Fes- 
 ler 
 
 (2) John W., d. s. 
 
 (3) Smith, d. s. 
 
 (4) Emma V. m. 
 John W. Hilton 
 
 (5) Carrie, d. s. 
 
 (6) Frank Allan m. 
 Berda M.Ream 
 
 (7) Ruth m. 
 Spencer H. 
 
 Wood 
 
 Carrie A. m. 
 
 Emerson Wood 
 Timothy C. ra. 
 
 Lulu Coleman 
 Susie C. 
 Jennie A., d. s. 
 
 Fred E. 
 
 James Leon 
 Esther, d. 
 
 (I) 
 
 Frank Day m. 
 Laura E. Smart 
 
 6. Allan Vawter 
 
 (1833-1874) 
 
 m. 
 
 Catherine Hickey 
 
 (1837-1895) 
 
 (2) Ida Ruth, d. s. 
 
 i (3) 
 
 (4) 
 
 Elmer m. 
 Margaret Saw- 
 yer 
 
 Lillian Lincoln 
 m. 
 
 Thos. Lafay- 
 ette Smith 
 
 i Harold H. 
 
 I 
 
 Clarence Allan m. 
 
 Jennie Moore 
 John Elmer 
 Francis Bertram 
 Willie Belle 
 Ella Mae 
 Horace Raymond 
 Nellie Bly 
 Catherine 
 I Alice Pearl 
 
 Ralph Emerson 
 Raymond 
 Mary Ruth 
 Frank 
 Dewey 
 
 Martha Clarice 
 Paul Leon 
 
 Thomas Allan 
 
 (5) 
 
 Cora m. 
 Whitfield 
 Yeager 
 
 "I No children 
 
 JOHN VAWTER 
 
 m. 4th. 
 
 7. Emma, d. s. 
 
 MRS. MARTHA PEARCE 
 (1822-1892) 
 
52 THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA 
 
 Smith Vawter 
 
 Smith Vawter, the son of John and Polly (Smith) Vawter, 
 was born in Scott county, Kentucky, November 3, 1806. His 
 father was born in Orange county, Virginia, and his mother was 
 born in Pennsylvania. His father's family moved to Indiana 
 Territory in 1807, making the first encampment near where the 
 railroad roundhouse now stands in North Madison. Smith 
 Vawter lived in Madison for eight years and then moved with 
 his father to Vernon. He rose from ensign to the command of 
 the Twenty-first Regiment Indiana Militia; was elected sheriff 
 in 1834; county commissioner in 1848, and again in 1856; was a 
 representative in the lower house of the Indiana legislature from 
 Jennings county in the sessions of 1848 and 1856; was the joint 
 representative from Jennings and Scott counties in the session 
 of 1878-9; was the joint representative from Jefferson and Jen- 
 nings counties in the session of 1879-80. He was one of the 
 trustees of the Agricultural Fund (Purdue University) for five 
 years; was a merchant and a farmer for more than forty years, 
 and for the last years of his life was credited with occupying his 
 time principally with paying security debts for his friends. He 
 also gave much to charity. (Almost all of the above was taken 
 from Biographical Sketches of Members of the Indiana State 
 Government of 1879-80.) 
 
 Col. Smith Vawter was a peculiar character, as was his father 
 before him, but all the more interesting on that account. Lewis 
 Wagner, of Vernon, who knew Smith Vawter well and married 
 one of his cousins, said : "The older Vawters were all peculiar 
 people and very stubborn, but good, honest people — people one 
 could depend on." 
 
 "Smith Vawter was a pork packer, a dry goods merchant, had 
 a woolen mill and also a flouring mill. He used to slaughter hogs 
 which ran wild in the woods about Vernon, put them on a flat- 
 boat and take them to New Orleans and trade for molasses and 
 other groceries. It took weeks and weeks to go to New Orleans 
 
THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA 
 
 53 
 
 then. Afterwards Colonel Vawter owned a steamboat. He was 
 exceedingly fond of corn bread, and on one trip to New Orleans 
 the bread gave out. Smith Vawter stopped the boat and went 
 off in the woods to see if he couldn't find some corn bread at a 
 near-by house. He was gone so long that the men grew uneasy 
 and went to look for him. They found him sitting in front of a 
 cabin waiting for a darky to bake some bread. Four hours of 
 time for every one on the steamboat was lost while Colonel Vaw- 
 ter secured his corn bread. It was said that when he went to 
 the legislature at Indianapolis he always took his corn bread 
 with him." 
 
 Smith Vawter was very independent. He did not like to be 
 under obligations to any one. He never would accept a railroad 
 pass. He never sought office for himself, but liked to be con- 
 sulted about plans for others. During the Civil War he spent 
 much of his money and time in helping the wives and children 
 of those who went to the front. 
 
 When Col. Smith Vawter lived on the farm across the creek 
 from Vernon he was at one time sick. He wanted some medi- 
 cine. He asked some one to go and get it for him. The creek 
 was very high and the one asked said it wouldn't be safe to try 
 to cross it. That made Colonel Vawter angry, and he got up, 
 went to the barn, mounted his old mouse-colored horse, swam the 
 creek and got his own medicine. 
 
 When Richard Stott had a tannery not far from the farm of 
 Smith Vawter his hogs kept coming over on Mr. Vawter's farm 
 and annoying him. His darky said : "Wat you-all gwyin' do wid 
 dose hogs?" "Shoot 'em, shoot 'em, shoot 'em!" said Colonel 
 Vawter, "I'll pay for them." The darky did shoot them, and 
 Smith Vawter paid for them without a word. 
 
 "When Colonel Vawter was in Indianapolis attending the 
 sessions of the legislature he was walking along near the Circle 
 late at night. A man stepped up very close to him and said: 
 'Could you tell me the time?' Colonel Vawter thought the man 
 mtended to steal his watch. He stepped back toward the lamp- 
 post, raised his cane, which was very heavy, and said: 'Yes. sir; 
 
54 THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA 
 
 it is time both you and I were in bed.' The man seemed to agree 
 with him, for he was not slow about moving on." 
 
 Smith Vawter was married five times and had twelve children. 
 He was married first, April 21, 1829, to Jane Terrell. Their 
 children were John Terrell Vawter and Hickman N. Vawter. 
 Jane (Terrell) Vawter was born January 15, 1811; died Sep- 
 tember 29, 1834. 
 
 (i) John Terrell Vawter, son of Smith and Jane (Terrell) 
 Vawter, was born January 15, 1830, in Vernon, Indiana. At 
 the age of seventeen he was employed as a salesman in his father's 
 store of general merchandise at $16 per month, he to board him- 
 self. When nineteen years old his salary was raised to $20 per 
 month. He remained in his father's employ until August, 1851, 
 when, with S. W. Storey (his wife's brother), he opened a drug 
 store in Franklin. Mr. Storey only remained until the follow- 
 ing February, John T. Vawter continuing the business for about 
 sixteen years, then selling a part interest to Mr. Ephraim Jefifry. 
 In 1869 John T. Vawter sold his interest in the drug store to Mr. 
 McCoy, and with George F. Harriott built and operated a large 
 pork-house in Franklin. After two years they took Messrs. Bran- 
 agan and Featheringill into the firm. In 1876 the business was 
 discontinued, John T. Vawter going to his farm at Vawter Park, 
 in Northern Indiana. From the year 1859 he was in the Indiana 
 Farmers' Bank for some time, and afterwards, for twenty years, 
 in the Second National Bank of Franklin. On the expiration of 
 the charter he, with others, organized the Franklin Bank. In 
 1884 he was elected president of the Franklin Bank and accepted 
 the position for three years only and on condition that he be given 
 the privilege of converting it into a national bank, which was 
 done in May, 1885. He is the largest stockholder in said Frank- 
 lin National Bank and also one of the directors. 
 
 John T. Vawter 'once kept seven sets of books at the same time 
 in Franklin. He was a good penman, quick in figures and not 
 given to making mistakes. His father was the same, and the 
 Terrells, on his mother's side, were experts, Gen. W. H. H. Ter- 
 rell perhaps the best. 
 
 John T. Vawter was married in 1850 to his cousin Mary Story, 
 
 P 
 
THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA 55 
 
 who was born April 21, 1831. They had no children of their 
 own, but in the year 1862 they took a little girl whose mother 
 was dead, and later on adopted her. Smith Vawter, the father 
 of John, thought a great deal of the father and mother of the 
 child and wished his son to take her. The child was known as 
 Clara Vawter. She attended Franklin High School, then Butler 
 College, at Irvington, and finally, in 1880, the Female College at 
 Oxford, Ohio. She was married December 22, 1881, to Lafayette 
 Pence, and died in Denver, Colorado, December 17, 1885. Her 
 husband, who was born and reared in Columbus, Indiana, was at 
 the time of her death a member of the state legislature of Colo- 
 rado, and since her death has been a member of congress. Clara 
 Vawter Pence left only one living child, Lafayette Vawter Pence, 
 who was born March 14, 1884, and who is now pursuing his 
 studies in Ilion, New York. 
 
 John T. Vawter has been a member of the Church of Christ 
 in Vernon, and now in Franklin, for about sixty years. His 
 wife died March 4, 1900. If living she would have been a mem- 
 ber for about the same length of time. His daughter, Clara, 
 united with the Church of Christ when fourteen years of age. 
 
 (2) Hickman N., son of Smith and Jane (Terrell) Vawter, 
 was born July 9, 1832. He was graduated at Hanover at about 
 sixteen or seventeen years of age. He was of a very daring dis- 
 position and something of a rover. His father was remonstrating 
 with him one day because he did not stay in the same place, and 
 said : "My son, you know the rolling stone gathers no moss." 
 "No," replied the son, "nor does the setting hen grow fat." 
 
 Lewis Wagner, of Vernon, who knew Hickman well, said that 
 he was very brilliant anl also very proud. He wrote a paper 
 called the "Man About Town" and printed it. Once a month it 
 was tacked up on the trees and public buildings. The people were 
 very curious about it, but for many months were unable to find 
 out who did it. 
 
 One evening Hickman asked a young woman of Vernon to 
 allow him to take her home from church. She refused. He was 
 very much astonished and said over and over to Lewis Wagner : 
 "Well, now, what do you think of that? A harnessmaker's 
 
56 THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA 
 
 daughter refuses to walk home with Col. Smith Vawter's son." 
 Hickman Vawter died at the age of twenty-two years. 
 
 Smith Vaivter's second wife was his cousin, Elizabeth Smith. 
 They were married January 8, 1835. Elizabeth S. Vawter was 
 born in 1806 and died February 2, 1839. Their children were 
 Samuel and Mary Jane. 
 
 (3) Samuel Logan, son of Smith and Elizabeth Vawter, was 
 born January 20, 1836, at Vernon, Indiana. When quite a boy 
 he clerked in the drug store of his brother, John T. Vawter, in 
 Franklin, Indiana. A few years later, he bought a drug store at 
 Martinsville, Indiana. In the year 1859 he went to St. Anthony, 
 Minnesota, where he owned a drug store. In a few years he and 
 his partner moved to St. Paul, Minnesota, where they started 
 the first wholesale drug house in the northwest. Samuel Vawter 
 was married December 16, 1856, at Franklin, Indiana, to Maria 
 L. Bright, who was born at Franklin, March 18, 1837. Their 
 children were Irene, Mary and Charles. Samuel Vawter died Jan- 
 uary 15, 1868. 
 
 a. Irene E. Vawter, daughter of Samuel and Maria B. Vaw- 
 ter, was born in Martinsville, Indiana, September 24, 1857. She 
 was married October 17, 1878, at Franklin, Indiana, to George 
 Caldwell Banta. Mr. Banta was born at Hopewell, Indiana, and 
 has lived there all of his life, except ten years which were spent 
 in Franklin in the drug business. The children of George and 
 Irene Banta were : 
 
 (a) Maria, born February 8, 1880; died July 11, 1880, at 
 Franklin, Indiana. 
 
 (b) Clara Vawter, born September 13, 1881 ; died February 
 23, 1903, at Hopewell. Indiana. 
 
 (c) Frank Caldwell, born December 8, 1883, at Franklin, In- 
 diana. Is attending Purdue University at Lafayette, Indiana. 
 
 Mr. and Mrs. George Banta are living at Hopewell, Indiana. 
 Their postoffice is Franklin, Indiana. 
 
 h. Mary J., second daughter of Samuel and Maria Bright 
 Vawter, was born in Martinsville, Indiana, April 25, 1859, mar- 
 ried June 29, 1897, to Isaac Newton Smith. They have one son, 
 
THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA 57 
 
 Milton Vawter Smith, who was born in Springville, Utah, Jan- 
 uary 30, 1899. 
 
 Mr. Smith, who was born in Lewistown, Indiana, January i6, 
 1859, is principal of the New Jersey Academy, Logan, Utah. The 
 school is under the direction of the Home Mission Board of the 
 Presbyterian Church. 
 
 c. Charles Bright Vawter, son of Samuel and Maria B. Vaw- 
 ter, was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, April 29, 1862. He 
 was married April 18, 1888, to Mrs. Leila Hunter Holman, who 
 was born October 20. 1855. No children. Leila H. Vawter died 
 June 7, 1 90 1. 
 
 Charles Bright Vawter is a member of the firm of Duncan & 
 Vawter, hardware dealers of Franklin. Indiana. 
 
 (4) Mary Jane, daughter of Smith and Elizabeth Vawter, 
 was born August 14, 1837, and died February 6, 1861. 
 
 Smith Vawter's third wife was Spicy Carroll, to whom he was 
 married January 28, 1840. Their children were Edwin, Emily, 
 Sarah, Ezra and George. Spicy (Carroll) Vawter was born Feb- 
 ruary 25, 1817, and died July 30, 1848. 
 
 (5) Edwin, son of Smith and Spicy (Carroll) Vawter, was 
 born January 19, 1841 ; died in 1854. 
 
 (6) Emily, daughter of Smith and Spicy (Carroll) Vawter. 
 was born March 24, 1842. She was married to Dr. Beechly of 
 Bridgeport, Indiana. Their children were Jennie and an infant 
 who died at birth. Jennie was married to John Jenkins of Lin- 
 coln, Nebraska, and lived at Danville, Illinois. There were three 
 children born to John and Jennie Jenkins : Carrie, born in 1889,, 
 Virginia, born in 1892 and a boy, Vawter, who died at about two 
 years of age. John and Jennie Jenkins are both dead. The two 
 children are living at Danville, Illinois. 
 
 (7) Sarah, daughter of Smith and Spicy (Carroll) Vawter, 
 was born September 18, 1843; married May 31, 1864, to Elijah 
 T. Read, who was born in Vernon, Indiana, December 24, 1841. 
 They live in Oswego, Kansas, where Mr. Read has been until 
 recently engaged in the hardware business. Children : 
 
 a. Virginia, born April 26, 1865 ; married November 11, 1885, 
 in Oswego, Kansas, to William Stewart Reamer, who was born 
 
58 THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA 
 
 March 4, i860. They live in Oswego, Kansas. Their children are 
 Roscoe Read, born August 10, 1891, and Virginia Katherine, 
 born May 30, 1894. 
 
 b. Alice, born December 28, 1867; died October 23, 1869. 
 
 c. Smith H., born September 23, 1869, and married in Lacon, 
 Illinois, June 6, 1900, to Mabel Adams. Lives at 3046 Walnut 
 street, Kansas City, Missouri. 
 
 d. Daisy Belle, born April 23, 1872; married October 11, 
 1896, in Oswego, Kansas, to Pearly J. Sprague. No children. 
 They live in Gashland, Missouri. 
 
 e. Bert, born December 9, 1874; married September 24, 1902, 
 to Alice Richcrick. Lives in Sparks, Oklahoma. 
 
 (8) Ezra, son of Smith and Spicy (Carroll) Vawter, was 
 born July 9, 1845, and died in 1846. 
 
 (9) George, the son of Smith and Spicy (Carroll) Vawter, 
 was born July 18, 1847, and died in 1848. 
 
 Smith Vazvter married, fourth, December 24, 1848, Huldah 
 Kendricks, who was born November 13, 1826; died March 31, 
 1859. Their children were Smith K. and Hattie Lilly. 
 
 (10) Smith K., son of Smith and Huldah (Kendricks) Vaw- 
 ter, was born October 11, 1849; married to Mary A. Brown in 
 1873. Their children were: a. Edna, born July 20, 1876; b. John 
 T., born September 20, 1878; c. Louise, born April 5, 1883. 
 
 Smith K. Vawter lived in Vernon, Indiana, but for some years 
 before his death lived at Vawter Park, Indiana, where he died 
 in his fifty-second year. Mrs. Smith Vawter and her children live 
 at Vernon in the winter and at Vawter Park in the summer. 
 Edna, the elder daughter, has been teaching in Vernon. John T. 
 is preparing himself at Champaign, Illinois, to be an architect. 
 He also studied at Purdue. 
 
 (11) Hattie Lilly, daughter of Smith and Huldah (Ken- 
 dricks) Vawter, died in childhood. 
 
 Huldah (Kendricks) Vawter was born November 13, 1826, 
 and died March 31, 1859. 
 
 Smith Vazvter married fifth, December 1859, Mrs. Sarah Grif- 
 fith Maynard, who was born at Steubenville, Ohio, December 29, 
 181 7; died September 7, 1892. They had one child, Carrie, who 
 
THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA 59 
 
 married George Rowan and has one son, Vawter Rowan. Mrs. 
 Rowan lives with her half-sister, Mrs. Maggie Hutchings, of 
 Kokomo, Indiana. 
 
 Smith Vazvter died in Vernon, April lo, 1882. 
 
 Jane (Vawter) Storey 
 
 Jane, daughter of John and Polly (Smith) Vawter, was born 
 July 17. 1809, in Kentucky, and was married June 25, 1825, to 
 Thomas J. Storey, the son of John Storey. John Storey was of 
 Irish parentage. He was a soldier in the Revolutionary War and 
 also in the War of 1812. He had a large family of children, many 
 of them sons, and all of these were soldiers at one time or an- 
 other. Thomas J. Storey, his son, was in the War of 181 2. He 
 enlisted at Georgetown. Kentucky, in a volunteer company com- 
 manded by Captain Metcalf, and at once went into active military 
 service. He was in the battle fought near the foot of the rapids 
 of the Maumee river, in which Colonel Dudley, commanding, was 
 overpowered by the combined British and Indian forces under 
 Procter and Tecumseh. Out of a regiment of nearly one thou- 
 sand as brave men as ever marched from Kentucky less than one 
 hundred and fifty made good their retreat to a place of safety 
 by a column charge through the lines of the enemy. All the rest 
 were scalped, tomahawked, butchered and burned by the Indians. 
 Subsequent to this Mr. Storey was in the battles and sorties in- 
 cident to the siege of Fort Meigs and at the close of the war in 
 the Northwest he was honorably discharged. 
 
 After the return of Thomas Storey from the War of 181 2, he 
 was married to Miss Span, Vv'ho lived only a year, dying at the 
 birth of a daughter, who lived to be three years old. Thomas 
 Storey then settled in Vernon, Indiana, about the year 1820, as 
 a house builder. There he met Jane Vawter, with whom he fell 
 in love. It was soon after the death of her mother, and the pro- 
 posal of the young widower was met with a decided refusal, as 
 the loving daughter was "going to stay with father and care for 
 
6o THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA 
 
 and comfort him forever," It was not long, however, until the 
 father sought comfort elsewhere, and Jane, meeting her quondam 
 lover after the announcement of her father's coming marriage, 
 whispered rather sadly: "Mr. Storey, if you have not changed 
 your mind, I — I have mine." Her extreme modesty and shy re- 
 serve made these words seem so out of keeping with her character 
 that they have been remembered. Their marriage was a happy 
 one and their lives, looked back upon, seem uneventful. They 
 lived for their children and tried to teach them to love God and 
 their country. Three of the boys were in the army of the North, 
 and any soldier in need of a home was always made welcome at 
 Thomas Storey's. The mother's dying words were a prayer for 
 country and children. Jane ( Vawter) Storey died March 8, 1864. 
 
 Thomas Storey was married, third, to Miss Louisa Hall of 
 Madison, Indiana, in 1867. She is now living in Vernon. Mr. 
 Storey died July 16, 1878, at the age of eighty-two years, an old 
 man, still full of interest in all current events. 
 
 Thomas J. and Jane (Vawter) Storey had ten children : John, 
 Emily, Mary, Smith William, David, Thomas Henry, James 
 Marshall, Riley Clark, George W. and Emma Julia. 
 
 (i) John Vawter Storey, son of Thomas J. and Jane (Vaw- 
 ter) Storey, was born December 17, 1826, and was married 
 March 15, 1846, in Vernon, at the home of Col. John Vawter, 
 his grandfather, to his cousin Mary Jane Storey, of Warsaw, 
 Kentucky. Mary Jane Storey, his wife, was born in Mount Ster- 
 ling, Kentucky, December 29, 1824, and died September 2^, 1891. 
 They had six children : Martha Jane, William David, Ezra, Cora 
 v., Frank and Charles. 
 
 a. Martha Jane, daughter of John V. and Mary Jane Storey, 
 was born August 31, 1847, and was married to J. L. Smith, of 
 Richmond, Indiana, December 13, 1870. Children: Cora Edith, 
 born September 10, 1871 ; married to Mr. Shaw of Richmond, 
 Indiana, June 26, 1894; Walter G., born December 26, 1872; 
 died January 8, 1893; Alma, born October 7, 1874; Elmer, born 
 June 22, 1880; Roy, born June 21, 1882; Emma, born February 
 II, 1880. 
 
THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA 6l 
 
 b. William David, son of John V. and Mary Storey, was born 
 June 31, 1849, ^^^ died February 27, 1900. 
 
 c. Ezra, son of John V. and Mary Storey, was born October 
 8, 1853. 
 
 d. Cora V., daughter of John V. and Mary Storey, born 
 August 15, 1855. 
 
 e. Frank, son of John V. and Mary Storey, was born Decem- 
 ber 13, 1856, and died January 11, 1896. 
 
 /. Charles, son of John V. and Mary Storey, was born Oc- 
 tober 16, 1859. 
 
 John V. Storey was married, second, to Mrs. Addie Moore of 
 Bartholomew, Indiana, November 28, 1874. Mr. Storey began 
 his business career as a druggist. Is now retired. He and his wife 
 live at Columbus, Indiana. 
 
 (2) Emily Vawter Storey, daughter of Thomas J. and Jane 
 (Vawter) Storey, was born December 12, 1828, and died July 
 20, 1842. 
 
 (3) Mary Vawter Storey, daughter of Thomas J. and Jane 
 (Vawter) Storey, was born April 21, 1831 ; married in 1850 to 
 John T. Vawter; died March 21, 1900. No children. 
 
 (4) Smith William, son of Thomas J. and Jane (Vawter) 
 Storey, was born in Vernon, Indiana, December 23, 1833. While 
 a mere youth, he made the overland trip to the Pacific, driving 
 an ox wagon, and for several years endured the hardships and 
 dangers of a frontiersman and miner in California and Oregon. 
 Returning to Vernon, he engaged in the drug business, in which 
 he continued until his death. S. William Storey was an elder in 
 the Vernon Presbyterian Church ; was superintendent of the Sun- 
 day-school for twenty-five years ; was an organizer and promoter 
 of the first bank in Vernon; was a director, and from 1895 until 
 his death was president of the First National Bank. He was mar- 
 ried May 17, i860, to Martha E. Wise, who was the daughter of 
 Copeland, the son of Matthew and Julia (Vawter) Wise. There 
 was one daughter, Kate, who was born October 8, 1861, and mar- 
 ried October 16, 1884, to Lincoln Dixon. Mr. Dixon was bom 
 February 9, i860, and is an attorney-at-law of North Vernon, 
 Indiana, and has recently been elected to congress. 
 
62 THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA 
 
 Children of Lincoln and Kate (Storey) Dixon : Esther Claire, 
 born December i6, 1887; Donald Storey, born October 6, 1890; 
 Dorothy, born April 3, 1900. 
 
 Martha W. Storey, the wife of S. William Storey, died August 
 28, 1889. She was a woman of great loveliness of character, and 
 is remembered with the sincerest affection by her many friends. 
 
 S. William Storey was married, second, to Lena Carlisle, De- 
 cember II, 1890. Lena Carlisle was born June 10, 1864. Chil- 
 dren: Blanche, born September 14, 1891, and S. William, Jr., 
 born December 2^, 1893. 
 
 S. William Storey died October 7, 1903. 
 
 (5) David, son of Thomas J. and Jane (Vawter) Storey, was 
 born June 2^, 1836, and died December 5, 1842. 
 
 (6) Thomas Henry Storey, son of Thomas J. and Jane 
 (Vawter) Storey, was born July 18, 1838, and was married to 
 Titia Sharp in Kansas in 1881. No children. Thomas H. Storey 
 had a stroke of paralysis during the last year of the Civil War and 
 was discharged on account of it, never entirely recovering from 
 the effects. He was totally blind for eight years before his death, 
 which occurred January 23, 1890. His widow is living. 
 
 (7) James Marshall, son of Thomas J. and Jane (Vawter) 
 Storey, was born in Vernon, Lidiana, October 17, 1840. During 
 the Civil War he was mustered into service as a private of Com- 
 pany H, Twenty-sixth Indiana Volunteer Infantry, August 3, 
 1861 ; was made sergeant of company June 2^, 1862; lieutenant, 
 July 20, 1863; captain, June 19, 1865. He was aide-de-camp to 
 Brigadier General Vandiver from July 25, 1863 to October 14, 
 1863; served under Gen. Fremont, in his campaign in Missouri 
 in 1862, after the rebel Gen. Price was wounded in the forehead 
 at the battle of Prairie Grove, Arkansas, December 7, 1862; was 
 in the siege of Vicksburg; the taking of Brownsville, Texas, in 
 the latter part of 1863 ; the siege of Spanish Fort from investment 
 to capitulation April 9, 1865; the taking of Montgomery, Ala- 
 bama, April 25, 1865. He was mustered out of service at Vicks- 
 burg, Mississippi, January 15, 1866. After the war J. M. Storey 
 went into the hardware business in Indianapolis, afterwards going 
 to Franklin, Indiana, where he owns the "Up-Town House." 
 
THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA 63 
 
 J. Marshall Storey was married April 21, 1864, to Lucia Bar- 
 num, who was born April 23, 1843. 
 Children : 
 
 a. Guy, born February 12, 1867. 
 
 h. Grace, born September 22, 1869 ; married April 29. 1896, 
 to Thomas Larkins, of Indianapolis, Indiana. One 
 child, Storey, born April 29, 1897. 
 
 c. John T., born September 22, 1872; married March 13, 
 
 1902, to Meta Mella, born 1879. One child, Elizabeth, 
 born November 23, 1903. 
 
 d. Oscar Sears, born February 12, 1880. 
 
 e. Infant, born and died in 1886. 
 
 (8) Riley Clark Storey, son of Thomas J. and Jane (Vawter) 
 Storey, was born December 18, 1842, in Vernon, Indiana. As a 
 lad he was a book-lover and of a studious disposition. It is said 
 that he left home at one time to follow a favorite teacher to In- 
 dianapolis, where he sold papers in order to pay his tuition and 
 other expenses. He was in college at Franklin, Indiana, when 
 the war broke out. He enlisted in the Eighteenth Indiana Volun- 
 teers. The forced marches, exposure to rain and snow and sleep- 
 ing on the wet ground were too severe for him. He was honor- 
 ably discharged January 17, 1863, a sick man. and suffered during 
 the rest of his life from rheumatism and kindred troubles. After 
 his discharge he entered the University of Michigan and grad- 
 uated from that institution with the famous class of '69. While 
 in the university he, with others, organized the local chapter of 
 the Phi Delta Theta fraternity. After graduating, he entered a 
 law school in Indianapolis, from which he received the degree of 
 LL. B. later. 
 
 Riley C. Storey was married March 30, 1874, to Rose Mar- 
 garet Shaefer, who was born August 8, 1857, in Patriot, Indiana. 
 At the time of his marriage Riley Storey was in the United States 
 revenue service and had some serious experiences with various 
 offenders of the law. Afterwards he was for six years superin- 
 tendent of schools of Cowley county, Kansas. After a number 
 of changes, he was principal of the public schools of Golden Hill, 
 Nevada, for eight years. He was then principal of schools in 
 
64 THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA 
 
 Gilroy, California, for two years. His health failing, he joined 
 his son in 1899, who was a teacher in Stanford University. He 
 died on the seventeenth of September, 1902. 
 
 a. Thomas Andrew Storey, son of Riley Clark and Rose 
 (Shaefer) Storey, was born January 29, 1875; married June 26, 
 1899, to Parnie Olive Hamilton, who was born in the San Joa- 
 quin Valley, California, August 21, 1874. 
 
 Thomas Andrew Storey is a teacher in Leland Stanford Uni- 
 versity. He is now on leave of absence and will spend a year in 
 Boston, completing the work required for the degree of M. D., in 
 the Harvard Medical School. He will then return to Stanford 
 University. 
 
 (a) Margaret Hamilton Storey, daughter of Thomas Andrew 
 and Parnie (Hamilton) Storey, was born July 31, 1900. 
 
 (9) George W. Storey, son of Thomas J. and Jane (Vawter) 
 Storey, was born July 6, 1845 ! married in 1867 to Hepsie John- 
 son. A son. Smith William Storey, was born in 1869, and is now 
 living in Kansas. 
 
 George W. Storey married, second, Alice Stonebrook, August 
 30, 1893. Alice Stonebrook was born March 9, 1863. 
 Children : 
 
 a. John v., born July 31, 1894. 
 
 b. Ralph G., born March 23. 1897; died May 12, 1898. 
 
 c. Mabel Emma, born October 14, 1898. 
 
 d. Frances C, born May 2, 1903. 
 
 George W. Storey began life as a druggist, then went south 
 as a planter, and is now a farmer living at Jelloway, Ohio. 
 
 (10) Emma Julia, daughter of Thomas and Jane (Vawter) 
 Storey, was born May 2, 1848, in Vernon, Indiana; married 
 March 19, 1867, to Daniel Lattimore. One child, Mabel Vawter 
 Lattimore, was born April 25, 1876, at Washington, D. C. ; mar- 
 ried March 28, 1904, to Willis Bradley Speare. 
 
 Daniel E. Lattimore was born in Vernon, Indiana, February 
 2^, 1846. He was the son of a Presbyterian minister. Has been 
 a clerk in the surgeon general's office in the War Department for 
 thirty-four years. Lives at 1529 Corcoran street, Washington, 
 D. C. 
 
THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA 
 
 Emily (Vawter) Campbell 
 
 Emily Vawter, daughter of John and Polly Smith Vawter, 
 was born May i6, 1814; married to Allan Campbell in 1829; died 
 July 8, 1877. 
 
 Allan Campbell was born in Scott county, Kentucky, a few 
 miles from Frankfort, January 31, 1808, and in the winter of 
 1 8 16- 1 7, with his father, moved to Jennings county, Indiana. 
 Allan Campbell was a farmer and lived for many years on his 
 farm near Vernon, Indiana. He died in Maryville, Missouri, May 
 15, 1 88 1. There were four children : Mary, Smith Vawter, Solon 
 B. and John D. 
 
 ( 1 ) Mary, died in youth. 
 
 (2) Smith Vaw^ter Campbell, son of Allan and Emily Vawter 
 Campbell, was born on the farm near Vernon, Jennings county, 
 Indiana, August 26, 1832. He attended school at Ann Arbor, 
 Michigan, graduating in medicine in the early fifties, and settled 
 for the practice of his profession in Lebanon, Indiana. Here he 
 was married to Carrie Steele Davis, daughter of Dr. William P. 
 Davis, in 1854. Soon afterward he moved to Des Moines, Iowa, 
 where he entered into active practice. When the war broke out 
 he offered his services; was commissioned assistant surgeon of 
 the Twenty-third Iowa Volunteer Infantry and served four years 
 and six months. After the close of the war he moved to Adel, 
 Iowa, and, in 1878, to Maryville, Missouri, and practiced medi- 
 cine. He died in 1902. 
 
 Carrie Davis Campbell was born May 13, 1836, in Boone 
 county, Indiana; died July 2, 1895. 
 
 The children of Smith Vawter and Carrie Davis Campbell 
 were : John, Emily, James Burt and Sarah Scott. 
 
 a. John S., son of Smith V. and Carrie D. Campbell, was 
 born March 17, 1863, and was married in May, 1886, to Margaret 
 Coan, who was born in Westport (now Kansas City), Missouri, 
 in May, 1863. They have one child, Mary, who was born August, 
 1888. 
 
66 THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA 
 
 John Campbell is general solicitor for the Smith-McChord- 
 Townsend Wholesale Dry Goods Company and lives in Kansas 
 City, Missouri. 
 
 b. Emily D., daughter of Smith V. and Carrie D. Campbell, 
 was born in Adel, Iowa, February 20, 1866, and was married to 
 Edward F. Wolfert, October 30, 1890. Edward F. Wolfert was 
 born in Burlington, Iowa, March 21, i860. He is a carriage 
 manufacturer of Maryville, Missouri. 
 
 c. James Burt, son of Smith V. and Carrie D. Campbell, was 
 born November 17, 1867, in Adel, Iowa. He is unmarried and 
 living in Maryville, Missouri. Has business interests in Alaska 
 and in the west, 
 
 d. Sarah Scott, daughter of Smith V. and Carrie D. Campbell, 
 was born in Adel, Iowa, October 25, 1872, and was married on 
 October 12, 1892, to George B. Baker, who was born in Mary- 
 ville, Missouri, February 19, 1870. They have one child, Carrie 
 Margaret, born June 21, 1896. George B. Baker is engaged in 
 the banking business in Maryville, Missouri. 
 
 (3) Solon B. Campbell, son of Allan and Emily Vawter 
 Campbell, was born in Vernon, Indiana, November 29, 1839; 
 married in DeSoto, Iowa, February 25, 1874, to Carolyn Otter- 
 man, who was born in Thorntown, Indiana. 
 
 Solon B. Campbell was a druggist and a physician, practicing 
 for twenty-five years in Adel, Iowa. He enlisted during the Civil 
 War in Company D, One Hundred and Thirty-second Regiment. 
 Was discharged on account of ill health. Died in Adel, Iowa, 
 July 31, 1893. 
 
 Children of Solon B. and Carolyn Otterman Campbell : 
 
 a. Vernon Campbell, born March 30, 1875 ; married to Janice 
 Findus, January 24, 1903, in San Francisco. They live in Los 
 Angeles, California. Vernon Campbell is in the olive business. 
 He is secretary, manager and treasurer of a large olive canning 
 factory located in Los Angeles. The company cans ripe olives 
 and makes olive oil, having made twenty-five thousand gallons 
 of oil last year. 
 
 b. Hazel Campbell, born October 4, 1876. 
 
 c. Joseph Allan Campbell, born January 14, 1878, 
 
THE VAVVTER FAMILY IN AMERICA 0/ 
 
 d. Garnette Carolyn, born July i, 1879. 
 
 e. Glenn Solon, born July i, 1879; died in February, 1880. 
 /. Kemper Bramwell Campbell, born July 5, 1881. 
 
 g. Gladys Campbell, born July 11, 1886. 
 
 Joseph and Kemper Campbell are operating a vegetable can- 
 nery in Moneta, California. 
 
 Mrs. Campbell and all of the children except Vernon, live in 
 Moneta, California, ten miles from Los Angeles. 
 
 (4) John D., son of Allan and Emily Vawter Campbell, was 
 born in Vernon, Indiana; died in Georgia, where he had gone 
 for his health. He left a wife and a number of children. 
 
 4 
 Marion Vawter 
 
 Marion Vawter, son of John and Ruth (Minton) Vawter, was 
 born November 30, 1830, at Vernon. Indiana. When about 
 eighteen or twenty years of age he, with his father, his brother 
 and sister, moved to Morgantown, Indiana. His early employ- 
 ment was as roadmaster of the Franklin and Martinsville Rail- 
 road. He moved, with his family, to Indianapolis in i860, and 
 w^as employed in the Madison and Indianapolis Railroad machine 
 shops for four or five years, having charge of the shops the last 
 two years. In 1865 the road was consolidated with the Jefferson- 
 ville Railroad, and Marion Vawter then secured a position in the 
 Eagle machine shops for a short time, then with D. Root & Co., 
 foundry and machine shops, where he was employed several 
 years. He resigned from this position, and with Benjamin J. 
 Smith, former master mechanic of the Madison and Indianapolis 
 Railroad, started a machine and repair shop at Spencer, Indiana. 
 This venture did not prove a success, and he returned to D. Root 
 & Co., and afterwards to the Sinker, Davis & Co. machine shops, 
 where he was employed until his death in 1880. 
 
 Marion Vawter was married January 28, 1851, at Morgan- 
 town, Indiana, to Rebecca Mahafy, who was born March 6, 1832, 
 in Maryville, Ohio, and is now living at Lafayette, Indiana. Their 
 
68 THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA 
 
 children were: (i) Charles Minton; (2) William Riley; (3) 
 Mary Emily, and (4) Jesse Segal. 
 
 (i) Charles Minton Vawter, son of Marion and Rebecca 
 (Mahafy) Vawter, was born at Morgantown, Indiana, February 
 28, 1853. Charles Vawter probably is acquainted with more of 
 the Vawter relatives than any other one in the whole connection. 
 He has been greatly interested in the history of the Vawter fam- 
 ily, and to him is due the preservation of much of the history of 
 his grandfather which has been given in this account. 
 
 A short sketch of Charles M. Vawter, taken from a letter writ- 
 ten by himself, is here reproduced. 
 
 "I, Charles Minton Vawter, moved from Morgantown, In- 
 diana, with my father, to Indianapolis, in i860, and attended the 
 public schools there until 1865 or 1866. I then secured employ- 
 ment with my uncle, John Allan Vawter, on his huckster wagon, 
 which ran between Indianapolis and Morgantown. While with 
 my uncle I formed the acquaintance of one Mr. Bently, a tin 
 pedler, who secured me the job of running a wagon for J. J. 
 Smith & Co., 108 South Delaware street, Indianapolis. The com- 
 pany was running twenty wagons. This was the first good job 
 for me, and paid $26.00 a month and expenses. 
 
 "On October 2 I started out with my tin wagon and ran it 
 until 1872. On June 9 of 1872 I went to Lafayette and ran a 
 wagon for Robert Manning & Co. until November 22 of the same 
 year. On this date I secured a position as brakeman on the Louis- 
 ville, New Albany and Chicago Railway, making my first trip to 
 Bloomington, Indiana. In 1874 I was promoted to train baggage- 
 master. In December, 1876, I was promoted to a freight con- 
 ductor. In 1879 I had an accident which caused me to lose my 
 position. I then started a restaurant in Michigan City and ran it 
 until I lost what little money I had. I then went back on the 
 Louisville, New Albany and Chicago road. Soon after, my wife's 
 health failing, I resigned and took care of her until her death. 
 In March of that year I secured a position as freight conductor 
 on the Wabash Railroad, between Moberly, Missouri, and St. 
 Louis. My mother and son Fred, aged six, were with me while 
 there. I left the Wabash January i, 1884, and returned to the 
 
THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA 69 
 
 Louisville, New Albany and Chicago as local freight conductor. 
 In March, 1886, I lost my position, owing to a change of officers. 
 From March to August I was in the produce business at Bloom- 
 ington, Indiana, having moved there from Lafayette. In July I 
 called on Mr. Bent at Cincinnati, who employed me as local 
 freight conductor, running between Seymour, Indiana, and 
 Cincinnati. I then moved from Bloomington to Seymour. In 
 1888 I was promoted to extra passenger conductor, and in Sep- 
 tember, 1889, to a regular passenger train between Louisville 
 and North Vernon. I then moved to New Albany. In 1897 I 
 began running between Louisville and Cincinnati, moving to 
 Home City, Ohio. At present I am running between Cincinnati 
 and St. Louis." 
 
 Charles M. Vawter was married September 23, 1875, to Carrie 
 J. Timmons, a daughter of Allan Timmons. She was born in 
 Hamburg. Germany. They had one son, Fred Allan. 
 
 Carrie Timmons Vawter died January 5, 1883. 
 
 Charles M. Vawter was married at Gosport, Indiana, August 
 II, 1884, to Alice Campbell, who was born July 29, 1859, in ^[t. 
 Tabor, Indiana. Children: Eva May, still-born, August 21, 1885, 
 and Maud, born June i, 1888, at Seymour, Indiana. 
 
 Charles M. Vawter's address is Home City, Ohio. 
 
 a. Frederick Allan Vawter, son of Charles M. and Carrie 
 (Timmons) Vaw^ter, was born February 16, 1878; married Feb- 
 ruary 16, 1898, to Stella Crichlow, who was born in 1881. They 
 have two children, Charles Desmond, born November 9, 1897, 
 and Jesse, born August, 1899. 
 
 Frederick Allan Vawter is manager of the Vawter Hay and 
 Grain Co., Indianapolis. Lives at 2709 Bellefontaine street. 
 
 (2) William Riley, son of Marion and Rebecca (Mahafy) 
 Vawter, was born September 9, 1855, and was married in August, 
 1879, to Emma Ketcham, in Glenwood, Missouri. There were 
 no children. 
 
 William Vawter was employed on the railroad as brakeman 
 and freight conductor, and was killed at Parsons, Kansas, March 
 18, 1 88 1. His widow, now Mrs. Emma Case, is living at Glen- 
 wood, Missouri. 
 
JO THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA 
 
 (3) Mary E., daughter of Marion and Rebecca (Mahafy) 
 Vawter, was born October 23, 1857, and was married to Richard 
 Dunning in Michigan City, Indiana, May 29, 1878. 
 
 Richard Dunning was born March 29, 1848, in Covington, 
 Ohio. 
 
 Children: Carrie, still-born, June 18, 1879, in Indianapolis. 
 
 Earl Raymond, born June 22, 1880, in Indianapolis. 
 
 Tilh'e Allan, born July 6, 1886, in Chicago. 
 
 Luella, born September i, 1896, in Chicago; died November 
 
 5. 1897- 
 
 Mr. and Mrs. Dunning and children live at 6342 Champlain 
 
 avenue, Chicago. 
 
 (4) Jesse, son of Marion and Rebecca (Mahafy) Vawter, 
 was born August 27, 1859, at Morgantown, Indiana. He was 
 married in June, 1886, to Ella Brown in Stinesville, Indiana. Ella 
 Brown was born September 12, 1862. Their children were 
 George, born January 14, 1887, and Grace, born February 18, 
 
 1889. 
 
 Jesse was freight conductor and was killed while running on 
 the Belt Line in Indianapolis, Indiana. 
 
 Jesse Vawter's widow married Albert Nail and lives at Mid- 
 land, Indiana. 
 
 Mary (Vawter) Obenshain 
 
 Mary Ann Vawter, the daughter of John and Ruth (Minton) 
 Vawter, was born March 6, 1836, in Vernon, Indiana. She moved 
 to Morgantown with her father at the age of about twelve or 
 thirteen years. Here she was married to George Obenshain Jan- 
 uary 28, 1 85 1. She united with the Missionary Baptist Church 
 of Morgantown February i, 1856; died April 24, 1897. 
 
 George Obenshain was born April 4, 1822, in Botetourt county, 
 Virginia. He was one of the leading grocery merchants of Mor- 
 gantown, Indiana, for many years. He has now sold out his 
 business and retired to private life. 
 
 The children of George and Mary (Vawter) Obenshain were 
 
THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA 7I 
 
 Martha Jane, John W., Smith, Emma V., Carrie M., Frank A. 
 and Ruth M. 
 
 (i) Martha Jane, daughter of George and Mary (Vawter) 
 Obenshain, was born May 19, 1852, at Morgantovvn, Indiana, and 
 was married August 9, 1 871, to Joseph L. Fesler, who was born 
 April 23, 1850, in Morgantown. Mr. Fesler is a farmer living 
 near Morgantown. Their children : 
 
 a. Carrie A., born October 23, 1872, at Morgantown, In- 
 diana; married May 19, 1897, to Emerson M. Wood, who was 
 bom January 10, 1877, in Bedford, Kentucky. Mr. Wood is 
 editor and proprietor of the Morgantown Truth. 
 
 b. Timothy C, born March 28, 1875, in Morgantown; mar- 
 ried there on December 27, 1899, to Lulu Coleman, born May 21, 
 1882. Children: James Leon, born June 28, 1900, and Esther, 
 born January 10, 1902; died May 30, 1903. Timothy C. Fesler 
 is postmaster in Morgantown, Indiana. 
 
 c. Susie C. Fesler was born August 16, 1880, in Morgantown. 
 
 d. Jennie A. was born July 2, 1884, in Morgantown; died 
 April 22, 1 89 1. 
 
 (2) John W., son of George and Mary (Vawter) Obenshain, 
 died when a child. 
 
 (3) Smith, son of George and Mary Obenshain, died when a 
 child. 
 
 (4) Emma V., daughter of George and Mary (Vawter) 
 Obenshain, was born July 10, i860; married April 2, 1880, at 
 Morgantown to John W. Hilton, who was born March 27, i860, 
 at Morgantown, and died December 17, 1899, at Sullivan, In- 
 diana. One child, Fred E., was born November 9, 1883, at Mar- 
 tinsville. He lives at Paris, Illinois, with his mother. He is now 
 taking a course in electric engineering at Champaign, Illinois. 
 
 (5) Carrie M., daughter of George and Mary (Vawter) 
 Obenshain, died when a child. 
 
 (6) Frank Allan, son of George and Mary (Vawter) Oben- 
 shain, was born December 13, 1868, at Morgantown, and was 
 married November 4, 1895, at Louisville, Kentucky, to Berda M. 
 Ream, who was born August 31, 1874, at Nineveh, Indiana. 
 
72 THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA 
 
 Frank Obenshain is a carpenter by trade, but at present is rural 
 mail carrier. Lives at Morgantown, Indiana. 
 
 (7) Ruth M. Obenshain, daughter of George and Mary 
 (Vawter) Obenshain, was born August i8, 1873, at Morgan- 
 town; married July 6, 1902, to Spencer H. Wood, who was born 
 November 7, 1880, at Sligo, Kentucky. Their child, Harold H., 
 was born July i, 1903. 
 
 Spencer H. Wood is a brother to Emerson Wood. He is a 
 printer by trade, but at present is collector for the Metropolitan 
 Insurance Company. Lives in Franklin, Indiana. 
 
 Allan Vawter 
 
 Allan Vawter, son of John and Ruth (Minton) Vawter, was 
 born May 9, 1833, at Vernon, Indiana. He was married Novem- 
 ber 20, 1853, at Morgantown, Indiana, to Catherine Hickey of 
 Morgantown, who was born at Elizabethtown, Carter county, 
 Tennessee, near Knoxville, October 10, 1837. 
 
 Allan Vawter was a merchant and a trader. He drove from 
 Indianapolis to Morgantown, Indiana, and bought poultry, eggs, 
 butter, tallow, etc., and gave in exchange merchandise. He was 
 well known all along the route, and was familiarly called "Al" 
 Vawter. He had a branch store at Smith's Valley, Indiana, and 
 a general store at Glenn's Valley, Indiana. He was of a genial 
 and social disposition and had a host of friends. Charles M. 
 Vawter and two brothers and one sister made their home with 
 him for some time. John Allan Vawter died May 30, 1874, at 
 Glenn's Valley, Indiana, and was buried at Morgantown. 
 
 Catherine Hickey Vawter, wife of Allan, was left a widow 
 with five children dependent upon her for support, the youngest 
 being but six months old at the time of the father's death. Mrs. 
 Vawter had charge of the general store and the postoffice at 
 Glenn's Valley, Indiana. She died at her father's home in Mor- 
 gantown, Indiana, May 28, 1895, from injuries received in a run- 
 away accident. 
 
THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA 73 
 
 The children of Allan and Catherine (Hickey) Vawter were 
 Frank Day, Ida Ruth, Elmer Mayo, Lillian Lincoln, Grace Min- 
 ton and Cora Allan. 
 
 (i) Frank Day Vawter, son of Allan and Catherine Hickey 
 Vawter, was born at Morgantown, Indiana. February 6, 1856; 
 married April 19, 1877, to Laura E. Smart, who was born Decem- 
 ber 3, i860. 
 
 Their children : 
 
 a. Clarence Allan, born March 28, 1878; married August 
 
 5, 1901, at Vincennes, Indiana, to Jennie Moore. His 
 wife died June 20, 1902, at the age of eighteen years. 
 
 b. John Elmer, born June 20, 1879. 
 
 c. Frances Bertram, born February 19, 1881. 
 
 d. Willie Belle, born November 8, 1882. 
 
 e. Ella Mae, born October i, 1884. 
 
 /. Horace Raymond, born March 15, 1886. 
 
 g. Nellie Bly, born January 2^, 1888. 
 
 h. Catherine, born December 8, 1890. 
 
 i. Alice Pearl, born November 27, 1892. 
 Frank Day Vawter died near Vincennes, Indiana, January 17, 
 1900. aged forty-four years. The family lives at Valley Mills, 
 Indiana, R. R. No. i. 
 
 (2) Ida Ruth Vawter, daughter of Allan and Catherine 
 (Hickey) Vawter, was born at Morgantown, Indiana, May i, 
 1858, and died at Glenn's Valley, August 25, 1897. 
 
 (3) Elmer Mayo Vawter, son of Allan and Catherine 
 (Hickey) Vawter, was born at Morgantown August 25, 1861; 
 married at Smith's Valley, Indiana, February 24, 1889, to Mar- 
 garet Alice Sawyer, born in 1869. 
 
 Children : 
 
 a. Ralph Emerson, born December 12, 1889. 
 
 b. Raymond, born July 15, 1891. 
 
 c. Mary Ruth, born December 5, 1892. 
 
 d. Frank, born April 8, 1895. 
 
 e. Dewey, born April 23, 1898. 
 
 /. Martha Clarice, born December 28, 1899. 
 g. Paul Leon, born March 6, 1903. 
 
74 THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA 
 
 Elmer Mayo Vawter lives near Mt. Pleasant cemetery in John- 
 son county, Indiana, and is sexton of same. His postoffice address 
 is Greenwood, Indiana, R. R. No. 17. 
 
 (4) Lillian Lincoln Vawter, daughter of Allan and Catherine 
 (Hickey) Vawter, was born at Indianapolis, Indiana, April 10, 
 1866; married at Indianapolis, July 24, 1899, to Thomas Lafay- 
 ett Smith. They have one son, Thomas Allan Smith, who was 
 born near Farmington, Kentucky, January 24, 1902. 
 
 Thomas Lafayette Smith is a farmer and stock raiser living 
 near Mayfield, Kentucky, R. F. D. No. i. 
 
 (5) Cora Allan Vawter, daughter of Allan and Catherine 
 (Hickey) Vawter, was born October 11, 1873, and was married 
 at Glenn's Valley, Indiana, November 18, 1891, to Whitfield 
 Yeager. They have no children. Live at 1204 Pleasant street, 
 Indianapolis, Indiana. 
 
11 
 
 WILLIAM VAWTER 
 
 William Vawter, the son of Jesse, was born April 2, 1783, in 
 the Holston country, near where North Carolina, East Tennessee 
 and Virginia now join. Because of the hardships to be endured 
 in the new country, and because he was a twin, the parents of 
 William Vawter left him in Virginia with his maternal grand- 
 parents when they were there on a visit. He was about two years 
 old at the time and he remained with his grandfather and grand- 
 mother Watts until seven years of age. 
 
 William Vawter himself, in writing of this period of his life, 
 says : 
 
 "In the fall of 1790 my father and mother moved to Kentucky 
 and there I was brought up. In the eighteenth year of my age I 
 was struck under conviction for my sins, and I labored very hard 
 in my own way to bring God under obligation to save me for my 
 works, but, instead of getting any nearer heaven, I seemed to get 
 farther ofif, and I continued so for months. At last I concluded 
 that there was no mercy for me, that I was a reprobate, and it 
 increased my trouble. I could not see any way that God could 
 save such a sinner as I was unless He changed, and I did not wish 
 Him to change to save me. His law said : The soul that sins, it 
 shall die.' I looked for death from day to day, so you see my 
 trouble was great. 
 
 "Late in November, 1800, I retired to condole over my lost 
 condition, for I had concluded that there was no mercy for me, 
 as I had tried every way I could think of to humble myself so 
 as to bring God under obligation to save me from a burning hell, 
 and He seemed to be angry with me all the time. I could not see 
 how He could save such a sinner as I was, and yet I wanted to 
 be saved if it could be done on the principles of justice. Then, 
 
76 THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA 
 
 all of a sudden, it came into my mind : The will of the Lord be 
 done,' and as soon as I gave myself up the trouble was all gone, 
 and all creation seemed to be praising God. I felt like I had been 
 asleep all my life before. This happiness did not last long. I had 
 not gotten what I was in search of. I could not get it. I know 
 there was a great change in my feelings about that time, but that 
 was not religion. 
 
 "In about a month after I went to the church to see if they 
 could tell me how to get religion, and to my great surprise they 
 received me as a fit subject for baptism. I could not receive my- 
 self, but I studied on it for a month and then yielded to the judg- 
 ment of the church and was baptized by old Father Hickman in 
 North Elkhorn. He was the pastor of the church called McCon- 
 nel's Run in Scott county, Kentucky. After this there was a 
 church constitution in father's house called North Fork. I re- 
 mained in that church for about five years until father lost his 
 land because of a defective title. We built us a frame meeting- 
 house. 
 
 "My father now made up his mind to locate in Indiana Terri- 
 tory, and I agreed to assist him in making a settlement. We 
 moved to Mount Glad, near Madison, Indiana, in 1806. In 1807 
 there was a Baptist Church constitution in father's house called 
 Crooked Creek, afterwards changed to Mount Pleasant. On the 
 first day of January, 1809, I married Frances Vawter, the daugh- 
 ter of Philemon (the brother of Jesse) and Anna Vawter, and in 
 1829 we moved to Jennings county and joined the Vernon 
 Church. In 1835 there was a new constitution called Zoar, where 
 my membership is at this time. I have been in three constitutions 
 and belonged to five Baptist churches. In the last named church 
 I was set apart by fasting, prayer and the imposition of hands to 
 administer the ordinances of the Gospel." 
 
 William Vawter was of a retiring nature. Although firm in 
 his notions of men and public policy, he never engaged actively 
 in politics and was no office seeker. In Jefferson county, on some 
 few occasions, he accepted office in the civil department, and 
 during the Indian troubles of 181 1 and 18 12 he was a captain of 
 the militia, but on the return of peace he resigned the office. From 
 
 Ld 
 
THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA "J-J 
 
 his ordination William Vawter devoted all the time he could spare 
 from domestic affairs and farm duties to preaching and the build- 
 ing up of the churches. He never received money as compensation 
 for his labors, and his house was ever open to the entertainment 
 of strangers, friends and brethren. 
 
 For six years before his death William Vawter lived with his 
 daughter. Frances V. King, and his wife, Frances, lived there 
 for one year longer. William died on Friday morning, July 17, 
 1868, aged eighty-five years, three months and fifteen days. The 
 funeral sermon was preached on the Saturday following his death 
 to a iarge congregation of friends and relatives by Elder Thomas 
 Hill from these words : "And I heard a voice from Heaven say- 
 ing unto me : Write, Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord 
 from henceforth. Yea, saith the Spirit, that they may rest from 
 their labors; and their works do follow them." (Rev. 14 : 13.) 
 
 Frances Vawter, wife of William, was born August 11, 1787, 
 and died October 26, 1869. They were both buried at the Vawter 
 cemetery, three and a half miles from North Vernon, Indiana. 
 Philemon and Anna, the father and mother of Frances, were also 
 buried there. Jesse and Elizabeth, the father and mother of Wil- 
 liam Vawter, were buried at Harbert's Creek, near Madison. 
 
 William Vawter left six sons and three daughters, one daugh- 
 ter, Maria Burns, having died many years before. 
 
 Frances V. King, the daughter of William Vawter, gave in 
 substance the following : 
 
 "When father first came to Indiana he tended his father's farm, 
 living in a log house on the hill. He first went to housekeeping 
 m the bottom near Madison, Indiana, afterwards owning a farm 
 at Mt. Pleasant. He had two places in Madison, and wished to 
 move there, but mother was opposed to living in town with her 
 boys, and so they continued to live at Mt. Pleasant until they 
 moved to Jennings county in 1829, where Uncle John and Uncle 
 Achilles Vawter had already gone. Father traded his farm at 
 Mt. Pleasant to a man by the name of George for land near 
 Vernon. Here our family lived for many years. The old house 
 IS still standing. It is situated on the bank of the Muscatatack, 
 about three and a half miles out from North Vernon. The house 
 
78 
 
 THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA 
 
 was a good one for the time. The following drawing, though 
 not exactly accurate in dimensions, perhaps, will yet serve to give 
 a general idea of the plan of the house: 
 
 4CaM 
 
 o 
 
 I 
 
 o 
 
 Cl0tl7C5 
 
 f^ \ 
 
 fa 
 a. 
 
 
 
 
 
 ? 
 
 
 
 —1 
 
 •? 1 
 
 
 
 
 ■ ? 
 
 
 I 
 
 ■ 
 
 1 J 
 
 
 
 en 
 
 — »■ 
 
 -1 ^x> 
 
 
 D3 
 
 
 
 \ \ I 
 
 
 
 
 Cellar Door 
 
 EriTr/ 
 
 
 RAi5e\'i?e 
 
 
 
 Lo$. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 East 
 
 
 
 U— 
 
 "Father afterwards entered two hundred or more acres near 
 the home place. He preached many years, receiving no compen- 
 sation therefor, but depending on the farm for the living. He was 
 much interested in education, and gave money to the founding 
 of Franklin College. Mother was a great reader. She liked to 
 read novels, and when she grew so deaf that she could not under- 
 stand the conversation of those around her, her reading was a 
 great comfort to her. She always took a number of papers." 
 
 Harrison Burns, a grandson of William and Frances Vawter, 
 
Homestead of William Vawter 
 Near Vernon, Indiana 
 
 
THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA 79 
 
 lived at his grandfather's house for some time after the death of 
 his mother. In recalHng old times, he said : 
 
 "Grandmother had an old horse named Fanny which was kept 
 especially for her use. Grandfather's horse was named Farmer. 
 I used to be sent to town to mail a letter to the boys at college 
 or to get one. Uncle Achilles Vawter was postmaster at Vernon 
 then. It cost five cents to send a letter. There were no stamps. 
 The letter could be paid for in advance or paid for by the one 
 who received it. When a letter was sent to the boys, grandfather 
 always sent five cents along to pay for it. When he sent for a 
 letter from the boys, he also had to pay for that, as they were on 
 short allowance. 
 
 "As the children grew up and married, a number of them lo- 
 cated near the old place. These were Jesse Vawter, John T. Stott, 
 who married Elizabeth Vawter, George King, who married 
 Frances Vawter, and Ormand Feagler, who married Mary Vaw- 
 ter. Before his death grandfather gave forty acres of land or 
 equal value to each child, and at his death left $153 to each. 
 Probably not more than $100 in money was handled by any one 
 of those families at that time in the course of the year. They 
 raised all of their meat and vegetables and fruits and took butter 
 and eggs to town and traded for sugar, coffee and other groceries. 
 From the wool of the sheep the women spun the yarn and then 
 they wove the cloth and made all of the clothing except, perhaps, 
 a greatcoat for grandfather or a best dress for grandmother. It 
 was very seldom that a new article of furniture was bought. 
 
 "At first the cooking was all done by the fireplace, and later a 
 kitchen stove was bought. They all lived well. At George 
 King's there was always an abundant table and a hearty welcome. 
 George King had a buckwheat field and a sugar camp, and when 
 the time came for buckwheat cakes there were great heaps of them 
 baked on a griddle at the fireplace, and syrup there was in plenty. 
 At John Stott's they often entertained great numbers of guests. 
 The church was near their house, and the association met at that 
 church, and sometimes they would have as many as seventy-five 
 people to dinner. They would set the tables out in the yard. 
 
 "There was an old orchard extending from grandfather's 
 
80 THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA 
 
 house to the graveyard, and not far from the house were two 
 springs from which all the water for the house was carried. The 
 farms were located in reference to springs, and even towns were 
 sometimes so located. Probably when the Vawter brothers came 
 to Jennings county they did not push on still farther where they 
 could find yet better land because of the Indians. At that time 
 there were a great many of them. The militia was organized for 
 protection in every district. Grandfather was a captain of the 
 militia, and John Vawter was a colonel. Neither of them saw 
 any active service." 
 
 In an old memorandum book of William Vawter's the follow- 
 ing items were found : 
 
 May 7, 1849, we went to Vernon and got a tight-air stove and 
 paid $11.05 towards it. 
 
 June 13, paid $7 more. 
 
 August 29, paid $4 more. 
 
 October 17, paid $17 more. 
 
 December 15. paid $13 more. 
 
 February 7, 1850, squared the books at W. D. Vawter & Co. 
 and we are even. William Vawter. 
 
 (Cost of that stove was more than $52.05, as it is not known 
 
 how much the last payment amounted to.) 
 
 * * * 
 
 Anna Vawter, my wife's mother, went to Madison on Satur- 
 day, June 2, 1839, and in the evening went to Mr. Vale's and fell 
 into his cellar and got crippled so she was not able to help her- 
 self for more than six years. We made out to get her home, and 
 she lived until July 21, 1845, then died at her daughter's, Nancy 
 Lewis's. Nancy died April 2, 1855. Anna's son David died 
 seven days before his mother did. 
 
 William Vawter. 
 
 ^ ^ ^ 
 
 Sarah, daughter of Maxa and Maria Burns, was sent here the 
 2 1 St day of October, 1846, and Ruth brought her. Maria Burns, 
 her mother, departed this life December 7, 1846, after a pro- 
 tracted illness of six months. She was brought here on the 9th 
 and buried on my burying ground. Uncle John Vawter preached 
 her funeral. William Vawter. 
 
THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA 8l 
 
 In addition to what Maria received in her lifetime, and wliat 
 the children have had since her death, I have left the children one 
 hundred dollars, to be divided as set out in my will made March 
 
 the 24th, 1852. William Vawter. 
 
 * * * 
 
 Elizabeth and John Stott have received in sundries to aid them 
 to keep house one hundred and two dollars. 
 
 March 25, 1835, gave John and Elizabeth as above eight 
 dollars more. 
 
 November 22, 1847, gave John and Elizabeth Stott sixty dol- 
 lars in landed property. 
 
 February 8, 1851, gave John and Elizabeth Stott forty acres 
 of land at $200.00 (two hundred dollars). As an interest on the 
 same they are to pay twelve dollars per year as long as my wife 
 and I live and no longer. 
 
 April, 1858. I have stopped the interest. 
 
 William Vawter. 
 
 ^ 5{^ ^ 
 
 John T. Vawter married Pamelia Dwyer May 10, 1835. They 
 set out for Iowa Territory September 3, 1839. 
 Received in a horse and saddle, $40.00. 
 April, 1835, gave $55.00. 
 August 18. 1835, gave $15.00. 
 
 William Vawter. 
 
 >f. Vf. "^ 
 
 Williamson D., by consent, left his parents three and a half 
 years before he was twenty-one and is charged with his time, 
 'forty dollars per year, $140.00. He married Mary Crowder 
 July 15, 1834. William Vawter. 
 
 =H ^ 5H 
 
 Jesse R. Vawter was married to Sarah Parks May 4, 1837. 
 Received in time and horse, $1 10.00. 
 
 Wife joined the church and was baptized December 24, 1838. 
 December 7, 1846, gave Jesse Vawter in land sixty dollars. 
 March 25, 1852, I set off to Jesse R. Vawter his portion of my 
 ■estate out of the land I sold to him. 
 
 William Vawter. 
 
82 THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA 
 
 James received from me one hundred and ten dollars. 
 June 29, 1847, received sixty dollars. 
 
 William Vawter. 
 
 * * * 
 
 Frances v^as married to George King May 14, 1840. 
 Frances has received of her parents one bed, one bedstead, one 
 flax wheel, one saddle and twenty acres of land, $1 10.00. 
 
 Greorge and Frances King have received sixty dollars in the 
 
 way of land this November 22, 1847. 
 
 William Vawter. 
 
 * * * 
 
 Achilles united with the Baptist Church at Zoar, Jennings 
 county, the fourth Saturday in August, 1842, and was baptized 
 the following Lord's day. 
 
 September 23, 1844, Achilles entered Franklin College as a 
 student. 
 
 Achilles has received of me since that time $184.35. 
 
 Achilles, my son, constitutes one of the faculty in Franklin 
 College this October 30, 1848. 
 
 William Vawter. 
 
 * * * 
 
 Ida, the daughter of A. J. and M. E. Vawter, was born Feb- 
 ruary 3, 1856, and the mother departed this life on the 6th, and 
 on the 8th was buried by the side of her father. She died at La- 
 fayette, Indiana. Ida died , — . 
 
 William Vawter. 
 
 * * * 
 
 Philemon went to college October 6, 1847. He was married 
 to Rebecca Hunter November 25, 1858. 
 
 William Vawter. 
 
 * * >ii 
 
 Polly L. was married to Ormond Frederick Feagler September 
 24, 1843, and commenced housekeeping November 29, and has, 
 in bed and other articles, to the amount of $85.00. 
 
 September 31, 1846, to one horse, $25.00. 
 
 October the 9th, 1848, I gave Ormond and Polly a cupboard 
 and a bureau, price $20.00. 
 
 I 
 
 I 
 
THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA 83 
 
 July 3, 1850. one cow and a note on M. Page, $13.00. 
 
 March 24, 1852, I deeded to Polly L., my daughter, forty acres 
 of land, which will be her full portion of my estate. 
 
 The above named deed is in my hands and in lieu thereof she 
 is to have two hundred dollars at my death or pleasure. 
 
 William Vawter. 
 
 * * * 
 
 Polly has received the amount as above. 
 
 William Vawter. 
 
 * * * 
 
 The following is a memorandum of the money received from 
 and paid out for the Vernon church by William Vawter : 
 
 In 1832 received $1.07. Paid for minutes and superintend- 
 ing the printing, 82 cents, and for wine 25 cents. 
 
 August meeting, 1833, received $2.28. September 16, paid 
 for printing association minutes, $1.00; April 19, 1834, paid for 
 one quart of wine, 75 cents; September 15, paid for the printing 
 of association minutes and the superintending of the minutes, 93 
 cents ; paid for wine 37^ cents. Received of Deacon Stott $1.25 
 handed to him by the Vernon Church at their August meeting in 
 1834. May 16 paid for wine 43^ cents. Total amount of money 
 received, $4.60. Total amount expended, $4.56/4- Balance due 
 the church, 3^ cents. 
 
 ZoAR Church, Jennings County, Indiana. 
 To all Whom it may Concern: 
 
 Know ye that we, the undersigned, being called by the afore- 
 said church, together with the sister churches, to examine into 
 the propriety of setting apart Brother William Vawter to the 
 administration of ordinances, unanimously agreed that he be set 
 apart by fasting and prayer and the laying on of hands and the 
 right hand of fellowship, to the administration of ordinances in 
 the House of God wherever God, in His providence, may cast 
 his lot. 
 
84 THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA 
 
 Done at Zoar Church at the business meeting on the fourth 
 
 Saturday in July, 1839. 
 
 John Bush, 
 
 William T. Stott, 
 
 Caleb Moncrief, 
 
 Attested by Elders. 
 
 John Stott, Clerk. 
 
 William Vawter made three wills. The first of these was 
 made March 16, 1835, and is as follows: 
 
 In the name of Almighty God, Amen. 
 
 I, William Vawter, the writer of the foregoing, being in my 
 proper mind and in good health and yet knowing not when I may 
 die, as all life is uncertain, wish that my children should have an 
 equal part in the distribution of my property. I think proper, 
 therefore, to set forth under each name the amount each one has 
 received and what remains to be divided as they become of age. 
 
 When all my debts are paid there will be on hand after my 
 death $300.00 (three hundred dollars) in cash and the remain- 
 der of lot No. 41 west, in first addition to Madison, Jefferson 
 county, Indiana ; also thirty acres of land in the south end of the 
 west half of the southeast quarter of section twenty-six of town 
 seven north, and range eight east, of the lands sold at Jefferson- 
 ville and lying on the south side of the north fork of the Mus- 
 catatack river; also ten acres adjoining and lying in the southeast 
 corner of the southwest quarter of section twenty-six of town 
 seven north, range eight east, of the land sold at Jeffersonville. 
 
 It is my will and desire that the remainder of my estate be for 
 the benefit of my widow for her comfort and support during her 
 lifetime and that of the children who are under age and remain 
 with her. After her death, and wdien the youngest child becomes 
 of age, I wish an equal distribution of what remains of my 
 property to be made among my ten children. 
 
 My estate left for the use of my widow and the children under 
 age consists of the following property, viz. : The tract of land I 
 now live on, consisting of two hundred and eighty acres of land, 
 with the farm, dwelling-house, outhouses, household and kitchen 
 
THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA 85 
 
 furniture, barn, grain, horses, cattle, hogs, sheep, farming tools 
 and all tools of every description indoors and outdoors, and all 
 my books, etc. 
 
 I do hereby ordain my wife, Frances, to be my sole executrix 
 of this my will and to transact all business as amply and as fully 
 as I myself, if living, could do, without bond or security. 
 
 In witness whereof, I hereunto set my hand and seal in the 
 year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-five, 
 March the sixteenth. 
 
 William Vawter. [Seal.] 
 
 (Will No. 2.) 
 
 In the name of Almighty God, Amen. 
 
 I, William Vawter, of Jennings county, Indiana, do hereby 
 make and ordain this my last will and testament. It is my will 
 and desire that my wife, Frances Vawter, enjoy and possess all 
 and every part of my estate, both personal and real, during her 
 natural life. The whole is hereby placed in her hands to manage 
 and control as fully and as perfectly in every respect as I myself, 
 if living, could do; and that without being under any obligation 
 to give bond or security for the faithful management of the same, 
 any law or usage to the contrary notwithstanding. 
 
 It is my will and desire that should any of my estate remain 
 undisposed of and unused at the death of my wife that the same 
 be equally divided amongst all my legal heirs, so as to make each 
 and every heir equal, taking into consideration the advances al- 
 ready made to most or all of them, as will appear in my memor- 
 andum book. Should my son, John T. Vawter, and his children 
 remain as now with a combination or community of individuals 
 in the west, on the death of my wife, then and in that case I give 
 and bequeath his portion to the Franklin Baptist College in 
 Indiana. 
 
 Although I am now in my sixty-seventh year, sick and very 
 weak, yet my mind is as clear and perfect as usual. 
 
86 THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA 
 
 In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal this 
 13th day of March, 1849. 
 In the presence of William Vawter. [Seal.] 
 
 John Vawter. 
 Rachel C. Crawford. 
 
 This will is null and void. 
 
 William Vawter. 
 
 LAST WILL OF WILLIAM VAWTER. 
 
 Be it remembered that on the 12th day of October, 1869, in 
 vacation of the Jennings Court of Commont Pleas, the last will 
 and testament of William Vawter was duly proven and admitted 
 to probate in the clerk's office of said court, which will and the 
 proof thereof is in the words and figures following, to wit : 
 
 "I, William Vawter, now in my sixty-ninth year since the 
 second of April last, and knowing, according to nature, that I 
 must soon go to the spirit world, and being desirous of disposing 
 of my estate which the Lord has blessed me with, make my last 
 will, revoking all others. 
 
 "ist. I recommend my spirit to God who gave it and my 
 body to be interred in mother earth in a manner corresponding 
 with my estate. 
 
 "2d. I direct that all my just debts be paid as soon as there is 
 money to pay them. 
 
 "3d. I bequeath to Maria Burns' children one hundred dol- 
 lars ; the four boys five dollars each ; the two oldest girls, fifteen 
 dollars each, and Sarah Jane fifty dollars. 
 
 "4th. I will and bequeath to my wife, Frances Vawter, all my 
 real and personal estate during her natural life, and further, I do 
 not design that the one hundred dollars bequeathed to Maria's 
 children shall be paid until after the death of my wife, unless she 
 is disposed to pay it or any part thereof. 
 
 "5th. I have given to Elizabeth Stott, Jesse R. Vawter and 
 Polly Feagler their shares heretofore. After the death of my 
 wife I bequeath and will all my real and personal estate after 
 
THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA ^7 
 
 the payment of the above legacies unto John T. Vawter, William- 
 son D. Vawter, James Vawter, Achilles Vawter, Frances King 
 and Philemon Vawter, to be equally divided. 
 
 "6th. I appoint Williamson and James Vawter my executors. 
 
 "In testimony whereof, I have set my hand and seal this 24th 
 day of March, A. D., 1852. William Vawter. 
 
 "Signed, sealed and acknowledged in the presence of those who 
 have signed their names as witnesses and by the testator's request 
 and in his presence. James H. Vawter. 
 
 "Achilles Vawter. 
 
 "H. T. Vawter. 
 
 "By request of the testator I certify that this is still his will this 
 June 25, 1859. W. T. Stott, Jr." 
 
 CODICIL TO MY LAST WILL. 
 
 This is the closing up of my earthly matters, that is to say, at 
 the death of myself and wife. 
 
 I give to my oldest sons, John T. and Williamson D., four 
 hundred dollars in government bonds, two hundred to each. The 
 one hundred dollars set apart in my will for Maria Burns' chil- 
 dren, I wish carried out. 
 
 The remainder of my estate, after the death of myself and wife 
 and the payment of all debts, is to be equally divided between my 
 three youngest sons, James, Achilles and Philemon, and my 
 daughter, Frances Ann King. 
 
 This can be done without going to the expense of proving and 
 recording my will. William Vawter. 
 
 April 27, 1868. 
 
 State of Indiana, 
 Jennings County, ss : 
 
 Court of Common Pleas, FebruaryTerm, 1871. 
 
 Matters of the Estate of Elder William Vawter, deceased. 
 
 The undersigned, executor of said estate of William Vawter, 
 
 bL 
 
88 THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA 
 
 deceased, begs leave to report to the court aforesaid, the follow- 
 ing final settlement of account with said estate : 
 
 I am chargeable with the following assets of the said estate : 
 
 July 17, 1868. To bonds $500.00 
 
 November 16, 1868. Cash of James Hill on judgment 
 
 against Chronister and Eckstein 537-^5 
 
 July 17, 1868. Personal effects of said estate 95 -OO 
 
 January 8, 1869. Interest on bonds 20.00 
 
 April 8, 1869. Interest of Cook, Stott & Co 7.25 
 
 June 21, 1869. Cash on judgment 200.00 
 
 June 26, 1869. Cash on judgment 100.00 
 
 July 3, 1869. Interest on bond 20.25 
 
 January 5, 1870. Interest on bond 17-25 
 
 January 15, 1870. Cash on judgment 150.00 
 
 May 26, 1870. Premium on bonds 39-00 
 
 June 25, 1870. Cash on judgment 1 14.10 
 
 Total $1,800.70 
 
 I claim credit for the following, as per vouchers filed herewith : 
 
 By attorney fees for collections, Voucher i $26.85 
 
 Account of Cook, Stott & Co., Voucher 2 21.90 
 
 Funeral expenses, Voucher 3 30.00 
 
 Physician's services. Voucher 4 24.00 
 
 Board and attendance, Voucher 5 188.00 
 
 Board and attendance for wife, Voucher 6 98.00 
 
 Taxes, Voucher 7 13-87 
 
 Account Cook, Stott & Co., Voucher 8 7.18 
 
 Account W. D. Vawter & Co., Voucher 9 5.62 
 
 Account Frances A. King, Voucher 10 130-25 
 
 Funeral expenses of Frances Vawter, Voucher 11 25.00 
 
 Physician's services, Voucher 12 14.00 
 
 Legacy to Sarah Burns, Voucher 13 50.00 
 
 Legacy to Lizzie A. Bailey, Voucher 14 i5-00 
 
 Legacy to Mary Burns, Voucher 15 i5-00 
 
 Legacy to James Burns, Voucher 16 5.00 
 
THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA 89 
 
 Legacies to David, Harrison and William Burns, 
 
 Voucher 17 $15.00 
 
 Internal revenue tax. Voucher 18 11.26 
 
 Distributive share to P. C .Vawter, Voucher 19 I53-I5 
 
 Distributive share to A. J. Vawter, Voucher 20 1 53-15 
 
 Distributive share to James Vawter, Voucher 21 I53-I5 
 
 Distributive share to John T. Vawter, Voucher 22. . . . 153.15 
 
 Distributive share to Frances A. King, Voucher 23. . . 153.15 
 
 Distributive share to W. D. Vawter, Voucher 24 153-15 
 
 Attorney's fees for collections. Voucher 25 28.00 
 
 Monuments for dead. Voucher 26 125.00 
 
 Taxes, Voucher 27 10.98 
 
 Clerk's fees, Voucher 28 6.25 
 
 Expense of stamps and of distribution, making re- 
 ports, etc 15-64 
 
 Total $1,800.70 
 
 All of which contains a full statement of all of the estate of the 
 decedent for which I am chargeable with the credits to which I 
 am entitled. 
 
 Williamson D. Vawter, Executor. 
 
 Frances Vawter, the wife of William, was a daughter of Phile- 
 mon Vawter, who was the brother of William's father, Jesse. 
 For an account of Philemon and Anne see page 256. 
 
 Children of William and Frances Vawter were Maria, Eliza- 
 beth, John Taylor, Williamson D., Jesse, James, Frances Ann, 
 Achilles, Mary L. and Philemon. 
 
II. 
 
 WILLIAM VAWTER5 
 
 (Jesse*, David^, John^, John^) 
 
 (1783-1868) 
 
 m. 
 
 FRANCES VAWTER 
 
 (1787-1870) 
 
 Children® 
 
 Grandchildren'' 
 
 G. Grandchil- 
 
 G. G. Grandchil 
 
 
 
 dren* 
 
 DRHN» 
 
 
 ' (i) Jesse V.,d. s. 
 
 Anna Gertrude 
 
 
 
 (2) James m. -^ 
 
 Joseph Lee 
 
 
 
 Nancy Smith 
 
 Charles F. 
 ' William Conduit 
 
 
 
 (3) William V. m. 
 
 Charles W., d. 
 
 
 
 Sarah Black 
 
 Maggie Myrtle m. 
 Marsh R.Whitson 
 
 No children 
 
 
 (4) Harrison m. 
 ist Constance 
 Smydth 
 
 Margaret, d. 
 1 Lee 
 
 
 
 2d Julia 
 
 Tomlinson 
 
 Byron Elliot, d. 
 
 
 
 3d Mrs. Georgia 
 
 ' Ida m. 
 
 
 
 Minnick 
 
 Oswald Patzold 
 
 
 
 (5) Livingston S., 
 
 Grace, d. 
 
 
 
 d. s. 
 
 Danforth, d. 
 Nellie, d. 
 
 
 
 (6) David V. m. 
 
 Edith 
 
 
 
 Eudora Dan- - 
 
 Edna m. 
 
 
 
 forth 
 
 . Wm.McElvaine 
 
 « 
 
 Maria Vawter m. 
 Maxa Burns 
 
 (7) Mary F. m. 
 
 Dallas New- - 
 land 
 
 ' George Ballard 
 
 James Edwin m. 
 Elsie Cox 
 
 Jesse Guy, d. 
 
 Robert Nelson 
 ' Ralph Guy 
 
 ' Cora Alice 
 
 
 
 ^ Jennie May m. 
 Jesse L.Rossman 
 
 Elvie Elizabeth 
 Arnold Jay 
 Eva Grace 
 Nellie Viola 
 
 
 
 Henry Ward m < 
 
 Gladys 
 
 
 
 Clara Summers ' 
 
 Gerald 
 
 
 (8) Elizabeth m. 
 Henry Bayley 
 
 • 
 
 Arthur Loring m. 
 
 Melinda Larason 
 Frank Wade 
 Bertha Alice 
 Edith de Fluria 
 Minnie Agnes 
 Howard Glenn 
 t. Willard Marion 
 
 
 
 (9) Sarah J. m. , 
 Geo. B. 
 ^ Loomis 1 
 
 Grace B. 
 George D., d. 
 
 
 i^ 
 
THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA 
 
 91 
 
 2. Elizabeth Vaw- 
 ter m. 
 John Stott 
 
 (i) Vawter, d. s. 
 
 (2) Martha E. m. 
 Maxa Moncrief 
 
 (3) 
 
 William T. m. 
 Arabella R. 
 Tracy 
 
 (4) Mary F. 
 
 (5) Jennie M. m. 
 James N. 
 
 Chaille 
 
 Jennie, d. s. 
 Caleb, d. s. 
 Emma m. 
 Robert D. Trick 
 
 Wilfred T. 
 Grace E. m. 
 Clark R. Parker 
 ^ Edith R. m. 
 
 Fred G. Kenny 
 Cyril H.,d. 
 [ Roscoe G. 
 
 I Bertha Eliza- 
 j beth.d. 
 
 No children 
 
 Cyril Rodney 
 
 (1) Edward m. 
 
 I St 
 
 Barbara Kro- 
 her 
 
 I 
 
 George Adam m. 
 I Kate A. Luty 
 
 f Frank Wesley m. 
 2"^ I Emma Graupne 
 
 Catherine GunH William m. 
 
 f Edgar Frederick 
 I Frank Edward 
 Wilbur Luty 
 Bertha May 
 Clifford George 
 
 Freda Mildred 
 EdnalCatherine 
 
 -1 
 
 (2) 
 
 nerman 
 
 William m. 
 Matilda F. 
 McKinnon 
 
 3. John T. Vawter 
 m. 
 ist 
 Pamelia Dwver 
 
 (3) 
 
 (4) Katherine m. 
 Geo. Vanosdol 
 
 L 
 
 Mary V. Straugh- 
 ter 
 
 Emil 
 
 Frances m. 
 Jno. G. Burck- 
 hardt 
 
 f Colonel m. 
 
 Ida Rahe 
 
 Williams. 
 
 L Pamelia, d. 
 
 ' Sarah Ann m. [^ 
 
 Henry W. Boeck- -j Enid Beth 
 ley [ 
 
 John Frederick, m. 
 
 Minnie Baker 
 Lulu Christman,d. 
 Margaret Pamelia 
 Mary Elizabeth 
 George 
 Mamie 
 
 Mary Catherine m. 
 Joseph Brooks 
 
 Emeline m. 
 
 Geo. W. Baltzer 
 James Monroe m. 
 
 Mollie Pence 
 Frances Ann m. 
 
 Albert C. Staggs 
 Scott m. 
 
 Elizabeth Gibbs 
 Sarah Hotchkiss 
 
 m. 
 W. R. Perrigo 
 
 Mattie Belle m. 
 W. W. Wilcox 
 Wm. Weaver 
 Cora Lee 
 Lulu Ludica 
 L Isaac Morton 
 
 Artemus 
 Gerald 
 [ Aurora 
 
 Pearl 
 Harry 
 
 Floyd 
 
 Bertha Winifred 
 
 Wm. Gilbert 
 Laurence 
 
92 
 
 THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA 
 
 John Taylor Vaw- 
 ter 
 
 ( Continued) 
 
 (5) Mary, d. s 
 
 (6) Michael m. 
 Rebecca 
 
 (7) Louisa m. 
 Thomas 
 
 Tanksley 
 
 (8) JohnT. m. 
 Ida Spring- 
 steen 
 
 f Charles Vawter 
 Samuel, d. 
 Minnie, d. 
 Albert m. 
 
 ChristenaWesaw 
 Thomas Oliver 
 James Mitton 
 Henry Franklin 
 
 Charles William m. 
 Daisy Tolle 
 
 m. 2d Mrs. N. S. 
 Philliper 
 
 (9) Albert C. m. 
 Frances 
 Churchwell 
 
 Vernon Day 
 Arthur Lee 
 Annie Gladys 
 I Mary Ruth 
 
 Williamson D. 
 Vawter m. ist. 
 Mary T. Crow- 
 der 
 
 (I) 
 
 Mary Ellen, m. 
 Ward Leavitt 
 
 (2) May, m 
 
 S. S. Harwood 
 
 (3) Jane Cravens 
 
 (4) Aramantha, m. 
 Septimius 
 
 Vater 
 
 is) Williams, m. 
 Sarah McClas- 
 key 
 
 (6) Edwin J. m. ist 
 Laura Dixon 
 2d Mrs.Isabelle 
 Nelson 
 
 Charles Dunn,d. 
 Florence Mary 
 
 No children 
 
 f Williamson Dunn 
 m. Grace Barker 
 Thos. Eugene d. 
 t Agnes Eugenie 
 
 Mary Charlotte m. 
 John R. Moore 
 
 Edwin J., Jr. m. 
 Bessie Channel 
 
 Marjorie Dixon 
 
 m. 2d 
 Charlotte A. 
 
 Knowlton 
 
 (7) Emma Knowl- 
 
 ton 
 
 (8) Charles 
 
 Knowlton d. 
 
THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA 
 
 93 
 
 5. Jesse R. Vaw- 
 ter m. 
 Sarah Parks 
 
 (i) Margaret 6. m. 
 Lewis Wagner 
 
 (2) Elizabeths, ra. 
 Thos. Clarkson 
 
 ' Jesse R., d. 
 Ethel m. 
 Martin A. Shep- 
 herd 
 
 Albert V. 
 
 Clara Belle m. 
 
 William Pool 
 
 Emma Alice m. 
 
 Willard Whit- 
 comb. 
 
 Elvin Grant 
 
 Thos. Osborn 
 
 Jesse F. 
 
 Edith Idella m. 
 
 . Bertha May m. 
 
 Amelia Frances m. 
 H. L. Holton 
 
 I Ralph 
 
 (3) 
 
 Wm. Allan m. 
 Angelina E. 
 Cheever 
 
 (4) Smith W. m. 
 Lucinda John- 
 son 
 
 Clara Adaline m. 
 Bowen C. Heath 
 
 ' Sarah Rebecca 
 Cora Luvinia m. 
 Wm. Henry 
 Brown 
 
 James Oscar 
 Wilbert Carl } 
 
 Alt , T r t^ 
 
 Albert Jesse \ 
 L Otis Estis 
 
 Margaret J. m. 
 Wm.F. Philliber 
 
 Annie J. 
 Lelia May 
 Clyde E. 
 Adda 
 Meta 
 Elizabeth 
 
 William A. 
 Sarah A. 
 Ray 
 
 James H. 
 Ruth 
 Fern 
 Bowen C. 
 
 Wilbur Fee 
 
 (5) John S. m. 
 
 Elizabeth Grin- i 
 stead 
 
 Everett E. m. 
 Mahala Sanders 
 
 Clyde Elmer, d. s. 
 
 Maud Ellen m. 
 Wm. F. Moody 
 
 Pearl E.,d.s. 
 
 Nona Elma 
 
 Benjamin Irvin m. ( „ „ 
 
 ut A- I iir J a } Emery B. 
 Hattie J. Woodruff < 
 
 r otto, d. 
 Orvill L. 
 Oral Floyd 
 Ira Grace, d. 
 Clara B.,d. 
 Perry H.,d. 
 Raymond L. 
 Mary E. 
 
 Ira E., d. 
 John I. 
 Alma B. 
 Homer W., d. 
 
 IraM.,d. 
 Velma E. 
 Mabel, d, 
 L Silvia V. 
 
 iJl 
 
94 
 
 THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA 
 
 Jesse R. Vawter 
 (Continued) 
 
 
 Olive May m. 
 
 
 
 J. W. Snell, d. 
 
 
 
 Fanny Bell, d. s. 
 
 
 
 LewEmmerson m. 
 Dana Norris 
 
 
 
 Esther 
 
 
 
 " Frank 
 
 
 
 Myrtle 
 
 
 Ella Grace m. 
 
 Olive 
 
 
 A.J.Taylor 
 
 Charles 
 
 Mabel 
 
 (6) Sarah Frances 
 
 
 Deny 
 
 m.Thos. F. 
 
 
 . Harold 
 
 Grinstead 
 
 Claud Ellsworth, 
 
 d. s. 
 Bertha Edith 
 Ada Jane ra. 
 
 T. F. VanHorn 
 Ora Idella m. 
 
 C. H. Hockmuth 
 Jesse Edward 
 Myrtle Blanche, 
 
 d. s. 
 Carl James, d, s. 
 Vila Gail 
 Emma Ethel 
 
 ' Edward J., d. s. 
 
 
 
 Alvaretta m. 
 
 Arthur E. 
 
 
 John A. Shinold 
 
 Matilda A. 
 
 
 Indiana R.m. 
 
 1 Vance 
 
 
 Moses M. Miller 
 
 ' Irvin 
 
 (7) James G. m. 
 
 
 
 Margaret Ross ' 
 
 Mary Jane m. 
 Irvin R. Crum 
 
 Omer Walton 
 Lucy A. 
 Lewis Clyde 
 Grace G. 
 Sarah Frances, d. 
 
 1 Flora M. 
 ' Jamie A. 
 
 
 .Ruth 
 
 ^ 
 
 (8) Elvira Ann m. 
 
 'Lila, d. 
 
 
 Charles H. 
 
 Augusta 
 
 
 Carey 
 
 ^ Vivian 
 
 
 
 ' Bertha A. m. 
 
 [ Ezra William 
 
 
 Joseph W. Gray 
 
 
 Ernest T.,d. s. 
 
 
 (9) JessePhilemon 
 
 Clarence M. 
 
 
 m. Minerva A. - 
 
 Benjamin F. 
 
 
 Ross 
 
 Jesse Pearl m. 
 
 Minerva May 
 
 
 Corydon Laswell 
 
 Millie Myree 
 
 
 Velmal. 
 
 
 
 . Flossie Myrtle 
 
 
 
 ' Nellie M.m. 
 
 ( Opal 
 
 (lo) AramanthaM. . 
 
 Otho G. Wright 
 
 Robert W. 
 
 m. lames West 
 
 Sarah Ethel 
 . Charles William 
 
 I 
 
THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA 
 
 95 
 
 r 
 
 6. lames Vawter 
 m. Minerva L. 
 Bromley 
 
 (i) Sherman m. 
 Emma May,d. 
 
 Edward W., d. 
 Minerva E., d. 
 Everett F. 
 Nellie 
 Henry J. 
 
 7. Frances Vawter 
 m. 
 George King 
 
 (i) Almira m. 
 Wm. Holsclaw 
 
 Ezra m. 
 Mattie Deer 
 
 Eva Jennie m. 
 Edwin Carson 
 
 Fannie A. m. 
 Smith V. Wil- 
 liams 
 
 William E. m. 
 Zella Wagner 
 
 Sarah Grace m. 
 
 Oscar Beeman 
 Mary Belle, d 
 Jacob Harrison m. 
 l^ Bertha Alice 
 
 Jessie 
 Alma 
 Smith 
 Blanche Vernon 
 
 Hazel Lavone 
 Ethel Grace 
 Lizzie, d. 
 L Edwinnie 
 
 *" Almira Corinne 
 Lois Mildred 
 Virgil Elvin 
 Helene 
 
 fRuth 
 
 4 Hubert 
 l^ Gladys 
 
 5 Wilbur Elvin 
 ) Clyde 
 
 (2) Ezra, d. s. 
 
 (3) William V. m. 
 
 Caroline Van- ] No children 
 dever 
 
 (4) George Elvin 
 m. MinnieTate 
 
 L (5) Alzora, d. s. 
 8. Achilles Vawter / 
 
 ™- ist ) (i) Ida Maria, d. s. 
 
 Maria Dunham ' 
 
 Lulu Ellis 
 Edna Hazel 
 
 ' (2) William Arthur f Cora Catherine 
 m. Alice R. ] William Arthur 
 Hadley [^ George Hadley 
 
 2d 
 
 Mrs. Elizabeth 
 A. Baker 
 
 3rd 
 
 Charlotte S. 
 Hobart 
 
 (3) Frank M. m. 
 Clara Miller 
 
 (4) Grace m. 
 Ernest P. 
 Bicknell 
 
 r Harry Miller 
 -{ Jessie Mae 
 (^ Helen Miller 
 
 Ernestine, d. 
 Charlotte, d. 
 Grace Constance 
 [ Alberta 
 
 i 
 
96 
 
 THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA 
 
 9. Mary L. Vaw- 
 ter rn. Ormand 
 Feagler. 
 
 C (i) Marie Cor- 
 delia, d. 
 
 (2) James William 
 m. Mary King 
 
 (3) 
 (4) 
 
 (5) 
 
 Bessie 
 
 Philemon Ed- 
 win, d. 
 
 Vawterjohnm. 
 Helen Gardner 
 
 (6) Charles Alfred 
 
 (7) 
 
 (8) RoenaKate, 
 
 d. s. 
 
 Emma May m. 
 McArthur 
 Smartz. 
 
 Fannie Fern, d. 
 Rose Bonnell 
 
 -{ Grace Cordelia, m. 
 Robert King 
 
 (^ Charles Alfred 
 
 Fred Willard, d. 
 Florence Edith, d. 
 Merlin Duncan, d. 
 Marie 
 
 Everett Marion 
 Wilhelmina Har- 
 riet, d. 
 Mary Elizabeth 
 Margaret Fay 
 Katie Frances 
 Robert George 
 Bessie Ruth 
 
 ' Mildred Rose 
 Robert Feagler 
 Russel Aubrey 
 Helen Grace 
 
 (10) Philemon 
 Vawter ra. 
 Sylvia Hunter 
 
 r (I) 
 
 (2) 
 
 Everett Bates 
 m. Helen E. 
 
 Read 
 William Hun- 
 ter 
 
 Wallace Read 
 
 Maria (Vawter) Burns 
 
 Maria Vawter, daughter of William and Frances Vawter, was 
 born in Jefferson county, near Madison, Indiana, December 
 16, 1809. She lived there on the farm until December 16, 1826, 
 when she was married to Maxa M. Burns. They lived in Vernon 
 for a year or two, then her mother-in-law died and they went to 
 Wirt to keep house for her father-in-law's family. Maria ( Vaw- 
 ter) Burns was a devoted Christian, a member of the Baptist 
 church from early womanhood, and was respected and loved by 
 both relatives and friends. She died December 7, 1846, at the age 
 of thirty-seven years. 
 
 Maxa Moncrief Burns was the son of James Burns, one of the 
 
THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA 9/ 
 
 early settlers of Jefferson county, and was the brother of Miles 
 and Taulman Burns. He was born April 27, 1808; died March 
 17. 1890. James Burns, the father of Maxa, was born in Louden 
 county, Virginia, September 28, 1786; died December 29, 1875. 
 (More of the Burns family will be found in the chapter on "Cus- 
 toms.") 
 
 David Burns, one of the children of Maxa and Maria Burns, 
 gives his remembrance of the breaking up of the family after the 
 death of his mother, as follows : 
 
 "My mother died at Wirt. Indiana, where we then lived. 
 Sallie, together with Harry, had been living at grandfather's for 
 about two months. My mother's remains were taken to the old 
 farm for burial. It was my first ride so far as I have any recol- 
 lection. I think we must have left Mary and Lizzie out there at 
 the time, as I do not remember their being at the old home after 
 the funeral. Mary went to live with Aunt Frank, and Lizzie with 
 Aunt Lizzie. My father, James, Will, and myself returned home. 
 We kept house until sometime during the next summer. Will 
 did the housework; James worked in the sawmill which my fa- 
 ther owned, running the engine, young as he was. The next 
 summer we visited at grandfather's again and Aunt Polly asked 
 for me and I was left with her. My father afterwards sold the 
 mill at Wirt and bought another one at Dupont. Will then made 
 his home with Dr. Butler of Dupont, looking after his horses, do- 
 ing chores and attending school. After about two years my 
 father married and we were all taken home to Dupont, except 
 Sallie, who remained with grandfather and grandmother until 
 nearly the time of their death. My brother James did not live 
 with us at Dupont. I think he must have remained with the old 
 sawmill at Wirt, which was then owned by an uncle of ours. 
 James stuck to sawmills all his life, and never seemed happy when 
 away from one. In 1855 we moved to Sharps ville." 
 
 Of the move to Sharpsville. Harrison Burns, another son, said : 
 
 "Some friends from Dupont had gone to Sharpsville to live, 
 and my father and I concluded to go and see the country. We 
 rode to Martinsville, walked to Mooresville, then to Plainfield 
 and on to Indianapolis, which had then, in the year 1854, about 
 
98 THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA 
 
 twelve thousand inhabitants. We went on from there to Sharps- 
 ville and then returned to Dupont. When we moved to Sharps- 
 ville in the spring of 1855 I rode through on horseback. There 
 wasn't a sign of a road within fifteen miles of Sharpsville. I 
 sometimes went in the woods, which were very swampy, and 
 sometimes on the railroad. All that spring two horses couldn't 
 haul the wagons through the streets because of the mud. Nearly 
 every one in the town had chills and fever. There were two doc- 
 tors. Both were sick and lay in bed and dosed out quinine to 
 those who were able to come for it." 
 
 The children of Maxa and Maria (Vawter) Burns were Jesse 
 v., James, William V., Harrison, Livingston S., David V., Mary 
 F., Elizabeth and Sarah J. 
 
 (i) Jesse v., son of Maxa and Maria (Vawter) Burns, was 
 born June 9, 1830; died March 12, 1831. 
 
 (2) James, son of Maxa and Maria (Vawter) Burns, was 
 born November 15, 1831 ; married October 18, 1859, to Nancy 
 Smith, who was born August 17, 1843. 
 
 James Burns was an engineer. He always seemed infatuated 
 with sawmills, and roved around the country from one sawmill 
 to another. He died near Little Rock, Arkansas in March, 1903- 
 
 The children of James and Nancy (Smith) Burns: 
 
 a. Anna Gertrude, born August 18, 1864. 
 
 b. Joseph Lee, born July 21, 1870. 
 
 c. Charles F., born March 7, 1883. 
 
 Mrs. James Burns and family live at Greenwood, Indiana. 
 
 (3) William V. Burns, son of Maxa and Maria (Vawter) 
 Burns, was born in Jefferson county, Indiana, December 19, 
 1833 ; married at Mooresville, Indiana, March 28, 1854, to Sarah 
 W. Black; died August 11, 1885. 
 
 William V. Burns was said to have possessed a most remark- 
 able memory. He could recite the whole New Testament through 
 and could repeat the contents of a law book from beginning to 
 end. His profession was that of a lawyer. He went into the army 
 in 1862, serving in the Seventy-Ninth Indiana Regiment as judge 
 advocate, and when mustered out he held the rank of captain. 
 
 Sarah (Black) Burns, the daughter of W. M. and Frances 
 
THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA 99 
 
 Black, was born November 13, 1836. Lives at 340 West Henry- 
 street, West Indianapolis, Indiana. 
 
 The children of Wilham V. and Sarah (Black) Burns were 
 William Conduit, Charles W. and Maggie Myrtle. 
 
 a. William Conduit Burns was born March 23, 1855 ; married 
 to Mary M. Coleman March 21, 1878. Lives in Indianapolis, 
 Indiana. No children. 
 
 b. Charles W. Burns was born January 6, 1857; died in 1858. 
 
 c. Maggie Myrtle Burns was born August 29, 1859; married 
 to Marsh R. Whitson December 18, 1883. No children. Lives 
 at 908 Elizabeth street. Ft. Worth, Texas. 
 
 (4) Harrison Burns, son of Maxa and Maria ( Vawter) Burns, 
 was born in Jefferson county, Indiana, December 11, 1836; mar- 
 ried March 22, 1870, to Mary Constance Smydth, the daughter 
 of William C. and Constance Smydth, who was born July 18, 
 1847 i^ Bloomfield, Indiana, and died September 24, 1882. 
 
 Children of Harrison and Mary (Smydth) Burns were Mar- 
 garet Burns, who was born and died March 14, 1871, and Lee 
 Burns, who was born April 19, 1872, in Bloomfield, Indiana. 
 
 Harrison Burns was married, second, to Julia E. Tomlinson. 
 One child, Byron Elliot, died in infancy. 
 
 Harrison Burns was married, third, to Mrs. Georgia S. Min- 
 nick, July 3, 1891. 
 
 Harrison Burns went to live at his grandfather's near North 
 Vernon, Indiana, shortly before the death of his mother, and 
 remained there until his father married again. He then went 
 home to Dupont, Indiana in 1849. He and his father built four 
 houses in Dupont in the year 1853, and then went down by boat 
 into Louisiana, where they built a house for a planter, which took 
 them five or six months, as the lumber was all prepared by hand. 
 In 1855 his father moved to Sharps ville, and soon after that Har- 
 rison Burns went to Martinsville as a carpenter. The next year 
 he was a cabin-boy on a river boat running from Cincinnati to 
 New Orleans. In 1857 he went into his brother William's law 
 office in Martinsville. He practiced law in Bloomfield, Indiana, 
 for fourteen years. He was elected judge of the Common Pleas 
 Court of Indiana, Ninth District, for two terms, beginning his 
 
lOO THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA 
 
 first term of office in 1868. In 1876 he was appointed by Gov. 
 Hendricks as judge of the Marion Superior Court. He is the au- 
 thor of a number of law books, of which Burns' Indiana Digest 
 and Burns' Indiana Statutes are the most widely known. Lives 
 in Indianapolis, Indiana. 
 
 Lee Burns, the son of Harrison Burns, attended the Indianapo- 
 lis High School and did some special work at Butler University. 
 He has been associated with the Bobbs-Merrill Company of In- 
 dianapolis in various capacities since 1885. During the earlier 
 years of his employment he attended school a portion of his time. 
 He was a member of Company D, One Hundred and Fifty- 
 Eighth Regiment of Indiana Infantry during the Spanish-Amer- 
 ican War. Is now employed in the publication department of the 
 Bobbs-Merrill Company. 
 
 (5) Livingston S. Burns, son of Maxa and Maria (Vawter) 
 Burns, was born June 30, 1839; died March 3, 1843. 
 
 (6) David Vawter Burns, son of Maxa and Maria (Vawter) 
 Burns, was born in Jefferson county, Indiana, June 18, 1841 ; 
 married November 29, 1869, to Eudora Danforth (the daughter 
 of Albert Joseph and Matilda Haven Sewell Danforth) , who was 
 born March 16, 1849, in Newtown, Indiana. 
 
 David Burns received his early education in the common 
 schools. At the outbreak of the Civil War he enlisted as a private 
 in the Twenty-Sixth Regiment Indiana Volunteers. He served 
 during the war, being twice wounded and at one time a captive. 
 After the close of the war he entered the Indiana State Univer- 
 sity. In 1866 he began the study of law and was graduated two 
 years later from the Indianapolis Law School, and practiced his 
 profession in Indianapolis. In 1870 he was elected district at- 
 torney, and in 1878 was elected judge of the Superior Court of 
 Marion county, Indiana. In 1887, on account of failing health, 
 he went to Denver, Colorado, to live. In the fall of 1891 he was 
 elected judge of the district court, and remained on the bench 
 until 1894. He received the degree of LL. D. from Franklin Col- 
 lege in 1897, and the appointment of referee of bankruptcy in 
 1902. He is a member of the Baptist Church, and has given 
 
THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA lOI 
 
 largely both of effort and money for its support. Lives at 2247 
 Marion street, Denver, Colorado. 
 
 The children of David V, and Eudora (Danforth) Burns: 
 
 a. Ida Burns, born in Indianapolis October 25, 1870; married 
 June 2y, 1893, to Oswald Alfred Patzold, who was born August 
 2, 1870, in Covington, Kentucky. Mr. Patzold is now superin- 
 tendent of the Glenrock Coal Company and lives in Glenrock, 
 Wyoming. 
 
 b. Grace Burns was born January 8, 1872 ; died July 25, 1872. 
 
 c. Danforth Burns was born August 19, 1873 ; died September 
 6, 1878. 
 
 d. Nellie Burns was born February 28, 1875; died June 28, 
 
 1875- 
 
 e. Edith Burns was born July 8, 1877, in Indianapolis. Is 
 
 living with her parents in Denver, Colorado. 
 
 /. Edna Burns was born August 29, 1881, in Indianapolis; 
 married to William McElvaine Sites, September 17, 1903, in 
 Denver, Colorado. William Sites was born in Columbus, Ohio, 
 November 16, 1877. Lives in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, and is 
 superintendent of the gas department of the Oklahoma Gas and 
 Electric Company. 
 
 (7) Mary F. Burns, daughter of Maxa M. and Maria (Vaw- 
 ter) Burns, was born at Wirt, Indiana, April 2, 1843; married 
 April 27, 1872, to Dallas Newland, who was born January 13, 
 1844. 
 
 Mary F. Burns was about three years of age when her mother 
 died. She went to her grandfather Vawter's for a while and then 
 stayed with her Aunt Frances King for some time. When her 
 father was married again she went with him to Dupont, Indiana. 
 She was living in Indianapolis at the time of her marriage to 
 Dallas Newland. 
 
 Dallas Newland's parents lived in Cumberland, Indiana. He 
 was a teacher of music in the Institution for the Blind at In- 
 dianapolis at the time of his marriage. He died November 21, 
 1889. 
 
102 THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA 
 
 • Children of Dallas and Mary F. Newland : 
 
 a. George Ballard, born January 26, 1873; disappeared while 
 working in Chicago. 
 
 b. James Edwin, born May 10, 1875 ; married May 28, 1897, 
 to Elsie Cox, who was born November 21, 1878. Their children 
 are Robert Nelson, born January 14, 1898, and Ralph Guy, born 
 January 13, 1902. 
 
 c. Jesse Guy, born March 29, 1880; died January 19, 1902. 
 Mrs. Newland and son Edwin and family live in Indianapolis, 
 
 Indiana. 
 
 (8) Elizabeth A., daughter of Maxa M. and'Maria (Vawter) 
 Burns, was born in Wirt, Indiana, September 27, 1844; married 
 March 22, 1868, to Henry L. Bayley, who was born July 21, 
 1828;, died January 22, 1896. 
 
 Elizabeth (Burns) Bayley lived at Wirt, Indiana, until the 
 death of her mother, then lived with her aunt, Lizzie Stott, until 
 her father married again. She was married at Sharpsville to Mr. 
 Bayley. They moved from Sharpsville to Metamora, Michigan, 
 and from there to Battle Creek. Mrs. Bayley and her children 
 are all living in Battle Creek, Michigan, except the oldest son, 
 Henry W. Bayley, who lives in Metamora. 
 
 Children of Henry L. and Elizabeth (Burns) Bayley: 
 
 a. Jennie May Bayley, born November 13, 1868, in Sharps- 
 ville, Indiana; married August 30, 1885, to Jesse L. Rossman. 
 Children: Cora Alice, born May 8, 1888; Elvie Elizabeth, born 
 September 10, 1889; Arnold Jay, born December 15, 1891 ; Eva 
 Grace, born May 6, 1894; Nellie Viola, born June 29, 1902. 
 
 b. Henry Ward Bayley, born April 30, 1870, in Kokomo, 
 Indiana; married February 28, 1895, to Clara Summers. Chil- 
 dren: Gladys, born March 27, 1897, and Gerald, born August 
 17, 1898. 
 
 c. Arthur Loring Bayley, born June 21, 1872, in Sharpsville, 
 Indiana; married August 28, 1900, to Melinda G. Lamson. 
 
 d. Frank Wade Bayley, born November 16, 1874, in Sharps- 
 ville, Indiana. 
 
 e. Bertha Alice Bayley, born September 26, 1876; died July 
 3I' 1877. 
 
THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA 
 
 103 
 
 /. Edith de Fltiria Bay ley, born December 6, 1879, in Sharps- 
 ville, Indiana. 
 
 g. Minnie Agnes Bayley, born September 26, 1882, in Sharps- 
 ville, Indiana. 
 
 ]i. Howard Glenn Bayley, born June 11, 1885, in Metamora, 
 
 Michigan. 
 
 /. Willard Marion Bayley, born July 25, 1887, in Metamora, 
 Michigan. 
 
 (9) Sarah Jane Burns, daughter of Maxa and Maria (Vaw- 
 ter) Burns, was born in Wirt, Indiana, June 19, 1846. She was 
 taken to her grandfather and grandmother Vawter when but four 
 months old, her mother being very ill at the time, and dying two 
 months later. She lived with her grandparents until eighteen 
 years of age. When thirteen years old she had brain fever. When 
 fourteen years of age she had rheumatism, not being able to 
 walk a step for six months, and then using crutches for three 
 years. She then had cerebro-spinal meningitis, which resulted in 
 total loss of sight, but in almost a cure of the rheumatism. She 
 entered the Institution for the Blind, taking up her studies where 
 she left off, and graduating from there in three years, teaching 
 reading, arithmetic and geography for one year in one of the 
 grades. After all this time she still held to a cheerful confidence 
 that she would see again. It was some time after the paralysis 
 of the eyelids was overcome and the eyeballs (which were turned 
 backward) had been turned into their natural position by a skill- 
 ful doctor before she began to see, but gradually the sight was 
 restored. 
 
 About 1 87 1 Sallie Burns was employed as governess and 
 teacher in an orphanage on Capital avenue, Indianapolis. She 
 was there for five years and while there took charge of a boy, 
 Frank B. George, and supported and educated him. He attended 
 the public schools and then Franklin College for one year. Is now 
 married and lives in Detroit. In 1876 Sallie Burns became matron 
 of the Colored Orphans' Home, served there five years, and was 
 then appointed church missionary for the First Baptist Church 
 of Indianapolis. She was engaged in this work for two years and 
 was then married, on December 31, 1883, to George B. Loomis, 
 
104 THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA 
 
 Mr. Loomis, by a former marriage, had two children, Fred and 
 Mary. Fred was afterwards married to Louise Wegmann and 
 lives in IndianapoHs. Mary was married to Henry Rogers and 
 and died, leaving two children. Mr. Loomis died November 27, 
 1887. Five years after his death Sallie (Burns) Loomis again 
 took up church missionary work and has been engaged in some 
 sort of regular church work ever since. She and her daughter 
 Grace live in Indianapolis, Indiana. 
 
 George B. Loomis, the son of George and Esther Brace 
 Loomis, was born in Bennington, New York, May 10, 1833. He 
 early showed musical ability and was sent to New York City to 
 be instructed by Lowell Mason. He taught music in Providence, 
 Rhode Island, then came to Worcester, Ohio, and in 1864 was 
 appointed superintendent of music in the public schools of In- 
 dianapolis, which position he held for seventeen years. During 
 this time he published a series of music books which were used 
 in the Indianapolis schools for years and are still in use in many 
 cities of the United States. Mr. Loomis was a deacon in the First 
 Baptist Church of Indianapolis. 
 
 Children of George and Sallie B. Loomis : Grace B., born 
 March 25, 1885, in Indianapolis, and George D., born August 8, 
 1886; died July 17, 1887. 
 
 Grace B. Loomis is now attending Franklin College. 
 
 Elizabeth (Vawter) Stott ' . 
 
 Elizabeth Vawter, daughter of William and Frances Vawter, 
 was born September 17, 181 1, in Jefferson county, Indiana, near 
 Madison, and while she was yet a young girl united with the 
 Mt. Pleasant Baptist Church. Her father moved to Jennings 
 county, Indiana, when she was about sixteen years of age. She 
 was married to John Stott about four years later. She was of a 
 quiet, unassuming nature, but yet decided in her opinions. One 
 of her children, in talking of her, said : "When mother spoke we 
 always knew she meant what she said and we did what she re- 
 
THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA 105 
 
 quired. Father was a preacher, and in those days preachers re- 
 ceived no remuneration for their services, but gave time and 
 effort freely, making their living on their farms or in other busi- 
 ness. The time given to traveling about preaching v^as just so 
 much time taken away from the work by which the family lived ; 
 so the wives of preachers had more to contend with than other 
 women. My mother was often worried in the early years of 
 father's preaching because of the time spent away from the farm, 
 but later grew reconciled and became the most patient person I 
 ever saw. Every one was attracted by her sweet, lovable disposi- 
 tion. Her Christian influence on her own family was most 
 marked. She and father labore'd and prayed for the conversion 
 of their children, and lived to see them all, except Vawter, who 
 died in infancy, members of the Zoar Baptist Church. Mother 
 was confined to her bed for a year before her death. She died in 
 Franklin, Johnson county, Indiana, November 17, 1893, ^S^^ 
 eighty-two years." 
 
 John Stott was born March 14, 181 1, in Woodford county, 
 Kentucky. His parents moved to Jennings county, Indiana, in 
 181 6. He worked on a farm until he was seventeen or eighteen 
 years old, when he went to Vernon to learn the tanner's trade 
 with his uncle. He was married to Elizabeth Vawter April 7, 
 1 83 1, and they went to housekeeping in Vernon. In a short time 
 they moved out on a farm near William Vawter's, the father of 
 Elizabeth. Here John Stott divided his time between farming 
 and tanning. He began preaching about 1848. Most of his time 
 was given to local churches, and he did great good in strengthen- 
 ing weak churches. He united with the Vernon Church in 1828. 
 John Stott and his wife lived on the same farm for fifty years. 
 They celebrated their golden wedding there in 1881. Four years 
 afterward they moved to the Hopewell neighborhood near Frank- 
 lin, Indiana, in order to be near their son. Here John Stott died 
 December 29, 1887, aged seventy-seven years. 
 
 Children of John and Elizabeth (Vawter) Stott were Vawter, 
 Martha E., William T., Mary F. and Maria Jane, 
 
 ( I ) Vawter Stott, son of John and Elizabeth (Vawter) Stott, 
 was born May 7, 1832; died March 12, 1835. 
 
I06 THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA 
 
 (2) Martha E. Stott, daughter of John and EHzabeth (Vaw- 
 ter) Stott, was born April 18, 1834, on the old farm near Vernon, 
 Indiana. She united with the Zoar Baptist Church in 1850, and 
 was baptized by the Rev. James B. Swincher. She lived at home 
 until nineteen years of age, when she was married, November 3, 
 1853, to Maxa Moncrief, near Vernon, Indiana. 
 
 Maxa Moncrief was born July 11, 1832, in Jennings county, 
 Indiana. His occupation was farming. He united with the Con- 
 cord Baptist Church in 1850. Has lived in Franklin, Indiana, 
 since 1879. 
 
 Children of Maxa and Martha (Stott) Moncrief: 
 
 a. Jennie Moncrief, born April 19, 1855 ; died March i, 1870. 
 
 b. Caleb Moncrief, born April 2, 1858; died October 17, 1859. 
 
 c. Emma Moncrief was born July 31, i860, near Vernon, In- 
 diana. She united with the North Vernon Baptist Church in 
 1874; was married July 24, 1895, to Robert D. Trick, who was 
 born November 28, i860, in South Wales. Emma Moncrief 
 Trick died in Franklin, Indiana, March 31, 1902. 
 
 (3) William T. Stott, son of John and Elizabeth (Vawter) 
 Stott, was born near Vernon, Indiana, May 22, 1836. He went 
 to the district schools, and in 1854 attended an academy in De- 
 catur county, Indiana. He united with the Zoar Baptist Church 
 in his seventeenth year ; began attending Franklin College in the 
 winter of 1856-57, and was graduated in 186 1. In July, 1861, 
 he enlisted in the Eighteenth Indiana Volunteer Infantry and was 
 in the service until the close of 1864. Was for two years a private 
 and for the remainder of the time captain of Company "I." He 
 was in fifteen battles, being commander of the regiment in the 
 last battle, which was at Cedar Creek, Virginia. In September, 
 1865, William T. Stott began a course of study in the Rochester 
 Theological Seminary, New York, and graduated there in May, 
 1868. He was married to Arabella R. Tracy May 21, 1868; was 
 pastor in Columbus, Indiana, 1868 to 1869; in 1869 was called 
 to the acting presidency of Franklin College ; was acting president 
 a year and a half and professor of sciences for about a year and 
 a half. He was elected president of the college in 1872, and has 
 been president for thirty-two years. W. T. Stott has been hon- 
 
THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA I07 
 
 ored with several offices, such as president of the Indiana Baptist 
 Convention, member of the board of visitors for the Home for 
 Soldiers' and Sailors' Orphans, member of the state board of 
 education, member of the board of the Indiana Soldiers' Home, 
 and has been associate editor of the Baptist Outlook for some 
 time. In 1894 he visited Europe and Palestine. Lives in Franklin, 
 Indiana. 
 
 Arabella (Tracy) Stott, the daughter of Isaac Storrs Tracy 
 and Mary (Pierce) Tracy, was born in Tunbridge, Vermont, 
 February 12, 1843. Her father moved to Rochester, New York, 
 when she was a child, and she was educated there. 
 
 Children of William T. and Arabella (Tracy) Stott: Wilfred 
 T., Grace E., Edith R., Cyril H. and Roscoe G. 
 
 a. Wilfred T. Stott, son of William T, and Arabella (Tracy) 
 Stott, was born in Columbus, Indiana, March 5, 1869, and grad- 
 uated at Franklin College in 1891. He was employed as a re- 
 porter by the Indianapolis papers for some time, then owned a 
 paper in Columbus, Indiana. While there, he raised a volunteer 
 company of which he was the captain. This company was in 
 Governor Durbin's regiment in the Spanish War. Wilfred T. 
 Stott was for a number of years on the staff of the Chicago 
 Tribune. He is now assistant editor of Service, a Baptist Union 
 magazine published in Chicago. 
 
 h. Grace E. Stott, daughter of William T. and Arabella 
 (Tracy) Stott, was born November 29, 1871, in Franklin, In- 
 diana. She graduated at Franklin College in 1894. She was col- 
 lege librarian until 1899. Was married June 15, 1899, to Rev. 
 Clark R. Parker. 
 
 Clark R. Parker was born November 29, 1873, in East Trum- 
 bull, Ohio. He graduated at Franklin College in the class of 
 1898 and then went to the Boston Conservatory for instruction 
 in music. He taught music in Franklin College one year, then 
 taught school in the Muncie high school for two years, then re- 
 turned to Franklin as principal of the high school. In October, 
 1904, he became pastor of the La Porte Baptist Church. 
 
 Clark R. and Grace (Stott) Parker have one child, Cyril Rod- 
 ney, who was born in Muncie, Indiana, Alay 4, 1901. 
 
I08 THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA 
 
 c. Edith R. Stott, daughter of WilHam T. and Arabella 
 (Tracy) Stott, was born in Franklin, Indiana, January i, 1875. 
 She attended Franklin College. She was married to Rev. Fred 
 Glendower Kenny, October 29, 1903. 
 
 Fred Glendower Kenny was born in 1868 at Le Roy, New 
 York. Is pastor of the Tipton, Indiana, Baptist Church. 
 
 d. Cyril H. Stott, son of William T. and Arabella (Tracy) 
 Stott, was born November 8, 1877; died October 23, 1884. 
 
 c. Roscoe G. Stott, son of William T. and Arabella (Tracy) 
 Stott, was born in Franklin, Indiana, October 29, 1880. He grad- 
 uated at Franklin College in 1904, and is now in the University 
 of Chicago. 
 
 (4) Mary F. Stott, daughter of John and Elizabeth ( Vawter) 
 Stott, was born in Jennings county, Indiana, May 17, 1840. She, 
 like her mother, is of a retiring nature. She was much afflicted 
 as a child, so seldom left home. When she was fifteen years of 
 age her mother fell from a horse breaking her wrist and bruising 
 herself. After that the care of the house fell on Mary. Jennie 
 and Mary were both teachers in the Sunday-school for years while 
 they lived in the old home. They united with the church in 1854, 
 and were baptized by their father in the creek down by their 
 grandfather's place. Mary came to Franklin in September, 1885, 
 and is living there now with her sister, Mrs. Moncrief. 
 
 (5) Jennie M. Stott was born in Jennings county, Indiana, 
 March 9, 1842. She was always of a cheerful disposition and a 
 good student. She began teaching when seventeen years old and 
 taught for several years. She was in college one year, but owing 
 to sickness at home was compelled to return there. Afterwards 
 she taught a private school in Franklin, Indiana. She was married 
 to James N. Chaille June 23, 1881. In August, 1882, a daughter. 
 Bertha Elizabeth, was born, who lived for four years. Her hus- 
 band died in fifteen weeks after the death of the little girl. Jennie 
 S. Chaille then came back home to Franklin, where she remained 
 until her death, June 7, 1894. 
 
THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA lOQ 
 
 John Taylor Vawter 
 
 John Taylor Vawter, son of William and Frances Vawter, was 
 born in Jefferson county, Indiana, August 20, 181 3, and was mar- 
 ried to Pamelia Dwyer May 10, 1835. He and his wife and child, 
 Edward, went to Iowa in the general land rush in 1839, when 
 the government opened the land of that territory to the public. 
 The land was then in the hands of rangers — men who pastured 
 their stock upon the lands but who did not own them. These 
 rangers naturally objected to the incoming settlers, and even after 
 these settlers had entered their claims and were living upon them 
 the rangers tried to drive them away by persecution. John T. 
 Vawter was arrested once for arson and four times for perjury 
 upon statements sworn to by the rangers. Although he proved 
 himself innocent every time he spent all he had in defending 
 himself. 
 
 About this time there came to Iowa a German preacher, who 
 preached in both the German and English languages and who in- 
 terested Mr. Vawter more than any one he had ever heard. The 
 minister was one of a German community in Ohio. Later, John 
 T. Vawter went sixty miles to hear another one of these preach- 
 ers. This second minister told him of a German colony which 
 was being organized in Shelby county, Missouri, and said that 
 Mr. Vawter could become a member if he so desired. Mr. Vawter 
 was very much pleased with the idea and went with his family 
 to Missouri and united with the colony. At that time he had four 
 children. These children learned to speak German long before 
 their father did, and he said they would often come to him and 
 ask questions that he could not make out. Their first education 
 was entirely in German. There were only two American families 
 in the colony. Mr. Vawter lived in the colony for about eighteen 
 years, and says he remembers it as one of the happiest periods of 
 his life. 
 
 When the colony was first organized at Bethel, Missouri, the 
 members lived in tents, and there were many more in the town 
 
 m 
 
no THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA 
 
 then, in 1845, than there are at the present time. Each family 
 Hved in its own house as soon as the houses could be built. Such 
 improvements were made about the place as were deemed neces- 
 sary by the elders and Mr. Kyle, who was the head. One of the 
 directors came around each morning and said : "You go here, 
 you work there, you plant, you plow," and so on. The women 
 did the lighter kinds of work in the field, the girls and women 
 also working in the glove factory and the woolen mill. The men 
 worked on the farms, in the tannery, the distillery and at herding. 
 There was a superintendent for each department — the farm, the 
 factory, and so on. These superintendents were under the direc- 
 tion of the elders. The people were allowed provisions and cloth- 
 ing according to the number in the family, and the supply was 
 abundant. Whisky was furnished also, but there was no drunken- 
 ness in the colony. No money was allowed to the members. 
 
 At first the colony was very poor, but it grew prosperous as 
 the years passed, and the people lived better and had more time 
 for amusements. At Elim, a short distance from Bethel, was the 
 residence of Mr. Kyle, the leader. At this place was a great pa- 
 vilion and concert hall. Here the people had two great festivals 
 a year — the May Festival and the Harvest Festival. At both of 
 these they had an abundance of good things to eat and music and 
 dancing. At Hebrun, one mile northv/est of Bethel, was the 
 colony cemetery. 
 
 Mr. Kyle, who was a minister and also the head of the colony, 
 was a very remarkable man. He possessed a powerful person- 
 ality and a wonderful control over the people. He ruled the 
 colony in a manner which seemed to be for the best good of all. 
 The people no more thought of questioning his authority than 
 they would that of their Creator. Even the young people had to 
 ask his consent when they thought of getting married. 
 
 John T. Vawter, while a member of the colony, at first lived 
 in the town. He was a herder, and after a while moved out in 
 the country, as it became necessary for him to attend to his herd- 
 ing at a greater distance from the town. He took up a claim of 
 one hundred and sixty acres, and the colony improved it. The 
 first house they built for him was by the side of the creek. While 
 
THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA III 
 
 in this house the family constantly had the chills and fever. The 
 colony then built a house for them on the hill, and after living 
 there a while the chills left them. Mr. Vawter's father and mother 
 visited him while in the colony. 
 
 Before the colony was disbanded a number of the members 
 went to Oregon, among them Edward Vawter, the son of John 
 T. Vawter. Mr Kyle, the head of the colony, afterwards went 
 to Oregon to bury his son who had died there, and as the members 
 were not doing well he remained to take charge of the Oregon 
 branch. He retained control of the Missouri branch, but appoint- 
 ed Andrew Giese as manager. Andrew Giese was in turn fol- 
 lowed by Jacob Miller. Under these changes in leadership the 
 colonists became dissatisfied. 
 
 About this time John T. Vawter went for a visit to his relatives 
 in Indiana, and when he returned to Missouri decided to sever 
 his connection with the colony. Although he had nothing when 
 he went into the colony, when he left it he had his farm, which 
 he had pre-empted, his house and barn and the stock upon the 
 farm, and had in the meantime brought up a large family ; so that 
 his experience had not been a bad thing for him financially. On 
 this farm were born his other three children by his first wife. 
 Here his first wife died December i6, 1861. Here he was mar- 
 ried, second, to Mrs. N. S. Philliper, July 12, 1866, and here his 
 youngest child, Albert, was born. Soon after Mr. Vawter with- 
 drew the colony was disbanded. 
 
 John T. Vawter and his wife are now living in Bethel, Mis- 
 souri. He is ninety-two years old. 
 
 Children of John T. and Pamelia (Dwyer) Vawter were Ed- 
 ward, William, Frances, Katherine, Michael, Louisa and John 
 T., Jr. 
 
 (i) Edward Vawter, son of John T. and Pamelia (Dwyer) 
 Vawter, was born in Jennings county, Indiana, November 21, 
 1838; married in Portland, Oregon, February 12, 1865, to 
 Barbara Kroher, who was born September 30, 1838, in Bavaria, 
 Germany, and died July 3, 1866. 
 
 Edward Vawter's first education was in German in the colony. 
 Both his children and grandchildren speak the German language 
 
112 THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA 
 
 as well as the English. In 1863 he, with a number of others from 
 the colony, went to Oregon. He drove an ox-team across the 
 plains, landing at Portland, Oregon, October 6, 1863, and was 
 engaged in cutting cord-wood, making rails, etc., until he married 
 the first time, when he went to farming, and has followed that 
 occupation since. 
 
 Edward Vawter was married the second time to Catherine 
 Gunnerman, December 7, 1871. She was born in Hesse-Cassel, 
 Germany, February 8, 1842. They are now living in Bates City, 
 Missouri. 
 
 Children of Edward and Barbara (Kroher) Vawter: 
 
 a. George Adam Vawter was born in Aurora, Marion county, 
 Oregon, June 10, 1866; married in Bethel, Shelby county, Mis- 
 souri, September 30, 1888, to Katy A. Luty, who was born in 
 Bethel, Missouri, May 18, 1864. Children: 
 
 Edgar Frederick Vawter, born in Bethel, Missouri, March 10, 
 1890. 
 
 Frank Edward Vawter, born January 7, 1892; died February 
 18, 1892. 
 
 Wilbur Luty Vawter, born May 19, 1893. 
 
 Bertha May Vawter, still-born, January 9, 1896. 
 
 Clifford George Vawter, born January 6, 1900. 
 
 George A. Vawter went from Bethel, Missouri, to Newport, 
 Washington, in 1901. He is in the real estate business and is also 
 a dealer in wood. 
 
 Children of Edward and Catherine (Gunnerman) Vawter: 
 
 a. Frank Wesley Vawter was born June 13, 1873; married 
 April 2y, 1898, to Emma Graupner, who was born December 7, 
 1876. Children: Freda Mildred, born July 27, 1899, and Edna 
 Catherine, born September 18, 1901. 
 
 Frank W. Vawter is living in Newport, Washington. 
 
 b. William Alfred Vawter, son of Edward and Catherine 
 (Gunnerman) Vawter, was born February 13, 1876; married 
 June 12, 1 90 1, to Mary Virginia Straughter, who was born De- 
 cember 5, 1875. No children. They live in San Dimas, Cali- 
 fornia. 
 
 (2) William Vawter, son of John Taylor and Pamelia (Dwy- 
 
THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA II3 
 
 er) Vawter, was born near Cedar Rapids, Iowa, September 20, 
 1840. He enlisted from Shelby county, Missouri, in April, 1863, 
 to serve three years or during- the war. He was mustered into the 
 United States service at St. Louis, Missouri, as a private of Cap- 
 tain James M. Collier's Company "G," Eleventh Regiment Cav- 
 alry, Missouri Volunteers, Colonel William D. Wood command- 
 ing. This regiment took part in the action at Spring Town, 
 from where it marched to Jacksonport and participated in that 
 fight, April 26, 1864. In May the regiment was ordered to Du- 
 vall's Bluflf, Arkansas, and during its stay there took part in the 
 engagements at Ashley's and Jones' Stations, Augusta, Searcy, 
 Dardanelle and Morristown, and marched over ten thousand miles 
 in expeditions, raids and scouts. In November, 1864, the regi- 
 ment was ordered to Brownsville, Arkansas, and attached to the 
 Second Brigade, Cavalry Division, Seventh Army Corps; in Feb- 
 ruary, 1865, was ordered to Little Rock, Arkansas, remaining 
 there until May; thence to New Orleans, en route for the Rio 
 Grande. On arriving at New Orleans in July the order was coun- 
 termanded and the regiment ordered to Benton Barracks, Mis- 
 souri. It was mustered out of service July 27, 1865, at Greenville, 
 Louisiana, thence moved to Benton Barracks, St. Louis, Missouri, 
 and received final pay and discharge August 11, 1865. 
 
 William Vawter, in the spring of 1865, was confined in the 
 hospital at Little Rock, Arkansas, owing to illness, and when he 
 returned to St. Louis found that his company had been disbanded. 
 He received an honorable discharge at St. Louis on the nth of 
 August, 1865, by reason of the close of war. He was married 
 April 5, 1866, at Shelbyville, Missouri, to Matilda F. McKinnon 
 Christman, who was born November 14, 1843, ^^ St. Louis 
 county, Missouri. She was married first to William Christman, 
 who was one of the Union soldiers massacred by the Quantrell 
 band of outlaws in the battle of Centralia, Missouri. 
 
 William Vawter's eyes were injured during the war and he 
 was mustered out almost blind. Several years after the war he 
 engaged in the mercantile business in Ivanhoe, Missouri ; sold 
 out his business there in 1885, and with his family moved to 
 Meade county, Kansas, where he took a homestead of one hun- 
 
114 THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA 
 
 dred and sixty acres of land, but the hot winds and grasshoppers 
 in the summer and the bhzzards in the winter soon drove the 
 family away. They moved to Polk county, Missouri, where Wil- 
 liam bought a farm. Selling this farm, he moved to Bullion, 
 Adair county, Missouri. Shortly after this, in 1893, his eyes 
 began to grow worse, and in a short time he became blind and 
 has been so ever since. He lives with his son William in Brashear, 
 Missouri. 
 
 Children : 
 
 a. Colonel Vawter, son of William and Matilda Vawter, 
 was born January 26, 1867. He was married June 7, 1896, to 
 Ida Rahe at Bullion, Adair county, Missouri, and has one son, 
 Emil, who was born October 14, 1898. Colonel Vawter is a black- 
 smith and wagon-maker, living at Brashear, Missouri. 
 
 h. William Scott Vawter, son of William and Matilda Vaw- 
 ter, was born March 28, 1873, in Shelby county, Missouri. He 
 came to Brashear, Missouri, in 1893, ^'■^'^^ ^s an attorney of that 
 place and a member of board of trustees of the town. He was 
 elected for four consecutive times Worshipful Master of the Ma- 
 sonic Lodge. He is an Odd Fellow, and has held the highest of- 
 fices in that lodge. He recently received his commission as district 
 deputy grand master of the Odd Fellows for District No. 59. 
 William S. Vaw-ter takes an active interest in politics. He is, 
 moreover, a great student of ancient history, and it is said that 
 there are few men in Missouri so well informed as he on that 
 subject. 
 
 c. Pamelia, daughter of William and Matilda Vawter, died 
 in infancy. 
 
 Matilda Vawter, wife of William, died April 16, 1899. 
 
 (3) Frances Vav/ter, daughter of John T. and Pamelia 
 (Dwyer) Vawter, was born January 3, 1843, in Iowa, near Cedar 
 Rapids, and was two years of age when her father united with 
 the German colony in Missouri. She lived in Bethel, Missouri, 
 for ten years when her father moved his family out on a farm 
 near there. She was sixteen years old when her mother died, and 
 she then took charge of the house until her father married again ; 
 then went to Shelby ville, Missouri, and lived with a family by 
 
THE VAWTER FAMILY IN" AMERICA II 5 
 
 the name of Carley until she was married. Was married Decem- 
 ber 18, 1870, to John George Burckhardt. 
 
 John G. Burckhardt was born in Wiirttemberg, Germany, Sep- 
 tember 24, 1842. When twelve years of age he came to this 
 country with his parents and settled in Glen Cove, Rhode Island. 
 In May, 1861, he enlisted as a private in Company G, Fourth 
 New York Volunteer Infantry; was discharged May, 1863, as 
 sergeant; shipped November, 1864, in the United States navy; 
 discharged October, 1865, from the United States ship Anemone 
 at the New York navy yard. After that he lived with his parents 
 at Allentown, Pennsylvania, and worked in a rolling mill. In 
 1869 he came to Shelby ville, Missouri, and there was married 
 to Frances Vawter. Mr. Burckhardt has a large farm near Bethel, 
 Missouri. He makes a specialty of raising fine stock, particularly 
 thoroughbred shorthorn cattle and draft horses and sheep. He 
 is an Odd Fellow, a member of the Grand Army of the Repubhc, 
 a school director, a deacon in the Presbyterian Churchy and is one 
 of the prominent farmers who has been chosen by the government 
 to send in regular monthly reports of the weather conditions and 
 the crops. Ivanhoe Stock Farm, Bethel, Missouri. 
 
 Children of John G. and Frances (Vawter) Burckhardt: 
 
 a. Sarah Ann Burckhardt, born February 28, 1873; married 
 October 17, 1896, to Henry W. Boeckley. They live near Bethel, 
 Missouri, and have one child, Enid Beth, who was born May 12, 
 1902. 
 
 b. John Frederick Burckhardt was born February 14, 1875 ; 
 married April 19, 1903, to Minnie Baker, who was born October 
 3, 1880, in Ohio. They live near Bethel, Missouri. 
 
 c. Lulu Christina Burckhardt was born June i, 1876; died 
 February i, 1898. 
 
 d. Margaret Pamelia Burckhardt, born May 27, 1878. 
 
 e. Mary Elizabeth Burckhardt was born September 27, 1879. 
 /. George Burckhardt was born January 12, 1882. 
 
 g. Mamie Burckhardt was born May 4, 1884. 
 
 (4) Katherine Vawter, daughter of John Taylor and Pamelia 
 (Dwyer) Vawter, was born near Cedar Rapids, Iowa, February i, 
 1845 y moved with her parents when still an infant to the German 
 
Il6 THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA 
 
 colony at Bethel, Missouri, remaining in the town until ten years 
 of age. Her father then moved out on a farm near Bethel. Here 
 she lived, with the exception of three years spent in the town, 
 until she was married, March, 29, 1866, to George Vanosdol. 
 
 George Vanosdol was born in Jefferson county, Indiana, Oc- 
 tober 13, 1840. In 1856 he moved to Shelby county. Missouri, 
 assisting his father there in farming. He served in the army, re- 
 turning to Shelby county, Missouri, in 1865. He has been en- 
 gaged in farming for the most of his life. Is now living near 
 Plevna, Missouri. 
 
 Children of George and Katherine Vanosdol : 
 
 a. Mary Catherine, born October 13, 1866; married April 9, 
 1 89 1, to Joseph Brooks, who is a lumber manufacturer living at 
 Bonner's Ferry, Idaho. Children : Artemus, born December 30, 
 1893; Gerald, born August 25, 1894, and Aurora, born Septem- 
 ber 2, 1896. 
 
 h. Emiline Vanosdol was born August i, 1868; married 
 March 7, 1889, to George W. Baltzer, who is a farmer and trader 
 living at Epworth, Missouri. Children: Pearl, born January 17, 
 1890, and Harry, born October 26, 1891. 
 
 c. James Monroe Vanosdol was born March 9, 1870; mar- 
 ried October 20, 1894, to Mollie Pence. James M. Vanosdol is a 
 farmer and trader living near Epworth, Missouri. No children. 
 
 d. Frances Ann Vanosdol was born February 28, 1872; mar- 
 ried February i, 1893, to Albert Campbell Staggs; died April 
 16, 1893. 
 
 e. Scott Vanosdol was born February 10, 1874; married April 
 23, 1892, to Elizabeth Gibbs. He is a farmer and trader living 
 near Epworth, Missouri. No children. 
 
 /. Sarah Hotchkiss Vanosdol was born May 4, 1876; mar- 
 ried July 19, 1897, to W. R. Perrigo. They live in Naples, 
 Idaho. They have two children, Floyd and Bertha Winifred. 
 
 g. Mattie Belle Vanosdol was born November 23, 1878; mar- 
 ried November 3, 1895, to W. W. Wilcox, who is a farmer and 
 trader living near Shelbyville, Missouri. Children : William Gil- 
 bert, born November 26, 1896, and Laurence, born October 30, 
 1900. 
 
THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA 11/ 
 
 h. William Weaver Vanosdol was born December ii, 1880. 
 Lives in Rush Center, Kansas. 
 
 /. Cora Lee Vanosdol was born April 11, 1883. 
 
 j. Lulu Ludica Vanosdol was born July 9, 1886. 
 
 k. Isaac Morton Vanosdol was born February 7, 1889. 
 
 (5) Mary Vawter, daughter of John Taylor and Pamelia 
 (Dwyer) Vawter, was born October 9, 1847 ; died April 21, 1858. 
 
 (6) Michael Vawter, son of John Taylor and Pamelia 
 
 (Dwyer) Vawter, was born April 6, 1851 ; married Rebecca 
 
 in Lexington, Missouri. No children. 
 
 (7) Louisa Vawter, daughter of John Taylor and Pamelia 
 (Dwyer) Vawter, was born November 17, 1853, in Shelby county, 
 Missouri; married in Knox county, Missouri, June 15, 1874, to 
 Thomas Tanksley, who was born in Hancock county, Illinois, 
 March i, 1855. They live at Fern Hill, Washington. Chil- 
 dren of Thomas and Louisa (Vawter) Tanksley: 
 
 a. Charles Wesley Tanksley, born September 11, 1875, in 
 Shelby county, Missouri. 
 
 h. Samuel Tanksley, born in Schuyler county, Illinois, June 
 18, 1877; died September 11, 1878. 
 
 c. Minnie Tanksley, born in Illinois January 22, 1879; died 
 March 22, 1884. 
 
 d. Albert Tanksley, born in Illinois March 11, 1881 ; mar- 
 ried August 23, 1900, to Christena S. Wesaw, of Lake View, 
 Washington. 
 
 c. Thomas Oliver Tanksley, born in Illinois April 19, 1883. 
 
 /. James Mitton Tanksley, born in Lafayette county, Mis- 
 souri, September 21, 1888. 
 
 g. Henry Franklin Tanksley, born in Lafayette county, Mis- 
 souri, August 25, 1891. 
 
 (8) John T. Vawter, Jr., son of John Taylor and Pamelia 
 (Dwyer) Vawter, was born near Bethel, Missouri, December 11, 
 1855, married at Kirby, Missouri, December 12, 1875, to Ida 
 E. Springsteen, who was born August 22, 1858, in New York 
 City. 
 
 Children : Charles William Vawter, who was born near Kir- 
 by, Missouri, February 2, 1877; married December 7, 1900, to 
 
Il8 THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA 
 
 Daisy Tolle, who was born near Bethel, Missouri, in 1877. 
 Charles William Vawter died November 27, 1891. 
 
 John T. Vawter, Jr., has worked at teaming and farming for 
 the most of his life. Lives now in Bethel. Missouri. 
 
 (9) Albert C. Vawter. son of John T. Vawter and his second 
 wife, was born near Bethel, Missouri. July 7. 1869; married, 
 near Shelbyville, Missouri, July 26, 1891. to Frances Josephine 
 Churchwell, who was born near Emden, Missouri. July 27, 1870. 
 
 Children : 
 
 a. Francis Marion, born April 2, 1893. 
 
 h. Vernon Day, born August 4, 1894. 
 
 c. Arthur Lee, born September 20, 1895. 
 
 d. Annie Gladys, born May 9, 1897. 
 
 e. Mary Ruth, born July 14, 1900. 
 
 Albert C. Vawter is a lumber grader living at Newport, Wash- 
 ington. 
 
 Williamson Dunn Vawter 
 
 Williamson Dunn Vawter, son of William and Frances Vaw- 
 ter, was born August 28, 181 5, at Mt. Glad, near Madison, 
 Indiana. His father moved to Jennings county, Indiana, when 
 he was about twelve years of age. He attended the country 
 schools, his first text books being a spelling book and the 
 New Testament, then the American First Class Book. Among his 
 teachers was Mrs. Lard, a noted teacher in the early days of 
 Indiana. Williamson's father proposed to make a farmer of his 
 son, but the boy had no liking for that vocation and left his 
 father's home soon after reaching the age of twelve years. He 
 went to Kentucky to a cousin by the name of Stapp, with whom 
 he stayed for a time. Afterwards he went to live with his uncle, 
 Colonel John Vawter, for whom he had a great affection. John 
 Vawter wanted to make a business man of Williamson. The 
 first work of the boy was driving an ox-team between Vernon and 
 Madison, carrying merchandise for his uncle's store, which was 
 located in Vernon and was the great emporium for a vast region 
 
THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA 
 
 119 
 
 of country. This work, which was full of adventure and danger, 
 the roads being bad and the woods affording lurking places for 
 occasional savages, just suited the daring spirit of the boy. Later 
 he became a clerk in the mercantile house of his uncle, and then a 
 partner in the same store with his cousin, Smith Vawter. Wil- 
 liamson and Smith Vawter carried on business together in the 
 same brick building at the old Vawter corner in Vernon for 
 forty years. Williamson Vawter was the junior partner. He 
 was also postmaster of Vernon for a number of years, a leader 
 in temperance work and treasurer and custodian of the Bible 
 depository of the Jennings county branch of the American Bible 
 Society from its organization until he moved to California. He 
 did not despise the day of small things, but was ever ready to 
 assist in any measure for the good of the community. He took 
 a lively interest in municipal politics ; was a whig during the life 
 of that party and a member of the republican party from its 
 birth ; was an abolitionist in principle ; voted for General William 
 Henry Harrison for president of the United States and also voted 
 for Benjamin Harrison in 1888. 
 
 Williamson D. Vawter and family went from Vernon, Indiana, 
 to Los Angeles county, California, in 1875, W. D. Vawter being 
 one of the original members of the "Indiana Colony." This 
 colony bought land where Pasadena now stands. The climate 
 of Santa Monica, however, seemed to offer superior attractions, 
 and there Williamson Vawter and sons bought property and en- 
 gaged in business, partaking actively in every measure for the 
 good of the town. W. D. Vawter was one of the founders of the 
 first church organized and built in Santa Monica — the Presby- 
 terian Church. The first street railway in Santa Monica was 
 built, owned and operated by Williamson Vawter and his two 
 sons, W. S. and E. J. Vawter. The First National Bank of 
 Santa Monica was organized by himself and sons, and the 
 largest brick block there was built by same. W. D. Vawter was 
 president of the bank at one time, and at the time of his death was 
 still engaged in that business. 
 
 Williamson D. Vawter was married July 15, 1834. to Mary 
 Charlotte Tilghman Crowder, who was born May 12, 181 7, and 
 
120 THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA 
 
 died September 22, 1851, and was buried in the Vernon cemetery. 
 The children of WilHamson D. and Mary Charlotte Tilghman 
 (Crowder) Vawter were Mary Ellen, May, Jane Cravens, Ara- 
 mantha Charlotte, William Smith and Edwin James. 
 
 Williamson D. Vawter was married, second, November 10, 
 1852, to Charlotte Augusta Knowlton, who was born in Shrews- 
 bury, Massachusetts, July 31, 1819, and died in Santa Monica, 
 California, December 27, 1893. Children of Williamson and 
 Charlotte (Knowlton) Vawter were Emma Knowlton and 
 Charles Knowlton. 
 
 Williamson D. Vawter died in Santa Monica, California, July 
 10, 1894. 
 
 Children : 
 
 ( 1 ) Mary Ellen Vawter, daughter of Williamson D. and 
 Mary (Crowder) Vawter, was born in Vernon, Indiana, October 
 23, 1836. At the age of eighteen she began teaching, but after 
 teaching two years at May Hill and Deer Creek her eyesight 
 failed and she was compelled to remain a year in a dark room. 
 When twenty-three years of age she was married to Ward 
 Leavitt, of Chautauqua, New York. Children : Charles Dunn, 
 born February 16, 1862; died October 2, 1862; Florence May, 
 born August 3, 1865. 
 
 In the spring of 1875 M^- ^^^ Mrs. Leavitt and daughter went 
 to Los Angeles county, California, with the family of E. J. Vaw- 
 ter. They were stockholders in the Indiana Colony. After a 
 few months' sojourn at Pasadena and Los Angeles, they came to 
 Santa Monica. In 1880 they went back to Pasadena, and after 
 seven years of orange ranch life there they returned to Santa 
 Monica, where Mr. Leavitt died, October 23, 1896. 
 
 (2) May Vawter, daughter of Williamson and Mary (Crow- 
 der) Vawter, was born in Vernon, Jennings county, Indiana, March 
 4, 1838. She was educated in the Vernon schools. She stood 
 well in her classes and had a fair musical education ; taught school 
 in Lafayette, Indiana, with her uncle, A. J. Vawter, who was at 
 that time superintendent of the Lafayette schools ; traveled 
 through the southern and eastern states and Canada and came 
 to the Pacific coast with her father's family in 1875. She was 
 
THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA 121 
 
 married in the spring of 1876 by Rev. Dr. Condit, to Switzer 
 Soutter Harwood, M. D., at her father's home in Santa Monica, 
 California. Mr. and Mrs. Harwood lived in San Pablo, Cali- 
 fornia, then in San Francisco, going afterwards to Yreka, Sis- 
 kiyou county, the extreme northern portion of California. They 
 then went to Sydney, Australia, to live. May V. Harwood making 
 the voyage to and from there several times. She died in Sydney, 
 Australia, March i, 1884. May (Vawter) Harwood was self- 
 reliant, active, daring and adventurous from her childhood. She 
 united with the Vernon Presbyterian Church and was one of the 
 charter members of the First Presbyterian Church of Santa 
 Monica, California. 
 
 Dr. Switzer Soutter Harwood was born in London, England. 
 He went with his parents to Sydney, Australia, where he re- 
 mained for a short time, returning to England to complete his 
 education. He came to San Francisco in 1875, and in that same 
 year to southern California. In Santa Monica he met and mar- 
 ried May Vawter. There were no children. 
 
 (3) Jane Cravens Vawter, daughter of Williamson D. and 
 Mary (Crowder) Vawter, was born in Vernon, Indiana, April 
 17, 1840. The name Cravens was given in honor of a political 
 friend of her father. She was interested in political and national 
 questions from childhood and became a stanch abolitionist at ten 
 years of age. She received her education, for the most part, in 
 the private and public schools of Vernon, and afterwards contin- 
 ued her studies under the direction of the family physician. Dr. 
 J. C. Burt, following the course of study laid out in the catalogue 
 of Hanover College. She then took special courses of reading for 
 several years. At twenty years of age she taught for several 
 months in the public schools of Indianapolis, and again at twenty- 
 two. She was a teacher of the higher English and algebra, besides 
 other branches. She united with the Vernon Presbyterian Church 
 April 17, 1864; was the projector and one of the founders of the 
 first Sunday-school in Santa Monica, California. The school was 
 organized and carried on for some weeks in the W. D. Vawter 
 homestead. Jennie Vawter was a charter member of the First 
 Presbyterian Church of Santa Monica ; served for a time as Sun- 
 
122 THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA 
 
 day-school superintendent, and later took charge of a class of 
 boys and girls, thirty in number, taking them from ten years of 
 age until they were men and women. She was one of two solicit- 
 ors who collected funds for the erection of the beautiful building 
 of the Presbyterian Church now in use in Santa Monica, Cali- 
 fornia, a building made possible by the generosity and sympathy 
 of her father and mother, with their family. She and her sister 
 Emma live together in the old homestead in Santa Monica. 
 
 (4) Aramantha Charlotte Vawter, daughter of Williamson 
 D. and Mary (Crowder) Vawter, was born in Vernon, Indiana, 
 September 25, 1841. She was educated in the Jennings Academy 
 in Vernon and in the Female College at Oxford, Ohio. She com- 
 menced to teach school when not quite seventeen years old in 
 Scipio, Indiana, afterward taking a school in the country at a 
 place called the "Forks of Graham." After this she resumed her 
 studies, and later taught for a time in Lafayette, Columbus and 
 Vernon, Indiana. She was married October 16, 1866, at her fa- 
 ther's home in Vernon, to Septimius Vater of Lafayette, Indiana. 
 
 Mr. and Mrs. Vater are members of the oldest literary society 
 in Lafayette (the Parlor Club), and are the members of the 
 longest standing in it. Mrs. Vater is also a member of the Mon- 
 day Club — a. woman's organization. She is a Presbyterian in re- 
 ligious belief and was for many years president of the Woman's 
 Missionary Society of the church and also held the office of 
 president of the Missionary Society of the Crawfordsville Pres- 
 bytery for several years. During the last year she was ordained 
 a deaconess in hej own church. Is a member of the Woman's 
 Auxiliary of the Young Men's Christian Association, and was 
 the first president of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union 
 in Lafayette. 
 
 Septimius Vater was born August 20, 1844, in Cincinnati, 
 Ohio. His father, Thomas Vater, was from the vicinity of Liver- 
 pool, England. He married Eleanor Palmer of London, and they 
 came to America with their two children. Mrs. Vater, then a 
 widow, came to Indianapolis with her family in 1852. Septimius 
 Vater received his education there and learned the printers' trade 
 and also telegraphy. In the fall of 1863 he returned to Cincinnati 
 
THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA 1 23 
 
 and worked in the office of the Times for more than a year. In 
 October, 1864, he went to Lafayette, Indiana, and became busi- 
 ness manager of the Courier. In January, 1869, Mr. Vater 
 bought the Lafayette Journal in partnership with Benjamin B. 
 Barron, who died about a year and a half afterward. Mr. Vater 
 then conducted the paper alone until 1882, when he sold it and 
 spent a year or more in California with his family. In March, 
 1885, Mr. Vater purchased the Evening Call. This paper he pub- 
 lished for over ten years, when he sold out. In 1898 he bought 
 stock and went into Perrin's National Bank as an officer. When 
 that bank consolidated with the Merchant National he became 
 treasurer of the Lafayette Loan and Trust Company. 
 Children of Septimius and Aramantha (Vawter) Vater: 
 
 a. Williamson Dunn Vater was born May 17, 1868. He was 
 educated at Princeton Seminary. He was married November 29, 
 1899, to Grace Barker of Logansport, Indiana, who was born 
 April 16, 1873. Williamson Vater is a Presbyterian minister, 
 preaching in Oxford, Indiana. 
 
 b. Thomas Eugene Vater was born April 5, "1871 ; died July 
 15, 1871. 
 
 c. Agnes Eugenie Vater was born June 29, 1872. She is an 
 active member of the young ladies' literary society of Lafayette, 
 Indiana ; is a member of the Presbyterian Church and superin- 
 tendent of the primary department of the Sabbath-school ; has 
 traveled abroad and in her own country. 
 
 (5) William Smith Vawter, son of Williamson and Mary 
 (Crowder) Vawter, was born near Vernon, Jennings county, 
 Indiana, April i, 1845. ^^ passed through the various grades 
 of the school in Vernon and graduated in a commercial college 
 in Cincinnati, Ohio. Returning to Vernon, was deputy county 
 clerk for about a year, when he became editor and proprietor of 
 the Vernon Banner, which he continued to run successfully for 
 two ^ears. In 1875 h^' with his father and brother, moved to 
 California, and they were among those who helped in the first 
 building up of the town of Santa Monica, on the shores of the 
 Pacific ocean, twenty miles from Los Angeles. Here William 
 Vawter took part in the affairs of the community. When the 
 
124 THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA 
 
 public school was started he became one of the trustees, serving 
 three years. When the village became a city he was elected a 
 trustee and served in that capacity for four years. He, together 
 w^ith his father and brother, organized the First National Bank 
 of Santa Monica and built the street-car line from Santa Monica 
 to the Soldiers' Home. William S. Vawter has always been a 
 republican in politics and an earnest worker in his party. When 
 Benjamin Harrison was the chief executive of the nation W. S. 
 Vawter was appointed to the position of postmaster of Santa 
 Monica, which position he held until the election of Mr. Cleve- 
 land, when he tendered his resignation. 
 
 William S. Vawter was married in 1868 to Sarah McClaskey, 
 daughter of Judge Isaac McClaskey of Jackson county, Indiana. 
 Sarah (McClaskey) Vawter was born August 20, 1852, at Salem, 
 Indiana. 
 
 Children : 
 
 a. A son, born January 15, 1875 ; died at birth. 
 
 b. Mary Charlotte Vawter was born July 29, 1871. She at- 
 tended school at the Western College, Oxford, Ohio, and after- 
 wards graduated in Hanna College in Los Angeles, California. 
 She was married June 2, 1891. to John Rigdon Moore, who was 
 born in Washington, D. C, October 2. 1863. John R. Moore is 
 the son of John Francis and Bettie (Rigdon) Moore, and the 
 grandson of William Moore, one of the oldest residents of Wash- 
 ington City. He was educated at the public schools in Washing- 
 ton and at Emerson Institute. Is connected with a bank in Los 
 Angeles, California. 
 
 (6) Edwin James Vawter, son of Williamson D. and Mary 
 (Crowder) Vawter, was born in Vernon, Jennings county, In- 
 diana, November 26, 1848. He was educated in the public and 
 private schools of Vernon. He early showed a decided tendency 
 for business and made his first venture as a newspaper man on 
 the Vernon Banner. He was soon taken into partnership with his 
 father, W. D. Vawter, in general merchandise, at the old "Vawter 
 Corner" in Vernon. The firm name was W. D. and E. J. Vawter. 
 On the removal of the W. D. Vawter family to California in 
 1875 the partnership between father and son continued. E. J. 
 
THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA I25 
 
 Vawter was a stockholder and pioneer in the "Indiana Colony," 
 which located where Pasadena, California, is now. The Vawter 
 families afterwards settled in Santa Monica, Los Angeles county, 
 California, and, the business expanding by the addition of lumber 
 yards, barley and planing mills, W. S. Vawter also became a 
 partner. 
 
 E. J. Vawter then organized a company to carry on real estate 
 transactions, banking, railroading, etc. He, with his father and 
 brother, organized the First National Bank of Santa Monica in 
 1888, and he was elected cashier. During this time they incorpo- 
 rated, built and operated the first street railway in Santa Monica, 
 afterwards selling their road to the Los Angeles and Pacific Elec- 
 tric Railway Company. The First National Bank of Santa Mon- 
 ica was sold in 1893 to Senator Jones of Nevada, and was soon 
 after disorganized, a state institution taking its place. 
 
 Together with his father and brother E. J. Vawter then organ- 
 ized a commercial company and also a state bank, called "The 
 Commercial Bank of Santa Monica," W. S. Vawter being elected 
 president. W. D. Vawter dying in the summer of 1894, W. S. 
 Vawter withdrew from the company, and E. J. Vawter succeeded 
 to the presidency of the bank and was the controller of the com- 
 mercial company's affairs. Having brought the interests of the 
 Vawter families to a condition where he could close out the bank- 
 ing business without too great a sacrifice, he took that step in 
 1899. He remains the president and manager of the commercial 
 company, which represents the properties left himself and four 
 sisters by the will of their father. He is now president of the 
 First National Bank of Ocean Park, California. 
 
 E. J. Vawter is also engaged in floriculture, making a specialty 
 of the cultivation of the carnation and the violet for the market. 
 His carnation field is said to be the largest flower garden in the 
 world. From twelve to twenty thousand blooms are cut from it 
 daily. The Vawter carnation fields are considered one of the 
 wonders of California, and are visited by people from all parts 
 of the world. 
 
 In politics E. J. Vawter is a republican. He cast his first presi- 
 dential vote for Grant in 1872; was a member of the town council 
 
126 THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA 
 
 of Vernon, Indiana, for two years ; was twice a delegate to state, 
 once to congressional, and many times to county conventions 
 while in Indiana. In California he was three times state delegate 
 and often was delegate to county conventions ; was for six years a 
 member of the city council of Santa Monica, and for six years a 
 member of the school board. He united with the Presbyterian 
 Church of Santa Monica, California, March 8, 1896. 
 
 Edwin J. Vawter was married at Vernon, Indiana, May 25, 
 1870, to Laura Dixon by Rev. Washington Malick. Laura 
 (Dixon) Vawter, the daughter of Samuel M. and Belinda (Fos- 
 ter) Dixon, of Vernon, was born May 20, 1851 ; died March i, 
 1886. There was one child, Edwin J. Vawter, Jr. 
 
 Edwin J. Vawter was married, second, September 18, 1888, 
 to Mrs. Isabelle L. Nelson, daughter of William and Rose 
 (Ward) Cummings, who was born November 7, 1857. There 
 are no children of the second marriage, but Mr. Vawter and wife 
 are rearing two little girls, Charlotte and Ida Belle Baird, whose 
 parents are both dead. 
 
 a. Edwin James Vawter, Jr., son of Edwin J. and Laura 
 (Dixon) Vawter, was born in Vernon. Jennings county, Indiana, 
 June 10, 1 87 1. He was taken by his father and mother to Cali- 
 fornia in 1875. After the death of his mother in 1886 he went 
 to his grandfather's to live. At sixteen years of age he entered 
 Purdue University at Lafayette, Indiana, where he remained one 
 year. In 1888 he entered the University of California at Berkeley. 
 He was taken with an attack of typhoid fever during the Christ- 
 mas holidays and was unable to return to school that year. In 
 1889 he accepted a clerkship in the First National Bank of Santa 
 Monica, California. After this bank was sold to Senator Jones 
 he remained with the new bank which was soon organized until 
 it was in complete running order ; was paying teller during the 
 panic of 1893. On the organization of the Commercial Bank of 
 Santa Monica in 1894 he accepted a place in that bank, and within 
 a year was advanced to the position of cashier. Politically he is 
 a republican. He is a member of the Knights of Pythias and 
 organized a company of the "Uniform Rank" at Santa Monica, 
 which he served as captain for two years, resigning to accept a 
 
THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA 1 27 
 
 position as adjutant of First Battalion, Third Regiment; is also 
 a Mason. He united with the Presbyterian Church in boyhood 
 and has served as a trustee for several years. In 1898 he went 
 on a voyage to Honolulu, where he remained four months. On 
 his return, he became cashier in the Main Street Savings Bank 
 of Los Angeles, California, and now is cashier in the United 
 States National Bank of Los Angeles. 
 
 Edwin J. Vawter, Jr., was married March 8, 1899, to Bessie 
 M. Channell, daughter of Sewell and Ellen Channell, who was 
 born in Arkansas City, Kansas, January 29, 1874. Her father 
 moved to Piedmont, a suburb of San Francisco, and later to Los 
 Angeles, California. She received her education in Kansas and 
 in Canada, completing her course at Snell Seminary, Oakland, 
 California, in 1892. 
 
 Children : 
 
 a. A son, born and died July 4, 1901. 
 
 b. Marjorie Dixon Vawter, daughter of Edwin J. and Bessie 
 (Channell) Vawter, was born in Los Angeles, California, March 
 12, 1903. 
 
 (7) Emma Knowlton Vawter, daughter of Williamson D. 
 and Charlotte (Knowlton) Vawter, was born in Vernon, Indiana, 
 August 21, 1853. She received her education in the public schools 
 of Vernon, Indiana, and in the Western Seminary and College 
 at Oxford, Ohio, where she graduated in 1873. She came to Cali- 
 fornia in 1875 with her father's family. She is an excellent mu- 
 sician, has taught the piano to some extent, and has been organist 
 in the church during her life in Santa Monica. She lives with 
 her sister Jennie in the old home place in Santa Monica. 
 
 (8) Charles Knowlton Vawter, son of Williamson D. and 
 Charlotte (Knowlton) Vawter, was born in Vernon, Indiana, 
 September 7, 1855. He was delicate from birth, having a spinal 
 difficulty. He was fond of music and books, especially of poetry. 
 When still a lad he would listen for hours to the reading of 
 Shakespeare and Dante. He came with his father's family to 
 California in 1875. His spinal trouble increased, causing loss of 
 sight, which became complete two years before his death. He 
 
128 THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA 
 
 died September 29, 1879, and was buried in the Santa Monica 
 cemetery. 
 
 Jesse R. Vawter 
 
 Jesse R. Vawter, son of William and Frances Vawter, was 
 born July 11, 181 7, in Jefferson county, near Madison, Indiana. 
 He gives the following account of his life in a record book in 
 which he kept very carefully the dates of births, marriages and 
 deaths in the families of his children : 
 
 "I was married May 4, 1837. to Sarah Parks, who was born 
 August 31, 1822. We first went to housekeeping on my father- 
 in-law's place on Gray's Branch, Jennings county, Indiana, where 
 we lived about three years. Then I built a double cabin on my 
 own land on Fish creek, where I lived nearly two years, and then 
 moved on father's place. After I sold my land on Fish creek fa- 
 ther gave me five acres of land and I bought forty acres of him 
 at another place, where I lived for five years. I then traded with 
 father and got a small farm on the creek one mile below his home. 
 I stayed there sixteen years, when I lost my health, traded my farm 
 for town property, and moved to North Vernon in the spring of 
 1867. I lived there one year and then gave my town property to 
 my son, William A. Vawter, for the support of myself and wife. 
 This property he put into a farm in Campbell township, Jennings 
 county, Indiana. In the spring of 1868 I moved with him on the 
 farm and lived in the same house with him until I built a small 
 hewed log house on the same farm, where I now live, this 23d 
 day of November, 1875." 
 
 William A. Vawter (the son) afterwards moved to Kansas, 
 and as Jesse Vawter and wife did not wish to go so far away, they 
 went to live with their daughter, Mrs. Mattie West, who cared 
 for her father for ten years before his death, and with whom the 
 mother is now living. Jesse Vawter was a member of the Baptist 
 Church for sixty-six years. He died at Vernon, Indiana, May 13, 
 1900. 
 
 The children of Jesse R. and Sarah (Parks) Vawter were: 
 
THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA 1 29 
 
 Margaret B., Elizabeth S.. William A., Smith W., John S., Sarah 
 Frances, James George, Elvira Ann, Jesse Philemon, Aramantha 
 Maria and Ida Olive. 
 
 ( 1 ) Margaret B. Vawter, daughter of Jesse and Sarah 
 (Parks) Vawter, was born October 21, 1838; married August 16, 
 1866, to Lewis Wagner, a farmer of Vernon, Indiana, who was 
 born June 18, 1832, and who died January 29, 1904. 
 
 Children : 
 
 a. Jesse R. Wagner, born June 21, 1867; died June 21, 1867. 
 
 b. Ethel Wagner, born January i, 1871 ; married June 18, 
 1890, to Martin A. Shepherd. They have one child, Ralph, who 
 was born September 16. 1895. 
 
 Martin A. Shepherd was born January 12, 1863. He is a book- 
 keeper for the Union Selling Company, in the Majestic Building, 
 Indianapolis, Indiana. 
 
 (2) Elizabeth S. Vawter, daughter of Jesse and Sarah 
 (Parks) Vawter, was born November 30, 1840; married March 
 6, 1856, to Thomas Clarkson, who was born September 29, 1832. 
 
 Children : 
 
 a. Albert V. Clarkson, born April 25, i860; died May 31, 
 i860. 
 
 b. Clara Belle Clarkson, born July 30, 1861 ; married April 
 8. 1884, to William Pool. 
 
 c. Emma Alice Clarkson, born November 17, 1862; married 
 June 17, 1 88 1, to Willard Whitcomb. Elwood, Indiana. 
 
 (/. Elvin Grant Clarkson, born July 16, 1864; died May 26, 
 1865. 
 
 e. Thomas Osborn Clarkson, born December 2, 1866. Lives 
 in Butlerville, Indiana. 
 
 /. Jesse F. Clarkson. born August 15, 1870. Lives in Vernon, 
 Indiana. 
 
 g. Edith Idella Clarkson, born February 4, 1874; married 
 . Lives in Elwood, Indiana. 
 
 Bertha May Clarkson. born December 31, 1878; married . 
 
 Elwood, Indiana. 
 
 (3) William xAllan Vawter, son of Jesse and Sarah (Parks) 
 Vawter, was born July 13, 1842; married at Brewersville, In- 
 
130 THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA 
 
 diana, March 28, 1861, to Angelina E. Cheever, who was born 
 in Brewersville, Indiana, July 24, 1842. 
 
 William A. Vawter enlisted during the Civil War in Company 
 E, Eighty-Second Regiment Indiana Volunteer Infantry, August 
 13, 1862, and served until the close of the war. Was never 
 wounded or sick, although he took part in many battles, among 
 them were those at Perryville, Kentucky ; Stone River, Tennessee ; 
 Tullahoma, Tennessee; Chickamauga, Lookout Mountain, Mis- 
 sionary Ridge, Buzzard's Roost. Kennesaw Mountain, Resaca, 
 Peach Tree Creek, Atlanta, and many other minor engagements. 
 William Vawter is a farmer living in Edna, Kansas. 
 
 Children : 
 
 a. Amelia Frances Vawter was born near North Vernon, Jen- 
 nings county, Indiana, March 19, 1862 ; married to H. L. Holton, 
 who was born in Bethel, Ripley county, Indiana, April 22, 1858. 
 He is a farmer, and, with his family, lives in Canada townships 
 Labette county, Kansas. 
 
 Children : 
 
 (a) Annie J. Holton, born March 15, 1882. 
 
 (b) Lelia May Holton, born August 23, 1883. 
 
 (c) Clyde E. Holton, born July 26, 1886; died August 21, 
 1902, 
 
 (d) Adda Holton, born March 29, 1888. 
 
 (e) Meta A. Holton, born March 11, 1890; died May 20, 
 1890. 
 
 (f) Elizabeth Holton, born June 2, 1892. 
 
 b. Clara Adaline Vawter Avas born near North Vernon, Jen- 
 nings county, Indiana, August 19, 1865; married to Bowen C. 
 Heath, who was born at Butlerville, Jennings county, Indiana, 
 September 22, 1864. He is a farmer. They live near Edna, La- 
 bette county, Kansas. 
 
 Children : 
 
 (a) William A. Heath, born July 28, 1889. 
 
 (b) Sarah A. Heath, born August 10, 1891. 
 
 (c) Ray Heath, born May 12. 1894. 
 
 (d) James H. Heath, born February 27, 1896; died April 12, 
 1896. 
 
THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA I3I 
 
 (e) Ruth Heath, born March 30, 1897. 
 
 (f) Fern Heath, born October 9, 1899. 
 
 (g) Bowen C. Heath, born November 26, 1901. 
 
 (4) Smith W. Vawter, son of Jesse and Sarah (Parks) Vaw- 
 ter, was born in Jennings county, Indiana, March 27, 1844; mar- 
 ried near Greensburg, Indiana, March 26, 1871, to Lucinda John- 
 son, who was born in Montgomery county, Indiana, February 18, 
 
 1845- 
 
 Smith W. Vawter is engaged in agriculture and horticuhure. 
 
 He is a Baptist and a repubHcan of long standing. He offered his 
 services three times during the Civil War, but was refused be- 
 cause he did not meet the physical requirements. He lives in 
 Springdale, Arkansas. 
 Children : 
 
 a. Sarah Rebecca Vawter, born January 21, 1872. 
 
 b. Cora Luvinia Vawter, born June 20, 1874; married March 
 20, 1895, to William Henry Brown, who was born September 
 14, 1847, in Union county, Indiana. They have one child, Wilbur 
 Fee Brown. Live at Lowell, Benton county, Arkansas. 
 
 c. James Oscar, born June i, 1881 ; died August 16, 1881. 
 d. Wilbert Carl, born November 11, 1883; died De- 
 cember 5, 1883. 
 
 Twins -i e. Albert Jesse, born November 11, 1883. Is a part- 
 ner in the firm of Hammond & Vawter, Tailor- 
 ing, Cherryvale, Kansas. 
 
 /. Otis Estis, born November 16, 1889. 
 
 (5) John S. Vawter, son of Jesse and Sarah (Parks) Vawter, 
 was born in Jennings county, Indiana, April 2, 1847; married 
 at North Vernon, Indiana, May 3, 1868, to Elizabeth Grinstead, 
 the daughter of Edward and Elizabeth Grinstead, who was born 
 in Jefferson county, Indiana, October 7, 1843. 
 
 John S. Vawter is a farmer. Lives at Keota, Missouri. 
 
 Children of John S. and Elizabeth (Grinstead) Vawter: 
 
 a. Margaret J. Vawter, born at North Vernon, Indiana, April 
 
 7, 1869; married February 24, 1889, to William F. Philliber. 
 
 They live in Neosho, Newton county, Missouri. 
 
132 THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA 
 
 Children of William and Margaret ( Vawter) Philliber : 
 
 (a) Otto Philliber, born November 20, 1889; died December 
 2, 1889. 
 
 (b) Orvill L. Philliber, born May 3, 1891. 
 
 (c) Oral Floyd Philliber, born January 27, 1894. 
 
 (d) Ira Grace Philliber, born April 4, 1895; died August 19, 
 1899. 
 
 (e) Clara B. Philliber, born July 3, 1897; died July 17, 1898. 
 
 (f) Perry H. Philliber, born November 3, 1898 ; died Novem- 
 ber 5, 1899. 
 
 (g) Raymond L. Philliber, born June 10, 1901. 
 (h) Mary E. Philliber, born October 12, 1902. 
 
 b. Everett E. Vawter v^as born in Queensville, Indiana, May 
 17, 1872; married to Mahala A. Sanders, October 31, 1895. 
 They live in Keota, Macon county, Missouri. 
 
 Children of Everett E. and Mahala (Sanders) Vawter: 
 
 (a) Ira E. Vawter, who was born March 17, 1897, and died 
 August 13, 1897. 
 
 (b) John I. Vawter, born January 10, 1898. 
 
 (c) Alma B. Vawter, born February 7, 1900. 
 
 (d) Homer W. Vawter, born August 22, 1902; died March 
 16, 1903. 
 
 c. Clyde Elmer Vawter, born at Floris, Davis county, Iowa, 
 March 18, 1874; died February 27, 1875. 
 
 d. Maud Ellen Vawter was born at Floris, Davis county, 
 Iowa, November 20, 1875; married September 15, 1895, to Wil- 
 liam F. Moodey. They live at Clarence, Shelby county, Missouri. 
 
 Children of William F. and Maud (Vawter) Moodey: 
 
 (a) Ira M. Moodey, born May 27, 1896; died July 27, 1896. 
 
 (b) Velma E. Moodey was born October 11, 1897. 
 
 (c) Mabel Moodey was born May 10, 1902; died March 17, 
 1903. 
 
 (d) Silvia V. Moodey, born June 22, 1904. 
 
 e. Pearl E. Vawter was born October 13, 1877, in Floris, 
 Iowa; died July 31, 1879. 
 
 /. Nona Elma Vawter was born January 22, 1880. 
 
 g. Benjamin Irvin Vawter was born at Holmes' Station, 
 
THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA 
 
 133 
 
 Boone county, Indiana. October 17, 1882; married November 18, 
 1902, to Hattie J. Woodruff. One child, Emery B. Vawter, was 
 born December 22, 1903. They live in Keota, Missouri. 
 
 h. John Blaine Vawter, born October, 1884. Lives in Keota, 
 
 Missouri. 
 
 i. Alva Elroy, born May 31, 1889. Lives in Keota, Missouri. 
 
 (6) Sarah Frances Vawter, daughter of Jesse and Sarah 
 (Parks) Vawter, was born May 25, 1849, near North Vernon, 
 Indiana; married February 7, 1867, to Thomas F. Grinstead, who 
 was born in Jefferson county, Indiana, November 25, 1839, and 
 died February 15, 1900, in Bloomfield, Iowa. Was a mail carrier. 
 
 Children : 
 
 a. Olive May Grinstead, born January 21, 1868; married 
 August 21, 1885, to J. W. Snell; died March 15, 1888. 
 
 h. Fanny Bell Grinstead, born May 16, 1869; died February 
 9, 1870. 
 
 c. Lew Emmerson Grinstead, born March 9, 1871 ; married 
 September 30, 1901. to Dana Norris. Is a painter and paper 
 hanger. Lives in Huron, South Dakota. One child, Esther, was 
 born July 11, 1902. 
 
 d. Ella Grace Grinstead, born September 13, 1872; married 
 August 25, 1889, to A. J. Taylor. They live in Ottumwa, Iowa. 
 Their children are Frank, Myrtle, Olive, Charles. Mabel, Deny 
 and Harold. 
 
 e. Claud Ellsworth Grinstead, born September 18, 1874; died 
 September 26, 1875. 
 
 /. Bertha Edith Grinstead, born January 28, 1877. 
 
 g. Ada Jane Grinstead, born September 24, 1878; married 
 December 28, 1898, to T. F. VanHorn. They live in Bloomfield, 
 Iowa. 
 
 h. Ora Idella Grinstead, born April 14, 1880 ; married July 23, 
 1904, to C. H. Hockmuth, who is engaged in the printing busi- 
 ness. They live at 417 East Sixth street, Des Moines, Iowa. 
 
 i. Jesse Edward Grinstead, born November 18, 188 1. Is a 
 farmer, living in Mechanicsville, Iowa. 
 
 y. Myrtle Blanche Grinstead, born February 18, 1883; died 
 October i, 1884. 
 
134 THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA 
 
 k. Carl James Grinstead, born November 27, 1885; died 
 March 5, 1888. 
 
 /. Vila Gail Grinstead, born January 29, 1888. 
 
 m. Emma Ethel Grinstead, born April 25, 1890. 
 
 Mrs, Sarah (Vawter) Grinstead lives at 845 West Seventh 
 street, Des Moines, Iowa. 
 
 (7) James G. Vawter, son of Jesse and Sarah (Parks) Vaw- 
 ter, was born September 4, 1851, in Jennings county, Indiana; 
 married May 19, 1870, to Margaret Ross, who was born July 
 16, 1 85 1. They live in Queens ville, Indiana. 
 
 Children : 
 
 a. Edward J. Vawter, born June 12, 1871 ; died February 6, 
 
 1875- 
 
 b. Alvaretta Bernice Vawter, born September 9, 1873 ! rn^r- 
 
 ried February 7, 1895, to John A. Shinold. Their children are 
 Arthur E., born March 21, 1896, and Matilda A., born April 12, 
 1898. 
 
 c. Indiana Rose Vawter. born April 13, 1877; married Feb- 
 ruary 14, 1897, to Moses M. Miller. Their children are Vance, 
 born November 8, 1898, and Irvin C, born February 15, 1900. 
 
 d. Mary Jane Vawter, born July 23, 1879; married August 
 20, 1899, to Irvin R. Crum. Their children are Flora M., born 
 June 23, 1900, and Jamie A., born May 29, 1902. 
 
 e. Omer Walton, born June 28, 1881. 
 /. Lucy A., born September i, 1883. 
 g. Lewis Clyde, born May 6, 1886. 
 
 h. Grace G., born July 12, 1888. 
 
 i. Sarah Frances, born May 28, 1890; died September 14, 
 1891. 
 
 ;'. Ruth, born April 6, 1893. 
 
 (8) Elvira Ann Vawter, daughter of Jesse and Sarah 
 (Parks) Vawter, was born in Jennings county, Indiana, Decem- 
 ber 19, 1853; married February i, 1883, to Charles H. Carey, 
 who was born July 29, 1850. 
 
 Children : Lila, who died in childhood, Augusta and Vivian. 
 Live at (Riverside) 3351 Mississippi avenue, Cincinnati, Ohio. 
 
 (9) Jesse Philemon Vawter, son of Jesse and Sarah (Parks) 
 
THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA 
 
 135 
 
 Vawter, was born in Jennings county, Indiana, August i, 1855; 
 married at Vernon, Indiana, October 31, 1874, to Minerva A. 
 Ross, who was born in Jennings county, Indiana, July 14, 1846. 
 
 J. Philemon Vawter is a farmer living near Milam, Indiana. 
 
 Children : 
 
 a. Bertha A. Vawter was born in Jennings county, Indiana, 
 August 30, 1875 ; married in Vernon, Indiana, August 6, 1898, 
 to Joseph W. Gray, who was born in Bartholomew county, In- 
 diana, October 27, 1874. They have one son, Ezra William, who 
 was born in Bartholomew county, Indiana, July 12, 1899. They 
 now live in Indianapolis, Indiana. 
 
 b. Ernest T. Vawter was born in Jennings county, Indiana, 
 July 2y, 1877; died September 14, 1879, 
 
 c. Clarence M. Vawter was born in Davis county, Iowa, 
 March 2, 1879. He is preparing to be a minister of the Methodist 
 Episcopal Church. Is a student at Moore's Hill College, Moore's 
 Hill, Indiana. 
 
 d. Benjamin F. Vawter was born in Jennings county, Indiana, 
 July 26, 1880. Lives at Milam, Indiana. 
 
 e. Jesse Pearl Vawter was born in Jennings county, Indiana, 
 May 4, 1882; married at Versailles, Indiana, June 20, 1901, to 
 Corydon Laswell, who was born in Ripley county, Indiana, 
 March 28, 1868, and is a farmer living near Versailles, Indiana. 
 
 Children : Minerva May, born in Ripley county, Indiana, April 
 3, 1902, and Millie Myree, born June 23, 1904. 
 
 /. Velma I. Vawter was born in Jennings county, Indiana. 
 June 28, 1884. 
 
 g. Flossie Myrtle Vawter was born in Jennings county, In- 
 diana, January 24, 1888. 
 
 (10) Aramantha M. Vawter, daughter of Jesse and Sarah 
 (Parks) Vawter, was born in Jennings county, Indiana, June 9, 
 1858; married February i, 1876, to James West, who was born 
 March 23. 1853; died February 7, 1891. 
 
 Children : 
 
 a. Nellie May West, born December 6, 1876 ; married January 
 8, 1898, to Otho G. Wright, who was born November 16, 1867. 
 They have two children: Opal, born in 1898, and Robert W., 
 
136 THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA 
 
 born in 1902. They live in Lafayette, Indiana, where O. G. 
 Wright is superintendent of bridge erection of the Lafayette En- 
 gineering Company. 
 
 b. Sarah Ethel West, born January 18, 1882. 
 
 c. Charles William, born July 23, 1887. 
 
 Mrs. Mattie West lives in Vernon, Indiana. She has supported 
 her children since the death of her husband in 1891, and took 
 care of her father for ten years before his death. Her mother 
 still lives with her. 
 
 James Vawter 
 
 James Vawter, son of William and Frances Vawter, was born 
 October 5, 1819, in Jefferson county, Indiana, near Madison. His 
 father moved to Jennings county when James was ten years of 
 age, and his youth and early manhood were spent in the old home 
 on the Muscatatack. He was never very strong, therefore he 
 was not expected to do much manual labor. He attended the 
 best schools there were at that time until he met with an acci- 
 dent which deprived him of school privileges. After he had re- 
 gained his health he went to Morgantown, Indiana, and clerked 
 in a store for his uncle, John Vawter, for two or three years. 
 From there he went to Lafayette and was a clerk in a dry goods 
 store for several years. Afterwards he went into business for 
 himself in Oxford, Indiana, accumulating a small fortune in 
 merchandise and land speculation. He was married at Oxford 
 to Minerva L. Bromley, who was born September 26, 1837. Was 
 a member of the Baptist Church from early manhood. Was 
 troubled with heart disease, and spent the winter of 1870 in 
 Holly Springs, Mississippi, on account of his health. He died 
 February 14, 1872, of pneumonia. His wife died October 24, 
 1872. 
 
 (i) Sherman Vawter, the only child of James and Minerva 
 Bromley Vawter, was born January 9, 1865, in Oxford, Benton 
 county, Indiana. After the death of his father and mother his 
 mother's brother, John E. Morgan, was appointed his guardian. 
 
THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA 137 
 
 The child lived in Oxford for about a year after his father's 
 death, and then went to live with his aunt, Sarah Pearce, in War- 
 ren county, Indiana. In the winter months he attended the 
 country school, and in the spring and fall the town schools. He 
 worked after he was grown for about eight years on the farm 
 and then engaged in the mercantile business in Pine Village. He 
 was married July 3, 1888, to Emma J. May, who was born De- 
 cember I, 1 871. They lived in Pine Village for awhile after his 
 marriage and then moved on a farm. In 1893 he, with his 
 family, went to California, locating in Bakersfield. His wife 
 died of typhoid fever December 13, 1901, and was buried in 
 Woodlawn Cemetery at Santa Monica, California. Sherman 
 Vawter now lives in Santa Monica. 
 
 Children of Sherman and Emma (May) Vawter: 
 
 a. Edward W. Vawter, born October 12, 1890; died Decem- 
 ber 26, 1890. 
 
 b. Minerva E. Vawter, born June 17, 1892; died October 
 8, 1892. 
 
 c. Everett F. Vawter, born September 8, 1893. Lives with 
 his father in Santa Monica, California. 
 
 d. Nellie Vawter, born July i, 1896. Lives with her cousin, 
 Mrs. Leavitt, of Santa Monica. 
 
 e. Henry J. Vawter, born October 19, 1898. Lives with W. 
 S. Vawter and wife, of Santa Monica, California. 
 
 Frances (Vawter) King 
 
 Frances Vawter, daughter of William and Frances Vawter, 
 was born June 7, 1821 ; married May 14, 1840, to George King,' 
 who was born May 10, 1814, and died September 3, 1858. 
 
 Something of the life of Frances (Vawter) King is best given 
 in a copy of a letter written by her to her niece: 
 
 "My life has been a very uneventful one. I was born in Jef- 
 ferson county, Indiana, near Madison. Father moved his family 
 to Jennings county in October. 1827, and settled on the bank's 
 
138 THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA 
 
 of the Muscatatack, three miles north of the town of Vernon. My 
 childhood and young womanhood were spent on the farm. I 
 was married to George King in 1840, and in 1841 we settled on 
 the hill in sight of my old home. Here the sweetest and saddest 
 scenes of my life have been passed. Here my children were 
 born, and from here two of them have gone to a better land. 
 The other three are living earnest, faithful Christian lives. My 
 husband was born in Ohio. He came to Jennings county when 
 quite young to build a mill. He was a carpenter as well as a 
 farmer. He passed into the better land in 1858, and I have had 
 a long and lonely road to travel ever since, and yet I am not 
 alone. My children are kind, and I have a host of friends, but I 
 miss the companionship of a dear husband, and long to meet the 
 dear ones on the other shore. 
 
 "I joined the Baptist Church in my eighteenth year. After 
 studying the Bible and the principles of the Christian Church I 
 became convinced that that teaching was according to what 
 Christ and the Apostles taught, and changed my membership to 
 that church, and I hope through Christ to pass from that into the 
 everlasting Kingdom." 
 
 For six years before the death of Anna Vawter, Frances Vaw- 
 ter, her granddaughter, cared for her, and after the marriage of 
 Frances she took care of her father and mother for about six 
 years before their death. When her sister Maria died she cared 
 for one of her children some time, and when the wife of her 
 brother Achilles died she took his baby and kept her for a year. 
 She is now living with her daughter, Mrs. Holsclaw, in the house 
 where she went to housekeeping when she was first married. 
 
 Children of George and Frances (Vawter) King were Almira, 
 Ezra, William V., George Elvin and Alzora. 
 
 (i) Almira King, daughter of George and Frances (Vaw- 
 ter) King, was born April 10, 1842 ; married to William T. Hols- 
 claw January 2, 1862. William T. Holsclaw was born in Ken- 
 tucky December 3, 1835. ^^ ^ farmer, living near North Vernon, 
 Indiana. 
 
 Children of William T. and Almira (King) Holsclaw: 
 
 a. Ezra Benjamin Holsclaw, born November 6, 1863; mar- 
 
THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA I39 
 
 ried December 31, 1885, to Mattie Deer, who died August 2"], 
 
 1895. 
 
 Children of Ezra and Mattie (Deer) Holsclaw : Jessie, born 
 October 12, 1886; Ahna, born July 21, 1888; Smith V., born 
 October i, 1892, and Blanche Vernon, born March 22, 1894. 
 
 Ezra Holsclaw is a farmer living near North Vernon, Indiana. 
 
 h. Eva Jennie Holsclaw, born March 11, 1866; married No- 
 vember 26, 1891, to Edwin Carson, who was born July 30, 1864. 
 
 Children: Hazel Lavone, born September 21, 1892; Ethel 
 Grace, born September 20, 1894; Lizzie, born December 27, 
 1898; died February 8, 1899, ^"^ Edwinnie, born June 13, 1903. 
 
 Edwin Carson and family live on the Greensburg road west 
 of North Vernon, Indiana. 
 
 c. Fannie A. Holsclaw, born February 22, 1869; married 
 May, 1 89 1, to Smith V. Vv'^illiams, who was born December 10, 
 1863. 
 
 Children: Almira Corinne, born June 21, 1892; Lois Mildred, 
 born June 4, 1894; Virgil Elvin, born September 3, 1897, and 
 Helene, born March 22, 1900. 
 
 Smith V. Williams is a florist of Bedford, Indiana. 
 
 d. William E. Holsclaw, born March 29, 1871 ; married to 
 Zella Wagner in 1894. 
 
 Children : Ruth, born August 5, 1895 ; Hubert, born December 
 3, 1897, and Gladys, born November 15, 1900. 
 
 William E. Holsclaw is in the grocery business in Franklin, 
 Indiana. 
 
 c. Sarah Grace Holsclaw, born January 31, 1875; married 
 December 20, 1899, to Oscar Beeman, who was born in Jennings 
 county March 17, 1869. 
 
 Children: Wilbur Elvin, born December 4, 1901, and Clyde, 
 born July 5, 1904. 
 
 Oscar Beeman is a farmer living near North Vernon, Indiana. 
 
 /. Mary Belle Holsclaw, born November 13, 1876; died 
 May, 1877. 
 
 g. Jacob Harrison Holsclaw, born August 5, 1878; married 
 
 June 22, 1904, to . Lives on the home farm near North 
 
 Vernon, Indiana. 
 
I40 THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA 
 
 h. Bertha Alice Holsclaw, born December 13, 1882. Lives 
 with her parents on the old home place. 
 
 (2) Ezra D. King, son of George and Frances (Vawter) 
 King, born September 29, 1845; died May 16, 1854. 
 
 (3) William Vawter King, son of George and Frances 
 (Vawter) King, was born September 28, 1848; married June 
 19, 1879, to Caroline Vandever, who was born July 5, 1850. 
 
 William V. King was born near North Vernon, Indiana. He 
 taught school in Jennings county for four or five years. Was 
 married at Franklin, Indiana, where he is now engaged in the 
 grain and coal business. 
 
 (4) George Elvin King, son of George and Frances (Vaw- 
 ter) King, was born May 29, 1855, near North Vernon, Indiana; 
 married September 7, 1881, to Minnie Tate. Elvin King attend- 
 ed school in the country and graduated from the North Vernon 
 High School in 1879. He clerked in Vernon for a while and 
 then went to Seymour, Indiana, where he was in the wall-paper 
 business. He went from Seymour to Lincoln, Nebraska, in 1890, 
 and engaged in the same business, traveling most of the time. 
 Lives at 1500 Q street, Lincoln, Nebraska. 
 
 Minnie (Tate) King, the daughter of James and Minerva 
 (Jayne) Tate, of North Vernon. Indiana, was born October 28, 
 1856. After moving to Lincoln, Nebraska, she became a member 
 of the Woman's Club and of the Art Association of Lincoln. 
 She was a woman of wide reading and fine culture. Was a mem- 
 ber of the Christian Church. She died September 25, 1904. 
 
 Children of George Elvin and Minnie (Tate) King: 
 
 a. Lula Ellis King was born June 25, 1882. She is a grad- 
 uate of the Lincoln High School in the class of 1899, and gradu- 
 ated from the University of Nebraska June, 1904, and was 
 elected to the Phi Beta Kappa. 
 
 h. Edna Hazel King was born February 18, 1884. She 
 graduated from the Lincoln High School in the class of 1901. 
 Is attending the University of Nebraska and is a kindergarten 
 teacher in the Lincoln public schools. 
 
 (5) Alzora King, son of George and Frances (Vawter) 
 King, was born December 22, 1858; died January 7, 1859. 
 
THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA I4I 
 
 8 
 
 Achilles J. Vawter 
 
 Achilles J. Vawter, son of William and Frances Vawter, was 
 born near Madison Indiana, September 12, 1823. When he 
 was about six years of age his father moved to Jennings county, 
 Indiana, and settled on the north fork of the Muscatatack, three 
 and a half miles from Vernon, Indiana. After coming there the 
 children were deprived to a great extent of the benefit of schools, 
 and the parents of Achilles taught him to read at home. When 
 the schools were established they were limited to three or four 
 months in the winter. Achilles Vawter had in some way become 
 possessed of a desire for a better education, and in September of 
 the year 1844 he left home with ten dollars in his pocket to at- 
 tend school at Franklin College, which was then called "The 
 Indiana Baptist Manual Labor Institute." The cars were running 
 only as far as Columbus, and from there he went on foot to 
 Franklin. He boarded with Elder J. Reece (who was at that 
 time a student in the college) for seventy-five cents a week and 
 spent all the time he could spare from his studies in chopping 
 wood at twenty-five cents a cord for Professor Brand. By this 
 means he was enabled to continue in school for one session. He 
 then returned home and spent his vacation in labor, earning 
 enough, together with $17.00 given him by his father, to carry 
 him through another session, which made one year of study. He 
 then had to leave school for a while in order to raise enough 
 means to continue. He spent two and a half months as a clerk in 
 the store of his uncle in Morgantown, Indiana, after which he 
 taught one quarter's school in the same place. He then returned 
 to Franklin and spent one session, then taught another quarter's 
 school and then went back to Franklin, and so on. 
 
 President Chandler and wife became warm friends of Achilles 
 Vawter, and through the recommendation of the president he 
 was appointed in the summer of 1849 principal of the preparatory 
 department of the college. He held this position for one year, 
 then entered school again. In 1850 he went to Shelby ville to 
 
142 THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA 
 
 take charge of the schools there. He was married July 25, 1850, 
 to Maria Dunham, who was born April 20, 1827. They had 
 one child, Ida, who was born February 4, 1856; died October 9, 
 1856. Maria Dunham Vawter died February 6, 1856. 
 
 In 1855 Achilles Vawter was traveling for a School Book 
 Company, and in that business he touched Lafayette and came 
 in contact with the trustees of the public schools. He found 
 them in need of a superintendent, and he was engaged. Both he 
 and his brother Philemon went to Lafayette in 1855, and both 
 remained in connection with the schools until 1858. It was in 
 Lafayette that Achilles Vawter was married, November 16, 1856, 
 to Elizabeth (Richardson) Baker, who had been before mar- 
 ried to William Baker, and who had two sons, Edgar and Albert 
 Baker, at the time of her second marriage. 
 
 In 1858 Achilles Vawter engaged to take charge of an academy 
 to be opened three miles south of Ladoga, Montgomery county, 
 Indiana. Just before the beginning of the school the building 
 burned. The next year he was back in Lafayette in charge of a 
 girls' school, which did not run more than two years. He was 
 then chosen superintendent of the public schools again, which 
 position he held until he was elected county surveyor in 1862. 
 He was re-elected in 1864. Elizabeth, his wife, died October 14, 
 1864, and in the spring of 1865 he resigned the office of county 
 surveyor. 
 
 In 1866 Achilles Vawter went to Indianapolis and was there 
 married, on May i, to Charlotte S. Hobart. He opened a law 
 office in partnership with a nephew of his who was a lawyer. 
 This business failed, and in 1867 Achilles Vawter and his wife 
 moved to Ladoga, Indiana, and took charge of the Baptist Sem- 
 inary. He was at the head of that school for five years. In 1873 
 he returned to Indianapolis, where he engaged for a time in 
 teaching; was on the editorial staff of the Indiana Farmer for 
 a while, and was assistant secretary of the board of agriculture 
 for several years. In 1877, his health failing, he went to Ken- 
 tucky. He and his wife had charge of an academy at Pleasant 
 Grove, near Springfield, Kentucky, for three years. Then he 
 taught one year in the village of Texas and two years in Spring- 
 
THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA I43 
 
 field, where he was in charge of the Covington Institute. At this 
 place he was stricken while in the school room with paralysis. 
 After this he was never able for further duty. When he had re- 
 covered sufficiently he returned to Indianapolis, where he spent 
 the most of his time until his death, which occurred January 13, 
 1886. 
 
 Achilles Vawter united with the Baptist Church in 1842, and 
 at one time expected to be a minister, as his father and grand- 
 father had been before him, but he gave this up and devoted his 
 life principally to teaching. 
 
 Elijah Sherrill, a well-known man in Indiana, was a pupil of 
 Achilles Vawter, and in writing of him said : "The years dur- 
 ing which Professor Vawter was at the head of the Baptist Sem- 
 inary in Ladoga, Indiana, where I was a pupil, were fraught with 
 unceasing care and toil, with meagre compensation, but the re- 
 sult of the work done can never be estimated. Much of what the 
 writer is to-day he owes to this man. Very many others can say 
 the same. The old days at Ladoga can never be forgotten by 
 many dear boys and girls (men and women now) who received 
 their first training and inspiration from him. To us all he was 
 far more than a teacher. He was father, friend and benefactor. 
 He was an educator of ability. He was instrumental in organ- 
 izing the Indiana State Teachers' Association, and his influence 
 was felt in more ways than one in educational work." 
 
 Achilles Vawter was a student all his life. He treasured his 
 books as he did his friends, and they were to him constant com- 
 panions. He was possessed of knowledge on a great variety of 
 subjects, and because of his wide reading he seemed as familiar 
 with other countries and their histories as though he had traveled 
 extensively. He was a quiet, unassuming man, a man who, with 
 his love of study and research, could have accomplished far more 
 in the world if he had not been ground down by force of cir- 
 cumstances. 
 
 Elizabeth Baker Vawter Vv'as born August 11, 1829, in New 
 Carlisle, Clark county, Ohio. Her maiden name was Elizabeth 
 A. Richardson (or Richeson, as it was called by some of the 
 family). She was the daughter of Andrew and Lavina (Corey) 
 
144 THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA 
 
 Richardson and had two sisters and one brother. The sisters 
 were JuHa Richardson Larkin, who Hved in ArHngton, Ilhnois, 
 and Elenor Richardson Armstrong, who hved in Lafayette, In- 
 diana. Her brother Daniel hved in Rhodes, Iowa. Her father 
 and mother died in Ohio of cholera. Ehzabeth Richardson was 
 living with her sister, Mrs. Armstrong, in Lafayette, Indiana, 
 when she was married to William Baker, a painter and chair- 
 maker. Mr. Baker died, and Elizabeth Baker was married, sec- 
 ond, to Achilles J. Vawter. She died in Lafayette, Indiana, 
 October 14, 1864. 
 
 Charlotte (Hobart) Vawter, the third wife of Achilles Vawter, 
 was born in Indianapolis, Indiana, October 26, 1825. She was 
 the daughter of John Hobart and Naomi (Thompson) Hobart. 
 Charlotte Hobart was related to Abraham Lincoln. During the 
 Civil War a discussion was started and direct charges made that 
 Thomas Lincoln, the father of Abraham Lincoln, and Nancy 
 Hanks w^ere never legally married, and this report was success- 
 fully proved false by Charlotte Vawter, and her labors in this 
 matter have been fully appreciated by such modern students of 
 Lincoln's life as Ida M. Tarbell and Carolyn Hanks Hitchcock. 
 
 Charlotte Vawter was a teacher for many years before her 
 marriage with Achilles Vawter, and after her marriage she 
 assisted her husband in the work of the schools wherever he was 
 engaged. She now lives on the old place where she was born 
 seventy-nine years ago, near Indianapolis, Indiana. 
 
 The children of Achilles and Elizabeth (Richardson) Vawter 
 were William Arthur, Frank May and Grace. 
 
 ( I ) William A. Vawter, son of Achilles and Elizabeth 
 (Richardson) Vawter, was born in Lafayette, Indiana, May 22, 
 1858. He left school at fourteen years of age and became an 
 apprentice in the composing-room of the printing house of 
 Wright, Baker & Co.. of Indianapolis, the Baker of the company 
 being a half-brother of William Vawter. In 1880 and 1881 he 
 was the foreman of the composing-room. He was married Sep- 
 tember 24, 1 88 1, to Alice R. Hadley. Late in 1881 he vrent into 
 the general merchandising business, first at Plainfield, Indiana, 
 and afterwards at Danville, Indiana. At the end of five years he 
 
THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA I45 
 
 sold out his business, and, joining with his half-brothers, Edgar 
 and Albert Baker, and his brother, Frank Vawter, embarked in 
 the general printing business in Chicago, Illinois, under the firm 
 name of Baker & Vawter Co. In 1888 the company was reor- 
 ganized and incorporated under the name of Baker- Vawter Co., 
 and the character of the business changed from general printing 
 to the devising, manufacturing and introducing of improved 
 business systems. William Vawter withdrew from the Baker- 
 Vawter Company in about 1890 and organized a company called 
 the Hadley- Vawter Company. The old Baker- Vawter Company 
 then took the name of the Baker Ofifice Supply Company. The 
 Hadley- Vawter Company proved a success, but after the death 
 of Albert Baker in 1892, it was consolidated with the Baker Of- 
 fice Supply Company taking the old firm name of the Baker- Vaw- 
 ter Company. From a small beginning in 1888 the business 
 has grown to be the largest company of the kind in the world. 
 From one small manufacturing plant and one salesman in 1888 
 the company now has four large manufacturing plants in differ- 
 ent sections of the country and a corps of about one hundred 
 salesmen and professional accountants. 
 
 William Vawter originated and patented, and his company in- 
 troduced, the now generally used loose-leaf ledgers. The Baker- 
 Vawter Company has been the cause of a wonderful change in 
 the business world through the introduction of improved methods 
 of accounting and handling business along loose-leaf lines. The 
 general offices of the company are in the Tribune Building, 
 Chicago. The eastern offices are at 350 Broadway, New York 
 City. Of the Baker brothers who were in the company, Albert 
 died in 1892, and Edgar sold his interest in 1895. William 
 Vawter is the president and general manager of the company and 
 its largest stockholder. Lives in Evanston, Illinois. 
 
 Alice R. (Hadley) Vawter, the daughter of Harlan and Re- 
 becca (Oursler) Hadley, was born near Plainfield, Indiana, luly 
 5, 1858. 
 
 Children of William A. and Alice (Hadley) Vawter: 
 
 a. Cora Catherine Vawter was born in Plainfield, Indiana, 
 December 25, 1882. She graduated at Kemper Hall, Kenosha, 
 
146 THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA 
 
 Wisconsin. After a year at home studying music and German, 
 she spent a year in Germany and other countries of Europe in 
 study and travel. The following year she took a trip around the 
 world. 
 
 b. William Arthur Vawter, Jr., was born in Danville, In- 
 diana, May 5, 1884. He completed the college preparatory course 
 at the Northwestern University preparatory school at Evanston, 
 Illinois. He then entered Cornell University at Ithaca, New 
 York, where he graduated in June, 1905. He expects to engage 
 in business with his father. 
 
 c. George Hadley Vawter Vv'as born in Danville, Indiana, 
 February 25, 1886. Is now attending the Northwestern Uni- 
 versity Preparatory School at Evanston, Illinois. 
 
 (2) Frank M. Vawter, son of Achilles and Elizabeth (Rich- 
 ardson) Vawter, was born in Lafayette, Indiana, August 22, 
 i860. He went to work when about fourteen years of age in 
 the printing house of Wright, Baker & Co., in Indianapolis, In- 
 diana, When he was seventeen years old he spent a year in 
 study in Kentucky at Pleasant Grove, where his father was at 
 that time teaching school. He then returned to Indiana and 
 again worked for the Baker-Randolph Company (as it was then) , 
 the Baker of the company being his half-brother. Frank Vawter 
 afterwards spent three years working on a paper in Kokomo, 
 Indiana, and then returned to Indianapolis. He went to Chicago 
 in 1886 and became a member of the Baker & Vawter Co., which 
 was organized at that time. There were four members of the 
 company, the other three being Edgar and Albert Baker, his half- 
 brothers, and his brother, William Vawter, Frank Vawter re- 
 mained in Chicago for about two years, then sold out his interest 
 and returned to Indianapolis, where he remained until January, 
 1889. He was married October 10, 1888. to Clara Smith Miller. 
 He was engaged in the printing business in Kokomo, Indiana, for 
 a short time in the year 1889, moved to Chicago and was em- 
 ployed one year by the Baker & Vawter Company ; was engaged 
 in the newspaper business at Big Rapids, Michigan, for about 
 one year, returning to Chicago July, 1892, and entering the em- 
 ploy of the Hadley- Vawter Company, which was afterwards con- 
 
THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA I47 
 
 solidated with the Baker Office Supply Company as the Baker- 
 Vawter Co. He has remained with the Baker- Vawter Company 
 ever since, acting, at the present time, in the capacity of secretary 
 of the company and general superintendent of its various manu- 
 facturing plants. He lived in Kokomo from 1897 to 1902, in 
 Morgan Park, a suburb of Chicago until 1905, and now resides 
 in Benton Harbor, Michigan, where the company has its largest 
 factory. 
 
 Clara (Miller) Vawter, the daughter of Henry and Margaret 
 (Nelson) Miller, of Ladoga, was born near Ladoga November 
 5, 1861. 
 
 Children of Frank M. and Clara (Miller) Vawter: 
 
 a. Harry Miller Vawter, born in Ladoga, Indiana, September 
 4, 1889. Is attending school in the preparatory department of 
 the Chicago University at Morgan Park, Illinois. 
 
 b. Jessie Mae Vawter, born in Ladoga, Indiana, September 
 
 25' 
 
 1891. 
 
 c. Helen Miller Vawter, born in Ladoga, Indiana, September 
 9, 1894. 
 
 (3) Grace, daughter of Achilles and Elizabeth (Richardson) 
 Vawter, was born in Lafayette, Indiana, April 20, 1864. She 
 graduated at the Indianapolis High School and at the Normal 
 School and taught in Indianapolis for one and one-half years. 
 She was then elected secretary of the superintendent of the In- 
 dianapolis public schools, which position she held for two years, 
 until her marriage to Ernest P. Bicknell. 
 
 Ernest P. Bicknell was born near Bicknell, Knox county. Indi- 
 ana, February 23, 1862. He graduated at the University of Indi- 
 ana in 1887, that same year taking a position as reporter on the 
 Indianapolis News. He remained with the Nczvs until 1893, 
 when he bought the Gas City Journal. Six months later he was 
 elected secretary of the board of state charities of Indiana. In 
 five years he resigned to accept the position of general superin- 
 tendent of the Bureau of Charities of Chicago, which place he 
 still occupies, 644 Unity Building, Chicago, Illinois. 
 
 Ernest P. Bicknell was married, first, December 25, 1886, to 
 Cora Scott, of Freelandville, Indiana, who was born November 
 
 kL 
 
148 THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA 
 
 17, 1864, and died January i, 1888, leaving a child, Clarence 
 Scott, who was born in Indianapolis, Indiana, December 2^], 
 1887. 
 
 Ernest P. Bicknell was married, second, January 2, 1891, to 
 Grace Vawter. 
 
 Children of Ernest P. and Grace (Vawter) Bicknell: 
 
 a. Ernestine, born in Indianapolis October 29, 1893; died 
 March 26, 1894. 
 
 h. Charlotte, born in Indianapolis December 29, 1895; died 
 in Chicago, November 15, 1904. 
 
 c. Grace Constance, born May 17, 1897, in Indianapolis. 
 
 d. Alberta, born March 29, 1899, in Chicago. 
 
 Mary (Vawter) Feagler 
 
 Mary Litchfield Vawter, daughter of William and Frances 
 Vawter, was born near Madison, Indiana, December 7, 1825. 
 Her father moved to Jennings county, Indiana, when she was 
 four years of age, and the most of her life was spent in Jennings ' 
 county. She united with the Zoar Baptist Church in early life 
 and was a teacher in the Sunday-school of the North Vernon 
 Baptist Church for many years. She was married to Ormand 
 Frederick Feagler September 24, 1843. She died in North 
 Vernon, Indiana, September i, 1897. 
 
 Ormand Frederick Feagler was born May 4, 1819, in Butler 
 county, Ohio, and died August 2^, 1876. He was a farmer. 
 
 The children of Ormand and Mary (Polly) Feagler were 
 Marie Cordelia, James William, Bessie. Philemon Edwin, Vawter 
 John, Charles Alfred, Emma May and Roena Kate. 
 
 (i) Marie Cordelia Feagler, born June 30, 1844; died March 
 
 7. 1851- 
 
 (2) James William Feagler was born March 22, 1846; mar- 
 ried March 30, 1871, to Mary Frances King, who was born 
 September 26, 1853, and died March 29, 1879. 
 
 Children of James, William and Mary (King) Feagler: 
 
THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA I49 
 
 a. Fannie Fern Feagler, born February 20, 1872 ; died March 
 3» 1872. 
 
 h. Rose Bonnell, born February 19, 1873. 
 
 c. Grace Cordelia Feagler, daughter of James William and 
 Mary (King) Feagler, was born October 21, 1874; married 
 July 20, 1 89 1, to Robert W. King, who was born January 27, 
 1853. Grace (Feagler) King died at Dyersburg, Tennessee, Feb- 
 ruary 24, 1901. Children: Mildred Rose, born October 17, 
 1892; Robert Feagler, born June 25, 1894; Russell Aubrey, born 
 June 25, 1895, and Helen Grace, born December 20, 1897. 
 
 d. Charles Alfred Feagler, born February 24, 1877. 
 
 (3) Bessie Feagler was born October 31, 1848. She was en- 
 gaged in the millinery business in North Vernon for many years. 
 Is now living with her sister, Mrs. Smartz, in Indianapolis, 
 Indiana. 
 
 (4) Philemon Edwin Feagler was born July 24, 1850; died 
 September 29, 185 1. 
 
 (5) Vawter John Feagler was born July 22, 1852; married 
 May 5, 1880, to Helen Roseberry Gardner, who was born August 
 7, i860, and died January 20, 1897. Vawter Feagler lives near 
 North Vernon, Indiana. 
 
 Children of Vawter John and Helen (Gardner) Feagler: 
 a. -^ Fred Willard Feagler, born February 8, 1881 ; died May 
 22, 1904. 
 
 h. Florence Edith Feagler, born January 7, 1885; died Sep- 
 tember 13, 1885. 
 
 c. Merlin Duncan Feagler, born November 2, 1891 ; died 
 January 20, 1892. 
 
 d. Marie Feagler, born October 27, 1895. 
 
 (6) Charles Alfred Feagler was born June 19, 1854; died 
 July 3, 1858. 
 
 (7) Emma May Feagler was born July 12, 1863, near North 
 Vernon, Indiana; married August 13, 1889, to MacArthur 
 Smartz. 
 
 MacArthur Smartz w^as born February 18, 1868, in Chilicothe, 
 Ohio. He is engaged in the railroad business and lives with his 
 family in Indianapolis, Indiana. 
 
150 THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA 
 
 Children of MacArthur and May (Feagler) Smartz: 
 a. Everett Marion Smartz, born January 2y, 1892. 
 h. Wilhelmina Harriet Smartz, born April 12, 1893; died 
 June 20, 1894. 
 
 c. Mary Elizabeth Smartz, born August 4, 1894. 
 
 d. Margaret Fay Smartz, born March 9, 1896. 
 c. Katie Frances Smartz. born May 31, 1897. 
 /. Robert George Smartz, born June 27, 1900. 
 g. Bessie Ruth Smartz, born May 22, 1904. 
 
 (8) Roena Kate Feagler, born August 25, 1865; died Feb- 
 ruary 5, 1876. 
 
 10 
 
 Philemon C. Vawter 
 
 Philemon Vawter, youngest child of William and Frances 
 Vawter, was born in Jennings county, Indiana, November 7, 1830. 
 
 A short sketch of his life, as given in a letter, is here repro- 
 duced : 
 
 "I was born in Jennings county, Indiana, November 7, 1830, 
 and lived there for the first twenty-five years of my life. My 
 first schooling was in the primitive log houses of the times, 
 located in the woods at some point to best accommodate the 
 sparsely settled district. The first of these which I attended was 
 lighted by horizontally long windows or openings, closed part of 
 the time with greased paper. The heating apparatus was a 
 broad back wall built of stone with a smoke stack through the 
 roof built of sticks and mud. The fuel was such as could be 
 gathered from the surrounding timber — logs ten to fifteen feet 
 long piled against the back wall with limbs and chunks. These 
 school facilities not being considered quite sufficient, when I 
 was between seventeen and twenty-five years of age I attended 
 school for four or five years at Franklin College. While at 
 Franklin I worked at anything I could get to do — cleaned stables, 
 milked cows, worked on the road, chopped and saw^ed wood, 
 acted as janitor at church, was morning bellringer to awaken the 
 students in college, dressed poorly and boarded myself a good 
 
THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA 151 
 
 share of the time, living on mush and molasses with a little butter 
 and bread. Later on, Professor Hougham took a friendly in- 
 terest in me, gave me lessons in land surveying and made me his 
 deputy, so that the last two years of my college life I did not have 
 to follow the vocations specified above. 
 
 "I came to Lafayette and was engaged in the public schools 
 here for a few years. Then I went back to the home farm for 
 two or three years. While there I was married, November 25, 
 1858, to Sylvia Hunter. After that I spent a year teaching at 
 Sardinia, Decatur county, Indiana, then a year in a store at 
 Scipio, Jennings county, Indiana, where my health failed and I 
 had to give up business for awhile and get out of doors. This 
 brought me back to Lafayette in the autumn of 1862, and in the 
 spring of 1863 we located here, and have lived here continuously 
 ever since. Of these years I have been connected with the coun- 
 ty surveyor's office about twenty-five — eighteen as surveyor and 
 seven as deputy surveyor. For five years I was city engineer of 
 Lafayette, and now am town engineer of West Lafayette. I 
 think within those years I have surveyed more lands and lots, 
 laid out more highways and free gravel roads, run more tile 
 drains and ditch lines, than any man living or who has lived in 
 this county." 
 
 Sylvia (Hunter) Vawter was born in Jennings county, Indi- 
 ana, May I, 1839. She was the daughter of Joseph and Rhoda 
 A. (Conger) Hunter. 
 
 Philemon Vawter and wife have been members of the Bap- 
 tist Church in West Lafayette for many years, and are now con- 
 nected with the Lafayette Church. They have two children, 
 Everett and William, and have reared a child. Belle Godman. 
 
 (i) Everett Bates Vawter, son of Philemon and Sylvia 
 (Hunter) Vawter, was born at the home of his grandfather in 
 Jennings county, Indiana, August 2;^, 1859. With his parents 
 he moved to Lafayette, Indiana. May i, 1863. He was edu- 
 cated in the common schools, attending the same during the 
 winter until eighteen years of age. He assisted his father in the 
 practice of surveying and civil engineering when not otherwise 
 engaged. During the summers of 1874, 5, 6 and 7 he worked 
 
152 THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA 
 
 on a farm, and farmed on his own account during the summer of 
 1879. In the fall of 1879 he entered the employ of Murphy & 
 Comstock, wholesale boot and shoe manufacturers, where he re- 
 mained until the summer of 1882, then joined his father in his 
 engineering work. During the greater part of 1882 and 1884 
 he was engaged in the building of county gravel roads as con- 
 tractor. In the fall of 1884 he was elected surveyor of Tippe- 
 canoe county on the republican ticket, holding the office for three 
 successive terms of two years each, having charge of large drain- 
 age systems and the building of the Main Street bridge, Lafayette, 
 Indiana, during the last term. In the spring of 1891 he assisted 
 in the organization of the Lafayette Bridge Company, being 
 actively engaged with said company in the manufacture and sale 
 of railway and highway bridges until the plant and good will of 
 the concern were sold and merged into the American Bridge 
 Company, May i, 1900. 
 
 Everett Vawter was married May 3, 1893, to Helen Read, of 
 West Lafayette, Indiana. During the years 1893 to 1900 he held 
 the position of secretary and treasurer of the bridge company. 
 Has been active in the management of the West Lafayette Water 
 Company since its organization in 1894. In the fall of 1900 he 
 went to Denver, Colorado, to join his wife, who had gone there 
 for her health. From 1900 until the fall of 1903 he lived in Den- 
 ver and traveled through South Dakota, Colorado, New Mexico, 
 Arizona and old Mexico as sales agent for the American Bridge 
 Company. In the fall of 1903 he, with his family, returned to 
 Lafayette. There he joined his old business associates in the 
 management of the Lafayette Engineering Company, engaged in 
 the building of concrete and steel structures, and at the present 
 time he is serving the company as president. 
 
 Helen Eugenie (Read) Vawter was born in Wilmington, Dela- 
 ware. Her father was James Suggett Read, and her mother's 
 maiden name was Frances M. Reed. 
 
 Everett B. and Helen (Read) Vawter have one child, Wallace 
 Read, who was born in Denver, Colorado, October 19, 1902. 
 
 (2) William Hunter Vawter, the second son of Philemon 
 and Sylvia Hunter Vawter, was born June 18, 1868, in Lafayette, 
 
THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA 1 53 
 
 Indiana. He attended the public schools and took the pharmacy 
 course in Purdue University. He entered the employ of Eli 
 Lilly & Co., Indianapolis, Indiana, in June, 1888, as analytical 
 chemist and remained there until July, 1891, when he went into 
 the drug business in Lafayette on his own account. He sold out 
 his drug business in 1903, and is at present interested in the 
 Lafayette Stove Foundry Company, holding the office of secre- 
 tary and treasurer. 
 
 Belle Godman (known as Belle Vawter) was born at Lafayette, 
 September 21, 1874; married October 3, 1900, to Jesse Judson 
 Billingsly. They live in Benton, Wisconsin. 
 
 Children : 
 
 Philemon Vawter, born July 14, 1902, died 1902. 
 
 Nellie Hymer, born August 5, 1903. 
 
III. 
 
 JAMES VAWTER 
 
 Children* 
 
 I. John Watts m. 
 Louesa Bachman' 
 
 John' 
 
 John" 
 
 David^ 
 
 Jesse* 
 
 James Vawter^ 
 
 (1783-1872) m. 
 Sarah Watts 
 
 (1796-1879) 
 
 2. Jesse Holmanm. 
 Martha E. Pyle 
 
 Grandchildren' G. Grandchildren* 
 (i) Emma S. m. | Mary Louesa, d. 
 Judson Williams ) Maud, d. 
 
 3. Frances 
 (1822-23) 
 
 r 
 
 Howell 
 
 (2) Charles D. m. | 
 
 Elizabeth 
 
 ist Emma "| 
 
 Charles Hart 
 
 Thomas [ 
 
 Minnie 
 
 2d Julia David- 
 
 son 
 
 (3)JohnS. m. jone child 
 Mary Singer '■ 
 
 (4) Elizabeth L.m. ^ Emma A. 
 
 Charles Sheets \ Narcissa F. 
 
 ' Alfred Buell 
 
 Vernon Monroe 
 (5) James A. m. i ^^^^.^ ^,5^^ 
 
 Clara Monroe p^^^^ Raymond 
 ^ James Alois 
 
 
 ' Jesse Beryl, d. 
 
 
 May, d. 
 
 (6) Alfred T. m. 
 Minnie Vawter 
 
 Chester Ernest 
 
 Robert Alfred 
 
 (7) Frances Helen, 
 d.s. 
 
 Walter Bachman 
 L Ruth Leotia 
 
 (I) Edgar (1844-47) 
 
 (2) Mary F. m. 5 George Holman 
 Wm.Benefiel '■ 
 
 (3) Ella 
 
 (4) John C. 
 
 (1850-67) 
 
 (5) James R. m. 
 
 Angeline Brace 
 
 (6) Newton 0. 
 
 (1854-81) 
 
 (7) Henry C. m. \ Ray 
 
 Ida Britton ( Mabel 
 
 (8) Wm. E.,s. 
 
 i9) Elmer H. 
 
 (1862-63) 
 
 (10) Thomas, m. 
 
 Frances Patton 
 
 f Edna, d. 
 (II) Roe m. J Ei^g^ 
 
 Tillie Nix [ ^^^^. 
 
 
 f Jesse Beryl, d. 
 
 
 1 May, d. 
 
 (12) Minnie, m. 
 
 ' Chester Ernest 
 
 Alfred Vawter 
 
 ' Robert Alfred 
 
 
 Waiter Bachman 
 
 
 Ruth Leotia 
 
THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA 
 
 155 
 
 James Vawter' 
 
 (Continued) 
 
 4. Johnson S. ( 
 
 (1824-79) m. Diana \ (') Sarah, d. 
 Moncriefi 1826-92) I (2) James, d. 
 
 (i) James Hiram, 
 (1852-74) 
 
 (2) Sarah Elton m. 
 James Hardy 
 
 (3) Willis Isaiah m. 
 Mary Mclntyre 
 
 (4) Spencer Coin 
 
 (1857-72) 
 
 (5) Johnson Smith 
 
 (1858-66) 
 
 Olive S. 
 Bessie M. 
 Wilbur Willis 
 James Hardy 
 George Williams 
 
 5. Wra.C. (1827-82) 
 m. Sydney Olive 
 Willis (1829-96) 
 
 6. Milton S. m. 
 ist Aureana 
 Vawter 
 
 2d Sue G. Sebree 
 7. James S. m. 
 ist Mary Cowell 
 
 2d Pheba Almei- 
 da Rollins 
 
 8. Newton Wilbur 
 m. 1st Lucretia 
 
 Branham 
 
 2d Maria Foster 
 3d Armilda Hol- 
 lister 
 
 9. Fanny S. 
 
 (1835-76) 
 
 10. Susan E. 
 
 (1838-57) 
 
 II. Thomas S. m. 
 Annie LeGill 
 
 (6) AliceEupheme 
 m. Theo. H. 
 
 Rokobrant 
 
 (7) Robert, d. 
 
 (8) Theodosia Er- 
 
 nest m. Geo. 
 L. Williams 
 
 (9) Wm. Cornett 
 
 (1866-1903) 
 I (10) Colfax, d. 
 
 f (I) Frank C. m. 
 
 Lillian Lepper 
 
 Myrtle Olive 
 George Carl 
 
 Rhoyden 
 Nadyne 
 
 j (2) Jennie F. 
 
 ( (3) Bert Watts, d. 
 
 [ (I) AdaV. 
 
 I (2) Effie A. m. 
 I Geo. S. Kerr 
 
 (i) Henry J. m. 
 Josie Willin 
 
 (2) Wm. Camp- 
 bell, unm. 
 
 f Stanley 
 
 ■{ Arleigh Robert 
 
 I Rees Vawter 
 
 C Harry m. 
 
 Lillie M. Hibbs 
 (Dorothy Louise)' 
 Emma 
 
 (3) 
 
 Fanny Alice m. { 
 
 1st John W. I 
 
 Deupree 
 
 2d Howard Lee 
 
 Alva Wm. 
 
 (4) Robert Newton 
 m. Josie Quinn 
 
 (i) Milton m. 
 Laura Shaddy 
 
 (2) Edward, d. 
 
 (3) Brainard 
 
 Fanny Jane 
 
 f Florence May 
 
 Hazel 
 
 Edwin 
 I Macie Marie 
 I Annie Laurie 
 
156 THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA 
 
 III 
 
 JAMES VAWTER 
 
 James Vawter, the son of Jesse and Elizabeth Vawter, was 
 born April 2, 1783, near the Holston river in North Carolina, 
 now East Tennessee. He was the twin brother of William. In 
 1806 the family came to the territory of Indiana and settled at 
 Fairmount, clearing the farm where Mrs. J. S. Weyer afterwards 
 resided, near the tanyard, and which Jesse Vawter called Mt. 
 Glad. James Vawter afterwards settled at Mount Pleasant, now 
 North Madison, and then at his farm at Pressbnrg, one mile out 
 from North Madison. In 181 6 he was married to his cousin, 
 Sarah B., the daughter of Judge Watts. Sarah Watts was born 
 October 26, 1796. 
 
 James Vawter was not an active politician, but always voted, 
 and was a zealous supporter of the laws of the land. He was 
 candid and frank in his expression of his conviction of right 
 and wrong, faithful and earnest as a Christian and prompt and 
 liberal as a church member. He was a warm advocate of Frank- 
 lin College and a liberal contributor to its funds. He died Jan- 
 uary 12, 1872, in his ninety-first year, surviving his twin brother 
 five years. Sarah (Watts) Vawter died at the residence of her 
 son Milton in the eighty-third year of her age. 
 
 James Vawter had his eccentricities, as had all of the older 
 Vawters, and as have many of their descendants to-day. It is 
 told of him that whenever he brought anything home and didn't 
 know where to put it that he built a shed for it — that he finally 
 had about five acres on his place covered with sheds. James 
 Vawter lived on the top of the hill. William Rice had a mill a 
 short distance above and off the road which ran at the foot of the 
 hill. He wanted the road to come by his mill and not by William 
 Stribling's, so he built a fence across the road to force people to 
 go around by his mill. At that time Pressburg consisted of only 
 a few houses and, in its best days, perhaps a mill or two. The 
 houses were not very close together and were all farm houses. 
 
THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA 1 57 
 
 James Vawter's house was right in Pressburg, and yet was in 
 the country. 
 
 WilHam Brazelton, a poet of Jefferson county, wrote these 
 verses : 
 
 "Of all the spots here in the world 
 For honor and renown 
 I own in Pressburg is unfurled 
 The beauty of a town. 
 
 "If much you travel through that town 
 Take care your feet and head 
 Or you will find you'll be crushed down 
 Beneath some tottering shed. 
 
 " Sheds, yes, propped and pottered up, 
 Without the form of walls, 
 Tottering, reeling to and fro, 
 Hit one prop and fifty falls. 
 
 "The king of sheds lives on a hill 
 As happy as a toad. 
 The king of trouble owns a mill, 
 And stops the public road." 
 
 It is also told of James Vawter that he could not resist the 
 temptation to hang a gate wherever he saw two trees located con- 
 veniently for the purpose, and that one would often see gates out 
 in a field with no fence near. The truth of this can not be 
 vouched for. 
 
 One thing is certain, however, and that is, that "Uncle Jimmy," 
 as he was called, had a den. It was something after the style 
 of the dens men affect these days, only not so luxurious. It was 
 a very small room, built on to one end of the porch. Whenever 
 "Uncle Jimmy" couldn't be found he was nearly sure to be in 
 that den. The room is left just as it was when it was the com- 
 fort of "Uncle Jimmy." In it is a small bed or cot of some kind. 
 Around two sides are shelves with jars or bottles containing many 
 different kinds of seeds. Across one end is a row of nails. On 
 the nails are hung strips of wood which were cut just the right 
 size to hold a column of newspaper clippings. In the end of 
 each piece of wood was a hole so the strip might hang on one of 
 the nails. This was the way "Uncle Jimmy" kept his scrap 
 
158 THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA 
 
 book, and to his den he often came to be quiet and read when the 
 house was full of company. 
 
 "Uncle Jimmy" wore a white fur plug hat summer and winter, 
 so one of his nephews said, and he presented a striking appear- 
 ance in that hat and his great long coat. 
 
 This anecdote is also told of James Vawter : There was a 
 woman in the church who was very aggressive. She got up in 
 meeting and, after talking a long time, urged every one to get 
 up and do likewise. When she sat down "Uncle Jimmy" got up 
 and said : "Some need urgin' for'ard and some need holdin' 
 back." Then he sat down without another word. 
 
 "Uncle Jimmy" once brought home a wagon-load of brick to 
 be used for some building purpose. He went into town again, 
 and when he returned the second time he found the bricks all 
 tumbled down and half of them broken in pieces. "Boys," said 
 he, "what does this mean?" His grandchildren said: "Why, 
 grandpa, you see it was this way. We were playing war and we 
 put a lot of bricks on one side for Union soldiers and a lot of 
 bricks on the other side for Rebels, and the Union men whipped 
 the Rebels all to pieces, and that is how the bricks got broken." 
 "All right, boys," said "Uncle Jimmy," "if the Rebels got 
 whipped that is all right." 
 
 James and Sarah (Watts) Vawter had eleven children: John 
 Watts, Jesse Holman, Frances, Johnson S., William C, Milton 
 S., James S., Newton W., Fanny S., Susan E., and Thomas S. 
 
 John Watts Vawter 
 
 John Watts Vawter, the son of James and Sarah (Watts) 
 Vawter, was born November 15, 181 7, and was married by Rev, 
 E. Holt, February 13, 1851, to Louesa Bachman, who was born 
 in Madison, Indiana, December 16, 1829, and died July 4, 1887, 
 John Watts Vawter was engaged in the lumber and milling 
 business, and at one time had plank-road contracts on the Michi- 
 gan Road. He was also merchant at Scipio and Columbus, Indi- 
 
THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA 1 59 
 
 ana. He followed boating for a few years, first with flatboats 
 loaded with provisions for the lower country, then was connected 
 with the steamboat trade. In 1847 ^e bought the "John Dren- 
 nen," which ran between Madison and Cincinnati as a packet. 
 During the Civil War he purchased an interest in the "Clara 
 Dunning," which ran between Louisville and Cincinnati. Then 
 he became owner of the steamer "David White," running be- 
 tween Louisville, St. Louis and New Orleans, and for a time was 
 captain. He had sold one-fourth interest before the boat ex- 
 ploded on the lower Mississippi, but he suffered a heavy loss. 
 John Watts Vawter afterwards engaged in agricultural pursuits. 
 For two years before his death he was near Baton Rouge, Louisi- 
 ana, managing a large cotton plantation and sawmill. His wife 
 was the daughter of Alois Bachman. John Watts Vawter died 
 September 25, 1875, i" the fifty-eighth year of his age. 
 
 The children of John Watts and Louesa (Bachman) Vawter 
 were Emma S., Charles D., John S., Elizabeth L., James A., 
 Alfred and Frances Helen. 
 
 (i) Emma S. Vawter. daughter of John and Louesa (Bach- 
 man) Vawter, was born in Jefferson county, Lidiana, February 
 23, 1852; married March 30, 1881, at North Madison, Indiana, 
 to Judson Williams, who was born in Ripley county, Indiana, 
 September 27, 1842. Judson Williams is a horticulturist, 1331 
 Palmer street, Los Angeles, California. 
 
 Children : 
 
 a. Mary Louesa Williams, born in Ottawa, Kansas, February 
 21, 1883; died in Fallbrook, San Diego county, California, 
 October 13. 1890. 
 
 b. Maud Williams, born in Ottawa, Kansas. January 24, 
 1886; died in Fallbrook, San Diego county, California. October 
 15, 1890. 
 
 (2) Charles D. Vawter, son of John Watts and Louesa 
 (Bachman) Vawter. was born May 24, 1854; married in 
 Laurel Hill. Louisiana, June 4, 1877, to Emma K. Thomas, who 
 was born in Winnsborough, Louisiana, January 21, 1858; died 
 in North Madison, Indiana. April 30. 1893. Children: 
 
 a. Clarence Howell Vawter, born December 3, 1878. 
 
l60 THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA 
 
 b. Elizabeth Louise Vawter, born October 7, 1884. 
 
 c. Charles Hart Vawter, born June 13, 1886. 
 
 d. Minnie E. Vawter, born August 27, 1891. 
 
 Charles D. Vawter married, second, November 5, 1893, Julia 
 Davidson, who was born in North Madison, Indiana, July i, 
 1859. No children. 812 South Eighth street, Tacoma, Wash- 
 ington. 
 
 (3) John S. Vawter, son of John Watts and Louesa (Bach- 
 man) Vawter, was born November 9, 1856; married Mary- 
 Singer and had one child. Lives in Soldiers' Home in Indiana. 
 
 (4) Elizabeth L. Vawter, daughter of John Watts and 
 Louesa (Bachman) Vawter, was born June 12, 1859; married, 
 March 20, 1889, in Jefferson county, Indiana, to Charles F. 
 Sheets. Lives at 455 East Third street, Los Angeles, California. 
 
 Children : 
 
 a. Emma A. Sheets, born June 19, 1890, in Jefferson county, 
 Indiana. 
 
 b. Narcissa F. P. Sheets, born February 28, 1896, in Jefferson 
 county, Indiana. 
 
 (5) James Alois Bachman Vawter, son of John Watts and 
 Louesa (Bachman) Vawter, was born March 16, 1862. near 
 North Madison, Indiana; married March 19, 1891, at Sedan, 
 Kansas, to Clara Catherine Monroe, who was born August 25, 
 1873, near Peru, Kansas. 
 
 James Alois Vawter is telegraph operator and railway station 
 agent at Heron, Montana. 
 
 Children of James A. and Clara (Monroe) Vawter: 
 
 a. Alfred Buell Vawter, born June 30, 1892, at Arlington, 
 Washington. 
 
 b. Vernon Monroe Vawter, born July 13, 1895, at Heppner 
 Junction, Oregon. 
 
 c. Bessie Alice Vawter, born January 30, 1897, at Heppner 
 Junction, Oregon. 
 
 d. Frank Raymond Vawter, born January 13. 1899, near 
 North Yakima, Washington. 
 
 c. James Alois Vawter, born November 3, 1901, near North 
 Yakima, Washington. 
 
THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA l6l 
 
 (6) Alfred T. Vawter, son of John Watts and Loiiesa (Bach- 
 man) Vawter, was born in Jefferson county, Indiana, October i, 
 1864; married May 9, 1889, to Minnie L. Vawter, the daughter 
 of Jesse Holman Vawter. Minnie Vawter was born in Jefferson 
 county, Indiana, February 19, 1867. 
 
 Alfred T. Vawter is in the life insurance business, 2216 Bird 
 street, Boyle Heights, Los Angeles, California. 
 Children : 
 
 a. Jesse Beryl Watts Vawter, born in Jefferson county, In- 
 diana, August 28, 1890; died January 10, 1891. 
 
 b. May Vawter, born in Jefferson county, Indiana, May 10, 
 1892; died July 2y, 1892. 
 
 c. Chester Ernest Vawter, born in Vanderburgh county, In- 
 diana, May 7, 1895. 
 
 d. Robert Alfred Vawter, born in Vanderburgh county, In- 
 diana, October 19, 1897. 
 
 e. Walter Bachman Vawter, born in Vanderburgh county, 
 Indiana, July 2, 1900. 
 
 f. Ruth Leotia Vawter, born in Carmi, Illinois, December 12, 
 1902. 
 
 (7) Frances Helen Vawter, daughter of John Watts and 
 Louesa (Bachman) Vawter, was born in Jefferson county, In- 
 diana, August 20, 1867; died July 3, 1877. 
 
 2 
 
 Jesse Holman Vawter 
 
 Jesse Holman Vawter, son of James and Sarah (Watts) Vaw- 
 ter, was born at North Madison, Indiana, March 6, 1820. He 
 was married, February 25, 1843, to Martha E. Pyle, who was 
 born in Philadelphia, August 9, 1826; died at North Madison, 
 Indiana, March 7, 1878. Holman Vawter was a merchant, also 
 a steamboat and stationary engineer. He lived in Indiana all of 
 his life except a short time in Illinois. He was a member of the 
 Home Guards during the Civil War. Was a member of the Bap- 
 
 U 
 
l62 THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA 
 
 tist Church. For many years before his death he was afflicted 
 with cancer. He died August 30, 1898. 
 
 The children of Jesse Holman and Martha (Pyle) Vawter 
 were Edgar, Mary, John, Ella, Newton, James, William, Elmore 
 and Henry. 
 
 ( 1 ) Edgar, son of Jesse Holman and Martha (Pyle) Vawter, 
 was born May 25, 1844; died April 23, 1847. 
 
 (2) Mary F., daughter of Jesse Holman and Martha (Pyle) 
 Vawter, was born November 9, 1846; married November 4, 
 1868, to William H. Benefiel ; died September 21, 1898. 
 
 Children of William and Mary (Vawter) Benefiel: George 
 Holman, who was born in Ripley county, Indiana, and two others 
 who died in infancy. 
 
 (3) Ella, daughter of Jesse Holman and Martha (Pyle) 
 Vawter, was born September 9, 1848. Lives in Los Angeles, 
 California, with her sister, Mrs. Alfred Vawter. 
 
 (4) John C, son of Jesse Holman and Martha (Pyle) Vaw- 
 ter, was born August 27, 1850; died April 28, 1867. 
 
 (5) James R., son of Jesse Holman and Martha (Pyle) Vaw- 
 ter, was born October 9, 1852; married Angeline Brace. Is a 
 farmer, living in Beverly, Lincoln county, Kansas. 
 
 (6) Newton O., son of Jesse Holman and Martha (Pyle) 
 Vawter, was born August 7, 1854; died November 11, 1881. 
 
 (7) Henry C, son of Jesse Holman and Martha (Pyle) 
 Vawter, was born in Rexville, Indiana, May 11, 1857; married 
 June 2, 1883, to Ida Britton. They have two children, Ray and 
 Mabel. Henry C. Vawter is a farmer, living near Waldron, 
 Shelby county, Indiana. 
 
 (8) William E., son of Jesse Holman and Martha (Pyle) 
 Vawter, was born in North Madison, Indiana, October 5, i860. 
 Is unmarried. Lives in Dixon, Illinois. 
 
 (9) Elmer H., son of Jesse Holman and Martha (Pyle) 
 Vawter, was born April 22, 1862; died March 13, 1863. 
 
 ( 10) Thomas, son of Jesse Holman and Martha (Pyle) Vaw- 
 ter, was born in Rexville, Indiana, May 22, 1864; married 
 Frances Patton September 17, 1889. They have no children. 
 
THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA 163 
 
 Thomas Vawter is a railroad fireman and engineer, living at 529 
 South Workman street, Los Angeles, California. 
 
 (11) Roe M., son of Jesse Holman and Martha (Pyle) Vaw- 
 ter, was born in Rexville, Indiana; married Tillie Nix April 3, 
 1896. They have had three children: Edna, born April 3, 1898; 
 died March 18, 1899, Elmer, born June 9. 1900, and Naomi, born 
 August 19, 1902. 
 
 Roe Vawter is in the employ of the railroad and lives in New 
 Albany, Indiana. 
 
 (12) Minnie, daughter of Jesse Holman and Martha (Pyle) 
 Vawter, was born in Jefferson county, Indiana. February 19, 
 1867; married her cousin Alfred, the son of John Watts Vawter, 
 in 1889. (See record of Alfred Vawter.) 
 
 3 
 
 Frances Vawter 
 
 Frances, daughter of James and Sarah (Watts) Vawter, born 
 February i, 1822; died July 23, 1823. 
 
 Johnson S. Vawter 
 
 Johnson S., son of James and Sarah (Watts) Vawter, was 
 born May 25, 1824. He was married to Diana Moncrief in 1854; 
 died December 6, 1879. 
 
 Johnson S. Vawter was a farmer. He was also a carpenter and 
 had a sawmill before he began farming. 
 
 Diana (Moncrief) Vawter was born January 23, 1826; died 
 August 13, 1892. 
 
 The children of Johnson S. and Diana (Moncrief) Vawter 
 were Sarah, who died when a child, and James C, who died when 
 about grown. 
 
 Johnson S. Vawter and his wife lived at Rexville, Indiana. 
 
164 THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA 
 
 5 
 William C. Vawter 
 
 William C, son of James and Sarah (Watts) Vawter, was 
 born in the old homestead near North Madison, Indiana, Feb- 
 ruary 28, 1827. When fourteen years of age he was apprenticed 
 to a tailor, and, at the end of his time, began business for himself 
 in North Madison. There he continued in business until 1851, 
 when he moved to Jennings county. Here he was married, No- 
 vember II, 1 85 1, to Sydney Olive Willis, who was born Novem- 
 ber 24, 1829, in Maryland, and died September 5, 1896. 
 
 William Vawter was engaged in the mercantile business until 
 1866, when he removed to Madison and was with Cobb, Stribling 
 & Company. He was also in the woolen mill business at Elletts- 
 ville and afterwards at Madison. In 1868 he began traveling for 
 Schofield & Sons, and was with them the most of the time until 
 his death of apoplexy on April 23, 1882. One of the proprietors 
 of Schofield & Sons said after his death : "We have no hope of 
 filling his place satisfactorily. He was so true, so honest and so 
 successful." 
 
 William C. and Sydney Olive Vawter had ten children : James 
 Hiram, Sarah Elton, Willis Isaiah, Spencer Coin. Johnson Smith, 
 Alice Eupheme, Robert, Theodosia Ernest, William Cornett and 
 Colfax. 
 
 (i) James Hiram, son of William C. and Sydney (Willis) 
 Vawter, was born September 18, 1852, at Scipio, Indiana, and 
 died July 11, 1874, in Laconia, Arkansas. He was a merchant 
 and was unmarried. 
 
 (2) Sarah Elton, daughter of William C. and Sydney (Wil- 
 lis) Vawter, was born October 5, 1854, at Scipio, Indiana, and 
 was married, at North Vernon, Indiana, October 5, 1891, to 
 Captain James H. Hardy. They have no children. 
 
 Captain Hardy was born in Canada February 22, 1832. He 
 lived in Covington, Indiana, for a number of years and was en- 
 gaged in the mercantile business. Has been retired for the last 
 fifteen years and is living on a farm near North Vernon, Indiana. 
 
 ^ 
 
THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA 1 6$ 
 
 (3) Willis Isaiah, son of William C. and Sydney (Willis) 
 Vawter, was born at Scipio, Indiana, October 5, 1854, and was 
 married May 18, 1884, to Mary Mclntyre, who was born in 
 Madison, Indiana, July 16, i860. Their children are: 
 
 a. Olive S., born December 2, 1885, in North Madison, In- 
 diana. 
 
 b. Bessie M.. born January 16, 1888, in North Madison. In- 
 diana. 
 
 c Wilbur Willis, born November 16, 1889, in North Madi- 
 son, Indiana. 
 
 d. James Hardy, born August 12, 1892, near North Madison, 
 Indiana. 
 
 e. George Williams, born May 22, 1895, near North Madison, 
 Indiana. 
 
 Willis Vawter and family live on a farm near Mooresville, 
 Morgan county, Indiana. 
 
 (4) Spencer Coin, son of William C. and Sydney (Willis) 
 Vawter, was born at Scipio. Indiana, January 12, 1857, and died 
 at North Madison, Indiana, March 6, 1872. 
 
 (5) Johnson Smith, son of William C. and Sydney (Willis) 
 Vawter, was born in Scipio, Indiana, December 31, 1858, and 
 died there April 13, 1866. 
 
 (6) Alice Eupheme, daughter of William C. and Sydney 
 (Willis) Vawter, was born in Scipio. Indiana, March 14, 1861, 
 and was married October 13, 1881, to Theodore Henry Roko- 
 brant, who was born in Madison, Indiana, July 31, 1859. They 
 have two children : Myrtle Olive, born November 2y, 1882, in 
 Madison, Indiana, and George Carl, who was born November 2y, 
 1889, in Madison, Indiana. 
 
 T. H. Rokobrant is traveling agent for Central Electric Supply 
 Company, Chicago. Lives at 703 Main street, Coshocton, Ohio. 
 
 (7) Robert, son of William C. and Sydney (Willis) Vawter, 
 died at birth. 
 
 (8) Theodosia Ernest, daughter of William C. and Sydney 
 (Willis) Vawter, was born at Scipio, Indiana, June 25, 1863, and 
 was married September 17, 1884, to George L. Williams, who 
 
 M 
 
1 66 THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA 
 
 was born in Dupont, Indiana, September 4, 1861. They have no 
 children. 
 
 George L. WilHams is the agent of the Pennsylvania Railroad 
 Company at Jeffersonville, Indiana. 
 
 (9) William Cornett, son of William C. and Sydney (Willis) 
 Vawter, was born at Madison, Indiana, December 5, 1866, and 
 died in Whatcom, Washington, February 4, 1903. He was in 
 the lumber business and was unmarried. 
 
 ( 10) Colfax, son of William C. and Sydney (Willis) Vawter, 
 was born and died December 13, 1868. 
 
 Milton S. Vawter 
 
 Milton S. Vawter, the son of James and Sarah (Watts) Vaw- 
 ter, was born February 17, 1829, near North Madison, Indiana. 
 An account of the early part of his life is best given in his own 
 words. He says : 
 
 "I worked on a farm until I was sixteen years old, then at 
 plastering until my twenty-first year. I then clerked in a store in 
 Bartholomew county, Indiana. At the end of a year I took full 
 charge of the stock and continued the business at Taylorville for 
 one-half the net profit. The country was new, and chills and 
 fever so prevalent that in the fall of 1850 I sold out and returned 
 to Jefferson county, w here I was engaged on the plank road which 
 was being built by my brother John. In the spring of 1851 I 
 located at Elizabethtown and engaged in the mercantile business, 
 and in 1852 also attended to the railroad station in connection 
 with my business. In February, 1855, I sold out to G. W. Bran- 
 ham and went south and engaged with my brother, John W. 
 Vawter, in building plank roads in Louisiana. In the fall of 1856 
 I was engaged by the Madison and Indianapolis Railroad Com- 
 pany to attend to the business at Amity, which I did in connection 
 with a stock of dry goods and groceries. In the fall of 1858 I 
 went to Martinsville and continued there until spring, receiving 
 and shipping grain until the old road was abandoned ; then I en- 
 
THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA 167 
 
 gaged to superintend a merchant mill until the fall of 1859. In 
 the spring of i860 I opened a dry goods and notion store at 
 Madison, Indiana. When the war came on I offered my services 
 in Captain James Bachman's company and was refused. From 
 the years 1855 to 1859 I spent three months of each year away 
 from my other business in buying hogs for Madison pork houses. 
 In the year 1863 I began to work on the river, filling various posi- 
 tions from watchman to captain, having an interest in the boats 
 on which I was employed. I sometimes filled the place of watch- 
 man and clerk at the same time while running up the Tennessee 
 and Cumberland rivers. At the close of the war, in 1865, I was 
 on the steamer "David White" in the Louisville and New Orleans 
 trade. In 1867 I left the river to look after my affairs on land," 
 and have ever since been engaged in merchandising and farming. 
 I am living on the land which my father entered in 1825 and 
 which I purchased of my brother in 1867." 
 
 Milton Vawter is now seventy-five years of age and is living 
 in the house where he was born. The house is still in very good 
 condition. Besides the old home place, there are a number of 
 small dwellings on the farm which are rented. In a little shed 
 near his home Milton Vawter has a small store, with groceries 
 and notions. Here flour, bacon, sugar and the small necessities 
 which may be needed by the farm people are kept, and the tenants 
 are supplied with what they wish, paying a little at a time as they 
 choose. Mr. Vawter is not confined at home at all by this little 
 store. He is always ready to take friends or relatives around to 
 see the country or other relatives. The store is more in the order 
 of a supply house, and people probably only come in the evenings 
 or mornings. 
 
 Milton Vawter is known, too, far and near for his interest in 
 and knowledge of the family. He has furnished many people with 
 copies of old times records, and has been a very great help in the 
 collecting of material for this history. 
 
 Milton Vawter was married to Aureana L. Vawter, the daugh- 
 ter of Pascal Vawter, December 28, 1865. Aureana L. Vawter 
 was born January i, 1843, in Jefferson county, Indiana. Her 
 
l68 THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA 
 
 parents moved to Roman county, Kentucky, in 1856 and to Adair 
 county, Ohio, in 1863. 
 
 The children of Milton and Aureana Vawter were Frank C, 
 Jennie and Bert Watts. 
 
 (i) Frank C, son of Milton and Aureana Vawter, was born 
 September 4, 1867, and was married May 2, 1894, to Lillian 
 Lepper, who was born March 14, 1867. Their children are Rhoy- 
 den, born January 16, 1895, and Nadyne, born November 7, 
 1897. Frank C. Vawter is clerk of a boat which runs between 
 Madison and Cincinnati, and lives in Madison, Indiana, 
 
 (2) Jennie, daughter of Milton and Aureana Vawter, was 
 born April 8, 1870, and is living with her father. 
 
 (3) Bert Watts, son of Milton and Aureana Vawter, was born 
 July 25, 1872, and died September 4, 1872. 
 
 Aureana, wife of Milton Vawter, died October 31, 1872. 
 
 Milton S. Vawter was married November 16, 1876, to Sue G. 
 Sebree, of Rising Sun, Indiana, who was born February 13, 1843, 
 in Gallatin county, Kentucky. 
 
 7 
 
 James S. Vawter 
 
 James S. Vawter, son of James and Sarah (Watts) Vawter, 
 born May 9, 1831 ; married, by Elder John Stott, June 19, 1856, 
 to Mary Cowell, who died in 1857, leaving no children. 
 
 James S. Vawter married, second, Pheba Almeida Rollins in 
 January, 1864, and had two children. 
 
 James S. Vawter lived most of his life in Jefferson and Johnson 
 counties, Indiana. He was engaged in the grocery business for 
 many years, and was postmaster for several years. He was an 
 ordained Baptist minister, but did not preach regularly. He was 
 always a great worker in the church and Sunday-school, of which, 
 at the time of his death, he had been superintendent for twelve 
 years. He wrote a great deal for the papers. He died August 5, 
 1881. Pheba Almeida Vawter died July 13, 1887. 
 
 The children of James S. and Pheba Almeida Vawter were : 
 
THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA 1 69 
 
 (i) Ada v., born December 23, 1864, in Amity, Indiana; 
 died May 30, 1901. Unmarried. 
 
 (2) Effie A., born August 10, 1872, in North Madison, In- 
 diana; married September 5. 1893. to George S. Kerr, who was 
 born in Owen county, Indiana, October 14, 1852. Their children 
 are Stanley I. L., born January 10, 1895; Arleigh Robert, born 
 February 16, 1897, and Rees Vawter, born August 5, 1899. 
 
 George Kerr is a dealer in real estate, living at Bozeman, Mon- 
 tana. 
 
 8 
 
 Newton W. Vawter 
 
 Newton Wilbur Vawter, son of James and Sarah (Watts) 
 Vawter, was born April 13, 1833, near North Madison, Indiana. 
 He was married in 1853 to Lucretia Branham, a granddaughter 
 of Frances (Vawter) Branham. Lucretia (Branham) Vawter 
 died in 1854, leaving no children, 
 
 Newton Vawter was married the second time on October 26, 
 1856, to Maria B. Foster, another granddaughter of Frances 
 (Vawter) Branham. They had four children. Maria (Foster) 
 Vawter died August 2, 1896. 
 
 Newton Wilbur Vawter was married, third, to Armilda A. 
 Hollister, January 13, 1901. 
 
 Newton W. Vawter has lived in Indiana all of his life with the 
 exception of one year spent in Missouri superintending a plank 
 road running from Iron Mountain to St. Genevieve. Has lived 
 all of his life in Jefferson county, except nine years. He has been 
 engaged in merchandising, steamboating five years, and was a 
 locomotive engineer for twenty-five years. He enlisted in the 
 Union army May, 1862. He was orderly sergeant in Company 
 D, Fifty-Fourth Regiment, Volunteer Infantry. Was promoted 
 to sergeant-major of said regiment and was mustered out when 
 the time expired at Indianapolis. Has been a member of the 
 Christian Church for forty-five years. Lives at North Madison, 
 Indiana. 
 
 The children of Newton W. Vawter and Maria (Foster) Vaw- 
 
170 THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA 
 
 ter were Henry J., Will Campbell, Fanny Alice and Robert 
 Newton. 
 
 (i) Henry J., son of Newton and Maria (Foster) Vawter, 
 was born September 19, 1857; married September 16, 1880, to 
 Josie Willin. They have two children, Harry, born June 6, 1881, 
 and Emma, born June 28, 1883. 
 
 Henry Vawter was a railroad conductor until he met with an 
 accident and lost part of his foot. He is now a rural route mail 
 carrier. Lives at Rockport, Indiana. His son Harry was married 
 September 20, 1903, to Lillie M. Hibbs. They live in Clifton 
 Heights, Cincinnati. Their child, Dorothy Louise, was born May 
 30, 1904. 
 
 (2) Will Campbell, son of Newton W. and Maria (Foster) 
 Vawter, was born September 7, i860. He is unmarried and lives 
 in Evansville, Indiana. Lawyer. 
 
 (3) Fanny Alice, daughter of Newton W. and Maria (Fos- 
 ter) Vawter, was born July 14, 1866; married September 19, 
 1889, to John W. Deupree. They had one child, Alva Will, born 
 February 20, 1891. 
 
 John W. Deupree died April 15, 1895. 
 
 Fanny Alice Deupree married, second, Howard Lee on April 
 25, 1901. They have one child, Fanny Jane, born October 5, 
 
 1902. 
 
 Howard Lee is a contractor living in Columbus, Indiana. 
 
 (4) Robert Newton, son of Newton Wilbur and Maria (Fos- 
 ter) Vawter, was born July 23, 1877; married August 23, 1900, 
 to Josie Quinn ; died May i. 1901. 
 
 Fanny S. Vawter 
 
 Fanny S., daughter of James and Sarah (Watts) Vawter, was 
 born September 27, 1835; died April 20, 1876. Unmarried. 
 
THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA 171 
 
 10 
 
 Susan E. Vawter 
 
 Susan E., daughter of James and Sarah (Watts) Vawter, was 
 born Alarch 3. 1838; died February 11. 1857. Unmarried. 
 
 II 
 Thomas S. Vawter 
 
 Thomas S., son of James and Sarah (Watts) Vawter, was 
 born May 3, 1840; married November 6. 1866, at Madison, In- 
 diana, to Annie LeGill, who was born in Ireland but came to this 
 country when a small child. 
 
 Thomas S. Vawter was born near North Madison, Indiana. 
 He has lived in Rexville, Indiana, for thirty-seven years. Is a 
 pension attorney. Served in the War of the Rebellion, the first 
 time in the Fifty-Fourth Indiana, second time in the Sixty- 
 Seventh Indiana, and also in the Twenty- Fourth Indiana. 
 
 Children of Thomas S. and Annie (LeGill) Vawter: Milton 
 M., Edward and Brainard. 
 
 (i) Milton, son of Thomas S. and Annie (LeGill) Vawter, 
 was born September 5, 1868; married September 11, 1892, to 
 Laura Shaddy. They have five children : 
 
 a. Florence May, born January 12, 1893. 
 
 b. Hazel, born November 16, 1896. 
 
 c. Edwin, born November 5, 1898. 
 
 d. Macie Marie, born January i, 1901. 
 c. Annie Laurie, born October 26, 1903. 
 
 Milton Vawter is a barber, living at Rexville, Indiana. 
 
 (2) Edward, the son of Thomas S. and Annie (LeGill) 
 Vawter was born May 22, 1872, and died at the age of twenty- 
 six months. 
 
 (3) Brainard Le Vawter, the son of Thomas S. and Annie 
 (LeGill) Vawter, was born September 29. 1874. He attended 
 school and graduated at the Terre Haute Normal. Is now prin- 
 cipal of the High School at Osgood, Indiana. 
 
IV. 
 
 FRANCES VAWTER5 
 
 (Jesse*, David^, John^, Johni) 
 
 (1785-1853) 
 
 m. 
 
 JOHN BRANHAM 
 
 (1777-1S34) 
 
 Children® 
 
 I. Jesse V. m. 
 Mary Butler 
 
 Grandchildren' 
 
 (i) Zerelda, d. 
 (2) J. Foster, d. 
 
 (3) William m. 
 Martha La- 
 Masters 
 
 (4) Louisa m. 
 
 G. Grandchil- 
 dren" 
 
 Scott m. 
 Julia McDowell 
 
 John m. 
 
 Mary Kareger 
 
 Mary rn. 
 Joseph Gordon 
 
 William m. 
 Mary Davis 
 
 Edward m. 
 Kate Faulkner 
 
 Ida m. 
 Wilbur Grindell 
 
 G. G. Grandchil- 
 dren" 
 
 I Nellie m., two ch. 
 Edith m., one ch. 
 I Jennie 
 J Etta 
 1 Stella 
 I Flora 
 I Hazel 
 I Grace 
 
 Edward 
 
 Ida 
 
 J Lillian 
 
 1 Sadie 
 
 William 
 (^ George 
 
 Mary 
 
 Seven children 
 
 li 
 
 esse 
 Robert 
 
 William 
 George 
 Saphronia 
 Claude 
 Three others 
 
 Alice, d. 
 Wm. Fitch m. 
 Josephine Camp- ^ William Lou 
 bell 
 
 Mary L. m. 
 
 ■n 
 
 MonroeGuUet ] Joseph Whitte- "! Arthur Monroe 
 more L 
 
 Edward m. 
 Grace Sherman 
 
 Elberta Louise 
 
THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA 
 
 ^72> 
 
 I. Jesse V. 
 
 (Continued) '\^ 
 
 (5) Jesse V. m. 
 Mary L. Stark 
 
 r (i) Geo. W. tn. 
 
 Sarah Huckle- 
 berry 
 
 Uriah m. 
 Alcey Davis 
 
 (2) Elizabeth Jane 
 m. 
 Florence O'Con- 
 ner 
 
 (3) Matilda m. 
 John Brooks 
 
 (4) Davis m. 
 Louisiana 
 Compton 
 
 Hiram S. m. 
 Jessie Greenleaf 
 
 Alice m. 
 Wm. R.Burns 
 
 Delaney E. m. 
 Nellie I. Hand 
 
 Louisa m. 
 Peter Rodange 
 
 Thos. F. m. 
 May Galvin 
 
 Uriah 
 Maria 
 [^ Several others 
 
 Solan B. m. 
 Elsie J. Davis 
 
 Clara Alice m. 
 Benjamin Mc- 
 New 
 
 Mary Frances m. 
 Wm. Fleming 
 
 Chester C, d. 
 Hickman D., unm. 
 Wilber S., unm. 
 Florence Jane, d. 
 
 Nora Ellen ra. 
 Clarence Wilson 
 
 , William A., unm. 
 
 Orlando Parks m. 
 Carruthers 
 
 Alcey m. 
 Scott Branham 
 
 Joseph m. 
 Elizabeth Brumit 
 
 Charles Greenleaf 
 Harold Delaney 
 
 Hiram D. 
 William Douglas 
 
 Alice Irene 
 Donald 
 Thomas Leon 
 Cecil Hunter 
 
 Marguerite Louise 
 
 Roger Vawter 
 
 Oral Ami, d. 
 Jesse Branham 
 Orlando Parks, d. 
 Lenora Etha 
 
 } Oscar 
 I Etta N. 
 - Norma E. 
 
 Wilber E. 
 
 Zuma F. 
 
 No children 
 
 Bertha 
 Omer 
 Leslie C. 
 Christel 
 Mabel 
 
 Daisy m., one ch. 
 
 Frank, d, 
 
 r Elmer C. m. 
 Ira E. Downey 
 (Edna Marie) 
 Lester E. 
 IraE. 
 Russell C. 
 Roscoe R. 
 
 Ji 
 
174 
 
 THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA 
 
 Uriah Branham 
 (Continued) 
 
 (4) Davis Branham 
 (Continued) 
 
 (5) Mary A. m. 
 Samuel Brown 
 
 Elizabeth J. 
 Ida P., d. 
 
 d. 
 
 Davis S. m. 
 Ida Belle Cooper 
 
 Florence E., d. 
 
 Annie Laurie m. 
 Wm. Waters 
 
 Spencer Vance 
 Alta Irene 
 Bertha Lulu 
 James Ernest 
 Ethel Pearl 
 Mabel Clare 
 Davis Bishop 
 ^ John Albert 
 
 Addie Belle m. 
 Sam'l H. Pickett 
 
 Mattie C. m. 
 David N. Pickett 
 
 Eva May m. 
 Henry D. Neel 
 
 Jud J. m. 
 
 Jessie M. Bruce 
 Maud F. m. 
 
 Allen Williams 
 
 Ida 
 Morton m. 
 
 AramintaMcEl- 
 roy, d. 
 Emma A. m. 
 
 Waldo Robinson 
 
 Jennie ra. 
 Geo. Stellhorn 
 
 Cora m. 
 Jesse Everson 
 
 William H. m. 
 Rose E. Walrick 
 
 Ezra Foster m. 
 Viola Smith 
 
 r Dunward 
 -i Arley 
 I Virgil 
 
 { Hazel 
 I Glen 
 
 j Ine 
 
 (6) Frances m. 
 
 James A. Wal- -{ 
 den 
 
 Charles Fremont 
 m. 
 Emma Harper 
 
 Estel 
 
 Ethel 
 
 Lenore 
 Howard 
 
 Mary Freda 
 
 I Clarence 
 (-John 
 I Harry 
 
 Ada, m. 
 Bertha m. 
 Seaman 
 Noble 
 Bonnie 
 Homer 
 Carl 
 Mauree 
 Lillian 
 
 -{ 
 
THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA 
 
 175 
 
 2. Uriah Branham 
 
 (Continued) ' 
 
 (6) Frances Wal- 
 den 
 {Continued) 
 
 (7) James N. in. 
 Carrie 
 
 L (8) Danville, d. 
 
 Wm. Orval, unm. 
 
 Annie Ellen m. 
 Wm. A. Jenkins 
 
 Uriah Branham, d. 
 
 James Richey m. 
 Elizabeth Baker 
 
 Lulie May m. 
 Everett R. Bo- 
 hall 
 Fanny, d. 
 Hazel Etta 
 Georgia A. 
 
 Elizabeth Etta m. 
 Rev. W. G. Mc- 
 Colley 
 
 Mary Alice m. 
 Leslie Good 
 
 I Susie 
 I Alice 
 -j William 
 
 Leslie, d. 
 (^ Dorothy 
 
 James, d. 
 
 Carrie 
 
 I William 
 
 I Walter 
 
 Lillian, d. 
 
 Maggie 
 
 Jessie 
 
 Edgar 
 
 Donnel 
 
 Nora 
 
 Jessie Lulie m. 
 Frank Marshall 
 
 Ida May m. ( Arthur 
 
 JamesK. Atwood ) Walden 
 Otis Morton, unm. 
 . Orion Noble, d. 
 
 McKnight 
 Vera 
 
 r (1) Jonathan m. 
 
 Isabelle Green 
 
 3. Mary m. 
 
 Jared Foster 
 
 Radie m. 
 Mandeville Bain 
 
 Mary M. m. 
 1st Ansley F. 
 Jones 
 
 2d Rev. C. L. 
 Smith 
 
 Wm. J. m. 
 Sadie Brock 
 
 Mattie M. m. 
 A. C. Jones 
 
 Jennie 
 Harry 
 L Mary 
 
 r 
 
 -! Olive 
 
 I 
 
 j Grayce 
 
 f Radie 
 I Audrey 
 I Harold 
 l^ Leland 
 
 r Melnotte B. 
 M. Pearle 
 N. Augusta 
 
 I Royal C. 
 
 I Isabelle A. 
 
 I A. Foster 
 
 I Gladys O. 
 Gayle A. 
 
 LJi 
 
176 
 
 THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA 
 
 (i) Johnathan Fos- 
 ter 
 ( Continued) 
 
 3. Mary Foster 
 
 (Continued) 
 
 (4) Maria B. m. 
 Newton W. 
 Vawter 
 
 (2) Jane S. m. 
 Granville P. 
 
 Campbell (both 
 dead) 
 
 (3) Watts, d. 
 
 John A. m. 
 Annie Powell 
 
 Lucy B. m. 
 Alfred Soward 
 
 Gladys m. 
 O. A.Cook 
 
 Henry J. m. 
 Josie Wiliin 
 
 \Vm. Campbell, 
 unm. 
 
 Fanny Alice m. 
 1st John Deu- 
 pree 
 
 Raymond 
 Arthur 
 Leslie 
 Gayle 
 
 C Gladys 
 -{ Ross 
 [ Winnie 
 
 f Harry m. 
 J Lillie M. Hibbs 
 ] (Dorothy L.) 
 
 I Emma 
 
 Alva William 
 
 2d Howard Lee \ Fanny Jane 
 
 Robert Newton m. 
 Josie Quinn, d. 
 
 4. Danville, m. 
 
 No children 
 
 5. Elizabeth m. 
 Daniel Davis 
 
 (1) John 
 
 (2) Daniel 
 
 (3) James 
 
 I (4) Edward 
 
 I (5) Several others 
 
 r (i) Lucretia A. m. f 
 
 Newton W. i No children 
 Vawter L 
 
 r Ardys, d. 
 (2) Henry Clay m. ] ^^^^ 
 
 Caroline Bate- ^ Hal Howard 
 
 l Harrye Boynton 
 
 6. Geo. W. m. 
 ist Elizabeth 
 Branham 
 
 man 
 
 (3) John Clark m. 
 Kate Bromley 
 
 L 
 
 John Warner 
 
 Bromley E. m. 
 Elenor Wilton 
 
 Edith Kate ra. 
 
 John M. Covert 
 
 Jessie, d. 
 Ruby Alice m. 
 Gordon B. At- 
 wood 
 
 Donald 
 
 John Stanley 
 
THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA 
 
 177 
 
 6 Geo.W.Branham ^ 
 {Continued) 
 
 (4) David Hick- 
 
 man, d. 
 
 (5) \Vm. Cum- 
 
 mings m. 
 Mary E.Gilbert 
 
 r Gilbert C. 
 
 I Elizabeth H. m. 
 "I John H. Wagner 
 David C. m. 
 Vera Miller 
 
 Mary Elizabeth 
 
 2d Mrs. Mary 
 A. Wilson 
 
 7. James m. 
 1st Nancy 
 Owens 
 
 2d Eveline 
 Adams 
 
 (6) Emma C. m. 
 Joseph W, San- 
 born 
 
 (6) 
 
 Larose m. 
 Susan A. Hal 
 bert 
 
 (7) Ida 
 
 (8) C. A. 
 
 (9) SmithVawter.d. 
 
 r Fred Roi 
 
 I Perita 
 
 J Brown 
 
 1 Thor Warren 
 
 Isaac Basil 
 [ Joseph Warren 
 
 (7) Geo. Chandler f 
 m. 
 
 ist. Margaret 
 Comer 
 
 2d. Dicy A. 
 Green 
 
 r (i) David Owens, d. 
 
 (2) Martha Jane m. 
 
 Daly, d. 
 
 (3) Marietta m. 
 
 George Bick- 
 ford, d. 
 
 (4) James Harvey, 
 
 d. unm. 
 
 (5) John Edward, 
 
 d. unm. 
 
 -1 Stella 
 
 Joseph Cary 
 
 [" Nelle B. m. 
 
 I Byron H. Coffey ' 
 
 James H. m. 
 Rose Strother, d 
 
 Arthur E. 
 I Eva May, d. 
 
 Edward L. 
 (^ Bertha B. 
 
 Thatcher Howe 
 Josephine 
 Cecil Louise 
 Jule Hubert 
 
178 
 
 THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA 
 
 8. JohnT.,d. 
 
 9. Jane V. m. 
 Jared Foster 
 
 (i) Frances, d. 
 (2) Sarah m. 
 
 ist Geo. Bald- 
 win 
 
 2d Davidson 
 Rea 
 
 (3) Lucy m. 
 
 Henry Corne- 
 lius 
 
 (4) Geo. R., d. 
 
 (5) Mariema m. 
 Lucebra W. 
 
 Marsh 
 
 Jacob 
 
 Kennedy F. 
 
 ^ Harry B. m. 
 
 Lillian Augusta m. 
 A. L. Brougher; d. 
 
 Maud Mary m. 
 Chas. Ham 
 
 Grace Alice 
 Rade and Royal 
 (Royal, d.) 
 , Ernest, d. 
 
 Sarah 
 
 Lettie m. 
 - Orr 
 
 Rade rn. 
 (^ Nelson 
 
 Ernest 
 Marjorie 
 
 ^ Clarence 
 Grace 
 Lora 
 Eugene 
 
 IV 
 
 FRANCES (VAWTER) BRANHAM 
 
 Frances, daughter of Jesse and Elizabeth (Watts) Vawter, 
 was born February 26, 1785; married to John Branham, the 
 brother of Linsfield Branham, who married her sister Mary. John 
 Branham was born February 27, 1777, and died March 20, 1834. 
 Frances (Vawter) Branham died at Ehzabethtown, Indiana, Sep- 
 tember 8, 1853. 
 
 John and Frances (Vawter) Branham had nine children: 
 Jesse, Uriah, Mary, Danville, Elizabeth. George W., James, John 
 T. and Jane V. 
 
 Jesse V. Branham 
 
 Jesse V. Branham, son of John and Frances (Vawter) Bran- 
 ham, was born in Kentucky in 1803; married to Mary Butler in 
 
THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA I79 
 
 Jennings county, Indiana, in 1822; died in 1893, at Litchfield, 
 Minnesota. Was a farmer. 
 
 Mary (Butler) Branham was born in Kentucky in 1805; died 
 in July, 1885, in Litchfield, Minnesota. 
 
 Children of Jesse V. and Mary (Butler) Branham were Ze- 
 relda, J. Foster, William, Louisa, Jesse, Mary, Sarah and Ezra. 
 
 ( 1 ) Zerelda, daughter of Jesse V. and Mary Branham, was 
 born in 1824; died in 1850. 
 
 (2) J. Foster, son of Jesse V. and Mary Branham, was born 
 in 1826; died in 1840. 
 
 (3) William, son of Jesse V. and Mary Branham, was born 
 in 1828; married Martha LaMasters at Franklin, Indiana, in 
 1850. Is a retired farmer, living in Litchfield, Minnesota. 
 
 Martha (LaMasters) Branham was born in 1827; died in 
 
 1893. 
 
 Children of William and Martha Branham : Scott, John, 
 Mary, William, Edward and Ida. 
 
 a. Scott, son of William and Martha Branham, was born in 
 1851; married Julia McDowell in 1879. Is a farmer, living at 
 Hector, Minnesota. 
 
 Children are Nellie, born in 1880, who is married and has two 
 children. Lives at Warehouse, Minnesota; Edith, born in 1882; 
 married and has one child. Lives at Hector, Minnesota; Jennie, 
 born in 1884; Etta, born in 1886; Stella, born in 1888; Flora, 
 born in 1890; Hazel, born in 1893, and Grace, born in 1896. 
 
 h. John, son of William and Martha Branham, was born in 
 1853; married Mary Kareger in 1875. Is a farmer, living near 
 Hubbard, Minnesota. Children are Edward, Ida, Lillian, Sadie, 
 William and George. 
 
 c. Mary, daughter of William and Martha Branham, was born 
 in 1855 ; married to Joseph Gordon in 1877 ; died in 1899, leaving 
 one child, Mary. 
 
 d. William, son of William and Martha Branham, was born 
 in 1859; married Mary Davis. Is a farmer, living near Wrens- 
 hall, Minnesota. Has seven children. 
 
 e. Edward, son of William and Martha Branham, was bom 
 
l80 THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA 
 
 in 1857; married Kate Faulkner in 1882. Is a farmer, living near 
 Hubbard, Minnesota. Has two children, Jesse and Robert. 
 
 /. Ida, daughter of William and Martha Branham, was born 
 in 1864; married Wilbur Grindell, who is a farmer living near 
 Corvusco, Meeker county, Minnesota. They have seven children, 
 William, George, Sophronia, Claude and three others. 
 
 (4) Louisa, daughter of Jesse V. and Mary (Butler) Bran- 
 ham, was born in Vernon, Indiana, November 4, 1831 ; married 
 May 2, 1850, in Franklin, Indiana, to Monroe Gullett, who was 
 born October 15, 1824, in Kentucky, and died July 15, 1887. 
 
 Mrs. Louisa Gullett lives in Clearwater, Minnesota, with her 
 daughter, Mrs. Whittemore. 
 
 Children of Monroe and Louisa (Branham) Gullett: 
 
 a. Alice Gullett, born July 21, 1852, in Franklin, Indiana; 
 died August 11, 1852. 
 
 b. William Fitch Gullett, born April 24, 1854, in Franklin, 
 Indiana; married December 26, 1894, to Josephine Campbell. 
 Children : William Lou. 
 
 Fitch Gullett is a motorman, living in St. Cloud, Minnesota. 
 
 c. Mary L. Gullett was born October 30, i860, in Franklin, 
 Indiana; married January 8, 1895, to Joseph Whittemore, a 
 banker of Clearwater, Minnesota. One child, Arthur Monroe, 
 was born February 16, 1899. 
 
 d. Edward B. Gullett was born in Clearwater, Minnesota, July 
 23, 1869; married January 8, 1895, to Grace Sherman. Is the 
 proprietor of a hotel in Hutchinson, Minnesota. One child, El- 
 berta Louise, was born October 8, 1897. 
 
 (5) Jesse v., son of Jesse V. and Mary (Butler) Branham, 
 was born in Vernon, Indiana, July 8, 1834; married February 6, 
 1855, at Henryville, Indiana, to Mary L. Stark, who was born 
 May 14, 1833, at Charlestown, Indiana. 
 
 Jesse V. Branham is now manager of the Keeley Institute in 
 Fargo, North Dakota. 
 
 Children of Jesse V. and Mary (Stark) Branham: 
 a. Hiram S. Branham, born in Franklin, Indiana, January 30, 
 1856; married December 27, 1882, to Jessie Greenleaf of Litch- 
 field, Minnesota; died in 1891. 
 
THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA l8l 
 
 Children : Charles Greenleaf Branham and Harold Delaney 
 Branham. 
 
 b. Alice Branham, daughter of Jesse Vawter and Mary 
 (Stark) Branham, was born in Meeker county, Minnesota, No- 
 vember 4, 1858; married to William R. Burns, of Toronto, Can- 
 ada, March 11, 1885. William R. Burns is manager of the Keeley 
 Institute in Omaha, Nebraska. 
 
 Children : Hiram D. Burns, born March 20, 1889, and William 
 Douglas Burns, born May 18, 1893. 
 
 c. Delaney E. Branham, son of Jesse Vawter and Mary 
 (Stark) Branham, was born May 13, 1861, in Meeker county, 
 Minnesota; married September 25, 1884, to Nettie I. Hand, of 
 Potsdam, New York. Is in the mercantile business in Minneapo- 
 lis, Minnesota. 
 
 Children : Alice Irene, Donald, Thomas Leon and Cecil Hunter. 
 
 d. Louisa Branham, daughter of Jesse Vawter and Mary 
 (Stark) Branham, was born at Forest City, Minnesota, August 
 5, 1866; married June 26, 1893, at Litchfield, Minnesota, to Peter 
 Rodange, of Litchfield. Peter Rodange was born at Cascade, 
 Iowa, February i, 1868. They have one child. Marguerite Louise 
 Rodange, born June 22, 1894. 
 
 Peter Rodange is assistant cashier of bank at Litchfield, Min- 
 nesota. 
 
 e. Thomas F. Branham, son of Jesse Vawter and Mary 
 (Stark) Branham, was born August 8, 1869, in Meeker county, 
 Minnesota; married June, 1898, to May Galvin, of West Liberty, 
 Iowa. Is in the mercantile business in Minneapolis, Minnesota. 
 They have one child, Roger Vawter Branham. 
 
 Uriah Branham 
 
 Uriah Branham, son of John and Frances (Vawter) Bran- 
 ham, was born February i, 1805; married December 28, 1826, 
 to Alcey Davis, who was bom September 22, 1807, and died Sep- 
 tember 7, 1865. 
 
l82 THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA 
 
 Uriah Branham was a contractor and builder, and at times was 
 engaged in the running of a sawmill. He lived near Vernon, 
 Indiana. He and his brother James had taken a contract to build 
 a plank road from Genevieve, Missouri, to the Iron Mountains. 
 Uriah Branham went west and had been from home less than a 
 week when he was taken sick with cholera, and died on the Mis- 
 sissippi river August 22, 1851. 
 
 Children of Uriah and Alcey (Davis) Branham: George W., 
 Elizabeth J.. Matilda, Davis, Mary A., Frances, James N. and 
 Danville. 
 
 (i) George W., son of Uriah and Alcey (Davis) Branham, 
 was born December 21, 1827; married to Sarah Huckleberry at 
 Vernon, Indiana. He afterwards moved to St. Genevieve, Mis- 
 souri. Both he and his wife have been dead many years. Their 
 children were Uriah, Maria and several others. Their location is 
 not known. 
 
 (2) Elizabeth Jane, daughter of Uriah and Alcey (Davis) 
 Branham, was born August 25, 1829; married February 18, 1851 
 at Franklin, Indiana, to Florence O'Conner; died December 5, 
 1891. 
 
 Florence O'Conner was born February 24, 1825, in Ohio, and 
 died September 3, 1899. 
 
 Children of Florence and Elizabeth (Branham) O'Conner: 
 
 a. Solon B. O'Conner, son of Florence and Elizabeth (Bran- 
 ham) O'Conner, was born at Zenus, Jennings county, Indiana, 
 December 8, 1852; married near Zenus December 19, 1876, to 
 Elsie Jane Davis, who was born in Elizabethtown, Indiana, April 
 6, 1853, and died June 21, 1890. 
 
 Children of Solon B. and Elsie (Davis) O'Conner: Oral Ami, 
 born October i, 1877, ^^^^ November 22, 1887; Jesse Branham, 
 born October 4, 1879; Orlando Parks, born January 22, 1883, 
 died November 22, 1887, and Lenora Etha, born April 22, 1884. 
 
 Solon B. O'Conner lives near Holton, Indiana. 
 
 b. Clara Alice, daughter of Florence and Elizabeth O'Conner, 
 was born in Jennings county, Indiana, July 29, 1854; married in 
 Jennings county, Indiana, May 6, 1875, to Benjamin McNew, 
 who was born in Ripley county, Indiana, December 14, 1850. 
 
THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA 1 83 
 
 Children: Oscar was born February 19, 1876; Etta N. was 
 born March 3, 1879; Norma E. was born August 25, 1887; Wil- 
 ber E., born March 18, 1893. ^^^ Zuma F., born December 4, 
 1894. 
 
 c. Mary Frances, daughter of Florence and Ehzabeth (Bran- 
 ham) O'Conner, was born near Zenus, Indiana, March 9, 1856; 
 married to WilHam Fleming, who was born near Hopewell, In- 
 diana, May 31, 1858. No children. William Fleming is a real 
 estate agent, living at Greensburg, Indiana. 
 
 d. Chester C, son of Florence and Elizabeth (Branham) 
 O'Conner, was born January 3, 1858; died February 25, 1873. 
 
 e. Hickman D., son of Florence and Elizabeth O'Conner, 
 was born November 24, 1859. Is unmarried. Lives at 2603 
 Brookside avenue, Indianapolis, Indiana. 
 
 /, Wilber S., son of Florence and Elizabeth O'Conner, was 
 born February 2, 1862. Lives in Indianapolis. Unmarried. 
 
 g. Florence Jane, daughter of Florence and Elizabeth O'Con- 
 ner, was born April 15, 1864; died December 15, 1866. 
 
 h. Norah Ellen, daughter of Florence and Elizabeth O'Con- 
 ner, was born in Jennings county, Indiana, July 29, 1867; mar- 
 ried February 2, 1887, to Clarence Wilson, who was born in 
 Ohio county, Indiana, October 3, 1866. Clarence Wilson is en- 
 gaged in farming and runs a dairy. Lives at Holton, Indiana. 
 
 Children: Bertha, born February 13, 1888; Omer, born No- 
 vember 23, 1889; Leslie C, born May 15, 1893; Christel, born 
 June 14, 1897, and Mabel, born August 4, 1899. 
 
 /. William A., son of Florence and Elizabeth O'Conner, was 
 born May 18, 1872. Lives in Indianapolis. Unmarried. 
 
 (3) Matilda, daughter of Uriah and Alcey (Davis) Bran- 
 ham, was born December 14, 1831; married to John Brooks; 
 died November 28, 1852. They lived in Elizabethtown, Indiana. 
 They had one child, Orlando Parks Brooks. 
 
 Orlando Parks Brooks married a Carruthers and had one child, 
 Daisy, who was married and has a child. 
 
 (4) Davis, the son of Uriah and Alcey (Davis) Branham, 
 was born August 22, 1833, at Vernon, Indiana; married Janu- 
 ary 4, 1855, at Elizabethtown, Indiana, to Louisiana Compton, 
 
184 THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA 
 
 who was born August 30, 1837, at Paris, Jennings county, In- 
 diana, and died February 5, 1899. 
 
 Davis and Louisiana C. Branham had twelve children : Alcey, 
 Joseph, Elizabeth J., Ida P., Davis S., Florence E., Annie Laurie, 
 Addie Bell, Mattie C, Eva May, Jud J., and Maud F. 
 
 a. Alcey Branham was born October 9, 1855; married to 
 Scott Branham July 4, 1873. Alcey Branham died May 4, 1876, 
 leaving one child, Frank, who has since died. 
 
 b. Joseph Branham was born February 4, 1858; married to 
 Elizabeth Brumit December i, 1881. Elizabeth Brumit was born 
 July 20, 1859. 
 
 Joseph Branham died April 19, 1895. 
 
 Children of Joseph and Elizabeth (Brumit) Branham: 
 
 (a) Elmer C. Branham, born November 2t,, 1882; married 
 May 8, 1901, to Ira E. Downey, who was born October 9, 1881. 
 They have one child, Edna Marie, born January 22, 1902. 
 
 (b) Lester E. Branham, born May 17, 1884. 
 
 (c) Ira E. Branham, born June 1 1, 1886. 
 
 (d) Russell C. Branham, born December 16, 1888. 
 
 (e) Roscoe R. Branham, born March 5, 1891. 
 
 The widow of Joseph Branham is now Mrs. Jennie Fads. She 
 lives at Osgood, Indiana. 
 
 c. Elizabeth J. Branham was born April 24, 1859, died April 
 2, 1873. 
 
 d. Ida P. Branham was born October 11, i860; died Febru- 
 ary 15, 1861. 
 
 e. Davis S. Branham was born June 24, 1862; married Oc- 
 tober 22, 1884, to Ida Belle Cooper, who was born October 24, 
 1868. They live at Gillett, Arkansas. 
 
 Children: Spencer Vance, born April 24, 1886; Alta Irene, 
 born April 23, 1888; Bertha Lulu, born April 6, 1890; James 
 Ernest, born May 10, 1892; Ethel Pearl, born November 13, 
 1894; Mabel Clare, born October 19, 1896; Davis Bishop, born 
 July 14, 1899, and John Albert, born January 23, 1902. 
 
 /. Florence E. Branham was born July 3, 1867; died March 
 29, 1868. 
 
 g. Annie Laurie Branham was born March 10, 1869; mar- 
 
THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA 1 85 
 
 ried to William Waters on August 28, 1892. They live in Du- 
 pont, Indiana. Have three children living, Dunward, Arley and 
 Virgil, and one child dead. 
 
 h. Addie Bell Branham was born December 21, 1870; mar- 
 ried Samuel H. Pickett June 18, 1890. They live near Holton, 
 Indiana, R. R. No. 2. They have two children : Hazel, born 
 July 20, 1 89 1, and Glen, born July 20, 1895. 
 
 /. Mattie C. Branham was born March 26, 1872; married 
 David N. Pickett September 3, 1890; died January 11, 1892. 
 
 7. Eva May Branham, born March 10, 1875; married Janu- 
 ary I, 1899, to Henry D. Neel, who was born July 16, 1874. 
 They live in Gas City, Indiana. Have one child, Inez May, born 
 December 8, 1899. 
 
 k. Jud J. Branham was born June 26, 1876; married Jessie 
 M. Bruce May 5, 1901. They live at Greensburg, Indiana. Have 
 one child, Estel. 
 
 /. Maud F. Branham was born June i, 1879; married to Al- 
 len Williams February 25, 1901. They live near Shelby ville, 
 Indiana, R. R. No. 2. 
 
 (5) Mary A., daughter of Uriah and Alcey (Davis) Bran- 
 ham, w^as born in 1835; married in 1854 to Samuel Brown, who 
 was born in 1830. Mary A. Brown lives at 919 North East 
 street, Indianapolis, Indiana. 
 
 Children : ; 
 
 a. Ida, born December 14, 1854. Lives in Indianapolis. 
 
 b. Morton, born May 17, 1859; married Araminta McElroy. 
 Lived in Kansas, but is now dead. No children. 
 
 c. Emma A., born November 28, i860; married Waldo 
 Robinson in 1895. Waldo Robinson is dead. His wife lives in 
 Indianapolis, Indiana. 
 
 d. Jennie, born August 9, 1862; married George Stellhorn in 
 1887. They have one child, Ethel. Live at 306 North Noble 
 street, Indianapolis. 
 
 e. Cora, born October 28, 1867; married Jesse Everson in 
 1890. They have two children, Lenore, born in 1892, and How- 
 ard, born in 1896. 
 
 /. William H., born August 25, 1871 ; married Rose E. Wal- 
 
l86 THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA 
 
 rick in Indianapolis about 1897. They have one child, Mary 
 Freda, born in 1899. 
 
 (6) Frances, daughter of Uriah and Alcey (Davis) Bran- 
 ham, was born May 8, 1837; married to James A. Walden, 
 April 4, 1854; died February 22, 1899. 
 
 James A. Walden was born near LaGrange, Oldham county, 
 Kentucky, July 15, 1830; died February 8, 1899. He was a car- 
 penter and lived in Franklin, Indiana. There were twelve chil- 
 dren, ten of whom are living. They are: Ezra Foster, Charles 
 Fremont, William Orval, Jennie Ellen, Uriah, James R., Eliza- 
 beth Etta. Mary Alice, Jessie Lulie, Ida May, Otis Morton and 
 Orion Noble. 
 
 a. Ezra Foster Walden was born January 2, 1855; married 
 to Viola Smith, of Illinois, March, 1879. Children: Clarence. 
 John and Harry. Ezra Walden is a carpenter. Lives in Franklin, 
 Indiana. 
 
 b. Charles Fremont Walden was born August 18, 1856; mar- 
 ried to Emma Harper, of Illinois, in 1877. They have eight 
 children : Ada, who is married and lives in Illinois ; Bertha, who 
 married a Seaman and lives in Lafayette, Indiana; Noble, who 
 is a telegraph operator in Indianapolis at the Vandalia yards; 
 Bonnie. Homer. Carl, Mauree and Lillian, who live with their 
 parents at Indianapolis, Indiana. 
 
 c. William Orval Walden was born October 19, 1858. Is liv- 
 ing at 1 201 Pratt street, Indianapolis. 
 
 d. Annie Ellen Walden was born October 26, i860; married 
 to William A. Jenkins October 16, 1879. Children: Lulie May, 
 who married Everett R. Bohall, of Franklin, Indiana; Fanny, 
 who died at the age of two years ; Hazel, Etta and Georgia A., 
 who live in Franklin, Indiana. 
 
 e. Uriah Branham Walden was born January 9, 1862; died 
 July 4. 1894. 
 
 /. James Richey Walden was born December 27. 1864; mar- 
 ried to Elizabeth Baker in 1888. Children: Susie. Alice, Wil- 
 liam. Leslie, who died in infancy, and Dorothy. They live at 718 
 North Holmes avenue, Indianapolis, Indiana. 
 
THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA 187 
 
 g. Elizabeth Etta Walden was born November 2. 1867; mar- 
 ried to Rev. W. G. McColley in 1888. Children: James, who 
 died at the age of two years, Carrie, William and Walter. They 
 live in Pontiac, Illinois. 
 
 h. Mary Alice Walden was born October 22, 1869; married 
 to Leslie Good in 1886. Children: Lillian (dead), Maggie, Jes- 
 sie, Edgar, Donnel and Nora. Live near Sheridan, Indiana. 
 
 i. Jessie Lulie Walden was born December 31, 1871, and was 
 married to Frank Marshall, November, 1899. They live at 1103 
 Eugene street, Indianapolis, Indiana. 
 
 7. Ida May Walden was born February 28, 1874; married to 
 James K. Atwood November i, 1896. Children: One who died, 
 Arthur and Walden. Live at 1201 Pratt street, Indianapolis. 
 
 k. Otis Morton Walden was born February 12, 1877. Lives 
 at Indianapolis. 
 
 /. Orion Noble Walden, twin brother of Otis, was born Feb- 
 ruary 12, 1877; died August 2^, 1894. 
 
 (7) James N., son of Uriah and Alcey (Davis) Branham, 
 was born September 17, 1839. He was killed in 1896 in a rail- 
 road wreck. He left a wife, Carrie, and two daughters. One of 
 the daughters is Mrs. McKnight, who lives at 1523 Deloss street, 
 Indianapolis, and the other. Vera Branham, lives with her mother 
 at 507 Madison avenue, Topeka, Kansas. 
 
 (8) Danville, son of Uriah and Alcey (Davis) Branham, 
 was born July 9, 1845; died November 7, 1863. 
 
 Mary (Branham) Foster 
 
 Mary, daughter of John and Frances ( Vawter) Branham, was 
 born October 31, 1806; married at Vernon, Indiana, in 1824, to 
 Jared Foster; died December 24, 1835. 
 
 Mary B. Foster was a tall, slender woman, fair, blue-eyed, 
 very mild and pleasant in disposition, an earnest Christian and a 
 most devoted mother. She died of consumption. 
 
 Jared Foster was born in Genesee county, New York, Janu- 
 ary 25, 1805. Came from there to Indiana with his widowed 
 
l88 THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA 
 
 mother when a boy and, as was the custom at that time, was 
 bound to J. B. New, cabinetmaker at Vernon, Indiana. He served 
 J. B. New until nineteen years of age, then bought the remaining 
 two years of his time and went into business for himself. He 
 was a cabinetmaker for ten years, then went into the millwright 
 business. He moved from Indiana to Jefferson county, Illinois, 
 in 1 86 1, where he spent the remainder of his life. He figured 
 some in politics during the later years of his life, and for four 
 years held the ofiice of county judge in Jefferson county, Illinois. 
 He was for many years a preacher in the Christian Church. Died 
 in Jefferson county, Illinois, in 1892. 
 
 Jared and Mary (Branham) Foster had seven children, only 
 one of whom, Jonathan Foster, is now living. Others of the chil- 
 dren were Jane S., Watts and Maria B. 
 
 (i) Jonathan, son of Jared and Mary (Branham) Foster, 
 was born in 1826; married March, 1846, to Isabelle Green, who 
 died in August, 1899. 
 
 Jonathan Foster lives at Aurora, Hamilton county, Nebraska. 
 Carpenter. 
 
 The children of Jonathan and Isabelle Foster were Radie, 
 Mary M., William J., Mattie M., John A., Lucy B. and Gladys. 
 
 a. Radie Foster, daughter of Jonathan and Isabelle (Green) 
 Foster, was born in 1846; married in May, 1867, to Mandeville 
 Bain. Their children: Jennie, born in 1868; Harry, born in 
 1 87 1, and Mary, born in 1874. Mrs. Radie (Foster) Bain lives 
 at 2517 Gale street, Indianapolis, Indiana. 
 
 b. Mary M., daughter of Jonathan and Isabelle (Green) 
 Foster, was born May 2, 1849; married, first, to Ansley F. 
 Jones in April, 1871, and had one child, Olive, who was born 
 in 1874. Mary (Foster) Jones was married, second, to Rev. C. 
 L. Smith, and had one child, Grayce, who was born in 1881. 
 Live at Aurora, Nebraska. 
 
 c. William J., son of Jonathan and Isabelle (Green) Foster, 
 was born August 20, 1852; married in the fall of 1880 to Sadie 
 Brock. Their children are: Radie, born in 1881 ; Audrey, born 
 in 1886; Harold, born in 1891, and Leland, born in 1899. Live at 
 Giltner, Nebraska. 
 
THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA 189 
 
 d. Mattie M., daughter of Jonathan and Isabelle (Green) 
 Foster, was born September 8, 1854; married January 14, 1876, 
 to A. C. Jones, who was born January 10, 1844. Mr. Jones is 
 in the saddlery, harness and machinery business in Opdyke, 
 IlHnois. 
 
 The children of A. C. and Mattie (Foster) Jones are Melnotte 
 B., born November 28, 1876; M. Pearle, born May 29, 1878; 
 N. Augusta, born July 9, 1880; Royal C, born October 19, 1881 ; 
 Isabelle A., born September 23, 1887; A. Foster, born November 
 23, 1892; Gladys O., and Gayle A., born February 8, 1894. 
 
 c. John A. Foster, the son of Jonathan and Isabelle (Green) 
 Foster, was born July 6, 1857; married in the fall of 1882 to 
 Annie Powell. Their children are: Raymond, born in 1883; 
 Arthur, born in 1885; Leslie, born in 1887, and Gayle, born in 
 1895. Live in Glenville, Nebraska. 
 
 /. Lucy B. Foster, daughter of Jonathan and Isabelle 
 (Green) Foster, was born June 8, 1862; married in December, 
 1882, to Alfred Soward. Their children are: Gladys, born in 
 1883; Ross, born in 1885, and Winnie, born in 1887. Alfred 
 Soward is a miner, living in Placerville, Idaho. 
 
 g. Gladys Foster, daughter of Jonathan and Isabelle (Green) 
 Foster, was born February 12, 1867; married in the spring of 
 1897 to O. A. Cook, a contractor and builder, living in Giltner, 
 Nebraska. 
 
 (2) Jane S. Foster, daughter of Jared and Mary (Bran- 
 ham) Foster, was married to Granville P. Campbell. They had 
 no children and both are now dead. 
 
 (3) Watts, the son of Jared and Mary Foster, died at the 
 age of eighteen years. 
 
 (4) Maria B. Foster, daughter of Jared and Mary Foster, 
 was married to Newton W. Vawter. (See record of Newton 
 Vawter. ) 
 
 Danville Branham 
 
 Danville, son of John and Frances (Vawter) Branham, was 
 born March 18, 1809. He lived in North Madison, Indiana. He 
 
ipO THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA 
 
 was a millwright, but during the later years of his life was a 
 railroad contractor. He had no children of his own, but reared 
 Maria Foster, the daughter of Jared and Mary Foster, who after- 
 wards married Newton Vawter. 
 
 Elizabeth (Branham) Davis 
 
 Elizabeth, daughter of John and Frances (Vawter) Branham, 
 was born March 4, 181 1 ; married Daniel Davis. Children : John, 
 Daniel, James, Edward and several daughters, none of whom 
 are now living. A niece, Amanda Sanders, is living in West 
 Shoals, Indiana. 
 
 Daniel and Elizabeth Davis, during the thirties, joined the 
 Mormons at Nauvoo, Illinois. Some years later they returned 
 to Indiana. Elizabeth died at the home of her son, Edward, in 
 Missouri. Daniel Davis died in Jennings county, Indiana. 
 
 6 
 
 George W. Branham 
 
 George W., son of John and Frances (Vawter) Branham, was 
 born December 8. 1812, in Scott county, Kentucky. 
 
 A portion of a sketch of his life given in a Kansas City paper 
 is here reproduced. 
 
 "Major George W. Branham was always an energetic and en- 
 terprising man and always took part in the public movements of 
 the community in which he lived. He was a contractor in 1846 
 and 1847 o^ the Madison and Indianapolis railroad, the first 
 railroad constructed west of the Alleghany Mountains. He was 
 at the same time a contractor on the Wabash Canal in Indiana. 
 Both of these undertakings were being completed by the state, 
 which, owing to the panic of 1847, failed to carry out its agree- 
 ments. This caused Major Branham great loss. With that 
 sterling honesty for which he was always distinguished Mr. Bran- 
 ham refused to take advantage of the facilities then existing for 
 
THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA I9I 
 
 effecting settlements with his creditors. He went to work and 
 raised the money and paid his creditors in full. 
 
 "The outbreak of the Civil War found him engaged in the 
 management of a large woolen mill at Franklin, Indiana, of 
 which he w^s the owner. This mill was mysteriously burned, the 
 fire being believed to have been of incendiary origin, because of 
 his intense loyalty. By this fire he lost about $85,000. At that 
 time he was also engaged in the banking business at Franklin 
 and Jeffersonville, being president of the branch located at Frank- 
 lin, while Hon. Hugh McCulloch was president of the Ft. Wayne 
 branch. This made them both directors of the state bank and 
 brought them into such association that a warm personal attach- 
 ment ensued and lasted through life. Several times during the 
 administration of Mr. McCulloch as secretary of the treasury, 
 Major Branham was invited to Washington to consider with him 
 intricate financial problems. He organized the National Bank of 
 Franklin soon after the passage of the national bank law, and 
 that was the second bank organized under it. 
 
 "In 1865 Major Branham went to Memphis with the idea of 
 organizing a national bank there, but finding it an unpromising 
 place at that time, went up the river and, after looking over the 
 Missouri towns, he located in Kansas City, predicting that it 
 would become a great commercial center. Here he organized a 
 First National Bank in 1866, which in after years became a great 
 factor in the development of Kansas City. He was afterwards a 
 miller, a grain merchant, and for a number of years a prominent 
 and influential member of the Board of Trade and a member of 
 the first board of directors. 
 
 "In 1875 Major Branham disposed of his interests in Kansas 
 City and removed to a farm in Linn county, where he died 
 August I, 1885. He left behind him written instructions concern- 
 ing his funeral, in which he desired that there should be no re- 
 ligious ceremony ; therefore a paper written by himself, and bear- 
 ing date of the day of his death, was read at the grave by Major 
 Warner, a friend of Major Branham and his family." 
 
 George W. Branham was married the first time to his cousin, 
 Elizabeth Branham, May 16, 1832. Elizabeth Branham was born 
 
192 THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA 
 
 May 2, 1814, and died May 16. 1846. Their children were 
 Lucretia A., Henry Clay, John Clark, David Hickman and Will 
 Cummings. 
 
 ( 1 ) Lucretia A. Branham, daughter of George W. and Eliza- 
 beth Branham, was born May 28, 1834; married in 1853 to 
 Newton Vawter, son of James Vawter; died July 21, 1854. No 
 children. 
 
 (2) Henry Clay Branham, son of George W. and Elizabeth 
 Branham, was born June i, 1836; married November 12, 1859, 
 to Caroline A. Bateman; died December 18, 1880. Wife was 
 born in Cincinnati, Ohio, April 30, 1840. Mrs. Henry C. Bran- 
 ham lives at 1194 Upper Third street, Evansville, Indiana. 
 
 Children : 
 
 a. Ardys, born October 15, i860; died July 3, 1884. 
 
 b. Mary, born October 18, 1862. Is a bookkeeper in Evans- 
 ville. 
 
 c. Hal Harwood, born November 29, 1871. Is a broker, liv- 
 ing in San Antonio, Texas. 
 
 d. Harrye Boynton, born January 23, 1880. 
 
 Henry C. Branham was engaged the greater part of his life 
 in railroad work. He was superintendent at the time of his 
 death of the unfinished Air Line railroad between Louisville and 
 Evansville, with ofifices in Evansville. 
 
 (3) John Clark Branham, son of George W. and Elizabeth 
 Branham, was born at Franklin, Indiana, August 3, 1839; mar- 
 ried at Kansas City, Missouri, January 17, 1872, to Kate Brom- 
 ley, who was born in Kenosha, Wisconsin, January 31, 1854. He 
 died July 18, 1897, at Mt. Vernon, Illinois, where he had been a 
 foreman of the Louisville & Nashville railway for a number of 
 years. 
 
 Children of John Clark and Kate (Bromley) Branham: 
 
 a. John Warner, born at Kansas City October 27, 1872. 
 
 b. Bromley E., born at Fountain Grove, Missouri, May 31, 
 1875; married at New Albany, Indiana, August 6, 1899, to 
 Elenor Wilton. Their son, Donald, was born July 12, 1900. 
 
 c. Edith Kate was born in Kansas City, Missouri, March 19, 
 
THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA I93 
 
 1879; married at Howell, Indiana, September 12, 1899, to John 
 M. Covert. Their son, John Stanley, was born February 6, 1902. 
 
 d. Jessie, born at Mt. Vernon, Illinois, October 14, 1882; 
 died November 18, 1882. 
 
 e. Ruby Alice was born at Mt. Vernon, Illinois, July 27, 
 1884; married May 23, 1904, at Evansville, Indiana, to Gordon 
 B. At wood. 
 
 (4) David Hickman, son of George W. and Elizabeth Bran- 
 ham, was born April 4, 1841 ; died July 28, 1843. 
 
 (5) Will Cummings, son of George W. and Elizabeth Bran- 
 ham, was born at Elizabethtown, Indiana, March 30, 1843; mar- 
 ried December 25, 1866, to Mary Elizabeth Gilbert, who was 
 born at Columbus, Indiana. October 7, 1844. 
 
 William C. Branham lived the greater part of his life in Kan- 
 sas City. He died in Minneapolis, Minnesota, March 29, 1894. 
 
 Children of William C. and Mary (Gilbert) Branham : 
 
 a. Gilbert C. Branham was born in Kansas City, July 14, 
 1868. Lives in Kansas City. 
 
 h. Elizabeth Hoolbrook Branham was born in Kansas City, 
 February 17, 1873; married August 15, 1901, to John H. Wag- 
 ner. One child, Mary Elizabeth, was born October 13, 1902. 
 
 c. David C. Branham was born in Kansas City, Missouri, 
 November 10, 1877; married September 24, 1902, to Vera Miller. 
 Lives in Kansas City. 
 
 George W. Branham was married, second, December 28, 1847, 
 to Mrs. Mary Adams Wilson, who was born in Boston Corners, 
 Erie county. New York, October 5, 181 8. 
 
 Their children were : 
 
 (i) Emma Cary Branham, born August 29, 1852, at Frank- 
 lin, Indiana; married November 16, 1871, to Joseph Warren 
 Sanborn at Kansas City, Missouri. Mr. Sanborn is engaged in 
 the lumber business. They had five children, Fred Roi, Perita 
 Brown, Thor Warren, Isaac Basil and Joseph Warren, Jr. They 
 live at 3010 East Tenth street, Kansas City, Missouri. 
 
 (2) George Chandler Branham was born February 14, i860, 
 at Franklin, Indiana; married to Margaret Susan Comer at 
 
194 THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA 
 
 Meadville, Missouri, October 5, 1880. They had one child, 
 Stella, born September 22, 1881, at Kansas City, Missouri. 
 
 Margaret (Comer) Branham died April 2, 1882. 
 
 George Chandler Branham was married, second, to Dicy A. 
 Green, June 20, 1889, at Chillicothe, Missouri. They had one 
 child, Joseph Gary, born December 19, 1890, at Merriam, Kansas. 
 
 George Chandler Branham died May 3, 1895, at Kansas City, 
 Missouri. His two children are living with his mother, Mrs. 
 Mary Branham, at Merriam, Johnson county, Kansas. 
 
 James Branham 
 
 James Branham, son of John and Frances (Vawter) Bran- 
 ham, was born July 14, 181 5 ; married to Nancy Owens, January 
 30, 1834. 
 
 James Branham was a contractor on the Iron Mountain Plank 
 Road in 1852. He was in the milling business in the early fifties 
 in Greensburg, Indiana. From there he moved to Vernon about 
 1858, and took contracts there for a few years, building the 
 court-house about i860. After that he went with D. C. Branham 
 into railroad construction, he being master bridge carpenter. He 
 was on the Martinsville and Fairland road, the Rushville and 
 Connersville road, and, up to within two years of his death, with 
 the Indianapolis and Vincennes road. He moved from Vernon 
 to Spencer in 1869. Died December 25, 1872. 
 
 Nancy (Owens) Branham was born December 26, 181 2; died 
 August 2^, 1847. 
 
 Children of James and Nancy (Owens) Branham: 
 
 (i) David Owens Branham was born November 11, 1834; 
 died March 12, 1841. 
 
 (2) Martha Jane, daughter of James and Nancy (Owens) 
 
 Branham, was born October i, 1836; married Daly; died 
 
 December 31, 1863. 
 
 (3) Marietta Branham was born October 15, 1839; mar- 
 ried George Bickford ; died January 21, 1867. 
 
THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA I95 
 
 (4) James Harvey Branham was born May lo, 1843; ^'^^^ 
 November 3. 1875. Umnarried. 
 
 (5) John Edward Branham was born March 9, 1846; killed 
 in battle August 30, 1862. 
 
 James Branham was married, second, to Eveline Adams, De- 
 cember 4. 1847. Eveline Adams, daughter of Alexander and 
 Hannah Adams, was born December 11. 1825; died September 
 
 24, 1867. 
 
 Children of James and Eveline (Adams) Branham: 
 
 (i) Larose Branham, born August 18, 1852; married to 
 
 Susan A. Halbert, December 15, 1872. Susan A. Halbert was 
 
 born in Spencer, Indiana, September 19, 1854. 
 
 Children of Larose and Susan (Halbert) Branham: 
 
 a. Nelle B. Branham, born September 26, 1873; married 
 January 10, 1894, to Byron Howe Coffey, who was born at Spen- 
 cer, Indiana. January 29, 1866. Mr. Coffey is a grocer, living 
 at 901 Eugene street. North Indianapolis, Indiana. 
 
 Children: Thatcher Howe Coffey, born February 7, 1895; 
 Josephine, born March 22, 1896; Cecil Louise, born November 
 
 25, 1897; J"-^!^ Hubert, born December 25, 1899. All born at 
 Spencer, Indiana. 
 
 b. James H. Branham, born September 29, 1875; married 
 to Rose Strother; died October 17, 1898. No children. 
 
 c. Arthur E. Branham, born October 24, 1877. Is a stenog- 
 rapher and bookkeeper, living at 501 East Fourteenth street, 
 Kansas City, Missouri. 
 
 d. Eva May Branham was born December 17, 1883; died 
 November 6, 1884. 
 
 e. Edward L. Branham was born November 13, 1885. Lives 
 with his parents in Spencer. 
 
 /. Bertha B. Branham was born October 28, 1892. 
 
 (2) Ida Branham, daughter of James and Eveline Branham 
 was born May 3, 1854. 
 
 (3) C. A. Branham, son of James and Eveline Branham, was 
 born April 20. 1857. Lives at 838 Thirteenth street, Denver, 
 Colorado. 
 
196 THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA 
 
 (4) Smith Vawter Branham, son of James and Eveline 
 Branham, was born March 25, 1859. Died. 
 
 8 
 
 John T. Branham 
 
 John T., son of John and Frances (Vawter) Branham, was 
 born August 16, 1819; died in childhood. 
 
 Jane (Branham) Foster 
 
 Jane V. Branham, daughter of John and Frances (Vawter) 
 Branham, was born May 16, 1820. She was married to Jared 
 Foster in 1837. She was tall and slender, with dark eyes and 
 hair. She died March 10, 1845, at the age of twenty-five years. 
 
 The children of Jared and Jane V. Foster were Frances, Sarah, 
 Lucy, George Riley and Mariema. 
 
 ( 1 ) Frances Foster, daughter of Jared and Jane V. Foster, 
 was born in 1838, and died in infancy. 
 
 (2) Sarah Foster, daughter of Jared and Jane V. Foster, 
 was born January 10, 1839; married April 5, 1855, to George 
 Baldwin, who died March 11, i860. 
 
 Jacob Baldwin, son of George and Sarah (Foster) Baldwin, 
 was born January 15, 1856. 
 
 Sarah (Foster) Baldwin married Davidson Rea, March 11, 
 1864. They had one child. Kennedy F. Rea, born December 10, 
 1868. Sarah F. Baldwin Rea died February 14, 1880. Kennedy 
 F. Rea lives in Washington, D. C. 
 
 (3) Lucy Foster, daughter of Jared and Jane (Branham) 
 Foster, was born January 13, 1841 ; married to Henry Cornelius, 
 September, i860, in Jefferson county, Illinois. Henry Cornelius 
 was born in Portsmouth, Ohio, July 26, 1838. 
 
THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA I97 
 
 Children : 
 
 a. Harry B., born July 19, 1863; married August 26, 1886, 
 and removed to Nebraska, where he is engaged in the real estate 
 business. He has two children, Ernest and Marjorie. 
 
 b. Lillian Augusta, born September 6, 1864; married April 
 12, 1885, to A. L. Brougher; died April 30, 1886. 
 
 c. Maud Mary, born October i, 1866; married November 16, 
 1884, to Charles Ham, a farmer, near Opdyke, Illinois. They 
 have four children, Clarence, Grace, Lora and Eugene. 
 
 d. Grace AHce, born July 9, 1873. 
 
 e. Rade and Royal (twins), born March 19, 1875. Royal 
 died. 
 
 /. Ernest, born February 8, 1877; died in May, 1877. 
 Henry B. Cornelius and family live in Opdyke, Illinois. 
 
 (4) George R. Foster, son of Jared and Jane V. Foster, was 
 born January 7, 1844; died in infancy. 
 
 (5) Mariema Foster, daughter of Jared and Jane V. Foster, 
 was born March 7, 1845; married March 18, 1868, to Lucebra 
 W. Marsh, who was born in Reddington, Indiana, February 15, 
 1846, and was shot by a burglar who entered the house on New 
 Years night, 1892. 
 
 Children of Lucebra W. and Mariema Marsh : 
 
 a. Sarah Marsh, born April 12, 1869, at Reddington, In- 
 diana. Is a teacher, living in Seymour, Indiana. 
 
 b. Lettie Marsh-Orr, born April 29, 1872, at Reddington, 
 Indiana. Is a nurse, living at Seymour, Indiana. 
 
 c. Rade Marsh Nelson, born December 24, 1875, at Red- 
 dington, Indiana. Is a stenographer, living at Columbus, Indiana. 
 
 Mrs. Mariema (Foster) Marsh lives at Seymour, Indiana. 
 
V. 
 
 MARY VAWTER5 
 
 (Jesse^, Davids, John^, Johni) 
 
 (1787-1846) 
 
 m, 
 
 LINSFIELD BRANHAM 
 (1784-1825) 
 
 Children* 
 I. Granville, d. s. 
 
 Grandchildren' 
 
 2. Julia Ann m. 
 Henry Webb 
 
 3. Benjamin m. 
 Letitia Kidd 
 
 G. Grandchil- 
 dren^ 
 
 r IdaM.,d.s. 
 
 Edwin P. m. 
 Mary E. Hilton 
 
 (i) Jesse m. 
 
 Sarah Brougher ' 
 
 Vida X. ra. 
 Edward 
 McCauley 
 
 Beulah J. m. 
 LutherF.Vaughn ■! Joseph Webb 
 Wm. Russell 
 
 G. G. Grandchil- 
 dren* 
 
 r Wilbur Hilton 
 
 \ Mary B. 
 
 (^ Jesse Lamar 
 
 Frank D., d. s. 
 Pearle 
 
 r Sarah Agnes 
 I Eugene Morris 
 
 (2) Ruth m. / 
 Augustus ) Leila 
 
 Vaught ' 
 
 (3) Mary E., d. s. 
 
 (4) Howard, d. s. 
 
 (5) Benjamin, s. 
 
 (6) Mary m. f Julia m. 
 Jasper Tripp 1 C. L. Hobart 
 
 1^ Frank 
 
 Jesse 
 
 (7) William m. 
 Elsie Matthews 
 
 No children 
 
 Levon B. 
 Roy H. 
 ■ Winifred E. 
 Arthur, d. 
 Nelle 
 
THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA 
 
 199 
 
 4. David m. 
 
 Cynthia Wat- 
 son 
 
 f (I) Wm. Allan, d.s. 
 (2) Saphronia, d. s. 
 
 (3) Mary A. m. 
 Samuel Cobb 
 
 (4) Oscar, d. s. 
 
 (5) Geo. F. m. 
 Adaline 
 
 Nichols 
 
 (6) Edwin m. 
 
 Mary K. Bram- -{ 
 well 
 
 L (7) William, d. s. 
 
 f Cynthia m. 
 E. D. Porter 
 
 Geo. O. m. 
 Minnie Beaker 
 
 Pearl, d. 
 John M. m. 
 Minnie Cotton 
 
 Samuel H. m. 
 l^ Edith Fedder 
 
 Edwin m. 
 Lotta Hunter 
 
 David C. m. 
 Emma Frieders 
 dorf 
 
 Edward 
 Charles 
 [^ Marion 
 
 [ Lulu, d. 
 -; Hazel 
 l^ Geo. O., Jr. 
 
 5 John 
 
 Malcomb 
 
 Raymond 
 
 Harold 
 I Samuel H., Jr. 
 [ Baby 
 
 Sarah Adaline 
 
 ■I 
 
 Nannie E. m. 
 Edward T. Wood 
 
 Katherine E. 
 Edwin 
 
 Mary Cynisea 
 Virginia Branham 
 
 Wm. Hickman 
 m. ist 
 
 Melinda Wat- 
 son 
 
 ' (i) Helen Louisa, 
 d.s. 
 (2) Nannie, d. s. 
 - (3) William, d. s. 
 
 (4) Emmam. ( Harry, d. s. 
 
 James R. Ryan f Robert, d. s. 
 
 (i) William, d. s. 
 
 (2) Ida m. ( ^. . ., , 
 
 Tia J c nr ,t ] No children 
 Ufford S. Wolf I 
 
 2d 
 
 (3) Leila m. 
 
 W. E. Telford 
 
 No children 
 
 (4) Charles H. m. I ,.. , . 
 
 T , -, J Hickman, d. 
 
 Ida Newsome 1 ^. , »r 
 Charles N. 
 
 •2d , ^ 
 
 LiviaJaneStow (5) David McClure C 
 
 m. ■{ No children 
 
 Nettie Springer ^ 
 
 r Mary Ufford 
 
 (6) Edward F. m. ^^j^^ Lee 
 Daisy Lee | ^^^^^ 
 
 (7) Lynn C. m. 
 Jessie Ryker | Elizabeth 
 
 (8) Minnie, d. s. 
 
200 
 
 THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA 
 
 Elizabeth m. 
 Geo. W. Bran- 
 ham 
 
 (i) Lucretia A. m. 
 
 Newton W. 
 
 Vawter 
 
 (2) Henry Clay ra. 
 Caroline Bate- 
 
 (3) John Clark m. 
 Kate Bromley 
 
 (4) David Hick- 
 
 man, d. s. 
 
 (5) William Cum- 
 mings m. 
 Mary E. Gil- 
 bert 
 
 No children 
 
 Ardys, d. s. 
 
 Mary 
 
 Hal Howard 
 
 Harrye Boynton 
 
 John Warner 
 Bromley E. m. , 
 
 Elenor Wilton \ Donald 
 
 Edith Kate m. 
 John M. Covert | John Stanley 
 
 Jessie, d. s. 
 Ruby Alice m. 
 Gordon B. 
 Atwood 
 
 C Gilbert C. 
 
 Elizabeth H. m. 
 
 John H. Wagner 
 David C. m. 
 
 Vera Miller 
 
 ] Mary Elizabeth 
 
 7. McClure m. 
 ist 
 
 Louisa J. 
 Hutchins 
 
 2d 
 
 Mrs. Frances 
 Watson 
 
 (i) Mary Ellen m. , 
 
 ist Albert W. \ No children 
 Moore 
 
 ^^ \ No children 
 
 Frank Costigan ' 
 
 (2) Wm. Jennings { 
 
 m. Kate Owens 
 
 Ernest 
 
 (3) Juliette m. 
 
 ^ 
 
 f Marian 
 ! Kate m. 
 
 r 
 
 8. Mary Louisa, m. 
 Edward J. Rob- 
 inson 
 
 r Mary 
 -; Florence 
 [ William 
 
 Thos. Calloway j Joe Curtis Dixon 
 
 , , c iu I Myrtle Helen 
 
 (i) Samantha, s. 
 
 (2) Albert, s. 
 (3 & 4) d. in in- 
 fancy 
 
 (5) Fred m. 
 Cora 
 
 (6) Lolla, s. 
 
 (i) Anna Cornelia 
 m. Hamilton 
 
 Stapp 
 
 (2) Mary Rebecca, 
 
 d.s. 
 
 (3) Wm. Hickman, 
 
 d.s. 
 
 (4) Julia Elizabeth 
 m. Archer H. 5 Helen Mary 
 
 Crane ^ 
 
 (5) Mary Louisa, 
 
 d. s. 
 
 (6) Edward Lins- 
 
 field, d. s. 
 
THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA 
 
 20 1 
 
 8. Mary Robinson 
 {Continued) 
 
 (7) Carrie Bran- (" Margaret Robinson 
 ham m, Geo. S.^ Helen 
 Long 
 
 1 
 
 i^ Ceo. S. 
 
 (8) Emma Nettie 
 
 / \ Air J i^j J f Mary .Anna 
 
 (9) Alfred Edward -c- , • , ^ , , 
 
 -1 Freoerick Edward 
 
 [ Anna Julia 
 
 9. Nancy m. 
 
 Solon C. Bram- 
 
 well 
 
 (10) Walter Scott 
 d. s. 
 
 (1) Edgar m. 
 Adelia Fran- 
 cisco 
 
 (2) MaryKath- 
 erine m. 
 Edwin Bran- 
 ham 
 
 ' Geo. F. m 
 Mary Reilly 
 
 William S. m. 
 Lillian Farns- 
 worth 
 
 I 
 
 Harry L. m. 
 Lillie Robinson 
 
 f David C. m. 
 
 Emma Frieders- 
 dorf 
 
 I Nannie E. m. 
 
 L Edward T.Wood 
 
 Edna 
 Louise 
 
 Annasdale 
 Bessie 
 
 \ Dorothy 
 
 Katherine E. 
 Edwin 
 
 Mary Cynisea 
 Virginia Branham 
 
 10. Joseph Warren r 
 
 m. Friscilla J ^^'^ "'■ i 
 
 j Van Trees ^ 
 
 O'Laughley 
 
 Two children 
 
 I 
 
 V 
 
 MARY (VAWTER) BRANHAM 
 
 Mary Vawter, daughter of Jesse and Elizabeth Vawter, was 
 born in Virginia, May 17, 1787; married June 11, 1807, to Lins- 
 field Branham; died May 12, 1846. 
 
 Linsfield Branham w^as born March 21, 1784; died September 
 10, 1825. He was among the first settlers of Madison, Jefferson 
 county, Indiana. He was active in getting up a petition for a 
 road and was appointed overseer with instructions to collect and 
 keep up roads as early as February, 181 1. He was also appointed 
 one of the appraisers of real and personal property. In the year 
 1 81 8 he bought of Stapp and Branham his home near North 
 Madison. 
 
 Linsfield and Mary (Vawter) Branham had ten children: 
 Granville, Julia Ann, Benjamin, David Cummings, William Hick- 
 man, Elizabeth, McClure, Mary Louisa, Nancy and Joseph 
 Warren. 
 
202 THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA 
 
 Granville Branham 
 
 Granville, son of Linsfield and Mary (Vawter) Branham, was 
 born June lo, 1808; died unmarried. 
 
 Julia (Branham) Webb 
 
 Julia Ann Branham, daughter of Linsfield and Mary (Vawter) 
 Branham, was born July 2, 1809; married March 21, 1830, to 
 Henry Webb, who was born in New Jersey in 1792, and died 
 November 2, 1868. He was a merchant. 
 
 Julia (Branham) Webb died September 11, 1882, in Elizabeth- 
 town, Indiana. 
 
 Children : 
 
 (i) Jesse, son of Henry and Julia (Branham) Webb, was 
 born in North Madison, Indiana, January 9, 1831 ; married in 
 Franklin. Indiana, September 11, 1855. to Sarah Brougher, who 
 was born in Brewersville, Indiana, June 12, 1828. Jesse Webb 
 was a carpenter. He died November 2, 1862. 
 
 Children : 
 
 a. Ida M. Webb, born in Memphis, Tennessee, September 2, 
 1856; died June 25, 1858. 
 
 b. Edwin P. Webb, born in Brewersville, Indiana, April 15, 
 1858; married October 25, 1887, to Mary Etta Hilton. Children : 
 Wilbur Hilton, born January 16, 1889; Mary B., born December 
 22, 1 89 1, and Jesse Lamar, born June 27, 1893. Ewin P. Webb 
 lives in Marshall, Texas. 
 
 c. Vida X. Webb, born in North Madison, Indiana, March 9, 
 i860; married June 27, 1878, to Edward J. McCauley. Children : 
 Frank D., born May 17, 1879; drowned June 20, 1891 ; Pearle, 
 born October 10, 1881. Vida X. Webb is in the Insane Hospital 
 at Indianapolis, Indiana. 
 
THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA 203 
 
 d. Beulah J. Webb was born in North Madison, Indiana, 
 March 28, 1862; married to Luther Felix Vaughn October 31, 
 1894. Children: Sarah Agnes, born October 30, 1895; Eugene 
 Morris, born January 10, 1897; Joseph Webb, born August 28, 
 1899; WilHam Russell, born April 7, 1901, and Jesse, born Feb- 
 ruary 10, 1903. 
 
 (2) Ruth, daughter of Henry and Julia (Branham) Webb, 
 was born in Madison, Indiana, October 3, 1834; married March 
 II, 1869, to Augustus Vaught, who was born February 14, 1821, 
 in Kentucky. One child, Leila Vaught, was born at Elizabeth- 
 town, Indiana, November 2, 1870. 
 
 Augustus Vaught is an undertaker and furniture dealer, living 
 at Martinsville, Indiana. 
 
 (3) Mary E. Webb, daughter of Henry and Julia (Branham) 
 Webb, was born in 1837, and died in 1840. 
 
 (4) Howard Webb, son of Henry and Julia (Branham) 
 Webb, was born in 1839, and died in 1840. 
 
 (5) Benjamin Webb, son of Henry and Julia (Branham) 
 Webb, was born March 17, 1841. Lives at the Soldiers' Home. 
 Unmarried. 
 
 (6) Mary Webb, daughter of Henry and Julia (Branham) 
 Webb, was born in Madison, Indiana, June 17, 1847; married 
 in Madison, Indiana, October 29, 1868, to Jasper Tripp, who was 
 born in Patriot, Indiana, April 19, 1839, ^"^ died May 19, 1895. 
 Jasper Tripp was United States ganger. 
 
 Children : 
 
 a. Julia S. Tripp, daughter of Jasper and Mary (Webb) 
 Tripp, was born October i, 1869; married August 25, 1902, to 
 C. L. Hobart, who is a printer. No children. They live in To- 
 peka, Kansas. 
 
 h. Frank C. Tripp, son of Jasper and Mary (Webb) Tripp, 
 was born October 9, 1874. Is a bookkeeper, living in Topeka, 
 Kansas. 
 
 (7) William Webb, the son of Henry and Julia (Branham) 
 Webb, was born at North Madison, Indiana, October 3, 1849; 
 married at Martinsville, Indiana, December 19, 1873, to Elsie 
 Matthews, who was born near Vernon, Indiana, August 7, 1851. 
 
204 THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA 
 
 Children : 
 
 a. Levon B. Webb, born September y, 1874. 
 
 b. Roy H. Webb, born March 5, 1877. 
 
 c. Winifred E. Webb, born June 6, 1879. 
 
 d. Arthur Webb, born September 18, 1882; died February i, 
 1900. 
 
 c. Nelle Webb, born May 21, 1887. 
 
 Wilham Webb owns a bakery at Martinsville, Indiana. His 
 children are all living at home except Roy, who lives in Indianap- 
 olis, Indiana. 
 
 3 
 Benjamin Branham 
 
 Benjamin, son of Linsfield and Mary (Vawter) Branham, was 
 born December 3, 1810; married February 28, 1834, to Letitia 
 Kidd; died at Rodney, Mississippi, April 9, 1842. 
 
 4 
 David Branham 
 
 David Branham, son of Linsfield and Mary Branham, was born 
 August 29, 1812; married October 17, 1833, to Cynthia A, Wat- 
 son; died in 1877. 
 
 Cynthia (Watson) Branham was born at Mt. Sterling, Ken- 
 tucky, in 1820; died 1903. 
 
 In an article published after the death of David Branham, oc- 
 curred this paragraph : 
 
 "David Branham was for more than fifty years identified, 
 either directly or indirectly, with all that was of public interest in 
 Jefferson county, Indiana. He was a member of the legislature 
 for a quarter of a century, and during this entire period there was 
 no act of his that was not dictated by sentiments of highest in- 
 tegrity and purest patriotism. While he was a man of positive 
 views and strong convictions, firmly devoted to his political sen- 
 
THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA 205 
 
 timents and party, his strong sense of justice held them in such 
 just equihbrium as to command for him the confidence and re- 
 spect, not only of the leaders, but of the people of all parties." 
 
 Governor Morton wrote a letter to his private secretary, W. H. 
 H. Terrell, just after he had started to Europe, and in it said : 
 "I am personally thankful for the able and efficient support David 
 Branham has given me through my whole administration and the 
 service he has rendered the state. It was Branham who gave the 
 backbone to the movement in the legislature of 1863 which re- 
 sulted in the defeat of all their revolutionary schemes and saved 
 the state from the horrors of civil war. I have always intended 
 to declare this to the world in some form and still do, if I am 
 spared to return. It was the high stand he took and the bulldog 
 resolution with which he hung on to it that brought the others 
 round to the policy that would save the state (that was the break- 
 ing up of the legislature). His services have never been recog- 
 nized by the government or the people as they should have been. 
 I have always intended to do him justice. Say to him that I 
 cherish kind, grateful recollections of his personal and political 
 services." 
 
 Mrs. Mary Cobb, a daughter of David Branham, says : "This 
 letter was dated November 19, 1865. W. H. H. Terrell was a 
 nephew of my mother. I distinctly remember my father bringing 
 the members who 'bolted' with him to our house at Madison. He 
 was superintendent of the Madison Railroad, and brought them 
 in his private car." 
 
 Children of David and Cynthia (Watson) Branham were 
 William Allan, Sophronia, Mary A., Oscar, Edwin and William. 
 
 (i) William Allan Branham was born in 1834; died in 1847. 
 
 (2) Sophronia Branham was born in North Madison, In- 
 diana, in 1837; died in 1887. Unmarried. 
 
 (3) Mary A. Branham, daughter of David and Cynthia 
 (Watson) Branham, was born at North Madison. Indiana, in 
 1839; married in i860 to Samuel Cobb, who was born in Paris, 
 Indiana, in 1836, and died in 1899. 
 
 Children : 
 
 a. Cynthia Cobb, born in Madison. Indiana, in i860; married 
 
206 THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA 
 
 in Indianapolis in 1882, to Dr. E. D. Porter. Lives in Indianapo- 
 lis. Children: Edward, born in 1887; Charles, born in 1890, and 
 Marion, born in 1893. 
 
 b. George O. Cobb, born in Madison, Indiana, in 1862; mar- 
 ried in 1884 to Minnie Beeker, who was born in 1867. George 
 O. Cobb is an ice manufacturer, living in Matoon, Illinois. 
 
 Children: Lulu, born in 1884; died in 1899; Hazel, born in 
 1886, and George O., Jr., born in 1888. 
 
 c. Pearl Cobb, born in 1870; died in 187 1. 
 
 d. John M. Cobb, born in Spencer, Indiana, in 1868; married 
 in 1 89 1 to Minnie Cotton, who was born in Indianapolis in 1869. 
 One child, John Malcomb, was born in Indianapolis in 1892. 
 
 John M. Cobb is district sales agent for the National Cash 
 Register Company. Lives in St. Louis, Missouri. 
 
 e. Samuel H. Cobb was born in 1874; married in 1894 to 
 Edith Fedder, who was born in Bloomington, Indiana. Their 
 children are Raymond, born in 1895; Harold, born in 1898; 
 Samuel H., Jr., born in 1900, and a baby, born in 1903. 
 
 Samuel H. Cobb is assistant manager and bookkeeper Amer- 
 ican Press Association. Lives in Indianapolis, Indiana. 
 
 (4) Oscar, son of David and Cynthia (Watson) Branham, 
 was born in 1842, and died in the army in 1862. 
 
 (5) George F. Branham, son of David and Cynthia (Wat- 
 son) Branham, was born February 26, 1844; married April 9, 
 1869, to Adaline Nichols, who was born September 12, 1846. 
 George F. Branham died in Indianapolis, May 9, 1896. 
 
 Children : 
 
 a. Edwin Branham, born September 28, 1871 ; married De- 
 cember 12, 1894, to Lotta Hunter, who was born December 13, 
 1874. They have one child, Sarah Adaline. They live in In- 
 dianapolis. 
 
 (6) Edwin Branham, son of David and Cynthia (Watson) 
 Branham, was born January, 1846; married to his cousin, Mary 
 Katherine Bramwell, who was born May 29, 1844. Edwin Bran- 
 ham lived only a few years after the war. He was a prisoner in 
 Andersonville until Sherman's "March to the Sea." He never 
 recovered from his terrible experience in prison. 
 
THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA 20/ 
 
 Children of Edwin and Mary (Bramwell) Branham were 
 David and Nannie. 
 
 a. David C. Branham, son of Edwin and Mary B. Branham, 
 was born July 30, 1867 ; married August 9, 1896, to Emma Frie- 
 dersdorf. Lives in Cairo, Illinois. Children: Katherine E., born 
 October 17, 1897, and Edwin, born January 27, 1903. 
 
 b. Nannie E. Branham, daughter of Edwin and Mary B. 
 Branham, was born February 9, 1870; married June 19, 1897, 
 to Edward Thurston Wood, who was born December 25, 1855. 
 Children : Mary Cynisea, born June 26, 1898, and Virginia Bran- 
 ham, born March 19, 1902. They live at 6023 Vernon avenue, 
 Chicago, Illinois. 
 
 (7) William Branham, son of David and Cynthia (Watson) 
 Branham, was born in 1848; died in 1868. 
 
 5 
 William Hickman Branham 
 
 William Hickman Branham, son of Linsfield and Mary (Vaw- 
 ter) Branham, was born March 28, 1814; married January 19, 
 1835, to Melinda Watson, who was born October 11, 1819, and 
 died August 16, 1846. 
 
 William Hickman Branham was, with his brother, David C. 
 Branham, in the making and selling of lumber until the railroad 
 was built, when he worked for the state. The old Indianapolis 
 and Madison Railroad belonged to the state. David C. Branham 
 was superintendent for a number of years on the Indianapolis and 
 Madison Road, at that time called the Madison and Indianapolis 
 Road. After the road fell into the hands of a company Hickman 
 Branham was engaged in buying and selling grain for a while, 
 and then went back to the railroad. He was also engaged for 
 several years in operating a hotel which he and his brother David 
 had built. William Hickman Branham died February 4, 1867. 
 
 Children of William Hickman and Melinda (Watson) Bran- 
 ham : 
 
 ( I ) Helen Louisa, died in infancy. 
 
208 THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA 
 
 (2) Nannie, died in infancy. 
 
 (3) William, died in infancy. 
 
 (4) Emma Branham, born in 1841 ; married in 1861 to James 
 R. Ryan, who was born in 1833. He was engaged in the whole- 
 sale commission business in Indianapolis. Their children : Harry, 
 born in 1862 ; died in 1898, unmarried, and Robert, born in 1872 ; 
 died in 1901. 
 
 Mr. and Mrs. Ryan live at 522 North New Jersey street, In- 
 dianapolis. 
 
 William Hickman Branham was married, second, to Livia Jane 
 Stow March 28, 1850. Livia (Stow) Branham was born Decem- 
 ber 13, 1827; died October 24, 1903. 
 
 Children of William H. and Livia (Stow) Branham: 
 
 (i) William Branham, son of William H. and Livia (Stow) 
 Branham, born June 20, 185 1 ; died May 28, 1852. 
 
 (2) Ida Branham, daughter of William H. and Livia (Stow) 
 Branham, born March 5, 1853; married November 21, 1872, to 
 Ufford S. Wolf. Ufford S. Wolf was a farmer, then was in com- 
 mission business with J. R. Ryan in Indianapolis. Is now retired 
 from business. No children. 
 
 (3) Leila Branham, daughter of William H. and Livia 
 (Stow) Branham, was born March 15, 1855; married January 
 I, 1879, to W. E. Telford, who has since died. No children. 
 Mrs. Telford is a school teacher and also teaches music. Lives 
 at North Madison, Indiana. 
 
 (4) Charles H. Branham, son of William H. and Livia 
 (Stow) Branham, was born September 23, 1857; married June 
 28, 1888, to Ida Newsome. 
 
 Charles H. Branham is employed by the Pennsylvania Lines as 
 yardmaster and foreman of the shops at North Madison, Indiana. 
 
 Children: Minnie, born November 22, 1889; Hickman, born 
 January 30, 1897, died March 7, 1899; Charles N., born January 
 24, 1899.' 
 
 (5) David McClure Branham, son of William H. and Livia 
 (Stow) Branham, was born January 5, i860; married May 10, 
 1883, to Nettie A. Springer. No children. David Branham is a 
 dealer in general merchandise, living in Elizabethtown, Indiana. 
 
THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA 209 
 
 (6) Edward F. Branham, son of William H. and Livia 
 (Stow) Branham. was born January 8, 1862; married November 
 7, 1895, to Daisy Lee, who was born September 27, 1867. Ed- 
 ward Branham is a traveling- salesman for the American Agricul- 
 tural Chemical Company. Lives at North Madison, Indiana. 
 
 Children : 
 
 a. Mary Ufford, born November 8, 1896; died July i. 1903. 
 
 b. Helen Lee, born August 7, 1899. 
 
 c. Baby, born June 23, 1904. 
 
 (7) Lynn C. Branham, son of William H. and Livia (Stow) 
 Branham, was born May 17, 1864; married June 25, 1895, to 
 Jessie Ryker. One child, Elizabeth, born June 28, 1897. 
 
 Lynn C. Branham is employed by the Cleveland, Columbus, 
 Cincinnati & St. Louis Railway Company as locomotive fireman. 
 Lives at Bright wood, Indiana. 
 
 (8) Minnie Branham, daughter of William H. and Livia 
 (Stow) Branham, was born December 6, 1866; died December 
 4, 1884. 
 
 Elizabeth Branham 
 
 Elizabeth, daughter of Linsfield and Mary (Vawter) Bran- 
 ham, was born May 2, 1816; married May 22, 1832, to George 
 W. Branham, son of John and Frances (Vawter) Branham; died 
 May 14, 1846. 
 
 For an account of George W. Branham and the children of 
 Elizabeth, see the record of George W. Branham in chapter con- 
 taining family of Frances (Vawter) Branham. 
 
 7 
 McClure Branham 
 
 McClure, son of Linsfield and Mary (Vawter) Branham, was 
 born December 4, 181 7, at North Madison, Indiana; married 
 
210 THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA 
 
 February, 1839, to Louisa J. Hutchins; died April 20, 1869. 
 Louisa J. Hutchins was born at Vernon, Indiana, November 4, 
 1823; died at Elizabethtown, January 20, 1845. 
 
 Children : 
 
 (i) Mary Ellen, daughter of McClure and Louisa (Hutch- 
 ins) Branham, was born December 19, 1840; married Albert W. 
 Moore of Logansport, Indiana, who was born in Sandy Hill, 
 New York, June 6, 1828; died at Indianapolis, March 13, 1876. 
 Mary E. Moore married, second, Frank Costigan, who was born 
 at Madison, Indiana, April 4, 1838. Frank Costigan is traveling 
 agent for Canton, Ohio, Bridge Company. No children. Live at 
 36 Hubbard Block, Indianapolis. 
 
 (2) William Jennings Branham, son of McClure and Louisa 
 (Hutchins) Branham, was born in Elizabethtown, Indiana, June 
 15, 1842; married May, 1867, to Kate Owens at North Madison, 
 Indiana. They have one child, Ernest, who was born October, 
 1868, and who is employed by L. S. Ayres & Co. of Indianapolis. 
 Jennings Branham and family live at 31 South Arsenal avenue, 
 Indianapolis. 
 
 (3) Juliette Branham, daughter of McClure and Louisa 
 (Hutchins) Branham, was born December 15, 1843; married 
 Thomas Calloway. 
 
 Children : 
 
 a. Marian, born April 16, 1870. 
 
 b. Kate, born December 11, 1874; married May 16, 1898, to 
 Joe Curtis Dixon, who was born July 20, 1874. Live in In- 
 dianapolis. 
 
 c. Myrtle Helen, born in 1879. 
 
 Mr. and Mrs. Calloway live at Springfield, Missouri. 
 
 McClure Branham married, second, Mrs. Frances Mefford 
 Watson at Madison, Indiana, July 5, 1846. Mrs. Branham lives 
 at Columbus, Indiana. 
 
 Children : 
 
 (i) Samantha Branham, born in North Madison, Indiana, 
 May 17, 1847. Unmarried. 
 
 (2) Albert, born May 19, 1853. Unmarried. 
 
 (3 and 4) Two, who died in infancy. 
 
THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA 211 
 
 (5) Fred, born in North Madison. Indiana. May 20. 1856; 
 married Cora . Lives in Columbus, Indiana. 
 
 (6) Lolla. born in North Madison, Indiana. March 17, i860. 
 McClure Branham was engaged in the railroad business, and 
 
 lived at North Madison, Indiana, the greater part of his life. 
 
 8 
 Mary (Branham) Robinson 
 
 Mary Louisa, daughter of Linsfield and Mary (Vavvter) Bran- 
 ham, was born in Jefferson county, Indiana, October 18, 1819; 
 married to Edward Jones Robinson April 9, 1840; died at Bed- 
 ford, Indiana, January 24, 1892. 
 
 Edward J. Robinson was born in Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, Jan- 
 uary 4, 1 81 7. He moved with his father's family to Steuben ville, 
 Ohio, when a boy. He went to Mobile. Alabama, when a young 
 man, and from there to Madison, Indiana, where he was married. 
 He and his wife moved from Madison to Greensburg, Indiana, 
 where the first child. Anna Cornelia, was born. Returning to 
 Madison, Edward Robinson engaged in the mercantile and rail- 
 road business until the Civil War broke out. He enlisted in the 
 Fifty- Fourth Indiana ; was adjutant at Camp Morton at In- 
 dianapolis, and afterward colonel of the One Hundred and 
 Thirty-Seventh Regiment. After the war he returned to Madi- 
 son; removed to Indianapolis in 1869, and to Bedford, Indiana, 
 in 1 88 1. He died at Bedford June 26, 1896. 
 
 Children of Edward and Mary (Branham) Robinson: 
 
 (i) Anna Cornelia Robinson was born July 25. 1842; mar- 
 ried Hamilton Stapp. Lives in Yoakune, Texas. Children : 
 Alary, Florence and William. 
 
 (2) Mary Rebecca Robinson was born March 27, 1844; died 
 April 2, 1844, at Greensburg, Decatur county, Indiana. 
 
 (3) William Hickman Robinson was born August 5. 1845; 
 died in Madison. Indiana, July 5, 1868. 
 
 (4) Julia Elizabeth Robinson was born December 17, 1846; 
 married at Indianapolis, September 25, 1878, to Archer H. 
 
 Ui 
 
212 THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA 
 
 Crane, who was born in Onondaga, New York, March 31, 1821,, 
 and died in Hudson, Michigan, June 5, 1892. 
 
 Children : Helen Mary Crane, born in Hudson, Michigan, 
 May 12, 1883. 
 
 Mrs. Juha R. Crane lives at Champaign, Illinois. 
 
 (5) Mary Louisa Robinson was born February 5, 1849; died 
 at North Madison, Indiana, July 19, 1850. 
 
 (6) Edward Linsfield Robinson, born February 14, 1850; 
 died at North Madison, Indiana, September 19, 1850. 
 
 (7) Carrie Branham Robinson was born September 30, 
 1854; married at Bedford. Indiana, June 6, 1889, to George S. 
 Long, who was born at Clermont, Marion county, Indiana, De- 
 cember 3, 1853. George S. Long is with the Weyerhauser Tim- 
 ber Co., in Tacoma, Washington. 
 
 Children: Margaret Robinson Long, born March 15, 1891, 
 at Eau Claire, Wisconsin; Helen Long, born October 30, 1893, 
 at Eau Claire, Wisconsin; George S. Long, Jr., born October 30, 
 1895, at Eau Claire, Wisconsin. 
 
 (8) Emma Nettie Robinson, born June 28, 1856. Lives with 
 Mrs. Long in Tacoma, Washington. 
 
 (9) Alfred Edward Robinson, born November 12, 1859; 
 married. His family is living in East St. Louis. Children : Mary 
 Anna, born February 15, 1891 ; Frederick Edward, born Jan- 
 uary, 1893, and Anna Julia, born January, 1895. 
 
 (10) Walter Scott Robinson, born July 8, 1861 ; died at 
 Madison, Indiana, October 15, 1869. 
 
 Nancy (Branham) Bramwell 
 
 Nancy, daughter of Linsfield and Mary (Vawter) Branham,. 
 was born April 9, 1820; married April 9, 1840, to Solon C. 
 Bramwell; died February 6, 1845. 
 
 Solon C. Bramwell was born in 181 5 in Jennings county, In- 
 diana; died at Kansas City in 1899. He was the first agent of 
 the Madison and Indianapolis Railroad Company at Madison,. 
 
THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA 213 
 
 Indiana. Was engaged in steamboating on the Ohio and Mis- 
 sissippi rivers for many years. Was successful in business in 
 Cincinnati for a time, and was prominent in the early years of 
 Kansas City, where he was well known as an honest man and a 
 good citizen, and where his second wife now resides. 
 
 Children : Edgar and Mary Katherine. 
 
 (i) Edgar, son of Solon C. and Nancy Bramwell, was born 
 at Elizabethtown, Indiana, August 19, 1842; married near Madi- 
 son, Indiana, September 3, 1865, to Adelia Francisco, daughter 
 of William Warren Francisco, who was born at Paris, Indiana, 
 February 28, 1842. 
 
 Edgar Bramwell is law agent of the Louisville & Nashville 
 Railroad Company at Nashville, Tennessee. 
 
 Children of Edgar and Adelia (Francisco) Bramwell: 
 
 a. George F. Bramwell, born October 20, 1866, at Franklin, 
 Indiana ; married to Mary Reilly of Nashville, Tennessee, March, 
 1890. Children: Edna, born in 1898, and Louise, born in 1902. 
 
 George F. Bramwell is a machinist in Nashville, Tennessee. 
 
 b. William S. Bramwell, son of Edgar and Adelia (Fran- 
 cisco) Bramwell, was born April 27,, 1868, at Franklin, Indiana; 
 married to Lillian Farnsworth of Earlington, Kentucky, Decem- 
 ber, 1889. Children: Annasdale, born in 1894, and Bessie May, 
 born in 1902. 
 
 William S. Bramwell is a conductor on the Louisville & Nash- 
 ville Railroad. Lives in Nashville, Tennessee. 
 
 c. Harry L. Bramwell, son of Edgar and Adelia (Francisco) 
 Bramwell, was born at Madison, Indiana, April 20, 1878; mar- 
 ried Lillie Robinson of Earlington, Kentucky, June, 1900. One 
 child, Dorothy, born in 1902. 
 
 Harry L. Bramwell is a conductor for the Louisville & Nash- 
 ville Railroad. Lives at Nashville, Tennessee. 
 
 (2) Mary Katherine, daughter of Solon C. and Nancy Bram- 
 well, was born May 29, 1844; married to her cousin, Edwin 
 Branham, the son of David Branham. For the record of this 
 family see record of Edwin Branham. 
 
214 THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA 
 
 lO 
 
 Joseph Warren Branham 
 
 Joseph Warren, son of Linsfield and Mary (Vawter) Bran- 
 ham, was born June 2, 1824; married January 27, 1848, to Pris- 
 cilla O'Laughley. 
 
 Children : Mary, who married a VanTrees, had two children, 
 and was living in Iowa. 
 
VI. 
 
 SARAH VAWTER5 
 (Jesse*, Davids, John2, Johni) 
 
 (1789-1871) 
 
 m. 
 
 THOS. STRIBLING 
 (1784-1857) 
 
 Children" 
 
 Grandchildren' 
 
 I. Frances m. J 
 
 James Edwards 1 
 
 r (I) William T. m. 
 Zerelda Mal- 
 comb 
 
 2. Elizabeth m. 
 Nathaniel Fer- 
 gason 
 
 (i) Sallie Ann m. 
 F.F.Mitchell 
 
 (2) Mary B. m. 
 1st 
 George Neblett 
 
 2d 
 
 Stephen Fores- 
 ter 
 
 (3) Nancy S. m. 
 1st John Clark 
 2d Thos. Reeves 
 
 G. Grandchil- 
 dren" 
 
 Flavius m. 
 Mollie B. Dick- 
 son 
 
 John Malcomb m. 
 Alice Epps 
 
 HettieJ. 
 
 Mattie Robinson 
 
 m. 
 M. J. Bowman 
 
 Uriah Calvin, d. 
 Wra. Thomas, d. 
 
 Lucy A. E. m. 
 T. L. Jackson 
 
 Nannie Cornelia 
 
 m. 
 J. M. C. Young 
 
 J. M.m. 
 ist 
 
 Bettie Oliver 
 2d 
 
 Mattie Mabry 
 
 Jennie m. 
 Eugene S.Tatom 
 
 Esrom Bold 
 George Monroe 
 Alen Fowler 
 
 John Ann m. 
 W. W. Mays.d. 
 
 G. G. Grandchil- 
 dren* 
 
 f Mary Zerelda 
 Edgar Flavius 
 Gus Malcomb 
 
 1 
 
 f William Thomas 
 ■j Frank 
 L Charles 
 
 Milo 
 
 ' Myrtle, d. 
 Chatie Luciel 
 Eva, d. 
 Mary Lee, d. 
 
 Edna 
 
 Mary, d. 
 Nannie Lillian 
 
 Cecilia 
 Kate Eugene 
 Barteels 
 
2l6 
 
 THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA 
 
 3. Pleasant m. 
 Zerelda Emer- 
 ine Dahoney 
 
 (i) Emerine rn. 
 Allen T. Cor- 
 bitt 
 
 (2);jesse Vawter 
 m. 
 
 Susan Yar- 
 brough 
 
 Wyley Welch 
 Weldon Plant 
 Flora Elton 
 Jessie Allen 2 
 Nancy's 
 Sadie Pauline 
 
 Curte C. 
 Nellie 
 Samuel, d. 
 Ford G. 
 
 Gladys, d. 
 Bessie Rewbine 
 
 Jesse Vawter m. 
 Ada Plant 
 
 Nellie m. 
 A. C. Stitt 
 
 Reuben E. m. 
 Bessie Plant 
 
 Eddie Smith, d. 
 Annie Mary, d. 
 Alvin Hawkins, 
 unm. 
 
 Pleasant Stribling 
 
 m. 
 Rena McCreary 
 Emma Nannie m. 
 
 W. A. Duncan 
 Hessie, d. 
 
 Wm. Morehead m. ( Harry Leo 
 Emma Stephens ) Thos. Tibbett 
 
 Lutie Lavele m. f 
 Joseph F. Ander- -{ Ora 
 
 SOD 1^ 
 
 Emma 
 
 Lydia Zerelda 
 
 m. 
 Wm. H. McCauley 
 
 John Malcomb m. 
 Mrs. Sallie Box 
 
 I Mary L. 
 1 Marje 
 
 ( Frederi 
 
 / John 
 
 ck Slaton 
 
 r 
 
 Mattie Lillian 
 
 •°- i H 
 
 Geo. W. Waggoner (^ 
 Sallie Ann 
 
 Jesse Aline 
 arold Coke 
 
 (3) Almeda m. 
 John Malcomb 
 
 Infant, d. 
 
 
 
 ^ Ethel 
 
 
 Myrtle 
 
 
 John L. 
 
 Lulu m. 
 
 Henry E 
 
 H. E. Warren 
 
 Max H. 
 
 
 David L. 
 
 
 Guy M. 
 
 
 Ella 
 
 Ella m. 
 
 
 R. E. Fowlkes 
 
 
 John Levin 
 
 Ronald 
 
 m. 
 Mattie Estelle 
 Plant 
 
 Edith 
 Mary 
 
THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA 
 
 217 
 
 (3) Almeda Mal- 
 comb 
 iCo7iiinued) 
 
 (4) Mary, d. 
 
 Pleasant 
 
 {Continued) 
 
 (6) Sarah m. 
 
 Virgil A. Bar- 
 nett 
 
 (7) Annie Russell, 
 d. 
 Charles More- 
 head m. 
 Susan Jackson 
 
 Howard Ford m. 
 Flora Elton 
 
 I Gertrude 
 -] Robert F. 
 L Dixie 
 
 Samuel Guy m. / ""bert A. 
 EthelA.Fowlkes ! J°hn Lilbern 
 L HattieC. 
 
 Mattie Robinson f 
 m. 
 
 Bessie 
 
 Wm. Walter White i Robert Malcomb 
 
 < 
 
 < Josie Lytell m. 
 W. T. Anderson 
 
 (5) Lydia Hester 
 m. 
 
 John O. San- 
 ford 
 
 Guy 
 
 Lillian Hester 
 Hugh Leiper 
 Gertrude 
 Bertie Clair 
 Aliene 
 William S. 
 Paul Chester 
 
 EffieS. m. r , , ., 
 
 J Judson M. 
 
 ,.,,„, I Sadie Hester 
 
 Junius M. Palmer t 
 
 2d 
 
 J. M.C.Young 
 Gussie, d. 
 Nannie M. m. 
 
 Geo. L. Harrison 
 
 j Karl 
 1 Mai 
 
 Bertie E. m. 
 Charles F. Neg- 
 )ey 
 
 Charles Vawter 
 Jessie Eldon, m. 
 Edgar Taylor 
 . Junius Palmer 
 
 Stella A. m / ^^'P^ Barnett, d. 
 
 Charles G. Plant 1 ^^x Malcomb 
 L Kathleen 
 
 AllieMaym. f Alma 
 
 G. C. Morrisett \ Virgil, d. 
 
 L Gladys Marguerite 
 Charles Byron m. 
 Mary E. Thomp- 
 son 
 KateG. m. 
 W. Stirling Jack- 
 son 
 [ Walter Jackson 
 
 f 
 
 Ernest Gilderoy 
 
2l8 
 
 THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA 
 
 4. Wm. L. m. 
 Sarah Taulman 
 
 {'•■ 
 
 io children 
 
 5. Ann m. 
 
 Josiah Chaille 
 
 
 
 William H 
 
 
 
 Grace 
 
 
 Mollie m. 
 
 Odia 
 
 
 R. M. Corbitt 
 
 Bessie 
 Bates 
 L Desmukes 
 
 
 
 (i) Sarah Jane m. 
 
 Matthew A. m. ' 
 
 Gertrude 
 
 Henry Miller 
 
 Nora Brown 
 
 Elphia 
 Clayborn 
 Sarah 
 ^ Jesse 
 
 Elese 
 Murvel 
 
 r Edgar 
 (2) Elizabeth m. | Alonzo 
 Dr. A.W.Dick- -> AUie 
 son son 
 
 I daughter 
 
 M. A.,d. 
 Elmore J. 
 W. W. 
 J. H. m. 
 Susan Tate 
 
 (3) Newton T. m. 
 L. J. Dickson 
 
 (4) John E., d. 
 
 (5) Wm. Hickman 
 m. 
 
 Carrie Christ- 
 man 
 
 (6) Joanna m. 
 1st 
 James Curtis 
 
 2d 
 
 Wm. B. War- 
 ren 
 
 D. D. m. 
 F. A. Posey 
 
 Maud m. 
 Robert Owen 
 
 Zulah m. 
 
 Robert L. Har- 
 per 
 Josiah F. m. 
 
 Minnie V. Hall 
 William H., d. 
 J. Howard, d. 
 Floyd 
 Loyd 
 
 Lillian, d. 
 
 Mary Addie, d. 
 John Edward m. 
 
 Nannie Byrne 
 Paul Frederick 
 
 m. 
 Myrtle Robinson 
 Newton Homer 
 Chris Duncan 
 Annie Gertrude 
 Wyly Brown 
 
 Vivian 
 Elmer V. 
 Tibit 
 
 Louise 
 
THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA 
 
 2iy 
 
 6. Newton W. m. 
 Elizabeth 
 Taulman 
 
 (i) Margaret m. 
 J. M. Gray 
 
 {^ 
 
 harles P. 
 
 7. Amanda m. 
 John Rossen 
 
 8. Milton S. ID. 
 Nancy Mon- 
 
 crief 
 
 9. Silas m. 
 Sarah A. Keith 
 
 (i) John m. 
 (2) Josephine m. 
 Childers 
 
 No children 
 
 No children 
 
 10. Uriah m. ( 
 
 Hester A. Cobb \ ^° children 
 
 (i) Uriah m. 
 Ella M. Lam- 
 bertson 
 
 II. Sarah m. 
 James Chaille 
 
 J2. Infant, d. 
 
 13- Artemecia m. 
 Michael Wolf 
 
 (2) Thos. D., d. 
 
 (3) Jesse V. m. 
 Alice Neal 
 
 (4) Josiah M., d. 
 
 (5) William T., d. 
 
 (6) John Cm. 
 
 Mollie F. Ab- 
 sher 
 
 (7) Sarah Jane m. 
 James Morgan 
 
 (i) Elizabeth m. 
 Milton 
 Wooden 
 
 (2) Sarah Frances, 
 
 d. 
 
 (3) Nancy Hester, 
 
 d. 
 
 (4) Thos. Elmer 
 m. 
 
 Lilly M. Harsh 
 
 (5) Walter M. m. 
 Minnie Corner 
 
 Emerson Wayland 
 May Corinne, d. 
 Harold L. 
 
 Grace 
 Ernest 
 
 Jessie Katrine 
 Raymond 
 . Ruth Jane 
 
 Oren 
 Freda 
 
 Minnie O. 
 Perry M. 
 Fannie B. 
 Wm.D. 
 Arthur E. 
 Walter B. 
 
 Harry E. 
 Martha E. 
 
220 THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA 
 
 VI 
 
 SARAH (VAWTER) STRIBLING 
 
 Sarah Vawter, daughter of Jesse and EHzabeth (Watts) Vaw- 
 ter. was born June i, 1789; married December i, 1806, to 
 Thomas T. Stribhng, the son of Benjamin and Ann (Tibbetts) 
 Stribhng, and died July 29, 1871. 
 
 The StribHngs went from Virginia to Kentucky, and then to 
 Madison, Indiana, in 1809. Thomas Stribhng went to Indiana 
 in 181 1. He had a farm of about two hundred acres near Press- 
 burg, Indiana. He was a mechanic as weh as a farmer, and put 
 up the first steam mill in Indiana. This was near Pressburg, 
 which is a mile out of North Madison. Thomas Stribhng bought 
 a large body of land (4,500 acres) on Duck river, Humphreys 
 county, Tennessee, and gave to a number of his children good 
 farms there. In November, 1853, Thomas Stribhng and several 
 of his children — Pleasant, Uriah, Silas, Betty Furgason and hus- 
 band, Ann Chaille, a widow, and Artemecia Wolf and her hus- 
 band — went to Tennessee. Silas and Uriah remained there about 
 eight or ten years and then returned to Indiana. Artemecia Wolf 
 and her husband did not stay long. At the time the Stribling 
 family went to Tennessee, land sold from three dollars to five 
 dollars per acre. The same land now sells from fifty dollars to 
 one hundred dollars per acre. The hills there contain iron and 
 vast quantities of hematite. Thomas Stribling was born Decem- 
 ber 4, 1784, and died March 21, 1857, at his home at Honey 
 Point, five miles from the mouth of Duck river, Tennessee. 
 
 Thomas and Sarah (Vawter) Stribling had thirteen children: 
 Frances, Elizabeth, Pleasant, William L., Ann, Newton W., 
 Amanda, Milton S., Silas S., Uriah B., Sarah, an infant son who 
 died, and Artemecia. 
 
 I 
 
 Frances (Stribling) Edwards 
 
 Frances, daughter of Thomas and Sarah Stribling, was born 
 November 16, 1807; married February 13, 1827, to James Ed- 
 
THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA 221 
 
 wards. Frances died August 26, 1828. James and Frances 
 (Stribling) Edwards, had one child, WilHam T. 
 
 ( I ) WilHam T. Edwards, son of James and Frances ( Strib- 
 ling) Edwards, was born December 27, 1827; married August 
 2, 1849, to Zerelda Malcomb, who was born November 25, 1829, 
 and died January 13, 1874. William T. Edwards died June 6, 
 1886. 
 
 The children of William T. and Zerelda (Malcomb) Edwards 
 were Flavins J., John Malcomb, Hettie J. and Mattie Robinson. 
 
 a. Flavins J. Edwards was born at North Madison, Indiana, 
 August 28, 1856; married March 19, 1879, to Mollie B. Dickson. 
 Their children are Mary Zerelda, born May 31, 1881 ; Edgar 
 Flavins, born October 3, 1885, and Gus Malcomb, born Septem- 
 ber 2, 1897. Flavins Edwards and family live at Newbern, Dyer 
 county, Tennessee. 
 
 b. John Malcomb Edwards, son of William T. and Zerelda 
 (Malcomb) Edwards, was born at North Madison, Indiana, Jan- 
 uary 27, i860; married Alice Epps. Has three children: Wil- 
 liam Thomas, Frank and Charles. Lives at Obion, Obion county, 
 Tennessee. 
 
 c. Hettie J. Edwards, daughter of William T. and Zerelda 
 (Malcomb) Edwards, was born July 8, 1864, and is now living 
 at Madison, Indiana. 
 
 d. Mattie Robison Edwards, daughter of William T. and 
 Zerelda (Malcomb) Edwards, was born at North Madison, In- 
 diana, December 26, 1870; married Prof. M. J. Bowman and has 
 one child, Milo. Lives at Indianapolis, Indiana. 
 
 Both Hetty and Mattie Edwards lived for many years after 
 the death of their mother with their uncle, Uriah Stribling, in 
 Madison, Indiana. 
 
 Elizabeth (Stribling) Fergason 
 
 Elizabeth, daughter of Thomas and Sarah (Vawter) Stribling, 
 was born August 22, 1809; married at North Madison, Indiana, 
 October 4, 1837, to Nathaniel Fergason, the son of William and 
 
2.2,2, THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA 
 
 Hannah Fergason. Nathaniel Fergason was born February ii, 
 1816, in Decatur county, Indiana. Was a farmer. 
 
 Elizabeth (Stribling) Fergason died February 15, 1885. 
 
 The children of Nathaniel and Elizabeth ( Stribling) Fergason 
 were Sallie Ann, Mary and Nancy. 
 
 (i) Sallie Ann Fergason, daughter of Nathaniel and Eliza- 
 beth (Stribling) Fergason, was born November 26, 1839; mar- 
 ried to F. F. Mitchell in 1855, who was born in 1833. Their 
 children were Uriah Calvin, born December 30, 1859; died June 
 30, 1880, and William Thomas, born September 13, 1861 ; died 
 September 9, 1863. 
 
 (2) Mary B. Fergason, daughter of Nathaniel and Elizabeth 
 (Stribling) Fergason, was born May 8, 1843; married in 1859 
 to George Neblett, who was born in 1837. Their children were: 
 
 a. Lucy A. E., daughter of George and Mary (Fergason) 
 Neblett, was born February i, 1863; married to T. L. Jackson, 
 who was born September 24, 1852. No children. They live in 
 Johnsonville, Tennessee. 
 
 h. Nannie Cornelia, daughter of George and Mary (Ferga- 
 son) Neblett, was born February 3, 1865; married to J. M. C. 
 Young, January 11, 1882. J. M. C. Young was born December 
 25, 1856. Their children: Myrtle B., born January 9, 1883; 
 died September 13, 1902; Chatie Luciel, born January 2, 1887; 
 Eva, born July 12, 1889; died September 26, 1889; Mary Lee, 
 born October 22, 1891, died April 29, 1892. 
 
 Nannie (Neblett) Young died April 22, 1892. 
 
 Chatie Young lives at Plant, Tennessee. 
 
 c. J. M. Neblett, son of George and Mary (Fergason) Neb- 
 lett, was born June 12, 1864; married December 21, 1890, to 
 Bettie Oliver. One child, Edna, was born in 1892. 
 
 Bettie (Oliver) Neblett died January 15, 1893. 
 
 J. M. Neblett was married to Mattie Mabry March 31, 1897. 
 They live in Union City, Tennessee. Their children : Mary, 
 born in 1898, died June 22, 1904, and Nannie Lillian, born in 
 1 901. 
 
 d. Jennie Neblett, daughter of George and Mary (Ferga- 
 son) Neblett, was born in 1869; married May 19, 1889, to 
 
THE VAVVTER FAMILY IN AMERICA 223 
 
 Eugene S. Tatom, who was born in 1865. Their children are 
 CeceHa, born in 1890; Kate Eugene, born in 1891, and Barteels, 
 born in 1896. They live in Shawnee, Oklahoma Territory. 
 
 (2) Mary (Fergason) Neblett was married the second time 
 to Stephen Forester in January, 1882. Their children were: 
 
 a. Esrom Boid Forester, born October 26, 1882. Lives in 
 Union City, Tennessee. 
 
 b. George Monroe Forester, born April 20, 1884. Lives in 
 Polk, Tennessee. 
 
 c. Alen Fowler Forester, born March 22, 1886. Lives in 
 Union City, Tennessee. 
 
 Mary F. (Neblett) Forester died July 30, 1896. 
 
 (3) Nancy S. Fergason, daughter of Nathaniel and Eliza- 
 beth (Stribling) Fergason, was born May 11, 1845, i^ Jefferson 
 county, Indiana; married October 17, 1866, to Thomas B. 
 Reeves, who was born near Paint Rock, Tennessee, March 4, 
 1846, and died March 23, 1905, in Newbern, Tennessee. Mrs. 
 Reeves had a daughter, John Ann, by her former husband, John 
 E. Clark, who was born March i, 1865; married W. W. Mays 
 and died March 14, 1881. Mrs. Reeves lives in Union City, Ten- 
 nessee. 
 
 3 
 
 Pleasant Stribling 
 
 Pleasant, son of Thomas and Sarah (Vawter) Stribling, was 
 born May 5, 181 1, near Madison, Indiana, and lived in Ken- 
 tucky near Frankfort until 1853, when he, with his father and 
 several brothers and sisters, moved to Tennessee, where he re- 
 mained. He was married November 2'/, 1834, to Zerelda 
 Emerine Dehoney, who was born September 16, 181 6. Pleasant 
 Stribling died August 23, 1885. 
 
 The children of Pleasant and Zerelda (Dehoney) Stribling 
 were Emerine, Jesse, Almeda, Mary, Lydia Hester, Sarah, Annie 
 Russell and Charles Morehead. 
 
 ( I ) Emerine was born in Scott county, Kentucky, January 
 31, 1836; married January 22, i860, to Allen T. Corbitt, who 
 
224 THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA 
 
 was born in Davidson county, Tennessee, in May, 1817, and 
 died March 7, 1880. He was a farmer. 
 
 Children of Allen and Emerine Z. Corbitt : 
 
 a. Jesse Vawter Corbitt, born December 10, 1861 ; married 
 April 15, 1885, to Ada Plant. They have six children: Wyley 
 Welch, born February 22, 1886; Weldon Plant, born July 29, 
 1888; Flora Elton, born July 15, 1890; Jessie Allen, born April 
 4, 1892; Nancy, born May 25, 1894; Sadie Pauline, born March 
 14, 1896. They live in Big Bottom, Humphreys county, Ten- 
 nessee. 
 
 b. Nellie Corbitt was born November 28, 1863; married to 
 A. C. Stitt February 16, 1887. Their children: Curte C. Stitt, 
 born March 16, 1888; Nellie Stitt, born December i, 1893; 
 Samuel Stitt, born March i, 1895, died October 22, 1895, and 
 Ford G. Stitt, born February 24, 1896. They live in Box, Ten- 
 nessee. 
 
 c. Ruben E. Corbitt was born October 17, 1865; married 
 April 5, 1896, to Bessie Gertrude Plant. Their children : Gladys, 
 born January 24, 1897, died September 22, 1899, and Bessie 
 Rewbine, born August 31, 1900. They live in Big Bottom, 
 Humphreys county, Tennessee. 
 
 d. Eddie Smith Corbitt was born March 24, 1868, and died 
 August I, 1872. 
 
 c. Annie Mary Corbitt was born March 5, 1870; died July 
 26, 1871. 
 
 /. Alvin Hawkins was born October 22, 1872. Lives in Big 
 Bottom, Humphreys county, Tennessee. 
 
 g. Pleasant Stribling Corbitt was born December 14, 1874; 
 married to Rena McCreary September 8, 1901. They have one 
 child, Emma, born January 31, 1903. They live in Big Bottom, 
 Humphreys county, Tennessee. 
 
 h. Emma Nannie Corbitt was born January 15, 1877; mar- 
 ried to W. A, Duncan December 25, 1901. They live in Big 
 Bottom, Humphreys county, Tennessee. 
 
 i. Hessie Corbitt was born January 23, 1879; died May 7, 
 1880. 
 
 (2) Jesse Vawter Stribling, son of Pleasant and Zerelda 
 
THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA 225 
 
 (Dehoney) Stribling, was born April 8, 1838; married to Susan 
 Yarbrough November 25, 1863, who was born April 26, 1848, 
 and died December 26, 1896. Jesse V. Stribling lives in Plant, 
 Humphreys county, Tennessee. 
 
 Children of Jesse V. and Susan Y. Stribling : 
 
 a. William Morehead Stribling was born January 18, 1865 ; 
 married to Emma Stephens, of Waverly, Tennessee, December 
 20, 1896. They live in Plant, Tennessee. Their children: 
 Harry Leo, born September 13, 1897, '^"d Thomas Tibbett, born 
 July 6, 1899. 
 
 b. Lutie Lavele Stribling, born May 3, 1867; married Joseph 
 F. Anderson June 21, 1885. They live at Shaws, Mississippi. 
 They have one child, Ora, who was born November 4, 1886. 
 
 c. Lydia Zerelda Stribling, born January 21, 1870; married 
 William H. McCauley October 22, 1890. They live at McEwen, 
 Tennessee. Have two children : Mary L., born February 27, 
 1892, and Marge, born August 29, 1899. 
 
 d. John Malcomb Stribling, born August 2, 1872; married 
 to Mrs. Sallie Box, July 9, 1898. They live at Waverly, Ten- 
 nessee. Have two children : Frederick Slaton, born April 23, 
 1900, and John, born October 27, 1902. 
 
 e. Mattie Lillian Stribling, born May 14, 1875; married 
 George W. Waggoner December 15, 1897. They live at Plant, 
 Tennessee. Have two children: Jesse Aline, born August 17, 
 1898, and Harold Coke, born April 22, 1900. 
 
 /. Sallie Ann Stribling, born May i, 1878. Lives at Plant, 
 Tennessee. 
 
 g. Infant, died at age of two weeks. 
 
 (3) Almeda Stribling, daughter of Pleasant and Zerelda 
 (Dehoney) Stribling, was born in Scott county, Kentucky, May 
 8, 1840; married November 25, i860, to John Malcomb. who 
 was born at Paris, Indiana, October 31, 1834. They live in 
 Union City, Tennessee. John Malcomb learned the saddler's 
 trade under Uriah B. Stribling at Paris, Indiana. Afterward 
 came to Tennessee and engaged in farming. Their children : 
 
 a. Lulu Malcomb was born November 30. 1861 ; married 
 January 28, 1882, to H. E. Warren, who was born at Plant, 
 
226 THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA 
 
 Tennessee, November i, 1851. Their children are: Ethel, born 
 December 21, 1882; Myrtle, born February 14, 1885; John L., 
 born April 19. 1886; Henry E., born January 3, 1888; Max H., 
 born February 7, 1889; David L., born December 6, 1890; Guy 
 M., born August 22. 1892, and Ella, born February 12, 1895. 
 
 h. Ella Malcomb was born in Plant, Tennessee, March 19, 
 1864; married to R. E. Fowlkes, December 19, 1883. R. E. 
 Fowlkes w^as born December 16, 1863. Is cashier of the bank 
 at Seymour, Texas. 
 
 c. John Levin Malcomb, Jr., born November 13, 1867; mar- 
 ried to Mattie Estelle Plant. Is a farmer living at Plant, Ten- 
 nessee. The children of John and Mattie ( Plant) Malcomb are : 
 Ronald, born July 24, 1897; Edith, born April 3, 1900, and 
 Mary, born October 28, 1902. 
 
 d. Howard Ford Malcomb, born March 11, 1870; married 
 Flora Elton, of Plant, Tennessee, February 11, 1892. Howard 
 Malcomb is a farmer living at Box, Tennessee. The children of 
 Howard Ford and Flora (Elton) Malcomb are: Gertrude, born 
 March 18, 1895; Robert F., born May 11, 1899, and Dixie, born 
 July 13, 1902. 
 
 e. Samuel Guy Malcomb was born December 7, 1871 ; mar- 
 ried January 26, 1896, to Ethel A. Fowlkes, who was born 
 October 8, 1879. Samuel G. Malcomb is a farmer, living at 
 Plant, Humphreys county, Tennessee. 
 
 The children of Samuel G. and Ethel ( Fowlkes) Malcomb are : 
 Hubert A., born July 16, 1898; John Lilbern, born March 13, 
 1 90 1, and Hattie C, born February 12, 1904. 
 
 /. Mattie Robinson Malcomb was born July 21, 1878; mar- 
 ried December 21, 1898, to William Walter White, who was 
 born August i, 1873. William Walter White is a farmer, liv- 
 ing at Union City, Tennessee. 
 
 The children of William Walter and Mattie (Malcomb) White 
 are: Bessie, born September 18, 1899, and Robert Malcomb, 
 born September 19, 1902. 
 
 (4) Mary, daughter of Pleasant and Zerelda (Dehoney) 
 Stribling, was born October 17, 1842; died November 26, 1882. 
 Unmarried. 
 
THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA 22/ 
 
 (5) Lydia Hester, daughter of Pleasant and Zerelda (De- 
 honey) Stribhng, was born October 6. 1847, near Frankfort, 
 Kentucky; married October 17, 1865, to John O. Sanford, who 
 was born at Galena. Illinois, August 23. 1838. John O. Sanford 
 is in the livery business at Dickson, Tennessee. 
 
 Children : 
 
 a. Josie Lytell Sanford was born July 15, 1866; married 
 February 15, 1887, to W. T. Anderson, who is in the wholesale 
 feed business in Nashville. Tennessee. They have eight children : 
 Guy, born April i, 1888; Lillian Hester, born June 26, 1890; 
 Hugh Leiper. born February 29. 1892; Gertrude, born March 12, 
 1894; Bertie Clair, born February 29, 1896; Allene, born Jan- 
 uary, 1898; William S., born January 19, 1900, and Paul Chester, 
 born November 4, 1901. 
 
 h. Ellie S. Sanford was born January 8, 1869; married June 
 20, 1888. to Junius M. Palmer, who was in the mill business, also 
 dry goods business, and owned a steamboat and a farm near 
 Johnsonville, Tennessee. 
 
 The children of Junius and Ellie (Sanford) Palmer were Jud- 
 son M.. born March 18, 1889, and Sadie Hester, born July 27, 
 1891. 
 
 Junius Palmer died January 27, 1893. 
 
 Ellie (Sanford) Palmer married J. M. C. Young November 2, 
 1898. He is a stock trader and farmer. They live at Dickson, 
 Tennessee. 
 
 c. Gussie Sanford was born August 11, 1871, and died June 
 27, 1876. 
 
 d. Nannie M. Sanford was born October 15, 1873; married 
 George L. Harrison in 1895. He is a corn dealer at Box, Ten- 
 nessee. 
 
 e. Bertie Edward Sanford, born August 10, 1876, married 
 Charles F. Negley, June 25, 1898. Charles F. Negley owns a 
 barber shop. 
 
 The children are Karl, born December 11, 1899, and Mai, born 
 September 23, 1901. 
 
 /. Charles Vawter Sanford, born August 15, 1879. Is in 
 business with his father at Dickson, Tennessee. 
 
228 THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA 
 
 g. Jessie Eldon San ford, born April 2, 1883; married Edgar 
 Taylor, November 17, 1902. Edgar Taylor is employed in a 
 store at Crockett Mills, Tennessee. 
 
 h. Junius Palmer Sanford, born December 10, 1886, is in 
 school at Dickson, Tennessee. 
 
 (6) Sarah, daughter of Pleasant and Zerelda (Dehoney) 
 Stribling, was born October 16, 1849; married July 20, 1873, to 
 Virgil A. Barnett; died August 5, 1883. 
 
 Children : 
 
 a. Stella A. Barnett, born March 29, 1874; married to Charles 
 G. Plant March 18. 1895. Children: Ralph Barnett, born De- 
 cember 25, 1896, died June 19, 1898; Rex Malcomb, born June 
 30, 1898; Kathleen, born November i, 1902. Live at Plant, 
 Tennessee. 
 
 b. Allie May Barnett, born February 6, 1876; married No- 
 vember 23, 1895, to G. C. Morrisett. Children: Alma, born 
 October 6, 1896; Virgil, born January 26, 1902, died February 
 14, 1902; Gladys Marguerite, born April 20, 1903. Live at Pol- 
 lard, Arkansas. 
 
 c. Charles Byron Barnett, born June 22, 1878; married 
 October 8, 1902, to Mary E. Thompson. Lives at Jonesboro, 
 Arkansas. 
 
 d. Kate G. Barnett, born September 15, 1880; married March 
 3, 1904. to W. Stirling Jackson. Lives at Jonesboro, Arkansas. 
 
 e. Walter Jackson Barnett, born September 23, 1882. 
 Virgil A. Barnett married, second, September 21, 1884, 
 
 Mrs. Clella A. Wheat, who was born August 25, 1859, in Scott 
 county, Indiana. 
 
 Virgil A. Barnett was born March 6, 1853, in Coxburg, Ten- 
 nessee. He is a justice of peace and general collector. Lives at 
 Jonesboro, Arkansas. 
 
 (7) Annie Russell Stribling, daughter of Pleasant and Zer- 
 elda (Dehoney) Stribling, was born June 19, 1852, and died 
 April 21, 1856. 
 
 (8) Charles Morehead Stribling, son of Pleasant and Zer- 
 elda (Dehoney) Stribling, was born in Humphreys county, Ten- 
 nessee, September 7, 1857; married September 2y, 1882, to Susan 
 
THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA 229 
 
 M. Jackson, who was born near Waverly, Tennessee, February 
 28, 1861. C. M. Stribling is a farmer and is connected with a 
 telephone company. He and his wife Hve near Plant, Tennessee. 
 They have one son, Ernest Gilderoy, who is now taking a course 
 in civil and electrical engineering at the University of Tennessee. 
 
 4 
 William L. Stribling 
 
 William Livingston Stribling, son of Thomas and Sarah (Vaw- 
 ter) Stribling, was born in Jefiferson county, Indiana, March 26, 
 1813; married Sarah R. Taulman August 4, 1835; died Decem- 
 ber 8, 1852. No children. 
 
 William Stribling started in the milling business and then was 
 a merchant. His wife is still living near North Madison, Indiana, 
 being now over ninety years of age. It was from her scrap-book 
 that much valuable information was obtained for this history. 
 
 Ann (Stribling) Chaille 
 
 Ann, daughter of Thomas and Sarah Stribling, was born 
 March 18, 1815; married Josiah Chaille May 8. 1839; died 
 October 10, 1890. Josiah Chaille died in 1853 ^" Kentucky. He 
 was a brother to James Chaille, who married Sarah Stribling, the 
 sister of Ann. 
 
 Children of Josiah and Ann Chaille : 
 
 (i) Sarah Jane Chaille was born in Kentucky March 16, 
 1840; married June 27, 1861, to Henry Miller; died April 18, 
 1895. Henry Miller was born in Humphreys county, Tennessee, 
 and died in Dickson August 9, 1903, where he was engaged in 
 the livery business. 
 
 Children of Henry and Sarah (Chaille) Miller: Mollie, Mat- 
 thew A., Elphia, Clayborn, Sarah and Jesse. 
 
 a. Mollie Miller was born May 19, 1864; married to R. M. 
 
230 THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA 
 
 Corbitt July 16, 1884. Children: William H., Grace, Odia, 
 Bessie, Bates and Desmukes. Mrs. Corbitt is a widow, living 
 in Dickson, Tennessee. 
 
 b. Matthew A. Miller was born August 16, 1870; married 
 October 2, 1895, to Nora Brown. Their children: Gertrude, 
 Elese and Murvel. Matthew Miller is in the livery business in 
 Dickson, Tennessee. 
 
 c. Elphia Miller was born December 17, 1876. 
 
 d. Clayborn Miller was born June 11, 1879. 
 c. Sarah Miller was born in 1884. 
 
 /. Jesse Miller was born September 9, 1886. 
 Elphia. Clayborn, Sarah and Jesse keep house in Dickson, 
 Tennessee. 
 
 (2) Elizabeth Chaille was born October 3, 1842, in Indiana; 
 married Dr. A. W. Dickson, October 5, 1864. Now living in 
 Austin, Texas, with her son, A. K. Dickson. Children of A. W. 
 and Elizabeth Dickson are Edgar, Alonzo. Allie and one son 
 and one daughter in Texas. 
 
 (3) Newton T. Chaille was born near Madison, Indiana, 
 April 22, 1845; married in Humphreys county, Tennessee, 
 October, 1865, to L. J. Dickson, who was born in Graves county, 
 Kentucky, February, 1847. Newton T. Chaille is a retired 
 farmer, living in Jonesboro, Arkansas. 
 
 Children of Newton T. and L. J. Chaille : 
 
 a. M. A, Chaille, born September 18, 1866; died August 24, 
 1868. 
 
 b. Elmore J. Chaille, born February 13, 1869. 
 
 c. W. W. Chaille, born April 29, 1871. 
 
 d. J. H. Chaille, born December 12, 1873; married March 
 31, 1904, to Susie Tate. 
 
 e. D. D. Chaille was born February 17, 1876; married Jan- 
 uary, 1895, to F. A. Posey. Children: Vivian, born August 29, 
 1897; Elmer V., born January 5, 1900; Tibit, born February 6, 
 1903. Mr. and Mrs. Chaille live in Caruthersville, Missouri. 
 
 /. Maud Chaille was born July 23, 1878; married to Robert 
 Owen, March, 1899. Children: Louise, born September 6, 1902. 
 
THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA 23 1 
 
 Robert Owen is fireman in the electric-light plant in Jonesboro, 
 Arkansas. 
 
 (4) John E. Chaille was born October 23, 1847. He joined 
 the union army at the outbreak of the war. He was taken 
 prisoner, was exchanged, but while on his way home on a fur- 
 lough he was taken sick and died in a hospital in 1864. 
 
 (5) William Hickman Chaille was born in Paris, Kentucky, 
 February 13, 1850; married to Carrie Kate Christman at Pa- 
 ducah, Kentucky, April 19, 1871. Carrie Christman was born at 
 Paducah, Kentucky, November 6, 1853. 
 
 William Chaille moved to Texas with his family in 1879, and 
 resided in Anderson county, Corsicana, Dallas and Abilene until 
 January, 1895, when he moved to Florida. He and his son 
 Josiah are now proprietors of "The Racket Store" in Miami, 
 Florida. 
 
 Children of William H. and Carrie (Christman) Chaille: 
 
 a. Zulah, born March 2, 1872, in Tennessee; married Robert 
 L. Harper. Lives in Miami, Florida. 
 
 b. Josiah F.. born in Tennessee. August 6. 1874; married 
 Minnie V. Hall, June 3, 1903. Lives in Miami, Florida. 
 
 c. William H., born March 2^, 1876; died April 24, 1877. 
 in Tennessee. 
 
 d. J. Howard, born August 24, 1877, in Tennessee; died in 
 Ocala, Florida, May 19, 1900. 
 
 e. and /. Floyd and Loyd (twin boys), born in Anderson 
 county, Texas, February 29, 1880. Live at Miami, Florida. 
 
 (6) Joanna Chaille was born in Paris, Kentucky. June 2, 
 1852; married December 5, 1867. to James Curtis, who died 
 October 10. 1868. One child, Lillian Curtis, was born March 2, 
 1869, and died November 15, 1893. 
 
 Joanna (Chaille) Curtis married, second. January i, 1874, 
 William Brown Warren, who was born April 11, 1850. in Hick- 
 man county, Tennessee. Is now chief engineer on a St. Louis 
 steamboat. Lives at Plant, Tennessee. 
 
 Children : 
 
 a. Mary Addie, born November 17, 1874; died December 5, 
 1879. 
 
232 THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA 
 
 b. John Edward, born September 25. 1877; married Decem- 
 ber 28, 1898, to Nannie Byrne. Is a railroad man. 
 
 c. Paul Frederic, born May 19, 1881 ; married December 24, 
 1903, to Myrtle Robinson. Is a farmer living in Hickman, Ken- 
 tucky. 
 
 d. Newton Homer, born December 8, 1883. 
 
 e. Chris. Duncan, born December 22, 1886. 
 /. Annie Gertrude, born June 29, 1889. 
 
 g. Wyly Brown, born January 9, 1892; died November 27, 
 1895. 
 
 Newton W, Stribling 
 
 Newton W. Stribling, son of Thomas and Sarah Stribling, was 
 born in Jefferson county, Indiana, July 2, 181 7; married Decem- 
 ber 2y, 1840, to Elizabeth Taulman, who was born in Hamilton 
 county, Ohio, August 21, 1825. Newton Stribling died August 
 2, 1844. There was one child, Margaret T., who was born 
 October 2, 1843 > married December 14, 1862, to J. M. Gray, who 
 was born January 18, 1836. J. M. and Margaret Gray had one 
 child, Charles P. Gray, who was born July 10, 1865. 
 
 Elizabeth (Taulman) Stribling was married the second time 
 to James Losey. There were two children (twins), Sarah R. S. 
 and William L. S. Losey, born June 16, 1850. 
 
 Elizabeth Stribling Losey died March 11, 1853. 
 
 7 
 Amanda (Stribling) Rossen 
 
 Amanda, daughter of Thomas and Sarah (Vawter) Stribling, 
 was born July 16, 1819; married March 6, 1842, to John Rossen; 
 died July 16, 1845. 
 
 There were two children, John, who married, and Josephine, 
 who married a Childers. 
 
 t 
 
THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA 233 
 
 8 
 
 Milton S. Stribling 
 
 Milton S., son of Thomas and Sarah (Vawter) Stribhng, was 
 born May 20, 1821 ; married Nancy Moncrief, December 24, 
 1843; died March 10, 1863. No children. 
 
 9 
 
 Silas Stribling 
 
 Silas, son of Thomas and Sarah (Vawter) Stribling, was born 
 September 7, 1823; married Sarah A. Keith, December 28, 1845, 
 in Paris Crossing, Indiana. He learned the tanning business, then 
 for twenty years repaired watches and clocks, and for a while 
 took pictures, keeping the farm going all the time. He wrote 
 much poetry which was greatly appreciated by his friends and 
 neighbors. His wife, Sarah Keith, was the daughter of James 
 and Lucy Keith. The Keiths originally came from Carolina to 
 Kentucky, and then James came to Indiana. 
 
 Although they had no children of their own, Silas Stribling 
 and his wife reared Lydia Congdon, Silas Congdon, Lottie Yau- 
 ger. who married G. W. Dodd, and Floyd Hillerman, and they 
 kept for several years, Roy Smith and James Keith. 
 
 Silas Stribling and wife live at Paris Crossing, Indiana. 
 
 10 
 Uriah Stribling 
 
 Uriah, son of Thomas and Sarah (Vawter) Stribling, was 
 born April 19, 1825; married Hester Ann Cobb October 15. 
 1845; cli^cl April, 1901. No children. Uriah and Hester Stribling 
 reared two nieces, Hetty and Mattie Edwards. 
 
 Uriah Stribling first went into the harness and saddle business 
 
234 THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA 
 
 in Paris Crossing, Indiana ; then married and went to North 
 Madison. .He moved to Tennessee in 1853, but returned to Madi- 
 son, Indiana, in about eight years. There, on the old homestead, 
 he opened a nursery; then traded that for a foundry, in which 
 business he continued for thirty years. His wife was the daughter 
 of John and Maria Cobb. 
 
 II 
 
 Sarah (Stribling) Chaille 
 
 Sarah, daughter of Thomas and Sarah (Vawter) StribHng. 
 WIS born March 21, 1827; married January 23. 1848. to James 
 N. Chaille, who was born in Kentucky, June 28. 1827, and died 
 in Daviess county, Indiana, September 3, 1886. 
 
 Sarah (Stribling) Chaille died October 18, 1880. 
 
 Children of James N. and Sarah (Stribling) Chaille: 
 
 ( 1 ) Uriah Milton Chaille was born in Frankfort, Kentucky, 
 December 19, 1848; married to Ella May Lambertson of Frank- 
 lin, Indiana, December 22, 1874. Ella May Lambertson, the 
 daup-hter of Colonel Samuel and Elizabeth Lambertson, was born 
 
 o 
 
 July 3, 1854. Her mother was a sister of the late General 
 Thomas Jefferson Morgan. 
 
 Uriah M. Chaille, after leaving college, was a teacher for some 
 time. Has been in the newspaper business since 1881. Was for 
 many years editor and owner of the Baptist Outlook, published 
 in Indianapolis, Indiana. 
 
 The children of Uriah M. and Ella L. Chaille : 
 
 a. Emerson Wayland Chaille was born in Johnson county, 
 Indiana, November 27, 1876. He is in business with the Stafford 
 Engraving Co., of Indianapolis, Indiana. 
 
 b. May Corinne Chaille was born January 11, 1886; died 
 August 22, 1890. 
 
 c. Harold Lambertson Chaille was born September 15, 1890. 
 
 (2) Thomas D. Chaille, born in Frankfort, Kentucky, Feb- 
 ruary 15, 1850; died November 28, 1850. 
 
 (3) Jesse V. Chaille was born in Decatur county, Indiana, 
 September 9, 1851 ; married to Alice Neal, August, 1879. They 
 
THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA 235 
 
 have five children : Grace, Ernest, Jessie Katrine, Raymond and 
 Rnth Jane. 
 
 Jesse V. Chaille has a flour mill at Otwell, Indiana. 
 
 (4) Josiah M. Chaille, born November 20, 1854; died Jan- 
 uary 28, 1855. 
 
 (5) William T. Chaille, born November 19, 1856; died March 
 5, 1865. 
 
 (6) John C. Chaille, born in Jennings county, Indiana, Jan- 
 uary 6, 1867. Is an attorney-at-la\v, with office at Otwell, In- 
 diana, and doing business in Pike and adjoining counties. He 
 was married June 6, 1892, to Mollie F. Absher, of Harrisonville, 
 Missouri, who was bo'^n November 12, 1867. 
 
 They have two children: Oren, born August 19, 1893, and 
 Freda, born December 16, 1898. 
 
 (7) Sarah Jane Chaille was born in Jennings county, Indiana, 
 September 5, 1868; married to James Morgan, a theological 
 seminary student in the University of Chicago, June, 1893. Mr. 
 and Mrs. Morgan went as missionaries to India. Mr. Morgan 
 died in April, 1895. Mrs. Morgan is now a missionary in Hen- 
 zada, Burma, where she has been since October, 1898. 
 
 12 
 
 Infant son of Thomas and Sarah (Vawter) Stribling was born 
 March 22, 1830; died the next day. 
 
 i3 
 Artemecia (Stribling) Wolf 
 
 Artemecia, daughter of Thomas and Sarah (Vawter) Strib- 
 ling, was born December 29, 1831 ; married June 17, 1849, ^0 
 Michael Wolf; died in Paducah, Kentucky, March 21, 1901. 
 
 Michael Wolf was born in Harrison county, West Virginia, 
 September 25, 1827. He came to Indiana in March, 1849, and 
 was married in that same year. With the exception of two years 
 
236 THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA 
 
 he was in the railroad service from 1850 to 1891. He was the 
 oldest conductor in the state of Indiana when he retired in 1883. 
 He afterwards took charge of the grading and construction of 
 the Indianapolis and Vincennes Road and remained with this 
 road until 1891. Died August 19, 1897. 
 
 Children of Michael and Artemecia (Stribling) Wolf: 
 
 (i) Elizabeth Wolf was born September 18, 1853; married 
 September 8, 1867, to Milton H. Wooden, who was born at 
 Madison, Indiana. Live at Madison, Indiana. 
 
 Children : 
 
 a. Minnie O., born June 4, 1868; Perry M., born December 
 25, 1869; Fannie B., born December 8, 1871 ; William D., born 
 May 2, 1874; Arthur E., born December 10, 1879; Walter B., 
 born July 30, 1882. 
 
 (2) Sarah Frances Wolf was born April 9, 1853, and died 
 November 2"/, 1871. 
 
 (3) Nancy Hester Wolf was born December 18, 1855; died 
 April 15, 1857. 
 
 (4) Thomas Elmer Wolf, born March 9, 1861 ; married to 
 Lilly M. Harsh, December 29, 1891. No children. Thomas E. 
 Wolf is a railroad man, living at Spencer, Indiana. 
 
 (5) Walter M. Wolf was born August 3, 1863; married 
 October 18, 1882, to Minnie Corner. Walter Wolf is a railroad 
 man, living at Pittsburg, Pennsylvania. 
 
 Children: Harry E., born December 21, 1887, and Martha 
 E., born January 19, 1902. 
 
Children" 
 
 I. Copeland m. 
 Huldah Hall 
 
 VII. 
 
 JULIA (VAWTER) WISEs 
 
 (Jesse-*, David3, John2, Johni) 
 
 (1791-1834) 
 
 m. 
 
 MATTHEW WISE 
 
 ( 1 788-1874) 
 
 Grandchildren' G. Grandchil- 
 dren* 
 
 ' Carrie 
 
 Frank, m. 
 (i) Julia m. 
 
 Orrin Marshall i l^o^^' d- s. 
 Lnarles 
 
 Infant, d. 
 
 Virginia, m. 
 B. T.Millican 
 
 (2) Lucretia m. 
 W.T. Hunter 
 
 (3) Martha E. m. 
 S. W. Storey 
 
 (4) Edgar D., s. 
 
 (5) Helen Ruth m. 
 Sam'l E. Pal- 
 mer 
 
 (6) Virginia, d. 
 
 (7) Florence ra. 
 E. B. Tidd 
 
 (8) MackB., s. 
 
 (9) Sarah Belle ra. 
 Jno. E. Martin 
 
 (10) Jennie m. ist 
 Charles E. 
 
 Hunter 
 
 2d 
 
 Frederick 
 Kingsley 
 
 f James Vincent 
 I Elizabeth, m. 
 ■\ Evans 
 I Nannie, m. 
 L Smith 
 
 I 
 
 Kate, m. 
 Lincoln Dixon 
 
 f Thomas 
 
 Samuel E., d. 
 
 Smith 
 
 Wm. D. 
 
 May 
 ^ Laura 
 
 Gertrude, m. 
 
 Chaffin 
 Edith 
 
 f David Alex. 
 Esther Storey 
 Lucy Neal 
 
 ^ Helen Ruth 
 
 j Eva Jean 
 
 G. G. Grandchil- 
 dren* 
 
 Frank 
 Nellie 
 
 Nadine 
 Jean 
 , Mary 
 
 [' Esther Claire 
 ■{ Donald Storey 
 ^ Dorothy 
 
238 THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA 
 
 2. Elizabeth m. f ^'^ J^^^« 
 
 Ephraim Rogers i ^^^ Matthew 
 Others 
 
 3. Mary m. 
 
 ( (i) Charles 
 
 (2) Jasper 
 
 (3) Edward 
 
 Taulman Burns ^ ^^'> ^^''^ 
 
 (5) Julia m. Smith 
 
 (6) Ellen 
 , (7) Susan 
 
 4. Prudence, d. s. 
 
 (i) Prudence, s. 
 5. Patsy m. 
 
 William Kessick < j3) Mollie, m 
 (4) Julia, m. 
 
 (2) Matthew, d. 
 (5) Emma, m. 
 
 VII 
 JULIA (VAWTER) WISE 
 
 Julia, daughter of Jesse and Elizabeth (Watts) Vawter, was 
 born November 20, 1791; married February 16, 181 5, to Mat- 
 thew Wise, who was born May 28, 1788, and died in 1874. Julia 
 Wise died May 10, 1834. 
 
 The children were : Copeland, Elizabeth, Mary, Prudence and 
 Patsy. 
 
 I 
 
 Copeland Wise 
 
 Copeland Wise, son of Matthew and Julia Wise, was born 
 March 28, 181 6, in the vicinity of Madison, Indiana, where he 
 was engaged for many years in the livery, ice and transfer busi- 
 ness. He was married to Huldah Hall, who was born March 24, 
 1 81 8. Copeland Wise died August 8, 1892. 
 
 Children were Julia, Lucretia, Martha E., Edgar D., Helen 
 Ruth, Virginia, Florence, Mack B., Belle and Jennie. 
 
 ( I ) Julia, daughter of Copeland and Huldah Wise, was born 
 April 23, 1836; married June 25, 1857, to Orrin Marshall, who 
 was born near Cincinnati, Ohio, February 21, 1827. They live 
 near Madison, Indiana. 
 
THE VAVVTER FAMILY IN AMERICA f>39 
 
 Children : 
 
 a. Carrie, born March 25, 1858. 
 
 b. Frank, son of Orrin and Juha Marshall, was born October 
 9, 1859; married in Cincinnati, Ohio. His wife died August 29, 
 1896. His two children. Frank, twelve years of age, and Nellie, 
 aged eight, are living with their grandmother, Mrs. Marshall. 
 Frank Marshall is boiler inspector for the Hartford Co., at Cin- 
 cinnati. 
 
 c. George Marshall was born February 13, 1862; died un- 
 married October 11, 1887. 
 
 d. Charles Marshall was born January 10, 1865. Lives with 
 father. 
 
 e. Infant Marshall, born and died in 1867. 
 
 /. Virginia Marshall, born October 29, 1868; married B. T. 
 Millican in Madison, Indiana. Mr. Millican is a printer by trade. 
 Their children are Nadine, Jean and Mary. 
 
 (2) Lucretia, daughter of Copeland and Huldah Wise, was 
 born November 9, 1838; married to W. T. Hunter August 20, 
 1868. Lives at 204 Woodbine avenue, Louisville, Kentucky. 
 
 Children : James Vincent, Elizabeth Hunter Evans and Nan- 
 nie Hunter Smith. 
 
 (3) Martha E., daughter of Copeland and Huldah Wise, was 
 born February 6, 1841 ; married May 20, i860, to S. W. Storey; 
 died August 28, 1889. One child, Mrs. Kate Storey Dixon, lives 
 at North Vernon, Indiana. (See record of S. William Storey.) 
 
 (4) Edgar D. Wise, born April 3, 1843. Address unknown. 
 
 (5) Helen Ruth, daughter of Copeland and Huldah Wise, 
 was born in Madison, Indiana, November 7, 1845; married June 
 4, 1872, in Louisville, Kentucky, to Samuel Elliott Palmer, who 
 was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, June 23, 1843. Live in St. Paul, 
 Minnesota. 
 
 Children : 
 
 a. Thomas Palmer, born February 24, 1873; died December 
 14, 1890. 
 
 b. Samuel E. Palmer, Jr., born November 30, 1875 ; died De- 
 cember 2, 1877. 
 
240 THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA 
 
 c. Smith Palmer, born November 25, 1877. Lives in Fargo, 
 North Dakota. 
 
 d. WilHam D. Palmer, born January i, 1880. Lives in Den- 
 ver, Colorado. 
 
 e. May Palmer, born April i, 1882. 
 
 /. Laura Palmer, born May 22, 1886. 
 
 (6) Virginia, daughter of Copeland and Huldah Wise, was 
 born October 3, 1848; died October 8, 1850. 
 
 (7) Florence, daughter of Copeland and Huldah Wise, was 
 born December 24, 1850; married E. B. Tidd January 8. 1874. 
 
 Children are Gertrude Tidd Chaffin, Hotel Metropole, Chi- 
 cago, and Edith Tidd of Detroit. Mr. and Mrs. Tidd live in 
 Cleveland, Ohio. 
 
 (8) Mack B., son of Copeland and Huldah Wise, was born 
 February 7, 1853. Lives in Louisville, Kentucky. 
 
 (9) Sarah Belle, daughter of Copeland and Huldah Wise, 
 was born in Madison, Indiana, April 5, 1858; married in Horse- 
 shoe, Colorado, September 7, 1881, to John Edwin Martin, who 
 was born in Monroe county, Kentucky, January 12, 1848. They 
 live at 239 West Ellsworth street, Denver, Colorado. 
 
 Children : 
 
 a. David Alexander Martin, born in Horseshoe, Colorado, 
 December 22, 1882. 
 
 b. Esther Storey Martin, born in Horseshoe, Colorado, May 
 I, 1885. 
 
 c. Lucy Neal Martin, born in Como, Colorado, September 21, 
 1888. 
 
 d. Helen Ruth Martin, born in Como, Colorado, December 
 7. 1891. 
 
 (10) Jennie, daughter of Copeland and Huldah Wise, was 
 born March 17, i860; married to Charles E. Hunter October 28, 
 1885. One child, Eva Jean Hunter, was born to them. 
 
 Jennie Wise Hunter was married, second, to Frederick Kings- 
 ley, February, 1902. Mr. and Mrs. Kingsley live in Cleveland, 
 Ohio. 
 
THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA 24I 
 
 Elizabeth (Wise) Rogers 
 
 Elizabeth, daughter of Matthew and JuHa (Vawter) Wise, 
 was born September 15, 18 18; married Ephraim Rogers. They 
 lived at Wirt, Indiana. 
 
 A son, Jesse, hved in Covington, Kentucky, or Indianapohs, 
 Indiana, but could not be found. A son, Matthew, was a fireman, 
 and lived in Indianapolis, Indiana, but could not be found. 
 
 Mary (Wise) Burns 
 
 Mary, daughter of Matthew and Julia (Vawter) Wise, was 
 born September 2, 1821 ; married Taulman Burns. Mack Burns, 
 a son, did live in Covington, Kentucky, but could not be found. 
 Mrs. Mary Burns did live with one of her children in Walnut 
 Hills, Cincinnati, Ohio, but a letter sent to her there was returned. 
 The names of her children were : Charles, died ; Jasper, Edward, 
 who did live in Cincinnati ; Mack, Julia, who married a Smith ; 
 Ellen and Susan. 
 
 4 
 Patsy (Wise) Kessick 
 
 Patsy, daughter of Matthew and Julia (Vawter) Wise, was 
 born January 17, 1824; married at Wirt, Indiana, to William 
 Kessick. Their children were : Prudence, who lives near Madi- 
 son, Indiana; Matthew, who died young; Mollie, Julia and 
 Emma. 
 
 5 
 
 Prudence Wise 
 
 Prudence, daughter of Matthew and Julia (Vawter) Wise, 
 was born February 6, 1826; died unmarried July 17, 1892. 
 
VIII. 
 
 ACHILLES VAWTER5 
 
 (Jesse*, David^, John'^, Johni) 
 
 (1794-1S63) 
 
 m. 
 
 MARTHA SMITH 
 (179S- ) 
 
 Children^ 
 
 1. Julia m. 
 Bramwell 
 
 2. Wm. Jennings, 
 
 d.s. 
 
 3. Polly m. 
 Thrallkill 
 
 4. David m. 
 Eliza M. Todd 
 
 Grandchildren' 
 
 G. Grandchil- 
 dren* 
 
 G. G. Grandchil- 
 dren" 
 
 5. Henry m. 
 ist 
 Jane Leach 
 
 r Sev 
 
 era) children 
 (all dead) 
 
 No children 
 
 (i) Carrie m. 
 
 James C. Nor- 
 ris 
 
 (i) Charles m. 
 RosellaM.Mil- 
 ligan 
 
 (2) Martha 
 
 Eleanor, d. 
 
 (3) Frank ra. 
 Sallie Kyle 
 
 (4) Ida m. 
 
 Willis Mitchel 
 
 (5) Kathryn m. 
 James Kyle 
 
 (6) Wm. L. m. 
 Anne Shepherd 
 
 (7) Anna, d. 
 
 ( Mabel Vawter 
 
 J Helen Louise 
 Philip Endicott 
 Frederick De Witt 
 
 - Bertha M.,d. 
 
 / James 
 
 \ Frank 
 
 r Walter 
 
 I Charles 
 
 1 Hazel m. 
 I Edward King 
 
 I Marjorie 
 
 I Ralph V. 
 
 Elbert 
 
 2d 
 
 Mrs. Mary Nod- 
 ler 
 
 (8) Clyde 
 
THE V'AWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA 
 
 243 
 
 6. James rn. 
 1st 
 Eliza Goodhue 
 
 2d 
 
 7. Catherine m. 
 Hiram Read 
 
 8. Jane, s. 
 
 ( (1) Lillian 
 ( (2) Edgar, 
 
 . d. 
 d. 
 
 Nancy Johnson J 
 
 (3) George m. 
 
 (i) Pleasant, d. 
 
 (2) Marcellus, d. 
 
 (3) James m. 
 Eliza Veasay 
 
 (4) Samuel, d. 
 
 (5) Achilles, d. 
 
 (6) Fabricius m. 
 Sallie Ander- 
 son 
 
 (7) Clark B. m. 
 
 (8) Mattie, d. 
 
 (9) William m. 
 Lottie Doutch 
 
 ( Son 
 
 [^ Daughte 
 
 \'irginia m. 
 Sherman Luken- 
 
 bill 
 (two boys) 
 
 Edgar, d. 
 Joseph 
 
 Two sons 
 
 {° 
 
 ne child 
 
 VIII 
 
 ACHILLES VAWTER 
 
 Achilles Vawter, son of Jesse and Elizabeth (Watts) Vawter, 
 was born near Madison, Indiana, February 21, 1794. He was 
 married August 14, 1814, to Martha Smith, who was born April 
 13. 1798. 
 
 Achilles Vaw^ter was tavern keeper and postmaster at Vernon. 
 Indiana, and was also a Master Mason. 
 
 The follow'ing notice appeared in the Vernon Banner of March 
 2"/, 1862: 
 
 "Died in Vernon, on the i8th instant. Hon. Achilles Vaw^ter. 
 The deceased came to Vernon in the year 18 17, and has con- 
 tributed largely to the improvement of our village and the pro- 
 motion of religious and educational associations. The citizens of 
 our county recognizing his merits have bestowed upon him many 
 official trusts, and especially the important office of judge of the 
 probate court, which he discharged with fidelity and approbation 
 of the public. His illness and sufferings, although protracted, 
 
244 THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA 
 
 were sustained with patience and fortitude. His remains were 
 followed to the grave by the members of the Masonic fraternity 
 and other sympathizing friends." 
 
 Children of Achilles and Martha (Smith) Vawter were: JuHa, 
 William Jennings, Polly Ann, David, Henry L., James, Catherine 
 and Jane. 
 
 Julia (Vawter) Bramwell 
 
 Julia, daughter of Achilles and Martha Vawter, was born 
 February 4, 181 7; married a Bramwell, and died in Vernon, 
 Indiana, leaving several children, who also died. Her husband 
 went to Oregon. 
 
 Polly (Vawter) Thrallkill 
 
 Polly, daughter of Achilles and Martha (Smith) Vawter, was 
 born January 22, 1819; married a Thrallkill. Both she and her 
 husband died soon after their marriage and were buried at Ver- 
 non. They left no children. 
 
 William Jennings Vawter 
 
 William Jennings, son of Achilles and Martha Vawter, was 
 born November 3. 1820; died May 9, 1846. Unmarried. 
 
 David Vawter 
 
 David, son of Achilles and Martha (Smith) Vawter, was born 
 in 1824; married in 1854 to Eliza M. Todd; died May 24, 1884. 
 He was a merchant. 
 
 One child, Carrie, was born in 1856; married in 1883 to James 
 C. Norris, who was born in 1853. 
 
THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA 245 
 
 Children: Mabel Vawter, born January lo, 1884; Helen 
 Louise, born January 8, 1889; Philip Endicott, born in 1894, 
 died in 1894; Frederick DeWitt, born April 11, 1897. 
 
 Mr. Norris is in the wholesale millinery business, and lives in 
 Indianapolis, Indiana. 
 
 David Yawter and family lived in Franklin, Indiana. The wife 
 of David Vawter now lives with her daughter, Mrs. Norris. 
 
 5 
 Henry Vav^ter 
 
 Henry, son of Achilles and Martha (Smith) Vawter, was born 
 in Vernon, Indiana, August 22, 1826; married to Jane Leach 
 April 17, 1848. 
 
 Henry Vawter lived in Vernon all of his life except a few- 
 months spent in Franklin. He was an express messenger for 
 tW'enty-five years. Was city marshal at the time of his death. 
 Was a great lover of children, and was esteemed by all. 
 
 The children of Henry and Jane (Leach) Vawter w^ere: 
 Charles, Eleanor, Frank, Ida, Kathryn, William and Anna. 
 
 ( 1 ) Charles H. Vawter was born February 28, 1849 ; married 
 September 24, 1874, to Rosella M. Milligan. They had one child, 
 Bertha M., who died wdien about a year old. Charles Vawter was 
 telegraph operator and agent at Sumner, Illinois, and was killed 
 on the railroad August 16, 1875. 
 
 (2) Martha Eleanor Vawter was born May 21, 1852; died 
 April 16, 1859. 
 
 (3) Frank A. Vawter was born December 29, 1854; married 
 to Sallie Kyle July 3, 1883; died June 10, 1889. He was a tele- 
 graph operator at North Vernon, Indiana. 
 
 The children of Frank A. and Sallie (Kyle) Vawter were: 
 James, who was born June 3, 1884, and Frank, born September 
 II, 1886. 
 
 Sallie (Kyle) Vawter was married, second, to J. H. Davis, 
 and is living in North Vernon, Indiana. 
 
 {4) Ida M. Vawter was born December 8, 1857; married 
 January 20, 1881, to Willis M. Mitchell, who was born Septem- 
 
246 THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA 
 
 ber 16, 1850, in Jefferson county, Indiana. Mr. Mitchell has been 
 station baggage-master for the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad in 
 North Vernon, Indiana, for the past eighteen years. 
 
 The children of Willis M. and Ida Vawter Mitchell are: Wal- 
 ter, born November 11, 1881 ; Charles, born August 23. 1883; 
 Hazel May, born August 26, 1885, and Marjorie. born August 
 30, 1900. 
 
 Hazel May Mitchell was married April 6, 1904, to Edward 
 King, who was born in Madison county, Indiana, August 23, 
 1879. He is a glass worker by trade. 
 
 (5) Kathryn Vawter was born March 10, 1862; married July 
 28, 1888, to James Kyle, of North Vernon, Indiana. James Kyle 
 is a railroad employe. They have one child, Ralph V., who was 
 born August 30, 1890. 
 
 (6) W^illiam L., son of Henry and Jane Vawter, was born 
 July II, 1865; married January 14, 1888, to Anne E. Shepard, 
 William is a train dispatcher, living in Osawatomie, Kansas. 
 There is one child, Elbert, who was born November 28, 1888. 
 
 (7) Anna Vawter, still-born, March 5. 1869. 
 
 Jane (Leach) Vawter, wife of Henry, was born December 29, 
 1829, in Pittsburg, and died May 5, 1872. 
 
 Henry Vawter was married, second, September 12, 1876, to 
 Mrs. Mary Nodler. There was one child, Clyde, who was born 
 July 7, 1877. 
 
 Henry Vawter died February 3, 1892. 
 
 Mary Vawter, his wife, died January, 1898. 
 
 6 
 
 James Vawter 
 
 James, son of Achilles and Martha ( Smith) Vawter, was born 
 in Vernon, Indiana ; married, first, Eliza Goodhue. There were 
 two children, Lillian and Edgar, both of whom are dead. 
 
 James Vawter married, second, Nancy Johnson. They had 
 one son, George, who did live in Kansas, and who had one son 
 and one daughter. 
 
THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA 247 
 
 Catherine (Vawter) Read 
 
 Catherine, daughter of AchiUes and Martha (Smith) Vawter, 
 was born at Vernon, Indiana. November 17, 1828; married by 
 WilHam T. Stott to Hiram Read, March 22, 1843, and died No- 
 vember II, 1878. Hiram T. Read was a brother to James Read. 
 He was born in Jennings county, Indiana, February 14, 1824; 
 died April 20, 1900. 
 
 Children : 
 
 ( 1 ) Pleasant Read, born August 29, 1845 - ^^^^ the same day. 
 
 (2) Marcellus Read, born July 12, 1846; died July 25, 1846. 
 
 (3) James H. Read was born July 24, 1847; married Eliza 
 Veasay. They had one child, Virginia, who married Sherman 
 Lukenbill and lived at New Albany, Indiana. 
 
 Sherman and Virginia (Read) Lukenbill have two boys — one 
 named Kenneth. 
 
 (4) Samuel T. Read, born March 7, 1850; died October 18. 
 1864. 
 
 (5) Achilles V. Read, born January 3, 1853; died November 
 23, 1864. 
 
 (6) Fabricius M. Read was born November 13, 1854; mar- 
 ried September 24, 1885, in New Albany, Indiana, to Sallie D. 
 Anderson, by Rev. George W. Fansler. Sallie D. Anderson was 
 born September 12, 1865, in Troy, Indiana. F. M. Read is a 
 salesman, living at 143 1 South street, Lafayette, Indiana. 
 
 The children of Fabricius and Sallie (Anderson) Read: Ed- 
 gar Fabricius, born January 2, 1888; died May 13, 1889, and Jo- 
 seph S. W., born March 28, 1891. 
 
 (7) Clark B. Read has a former wife and two sons living 
 somewhere in Indian Territory. Clark B. himself is married 
 again and lives at 312 Elm street, Dallas, Texas. 
 
 (8) Mattie Read was born August 6, 1859; died May 25, 
 1881. 
 
 (9) William Read married Lottie Doutch and has one child. 
 Lives at East Las Vegas, New Mexico. 
 
IX. 
 
 ANN (VAWTER) MONCRIEF 
 
 Children* 
 
 John» 
 John' 
 David^ 
 Jesse* 
 
 Ann Vawter^ 
 (1797-1887) 
 m. 
 
 Abner Moncrief 
 (1797-1873) 
 
 2. Jesse, d. s. 
 
 3. Julia m. 
 
 Rossen 
 
 4. William m. 
 ist Cynthia 
 Montgomery 
 
 2d Rebecca 
 Wilson 
 
 5. Nancy Richie m. 
 Caleb Amsden 
 
 Grandchil- 
 dren' 
 
 G. Grandchil- 
 dren" 
 
 1, Elizabeth m. 
 Morgan Heflin 
 
 \ Lillie m. Kincart 
 
 (i) Abner m. ■{ -^ ., 
 
 ^ ' ( Four others. 
 
 (2) Julia Ann ra. f Scott 
 
 ist Spriggs \ Riley 
 
 2d Shawnacy 
 
 (3) Wm. Jasper m. 
 
 (4) Mary J., d. s. 
 
 (5) Sarah E. m. 
 Mullis 
 
 (6) John Caleb 
 
 (i) Richard, d. s. 
 (2) Catherine m. 
 ist Roberts 
 
 2d 
 
 Lilly 
 Wilford 
 ■{ Effie 
 Charles 
 Jasper 
 
 I Sev 
 
 eral children- 
 
 { 
 
 Two children 
 
 f (i) Benjamin J. m. i No children 
 
 [^ (2) Charles E. m. 
 
 C (3) Annie Evelyn, 
 
 ( (4) Wm. Robert 
 
 f (i) Sarah A. m. 
 
 Walter Ritchie 
 
 (2) Jesse V. m. 
 Ida Thompson 
 
 (3) William m. 
 Sophie Dean 
 
 Arthur 
 
 Ruth 
 
 Everett 
 
 Charles 
 
 Esther 
 
 Mabel 
 
 Fred 
 
 Annie 
 
 Robert 
 I Nellie 
 
 Charles 
 I Baby 
 
 r Hayworth 
 J Daisy 
 1 Agnes 
 l^ Gertrude 
 
 M 
 
THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA 
 
 249 
 
 Ann Moncrief 
 
 (Continued) ] 
 
 5. Nancy Amsden 
 ( Contimied) 
 
 6. Sarah m. 
 
 Willis D. Ward ^ 
 
 Agnes Wilbur, 
 
 d. s. 
 
 Mary Frances m. 
 Robert Torbet 
 
 Annie Maria m. 
 Richard D. 
 Kittle 
 
 f Leila 
 ; Howard 
 I Ruth 
 I Baby 
 
 f Eva, d. 
 
 IraMontgom- ^ ^''''" 
 ery I Carrie, d. 
 
 L Mantie 
 
 (4) Abner m. 
 Josephine • 
 
 (i) Emma m. 
 
 (2) John m. fMaym. 
 
 ist JosieWalk- ^ —Carnegie 
 up Charles, d. 
 
 I Everett, d. 
 
 2d 
 
 (3) Charles E. m. 
 Clara B. Irwin 
 
 i 
 
 ( A daughter, d. 
 1^ Two sons 
 
 f' Josephine E. 
 Raymond L. 
 
 (I) 
 
 Grace Anna, m. 
 ist Henry 
 
 Hinchman 
 2d Samuel 
 
 Johnson 
 
 No children 
 
 Mary Ferris 
 I Katherine A. 
 
 Lucy 
 
 IX 
 
 ANN (VAWTER) MONCRIEF 
 
 Ann Vawter, daughter of Jesse and Elizabeth (Watts) Vaw- 
 ter, was born in Frankhn county, Kentucky, September 27, 1797; 
 married January 27, 1820, to Abner Moncrief. and died April 8, 
 1887, at the house of her daughter, Mrs. Amsden, in Jefferson 
 county, Indiana. 
 
 Abner Moncrief was born August 2:^, 1797. in Nicholas 
 county, Kentucky, came to Jefferson county, Indiana, in 1808. 
 Was a farmer. Was deacon of the Baptist Church at Wirt, In- 
 diana, for many years. He died at Pressburg, Indiana. June 28, 
 
 The children of Abner and Ann (Vawter) Moncrief were: 
 Elizabeth, Jesse V., Julia. William, Nancy Richie. Sarah, Agnes 
 Wilbur, Mary Frances and Ann Maria. 
 
250 THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA 
 
 Elizabeth (Moncrief) Heflin 
 
 Elizabeth, daughter of Abner and Ann (Vawter) Moncrief, 
 was born December 13, 1820; married April 17, 1838, to Morgan 
 Heflin, and died near Wirt, Indiana, February 16, 1854. Morgan 
 Heflin was born November 15, 181 5. 
 
 Children of Morgan and Elizabeth (Moncrief) Heflin: 
 (i) Abner Heflin, born June 11, 1839; died July 9, 1891. 
 Five of Abner Heflin's children live at Strawn, Coffey county, 
 Kansas. One child, Lillie Kincart, lives at Fairfield, Weigo 
 county, Kansas. 
 
 (2) Julia Ann Heflin was born July 19, 1841 ; married 
 
 Spriggs and had two boys, Scott and Riley. 
 
 Julia Spriggs married, second, Shawnacy and lived in 
 
 Garnet, Kansas. She died there February 7, 1889. 
 
 (3) William Jasper Heflin v/as born April 28, 1843, and died 
 about 1892. Had five children — Lilly, Wilford, Effie, Charles 
 and Jasper. 
 
 (4) Mary Jane Heflin, born May 19, 1845; died December 
 23, 1864. 
 
 (5) Sarah E. Heflin, born May 16, 1850; married Mul- 
 
 lis. Lives in Missouri, Alton county, Oregon. Has several 
 children : 
 
 (6) John Caleb Heflin was born May 7, 1852. Lives at 
 Missouri, Alton county, Oregon. 
 
 Morgan Heflin married, second, Jane . He died March 
 
 23, 1896, near luka, Marion county, Illinois. His wife lives at 
 luka. 
 
 Jesse Moncrief 
 
 Jesse, son of Abner and Ann (Vawter) Moncrief, was born 
 February 21, 1823; died in December, 1824. 
 
THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA 25 1 
 
 3 
 
 Julia (Moncrief) Rossen 
 
 Julia, daughter of Abner and Ann Moncrief, was born January 
 17, 1825 ; married a Rossen and had two children — Richard, who 
 died unmarried, and Catherine, who married a Roberts the first 
 time and had two children. Is married a second time. 
 
 Julia (Moncrief) Rossen died March 20. 1864. 
 
 William Moncrief 
 
 William, son of Abner and Ann (Vawter) Moncrief, was born 
 near Madison, Indiana, May 31, 1827; married Cynthia Mont- 
 gomery, February 23, i860. William Moncrief was a farmer the 
 greater part of his life. He died August 21, 1901. 
 
 Cynthia Montgomery Moncrief was born February 23, i860, 
 and died September 6, 1880. 
 
 Children of William and Cynthia (Montgomery) Moncrief: 
 
 ( 1 ) Benjamin J. Moncrief is married and lives at Nevada, 
 Missouri, R. F. D. No. 6. No children. 
 
 (2) Charles E. Moncrief is married and has three children — 
 Daisy, Earl and Ray. Address : Nevada, Missouri, R. F. D. 
 No. 6. 
 
 William Moncrief was married, second, to Rebecca Wilson, 
 who was born in Garrettsville, Ohio. Their children : Annie 
 Evelyn, born July 4, 1882; died July 14, 1883, and William 
 Robert, born September 22, 1884. Nevada, Missouri, R. R. 
 No. 6. 
 
 5 
 Nancy (Moncrief) Amsden 
 
 Nancy Richie, daughter of Abner and Ann Moncrief, was born 
 November 14, 1829, near Wirt, Indiana; married July i, 1852, 
 
252 THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA 
 
 to Caleb Amsden, who was born July 29, 18 16, in Madison 
 county, New York. Live near Madison, Indiana, R. R. No. 5. 
 
 Children : 
 
 (i) Sarah A. Amsden, born May 16, 1853; married Walter 
 Ritchie, who owns a saw mill near Madison, Indiana. Their chil- 
 dren are Arthur, Ruth, Everett, Charles and Esther. 
 
 (2) Jesse V. Amsden, born August 20, 1855; married Ida 
 Thompson. Is a farmer, living near Rantoul, Illinois. Children : 
 Mabel, Fred, Annie, Robert, Nellie, Charles and Baby. 
 
 (3) William M. Amsden, born July 28, 1857: married Sophie 
 Dean. Is a lawyer, living at Marion, Indiana. Children : Hay- 
 worth, Daisy, who died, Agnes and Gertrude. 
 
 (4) Abner Amsden was born February 28, 1859; married 
 
 Josephine in Minnesota. Mail carrier on rural route, living 
 
 at Rochester, Minnesota. Children : Leila, How^ard, Ruth and 
 Baby. 
 
 6 
 Sarah (Moncrief) Ward 
 
 Sarah, daughter of Abner and Ann Moncrief, was born in 
 July, 1833, in Jefferson county, Indiana; married to Willis D. 
 Ward at Wirt, Indiana, February 11, 1853, by Rev. Thomas Hill. 
 
 Willis Ward was born in Hamilton county, Ohio, September 
 2, 1831, and died at Madison, Indiana, May 12, 1891. 
 
 The children of Willis D. and Sarah (Moncrief) Ward were 
 Emma, John and Charles. 
 
 ( I ) Emma Ward was born at Neil's Creek, Indiana, Novem- 
 ber 20, 1853: married at Wirt, Indiana, September 2, 1874, to 
 Ira Montgomery by Rev. W. Y. Monroe. 
 
 Ira Montgomery was born near Shelbyville, Indiana, January 
 26, 1849. 
 
 Children of Ira and Emma Montgomery : 
 
 a. Eva, born September 9, 1875; died November 28, 1895. 
 
 b. Alvin, born March 7, 1877. Is a bookkeeper in Madison, 
 Indiana. 
 
 c. Carrie, born May 13, 1879; died January 2, 1901. 
 
 d. Mantie, born October 5, 1884. 
 
THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA 253 
 
 (2) John Ward was married to Josie Walkup. They lived 
 at Gas City, Indiana, and had three children : May, who married 
 a Carnegie and lives at 804 Wilson avenue, Chicago; Charlie, 
 who died unmarried, and Everett, who died when a child. 
 
 John Ward married second time and had three children. The 
 oldest child, a daughter, died. Two boys, one about thirteen years 
 old and one about three, are living. 
 
 John Ward now lives in Chicago. 
 
 (3) Charles E. Ward was born March 26, 1862, in Jefferson 
 county, Indiana; married Clara B. Irwin, September 2, 1886. 
 Clara B. Irwin was born September 26, 1868, in Clinton county, 
 Indiana. 
 
 Children : 
 
 a. Josephine E. Ward, born March 16, 1887, in Clinton 
 county, Indiana. 
 
 b. Raymond L. Ward, born June 20, 1888, in Clinton county, 
 Indiana. 
 
 c. Mary Ferris Ward, born December 6, 1893, ^^ Marion 
 county, Indiana. 
 
 d. Katherine A. Ward, born August 5, 1900, in Marion 
 county, Indiana. 
 
 Charles E. Ward and family live at 2042 Highland place, 
 Indianapolis, Indiana. 
 
 7 
 Agnes Moncrief 
 
 Agnes Wilbur, daughter of Abner and Ann Moncrief was born 
 July 22, 1835; died April 17, 1881. 
 
 8 
 
 Mary (Moncrief) Torbet 
 
 Mary Frances, daughter of Abner and Ann Moncrief, was 
 born November 14, 1837: married in 1866 to Robert Torbet, who 
 
254 THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA 
 
 was born April 24, 1831, and died June 8, 1893. They had one 
 child, Grace Anna. 
 
 Grace Anna was born in 1867; married May 27, 1886. to 
 Henry Hinchman. They had one child, Lucy, who was born in 
 1888. 
 
 Henry Hinchman died May 6, 1892. 
 
 Grace (Torbet) Hinchman married the second time on Janu- 
 ary 7, 1900, to Samuel Johnson. She died July 28, 1902. 
 
 Mrs. Mary Torbet and granddaughter live in Vernon, Indiana. 
 
 9 
 Annie (Moncrief) Kittle 
 
 Annie Maria, daughter of Abner and Ann (Vawter) Mon- 
 crief, was born May i, 1841 ; married in Madison, Indiana, July 
 16, 1 871, to Richard D. Kittle, who was born December 5, 1837. 
 Mr. and Mrs. Kittle lived six years in Iowa, then went to Barton 
 county, Kansas, where they took a claim October i, 1877, and 
 lived on the place until May i, 1904, when they moved to Hois- 
 ington, Kansas. 
 
PHILEMON VAWTER 
 
 CHILDREN AND GRANDCHILDREN 
 
 I. Richard m. Sarah Snelling 
 
 II. Elliot m. Anna Gray 
 
 III. Frances m William Vawter 
 
 IV. Nancy m. Alexander Lewis 
 
 John> 
 
 John' 
 
 David ^ 
 
 Philemon Vawter'' J 
 
 (1762-1814) 
 m. 
 Anne Vawter 
 
 (1758-1845) 
 
 Q. 
 
 0) 4) 
 
 * C 
 
 c 
 
 
 „ m « 
 
 c 
 
 U to 
 
 C •- 
 
 <U c g 
 
 c S ■- 
 
 i^ < 2 ^ W £ S iH, < S 
 
 rt 
 
 
 *; -a 
 
 a 
 
 O 
 
 U 
 
 
 i 
 
 .Sh 
 
 e 
 
 CO CO o 
 
 > 
 
 '> 
 
 IS 
 
 Q 
 
 V. Jesse m. Frances Ann Watts -; 
 
 01 
 
 i .5 = 
 
 V 
 M - .E ^ 
 
 - (8 „ O >. 
 
 < Z S W 
 
 VI. Beverly m. Elizabeth Crawford J 
 
 — -o 
 
 CB C 
 
 U 
 
 CJ 
 
 -O 
 c i, C 
 
 VII. Lucy m. James Crawford ■( 
 
 VIII. Elizabeth m. James Glover 
 
 IX. David m. Lucinda Glover 
 
 .c — ~ 
 
 rt = o <u ^ 
 Oh J 2i S P^ 
 
 o rt 
 
 e*- o — 
 
 t- cj OJ 
 
 fft aj ^1 f 
 
 C .— -Q X! u 
 
 C j^ o 0; cfl 
 
 > < Oh K! eS ftj 
 
 a C " .- > 
 eu c « = M 
 
 Z < w W Q 
 
 •O CS 
 
 <a c: 
 
 y: CIS c 
 
 n c x: 
 
 ■ o 
 
 ■O _ 
 
 < < 
 
 O CB rt 
 
 hJ Q IS 
 
256 
 
 THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA 
 
 PHILEMON VAWTER 
 
 Philemon Vawter, son of David and Mary (Riicker) Vawter, 
 was born in Ciilpeper county, Virginia, October 16, 1762. His 
 wife, Anna Vawter (her name being given in her father's old 
 records as iVnne) , was born in Ciilpeper county, Virginia, No- 
 vember 14, 1758. She was the daughter of Beverly Vawter, who 
 was the brother of David. They were married about 1779. Soon 
 after their marriage they crossed the mountains to what is now 
 eastern Tennessee. In 1792 they emigrated to Kentucky and 
 settled in Woodford county, near Versailles. Although they were 
 brought up in the Episcopal Church they now united with the 
 Baptist Church. In 1795 they moved to a new home on the bank 
 of the Ohio river in Boone county, Kentucky. They afterwards 
 moved from Boone county, Kentucky, to Trimble county, oppo- 
 site Madison, Indiana. Philemon Vawter and family moved to 
 Indiana in the year 1808, and entered or bought eighty acres of 
 land where Spring Dale cemetery now is in Madison, Indiana. 
 Philemon Vawter helped build the first house in Madison. His 
 own house, which was a two-story log-house, was located about 
 one mile back from the Ohio river. 
 
 Philemon Vawter was a farmer, a chair-maker, a maker of 
 spinning wheels and a Baptist minister. He died April 15, 1814, 
 and was buried near Madison, Indiana, but the body was after- 
 wards removed to the Vawter cemetery, near the home of 
 William Vawter, about three miles from Vernon, Indiana. 
 
 Anna Vawter, the wife of Philemon, lived with her daughter 
 Frances for the greater part of her time after she gave up her 
 home. Frances (Vawter) King, a granddaughter of Anna Vaw- 
 ter, tells the following : 
 
 "Grandmother lived with father and mother for a long time. 
 Father had been promising grandmother to take her on a visit 
 to Madison. I went with them. We went to visit at Mrs. Vail's. 
 It happened during the first day that we were there, that grand- 
 mother was left alone in the sitting-room. She started to go out 
 of the room, made a m.istake, went out of the wrong door and 
 
THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA 257 
 
 fell into the cellar. She was found there a few minutes after- 
 wards. At first she was thought to be dead, but was soon revived. 
 No bones were broken, though she was badly bruised. She would 
 have recovered entirely had it not been that, in her anxiety to 
 wait upon herself, she arose from her bed and, in so doing, 
 slipped, fell and broke her hip bone. From this injury she never 
 recovered. 
 
 ''We stayed a number of weeks at Mrs. Vail's and were at 
 great expense, as we paid Mrs. Vail twenty-five dollars per week. 
 Grandmother was very anxious to be taken back home. I wrote 
 to father, urging him to send Uncle John for us. Uncle John 
 came, got a wagon, put springs in it and a bed on them, and 
 grandmother on the bed. She was taken in this way to the train. 
 Father was at Vernon with a wagon, the bed of which had been 
 filled with switches to make it springy, and then a bed had been 
 laid on top of that. Grandmother was not hurt at all by the 
 move. She said she believed it did her good. Grandmother lay 
 in this helpless condition for six years before her death. I took 
 care of her during the most of that time. It seemed that no one 
 else pleased her as well. I slept on a little bed by her side and 
 awoke at her lightest whisper." 
 
 Anna Vawter died July 21, 1845, and was buried in the Vaw- 
 ter cemetery near North Vernon, Indiana. 
 
 Children of Philemon and Anna Vawter were : Richard, El- 
 liott, Frances, Jesse, Beverly, Lucy, Nancy, Elizabeth and David. 
 
I. 
 
 RICHARD VAWTER5 
 
 (Philemon^, David^, John^, Johni) 
 
 (1780-1S47) 
 
 m. 
 
 SARAH SNELLING 
 
 (1781-1851) 
 
 Children* 
 
 1. Jesse, d. 
 
 2. Annie m. 
 James Smith 
 
 3. Nancy m. 
 John Smith 
 
 4. John S. m. 
 Emily Cooprider 
 
 Grandchildren' 
 
 Two daughters 
 
 Sarah Ann 
 Melita Frances 
 
 Esther Annie m. 
 George Gregg 
 
 George H., d. 
 Richard Perry, d. 
 Sarah Elizabeth, d. 
 
 Amanda Frances 
 m. 
 
 Edward J. Hol- 
 land 
 
 Margaret M., d. 
 Martin V. m. 
 5. Elizabeth m. Marry Harris, d. 
 
 Edward Harris 1 Rebecca Harris, d. 
 Thomas Perry, d. 
 
 Paulina Katherine 
 m. 
 
 Andrea Giovan- 
 noli 
 
 G. Grandchil- 
 dren* 
 
 G. G. Grandchil- 
 dren^ 
 
 *. ij 
 
 f George Vawter, d. 
 Naomi m. 
 Martin Thompson 
 James Madison 
 
 Richard Lilly m. 
 Emma J. Rogers 
 
 Capitola Elizabeth 
 
 m. 
 
 L. C. Holland 
 Kate m. 
 
 B. F. Daniels 
 James Edward, d. 
 
 Roberta m. 
 Braxton Beacham 
 
 Daniel Christie, d. 
 Benjamin Bowl- 
 ing, d. 
 
 Harry m. 
 Carrie Kinnaird 
 
 Mary Elizabeth m. 
 Leonard Tingle 
 
 Olive Margaret 
 Annie Mosley 
 Agnes Price, d. 
 Louise Katherine 
 
 Frank Vawter 
 
 Francis Arthur 
 
 Clara 
 
 Roberta 
 
 Norma 
 Braxton B. 
 Roberta 
 
 Harry, d. 
 Charles Leonard 
 Robert Kinnaird 
 
 Harry Giovannoli 
 Leonard G. 
 Elizabeth Vawter 
 
THE VAVVTER FAMILY IN AMERICA 
 
 259 
 
 5. Elizabeth Harris 
 ( Continued) 
 
 6. Frances Alpha 
 
 m. 
 Joseph Mosley 
 
 7. Melita m. 
 Sanford McDan- 
 
 iels 
 
 8. Jannette, d. 
 
 9. Amanda m. 
 Geo. W. Vaughn 
 
 Ellen, d. 
 Edward, d. 
 Charles, d. 
 Mary Louise, d. 
 
 Annie m. 
 Daniel Sheehan 
 
 Annie 
 
 James 
 
 10. Milton, d. 
 
 2d 
 
 Mary Elizabeth, d. 
 Joseph Daniel 
 Mary Frances m. 
 Harry Albert 
 Kendal 
 John Edward 
 Annie Agnes 
 Eugene Andrew 
 George Curry 
 Martin Thomas, d. 
 
 Amanda Frances | 
 
 1st George Ack- 
 man 
 
 Richard m. 
 ist Elizabeth 
 
 Robertson 
 
 2d Hannah 
 
 Kipfer 
 
 Anna, d. 
 
 Shig I g.. 
 
 Richard 
 Katie 
 
 Elizabeth m. 
 James Eichel- 
 berger 
 Manles E. 
 Allen K. 
 Ollie M. 
 George W. 
 Roger F. 
 
 Metta L. 
 Raymond 
 Stanley Edison 
 Lesley Ellsworth 
 
 RICHARD VAWTER 
 
 Richard Vawter, son of Philemon and Anna Vawter, was 
 born, probably, in Culpeper county, Virginia, September 19, 
 1780. His parents came to Kentucky from what is now eastern 
 Tennessee in 1792. They settled in Woodford county, near 
 Versailles. 
 
 Richard Vawter lived in Lexington, Kentucky. He \\'as a 
 wheelwright, an elder in the Christian Church, a large land-owner 
 
26o 
 
 THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA 
 
 and a public-spirited citizen. He was married July 25, 1802, to 
 Sarah Snelling, of Fredericksburg, Virginia. Richard Vawter 
 was thrown from his buggy by a frightened horse and fell over 
 a ledge of rocks on Main street, Lexington, Kentucky, and died 
 in 1847, ^ f^w days after his fall. 
 
 Sarah Snelling Vawter was born June 22, 1781, and died about 
 1 85 1. She belonged to the well-known Snelling family of Vir- 
 ginia, her father and two brothers being in the Revolutionary 
 War. 
 
 A granddaughter of Richard Vawter, Miss Annie Mosley, who 
 is now living in St. Louis, Missouri, said : "I remember hearing 
 grandmother talk of grandfather having invented a machine for 
 crushing rock for the turnpikes and what a great saving it would 
 be. When it was brought before the public, however, it was 
 thought it would throw many men out of work who made their 
 living crushing rock, and so it was set aside. Grandfather was a 
 dear old man. I could almost paint his picture from memory. 
 One of Amanda's children and I lived with grandmother until 
 her death, as we were both orphans. I remember grandmother 
 telling me of a young daughter, not more than fifteen years of 
 age, who had died. For many years grandmother didn't know 
 where her son John was. He left home when very young. There 
 were only two daughters living at the time of grandmother's 
 death — Anne and Elizabeth. The old homestead was then broken 
 up and the family Bible was taken by Anne to Laurenceburg, 
 Kentucky. Grandmother's memory has been to me the sweetest 
 thing in life. It is as dear as the day she left me." 
 
 Richard Vawter at one time owned a large tract of land, a 
 great deal of which was lost by payment of security debts. 
 
 In the records of Fayette county, Kentucky, it appears that 
 Richard Vawter, of Scott county, Kentucky, bought a lot in 
 Lexington, Kentucky, on Water street, in 1814, another in 1820, 
 and another in 182 1. 
 
 It also appears that John B. Payne, as commissioner of 
 Fayette county, sold a tract of land lying on Water street in 
 Lexington, Kentucky, to settle the estate of Richard Vawter, in 
 1858. 
 
THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA 261 
 
 The heirs of Richard Vawter, as shown by the above settle- 
 ment, were Edward Harris and Elizabeth Harris, James Smith 
 and Ann Smith, James McDaniel, John Smith and Sarah Smith, 
 Esther Vawter, single ; Ann Mosley, granddaughter, and Richard 
 and Fanny Vaughn, grandchildren. 
 
 The last of the recorded transactions of Richard Vawter was 
 in 1846. 
 
 Children of Richard and Sarah (Snelling) Vawter: 
 
 I 
 
 Jesse Vawter 
 
 Jesse, son of Richard and Sarah (Snelling) Vawter, was born 
 May I, 1803, probably died in infancy. 
 
 Anne (Vawter) Smith 
 
 Anne, daughter of Richard and Sarah (Snelling) Vawter^ 
 was born May i, 1804; married James Smith, a widower with 
 two sons. She had two daughters. They lived in Laurenceburg, 
 Kentucky. 
 
 3 
 
 Nancy (Vawter) Smith 
 
 Nancy, daughter of Richard and Sarah (Snelling) Vawter, 
 was born March 10, 1806; married May 18, 1826, to John Smith; 
 died October 10, 1838. 
 
 Children: Sarah Ann Smith, born May 12, 1827, Melita 
 Frances Smith, born February 26, 1829. 
 
 4 
 John S. Vawter 
 
 John S., son of Richard and Sarah (Snelling) Vawter, went 
 away from home when very young. He was born in Lexington, 
 Kentucky, May 24, 1808; married September 27, 1832, to Emily 
 Cooprider, who was born November 14, 181 2, in Indiana. John 
 
262 THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA 
 
 S. Vawter was a Christian minister. He lived at Thorntown, 
 Indiana, and also at Indianapolis. He died at Azalia, Bartholo- 
 mew county, Indiana, of consumption, January 20, 1843. He 
 left one child, Esther Annie. His wife afterwards married a 
 Cope and lived near Madison, Indiana. 
 
 (i) Esther Annie Vawter was born April 23, 1837; married 
 May 24, i860, to George Gregg, an editor, who was born in 
 May, 1838, and died suddenly in St. Louis, Missouri, in 1871. 
 Mrs. Gregg lives in Danville, Indiana. 
 
 Children : 
 
 a. George Vawter Gregg, born May 21, 1861; died Septem- 
 ber 12, 1878. 
 
 h. Naomi Gregg, born June 7, 1863 ; married Martin Thomp- 
 son and lives near Danville, Indiana. They have one child, Frank 
 Vawter Thompson, who was born March 6, 1902. 
 
 c. James Madison Gregg was born June 7, 1865. Lives in 
 Danville, Indiana. 
 
 5 
 Elizabeth (Vawter) Harris 
 
 Elizabeth, daughter of Richard and Sarah (Snelling) Vawter, 
 was born September 10, 1810, married May i, 1828, to Edward 
 Harris, a shoemaker, at Lexington, Kentucky. Elizabeth Har- 
 ris died at Lexington, Kentucky, April 6, 1867. Edward Harris 
 was born in New York state March 25, 1807; died at Danville, 
 Kentucky, April 4, 1883. 
 
 Children : 
 
 (i) George H. Harris was born July 7, 1829; died July 7, 
 1829. 
 
 (2) Richard Perry Harris, born October 9, 1830; died Au- 
 gust 25, 1832. 
 
 (3) Sarah Elizabeth Harris, born July 3, 1833; died Octo- 
 ber 14, 1837. 
 
 (4) Amanda Frances Harris was born in Lexington, Ken- 
 tucky, April 30, 1835; married April 30, 1857, to Edward J. 
 Holland, who was born in Lexington, Kentucky, January 12, 
 1835. E. J. Holland is a wagon-maker living in Orlando, Flor- 
 
THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA 263 
 
 ida. Amanda (Harris) Holland died in Orlando, Florida, 
 March 30, 1891. 
 Children : 
 
 a. Richard Lilly Holland was born January 28, 1858; mar- 
 ried May 21, 1887, to Emma J. Rogers. R. L. Holland is a 
 carriage manufacturer living in Orlando, Florida. He has three 
 children : Francis Arthur, Clara and Roberta. 
 
 b. Capitola Elizabeth Holland was born March 9, i860; mar- 
 ried her cousin, L. C. Holland, a wagon-maker. They live in 
 Cartersburg, Illinois. 
 
 c. Kate Holland was born August 11, 1863; married in 
 1884 to B. F. Daniels, who died. Mrs. Daniels lives in St. Louis, 
 Missouri. 
 
 d. James Edward Holland was born May 17, 1865. He was 
 a blacksmith, but is now dead. 
 
 e. Roberta Holland was born January 25, 1867; married 
 June 26, 1887, to Braxton Beacham. They have three children: 
 Norma, Braxton B. and Roberta. They live in Orlando, Florida. 
 
 /. Daniel Christie Holland was born December 26, 1872. 
 He was a barber, but is now dead, 
 
 g. Benjamin Bowling Holland was born January 26, 1874; 
 dead. 
 
 (5) Margaret M. Harris, born January 3, 1836; died March 
 24, . 
 
 (6) Martin V. Harris was born November 27, 1837. He 
 was a soldier in the Union Army; was a prisoner at Anderson- 
 ville. After the war he moved to Cass county, Illinois, where he 
 married his cousin, Mary L. Harris, April 18, i860. He died 
 at the Soldiers' Home in Quincy, Illinois, November i, 1898, 
 leaving no children. 
 
 (7) Rebecca Harris, born December 20, 1841 ; died June 
 16, 1852. 
 
 (8) Thomas Perry Harris, born May 19, 1843; died Feb- 
 ruary 28, 1857. 
 
 (9) Paulina Katherine Harris was born at Lexington, Ken- 
 tucky, January 13, 1845, married June 22, 1865, at Lexington, 
 Kentucky, to Andrea Giovannoli, a merchant, and died in Dan- 
 
264 THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA 
 
 ville, Kentucky, October 21, 1892. Andrea Giovannoli was born 
 at Lucca, Italy, January 13, 1834; died April 16, 1893. He was 
 a soldier under Garibaldi and was wounded at Solferino, 
 
 Children : 
 
 a. Harry Giovannoli was born at Lexington, Kentucky, April 
 10, 1866; became a printer's apprentice at Danville, Kentucky, 
 April I, 1878; was made local editor of the Tri-Weekly Kentucky 
 Advocate, at Danville, in 1891, and in 1895 was employed as as- 
 sociate editor and manager of the same newspaper, which posi- 
 tion he held until April i, 1901, when he accepted the position of 
 private secretary to the Hon. John W. Yerkes. Commissioner of 
 Internal Revenue. Harry Giovannoli married October 5, 1898, 
 Carrie Kinnaird, daughter of Rev. Robert H. and Mary (Mar- 
 tin) Kinnaird. Rev. Robert H. Kinnaird was a minister of the 
 Presbyterian Church, South, and was a son of Mr. James Kin- 
 naird, a merchant, at Danville, Kentucky, who was a native of 
 Scotland. Mary (Martin) Kinnaird was a daughter of Hon. 
 Joshua Lanier Martin, Governor of Alabama. Carrie Kinnaird 
 was born at Fort Smith, Arkansas, May 4, 1873. 
 
 Children of Harry and Carrie (Kinnaird) Giovannoli: 
 
 (a) Harry, born September 11, 1899; died December 12, 
 1899. 
 
 (b) Charles Leonard, born at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 
 November 30, 190 1. 
 
 (c) Robert Kinnaird, born at Washington, District of Co- 
 lumbia, March 13, 1904. 
 
 h. Mary Elizabeth Giovannoli was born at Lexington, Ken- 
 tucky, May 7, 1868; married to Leonard Tingle, at Danville, 
 Kentucky, November 11, 1891. Leonard Tingle, head clerk for 
 J. D. Purcell, Lexington, Kentucky, was born at Lexington, 
 March i, 1866, a son of William and Amanda Tingle, who were 
 married May 12, 1853. The children of Leonard and Mary 
 (Giovannoli) Tingle are : 
 
 (a) Harry Giovannoli Tingle, born November 29, 1892, 
 
 (b) Leonard G. Tingle, born August 28, 1896. 
 
 (c) Elizabeth Vawter Tingle, born March 24, 1905. 
 
 c. Olive Margaret Giovannoli, was born at Paris, Kentucky,. 
 
THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA 265 
 
 November 5, 1869. She is now assistant supervisor of Girls' 
 Kentucky School for the Deaf, Danville, Kentucky. 
 
 d. Annie Mosley Giovannoli was born at Lexington, Ken- 
 tucky, July 12, 1 87 1. Employed at the Bureau of Engraving and 
 Printing, Washington, District of Columbia. 
 
 e. Agnes Price Giovannoli, born at Lexington, Kentucky, 
 June 12, 1874; died November 21, 1874. 
 
 /. Louise Katharine Giovannoli, born June 17, 1876, Lex- 
 ington, Kentucky. Lives with her brother. 
 
 (10) Ellen Harris, born May 11, 1847; ^^^^ March 9, 1852. 
 
 (11) Edward Harris, Jr., born June 24, 1849; died July 27, 
 1849. 
 
 (12) Charles Harris, born September 10, 1850; died Sep- 
 tember 10. 1850. 
 
 (13) Mary Louise Harris, born June 20, 1852; died Sep- 
 tember 14, 1854. 
 
 (14) Annie Harris was born February 3, 1855, at Lexing- 
 ton, Kentucky; married September 17, 1871, to Daniel Sheehan; 
 died August 11, 1902, in Owingsville, Kentucky. 
 
 Daniel Sheehan was born in County of Cork, Ireland, Septem- 
 bei; 3, 1844; crossed the Atlantic when nine years old; began 
 learning the saddle and harness business at twelve; owned a 
 saddle and harness establishment in Danville, Kentucky; made a. 
 saddle called the "Kentucky Spring Seat," which became well 
 known in many states; lost his entire stock in a fire at Danville, 
 Kentucky, about 1873; died in Owingsville, Kentucky, October 
 16, 1904. 
 
 Children of Daniel and Annie (Harris) Sheehan: "•: 
 
 a. Mary Elizabeth Sheehan, born and died July 21, 1872, at 
 Danville, Kentucky. 
 
 h. Joseph Daniel Sheehan, born December 14, 1873, at Dan- 
 ville, Kentucky. Is a paper-hanger and house and buggy painter. 
 Lives at Owingsville, Kentucky. 
 
 c. Mary Frances Sheehan, born December o. 1875, at Dan- 
 ville, Kentucky; married February 21, 1900, to Harry Albert 
 Kendall; divorced in 1902. Mrs. Kendall lives at Owingsville 
 with her brothers. 
 
266 THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA 
 
 d. John Edward Sheehan, born May 15, 1878, at George- 
 town, Kentucky. Is a printer living at Owingsville, Kentucky. 
 
 e. Annie Agnes Sheehan, born April 21, 1881, at George- 
 town, Kentucky. Lives at Owingsville, Kentucky, with brothers. 
 
 /. Eugene Andrew Sheehan, born February 22, 1884, at 
 Owingsville. Kentucky. 
 
 g. George Curry Sheehan, born April 22, 1886, at Owings- 
 ville, Kentucky. 
 
 h. Martin Thomas Sheehan, born and died April 18, 1887, 
 at Owingsville, Kentucky. 
 
 6 
 
 Frances (Vawter) Mosley 
 
 Frances Alpha, daughter of Richard and Sarah (Snelling) 
 Vawter, was born February 13, 1813; married October 30, 1831, 
 to Joseph Mosley, of Manchester, England, a man much older 
 than herself. She died August 16, 1835, leaving a daughter, 
 Annie, who was born in April, 1833. After the death of her 
 mother, the child lived with her grandparents, Richard and Sarah 
 Vawter. Joseph Mosley went to South America and died there 
 in 1845. Miss Annie Mosley was for many years supervisor of 
 the female wards of the insane asylum at Lexington, Kentucky. 
 She is now living in St. Louis, Missouri. 
 
 7 
 Melita (Vawter) Sanford 
 
 Melita, daughter of Richard and Sarah (Snelling) Vawter, 
 was born April 16, 1815; married August 2, 1832, to Sanford 
 McDaniels; died in childbirth, April 25, 1844. Miss Mosley 
 said : "I have often heard grandmother speak of her and what 
 a beautiful woman she was. Her father named her for the island 
 on which the Apostle Paul was cast. She lived next to grand- 
 father's home. After her death her husband went to Illinois. 
 She left one child, James." 
 
 8 
 Jannette Vawter 
 Jannette, daughter of Richard and Sarah (Snelling) Vawter, 
 
THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA 267 
 
 was born June 13, 1818; probably died at about the age of 
 fifteen years. 
 
 .9 
 Amanda (Vawter) Vaughn 
 
 Amanda Vawter, daughter of Richard and Sarah (SnelHng) 
 Vawter, was born in Lexington, Kentucky, August 8, 1820; mar- 
 ried July 15, 1837, to George W. Vaughn; died October 25, 1842. 
 
 Children : 
 
 ( 1 ) Amanda Frances Vaughn, after the death of her mother, 
 lived with her grandparents, Richard and Sarah Vawter. She 
 was married, first, to George Ackman, and had one child, Anna, 
 who died. Amanda married, second, Mr. Shig, and had two 
 children, Richard and Katie. 
 
 (2) Richard Vawter Vaughn was born January 2, 1840; 
 married, first, December 29, 1859, to Elizabeth Robertson. 
 
 Children : 
 
 a. Elizabeth, married James W. Eichelberger and lives in 
 Covington, Kentucky. 
 
 h. Manles E., lives in Covington, Kentucky. 
 
 c. Allen K., lives in Covington, Kentucky. 
 
 d. Ollie M., lives in Covington, Kentucky. 
 c. George W.. lives in Newport, Kentucky. 
 /. Roger F., lives in East St. Louis. 
 
 Richard Vaughn married, second, August 8, 1893, Hannah 
 Kipfer, who was born May 10, 1865. They live in Lexington, 
 Kentucky. 
 
 Children : 
 
 a. Metta L., born June 9, 1894, in Louisville, Kentucky. 
 
 h. Raymond, born April 20, 1898, at Portsmouth, Ohio. 
 
 c. Stanley Edison, born May 12, 1901, at Lexington, Ken- 
 tucky. 
 
 d. Lesley Ellsworth, born October 16, 1904. 
 
 10 
 
 Milton Vawter 
 
 Milton Vawter, son of Richard and Sarah (Snelling) Vaw- 
 ter, was born April 20, 1822; probably died in infancy. 
 
11. 
 
 ELLIOTT VAWTER5 
 
 (Philemon'^, David ^, John 2, John^) 
 
 (1782-1863) 
 
 ANNA GRAY 
 
 (1783-1856) 
 
 Children'* 
 I. Frances, d. s. 
 
 Grandchildren^ 
 
 , Presley Vawter 
 ID. ist. Elenor 
 Floyd 
 
 2d. 
 
 Margaret Mc- 
 Adams 
 
 (I) Elizabeth A. 
 m. 
 Jefferson Fruit 
 
 (2) Nancy E. m. , 
 Spencer Goodson 
 
 (3) John E. m. 
 Kittie Radway 
 
 (4) Ophelia G. m. ( 
 L Hunter ( 
 
 James R. 
 
 (5) Charles A. m. \ 
 Eva G. Saylor j 
 
 (6) Margaret Lu- [ 
 ella m. Samuel •{ 
 
 Welch I 
 
 G. Grandchil- 
 
 DREN» 
 
 Mary Eleanor m. 
 J. M. Doubt 
 
 Nancy Emily m. 
 Abram Isaacs 
 
 Edmund Presley 
 m. Sallie Mo- 
 croft 
 
 Logan Brown m. 
 Jessie Morrison 
 
 Walter Elliott m. 
 Ellen Grossman 
 
 Ellen m. 
 Augustus Haw- 
 ley 
 Addie 
 Alice 
 Hattie 
 Orson 
 Thomas 
 Harry 
 
 No children 
 
 OUieM. 
 Mary E. 
 
 Ethel 
 
 Cornelius L. 
 John Earl 
 
 Frank J. 
 Nellie F. 
 Charles V. 
 Margaret R. 
 
 G. G. Grandchil- 
 dren'' 
 
 No children 
 
 Thomas Edmond 
 Alfred Abram 
 Walter Fruit 
 
 Rhoda Elizabeth 
 
 Allen Jefferson 
 Bessie 
 
 Julian Elliott 
 
THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA 
 
 269 
 
 3d. 
 
 Sarah Hamil 
 ton 
 
 3. JephthaD.Vaw- 
 ter m. 
 ist. 
 
 Sarah M. Fos- 
 ter 
 
 r (7) 
 M 
 
 Philips, m. { 
 
 innieL.Bevans / 
 
 Blanche B. 
 George B. 
 
 (8) Sarah Belle m. 
 Robert H. Welch 
 
 ' Clarence V. 
 
 Mary E. 
 - Grace B. 
 
 Robert G. 
 , William O. 
 
 (9) Presley G. m. 
 Emily Gambill 
 
 (10) William W., 
 d. s. 
 
 r (i) John Washing- 
 ton m. 
 ist. Louise 
 Chestnut 
 
 ^ 
 
 2d. I 
 
 Martha Hess "j 
 
 r Rufus L. 
 Ruth E. 
 Fern G. 
 Fane F. 
 Raymond G. 
 
 Samuel Dudley m. 
 Minnie Harris 
 
 Wm. David m. 
 Ivie McCullough 
 
 Florence Maria m. 
 William Routh 
 
 - Eliza Jane 
 
 r Jephtha Levi m. 
 Edith Henning 
 
 Fred Clay m. 
 [ Annie Brigham 
 
 3d. 
 Ser 
 
 Serepta Hamil- ) No child 
 ton ( 
 
 ran 
 
 ' BethenaEUen m. 
 Joseph Robinson 
 
 (2) Benjamin F. ra. Amy Catherine m. 
 Mary E. Bright -{ Parker Perry 
 
 (3) Mary Ann 
 
 Elizabeth, d. s. 
 
 r 
 
 Charles Henry m. 
 Katherine Ecker 
 
 Olive lona m. 
 
 No children 
 
 Myrtle Lowell 
 GoldieCall 
 
 Evan V. 
 Clifford 
 
 Jessie 
 
 Walter Fred 
 Wayne 
 
 (Arthur 
 Earl 
 Leonard 
 Several others 
 
 ( Wayland 
 1 Junia 
 
 Laura 
 Francis 
 Helen 
 Bertha 
 L Baby 
 
 (4) Henry Clay m. 
 3t. Sarah La- 
 vina Davies 
 
 Clarence Smith 
 Annie, d. 
 
 . .. c t T r Clarence, d, 
 
 1st. Sarah La- J ., 
 .„„o r^o.„„„ ^ Lucy.d. 
 
 Sarah Lavina 
 Lewis Henry m. 
 Ada E. Wilson 
 
 2d. 
 
 Lizzie R.Davis \ No children 
 
270 
 
 THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA 
 
 (5) 
 
 Lucinda Caro- 
 line m. C. Wal- 
 ter Hinman 
 
 Jephtha D. 
 Vawter 
 
 ( Continued) 
 
 Henry Vawter 
 
 Mary Ellen m. 
 William Gillan 
 
 (6) Louisa Ellen 
 m. Jesse McColm 
 
 (7)Nancy Tandy,d. 
 
 (8) Martha Celestia 
 m. ist. Alexan- 
 der Waltmire 
 
 2d. Richard 
 Simpson 
 
 (9) James Elliott 
 m. Mary E. 
 Huxtable 
 
 (10) Sarah Jane, d.s. (^ 
 
 Augusta Orissa m. 
 
 James Gillan 
 Nina Jane 
 Eva May 
 Richard Franklin 
 
 m. Mary Leonard 
 
 George Elmer 
 Viola Olivia 
 
 Ernest Everett ra. 
 
 Dora Dazell 
 Otis Vernon, d. 
 
 Josephine Ellen 
 Vernon Oak 
 
 Anna Belle, d. 
 Sarah Ellen m. 
 
 F. A. Newman 
 George William 
 Leonard Franklin 
 Stella May, d. 
 Leslie Wayne 
 
 Walter Leigh 
 Nina May 
 Charles Ross 
 Mable Augusta 
 Harry Laurence 
 Laura Maud 
 Lewis Elbert 
 Ruth Caroline 
 Richard Hugh 
 Nellie Margaret 
 
 Edna May 
 Walter Hinman 
 Margaret 
 
 Infant, d. 
 Harold Anson 
 
 Nina Modised 
 
 Jephtha Dudley, d. 
 (II) ^Harriet E. m. ^ j^j^^ ^1^^^,^ 
 
 I Elsie May 
 (^ Carl Owen 
 C Effie May m. 
 
 Lewis A. Mead 
 
 m. 2d. Louisa 
 K. Miller 
 
 4. Dudley Vawter, 
 d.s. 
 
 (12) Sabrina K. m. 
 M. Franklin 
 Stout 
 
 (13) Wm. Jephtha 
 m. ist. Lydia 
 Yarrington 
 
 2d. Mary E. 
 Zane 
 
 (14) Clarence 
 
 i 
 
 Lewis G. Stahl 
 Herbert Oscar m. 
 
 Katharine D. 
 
 Roberts 
 Laura Mabel 
 
 Arlen O. 
 Ice Reta, d. 
 
 Alfred Z. 
 Veva J. 
 
THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA 
 
 271 
 
 5. Sabrina Vawter 
 m. Lewis Tutt 
 
 (1) Charles L., d., 
 m. Mary Duke 
 
 (2) George W., d. 
 
 (3) John Presley, 
 
 d., m. 
 Mariah Donley 
 
 (4) David Vawter, 
 
 d. 
 
 (5) James Elliott 
 m. 
 
 Margaret 
 Powell 
 
 (6) Sarah Cather- 
 ine m. 
 Wm. Henry 
 Garden 
 
 Alice, d. 
 James, d. 
 Myra, d. 
 
 James Leonard m. 
 Emily West 
 
 Ben Floyd m. 
 Florence West 
 
 Annie Hope, d. 
 
 Alice m. 
 George Gish 
 
 James Lewis m. 
 Rebecca Guthrie 
 
 Mary Ellen m. 
 John Kirk 
 
 John Henry m. 
 Netta Binkley 
 
 May m. 
 
 ist. 
 
 Samuel Henson 
 
 Lawrence Wm. 
 
 { 
 
 Laura Gish 
 Jacob Gish 
 
 f Corinne 
 I Earl 
 ■{ Hansel 
 I Hebren 
 (^ Marguerite 
 
 Gertrude 
 Loto 
 James 
 Ruth 
 
 2d. 
 
 Watson Rice 
 
 Ida EUonia m. 
 Quint Conger 
 
 Azilee m. 
 George Watson 
 
 Wille m. 
 Jesse Binkley 
 
 Rollie m. 
 Sallie Brown 
 
 Jesse m. 
 Mary Hawkins 
 ^ Clarence Alpheus 
 
 f William Henry 
 I Ollie James 
 H Crawford 
 I Sarah 
 L Allen 
 
 Lena 
 Guy 
 Beulah 
 Vera 
 
 r Etwell 
 I Vernon 
 Sallie May 
 
 I 
 
 L George 
 
 Virgil 
 Harry 
 Annie Ree 
 
 Grace 
 Lee 
 
 Clara May 
 
I 
 
 272 
 
 THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA 
 
 Sabrina V. Tutt 
 {Continued) 
 
 (7) Henry Day m. 
 Mary A. Wood 
 
 f Lena S. 
 Frank M. 
 Carrie L. 
 John L. 
 Arthur C. 
 George D. 
 Otis Floyd 
 Horace Russell 
 Mamie A. 
 Henry M. 
 
 (8) Virginia m. 
 ist. 
 Andrew J. 
 
 VVhitaker 
 
 2d. 
 
 William Stew- 
 art 
 
 (9) Mary Ellen, d., 
 m. Hodge 
 
 (10) Benjamin F. 
 m. Farmer 
 
 1 
 
 Mary Whitaker m. 
 Ford 
 
 (11) Meredith D. 
 m. Virg-Jnia E. < 
 Wood 
 
 (12) Wyatt, d. 
 
 (13) Thomas, d. 
 
 (14) Jephtha, d. 
 (i5)Jephtha ) twins, 
 (16) Jesse ) d. 
 
 William Dudley 
 Delia May 
 Neppie Virginia 
 Mary Alice 
 Annie Azilee 
 Tripsley Dudley 
 Lorene 
 Corene 
 
 Birdie May, d. 
 
 James E. m. 
 Lockey Gambreal 
 
 Ida Bell 
 Robert L. 
 Oscar Elliott 
 Tommie Elizabeth 
 m. Walter E. 
 Maynor 
 Benjamin Lee 
 I John Henry 
 
 Eugene Noval 
 
 (i) Jephtha Burn- 
 ley, d. 
 
 (2) Henry Clay m. 
 ist. 
 Mary Brann 
 
 6. Lucinda Vawter 
 m, 
 JohnW. Holmes 
 
 2d. 
 
 Nancy I.Jones 
 
 Nancy C, d. 
 Riley L., d. 
 
 Mary L. m. 
 Wm. L. Oliver 
 
 i 
 
 Martha F., d. 
 John P. 
 
 Ira E. m. 
 Wayland Adams 
 
 r Mabel 
 
 Henry 
 
 Adolphus 
 
 Ira 
 ^ Wendell 
 
 j Alton 
 
 Mckindree 
 
THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA 
 
 VZ 
 
 2d. 
 
 6. Lucinda V. 
 Holmes 
 {Continued) 
 
 Nancy Holmes 
 (ContirMed) 
 
 Lucinda, d. 
 Henry C. m. 
 
 Tassie B. Moore 
 William E. 
 Nellie I. 
 Charles H. 
 
 (3) John Elliott m. 
 1st. 
 
 Mary Pitman 
 2d. 
 Laura Hopkins 
 
 3d. 
 
 Margaret Alex- < 
 ander 
 
 4th. 
 
 Mrs. E. J. Pur- 
 year 
 
 (4) Nancy Kather- 
 ine m. 
 ist. 
 
 Wm. M. Mitch- 
 ell 
 
 2d. 
 
 John M. 
 Walker 
 
 William H. m. 
 Laura Jones 
 
 Olivia M. m. 
 
 Wm. Waggoner 
 Lottie B. 
 Lether C. 
 
 Millie A. 
 Mary L. 
 
 James D. 
 
 Henry P. m. 
 1st. Sarah Ander- 
 son 
 
 2d. Mattie Ander- 
 son 
 
 Eddie Lee, d. 
 
 Wm. Allie m. 
 Lucille Wheat 
 
 Mattie Lou m. 
 Frank Luther 
 
 Mollie Belle, d. 
 
 Dommie Pearl m. 
 
 Jack McAllister 
 
 John Leroy, d. 
 
 Myrtle Mckindree 
 m. 
 ^ Wm. W. Freeman 
 
 Albert Dudley 
 
 Lance D. 
 
 Mary Elizabeth 
 Charles 
 
 Wm. Mckindree 
 Herbert Scott, d. 
 
 Henry Hamilton 
 Marie 
 Robert Alton 
 
 Nannie Aleen 
 Myrtie May 
 Lorine 
 Minnie Lee 
 
 Shirley 
 
 Raymond 
 
 Horace 
 
 Mitchell 
 
 Myrtie Bernice 
 
 Anice 
 
 Charley Lucille 
 
 Gladys Love 
 J Wm. Macon 
 I Arnica Lee 
 L Mattie Aleen 
 
 ( Willie Pipkin 
 ■J Thelma 
 
274 
 
 THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA 
 
 Lucinda V. 
 Holmes 
 (Continued) 
 
 (5) Presley Dud- 
 ley m. 
 Josephine 
 Freeman 
 
 John Gray Vaw- 
 ter m. Eliza- 
 beth Stewart 
 
 Catherine E. 
 Vawter m. 
 Spottswood K. 
 Smith 
 
 (6) Lucinda C. m. 
 James T. Amos 
 
 (7) George W., d. 
 
 (i) Cornelius L. 
 
 (2) Jane, d. 
 
 (3) Alexander 
 
 Stewart, d. 
 
 (4) Elliott Gray, d. 
 
 (5) John Gray m. 
 Mary L. Helper 
 
 (6) 
 
 William B., d. 
 Lula E. m. 
 
 W. J. Pritchard 
 Henry B. 
 Annie m. 
 
 Samuel Redden 
 Dudley 
 
 Lula E. m. 
 
 W. A. Barker 
 Margaret B. m. 
 
 VV. P. TuUis 
 
 Eliza M. m. 
 
 J. J. Greer 
 William A. m. 
 
 Clara Gallaher 
 Perry H. 
 Cora M. 
 Lenna P. 
 
 \ Elizi 
 ( Lilli 
 
 zabeth Helper 
 an Gray 
 
 AnnaElizabeth 
 m. Myron E. 
 Barnes 
 
 ^ (7) Benjamin S. 
 
 (i) Eliza B. m. 
 JohnW. Hobson 
 
 (2) Martha A. m. 
 J.W.Williamson 
 
 (3) John V. m. 
 Catherine P. 
 
 Oakes 
 
 (4) Burnley Duke 
 m. Moilie 
 
 McLaughlin 
 
 (5) Spottswood G. 
 m. Beulah 
 
 Belle Grant 
 
 (6) L. E., d. s. 
 
 (7) Moilie W. ra. 
 R. H. Moody 
 
 Kenneth B. 
 
 Ladie Hobson 
 Seven children 
 
 No children 
 
 Ada Burnley m. 
 
 Wm. H. Sims 
 George Keland 
 Mattie Emmett 
 Mary Catherine, d. 
 Vivian Minor m. 
 
 Alice Lane 
 Richard Ricks 
 Basil Duke, d. 
 
 Mattie W. m. 
 
 J.D. Clark 
 James S. m. 
 
 Edna Russell 
 Moilie C. m. 
 Annie Gray, d. 
 Daniel C. 
 
 Wm. Rudy 
 Harry Lee, d. 
 
 Jessie 
 Freeman 
 
 Leroy A. 
 Lola B. 
 
 Mildred J. 
 
 Richard Raymond 
 Hugh Graeme 
 
 Elliott Minor 
 Charles S. 
 Son (unnamed) 
 
 Annie Gray 
 
THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA 
 
 2/5 
 
 9. Nancy Vawter 
 m. James Gatlin 
 
 (i) Virginia m. 
 ist. 
 Geo. V. Allen 
 
 2d. 
 
 J. West Jones 
 
 (2) Sarah S. m. 
 1st. 
 Geo.W. Carrell 
 
 2d. 
 
 Chas. Amback 
 
 (3) Kate L. m. 
 
 H. T. Fitzhugh i Harry F 
 
 (4) Nancy E. m. 
 DwightR. Bat- 
 
 tey 
 
 (5) Sina E. m. 
 Aaron Pickard 
 
 Clarence H. 
 Faye Pearl 
 Mack A. 
 Carrell C. 
 
 Blanche A. in. 
 
 Virgil L. Snyder 
 Alvin G. 
 
 ( An 
 ( Gr: 
 
 na Fern 
 race Myrtle 
 
 Ross 
 
 (6) JephthaD. m. Lake E., d. 
 
 MattieDunn i ^^^^""^ 
 Faye 
 
 Charles 
 
 ' Horace Dwight m. 
 Margarette 
 Caldwell 
 
 Grace Margarette 
 ro. 
 Jacob N. Kanoff i 
 
 Frank Gatlin m. 
 Alice M. Bratton 
 
 Charles J. m. 
 Zella M. Newton 
 
 Robert Rush m. 
 Bertha Harvey 
 
 Ralph J. m, Mae 
 Marian Crafts 
 
 . George V. 
 
 I Harry A. 
 
 Myrtle m. 
 
 John C. Pierce 
 Lake E. 
 ^ Genevieve Hope 
 
 Roy W. m. 
 
 Hattie South 
 Edgar J. 
 Gordon D. 
 
 Gertrude Alice 
 
 Eythel Fern 
 Hazel Hester 
 Geo. William 
 Harold F. 
 J. Wilson 
 John Homer 
 
 Myrtle Grace 
 George William 
 Frank Bratton 
 
 Georgia Grace 
 
 Grace Margarette 
 
 { Elin 
 ( Mari 
 
 or Shirley 
 arian 
 
 Hallie 
 
 ( Waldo 
 I Floyd! 
 
276 
 
 THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA 
 
 9. Nancy (Vawter) 
 Gatlin 
 
 (Continued) 
 
 f Ray R. 
 (7) MargaretM.m. I James D. 
 Morton R. Gib- ,| Fred A. 
 bens Laura lone 
 
 I Vawter Morton 
 
 (8) Mary C. m. 
 John A. Cole- 
 man 
 
 (9) Emma J. m. 
 ist. Frank B. 
 George 
 
 2d. Everett 
 De Garm 
 
 •1 
 
 Clayton Carrell m. 
 
 Catherine L. 
 Cross 
 Dwight Leonidas, 
 
 d. 
 Shirley Vawter 
 
 Ollie Vawter 
 Max B. 
 
 James Ralph 
 
 II 
 
 ELLIOTT VAWTER 
 
 Elliott Vawter, son of Philemon and Anna Vawter, was born 
 July 5, 1782; married October 11, 1804, to Anna Gray, who was 
 born April 3, 1783, and died July 26, 1856. Elliott Vawter died 
 March 28, 1863. He was a farmer and lived on Spring Creek, 
 in Todd county, Kentucky. 
 
 Children : Frances, Presley, Jephtha D., Dudley, Sabrina, Lu- 
 cinda, John Gray, Catherine E. and Nancy. 
 
 Frances Vawter. 
 
 Frances, daughter of Elliott and Anna (Gray) Vawter, was 
 born July 26, 1805 ; died young. 
 
 Presley Vawter. 
 
 Presley, son of Elliott and Anna (Gray) Vawter, was born 
 June 21, 1807, in Gallatin county, Kentucky; married, first, in 
 
THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA 2"]^ 
 
 Todd county, Kentucky, October 4, 1831, to Elenor Floyd, who 
 was born November 11, 1812, and died in Bond county, Illinois, 
 June 5, 1844. 
 
 Children : 
 
 (i) Elizabeth A., daughter of Presley and Elenor (Floyd) 
 Vawter, was born in Todd county, Kentucky, October 25, 1832; 
 married December 21, 1853, to Jefferson Fruit, who was born 
 near Edwardsville, Illinois, March 30, 1821, and died at his home 
 at Fruit Station, Illinois, February 25, 1891. Elizabeth (Vaw- 
 ter) Fruit died July 27, 1872. 
 
 Children : 
 
 a. Mary Eleanor Fruit was born November 30, 1854, near 
 Edwardsville, Illinois, at Fruit Station; married August 17, 
 1875, to Jefferson Michael Doubt, a farmer living near Have- 
 lock, Nebraska. They have no children. 
 
 h. Nancy Emily Fruit Avas born at Fruit Station, Illinois, 
 March 29, 1856; married November 12, 1878, to Abram Isaacs, 
 a farmer, who was born in Macoupin county, Illinois, October 4, 
 1 85 1. They live near Gillespie, Illinois. 
 
 Children : 
 
 (a) Thomas Edmund Isaacs, born August 18, 1880. 
 
 (b) Alfred Abram Isaacs, born April 22, 1884. 
 
 (c) Walter Fruit Isaacs, born July 15, 1886. 
 
 c. Edmund Presley Fruit was born at Fruit Station, Illinois, 
 April 13, 1858; married November 15, 1880, to Sallie Mocroft, 
 who was born in Henry county, Illinois, December 27, 1858. 
 Edmund P. Fruit is a farmer living near Waverly, Nebraska. 
 
 One child, Rhoda Elizabeth Fruit, was born December 19, 
 1883. 
 
 d. Logan Brown Fruit was born at Fruit Station, Illinois, 
 March 29, i860; married April 4, 1888, to Jessie Morrison, who 
 was born near Edwardsville, Illinois, March 18, 1858. Logan 
 Fruit is a salesman in a grocery and lives in Decatur, Illinois. 
 
 Children : 
 
 (a) Allen Jefferson Fruit, born at Fruit Station January 22, 
 1891. 
 
 (b) Bessie Fruit, born at Fruit Station December 13, 1893. 
 
2/8 THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA 
 
 e. Walter Elliott Fruit was born at Fruit Station, Illinois, 
 November 9, 1862; married June 28, 1893, to Ellen Elizabeth 
 Grossman, of Edwardsville, Illinois. Walter E. Fruit is a phy- 
 sician and surgeon, making a specialty of diseases of children. 
 He lives at 4647 Indiana Avenue, Chicago, Illinois. One child, 
 Julian Elliott, was born April 28, 1899, in Chicago. 
 
 (2) Nancy E., daughter of Presley G. and Elenor (Floyd) 
 Vawter, was born in Bond county, Illinois, April 11, 1834; mar- 
 ried Spencer M. Goodson. They live on a farm near Greenville, 
 Illinois. 
 
 Children : Ellen, married Augustus Hawley, and lives near 
 Greenville, Illinois; Addie, Alice, Hattie, Orson, Thomas and 
 Harry, all of whom are married. 
 
 (3) John E., son of Presley G. and Elenor (Floyd) Vawter, 
 was born in Bond county, Illinois, February 19, 1838; married 
 at Webb City, Missouri, June 26, 1882, to Kittie C Radway, who 
 was born in Brooklyn, New York, June 22, i860; lives at San 
 Francisco, California. He is a traveling salesman for the Ozo- 
 moru Chemical Company of Omaha, Nebraska. 
 
 Presley G. Vawter was married, second, to Margaret Y. Mc- 
 Adams, April 11, 1849. Margaret (McAdams) Vawter was 
 born March 8, 1818; died June 4, 1863, in Bond county, Illinois. 
 
 Children of Presley G. and Margaret (McAdams) Vawter 
 were Ophelia G., Charles A., and Margaret Luella. 
 
 (i) Ophelia G., daughter of Presley G. and Margaret (Mc- 
 Adams) Vawter, was born in Bond county, Illinois, December 
 22, 1852; married September 4, 1873, to James R. Hunter, lives 
 at Winfield, Kansas. 
 
 Children : 
 
 a. Ollie M. Hunter, born in Bond county, Illinois, June 13, 
 1876. 
 
 b. Mary E. Hunter, born in Crawford county, Kansas, April 
 14, 1887. 
 
 (2) Charles A., son of Presley G. and Margaret (McAdams) 
 Vawter, was born in Bond county, Illinois, April 21, 1858; mar- 
 ried to Eva G. Saylor at Newton, Kansas, July 8, 1886; acci- 
 dentally killed at Denver, Colorado. Eva (Saylor) Vawter was 
 
THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA 2/9 
 
 born in Jackson, Ohio, May 23, 1863. She Hves in Denver, 
 Colorado. 
 Children : 
 
 a. Ethel Vawter, born in Newton, Kansas, August i, 1887. 
 
 b. Cornelius L. Vawter, born in Pueblo, Colorado, November 
 19, 1892. 
 
 c. John Earl Vawter, born in Denver, Colorado, April 7, 
 1897. 
 
 (3) Margaret Luella, daughter of Presley G. and Margaret 
 (McAdams) Vawter, was born in Bond county, Illinois, June 
 22, 1862; married near McCune, Kansas, September 16, 1886, 
 to Samuel Welch ; lives at McCune, Kansas. Samuel Welch, son 
 of Samuel and Mary M. Welch, was born in Plain view, Mac- 
 coupin county, Illinois, February 10, 1856. Is engaged in the 
 mercantile business. 
 
 Children : 
 
 a. Frank J. Welch, born in Crawford county, Kansas, No- 
 vember 4, 1887. 
 
 b. Nellie F. Welch, born in Cherokee county, Kansas, Feb- 
 ruary 13, 1897. 
 
 c. Charles V. Welch, born at Edna, Kansas, September 8, 
 1901. 
 
 d. Margaret R. Welch, born at McCune, Kansas, April 16, 
 1904. 
 
 Presley G. Vawter was married, third, to Sarah E. Hamilton. 
 March 2, 1864. Sarah E. Hamilton was born October 14, 1831, 
 in Tennessee; lives with her daughter in Edna, Kansas. 
 
 Presley G. Vawter died of heart failure at his home near Mc- 
 Cune, Kansas, January 28, 1889. 
 
 Children of Presley G. and Sarah (Hamilton) Vawter were 
 Philip S., Sarah Belle, Presley G. and William W. 
 
 (i) Philip S., son of Presley G. and Sarah (Hamilton) 
 Vawter, was born in Bond county, Illinois, November 3, 1865 : 
 married at McCune, Kansas, November 12, 1893. to Minrtie 
 L. Bevans, who was born at Marietta, Fulton county, Illinois. 
 
 Philip S. Vawter is engaged in the furniture and undertaking 
 business. 
 
28o THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA 
 
 Children : 
 
 a. Blanche B. Vawter, born at McCune, Kansas, August i, 
 1895. 
 
 b. George B. Vawter, born at McCune, Kansas, December 
 30, 19CX). 
 
 (2) Sarah Belle, daughter of Presley G. and Sarah (Hamil- 
 ton) Vawter, was born in Bond county, Illinois, January 2, 
 1869; married June 3, 1891, at McCune, Kansas, to Robert H. 
 Welch; lives at Edna, Kansas. 
 
 Robert H. Welch is in the furniture and undertaking business. 
 Children : 
 
 a. Clarence V. Welch, born at McCune, Kansas, April 30, 
 1892. 
 
 h. Mary E. Welch, born at McCune, Kansas, July 6, 1894. 
 
 c. Grace B. Welch, born at McCune, Kansas, November 10, 
 1896. 
 
 (I. Robert G. Welch, born at Edna, Kansas, April 23, 1900. 
 e. William O. Welch, born at Edna, Kansas, April 6, 1904. 
 
 (3) Presley G., son of Presley G. and Sarah (Hamilton) 
 Vawter, was born in Bond county, Illinois, June 7, 1870; married 
 Emily V. Gambill, March 14, 1894; lives on a farm near McCune, 
 Kansas. His wife was born in Robinson county, Tennessee, Jan- 
 uary 6, 1873. 
 
 Children : 
 
 a. Rufus L. Vawter, born near McCune, Kansas, February 
 II, 1895. 
 
 b. Ruth E. Vawter, born near McCune, Kansas, April i, 
 1896. 
 
 c. Fern G. Vawter, born near McCune, Kansas, February 2, 
 1898. 
 
 d. Fane F. Vawter, born near McCune, Kansas, September 
 13, 1900. 
 
 c. Raymond G. Vawter, born near McCune, Kansas, Octo- 
 ber 9, 1903. 
 
 (4) William W., son of Presley G. and Sarah (Hamilton) 
 Vawter, was born in Bond county, Illinois, July 4, 1875; died 
 in McCune, Kansas, November 26, 1891. 
 
THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA 281 
 
 Jephtha D. Vawter 
 
 Jephtha D., son of Elliott and Anna (Gray) Vawter, was born 
 July 18, 1809, in Todd county, Kentucky, and lived there until 
 1846 or 1847, when he moved to Tazewell county, Illinois, on a 
 farm in the Mackanaw valley. He remained there until the 
 spring of 1868, when he moved to Shawnee county, Kansas, and 
 settled on Wakarusa Creek, where he engaged in farming and 
 stock raising until 1892. He then retired from business and 
 moved to Topeka, Kansas, where he died October 13, 1894. At 
 his death Jephtha Vawter gave to each of his eleven children three 
 hundred acres of land or the equivalent thereof. He was kind 
 to the poor and always helpful where there were energy and need. 
 
 Jephtha Vawter was married, first, June 14, 1832, to Sarah 
 Modised Foster, daughter of John and Elizabeth Foster, who 
 was born June 9, 181 5, and died December 18, 1883. The chil- 
 dren of Jephtha and Sarah (Foster) Vawter were John Washing- 
 ton, Benjamin F., Mary Ann, Henry Clay, Lucinda Caroline, 
 Louise Ellen, Nancy Tandy, Martha Celestia, James Elliott, 
 Sarah Jane, Harriet Elizabeth, Sabrina Katherine and William 
 Jephtha. 
 
 Jephtha Vawter was married, second, July 25, 1884, to Louisa 
 K. Miller, daughter of Gilbert and Rebecca Miller, wdio was born 
 December 13, 1850, at Absecon, New Jersey. They had one 
 child, Clarence Dudley, who was born September 30, 1885. 
 The widow of Jephtha Vawter has since married a Mr. Mills, 
 and is now living in Manhattan, Kansas, where her son is at- 
 tending college. Their home is in Topeka, Kansas. 
 
 Children of Jephtha and Sarah (Foster) Vawter: 
 
 (i) John Washington Vawter, son of Jephtha D. and Sarah 
 (Foster) Vawter, was born July 5, 1833; married, first, Decem- 
 ber 31, 1857, to Louisa Chestnut, who was born February 7, 
 1834, and died February 18, 1867. Their children were Samuel 
 Dudley, William David, Florence Maria and Eliza Jane. 
 
282 THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA 
 
 John Washington Vawter was married, second, March 19, 
 1868, to Martha Ellen Hess, who died September 30, 1873. Their 
 children were Jephtha Levi, Fred Clay. 
 
 John Washington Vawter was married, third, February 21, 
 1876, to Sarepta Hamilton. No children. Mr. Vawter is a re- 
 tired farmer, living in Ulysses, Nebraska. 
 
 Children : 
 
 a. Samuel Dudley, son of John Washington and Louisa 
 (Chestnut) Vawter, was born November 7, 1858. He gradu- 
 ated at Eureka College in the class of '85 and for about seven 
 years served as pastor in the Christian Church. During the 
 sessions of 1892- 1894 he taught mathematics in the Christian 
 University at Canton, Missouri, and for two years thereafter in 
 Eureka College, Eureka, Illinois. On account of poor health he 
 retired to a farm, where he now lives at Saunemin, Illinois, and 
 preaches occasionally. 
 
 Samuel D. Vawter was married January 27, 1887, to Minnie 
 M. Harris, who was born on the farm where they now live. They 
 have no children. 
 
 h. William David, son of John W. and Louisa (Chestnut) 
 Vawter, was born in Tazewell county, Illinois, January 17, 1862 ; 
 married September i, 1883, to Ivie K. McCullough, who was 
 born in McLean county, Illinois, April 6, 1865. David Vawter 
 is employed in the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe shops in To- 
 peka, Kansas, as car repairer. 
 
 Children of William David and Ivie (McCullough) Vawter: 
 
 (a) Myrtle Lowell, born February 2y, 1887. 
 
 (b) Goldie Call, born August 22, 1890. 
 
 c. Florence Maria, daughter of John W. and Louisa (Chest- 
 nut) Vawter, was born near Tremont, Illinois, April 5, 1864; 
 married January 2, 1894, to William Routh, a farmer, who was 
 born in Warren county, Illinois, March 26, 1861. They live in 
 Ulysses, Nebraska. 
 
 Children : 
 
 (a) Evan V. Routh, born August 31, 1902. 
 
 (b) Clifford Routh, born November 6, 1904. 
 
 d. Eliza Jane, daughter of John W. and Louisa (Chestnut) 
 
THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA 283 
 
 Vawter, was born January i6. 1867. Is a nurse in the Clarkson 
 Hospital, Omaha. Nebraska. 
 
 e. Jephtha Levi, son of John W. and Martha (Hess) Vawter, 
 was born December 16. 1869; married February 25, 1892. to 
 Edith Henning, who was born December 8, 1870, in Yates town- 
 ship, McLean county. Ilhnois. J. L. Vawter is a farmer, living 
 near Lexington. Illinois. 
 
 Children : 
 
 (a) Jessie Vawter. born April 25, 1893, in Yates township, 
 McLean count}^, Illinois. 
 
 /. Fred Clay, son of John W. and Martha (Hess) Vawter, 
 was born March 22. 1872; married Annie Brigham ; is a farmer 
 living near Ulysses, Nebraska. 
 
 Children : Walter Fred and Wayne. 
 
 (2) Benjamin Franklin Vawter, son of Jephtha D. and 
 Sarah (Foster) Vawter, was born February 10, 1835; married 
 September 29, 1856, to Mary E. Bright. Is a retired farmer liv- 
 ing in Wakarusa, Kansas. 
 
 Children : 
 
 a. Bethena Ellen, daughter of Benjamin and Mary (Bright) 
 Vawter, v.-as born December 16, 1857; married Joseph Robinson, 
 Auburn, Kansas. 
 
 Children : Arthur, Earl. Leonard and several others. 
 
 h. Amy Catherine, daughter of Benjamin and Mary 
 (Bright) Vawter, was born August 15, 1859; married Parker 
 Perry, a farmer and stock trader of Wakarusa, Kansas. 
 
 Children : Wayland and Junia. 
 
 c. Charles Henry, son of Benjamin F. and ]\Iary (Bright) 
 Vawter, born October 28, 1861 ; married Katherine Ecker, 
 Wakarusa, Kansas. Farmer. 
 
 Children : Laura, Francis, Helen, Bertha and baby. 
 
 (3) Mary Ann Elizabeth, daughter of Jephtha D. and Sarah 
 (Foster) Vawter, was born May 13, 1836; died September 5, 
 
 185 1. 
 
 (4) Henry Clay Vawter, son of Jephtha D. and Sarah (Fos- 
 ter) Vawter, was born in Todd county, Kentucky, April 4, 1838; 
 married in Tazewell county, Illinois, September 7, 1865, to Sarah 
 
284 THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA 
 
 Lavina Davies, who was born November 20, 1840, in Tazewell 
 county. Illinois, and died November 27, 1885. 
 
 Children : 
 
 o. Olive lona, daughter of Henry Clay and Sarah L. Vawter, 
 was born June 30, 1866 ; married November 24, 1887, to Clarence 
 Smith, a farmer and stock trader. 
 
 b. Annie, daughter of Henry C. and Sarah (Davies) Vaw- 
 ter, born February 5, 1868; died August 16, 1868. 
 
 c. Clarence, son of Henry C. and Sarah (Davies) Vawter, 
 born July 8, 1869; died August 5, 1870. 
 
 d. Lucy, daughter of Henry C. and Sarah (Davies) Vawter, 
 born July 16, 1871 ; died July 29, 1871. 
 
 e. Sarah Lavina, daughter of Henry C. and Sarah (Davies) 
 Vawter, was born September 29. 1875. 
 
 /. Lewis Henry, son of Henry C. and Sarah (Davies) Vaw- 
 ter, was born October 12, 1877; married November 18, 1903, to 
 Ada Elizabeth Wilson. Lewis H. Vawter is a farmer. 
 
 Henry Clay Vawter married, second, Lizzie R. Davis, on 
 September 7, 1887. Lizzie (Davis) Vawter died August 22, 
 
 1897. 
 
 Henry C. Vawter is a farmer, living in Tremont, Illinois. 
 
 (5) Lucinda Caroline Vawter, daughter of Jephtha D. and 
 Sarah (Foster) Vawter, was born May 17, 1839; married Febru- 
 ary 29, i860, to Charles Walter Hinman. a farmer, who was 
 born August 18, 1829, and died May 5, 1899. 
 
 Children : 
 
 a. Henry Vawter Hinman, born December 9, i860; died 
 June 4, 1 87 1. 
 
 b. Mary Ellen Hinman. born January 25, 1863; married to 
 William Gillan, February i, 1882. They have ten children; 
 Walter Leigh. Nina May. Charles Ross, Mabel Augusta, Harry 
 Laurence, Laura Maud, Lewis Elbert, Ruth Caroline, Richard 
 Hugh and Nellie Margaret. 
 
 William Gillan is a farmer, living in Mackinaw. Illinois. 
 
 c. Augusta Orissa Hinman was born February 13, 1866; 
 married to James Gillan, February 21, 1894. Children: Edna 
 
THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA 285 
 
 May, born January 24, 1896; Walter Hinman, born July 25, 
 1900; Margaret, born October 7. 1903. 
 
 James Gillan is a drayman of Mackinaw, Illinois. 
 
 d. Nina Jane Hinman, born February 15, 1869; died August 
 21, 1877. 
 
 c. Eva May Hinman, born June 10, 187 1. Is a teacher of 
 languages in the college in Bluff ton, Ohio. 
 
 /. Richard Franklin Hinman, born November 10, 1874; mar- 
 ried September 26, 1899, to Mary Leonard, youngest daughter 
 of Thomas and Elizabeth Leonard. Is a lawyer of Tremont, Illi- 
 nois. 
 
 Mrs. L. C. Hinman lives in Mackinaw, Tazewell county, Illi- 
 nois. 
 
 (6) Louisa Ellen, daughter of Jephtha D. and Sarah (Foster) 
 Vawter, was born December 19, 1840; married to W. Jesse Mc- 
 Colm, August 16, 1 87 1. Mr. McColm is a farmer, living in 
 Bucklin. Ford county, Kansas. 
 
 Children : 
 
 a. George Elmer McColm, born October 19, 1872. 
 
 b. Viola Olivia McColm, born March 23, 1875. 
 
 (7) Nancy Tandy, daughter of Jephtha D. and Sarah (Fos- 
 ter) Vawter, was born March 10, 1843 ; died October i, 1846. 
 
 (8) Martha Celestia Vawter, daughter of Jephtha D. and 
 Sarah (Foster) Vawter, was born in Todd county, Kentucky, 
 October 10, 1844; married December 26, 1869, to Alexander 
 Waltmire at Waveland, Shawnee county, Kansas, by Rev. A. J. 
 Hopkins. Alexander Waltmire was born near Antioch, Taze- 
 well county, Illinois, and died October 21, 1873. 
 
 Children : 
 
 a. Ernest Everett Waltmire, born February 16, 1871, at 
 Waveland, Illinois; married April 18, 1901, to Dora Dazell. 
 They live in Kansas City. No children. 
 
 h. Otis Vernon Waltmire, born February 25, 1873, near 
 Auburn, Shawnee county, Kansas; died February 15, 1880, near 
 Tremont, Tazew^ell county, Illinois. 
 
 Martha (Vawter) Waltmire w^as married, second, to Richard 
 J. Simpson at Waveland, Shawnee county, Kansas, March 28, 
 
286 
 
 THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA 
 
 1 88 1, by Rev. George Frank Walker. Richard J. Simpson was 
 born November 26, 1839, in Kent county, Delaware. He was a 
 soldier in the Civil War, receiving three honorable discharges. 
 He was enrolled November 22, 1862, to serve nine months in 
 Company H, Sixth Regiment, Delaware Volunteer Infantry ; en- 
 rolled second, July 13, 1864, to serve thirty days in Company I, 
 Seventh Regiment, Delaware Infantry; enrolled third, in Com- 
 pany E, Ninth Regiment, Delaware Infantry, September 7, 1864, 
 to serve one hundred days. He has never asked for nor wanted a 
 pension. Is a farmer, living near Carbondale, Missouri. 
 Children : 
 
 a. Josephine Ellen Simpson, born in Fountain, Osage county, 
 Kansas, January 9, 1882. 
 
 b. Vernon Oak Simpson, born in Fountain, Kansas, Decem- 
 ber 19, 1885. 
 
 (9) James Elliott, son of Jephtha D. and Sarah (Foster) 
 Vawter, was born in Todd county, February 21, 1847; married 
 February 17, 1874, at Tremont, Illinois, to Mary E. Huxtable, 
 who was born at Deer Creek, Illinois, February 26, 1855. 
 
 James E. Vawter died at Fountain, Kansas, June 6, 1899. 
 
 Children : 
 
 a. Anna Belle, daughter of James E. and Mary (Huxtable) 
 Vawter, was born June 28, 1879; died September 28, 1879. 
 
 b. Sarah Ellen, daughter of James E. and Mary (Huxtable) 
 Vawter, was born March 11, 1881 ; married August 16, 1899, to 
 F. A. Newman in Topeka, Kansas. Children : An infant, bom 
 August 15, 1900; died September 7, 1900, and Harold Anson 
 Newman, who was born September 19, 1901. 
 
 c. George William, son of James E. and Mary (Huxtable) 
 Vawter, was born October 21, 1885. 
 
 d. Leonard Franklin, son of James E. and Mary (Huxtable) 
 Vawter, was born December 31, 1889. 
 
 e. Stella May, daughter of James E. and Mary (Huxtable) 
 Vawter, was born June 16, 1887; died November i, 1890. 
 
 /. Leslie Wayne, son of James E. and Mary (Huxtable) 
 Vawter, was born August 4, 1894. 
 
 Mrs. Mary Vawter and family live near Carbondale, Kansas. 
 
THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA 287 
 
 ( 10) Sarah Jane, daughter of Jephtha D. and Sarah (Foster) 
 Vawter, born August 15, 1849; died March 11, 1865. 
 
 (11) Harriet Ehzabeth, daughter of Jephtha D. and Sarah 
 (Foster) Vawter, was born near Tremont, Ilhnois, July 20, 
 185 1 ; married June 14, 1881, to Lewis A. Mead, who was born 
 March 4, 185 1, in Ithaca, New York. 
 
 Children of Lewis A. and Harriet (Vawter) Mead: 
 
 a. Nina Modised Mead, born April 18, 1882. 
 
 b. Jephtha Dudley Mead, born January 25, 1888; died April 
 2, 1888. 
 
 c. Mina Myrtle Mead, born May 15, 1889. 
 
 d. Elsie May Alead, born October 29, 1890. 
 
 e. Carl Owen Mead, born June 16, 1894. 
 
 The two eldest children were born in Waveland, Shawnee 
 county, Kansas. The others were born in Osage county, in a 
 section of country known as Fountain Ridge. The postoffice 
 was kept at a farm house and was known as Fountain Postoffice. 
 The office is now changed to Carbondale, Kansas, Rural Route 
 No. I, which is the address of Mr. and Mrs. Mead and their 
 children. 
 
 (12) Sabrina Katherine, daughter of Jephtha D. and Sarah 
 (Foster) Vawter, was born April 8, 1855; married October 7, 
 1873, to M. Franklin Stout, a farmer of Wakarusa, Kansas. 
 
 Children of M. Franklin and Sabrina (Vawter) Stout: 
 
 a. Effie May Stout, born January 18, 1878; married October 
 29, 1902, to Lewis G. Stahl, who was born June 16, 1876. Lewis 
 G. Stahl is manager of the Jonathan Thomas Lumber Company 
 at Wakarusa, Kansas. 
 
 b. Herbert Oscar Stout, born May 12, 1880; married Janu- 
 ary 23, 1900, to Katherine D. Roberts, who was born November 
 18, 1879. Herbert Stout is a farmer, 
 
 c. Laura Mabel Stout, born April 20, 1883. 
 
 ( 13) William Jephtha, son of Jephtha D. and Sarah (Foster) 
 Vawter, was born near Tremont, Tazewell county, Illinois, Sep- 
 tember 15, 1858. He lived there until about ten years of age, 
 when his father moved to Shawnee county, Kansas, in the spring 
 of 1868, buying a farm on Wakarusa Creek. He has lived the 
 
288 THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA 
 
 greater part of his life on a farm, but is at present engaged as 
 a carpenter in Topeka, Kansas, in order to give his children the 
 advantage of the Topeka schools. 
 
 William Jephtha Vawter was married first on December 22, 
 1882, to Lydia Yarrington, who was born March 17, 1862, in 
 Shawnee county, Kansas, near Wakarusa Station. She died at 
 Lamy Junction, New Mexico, December 13, 1886. 
 
 Children of William Jephtha and Lydia (Yarrington) Vawter 
 \vere : 
 
 a. Arlen O. Vawter, born March 29, 1883. Lives in Wyo- 
 ming. 
 
 h. Ice Reta Vawter, born February 6, 1885 ; died October 15, 
 
 1885. 
 
 William Jephtha Vawter married, second, on March 12, 1889, 
 Mary E. Zane, who was born May 29, 1858, at Farmersburg, 
 Sullivan county, Indiana. 
 
 Children of William Jephtha and Mary (Zane) Vawter: 
 
 a. Alfred Z. Vawter, born September 23, 1892. 
 
 h. Veva J. Vawter, born October 18, 1894. 
 
 4 
 Dudley Vawter- 
 
 Dudley, son of Elliott and Anna (Gray) Vawter, was born 
 May 18, 181 2; died young. 
 
 5 
 Sabrina (Vawter) Tutt 
 
 Sabrina Vawter, daughter of Elliott and Anna (Gray) 
 Vawter, was born in Todd county, Kentucky, January 9, 181 5; 
 married in June, 1830, to Lewis Tutt, who was born in Halifax, 
 Virginia, in 1804, and died March 4, 1874. Sabrina (Vawter) 
 Tutt died August 18, 1 88 1. ' ,^ 
 
 Children: ^yx^^ --^ ..aa4a(\ JAA^^^ 
 
 ( 1 ) Charles L. Tutt married Mary Duke ; died. 
 
 (2) George Washington Tutt, born March 18, 1833; died. 
 
 (3) John Presley Tutt, born April 9, 1834; married Mariah 
 Donley; died. 
 
THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA 289 
 
 (4) David Vawter Tutt, born December lo, 1835 ; died. 
 
 (5) James Elliott Tutt was born January 18, 1837, in Hali- 
 fax county, Virginia. His father moved when he was a small 
 boy to Kentucky and settled in Todd county, near his grand- 
 father, Elliott Vawter, and on the adjoining farm to Jefferson 
 Davis, who afterward became president of the Confederacy. 
 James Elliott Vawter served in the Confederate army during 
 the entire Civil War, first under General Breckenridge, and then 
 under General Forest. He was wounded at Missionary Ridge. 
 He was married December 26, 1864, to Margaret Lucy Powell 
 of Virginia, who was born December 30, 1843. 
 
 Children : 
 
 a. Alice, born October 14, 1865 ; died January, 1866. 
 
 b. James, born and died April 18, 1867. 
 
 c. Myra, born June 2, 1868; died June 16, 1868. 
 
 d. James Leonard, born July 30, 1870; married February 
 7, 1904, to Emily West, who was born in 1871. J. L. Tutt is a 
 painter, living in Cadiz, Kentucky. 
 
 e. Ben Floyd, born April 9, 1876; married May 18, 1902, to 
 Florence West. They have one child, Lawrence William, born 
 February 12, 1904. B. F. Tutt is a painter, living in Cadiz, Ken- 
 tucky. 
 
 /. Annie Hope, born and died August 18, 1881. 
 
 (6) Sarah Catherine Tutt, daughter of Lewis and Sabrina 
 (Vawter) Tutt, was born at the old Vawter residence on Spring 
 Creek in Todd county, Kentucky, January 8, 1838; married De- 
 cember 28, 1853, to William Henry Garden, who was born Octo- 
 ber 2, 1828, in Goochland county, Virginia. They live in View. 
 Kentucky. 
 
 Children : 
 
 a. Alice Garden, born October 12, 1854; married September 
 24, 1877, to George M. Gish; died October 19, 1892. George 
 Gish is a mechanic, living in Memphis, Tennessee. 
 
 Children : 
 
 (a) Laura Gish, born July 6, 1878. 
 
 (b) Jacob Gish, born July 5, 1881. 
 
 b. James Lewis Garden, born December 31, 1855; married 
 
290 THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA 
 
 December 20, 1883, to Rebecca Guthrie. Is a farmer living near 
 View, Kentucky. 
 Children : 
 
 (a) Corinne Garden, born February 2;^, 1886. 
 
 (b) Earl Garden, born June 23, 1888. 
 
 (c) Hansel Garden, born March 15, 1892. 
 
 (d) Hebren Garden, born March 20, 1897. 
 
 (e) Marguerite Garden, born June 15, 1904. 
 
 c. Mary Ellen Garden, born June 23, 1858; married Novem- 
 ber 28, 1878, to John F. Kirk, manager for a tobacco house in 
 Marion, Kentucky. 
 
 d. John Henry Garden, born February 12, i860; married 
 December 28, 1882, to Netta Binkley, Is a farmer living near 
 View, Kentucky. 
 
 Children : 
 
 (a) Gertrude Garden, born July 6, 1884. 
 
 (b) Loto Garden, born June 23, 1887. 
 
 (c) James Garden, born October 21, 1889. 
 
 (d) Ruth Garden, born April 12, 1893. 
 
 e. May Garden, born March 11, 1863; married September 
 20, 1878, to Samuel Henson. 
 
 Children : 
 
 (a) Pearl Henson, born August 18, 1882. 
 
 (b) Ed Henson, born July 2t,, 1884. 
 
 May (Garden) Henson was married, second, to Watson Rice, 
 a farmer, living near Marion, Kentucky. 
 Children : 
 
 (a) William Henry Rice, born September 21, 1894. 
 
 (b) Ollie James Rice, born September 9, 1896. 
 
 (c) Crawford Rice, born June 5, 1898. 
 
 (d) Sarah Catherine Rice, born August 2, 1902. 
 
 (e) Allen D. Rice, born August i, 1904. 
 
 /. Ida Ellonia Garden, born February 3, 1866; married June 
 II, 1884, to Quint Conger, a live-stock dealer of Kelsey, Ken- 
 tucky. 
 
 Children : 
 
 (a) Lena Conger, born August 31, 1885. 
 
 I 
 
THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA 29 1 
 
 (b) Guy Conger, born July 23. 1887. 
 
 (c) Beulah Conger, born January 8, 1889. 
 
 (d) Vera Conger, born May 10, 1897. 
 
 g. Azilee Carden, born February 11, 1868; married February 
 8, 1888, to George Watson, who is in the railroad business in 
 Paducah, Kentucky. 
 
 Children : 
 
 (a) Etwell Watson, born November 28, 1888. 
 
 (b) Vernon Watson, born February 10, 1890. 
 
 (c) Sallie May Watson, born May 10, 1891. 
 
 (d) Watson, born March 10, 1894. 
 
 (e) George Watson, born July 15, 1902. 
 
 h. Willie Carden, born October 24, 1870; married June 21, 
 1893, to Jesse Binkley, a farmer, living near View, Kentucky. 
 Children : 
 
 (a) Virgil Binkley, born March 29, 1894. 
 
 (b) Harry Binkley, born December i, 1896. 
 
 (c) Annie Ree Binkley, born January 2, 1903. 
 
 i. Rollie Carden, born December 20, 1872; married October 
 13, 1897, to Sallie Brown. Is a farmer, living near View, Ken- 
 tucky. 
 
 Children : 
 
 (a) Grace Carden, born September 14, 1900. 
 
 (b) Lee Carden, born September 6, 1902. 
 
 j. Jesse Buford Carden, born December 30, 1875; married 
 October 16, 1901, to Mary Hawkins. Is a farmer, living near 
 View, Kentucky. 
 
 Children : 
 
 (a) Clara May Carden, born August 18, 1902. 
 
 k. Clarence Alpheus Carden, born April 14, 1877. Has a 
 hotel at New Brisrhton, Minnesota. \ . ;•, 'V ,v,. . v ^ - 
 
 (7) Henry Day Tutt was born in Providence, Montgomery 
 county, Tennessee, August 25, 1842; married November 10, 
 1864, to Mary A. Wood, who was born in Woodlawn, Mont- 
 gomery county, Tennessee, December 14, 1848. H. D. Tutt is 
 a miller, living at Bumpus Mills, Tennessee. 
 
292 THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA 
 
 Children : 
 
 a. Lena S. Tutt, born December 24, 1865. 
 
 b. Frank M. Tutt, born May 2, 1869. 
 
 c. Carrie L. Tutt, born September 18, 1870. 
 
 d. John L. Tutt, born February 15, 1874. 
 
 e. Arthur C. Tutt, born December 20, 1876. 
 /. George D. Tutt, born January 4, 1879. 
 
 g, Otis Floyd Tutt, born July 15, 1881. 
 h. Horace Russell Tutt, born April 18, 1884. 
 i. Mamie A. Tutt, born March 2, 1889. 
 y. Henry M. Tutt, born June 16, 1890. 
 
 (8) Lucy Annie Virginia Tutt was born January 2, 1845, 
 in Montgomery county, Tennessee; married December 16, 1887, 
 to Andrew Jackson Whitaker, a wheelwright, who was born 
 March 12, 1840. 
 
 Children : 
 
 a. Mary Whitaker, born March 27, 1862; married October 
 7, 1880, to John Wesley Ford, carpenter, who was born January 
 2y, 1859. Lives in Wickliffe, Kentucky. 
 
 Children : 
 
 (a) William Dudley Ford, born August 11, 1881. 
 
 (b) Delia May Ford, born September 27,, 1885. 
 
 (c) Neppie Virginia Ford, born April 25, 1888. 
 
 (d) Mary Alice Ford, born March 27, 1891. 
 
 (e) Annie Asilee Ford, born December 27, 1894. 
 
 (f) Tripsley Dudley Ford, born August 29, 1898. 
 
 (g and h) Lorene and Corene, twins, born March 29, 1902, 
 Mrs. Virginia (Tutt) Whitaker was married, second, October 
 
 26, 1864, to William Stewart, who died May 19, 1896. Mrs. 
 
 Stewart lives at Wickliffe, Ballard county, Kentucky. 
 
 (9) Mary Ellen Tutt was born June 2;^, 1847; married a 
 Hodge; died. 
 
 (10) Benjamin F. Tutt, born May 2t,, 1849; married Miss 
 Farmer. 
 
 (11) Meredith D. Tutt was born in Trenton, Todd county 
 Kentucky, July 19, 1851; married October 20, 1870, to Virginia 
 Elizabeth Wood, who was born at Woodlawn, Montgomery 
 
THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA 293 
 
 county, Tennessee, March 12, 1855. Meredith Tntt is engaged 
 in the tobacco business in Clarksville, Tennessee. 
 Children : 
 
 a. Birdie May Tutt. born in Trenton, Kentucky, April 9, 
 1872; died December 21, 1880. 
 
 b. James E. Tutt, born in Woodlawn, Tennessee, February 
 2y, 1874; married March 20, 1902, to Lockey Gambreal, who 
 was born February 12, 1873. They have one child, Eugene 
 
 Noval Tutt, born August 26, . James E. Tutt is a carpenter 
 
 living in Alemphis, Tennessee. 
 
 c. Ida Bell Tutt, born in Trenton, Kentucky, October 11, 
 1876. 
 
 d. Robert L. Tutt, born in Trenton, Kentucky, August 28, 
 1879. 
 
 e. Oscar Elliott Tutt, born in Trenton, Kentucky, December 
 8, 1881. 
 
 /. Tommie Elizabeth Tutt, born in Trenton, Kentucky, De- 
 cember 21, 1885; married September 18, 1902, to Walter E. 
 Maynor, a carriage manufacturer, who was born September 6, 
 1871. 
 
 g. Benjamin Lee Tutt, born March 3, 1889, in Ellston, Ken- 
 tucky. 
 
 h. John Henry Tutt, born June 22, 1894, in Ellston, Ken- 
 tucky. 
 
 (12) Wyatt Tutt; died. 
 
 (13) Thomas Tutt, born October 26, 1855; died. 
 
 (14) Jephtha Tutt, born February 26, 1857; died. 
 
 (15 and 16) Jephtha Tutt and Jesse Tutt, twins, born Sep- 
 tember 10, 1859. 
 
 6 
 
 LuciNDA (Vawter) Holmes 
 
 Lucinda Vawter, daughter of Elliott and Anna (Gray) 
 Vawter, was born July 28, 181 7, in Todd county, Kentucky; 
 married January i, 1843, in Todd county, Kentucky, to John 
 W. Holmes, who was born in Maysville, Kentucky, December 
 2y, 1 81 8, and died May 7, 1894, in Graves county, Kentucky. 
 
294 THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA 
 
 Liicinda (Vawter) Holmes died November 28, 1884. They 
 moved from Todd county, Kentucky, to Graves county in 1855. 
 
 Children : 
 
 (i) Jephtha Burnley Holmes, born June 8, 1844; died Sep- 
 tember 4, 1844. 
 
 (2) Henry Clay Holmes was born September 9, 1845 ^^ 
 Todd county, Kentucky; married October 21, 1866, in Graves 
 county Kentucky, to Mary N. Brann. 
 
 Children : 
 
 a. Nancy C. Holmes, born July 18, 1867; died August 21, 
 1867. 
 
 b. Riley L. Holmes, born November i, 1868; died July 13, 
 1869. 
 
 Mary (Brann) Holmes, wife of H. C. Holmes, died April 16, 
 1869. Henry C. Holmes was married to Nancy I. Jones of 
 Weakly county, Tennessee, November 14, 1869. 
 
 Children : 
 
 a. Mary L. Holmes was born September 10, 1870; married 
 January 25, 1888, to William L. Oliver, of Graves county, Ken- 
 tucky. 
 
 Children : 
 
 (a) Mabel Oliver, born October 27, 1888. 
 
 (b) Henry Oliver, born February 19, 1891. 
 
 (c) Adolphus Oliver, born March 10, 1893. 
 
 (d) Ira Oliver, born November 13, 1896. 
 
 (e) Wendell Oliver, born May 31, 1902. 
 
 b. Martha F. Holmes, born May 15, 1872; died April 30, 
 1874. 
 
 c. John P. Holmes, born February 25, 1875. Is in the mer- 
 cantile business in Stubblefield, Kentucky. 
 
 d. IraE. Holmes, born April 11, 1877; married December 
 26, 1900, to Wayland Adams. They live in Graves county, Ken- 
 tucky, and have one child, Alton Mckindree Adams, who was 
 born June 11, 1904. gJ 
 
 e. Lucinda Holmes, born March 31, 1879; died September 
 25, 1897. 
 
 /. Henry Cornelius Holmes, born July 6, 1881 ; married May 
 
THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA 295 
 
 24, 1903, to Tassie B. Moore. Is a farmer, living in Graves 
 county, Kentucky. 
 
 g. William E. Holmes, born July 24. 1883. 
 
 //. Nellie I. Holmes, born February 5, 1886. 
 
 /. Charles H. Holmes, born February 16. 1888. 
 
 (3) John Elliott Holmes, son of John W. and Lucinda 
 (Vavvter) Holmes, was born December 10, 1847; married, first, 
 October 31, 1869, to Mary E. Pitman, who died December 28, 
 1871. 
 
 John E. Holmes was married, second, January 5, 1873, to 
 Laura B. Hopkins, who died April 23, 1874. 
 
 John E. Holmes was married, third, September 15, 1875, to 
 Margaret E. Alexander, who died x\pril 18, 1891. 
 
 Children of John E. and Margaret (Alexander) Holmes: 
 
 a. William H. Holmes, born December 6, 1876; married 
 December 22, 1902, to Laura M. Jones. Is a farmer and stock 
 raiser of Wingo, Kentucky. One child. Lance D. Holmes, was 
 born February 20, 1903. 
 
 b. Olivia M. Holmes, born May 6, 1878; married December 
 26, 1900, to William W. Waggoner, who is a farmer and stock 
 raiser of Wingo, Kentucky. 
 
 Children : 
 
 (a) Mary Elizabeth Waggoner, born January 27, 1902. 
 
 (b) Charles Waggoner, born September 22, 1904. 
 
 c. Lottie B. Holmes, born October 22, 1881. 
 
 d. Lether C. Holmes, born August 21, 1886. 
 
 e. Millie A. Holmes, born September 15, 1888; died May 31, 
 1889. 
 
 /. Mary L. Holmes, born May 29, 1890. 
 
 John E. Holmes was married, fourth, October 12, 1892, to 
 Mrs. E. J. Puryear. They live near Wingo, Kentucky, where 
 Mr. Holmes is a farmer and stock raiser. They have one child, 
 James D. Holmes, who was born September 8, 1894. 
 
 (4) Nancy Katherine Holmes, daughter of John W. and 
 Lucinda (Vawter) Holmes, was born at Pryorsburg, Graves 
 county, Kentucky, November 10, 1849: married February 18, 
 
296 
 
 THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA 
 
 1866, to William Mckindree Mitchell, who was born in East 
 Tennessee, October 26, 1845, and died November 22, 1882. 
 
 Children : 
 
 a. Henry P. Mitchell, born in West Tennessee, December 13, 
 1866; married May 9, 1890, to Sarah R. Anderson, who was 
 born December 7, 1870, and died July 30, 1894. 
 
 Children : 
 
 (a) William Mckindree, born April 2, 1891. 
 
 (b) Herbert Scott, born March 15, 1894; died August 23, 
 1894. 
 
 Henry P. Mitchell was married, second, October 14, 1898, to 
 Mattie Anderson, who was born February 5, 1878. They live in 
 Ponchatoula, Louisiana, where H. P. Mitchell is cashier of the 
 Merchants' and Farmers' Bank. 
 
 Children : 
 
 (a) Henry Hamilton, born November 14, 1899. 
 
 (b) Marie, born April 3, 1902. 
 
 (c) Robert Alton, born August 9, 1904. 
 
 h. Eddie Lee Mitchell, born in West Tennessee, December 
 28, 1868; died October 16, 1869. 
 
 c. William Allie Mitchell, born in West Tennessee, Sep- 
 tember I, 1870; married February 17, 1897, to Lucille Wheat, 
 who was born at Perrysville, Kentucky, March 7, 1879. W. A. 
 Mitchell is in the government mail service at Wingo, Kentucky. 
 
 Children : 
 
 (a) Nannie Aleen, born November i, 1897; died October 
 22, 1899. 
 
 (b) Myrtie May, born April 25, 1899.' 
 
 (c) Lorine, born August 8, 1901. 
 
 (d) Minnie Lee, born January 2, 1903. 
 
 d. Mattie Lou Mitchell, born in Wingo, Kentucky, June 21, 
 1872; married February 6, 1889, to Frank Luther, a farmer, of 
 Wingo, Kentucky, who was born May 22, 1866. 
 
 Children : 
 
 (a) Shirley, born July 19, 1890. 
 
 (b) Raymond, born August 7, 1892. 
 
 (c) Horace, born December 20, 1894. 
 
 ,kk\ 
 
THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA 297 
 
 (d) Mitchell, born March 13, 1897. 
 
 (e) Myrtie Bernice, born May 16, 1899. 
 
 (f) Anice, born June 14, 1902. 
 
 (g) Charley Lucille, born September 19, 1904. 
 
 e. Mollie Bell Mitchell, born in Wingo, Kentucky, March 
 
 10, 1875; died October 2, 1877. 
 
 /. Dommie Pearl Mitchell, born in Wingo, Kentucky, July 
 
 11, 1877; married November 11, 1894, to Jack McAllister, a 
 farmer, of Wingo, Kentucky, who was born February i, 1870, 
 in Trigg county, Kentucky. 
 
 Children : 
 
 (a) Gladys Love, born December 7, 1895. 
 
 (b) William Macon, born March 18, 1898. 
 
 (c) Arnice Lee, born January 28, 1901. 
 
 (d) Mattie Aleen, born December 11, 1904. 
 
 g. John Leroy L. Mitchell, born in Wingo, Kentucky, March 
 17, 1880; died October 9, 1903. 
 
 //. Myrtie Mckindree Mitchell, born September 5, 1882; mar- 
 ried May 23, 1900, to William W. Freeman, who was born Janu- 
 ary 6, 1877, and died November 24, 1903. Mrs. Freeman lives 
 in Ponchatoula, Louisiana. i 
 
 Children : 
 
 (a) Willie Pipkin, born November 23, 1901. 
 
 (b) Thelma, born June 28, 1903. 
 
 Mrs. Nancy Katherine (Holmes) Mitchell was married, sec- 
 ond, August 24, 1884, to John M. Walker. One child, Albert 
 Dudley Walker, was born in Wingo, Kentucky, June 3, 1885. 
 Nancy K. Walker died January 17, 1897. 
 
 (5) Presley Dudley Holmes, son of John W. and Lucinda 
 (Vawter) Holmes, was born in Todd county, Kentucky, De- 
 cember 26, 1852. He went from Todd county, Kentucky to 
 Graves county, with his parents when about three years of age. 
 He was married November 19, 1873, to Josephine S. Freeman, 
 who was born in Davidson county. Tennessee, November 3, 
 1854, and moved with her parents to Graves county Kentucky, 
 when about twelve years of age. Presley D. Holmes is a farmer 
 living near Sedalia, Kentucky. 
 
298 THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA 
 
 Children : 
 
 a. William B. Holmes, born August 19, 1874; died Novem- 
 ber 28. 1874. 
 
 b. Lula E. Holmes, born July 28, 1876; married July 27, 
 1896, to W. J. Pritchard, a farmer, of Graves county, Kentucky, 
 who was born in 1873. 
 
 Children : 
 
 (a) William Rudy Pritchard, born July 12, 1897. 
 
 (b) Harry Lee Pritchard, born November 25, 1902; died 
 July 13, 1903. 
 
 c. Henry B. Holmes, born March 17, 1879. Lives in Stubble- 
 field, Kentucky. 
 
 d. Annie Holmes, born May 10, 1881 ; married November 
 18, 1900, to Samuel Redden, who was born in Dickson county, 
 Tennessee, in 1874 and is now a farmer of Graves county, Ken- 
 tucky. 
 
 Children : 
 
 (a) Jessie Redden, born March 8, 1902. 
 
 (b) Freeman Redden, born August 15, 1904. 
 
 e. John Dudley Holmes, born May 20, 1887. 
 
 (6) Lucinda Caroline Holmes, daughter of John W. and 
 Lucinda (Vawter) Holmes, was born February 29, 1856, in 
 Graves county, Kentucky ; married at Troy, Tennessee, December 
 30, 1872, to James Thomas Amos, a farmer of Wingo, Ken- 
 tucky, who was born in Hickman county, Kentucky, May 2, 
 1849. They live in Lockwood, Missouri. 
 
 Children : 
 
 a. Lula E. Amos was born October 3, 1874; married No- 
 vember 16, 1892, to W. A. Barker; died August 17. 1896, leav- 
 ing a son, Leroy A. Barker, who was born May 5, 1896. . 
 
 b. Margaret B. Amos was born August 28, 1877; married 
 February 23, 1902, to W. P. Tullis. They have one child, Lola 
 B. Tullis, who was born April 25, 1903. 
 
 c. Eliza M. Amos was born August 9, 1880; married March 
 17, 1 901, to J. J. Greer. They have one child, Mildred J. Greer, 
 who was born January 9, 1902. 
 
THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA 299 
 
 d. William A. Amos was born January 26, 1884; married 
 December 23, 1903, to Clara M. Gallaher. 
 
 c. Perry H. Amos, born July 28, 1887. 
 
 /. Cora M. Amos, born June 12. 1889. 
 
 g. Lenna P. Amos, born October 6, 1891. 
 
 (7) George W. Holmes, son of John W. and Lucinda 
 (Vawter) Holmes, v.-as born July 7, 1861 ; died June 9, 1893. 
 
 John W. Holmes was married, second, to Susan Brockman in 
 May, 1883. 
 
 7 
 John Gray Vawter 
 
 John Gray, son of Elliott and Anna (Gray) Vawter," was born 
 in Todd county, Kentucky, in 1819; married in Illinois, February 
 6, 185 1, to Elizabeth Stewart, who was born in Edinburg, Scot- 
 land, May 31, 1824. John Gray Vawter died May 9, 1877. His 
 wife, Elizabeth S. Vawter, lives in Rockford, Illinois. 
 
 Children : 
 
 (i) Cornelius Lansing, son of John Gray and Elizabeth 
 Vawter, v/as born in 185 1. Lives in San Francisco, but is now 
 in Unga, Alaska. 
 
 (2) Jane, daughter of John Gray and Elizabeth Vawter, was 
 born in 1854; died in 1858. 
 
 (3) Alexander Stewart, tvv'in, born in 1858; died December 
 13, 1858. 
 
 (4) Elliott Gray, twin, born in 1858; died December 20, 
 1858. 
 
 (5) John Gray, Jr., born at Wirterset, Madison county, 
 Iowa, December 3, 1859; married at Fort Benton, Montana, 
 December 3, 1883, to Mary Lincoln Helper, daughter of Henry 
 and Hannah Helper, who was born in Pittsburg, Pennsylvania. 
 April 17, 1865. 
 
 Children : 
 
 a. Elizabeth Helper Vawter, born at St. Paul, Minnesota, 
 October 28, 1885. 
 
 b. Lillian Gray Vawter, born at Minot, North Dakota, 
 August 8, 1887. . 
 
300 THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA 
 
 (6) Anna Elizabeth, daughter of John Gray and Ehzabeth 
 Vawter, was born in 1864; married at Rockford, Ilhnois, Sep- 
 tember 29, 1886, to Myron E. Barnes, a vocahst and teacher of 
 music in Rockford, Ilhnois. Myron E. Barnes was born June 
 22, 1863, at Newberry, New York. 
 
 Children : 
 
 a. • Kenneth B. Barnes, born July 28, 1896. 
 
 (7) Benjamin Stewart, son of John Gray and Elizabeth 
 Vawter, was born in 1865. Lives in North Seattle, Washington. 
 
 ■ . 8 
 Catherine (Vawter) Smith 
 
 Catherine E., daughter of Elliott and Anna Gray Vawter, was 
 born in Todd county, Kentucky, May 31, 1822; married No- 
 vember 5, 1 84 1, to Spottswood K. Smith, a farmer, who was 
 born in Spottsylvania county, Virginia, December 14, 1800, and 
 died October 9, 1894, in Guthrie, Kentucky. Catherine (Vaw- 
 ter) Smith died October 27, 1900, in Guthrie, Kentucky. 
 
 Children of Spottswood and Catherine (Vawter) Smith: 
 
 (i) Eliza B. Smith was born September 29, 1842; married 
 John W. Hobson; died January 5, 1892. Miss Ladie Hobson, 
 of Denton, Texas, is a daughter. 
 
 (2) Martha A. Smith was born July 13, 1844; married Dr. 
 J. W. Williamson. Is living now in St. Louis with her daughter, 
 Mrs. M. L. Donlon. 
 
 Children : 
 
 a. Althea, died. 
 
 b. Eliza Miranda Williamson, born at Olmstead Station, 
 Logan county, Kentucky, October 14, 1864; married October 14, 
 1884, to Joseph I. Graham, who was born in Clarksville, Ten- 
 nessee, October 17, 1859. Joseph I. Graham is engaged in the 
 milling business in Columbia, Tennessee. 
 
 Children : 
 
 (a) Robert Lacy Graham, born August 10, 1885. 
 
 (b) Sarah Graham, twin, born October 31, 1887. 
 
 (c) Althea Graham, twin, born October 31, 1887; died June 
 27, 1889. 
 
THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA 3OI 
 
 (d) Catherine Eliza Graham, born September 13. 1891. 
 
 (e) Joseph Irwin Graham, born March 27, 1893. 
 
 (f) James WilJiam Graham, born October 16, 1894. 
 
 (g) Edwin Damon Graham, born February 15, 1898. 
 (h) Prince Alphonso Graham, born February i, 1905. 
 
 c. Lilhan WilHamson married, first, a Smith. They had two 
 children, Archibald and Wanda. She married, second, Thomas 
 Donlon and lives in St. Louis, Missouri. 
 
 d. Leander Alphonso Williamson was born at Olmstead, 
 Logan county, Kentucky, September 6, 1870; married April 19, 
 1893, at Evansville, Indiana, to Elizabeth Goedeke, who was born 
 at Evansville, Indiana, January 3, 1871. L. A. Williamson is a 
 printer, working at the Detroit Free Press office in Detroit, Mich- 
 igan. 
 
 Children : 
 
 (a) Ruth Artensia, born March 23, 1895, at Evansville, In- 
 diana. 
 
 (b) James William, born September 24, 1896, at Evansville, 
 Indiana. 
 
 (c) Althea Lee, born May 26, 1899, at Evansville, Indiana. 
 
 (d) Frederick Belford, born May 26, 1903, at Detroit, Mich- 
 
 igan. 
 
 (e) Dorothy Elizabeth, born February 10. 1905, at Detroit, 
 Michigan. 
 
 e. Mary Duke Williamson was born in Logan county, Ken- 
 tucky, March 14, 1872; married September 2, 1889, to William 
 Hawes Starks, who was born near Allensville, Todd county, 
 Kentucky, February 13, 1859. W. H. Starks is inspector for the 
 Louisville & Nashville Railroad Company at Louisville. Ken- 
 tucky. 
 
 Children : 
 
 (a) Benjamin Earl, born December 11, 1890, at Earlington, 
 Kentucky. 
 
 (b) Frank William, born June 17, 1893, at Guthrie, Ken- 
 tucky. 
 
 (c) Myrtle Lucile, born September 23, 1895, at Guthrie, 
 Kentucky. 
 
?,02 THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA 
 
 ■u 
 
 (d) James Lee, born September 27, 1897, at Guthrie, Ken- 
 tucky, 
 
 (e) Millicent Laverna, born April 14, 1901, at Livingston, 
 Kentucky. 
 
 (f) Florence Althea, born May 2, 1903, at Livingston, Ken- 
 tucky. 
 
 /. Althea Grey Williamson, College Corner, Kentucky. 
 
 g. Florence Olivia Williamson was born at Olmstead, Ken- 
 tucky, July 21, 1875; married at Russellville, Kentucky, July 21, 
 1895, to Exie Felts, a blacksmith, who was born in Homer, Ken- 
 tucky, February 24, 1873. They live at Oakville, Kentucky. 
 
 Children : 
 
 (a) Albert Garland, twin, born at Homer, Kentucky, De- 
 cember 6, 1896. 
 
 (b) Garnett Elbert, twin, born at Homer, Kentucky, Decem- 
 ber 6, 1896. 
 
 (c) Herbert Guy, born at Russellville, Kentucky. January 
 6, 1900. 
 
 (d) Eben Vick, twin, born at Russellville, Kentucky, July 19, 
 1902. 
 
 (e) Effie Vick, twin, born at Russellville, Kentucky, July 19, 
 1902. 
 
 (3) John V. Smith was born January 31, 1847; married 
 September 20, 1871, to Catherine P. Oakes, of Logan count}^, 
 Kentucky, who was born April 7, 1849. They live in Guthrie, 
 Kentucky. No children. 
 
 (4) Burnley Duke Smith was born April 7, 1849, in Todd 
 county, Kentucky; married February 22, 1871, to Mollie O. Mc- 
 Laughlin, of Caroline county, Virginia. Lives at Cisco, Texas. 
 
 Children : 
 
 a. Ada Burnley Smith, born June i, 1873; married Novem- 
 ber 23, 1894, to William H. Sims, deputy chancery clerk of 
 Hinds county, Mississippi. 
 
 Children : 
 
 (a) Richard Raymond Sims, born November 30, 1895. 
 
 (b) Hugh Graeme Sims, born November 8. 1897. 
 
THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA 3O3 
 
 b. George Keland Smith, born January 30, 1875. Is a 
 planter, living near Cisco, Texas. 
 
 c. Mattie Emmett Smith, twin, born April 18, 1877. 
 
 d. Mary Catherine Smith, twin, born April 18, 1877; died 
 September 16, 1877. 
 
 e. Vivian Minor Smith, born July 20, 1878; married July i, 
 1900, to Alice Lane, of Bell county, Texas. Is a railway con- 
 tractor. 
 
 Children : 
 
 (a) Elliott Minor Smith, born April 14, 1901. 
 
 (b) Charles S. Smith, born September 8, 1902. 
 
 (c) A son (unnamed) born August 17, 1904. 
 
 f. Richard Ricks Smith, born October 19, 1880. Is a planter, 
 living near Cisco, Texas. 
 
 g. Basil Duke Smith, born April 13, 1884; died August 21, 
 1885. 
 
 (5) Spottswood G. Smith was born in Todd county, Ken- 
 tucky, June 13, 1851; married October i, 1902, to Beulah Belle 
 Grant, who was born September 18, 1878, in Montgomery 
 county, Tennessee. Mr. Smith is a farmer, living near Guthrie, 
 Kentucky. No children. 
 
 (6) L. E. Smith was born June 2/, 1853; ^^^^^ October 20, 
 1886; unmarried. 
 
 (7) Mollie W. Smith was born July 22, 1856; married 
 January 23, 1878, to R. H. Moody, a farmer, who was born De- 
 cember 5, 1844, and died Novem.ber 8, 1879. Mrs. R. H. Moody 
 lives in Guthrie, Kentucky. 
 
 Children of R. W. and Mollie ( Smith) Moody : 
 
 a. Mattie W. Moody was born October 28, 1878; married 
 December 2t,, 1901, in Guthrie, Kentucky, to J. D. Clark, a lum- 
 berman, who was born in Alabama, April 7, 1867. They reside 
 in Peoria, Illinois. 
 
 b. James S. Moody was born January 22, 1880; married No- 
 vember 24, 1903, to Edna Russell, of Marion, Indiana. They 
 have one child, Annie Gray, who was born December 27, 1904. 
 They live in St. Louis, Missouri. 
 
304 THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA 
 
 c. Mollie C. Moody was born April 30, 1881. Lives with her 
 mother in Guthrie, Kentucky, 
 
 d. Annie Gray Moody was born April 8, 1884; died Sep- 
 tember 16, 1894. 
 
 c. Daniel C. Moody was born December 21, 1886; lives with 
 his mother in Guthrie, Kentucky. 
 
 9 
 
 Nancy (Vawter) Gatlin 
 
 Nancy, daughter of Elliott and Anna (Gray) Vawter, was born 
 in Todd county, Kentucky, August 10, 1824. She came to Illi- 
 nois with her brother, Jephtha Vawter, and his family in the win- 
 ter of 1846-47. There she met James Gatlin, a widower with two 
 children. His first wife was Virginia Smith and his two children 
 were Eliza and Marion. 
 
 Nancy Vawter and James Gatlin were married September 21, 
 1847. James Gatlin was born in Alabama, August 5, 181 7, and 
 died July 22, 1897, ^^ Pleasant Plain, Iowa, and Nancy (Vawter) 
 Gatlin died at Pleasant Plain, Iowa, June 28, 1899. 
 
 Children of James and Virginia (Smith) Gatlin: 
 
 (i) Eliza J. Gatlin was born in Illinois, September 6, 1843; 
 married October 5, 1861, to John Blickensderfer, who was born 
 in Martin's Cove, Pennsylvania, February 15, 1835. They live 
 in Gardena, California. 
 
 Children : 
 
 a. Ella May, born in Brighton, Iowa, October 21, 1862. 
 
 b. Hattie D., born in Brighton, Iowa, October 24, 1866. 
 
 c. Kate S., born in Brighton, Iowa, June, 1869. 
 
 (2) Francis Marion Gatlin was born December 2^, 1844; 
 married January 22, 1873, to Mary McCaulley, who was born in 
 Ohio, March 3, 1848. They live in Lebanon, Kansas. 
 
 Children : 
 
 a. Nellie K., born November 16, 1876; married December 
 27, 1899, to Artemus Carpenter. 
 
 b. John A., born November 7, 1878; married March 16, 1904, 
 to Nellie Erdman. 
 
 c. Harry G., born September 4, 1880. 
 
THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA 305 
 
 d. Hattie, born December 2. 1884. 
 
 e. Clara A., born October 23. 1886. 
 Children of James and Nancy ( Vawter) Gatlin : 
 
 ( I ) Virginia A. Gatlin, daughter of James and Nancy 
 (Vawter) Gatlin, was born in Illinois, September 25, 1848; mar- 
 ried March 26, 1869, to George V. Allen. George V. Allen was 
 born in Belmont county, Ohio, March 14, 1842, and died No- 
 vember 13, 1883. He was interested in flouring mills and was 
 also in the stock and grain business. He served in the Civil War 
 from 1862 to 1865 in Company A. Twenty-fifth Regiment of 
 Iowa Volunteers. 
 
 Children of George V. and Virginia (Gatlin) Allen: 
 
 a. Horace Dwight Allen, born January 15, 1870, at Brighton, 
 Iowa: married June 5, 1894, to Margarette Caldwell of Sioux 
 City, Iowa, who was born at Viola, Illinois, October 16, 1872. 
 Horace D. Allen is the general agent for the Banker's Accident 
 Insurance Company of Des Moines, Iowa. He lives in Sioux- 
 City, Iowa. One child, Gertrude Alice Allen, was born September 
 15, 1899, in Sioux City, Iowa. 
 
 b. Grace Margarette Allen was born November 25, 1871 : 
 married September 10, 1889, to Jacob N. Kanoff; died January 
 II, 1902. 
 
 Children : 
 
 (a) Ethel Fern, born February 17, 1891. 
 
 (b) Hazel Hester, born December 15, 1892. 
 
 (c) George William, born August 11, 1894. 
 
 (d) Harold F., born July 22, 1896. 
 
 (e) J. Wilson, born March 28, 1898. 
 
 (f) John Homer, born January 10, 1900. 
 
 J. N. Kanoff and children are living on a farm near Lenox. 
 Iowa. 
 
 c. Frank Gatlin Allen was born January 8, 1875, in Brighton. 
 Iowa; married May 29, 1900, at Burchard, Nebraska, to Alice 
 Myrtle Bratton, who was born November 8, 1880, in Lenox, 
 Iowa. F. G. Allen is teaching school at Blunt, South Dakota. 
 
 Children : 
 
 (a) Myrtle Grace, born August 12, 1901. 
 
306 THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA 
 
 (b) George William, born March 8, 1903. 
 
 (c) Frank Bratton, born January i, 1905. 
 
 d. Charles J. Allen was born at Brighton, Iowa, October 23, 
 1876; married at Everest, Kansas, October 27, 1898, to Zella M. 
 Newton, a descendent of Sir Isaac Newton. They live in St. 
 Joseph, Missouri, where Charles J. Allen is superintendent of a 
 department of the Nelson Morris Packing Company. 
 
 Children: Georgia Grace, born May 4, 1900, at Everest, 
 Kansas. 
 
 c. Robert Rush Allen was born January i, 1879; married 
 May 7, 1 90 1, to Bertha Harvey. They live in Creston, Iowa, 
 where Robert R. Allen owns and operates a bakery. 
 
 Children: Grace Margarette, born March 4, 1904. 
 
 /. Ralph James Allen was born January 22, 1881, in Lenox, 
 Iowa; married August 17, 1904, to Mae Marion Crafts, who was 
 born in Council Blufifs, Iowa, May 5, 1884. They live in Kansas 
 City, Missouri, where Ralph J. Allen, who is a registered pharma- 
 cist, has a position in a drug store. 
 
 g. George V. Allen, Jr., was born December 7, 1883. He is 
 working for the Union Pacific Tea Company of Kansas City, Mis- 
 souri. 
 
 Virginia (Gatlin) Allen w^as married November 27, 1888, at 
 Lenox, Iowa, to J. West Jones, who was born in Knox county, 
 Illinois, October 10, 1848. They live at Lenox, Iowa. J. West 
 Jones is a live stock auctioneer. 
 
 Children: Harry Allen Jones was born April 22, 1890, at 
 Lenox, low^a. He is now attending school and expects to become 
 an auctioneer. 
 
 (2) Sarah S., daughter of James and Nancy (Vawter) Gat- 
 lin, was born in Peoria, Illinois, May 20, 1850; married Novem- 
 ber 10, 1870, to George Wells Carrell, who was born in Logan 
 county, Ohio, near Belief ontaine, April 17, 1846, and died August 
 27, 1 89 1. George W. Carrell was engaged in the wholesale hard- 
 ware business. He was the son of George Bruce and Censalina 
 ( Shirley) Carrell, who were Virginians. 
 
 Children of George W. and Sarah (Gatlin) Carrell : 
 
 a. Myrtle Carrell v/as born February 28, 1873, at Paris, 
 
THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA 307 
 
 Iowa; married June 21, 1893, at Sioux City, Iowa, to John Cleve- 
 land Pierce. Mr. Pierce is a salesman for lubricating oils ; is also 
 proprietor of a summer hotel at Old Orchard, Maine. Mr. and 
 Mrs. Pierce live in Boston, Massachusetts. They have two chil- 
 dren. 
 
 (a) Elinor Shirley Pierce, born April 28, 1898. 
 
 (b) Marian Pierce, born July 10. 1904. 
 
 b. Lake E. Carrell was born January 28, 1882, at New 
 Sharon, Iowa ; is a porcelain decorator in Lewiston, Maine. 
 
 c. Genevieve Hope Carrell was born in Sioux City, Iowa, 
 July 16, 1890; is a student in St. Joseph's Academy, Deering, 
 Maine. 
 
 Sarah (Gatlin) Carrell was married September 30, 1902, in 
 Syracuse, New York, by Rev. Payson E. Pierce, to Charles 
 August Amback. 
 
 Charles A. Amback was born March 8, 1842, at Grieg, Ger- 
 many. Pie came to America in October, 1858; is a woolen manu- 
 facturer at Sabattus, Maine. 
 
 Mr. Amback was married, first, in 1870, to Abbie Ellen Kim- 
 ball, who was born May 10, 1845, at Gardiner, Maine. They had 
 four children : 
 
 a. Carrie Adell Amback, born September 8, 1871, at Lisbon 
 Falls, Maine; is a teacher in the public schools in Hyde Park, 
 Massachusetts. 
 
 b. Ina May Amback, born May 14, 1873; is a teacher in the 
 public schools at Lisbon Falls, Maine. 
 
 c. Annie Louise Amback, born May 3, 1876, at Sabattus, 
 Maine; married October i, 1903, to Melvin E. Butler. They live 
 in Hyde Park, Massachusetts, and have one child, Charles Mel- 
 vin, who was born August 10, 1904. 
 
 d. John Everett Amback, born December 6, 1879, at Sabat- 
 tus, Maine ; is manager of a clothing house at Meriden, Con- 
 necticut. 
 
 (3) Kate L., daughter of James and Nancy (Vawter) Gat- 
 lin, was born in Iowa, May 10, 1852; married January 27, 1876, 
 to H. T. Fitzhugh, who was born in Henry county, Missouri, 
 May 14, 1845, and reared in Merced county, California. Mr. 
 
308 THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA 
 
 Fitzhugh is engaged in ranching and stock raising; lives in 
 Chromo, Colorado. 
 Children : 
 
 a. Roy W., born in Nevada, December 17, 1876; married 
 June 10, 1902, to Hattie South. They have one child, Hallie, who 
 was born June 9, 1903. Roy W. Fitzhugh works for the railroad 
 company and lives in Chama, New Mexico. 
 
 b. Edgar J. Fitzhugh, born in Nevada, March 5, 1878. 
 
 c. Gordon D. Fitzhugh, born in Colorado, May 8, 1880. 
 
 d. Harry F. Fitzhugh, born in Colorado, March 20, 1882. 
 
 e. Clarence H. Fitzhugh, born in Colorado, May 30, 1884. 
 /. Faye Pearl Fitzhugh, born in Colorado, July 21, 1886. 
 g. Mack A. Fitzhugh, born in Colorado, February 7, 1889. 
 h. Carrell C. Fitzhugh, born in Colorado, April 16, 1891. 
 
 (4) Nancy Elliott, daughter of James and Nancy (Vawter) 
 Gatlin, w^as born in Iowa, October 11, 1854; married October 21, 
 1880, to Dwight R. Battey, who was born in Willington, Tolland 
 county, Connecticut, August 21, 1853. Mr. Battey is a farmer, 
 living in La Junta, Colorado. 
 
 Children : 
 
 a. Blanche A. Battey, born March 24, 1882; married March 
 31, 1 90 1, to Virgil L. Snyder; lives in Rocky Ford, Colorado. 
 
 Children are Waldo A., born December 9, 1901, and Floyd T., 
 born April 8, 1903. 
 
 b. Alvin G. Battey, born January 13, 1884; lives in La Junta, 
 Colorado. 
 
 (5) Sina E., daughter of James and Nancy (Vawter) Gat- 
 lin, was born in Iowa, November 19, 1856; married October 4, 
 1883, to Aaron Pickard, who was born near Pleasant Plain, Iowa, 
 July 17, 1857. Mr. Pickard is a farmer, living near Pleasant 
 Plain, Iowa. 
 
 Children : 
 
 a. Anna Fern, born November 26, 1884, near Pleasant Plain, 
 Iowa. 
 
 b. Grace Myrtle, born May 29, 1887, near Pleasant Plain, 
 Iowa. 
 
 (6) Jephtha D., son of James and Nancy (Vawter) Gatlin,. 
 
THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA 309 
 
 was born in Iowa, November 28, 1857; married January 10, 
 1885, to Mattie Dunn; died October 27, 1902. Mrs. Jephtha D. 
 Gatlin and children live at Batavia, Iowa. 
 
 Children : Ross, Lake E., who died, Wayne, Faye and 
 Charles. 
 
 (7) ]\Iargaret M., daughter of James and Nancy (Vawter) 
 Gatlin, was born in Iowa, July 8, i860; married October 12, 1887, 
 to Morton R. Gibbens. who was born at Sextonville, Wisconsin, 
 September 7, 1865. Mr. Gibbens is a stonemason, living at Fort 
 Collins, Colorado. 
 
 Children : 
 
 o. Ray R., born November 13, 1888. 
 
 b. James D., born May 29, 1890. 
 
 c. Fred A., born June 12, 1891. 
 
 d. Laura lone, born December 19, 1896; died February 6, 
 1898. 
 
 e. Vawter Morton, born December 6, 1899. 
 
 (8) Mary C, daughter of James and Nancy (Vawter) Gat- 
 lin, was born in Iowa October 4, 1862; married September 15, 
 1 88 1, to John A. Coleman, who was born at Mount Vernon, 
 Iowa, August 12, 1859. Mr. Coleman is in the mercantile and 
 also the stock business. Lives at Fort Collins, Colorado. 
 
 Children : 
 
 a. Clayton Carrell Coleman, born June 22, 1882; married 
 June 22, 1904, to Catherine L. Cross. They live in Alford, Colo- 
 rado. 
 
 b. Dwight Leonidas Coleman, born April 30, 1890; died 
 December 10, 1900. 
 
 c. Shirley Vawter Coleman, born October 6, 1893. 
 
 (9) Emma J., daughter of James and Nancy (Vawter) Gat- 
 lin, was born in Iowa February 3, 1865; married October 4, 
 1883, to Frank B. George, who was born September 13, 1862, 
 and died October 12, 1892. 
 
 Children : 
 
 a. Ollie Vawter, born at Pleasant Plain, Iowa, September 13, 
 1885. 
 
 b. Max B., born near Rock Creek, Wyoming, June 10, 1888. 
 
3IO THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA 
 
 Emma J. George was married, second, to Everett De Garmo, 
 October 28, 1896. 
 
 Children : 
 
 a. James Ralph, born January 13, 1898, at Alton, Kansas. 
 
 Everett De Garmo and his wife are separated. His wife having 
 resumed the name of her first husband, now lives with her chil- 
 dren at New Windsor, Colorado. 
 
 Ill 
 
 For Frances, daughter of Philemon and Anna Vawter, see 
 record of William Vawter, son of Jesse. 
 
 Frances Vawter married her cousin William Vawter. 
 
IV. 
 
 JESSE VAWTER5 
 
 (Philemon^, David^, John"^, Johni) 
 
 (1784-1832) 
 
 m. 
 
 FRANCES ANN WATTS 
 
 Children^ 
 
 Grandchildren' 
 
 I. David Jamieson 
 Vawter m. 
 ist 
 Ann Hickinson 
 
 2d 
 
 Elizabeth A. 
 Waters 
 
 (i) William m. 
 Rachel Rob- 
 inett 
 
 (2) Mary tn. 
 
 Michels 
 
 (i) Julia m. 
 
 Thomas Riggs 
 
 (2) Alpheus, d. 
 
 (3) Jesse, d. 
 
 (4) John Wesley 
 m. 
 Matilda R. 
 
 Johnston 
 
 (5) Jamieson, d. 
 
 G. Grandchil- 
 dren^ 
 
 Mary Alice, d. 
 
 Edwin Jamieson 
 
 m. 
 Mazelle Ayres 
 
 William Cyrus 
 Cassius Lincoln, d. 
 Philemon Vawter, 
 
 d. 
 Jesse Piatt 
 Emma Jane m. 
 
 George Varian 
 Imogene A. m. 
 
 J. C. Griffith 
 
 ■{ Two children 
 
 f George A. 
 I John Thomas 
 ■{ Richard J. 
 I Ariel 
 t Emmet 
 
 One child, d. 
 
 G. G. Grandchil- 
 dren* 
 
 Arthur 
 Ada Rachel 
 
 u 
 
 essie Cornelia 
 George William 
 
 3d 
 
 Susan B. Conner ^ 
 
 (i) Virginia m. 
 
 ist 
 
 John Nether- 
 land 
 
 2d 
 
 Charles A. 
 Doughty 
 
 John Ray 
 Harriet Virginia 
 Josephine 
 
312 
 
 THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA 
 
 3d 
 
 Susan B. Vawter 
 
 {Continued) 
 
 (2) Jamieson m. 
 ist 
 Sal'iie Snyder 
 
 2d 
 
 Adah Vivion 
 
 (3) 
 
 2. John m. 
 
 Mary E. Nichols 
 
 3. William H. ra. 
 Mary Ravenell 
 
 Milton B. m. 
 Alma N. Dixon 
 
 (1) John 
 
 (2) Wallace m. 
 Elizabeth Cap- 
 linger 
 
 (3) Mary m. 
 Harvey 
 Rutherford 
 
 (4) Frances m. 
 Cole 
 
 (5) Harriet 
 
 (6) Milly 
 
 (7) Drucilla m. 
 John Eads 
 
 (i) Alexander 
 
 (2) Prospey 
 
 (3) Absalom 
 
 (4) Mary 
 
 (5) Annie 
 
 (6) Carrie 
 
 (7) Jessie 
 
 Delias. 
 F. Bruce 
 Milton Jamieson 
 Wyley R. 
 William S. 
 
 f Adah Mary 
 \ Lena Virginia 
 
 Milton Ben, d. 
 Muriel Ben 
 Jamieson Shepard 
 Milton Ballard 
 Noah James 
 Dixon, d. 
 Joe Philemon 
 
 (4) Jefferson D. m. 
 
 f Goldie m. 
 I Otis Perkinson 
 "{ Sylvia m. 
 I Harry Cull 
 L Herman Wallace 
 
 Harry m. 
 
 Emma King 
 Ernest 
 Howard 
 Emma 
 Katherine 
 Roy 
 
 John 
 Mary, d. 
 
 Edward 
 
 Robert 
 
 Clifford 
 
 Sherley 
 
 Mary 
 
 Arthur 
 
 Harry 
 
 Lena, d. 
 
 Pauline 
 
 4. Absalom m. 
 Caroline McGill 
 
 No children 
 
 5. Adaline m. 
 William Nichols 
 
 No children 
 
6. Nancy m. 
 
 Hayden 
 
 7. Mary, d. s. 
 
 8. Elizabeth m. 
 
 Glover 
 
 THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA 313 
 
 ((i) Mary m. 
 Wm. Swiney 
 (2) Isaiah, d. 
 
 I On 
 
 e child 
 
 IV 
 JESSE VAWTER 
 
 Jesse Vawter, son of Philemon and Anna Vawter, was born 
 A-ugust 16, 1784, in the Holston river country, which is near 
 where the three states, Virginia, North CaroHna and Tennessee 
 now join. He was married January 29, 1807, to Frances Ann 
 Watts; hved in Oldham county, Kentucky, and died in 1832. 
 
 Children : D. Jamieson, John, William H., Absalom, Adaline, 
 Nancy, Mary and Elizabeth. 
 
 I 
 
 David Jamieson Vawter 
 
 David Jamieson Vawter, son of Jesse and Frances (Watts) 
 Vawter, was born June 29, 1809; married, first, Ann Hickinson. 
 Children of D. Jamieson and Ann (Hickinson) Vawter: 
 ( I ) William Vawter was born in Oldham county, Kentucky, 
 June II, 1831 ; went with Philemon Vawter Crawford and family 
 in 1 85 1 to Oregon. In 1852 there was a great excitement in 
 Portland, Oregon, and San Francisco about gold on Queen Char- 
 lotte's Island and in Alaska. A company of sixty men was or- 
 ganized at Portland, Oregon, among whom was William Vawter. 
 They bought a vessel and fitted it out for a six-months' trip. 
 From Portland they went to Queen Charlotte's Island and an- 
 chored in Gold Harbor and prospected for a time without success. 
 Then they went to the mainland, where they found little gold and 
 the expedition failed. The Indians appeared to have gold in 
 small quantities, but refused to tell where they got it. William 
 Vawter was postmaster at Walla Walla, Washington, from 1877 
 to 1 88 1. He resigned and went to San Jacinto, California on ac- 
 count of his wife's health. 
 
314 THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA 
 
 William Vawter was married in Linn county, Oregon, Jan- 
 uary 29, 1855, to Rachel Robinett, who was born in Jackson 
 county, Missouri, October 22., 1839. 
 
 Children : 
 
 a. Mary Alice Vawter, born December 29, 1856; died De- 
 cember 19, 1 86 1. 
 
 h. Edwin Jamieson Vawter, born December 14, 1856; mar- 
 ried to Mazelle Ayres ; has two children, Arthur and Ada Rachel ; 
 lived in Glendale, California, but is now in Nome, Alaska. 
 
 c. William Cyrus Vawter, born November 28, 1861. 
 
 d. Cassius Lincoln Vawter, born May i, 1864; died Decem- 
 ber 27, 1889, in Mexico. 
 
 c. Philemon Vawter, born April 26, 1867; died December 9, 
 1870. 
 
 /. Jesse Piatt, born in Waitsburg, Washington, November 
 17, 1869; was in Alaska from May until October, 1904, acting 
 as secretary for the Midnight Sun Mining and Ditch Company. 
 He is now engaged in the real estate business in Los Angeles, 
 California. 
 
 g. Emma Jane Vawter, born in Waitsburg, Washington, 
 June 16, 1873; married in Los Angeles, California, September 
 22, 1897, to George H. Varian, who was born in 1863 in North 
 Babylon, New York. George Varian is in the poultry business 
 in Glendale, California. 
 
 Children : 
 
 (a) Jessie Cornelia, born in Klamathon, California, July 10, 
 1898. 
 
 (b) George William, born at Oakland, California, June 15, 
 1902. 
 
 h. Imogene Abigail Vawter, born in Waitsburg, Washington, 
 September 14, 1875; married November 11, 1896, to John C. 
 Griffith, who was born March 3, 1871, in Berry, Kentucky. J. C. 
 Griffith is a boiler-maker, living at Hoisington, Kansas. No chil- 
 dren. 
 
 (2) Mary, daughter of D. Jamieson and Ann (Hickinson) 
 Vawter, was married in 1847 to a man named Michels, who lived 
 
THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA 315 
 
 near Crawfordsville, Indiana. She had two children. In the year 
 1854 she was burned to death by her clothing catching on fire. 
 
 D. Jamieson Vawter was married, second, to Elizabeth Ann 
 Waters, who was born in Henry county, Kentucky, and died in 
 1848. 
 
 Children of D. Jamieson and Elizabeth Ann (Waters) Vaw- 
 ter: 
 
 ( I ) Julia Vawter was born at Campbellsburg, Kentucky, De- 
 cember 2, 1838; married Thomas H. Riggs, who was born near 
 Wilmington, Dearborn county, Indiana, August i, 1836. They 
 live 'at 2308 Fourth avenue, Louisville, Kentucky. 
 
 Children : 
 
 a. George A, Riggs was born near Ghent, Carroll county, 
 Kentucky, July 20, 1858; married April 23, 1891, to Elizabeth 
 Walhouser; died July 24, 1904. Their children : 
 
 (a) George Wesley Riggs, born in Louisville, Kentucky, 
 September 17, 1892. 
 
 (b) Charles Edmund Riggs, born in Louisville, Kentucky, 
 February 18, 1894. 
 
 (c) Elizabeth Viola May Riggs, born in Louisville, Ken- 
 tucky, December 12, 1896. 
 
 b. Jane Elizabeth Riggs was born near Ghent, Kentucky, 
 October 25, i860; died June i, 1877, 
 
 c. Julia Catherine Riggs was born near Ghent. Kentucky, 
 September 13, 1862; died December 2, 1868. 
 
 d. John Thomas Riggs was born near Ghent, Kentucky, July 
 15, 1864; married May 7, 1890, to Mary Haberstich. who was 
 born in Louisville, Kentucky, July 25, 1867. They live in Louis- 
 ville, Kentuckv. Their children are : 
 
 (a) Edwin T. Riggs was born in Louisville, Kentucky, De- 
 cember 12, 1 89 1. 
 
 (b) Albert R. Riggs was born in Louisville, Kentucky, June 
 29, 1893. 
 
 (c) Flora Lee Riggs was born in Nashville, Tennessee, July 
 
 9. 1895- 
 
 (d) Ida May Riggs was born in Nashville, Tennessee, Au- 
 gust 15, 1897. 
 
3l6 THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA 
 
 (e) Julia L. Riggs was born in Memphis, Tennessee, July 21, 
 1902. 
 
 e. Richard J. Riggs was born in Aurora, Indiana, June 25, 
 1866; died August 25, 1868. 
 
 /. Ariel I. Riggs was born in Aurora, Indiana, May 20, 1876. 
 
 g. Emmett Vawter Riggs was born in Aurora, Indiana, De- 
 cember 4, 1880; married July 15, 1903, to Catherine E. Russell, 
 who was born on Russell Hill, near Pewee Valley, Oldham 
 county, Kentucky. They live in Louisville, Kentucky, and have 
 one child, Charles Russell Riggs, who was born in Louisville, 
 March 22, 1905. 
 
 (2) Alpheus Vawter was a Confederate under the command 
 of General John H. Morgan, and was killed at Mt. Sterling, 
 Kentucky. 
 
 (3) Jesse Vawter died young. 
 
 (4) John Wesley Vawter was born near Campbellsburg, 
 Kentucky, March 10, 1844; joined the Confederate army under 
 the noted Kentucky guerilla. Colonel George M. Jesse, and re- 
 mained until the war closed in 1865. He was married at Port 
 Royal, Kentucky, January 7, 1868, to Matilda Roberta Johnston, 
 who was born near New Liberty, Kentucky, March 19, 1847. 
 They had one child, which died in infancy. J. W. Vawter has 
 been a farmer, a buyer and seller of leaf tobacco, and of late years 
 a lawyer. He lives in Turner's Station, Kentucky. 
 
 (5) Jamieson died in infancy. 
 
 D, Jamieson Vawter was married, third, October 30, 1850, to 
 Susan B. Conner (daughter of Torrence and Susan Conner), 
 who was born in Trimble county, Kentucky, March 19, 1834. 
 D. J. Vawter died in Arkansas City, Kansas, June 9, 1903. His 
 wife lives with her son Jamieson. 
 
 Children of D. Jamieson and Susan (Conner) Vawter: 
 
 (i) Virginia Vawter was born in Milton, Kentucky, March 
 17, 1853; married, first, to John A. Netherland, of Trimble 
 county, Kentucky, who was born in 1848 and died in September, 
 1884. 
 
 Children : 
 
 a. John Ray, born April 23, 1875. 
 
THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA 317 
 
 b. Harriet Virginia, born August 24, 1877. Is a nurse, living 
 in Chicago. 
 
 c. Josephine, born May 12, 1878. 
 
 Virginia (Vawter) Netherland was married, second, March, 
 1892, to Charles A. Doughty, who was born in New York, April 
 22, 1839. 
 
 They, with their daughter Josephine, live at Craig, Holt 
 county, Missouri. 
 
 (2) Jamieson Vawter was born in Milton, Kentucky, Sep- 
 tember 18, 1856; married in Trimble county, Kentucky, Novem- 
 ber 17. 1884, to Sallie G. Snyder (daughter of William and 
 Delia Snyder), who was born in Trimble county, Kentucky, 
 September 3, i860; died in Arkansas City, Kansas, April 21, 
 
 1893. 
 
 Their children were : 
 
 a. Delia S. Vawter, born in Arkansas City, Kansas, Septem- 
 ber 3, 1885. 
 
 b. F. Bruce Vawter, born in Arkansas City, December 22, 
 1886. 
 
 c. Milton Jamieson Vawter, born in Arkansas City, April 21, 
 1889. 
 
 d. Wiley R. Vawter, born in Carroll county, Kentucky, April 
 3, 1891. 
 
 e. William S. Vawter, born in Arkansas City, Kansas, March 
 29, 1893. 
 
 Jamieson Vawter was married, second, at Paris, Kentucky, No- 
 vember 13, 1894, to Adah C. Vivion (daughter of Irvin and 
 Mary Ann Vivion), who was born in Boone county, Missouri, 
 September 4, 1870; died in Columbia, Boone county, Missouri, 
 March 22, 1904. Jamieson Vawter is a physician, living in Ar- 
 kansas City, Kansas. 
 
 Children : 
 
 a. Adah Mary Vawter, born in Arkansas City, October 20, 
 1895. 
 
 b. Lena Virginia Vivion Vawter, born in Ponca City, Okla- 
 homa, June 14, 1899. 
 
 (3) Milton B. Vawter was born in Milton, Kentucky, Sep- 
 
3l8 THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA 
 
 tember 8, 1858; married June 21, 1882, in Arkansas City, Kansas, 
 to Alma N. Nixon, who was born in St. Joseph, Missouri, Octo- 
 ber 2^, 1858. Milton B. Vawter is a dentist, living in Arkansas 
 City, Kansas. 
 
 Children : 
 
 a. Milton Ben Vawter, born and died August 26, 1883. 
 
 h. Muriel Ben Vawter, born November i, 1884, in Arkansas 
 City. 
 
 c. Jamieson Shepard Vawter, born September 23, 1886, in 
 Arkansas City. 
 
 d. Milton Ballard Vawter, born October 4, 1888, in Arkansas 
 City. 
 
 e. Noah James Dixon Vawter, born July 16, 1894; died June 
 18, 1896. 
 
 /. Joe Philemon Vawter, born September 3, 1898, in Arkan- 
 sas City. 
 
 (4) Jefferson Davis Vawter, born May 10, 1861, in Milton, 
 Kentucky. Is married and living in Natchez, Mississippi. 
 
 2 
 John Vawter 
 
 John, son of Jesse and Frances (Watts) Vawter, was married 
 to Mary E. Nichols. John lived in Milton, Kentucky. 
 Children of John and Mary (Nichols) Vawter: 
 
 (1) John. 
 
 (2) Wallace; married Elizabeth Francis Caplinger. 
 Children of Wallace and Elizabeth (Caplinger) Vawter: 
 
 a. Goldie; married Otis Perkinson, of Trout, Kentucky, 
 They have one child, Pauline. 
 
 h. Sylvia ; married Harry Cull, of Milton, Kentucky. 
 c. Herman Wallace. 
 
 (3) Mary married Harvey Rutherford and lives in Madison, 
 Indiana. 
 
 Children : Harry, dead ; married Emma King, Ernest, How- 
 ard, Emma, Katherine, Roy. 
 
 (4) Fanny married Mr. Cole. Is dead. Did live in Milton, 
 Kentucky. 
 
THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA 319 
 
 Children : John, Mary, died. 
 
 (5) Harriet. 
 
 (6) Milly. 
 
 (7) Driicilla married John Eads. Lives in Madison, Indiana. 
 Children : Edward, Robert, Clifford, Sherley, Mary, Arthur, 
 
 Harry, Lena, died. 
 
 3 
 William H. Vawter 
 
 William H., son of Jesse and Frances (Watts) Vawter, was 
 
 born , — ; married Mary Ravenell, of Bedford, Kentucky. 
 
 They moved from Bedford, Kentucky, to Chicago, Illinois, where 
 William died. His widow lives in Chicago, at 2443 West Ohio 
 street. 
 
 Children : Alexander, Prospey, Absalom, Mary, Annie, Carrie 
 and Jessie. 
 
 Absalom Vawter 
 
 Absalom, son of Jesse and Frances (Watts) Vawter, went to 
 Bardstown, Kentucky ; married Caroline McGill. Was in general 
 merchandise business in Stevensport, Kentucky, in 1847. -^^ 
 children. 
 
 5 
 Adaline (Vawter) Nichols 
 
 Adaline, daughter of Jesse and Frances (Watts) Vawter, mar- 
 ried William Nichols. No children. 
 
 Nancy (Vawter) Hayden 
 Nancy, daughter of Jesse and Frances (Watts) Vawter, mar- 
 
320 THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA 
 
 ried a Hayden. They had two children : Mary and Isaiah. Isaiah 
 died young. Mary married WilHam Swiney and went to Indian 
 Territory before the Civil War. Her mother joined her there. 
 
 7 
 Mary Vawter 
 
 Mary, daughter of Jesse and Frances (Watts) Vawter, was 
 never married. 
 
 8 
 
 Elizabeth (Vawter) Glover 
 
 Elizabeth, daughter of Jesse and Frances (Watts) Vawter, 
 married a Glover and lived in Bedford, Kentucky. They had 
 one child in 1848. They moved to Missouri soon after 1848, and 
 their location is unknown. 
 
V. 
 
 BEVERLY VAWTER5 
 
 (Philemon*, David^, John2, Johni) 
 
 (1789-1873) 
 
 m. 
 
 ELIZABETH CRAWFORD 
 (1792-1866) 
 
 r 
 
 Children* 
 
 Grandchildren' 
 
 I. Pascal Vawterm. 
 Eliza Mavity 
 
 (i) Mary Ann m. 
 Peter T. 
 Hedges 
 
 (2) John Beverly 
 m. 
 Flora Keith 
 
 G. Grandchil- 
 
 G. G. Grandchil 
 
 dren* 
 
 dren» 
 
 
 Dora A. 
 
 
 Fred A. 
 
 
 Arthur 
 
 ThaddeusA. in. 
 Mary Atkinson 
 
 Mary 
 Herman 
 
 
 Bertram 
 
 
 Grace 
 
 
 ^ Mildred 
 
 Ida May m. [ 
 Lee Cronkhite 
 
 Mary E. 
 
 Rosa Blanche ra, 
 Hiram Brown 
 
 ' Earl Radford 
 Dorothy M. 
 Myrtle M. 
 
 1 Charles M. m. 
 Ida Heloy 
 
 Alice F. m. 
 C. E. Firebaugh 
 
 Mattie D. 
 Myrtle E. m. 
 Albert Denger 
 
 Minnie F. m. 
 Bertie Tillotson 
 
 Keith m. 
 
 Cora E. Kiser 
 Rena 
 
 < One son, d. 
 
 Harold 
 
 Lela 
 
 Lee 
 
 P. T. Norman 
 
 Lois 
 
 A son 
 
 ( Flora E. 
 I L. B. An 
 
 Arden 
 
322 
 
 THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA 
 
 (3) Samantha J. m. i 
 Levi M. Hedges 
 
 Lourena I. m. 
 Joseph B. Enix 
 
 Ashba V. m. 
 Mary Mildred 
 Wear 
 
 Lora O. 
 Mary A. m. 
 
 Charles Smith 
 Lida m. 
 
 J. S.Gill 
 John M. m. 
 
 Effie A.Saunders 
 William R. 
 Melinda S. 
 
 Charles K. m. 
 Vietta Kingham 
 
 Walter G. m. 
 
 Mamie Wills 
 Levi M. F. 
 
 r Frank C. m. 
 {4) Aureana m. J Lillian Lepper 
 Milton S. Vaw- i ^^^^.^ ^ 
 
 I Bert Watts, d. 
 
 <S Clara M. 
 ( Elmo 
 
 C Effie Grace 
 J Albion Tourgee 
 1 Mary Mildred 
 I Eva Luella 
 i, Ashba Vawter, Jr. 
 
 Thelma May 
 
 ter 
 
 I. Pascal Vawter j 
 {Continued} 
 
 (5) Alecy m. 
 Jesse L. Trues- 
 dell 
 
 (6) Dotham, d. s. 
 
 (7) Charles Pub- 
 lius m. Susan 
 Degman 
 
 (8) James Mavity 
 m. ist. Mary 
 Williams 
 
 2d. 
 
 Lura Sander- 
 
 Rhoyden 
 Nadyne 
 
 Louise 
 
 r Aureana m. 
 John Mullin 
 
 Alverda m. 
 Robert Stricklett 
 
 SallieS. 
 
 Quintus V. m. 
 Flora F. Fearis 
 
 Lulu May, d. s. 
 Charles Richard 
 m. C. Delia 
 Morrison 
 
 James A. m. 
 -( Ida May McCoy 
 
 Jesse Gertrude, d. 
 Henry Garfield, d. 
 Ellie Bessie, d. 
 Frank, d. 
 A daughter, d. 
 
 j John Shea 
 "1 Maud M. 
 1^ Herbert Orin 
 
 ( Shubert 
 ; Earl Rea 
 
 Oleta W. 
 
 Velma Crystel 
 
 Charles Porter 
 
 ( Le 
 I Di 
 
 Lena Elsie, d. 
 ck Mavity 
 
 Fred Beverly 
 Marv Lucile 
 
 4 
 
THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA 
 
 3-0 
 
 2. Lucinda m. 
 
 Thos. Blair 
 
 3. Rebecca, d. s. 
 
 4. Mclinda, d. s. 
 
 ?'■ 
 
 ) Elizabeth m. 
 Milton West 
 
 5. Philemon m. 
 Martha 
 Humphreys 
 
 6. James m. 
 Mary Elder 
 
 7. Richard m. 
 ist. 
 Maria Lame 
 
 2d. 
 Elizabethlrwin 
 
 8. Cyrus m. 
 
 Sarah A.Finley 
 
 9. Samuel m. 
 
 Frances Ames 
 
 ! 
 
 10. John M. m. 
 Sarah J. Par- 
 dun 
 
 (i) Humphreys m. 
 Carter 
 
 (2) Hettie Hawes 
 
 ra. Maurice 
 Joyce 
 
 (3) Sallie Beverly 
 m. \Vm. H. 
 
 Harris 
 
 (4) Robert Craw- 
 ford (dau.) ra. 
 
 \Vm. A.Milli- 
 ken 
 
 No children 
 
 (i) Jane m. 
 
 ist. Charles H. 
 Wright 
 
 2d. 
 
 Richard John- 
 son 
 
 (2) Cyrus Phile- 
 mon m. Martha 
 
 Roush 
 
 (3) Joseph, d. s. 
 
 (4) Anna m. 
 Charles E. Ir- 
 win 
 
 (i) Samantha, d. 
 
 (2) Wm. Ira m. 
 EttaM. Hill 
 
 (i) Nannie m. 
 Winfield Dra- 
 per 
 
 (2) James L. m. 
 Ethel Ransdall 
 
 (3) Mollie m. 
 Herbert Fisher 
 
 (i) Minnie Bell m. 
 Alfonso Harold 
 
 (2) Walter m. 
 
 Annie M. Haw- 
 thorn 
 
 Cora B. ra. j Esther 
 
 G. W. Vandergrift "( Ethel 
 
 Claude Philemon 
 
 Maurice 
 
 Humphreys 
 
 Edwin Vawter 
 Beverly 
 
 Humphreys 
 Hettie Vawter 
 
 Rhoda Jamieson 
 
 No children 
 
 No children 
 
 Joseph 
 Vawter Oliver 
 
 Vernon Hill 
 Wm. Ira, Jr. 
 
 No children 
 
 Edna 
 
 No children 
 
324 THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA 
 
 V 
 
 BEVERLY VAWTER 
 
 Beverly, the son of Philemon and Anne Vawter, was born Sep- 
 tember 28, 1789; married March 5, 1812, Elizabeth Crawford, 
 who was born March 29, 1792, in Jared county, Kentucky. Eliza- 
 beth Crawford was the sister of James Crawford, who married 
 Lucy Vawter, a sister of Beverly. Beverly Vawter came from 
 Kentucky to Jefferson county, Indiana, in 181 1. He was a well- 
 known Christian minister. A full account of his life will be found 
 in "Biographical Sketches of the Pioneer Preachers of Indiana," 
 by Madison Evans, A. M., published in Philadelphia by J. Challen 
 & Sons, 1398 Chestnut street. 
 
 Beverly Vawter died April i, 1872, and Elizabeth, his wife, 
 died January 29, 1866. 
 
 The children of Beverly and Elizabeth (Crawford) Vawter 
 were : Pascal, Lucinda. Rebecca, Melinda, Philemon, James, 
 Richard, Cyrus, Samuel and John. 
 
 Pascal Vawter 
 
 Pascal, son of Beverly and Elizabeth (Crawford) Vawter, was 
 born January 6, 181 3, in Madison, Indiana; married April i, 
 1834, in Jennings county, Indiana, to Eliza Mavitv; died Jan- 
 uary 26, 1899. 
 
 Eliza (Mavity) Vawter, the youngest daughter of John and 
 Dorothea Mavity, was born in Montgomery county. Kentucky,, 
 near Mt. Sterling, May 7, 181 3; died August 11, 1904. 
 
 Children : Mary Ann, John Beverly, Samantha Jane, Aureana, 
 Alecy, Eliza, Dotham, Charles Publius and James Mavity. 
 
 ( i) Mary Ann, daughter of Pascal -and Eliza (Mavity) Vaw- 
 ter, was born December 11, 1836, in Jefferson county, Indiana; 
 married March 12, 1857, in Rowan county, Kentucky, to Peter 
 Thompson Hedges, who v/as born January 29, 1831, in Fleming 
 county, Kentucky. 
 
THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA 325 
 
 Children : 
 
 a. Thaddeus A. Hedges was born August 22, 1859, in Rowan 
 county, Kentucky; married February 19, 1882, to Mary V. Atkin- 
 son. T. A, Hedges is a Christian minister, living in LaGrange, 
 Missouri. 
 
 Children : 
 
 (a) Dora A. Hedges, born September 23, 1883. 
 
 (b) Fred A., born June 16, 1886. 
 
 (c) Arthur, born July 3, 1888. 
 
 (d) Mary, born March 19, 1890. 
 
 (e) Herman, born December i, 1891. 
 
 (f) Bertram, born December i, 1893. 
 
 (g) Grace, born January 25, 1896. 
 (h) Mildred, born March 11, 1898. 
 
 h. Ida May Hedges was born in Vermilion county, Illinois, 
 April 30. 1865; married March 19, 1891, to Lee Cronkhite, a 
 farmer. They have one child, Mary E., who was born October 
 6, 1900. Live in Medaryville, Indiana. 
 
 c. Rosa Blanche Hedges was born October 9, 1867; married 
 December 24, 1891, to Hiram Brown, a farmer living in Medary- 
 ville, Indiana. They have three children. 
 
 (a) Earl Radford Brown, born May 29, 1893. 
 
 (b) Dorothy M. Brown, born February 7, 1895. 
 
 (c) Myrtle M. Brown, born March 7, 1897. 
 
 d. Charles M. Hedges, born October 25, 1869; married July 
 26, 1896, to Ida Heloy. They had one son, who died. 
 
 e. Alice F. Hedges was born July 18, 1872; married Decem- 
 ber II, 1892, to C. E. Firebaugh, a farmer of Medaryville, In- 
 diana. They have six children. 
 
 (a) Harold Firebaugh, born September 22, 1893. 
 
 (b) Lela Firebaugh, born May 4, 1895. 
 
 (c) Lee Firebaugh, born August 16, 1897. 
 
 (d) P. T. Norman Firebaugh, born January 11, 1901. 
 
 (e) Lois Firebaugh, born January 18, 1903. 
 
 (f) A son, born December 5, 1904. 
 
 /. Mattie D. Hedges was born January 20, 1875. She is a 
 teacher in the high school at Medaryville, Indiana. 
 
326 THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA 
 
 g. Myrtle E. Hedges, born December 21, 1877; married De- 
 cember 31, 1 90 1, to Albert Denger, of Medaryville, Indiana. 
 
 h. Minnie F. Hedges, born December 21, 1877; married De- 
 cember 26, 1897, to Bertie Tillotson, a farmer of Potomac, Illi- 
 nois. They have two children: Flora E., born April 10, 1899, 
 and L. B. Arden, born September 22, 1901. 
 
 (Minnie and Myrtle Hedges were twins.) 
 
 (2) John Beverly, son of Pascal and Eliza (Mavity) Vaw- 
 ter, was born at Madison, Indiana, December 19, 1839; married 
 March 3, 1870, to Flora Keith, who was born in Tyrrell county, 
 Ohio, February 25, 1851. John Beverly Vawter was a member 
 of the Fourth Kentucky Volunteer Mounted Infantry, and was 
 captured in an early attempt to destroy railroads between Atlanta 
 and the sea, and was held in the Andersonville prison for nine 
 months, or until the close of the war. He was a graduate of Ken- 
 tucky University Bible Schools ; was a Christian minister, and 
 was for eighteen years general secretary of the Iowa Christian 
 Association. He wrote a number of books, one being "Prison 
 Life in Dixie." He died in Des Moines, Iowa, January 28, 1897. 
 
 Children of John Beverly and Flora (Keith) Vawter were: 
 a. Keith Vawter, born April 22, 1872 ; married August, 1897, 
 
 to Cora Elizabeth Kiser, who was born in Iowa in 1872. They 
 
 live in Chicago, Illinois, where Keith Vawter is manager for the 
 
 Redpath Lyceum Bureau. No children. 
 
 h. Rena Vawter was born October 20, 1874. Lives in Des 
 
 Moines, Iowa, where she is a demonstrator of domestic science. 
 
 (3) Samantha Jane, daughter of Pascal and Eliza (Mavity) 
 Vawter, was born February 6, 1841 ; married November 10, 1857, 
 to Levi Marion Hedges, a farmer, who was born in Fleming 
 county, Kentucky, May 30, 1832. Samantha Jane Hedges died 
 at Fithian, Illinois, in 1884. 
 
 Children of Levi Marion and Samantha Jane Hedges : 
 a. Lourena I. Hedges was born August 20, 1858; married 
 March 26, 1879. to Joseph B. Enix; died in 1883. 
 Children : 
 
 (a) Clara M. Enix. 
 
 (b) Elmo Enix. 
 
THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA 32/ 
 
 b. Ashba V. Hedges was born in Rockville, Kentucky, 
 August 29, i860; married June 21, 1891, at Danville, Illinois, to 
 Mary Mildred Wear, who was born at Perryville, Indiana, Sep- 
 tember 4. 1874. Ashba V. Hedges is principal of schools at Nor- 
 catur. Kansas. 
 
 Children : 
 
 (a) Effie Grace Hedges, born October 25. 1893. 
 
 (b) Albion Tourgee Hedges, born September 11, 1895. 
 
 (c) Mary Mildred Hedges, born August 3. 1899. 
 
 (d) Eva Luella Hedges, born September 25, 1901. 
 
 (e) Ashba Vawter Hedges, Jr.. born December 28, 1903. 
 
 c. Lora O. Hedges, born November 26, 1862; died in 1883. 
 (/. Mary A. Hedges, born August 26, 1865 ; married August 
 
 22, 1886, to Charles E. Smith; died in 1886. 
 
 c. Lida Hedges, born May 30, 1868; married May 30, 1901, 
 to J. S. Gill. J. S. Gill is a carpenter, living in Topeka, Kansas. 
 
 Children : 
 
 (a) . 
 
 (b) . 
 
 /. John M. Hedges was born May 25, 1870; married Novem- 
 ber 28, 1895, to Effie A. Saunders, who was born . John M. 
 
 Hedges is a railroad carpenter, living at Denison, Kansas. 
 
 Children : 
 
 (a) . 
 
 (b) . 
 
 (c) . 
 
 (d) . 
 
 g. William R. Hedges, born February 22, 1873; died Feb- 
 ruary, 1873. 
 
 Ji. Melinda S. Hedges, born February 22, 1873; died Feb- 
 ruar>', 1873. 
 
 /. Charles E. Hedges, born December 2y, 1876; married Jan- 
 uary 22, 1902, to Vietta Kingham, who was born . 
 
 Charles E. Hedges is a school teacher living at North Cedar, 
 Kansas. 
 
 Children : 
 
 (a) Thelma May. 
 
328 THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA 
 
 y. Walter G. Hedges, born at Mimcie, Illinois, March 18, 
 1880; married January i, 1903, to Mamie Wills, who was born 
 at Muscotah, Kansas, August 9, 1883. 
 
 Walter G. Hedges is a railroader, living at Denison, Kansas. 
 
 Children : 
 
 (a) Perpecta Marie Hedges, born at Kansas City, Missouri, 
 October 16, 1903. 
 
 k. Levi Marion Hedges, born June 16, 1882; is a carpenter 
 living at Bear River City, Utah. 
 
 (4) Aureana, daughter of Pascal and Eliza (Mavity) Vaw- 
 ter, was born January i, 1843 ; married to Milton S. Vawter, De- 
 cember 28, 1865 ; died October 31, 1872. 
 
 ( For children of Aureana and Milton S. Vawter, see record 
 of Milton S. Vawter.) 
 
 (5) Alecy, daughter of Pascal and Eliza (Mavity) Vawter, 
 wa.s born February 20, 1845 ; married February 4, 1868, to Jesse 
 L. Truesdell, who was born November 14, 1847, in Lewis county, 
 Kentucky. Mr. Truesdell is a farmer living at Cove Dale, Ken- 
 tucky. 
 
 Children of Jesse and Alecy (Vawter) Truesdell : 
 
 a. Aureana Truesdell was born May 13, 1869 ; married March 
 
 19, 1896, to John Mullen. Mr. Mullen is pastor of the Church of 
 
 the Disciples in McConnelsville, Ohio. 
 Children of John and Aureana Mullen are : 
 
 (a) Louise, born January 10, 1897. 
 
 (b) John Shea, born May 15, 1900. 
 
 (c) Maud M., born February 2, 1902. 
 
 (d) Herbert Orin, born August 14, 1904. 
 
 h. Alverda Truesdell was born October 7, 1871 ; married 
 February 24, 1898, to Robert Stricklett, a farmer living near 
 McKenzie, Lewis county, Kentucky. 
 
 Children of Robert and Alverda Stricklett : 
 
 (a) Shubert A., born December 18, 1898. 
 
 (b) Earl Rea, born March 23, 1903. 
 
 c. Sallie S. Truesdell was born June 3, 1874. 
 
 d. Quintus Vawter Truesdell was born August 7, 1879; mar- 
 
THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA 329 
 
 ried March 21, 1901, to Flora F. Fearis. Is a farmer, living at 
 Cove Dale, Kentucky. 
 
 Mr. and Mrs. Q. V. Truesdell have one child, Oleta W., who 
 was born October 7, 1902. 
 
 (6) Dotham, son of Pascal and Eliza (Mavity) Vawter, was 
 born April 30, 1847; died October 29, 1869, at Ferris, Kentucky. 
 
 (7) Charles Publius, son of Pascal and Eliza (Mavity) Vaw- 
 ter, was born May 2"/, 1840; married September 9, 1875, to 
 Susan Degman. Charles P. Vawter taught school for a while in 
 Lewis county. Kentucky; farmed in Mason county for several 
 years; was in the insurance business for a while, and is now in 
 the office of the Produce Shippers Despatch Co., of Lexington, 
 Kentucky. 
 
 Children of Charles P. and Susan (Degman) Vawter: 
 
 a. Lulu May, born July 26, 1876; died February 12, 1892. 
 
 b. Charles Richard LeRoy, born September 22, 1878; mar- 
 ried May 20, 1903, to Carolyn Delia Morrison, of Sonora, Ken- 
 tucky. C. R. L. Vawter is pastor of the South Meridian Street 
 Church at Indianapolis, Indiana. He has one child, Velma 
 Crystel, born July 29, 1904. 
 
 c. James Arthur, born December 21. 1879; married October 
 22, 1902, to Ida May McCoy, of Lexington, Kentucky, who was 
 born January 5, 1881. James A. Vawter is employed in the 
 Louisville & Evansville shops at Lexington, Kentucky. He has. 
 one child, Charles Porter LeRoy, who was born April 19, 1904. 
 
 d. and c. Jessie Gertrude and Henry Garfield (twins), born 
 in 1881 ; died in 1882. 
 
 /. Ellie Bessie, born in 1883; died in 1884. 
 
 g. Frank, born in 1886; died in infancy. 
 
 h. A daughter, born in 1896; died in infancy. 
 
 (8) James Mavity, son of Pascal and Eliza (Mavity) Vaw- 
 ter was born December 21, 1852, in Jefferson county. Indiana; 
 married May 14, 1884 to Mary L. Williams, who was born De- 
 cember 20, 1863, in Quincy, Illinois, and died September 20, 1889. 
 
 Children of James Mavity and Mary (Williams) Vawter 
 were : 
 
 a. Lena Elsie, born December 5. 1885 ; died October 10, 1886. 
 
330 THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA 
 
 h. Dick Mavity, born December i8, 1888. 
 
 James M. Vawter was married, second, December 11, 1890, to 
 Lura J. Sanderson. 
 
 Children : 
 
 a. Fred Beverly, born December 28, 1891. 
 
 h. Mary Lucile, born August 31, 1895. 
 
 James Mavity Vawter is pastor of the Christian Church at 
 Jeffersonville, Indiana. 
 
 LuciNDA (Vawter) Blair 
 
 Lucinda, daughter of Beverly and Elizabeth Vawter, was born 
 September 30. 1814. in Jefferson county, Indiana; married to 
 Thomas Blair, a farmer; died August 30, 1845. They had one 
 child, Elizabeth V., who was born July 17, 1845, ^^^ after the 
 death of her mother lived with her grandparents, Beverly and 
 Elizabeth Vawter, until her marriage to Milton West, February 
 2, 1 87 1. She died January 27, 1875, leaving one child, Cora. 
 (See record of Milton West.) Thomas Blair died near Ver- 
 sailles, Indiana, July, 1881. 
 
 3 
 
 Rebecca Vawter 
 
 Rebecca, daughter of Beverly and Elizabeth (Crawford) Vaw- 
 ter, died as a child. 
 
 4 
 Melinda Vawter 
 
 Melinda, daughter of Beverly and Elizabeth (Crawford) Vaw- 
 ter, died as a child. 
 
 5 
 Philemon Vawter 
 
 Philemon, son of Beverly and Elizabeth (Crawford) Vawter, 
 was born June 22, 1819, near Madison, Indiana. He was a 
 
THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA 33 1 
 
 Christian minister. He preached in and about Madison for a 
 while, then moved to IlHnois, where he studied and entered upon 
 the practice of law at Springfield. He was a successful lawyer, 
 but concluded to return to the ministry. It was said that Mr. 
 Lincoln met Mrs. Vawter on the street in Springfield and said : 
 "Do you know what reason your husband had for abandoning the 
 law? Had he anything like financial reverses?" "Why, no," 
 said Mrs. Vawter, "it was conscience with him ; pure conviction 
 of duty." 
 
 Philemon Vawter preached for many years in different sections 
 of the country, and finally went to Washington City from Port 
 Gibson, Mississippi. He was visiting in Vienna, Virginia, near 
 Washington, and while there had a fall down a stairway which 
 resulted in his death. He died October 2, 1894. 
 
 Philemon Vawter married Martha A. Humphreys, of Wood- 
 ford county, Kentucky. 
 
 Children of Philemon and Martha (Humphreys) Vawter: 
 
 ( 1 ) Humphreys Vawter married Miss Carter and went to 
 Oregon; died in Denver in 1887. He had one son, Claude 
 Philemon. 
 
 (2) Hettie Hawes Vawter married Maurice Joyce, of Fort 
 Leavenworth, Kansas, and had one son, Maurice Humphreys. 
 Mrs. Joyce died in St. Louis, Missouri, August, 1885. 
 
 (3) Sarah Beverly Vawter married William H. Harris, of 
 Cleveland, Ohio, and had three children : Edwin Vawter, Bev- 
 erly Humphreys and Llettie Vawter. Mrs. Harris lives in Wash- 
 ington City. 
 
 (4) Robert Crawford Vawter married Judge William A. 
 Milliken, of Nashville, Tennessee, and has one daughter, Rhoda 
 Jamieson. They live in Washington City. 
 
 James Vawter 
 
 James, son of Beverly and Elizabeth (Crawford) Vawter, mar- 
 ried Mary Elder; died February 27, 1894, at Bogota, Illinois. 
 He had no children. His Vv'ife lives at Wakefield, Jasper county, 
 Illinois. 
 
332 THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA 
 
 7 
 
 Richard Vawter 
 
 Richard, son of Beverly and Elizabeth (Crawford) Vawter, 
 was born September 22, 1828, near Madison, Indiana; married 
 January 13, 1848, to Maria Lame, who was born in Jefferson 
 county, Indiana, August 25, 1827, and died September 23, 1881. 
 
 Children of Richard and Maria (Lame) Vawter: 
 
 ( 1 ) Jennie Vawter was born near Madison, Indiana ; married 
 April 28, 1869, to Dr. Charles H. Wright, who was born in Cin- 
 cinnati, Ohio, December 22, 1839, and died August 26, 1889, in 
 North Madison, Indiana. 
 
 Dr. Charles H. Wright graduated from the Ohio Medical Col- 
 lege in 1870, and was a practicing physician and surgeon at Madi- 
 son. Indiana. He served as a Union soldier in the War of the 
 Rebellion, was wounded and in the military hospital for a while. 
 After his recovery, he was connected with the medical depart- 
 ment during the remainder of his service, as assistant surgeon. 
 
 Jennie (Vawter) Wright was married, second, November 6, 
 1900, to Richard Johnson, who was born in Belfast, Ireland, Jan- 
 uary 12, 1829. 
 
 Mr. Johnson left Belfast for New York in 1850; remained in 
 New York City one year, then v.ent to Madison, Indiana, where 
 he has since been identified with many of its large business inter- 
 ests. Mr. Johnson is a banker and a Presbyterian. 
 
 (2) Cyrus Philemon Vawter was born February 4, 1852; 
 married in Acton, Indiana, in 1878, to Martha Roush; died April 
 5, 1 88 1. He was a physician and lived in Acton, Indiana. 
 
 (3) Joseph Vawter was born February 12, 1858; died, un- 
 married, December 18, 1896. 
 
 (4) Anna Vawter was born January 7, 1866; married April 
 I, 1897, to Charles E. Irwin, who was born May 4, i860, in Mon- 
 roe township, Jefferson county, Indiana. They live near Madison, 
 Indiana, R. R. No. 10. 
 
 Children : 
 
 a. Joseph Irwin, born August 21, 1898. 
 
 h. Vawter Oliver Irwin, born February 25, 1905. 
 
THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA 333 
 
 Richard Vawter was married, second, October ii, 1897, to 
 Elizabeth A. Irwin, a sister to the husband of his daughter Anna. 
 Ehzabeth (Irwin) Vawter was born August 5, 1852. No chil- 
 dren. 
 
 Richard Vawter and wife live on a farm near Madison, Indiana. 
 
 8 
 
 Cyrus Vawter 
 
 Cyrus, the son of Beverly and Elizabeth (Crawford) Vawter, 
 was born near Madison, Indiana, September 28, 1830; married 
 in Linn county, Oregon, December 10, 1857, to Sarah A. Finley, 
 who was born in Piatt county, Missouri, May 18, 1840. 
 
 Cyrus Vawter went to Oregon with Philemon Vawter Craw- 
 ford and family in the year 1851. They went by water to St. 
 Joseph, Missouri, and from there went overland with an ox team. 
 It took them six months to make the trip from Madison to the 
 Willamette Valley in Oregon. Cyrus Vawter located at a place 
 then known as Boston Mills, where he became the owner of large 
 flouring mills. He died in Linn county, Oregon, February 11, 
 1864, and was buried at Crawfordsville, Oregon. His wife (now 
 Mrs. Sarah A. Ribelin) lives at Halsey, Linn county, Oregon. 
 
 Children of Cyrus and Sarah ( Finley) Vawter : 
 
 (i) Samantha Vawter, born October 10, 1858; died Novem- 
 ber I, 1858. 
 
 (2) William Ira Vawter, born March 24, 1863; married 
 February 10, 1889, to Etta M. Hill, who was born at Silver City, 
 Idaho, January 23, 1869. 
 
 W. I. Vawter is president of the Jackson County Bank of Med- 
 ford, Oregon, and has represented Douglas and Jackson counties 
 in the legislature. 
 
 Children of W. I. and Etta (Hill) Vawter: 
 
 a. Vernon Hill Vawter, born in Medford, Oregon, November 
 13, 1890. 
 
 b. William Ira Vawter. Jr., born in Medford, Oregon, May 
 21, 1894. 
 
334 THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA 
 
 9 
 
 Samuel Vawter 
 
 Samuel, son of Beverly and Elizabeth (Crawford) Vawter, 
 was born near Madison, Indiana, December 24, 1832; married 
 October 16, 1853, to Frances Ames, who was born August 7, 
 1834, near Madison, Indiana. Samuel Vawter was a miller. He 
 died in Franklin, Indiana, March 15, 1884. 
 
 Children of Samuel and Frances (Ames) Vawter: 
 (i) Nannie Vawter was born December 17, 1856; married 
 June 19, 1878, to Winfield S. Draper, who was born March 25, 
 1852, near Franklin, Indiana. Mr. Draper is in the grocery busi- 
 ness in Franklin. No children. 
 
 (2) James L. Vawter was born November 2^, 1864; mar- 
 ried June 25, 1902, to Ethel Ransdall, who was born May 30, 
 1 881, near Franklin, Indiana. 
 
 James Vawter is a traveling salesman for a New York wall- 
 paper company, and lives in Des Moines, Iowa. 
 
 (3) Mollie Vawter was born December 5, 1867; married 
 June 4, 1889, to Herbert M. Fisher, who was born July 2, 1867, 
 in Vinton, Iowa. Mr. Fisher is a wholesale and retail dealer in 
 meats and produce, and lives in Franklin, Indiana. One child, 
 Edna, born April i, 1890. 
 
 10 
 John M. Vawter 
 
 John M., son of Beverly and Elizabeth (Crawford) Vawter, 
 was born in Shelby township, Jefferson county, Indiana, Feb- 
 ruary 29, 1836; married. Thursday, April 15, 1869, in Jefferson 
 county, Indiana, to Sarah J. Pardun, daughter of Walter Kanap 
 and Diana Pardun. Sarah (Pardun) Vawter was born April 18, 
 1847, i^ Manchester, Dearborn county, Indiana. John M. Vaw- 
 ter is a retired merchant, living in Indianapolis, Indiana. 
 
THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA 335 
 
 Children of John M. and Sarah (Pardun) Vawter : 
 
 (i) Minnie Bell Vawter was born in Jefferson county, In- 
 diana, April 13, 1870; married June 14, 1894, in Greenwood, 
 Indiana, to Dr. Alfonso R. Harold, who was born October 27, 
 1867, near Tonganohie, Kansas. Dr. Harold is connected with 
 the Physio-Medical College of Indiana ; is a member of the Na- 
 tional and State Associations, and was appointed delegate to the 
 American Congress on Tuberculosis at Washington, D. C, in 
 April, 1905. Dr. Harold and wife live in Indianapolis, Indiana. 
 
 (2) Walter Wright Vawter was born August 11, 1875, ^^ 
 Ripley county, Indiana; married November 12, 1901, to Annie 
 Myrtle Hawthorn, in Helena, Montana. Annie (Hawthorn) 
 Vawter was born January 7, 1879, at Eugene, Iowa. 
 
 Walter W. Vawter lives at 2725 Humboldt avenue, South 
 Minneapolis, Minnesota, and is engaged in the lumber business. 
 
VI. 
 
 LUCY VAWTER5 
 
 (Philemon^, David^, John^, Johni) 
 
 m. 
 
 JAMES CRAWFORD 
 
 (1790-1856) 
 
 Children* 
 
 Grandchildren' 
 
 G. Grandchil- 
 
 G. G. Grandchil 
 
 
 
 dren" 
 
 dren^ 
 
 
 ' (i) Beverly v., d.s. 
 
 
 
 
 (2) Henry Paschal 
 
 ' Alice m. 
 
 
 
 m. 
 
 Church 
 
 
 
 Elizabeth Fin- 
 ley 
 
 Phil. V. 
 >. Richard F. 
 
 Virginia E 
 Arthur 
 Janet Content 
 
 
 
 " William V. m. 
 
 J. Spencer 
 
 
 
 Cora Spencer 
 
 Margaret 
 W. Vawter, Jr. 
 Jasper V., Jr. 
 _ Cora May 
 
 
 
 Letitia J. m. 
 
 Rae 
 
 
 (3) Jasper Vincent 
 
 L.G. Atherton 
 
 Leona Crawford 
 
 
 ro. 
 
 Elizabeth N. ' 
 Dunlap 
 
 Maud Maria ra. 
 Chas. A. Jones 
 
 1 Francis Vawter 
 
 Philemon Vaw- 
 ter Crawford 
 m. 
 
 
 Philemon Vawter 
 Clyde Piatt, d. s. 
 Gertrude 
 
 
 Letitia S.Smith 
 
 
 Jasper Garfield 
 Robert Neal 
 Otheo Glenn 
 Jesse Dunlap, d. s. 
 
 
 
 
 'Effie Ellen m. 
 
 ' Ralph 
 
 Orin 
 ^ Theda 
 
 
 (4) Elvin J. m. 
 
 Ed. Fenton ^ 
 
 
 1st 
 
 Mary J. Way- 
 mire 
 
 Edwin Manifred m. 
 Margaret C. 
 Lemon 
 
 George 
 
 Orville Franklin 
 
 
 2d 
 
 Elvin John 
 
 
 
 Alice Adams 
 
 Mary Letitia m. 
 
 ' Alicia 
 
 
 
 James W. Kim- ^ 
 
 Clark 
 
 
 3d 
 
 ball 
 
 ^ Duane 
 
 
 Mrs. Anna Mills 
 
 Elma May m. 
 Wm. E. Porth 
 
 Phil Vawter 
 ^ Uleric Zwingle 
 
 Willma 
 
THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA 
 
 Z2>7 
 
 Philemon Vaw- 
 ter Crawford 
 ( Continued) 
 
 (5) Margaret S. m. 
 ist 
 
 William Con- 
 over 
 2d 
 H. M. Little 
 
 (6) UlricL., d.s. 
 
 (7) Otheo, d. s. 
 
 (8) Goodwin, d. s. 
 
 (9) 
 
 Mary A. ni. 
 M. A. Dunlap 
 
 2. Robert Craw- 
 ford, d. s. 
 
 (lo) Zilpha, d. s. 
 
 (ii) Louisa Serrel 
 m. 
 T. A. Lewis 
 
 (12) 
 
 B. Vawter m. 
 Mary F. Cow- 
 gill 
 
 H. D. 
 
 O. M. 
 
 ) Zilplia m. 
 
 I V. R. Fuller 
 
 Mabel m. 
 Park S. Shoff 
 
 ^ John B. m. 
 
 Graciel Tabler 
 Hattie M. m. 
 
 Fred D. Rinehart 
 Lottie Zilpha m. 
 
 John A. Shields 
 George Layton 
 Wm. Philemon 
 Lou Bessie Ella 
 Elvin Crawford 
 
 Arta Bell m. 
 Wilson B. Sten- 
 nett 
 Francis Crawford, 
 
 d. 
 Ralph Everett 
 Floyd Lindsay 
 Josie Mary 
 Oran Wright 
 Annie Ethel 
 Lila Catherine 
 Lester Ambrose 
 Eunice Viola 
 i_ Rilla Ainslee 
 
 f James Vawter 
 -{ Clyde Franklin 
 !_ Lewis Guy 
 
 Hattie Lauretta 
 David Gene 
 
 Vera Camille 
 Claud Atherton 
 
 3. Rebecca Craw- 
 ford m. 
 Smith 
 
 4. Rachel Craw- 
 ford m. 
 Peter Smith 
 
 \" 
 
 Children 
 
 " (i) A son 
 
 (2) Nira Elizabeth 
 ni. i 
 
 James Catch- 
 ing 
 
 ( Oliver C. 
 A dautjhter 
 J. Reuben 
 Mary Elizabeth m. 
 
 1st 
 
 Chas. Safely 
 
 2d 
 
 E. F. Otrden 
 Ben H. 
 1. Jesse Franklin 
 
 Viola Lucreta 
 
338 
 
 THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA 
 
 4. Rachel Smith 
 (Continued) 
 
 (3) Thos. Benton 
 m. 
 
 Amelia Whit- 
 ten 
 
 (4) James Craw- 
 
 ford, d. s. 
 
 (5) John Allen m. 
 Minnie Martin 
 
 (6) George Robert, 
 d. 
 
 (7) Jesse Vawter 
 m. 
 
 Nellie Whitten 
 
 (8) Wm. Franklin 
 m. 
 
 Emma E. 
 Thomas 
 
 JohnH. 
 Nira E, 
 Thos. B. 
 Geo. L. 
 Viola C. 
 Louisa H. 
 Alfred W. 
 
 Jesse R. 
 
 Anna Rachel 
 
 VI 
 
 LUCY (VAWTER) CRAWFORD 
 
 Lucy Vawter, daughter of Philemon and Anna Vawter, was 
 born in Shelby county, Kentucky, in 1792, and died in Bartholo- 
 mew county, Indiana, about 1832. She was married in 181 2 to 
 James Maxwell Crawford ( son of James Crawford) , who was 
 born in Jared county, Kentucky, March 3, 1790, and died at 
 Hartsville, Indiana, October 13, 1856. James Maxwell Crawford 
 was married, second, to Mrs. Susan Lanning, and third, to Mrs. 
 Frances Wooden. 
 
 Children of James and Lucy (Vawter) Crawford were: Ann, 
 who died young, Philemon Vawter, Robert, who died at the age 
 of fourteen, Rebecca, Rachel and five other daughters who died 
 young. 
 
 I. Philemon Vawter Crawford, son of James M. and Lucy 
 (Vawter) Crawford, was born near Madison, Indiana, Septem- 
 ber 24, 1814; married in December, 1833, to Letitia S. Smith, 
 daughter of Henry and Margaret Smith, of Smyrna township, 
 Jefferson county, Indiana. 
 
THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA 339 
 
 Letitia (Smith) Crawford was born August 28, 181 7; died in 
 Crawfordsville, Oregon, June 13, 1896. Philemon Vawter Craw- 
 ford died at Eugene. Oregon, February i. 1901. 
 
 Life Sketch of Philemon Vawter Crawford 
 (Written by himself in 1882) 
 
 James Crawford, my grandfather on my father's side, was 
 born in 1759 and reared on or near James River, Virginia, and at 
 the age of sixteen years volunteered in what was known as the 
 Virginia hne and served three years in the Revolutionary War. 
 He afterward — date unknown to me — married Rebecca Ander- 
 son, and they reared eight children, three sons and five daughters. 
 My father, James Maxwell Crawford, was the third son, and was 
 born March 3, 1790, in Jared county, Kentucky, where my grand- 
 father had removed among the first settlers of that region, and 
 where they had many bloody encounters with the savages, my 
 grandfather having a full share in the troubles. 
 
 But to hasten the story: My grandfather again moved, from 
 Jared county, Kentucky, to Jefferson county, Indiana, in March, 
 1811, when my father was twenty-one years of age, and settled 
 within three miles of where the city of Madison now stands. 
 
 My grandfather, Philemon Vawter, was also born in Virginia, 
 and served in the Revolutionary War. He was an orphan boy, 
 married his cousin Anna Vawter, and emigrated to Kentucky in 
 early times and bore a full share in the Indian troubles. They 
 reared ten children* — five boys and five girls — my mother being 
 the second daughter. They moved from Kentucky to Jefferson 
 county, Indiana, in the year 18 10, and settled where a portion of 
 the city of Madison now stands. My father and mother were 
 married early in the year 181 2, and reared ten children — eight 
 girls and two boys — the oldest a girl, myself the next. I was 
 born September 24, 1814. 
 
 *Mr. Crawfoid is mistaken here, as Philemon Vawter, according to his own 
 record, had nine children. 
 
340 THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA 
 
 This genealogy is given from memory, but I believe correct so 
 far as given. 
 
 My grandfather Crawford and family belonged to the Presby- 
 terian Church, but renounced their creed under the reformation 
 of Barton W. Stone, my father being the only one who did not 
 unite with the Christian Church. Being of an excitable tempera- 
 ment, he finally drifted into the Methodist Church. 
 
 My grandfather Vawter was a Baptist preacher, and his family 
 were all members of that order except my mother and two of her 
 brothers, who adopted the early reformation under B. W. Stone. 
 The two brothers, Richard and Beverly, became Christian preach- 
 ers. 
 
 When I advanced far enough in my early education to read, 
 the Bible was our common school book, and in the New Testa- 
 ment I got my first lessons in Christianity, and those early lessons 
 and impressions have shaped my course through life. At the age 
 of fourteen years, already being a firm believer, I concluded that 
 if I ever expected to appear in the likeness of Christ's resurrec- 
 tion I must first appear in the likeness of his death ; accordingly 
 I was buried with Christ in baptism and arose to walk in newness 
 of life, which I have aimed to do ever since; but like all other men 
 I have had my share of trials and temptations. I was a member 
 of some three congregations at different times in Jefferson county, 
 Indiana, the most of the time officiating as elder or deacon, and 
 have acted in the capacity of elder for a time in Oregon. 
 
 Having a desire to see more of the world than I had seen, and 
 becoming favorably impressed with the descriptions of Oregon, 
 I sold out my little estate in Indiana in the winter of 1850-51, and 
 left Madison on the 28th day of March, 1851, for Oregon. My- 
 self and family, and several other families with whom we traveled, 
 came by water from Madison to St. Joseph, Missouri, where we 
 fitted up teams and started overland for the far west on the first 
 day of May, 1851. 
 
 My family at that time consisted of myself, wife and five chil- 
 dren — the oldest fourteen, the youngest four years of age. We 
 made the long and tedious journey of twenty-two hundred miles 
 with an ox team in just one hundred and fifty-two days. When 
 
THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA 341 
 
 we arrived in Oregon we found the Willamette valley more than 
 we had looked for, and all we could desire, and we are yet, after 
 twenty-nine years residence here, satisfied that there is no more 
 favored spot on the earth. 
 
 The generation in which I have lived is one that will form an 
 important chapter in the world's history. The application of 
 steam was in its infancy when I was in mine. Electricity was 
 known to exist, but only as a useless principle in nature. Our 
 harvests were then cut with the simplest hand tools only. Man 
 power then supplied what steam, water and horse power now 
 performs. Monopolies were then almost unknown, now they 
 threaten to rule the nation. Human slavery then shaped and con- 
 trolled Southern politics. For its final overthrow and the humilia- 
 tion of its votaries a gigantic rebellion has been inaugurated and 
 conquered at an enormous expense to the nation in blood and 
 treasure. And yet we are a great, free and prosperous nation, 
 notwithstanding the curse of a four years' war and the tyranny 
 of capital. I have witnessed all this ^luring my short space of 
 time here. 
 
 I enjoyed the morning of life. I witnessed the gathering storm 
 of rebellion ; I have seen it pass over, with all of its terrors, and 
 now in the evening of life all is smooth and calm again. I have 
 realized all I desired with regard to African slavery, and if I 
 could realize as much on the temperance question I would feel 
 ready to depart and go to where my treasure is laid up, with full 
 assurance of my reward. 
 
 Children of Philemon Vawter and Letitia (Smith) Crawford 
 were Beverly V., Henry P., Jasper V., Elvin ]., Margaret S., 
 Ulric L., Otheo, Goodv.-in, Mary A., Zilpah B., Lou Serrell and 
 B. Vawter. 
 
 (i) Beverly V., son of Philemon and Letitia (Smith) Craw- 
 ford, was born in 1835 ; died in 1838. 
 
 (2) Henry Paschal, son of Philemon and Letitia Crawford, 
 was born May 7, 1837, near North Madison, Indiana; married in 
 1859 to Elizabeth Finley, a sister to the wife of Cyrus Vawter. 
 Henry Vawter is a farmer, living at Lapwai Station, Idaho. 
 
342 THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA 
 
 Children are Alice, who married Mr. Church, Philemon V. and 
 Richard F. 
 
 (3) Jasper Vincent, born in Jefferson county, Indiana, 
 August 7, 1839; married in Linn county, Oregon, June 11, 1867, 
 to Elizabeth N. Dunlap, who was born in Linn county, Oregon, 
 January 28, 1849. Jasper V. Crawford is pastor of the Christian 
 Church at Heppner, Oregon. 
 
 Children of Jasper V. and Elizabeth (Dunlap) Crawford : 
 
 a. William Vawter Crawford, born at Crawfordsville, Ore- 
 gon, March 9, 1868; married Cora B. Spencer of Morrow county, 
 Oregon, December 25, 1890, at Irving, Oregon. They live in 
 Heppner, Oregon. 
 
 Children: Virginia E.. born in 1892; Arthur, born in 1893; 
 Janet Content, born in 1894; J. Spencer, born in 1896; Margaret, 
 born in 1898; W. Vawter, Jr., born in 1900; Jasper V., Jr., born 
 in 1901 ; Cora May, born in 1904. 
 
 h. Letitia Jane Crawford, born at Crawfordsville, Oregon, 
 November i, 1869; married at Waitsburg. Washington, June 4, 
 1 89 1, to Lewis Guild Atherton, who was born October 30, 1863, 
 at Flint, Michigan. They live in Dayton, Washington, and have 
 two children, Rae Margaret, born at Alto, Washington, March 
 19, 1892, and Leona Crawford, born at Dayton, Washington, 
 January 21, 1894. Lewis G. Atherton is the representative of 
 Balfour, Guthrie & Company, buying and selling grain, fire in- 
 surance, etc. 
 
 c. Maud Maria Crawford, born in Waitsburg, Washington, 
 November 23, 1873 ; married to Charles A. Jones at Walla Walla, 
 Washington, August 17, 1891. Their home is in Waitsburg, 
 Washington. They have one child, Francis Vawter Jones, born 
 in 1892. Charles A. Jones was born June 5, 1865, at Shandon, 
 Butler county, Ohio. He is a hardware salesman. 
 
 d. Philemon Vawter Crawford, born in Waitsburg, Washing- 
 ton, April 16, 1876; died December 11, 1876. 
 
 e. Clyde Piatt Crawford, born in Waitsburg, Washington, 
 November 11, 1878; died September 29, 1882. 
 
 /. Gertrude Crawford, born in Waitsburg, Washington, Sep- 
 tember 28, 1880. 
 
THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA 343 
 
 g. Jasper Garfield Crawford, born in Waitsburg, Washing- 
 ton, May 4, 1882. 
 
 h. Robert Neal Crawford, born in Waitsburg, Washington, 
 March 14, 1884. 
 
 i. Otheo Glenn Crawford, born in Waitsburg. Washington, 
 March 19. 1886. 
 
 /. Jesse Dunlap Crawford, born in Waitsburg, Washington, 
 July 2, 1887; died November 14, 1887. 
 
 (4) Elvin J. Crawford, son of Philemon Vawter and Letitia 
 (Smith) Crawford, was born near Madison, Indiana, November 
 
 15, 1841 ; married, first, November 15, 1865, to Mary J. Way- 
 mire, who was born in Haydenhall, Oregon, and died June 11, 
 1866. He was married, second, November 16, 1866, to Alice A. 
 Adams, who was born in Galesburg, Illinois, April i, 1848, and 
 died May 20, 1899. He was married, third, to Mrs. Anna 
 (Adams) Mills, who was born in New Orleans, Louisiana, No- 
 vember 15, 1853. 
 
 Elvin J. Crawford is engaged in the lumber business in Los 
 Angeles, California, and lives at Ocean Park, California. 
 Children of Elvin J. and Alice (Adams) Crawford: 
 
 a. Effie Ellen Crawford, born October 14. 1872; married 
 November 7, 1891, to Edwin Fenton, who was born in 1867. 
 
 Children: Ralph, born December i. 1896; died January 2"/, 
 1899; Orin, born May 14, 1894, and Theda, born September 1. 
 1900. Live in Arlington. Washington. 
 
 b. Edwin Manifred Crawford, born March i. 1875; married 
 December 17, 1890, to Mrs. Margaret (Cartwright) Lemon, who 
 was born May 22, 1863. Live in Springfield, Oregon. 
 
 Children: George, born August 29, 1892, and Orville Frank- 
 lin, born January 8, 1896. 
 
 c. Elvin John Crawford, born August 7. 1877. Lives in Eu- 
 gene, Oregon. 
 
 d. Mary Letitia Crawford, born June i. 1881 ; married June 
 
 16, 1900, to James Widders Kimball, who was born October 13, 
 1868. They live in Arlington, Washington. 
 
 Children: Alicia, born April 8, 1901 ; Clark, born August 16, 
 1902, and Duane, born May 5, 1904. 
 
344 THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA 
 
 e. Elina May Crawford, born May 6, 1884; married June ii^ 
 1 901, to William Emil Forth, who was born in Chicago, Illinois, 
 October 6, 1872. They live in Seattle, Washington. 
 
 Children: Willma, born March 11, 1902. 
 
 /. Philemon Vawter Crawford, born July 31, 1886. Lives in 
 Eugene, Oregon. 
 
 g. Uleric Zwingle Crawford, born November 2, 1892. Lives 
 in Ocean Park, California. 
 
 (5) Margaret S., daughter of Philemon Vawter and Letitia 
 (Smith) Crawford, was born February 7, 1843; married to Wil- 
 liam Conover in 1858. Children were H. D. Conover, Waitsburg, 
 Washington, and O. M. Conover, of Waitsburg. 
 
 Margaret Conover married, second, H. M. Little, of Portland, 
 Ohio. 
 
 Children: Zilpha B.. born May 24, 1853; married in 1869 to 
 Valentine Robert Fuller; died May 2^,. 1884. Valentine Robert 
 Fuller was born in Louisville, Kentucky, February 14, 1847. 
 
 Children : Mabel, daughter of Valentine Robert and Zilpha 
 (Little) Fuller, was born August 14, 1874; married in 1903 to 
 Park Stoffer Shoff, who was born in East Germantown, Wayne 
 county, Indiana, September 26, 1882. They live in Santa Clara, 
 California. Mr. Shoff is in the wholesale and retail tobacco busi- 
 ness. 
 
 (6) Ulric L., son of Philemon Vawter and Letitia (Smith) 
 Crawford, was born February, 1845; died at Brownsville, Ore- 
 gon, in 1867. 
 
 (7) Otheo, son of Philemon Vawter and Letitia (Smith) 
 Crawford, was born in 1847; died in 1850. 
 
 (8) Goodwin, son of Philemon Vawter and Letitia (Smith) 
 Crawford, was born in 1859; died in infancy. 
 
 (9) Mary A., daughter of Philemon Vawter and Letitia 
 (Smith) Crawford, was born in 1852; married to M. A. Dunlap; 
 lives in Dayton, Washington. 
 
 Children of M. A. and Mary (Crawford) Dunlap: 
 a. John B. Dunlap, born March 3. 1875; married January i, 
 1903, to Graciel Olivia Tabler, who was born near Weiser, Idaho, 
 in 1886. They live near Kahlotus, Franklin county, Washington. 
 
THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA 345 
 
 h. Hattie Mabel Dunlap, born February lo, 1877; married 
 December 18. 1902, to Fred D. Rinehart; lives near x'^lto Station, 
 Columbia county, Washington. 
 
 c. Lottie Zilpba Dunlap. born April 14. 18S0; married De- 
 cember 10. 1896, to John A. Shields; lives on Snake river, fifteen 
 miles above Pittsburg Landing, Wallowa county, Oregon. 
 
 Children: Hattie Lauretta, born April i, 1898, and David 
 Gene, born April 7, 1900. 
 
 d. George Layton Dunlap, born April 8, 1882; lives near Alto 
 Station, Washington. 
 
 e. William Philemon Dunlap, born November 2, 1885; lives 
 near Alto Station, Washington. 
 
 /. Lou Bessie Ella Dunlap, born February 19, 1890. 
 g. Elvin Crawford Dunlap, born May 15, 1897. 
 
 ( 10) Zilpha, daughter of Philemon Vawter and Letitia 
 (Smith) Crawford, was born near Crawfordsville, Oregon, in 
 1885; died August, 1887. 
 
 (11) Louisa Serrell, daughter of Philemon Vawter and Le- 
 titia (Smith) Crawford, was born August 25, 1858, ten miles east 
 of Brownsville, Linn county. Oregon; married August 21, 1877, 
 at Crawfordsville, Oregon, to Timothy Ambrose Lewis, who was 
 born twelve miles east of Brownsville, Oregon, August 15, 1852. 
 Mr. Lewis is a grain handler and makes a study of the occult 
 sciences, especially psychology and magnetic healing. 
 
 Children of Timothy A. and Louisa (Crawford) Lewis: 
 a. Arta Bell Lewis, born December 14, 1878; married Jan- 
 uary 20, 1902, to Wilson Blaine Stennett in Eugene, Oregon. 
 They live in Turner, Oregon, where Mr. Stennett is employed in 
 a logging camp. 
 Children : 
 
 (a) Vera Camille Stennett, born January 7, 1903, at Kelso, 
 Washington. 
 
 (b) Claud Atherton Stennett, born March 31, 1904. 
 
 h. Francis Crawford Lewis, born July 10, 1880; was run over 
 and killed by a railroad train on the night of September 22, 1897, 
 at Pendleton, Oregon. Had learned the shoemaker's trade. 
 
 mi. 
 
346 THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA 
 
 c. Ralph Everett Lewis, born July 9, 1882; lives at Bend, 
 Crook county, Oregon. Is a shoemaker and also a sign painter. 
 
 d. Floyd Lindsay Lewis, born September 5, 1884. Is an ap- 
 prentice in the United States navy. 
 
 e. Josie Mary Letitia Lewis, born December 13, 1886. 
 /. Oran Wright Lewis, born February 15, 1889. 
 
 g. Annie Ethel Lewis, born August 14, 1890. 
 
 Ji. Lila Catherine Lewis, born March 12, 1893. 
 
 i. Lester Ambrose Lewis, born August 29, 1895. 
 
 y. Eunice Viola Lewis, born January 27, 1898. 
 
 k. Rilla Ainslee Lewis, born July 7, 1900. 
 
 Mr. and Mrs. Lewis live in Oswego, Oregon. 
 
 (12) B. Vawter, son of Philemon Vawter and Letitia 
 (Smith) Crawford, was born near Shedd's Station, Oregon, 
 August 5, 1862; married October 13, 1889, at Mabel, Oregon, 
 to Mary F. Cowgill, who was born in Saunders county, Nebraska. 
 September 17, 1873. 
 
 Children : 
 
 a. James Vawter Crawford, born July 31, 1890. 
 
 h. Clyde Franklin, born October 26, 1892. 
 
 c. Lewis Guy, born 28, 1894. 
 
 B. Vawter Crawford is a carpenter, living at Shedd's Station, 
 Oregon. 
 
 2. Rebecca Crawford, daughter of James and Lucy (Vaw- 
 ter) Crawford, married a man by the name of Smith, who was a 
 cousin of Letitia Smith, wife of Philemon Vawter Crawford. 
 They moved to southern Missouri in an early day, living there 
 during and after the war, but all trace of the family has been lost. 
 
 3. Rachel Crawford, daughter of James and Lucy (Vawter) 
 Crawford, was born in Jennings county, Indiana, March 4, 1822; 
 married December 5. 1850, to Peter Smith, who was born April 
 22, 1 810, in Greenbrier county, Virginia. They crossed the plains 
 with an ox team in 185 1 in company with Philemon Vawter 
 Crawford, Cyrus Vawter, son of Beverly and William Vawter, 
 son of Jamieson of Milton, Kentucky. Peter Smith and wife lo- 
 cated near Portland, Oregon, and all of their children were born 
 near Portland. 
 
THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA 
 
 347 
 
 Peter Smith died June 13. 1889. and Rachel (Crawford) 
 Smith died May 22, 1891. 
 Children : 
 (i) A son, stillborn, September, 1851. 
 
 (2) Nira Elizabeth Smith, born October 16. 1852; married 
 to James Catching, December 25, 1872. 
 
 Children : 
 
 a. Oliver C. Catching, born March 3, 1874; died November 
 20, 1877. 
 
 b. A daughter, born March 3, 1878. 
 
 c. J. Reuben, born March 18, 1879. 
 
 d. Mary Elizabeth, born December 14, 1882; married Octo- 
 ber 21, 1902, to Charles T. Safely, who died November 11, 1902. 
 She married, second, Edward F. Ogden, January 7, 1904, and 
 died October 12, 1904, leaving a baby two weeks old, named 
 Viola Lucreta. 
 
 e. Ben H., born September 17, 1889. 
 
 /. Jesse Franklin, born February 11, 1893. 
 
 Mr. and Mrs. James Catching live in Ashland. Oregon. 
 
 (3) Thomas Benton Smith, son of Peter and Rachel (Craw- 
 ford) Smith, was born November 17, 1854; married December 
 25, 1887, to Amelia C. Whitten. They live in Wimer, Jackson 
 county, Oregon. Their children are: John H., Nira E., Thomas 
 B., George L., Viola C, Louisa H. and Alfred W. 
 
 (4) James Crawford, son of Peter and Rachel (Crawford) 
 Smith, was born August 17, 1856; died August 27, 1856. 
 
 (5) John Allen, son of Peter and Rachel (Crawford) Smith, 
 was born July 18, 1857; married in 1896 to Minnie Martin. 
 Lives at Sebastopol, California. 
 
 (6) George Robert, son of Peter and Rachel (Crawford) 
 Smith, Avas born April 16, 1859; died November 23, 1882. 
 
 (7) Jesse Vawter, son of Peter and Rachel (Crawford) 
 Smith, was born February 10, 1861 ; married April 12, 1891, to 
 Nellie M. Whitten and died December 29, 1892, leaving a boy, 
 Jesse R., who died when sixteen months old. 
 
 (8) William Franklin, son of Peter and Rachel (Crawford) 
 Smith, was born February 5, 1863; married February 5, 1889, to 
 
34'^ THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA 
 
 Emma E. Thomas; died February 25, 1893, leaving a daughter, 
 Anna Rachel, born November 23, 1890, ,who Hves with her 
 mother, Mrs. E. E. Holcomb, of Hillsboro, Oregon. 
 
 Letter from Rachel (Crawford) Smith to William and 
 Frances Vawter, Written About 1852 
 
 Dear Uncle and Aunt: 
 
 I take this opportunity to write you a few lines to acknowledge 
 the reception of your letter, which came last Monday. We had 
 heard of the death of Cousin Mary and Anna, but not of the death 
 of Polly's babe. Cordelia died before we left. I was struck with 
 surprise to hear of father's marriage. He must be in his dotage. 
 He has got a fine woman. What changeable creatures we all are ! 
 I was sorry to hear of the house getting burned, but was glad to 
 hear that Ormand's prejudice against Oregon had frozen to death 
 and that he had also an idea of trying to come to this country. I 
 do think that if he and David were here they could live much 
 easier than where they are. I think that I have as great a desire 
 for the welfare and prosperity of my relatives as anybody, but I 
 would advise them unless they can have a good supply of good, 
 strong clothing, a well-built, light two-horse wagon, and at the 
 least calculation, four hundred dollars when landed at St. Joe, 
 not to undertake the journey, unless they come as one family, or 
 unless the prices of provisions and cattle are lower than when 
 we left. But Oregon is ever worth coming to. and if they can 
 not make up an outfit next year, let them not get discouraged. 
 
 An old acquaintance of Mr. Smith's who could not live at all 
 below Madison, moved to Missouri, raised his own team and pro- 
 visions and came through in '47. He is now quite wealthy ; so 
 I would advise, if they ever expect to get able to come, to get out 
 of that place and get to some good cattle country, where they 
 may soon raise their own outfit and may be able to come in- 
 dependently. 
 
 What have you done with Achilles and Philemon ? You spoke 
 of all the rest in your letter. Where is Sarah Jane and Aunt 
 
THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA 349 
 
 Nancy? I have not forgotten one of them. Mr. Smith says, 
 consider the interest of your sons and let them come to Oregon, 
 where they can be of a great deal more benefit to themselves and 
 to the community than where they are. 
 
 I have not heard preaching since I left Madison. They have 
 preaching at T. Stott's and at T. Denny's and at Portland, but for 
 want of a road I would be too late, as I would have to go so far 
 around, I know of no Baptist Church nearer than Oregon City. 
 There, I have understood, they have a band of musicians (wicked 
 men) hired to sing for the church. If this be the case, I would 
 like to know who expects to stand accountable for the lay mem- 
 bers not doing their duty, the choir or their employers? 
 
 We are all well at present. Philemon and two of the children 
 have had the ague, but they are well now. They live about ten 
 miles from us. 
 
 We learn that it has been somewhat sickly on the road this 
 year, grass being very scarce, though vegetables are good. 
 
 I must draw to a close. I hope you will all remember the vow 
 you made me when we took the parting hand. Give my love to 
 all that wish to hear from us. Write soon. 
 
 Rachel and Peter Smith. 
 
 To William and Frances Vawter. 
 
 (The above letter was found among the papers of William 
 Vawter after his death.) 
 
VII. 
 
 NANCY VAWTER5 
 
 (Philemon, 4 David, ^ John, 2 John^) 
 
 m. 
 
 ALEXANDER LEWIS 
 
 Children* 
 
 1. David m. 
 Ann Grinstead 
 
 2. Anna m. Lewis 
 P. Grinstead 
 
 Grandchildren' 
 
 ( Nine chi 
 ) dead e 
 
 Idren (all 
 except one) 
 
 3, Charles m. 
 Charlotte Parks 
 
 4. Martha m. 
 Elias Conger 
 
 (i) Marshall 
 
 (2) Wm. Wirt 
 
 (3) Nancy 
 
 (1) Arietta m. 
 W. R. Umen- 
 setter 
 
 {2) Maria L. m. 
 C. S. Tiffany 
 
 (3) Edwin m. 
 
 Effie Buchanan 
 
 G. Grandchil- 
 
 DREN» 
 
 Clara R. 
 Charles H., d. 
 i^ Edith A., d. 
 
 C Nin 
 ^ Fra 
 
 aE. 
 Francis O. 
 
 ] Noch 
 
 1^ Pauline 
 
 ildren 
 
 G. G. Grandchil- 
 dren® 
 
 VII 
 
 NANCY (VAWTER) LEWIS 
 
 Nancy Vawter, daughter of Philemon and Anna Vawter, was 
 born about 1793 ; was married about 1814, to Alexander Lewis, a 
 widower; died April 2, 1855. Their children were four in num- 
 ber : David, Anna, Charles and Martha. 
 
 I. David was born November 9, 1816; was married about 
 1839, to Ann Grinstead, a sister of Lewis P. Grinstead. They 
 had nine children, two of whom were named Bushrod and Sarah 
 Frances. They lived in Pinon, Lincoln county, Kansas. In a 
 letter dated May 2^, 1885, from David Lewis to his cousin 
 
THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA 35 1 
 
 John M. Vawter, in Timpson, Texas, David Lewis says : "I feel 
 the effects of age, having completed my sixty-eighth year on the 
 9th of November last. My wife, who was seventy years old on 
 the 8th of November, has been may faithful companion for more 
 than forty-five years. Our youngest daughter, the youngest of 
 our children, died last summer, and the next youngest, a son, who 
 is married and lives in the neighborhood, is the only one remain- 
 ing of our nine children." 
 
 2. Anna Lewis married Lewis P. Grinstead, who, after her 
 death, married Rhoda A. Hunter. Anna died about 1850, and 
 Lewis P. Grinstead about 1875. Two of their sons, Marshall 
 and William Wirt were soldiers in the Sixth Indiana Regiment in 
 the Civil War. Both are now dead. Nancy, an only daughter, 
 is still living. 
 
 3. Charles Lewis, son of Alexander and Nancy (Vawter) 
 Lewis, was born at Vernon, Indiana, November 10, 1821 ; mar- 
 ried March 6, 1845, to Charlotte Parks, the twin sister of Sarah 
 Parks, who married Jesse R. Vawter. Charlotte (Parks) Lewis 
 was born at Somerset, Pulaski county, Kentucky, August 31, 
 1822, and died September 29, 1900. Charles Lewis died Septem- 
 ber I, 1865. He was a farmer and a teacher. 
 
 Children : 
 
 ( 1 ) Arietta Lewis, born April i, 1847 ; married W. R. Umen- 
 setter. They live near North Vernon, Indiana. Their children 
 are : Clara R., Charles H., dead, Edith A., dead. 
 
 (2) Maria L. Lewis, born January 31, 1850; married C. S. 
 Tiffany, of North Vernon, Indiana. 
 
 (3) Edwin Lewis, born April 18, 1854; married Effie 
 Buchanan. They live at North Vernon, Indiana. Their chil- 
 dren are Nina E., Francis O. and Pauline. 
 
 4. Martha Lewis married Elias Conger, a deaf mute, a brother 
 of Rhoda A. Conger. She died young and left no children. 
 
VIII. 
 
 ELIZABETH VAWTERs 
 
 (Philemon^, David », John'^, Johni) 
 
 (1 798- 1 886) 
 
 m. 
 
 JAMES GLOVER 
 
 (1793-1856) 
 
 Children^ 
 
 Grandchildren' 
 
 G. Grandchil- 
 
 G. G. Grandchil 
 
 
 
 DREN« 
 
 DREN" 
 
 I. Nancy Glover m. 
 
 (i) James A. 
 
 
 
 ISt 
 
 James Coleman 
 
 (2) Lucinda 
 ^ (3) Thomas 
 
 
 
 2d . 
 
 
 
 
 Thos. Baxter 
 
 (4) David 
 
 Ida ra. 
 
 
 
 ' (1) Samuel W. m. 
 
 Mclntyre; d. 
 
 
 
 1st 
 
 Ira, d. 
 
 
 
 Mary F. Ball 
 
 Samuel, d. 
 Thomas H., d. 
 
 
 
 2d . 
 
 Lottie Staples ■ 
 
 Ella 
 Susie 
 
 
 
 (2) Stephen A., d. 
 
 
 
 
 (3) John m. 1 
 
 W. H. 
 
 
 
 Kate Staples i 
 
 Minnie 
 
 
 2. Ann Glover m. 
 Thomas West 
 
 
 ' T. H. 
 Elenorah m. 
 Reed; d. 
 
 
 
 (4) Sarah m. 
 
 George Giltner ' 
 
 Florence 
 William A. 
 Charles T. 
 Charlotte 
 Cordelia 
 Mea 
 
 
 
 (5) Elizabeth, d. 
 
 ^ George 
 
 
 
 (6) Mollie A. m. 
 
 James B. 
 
 
 
 J. F. King 
 
 ) Addie A. 
 
 
 r 
 
 (i) Catherine m. 
 
 (I) Catherine m. 
 3. Sarah Glover m. I , u 1 d ■( 
 
 Achilles West 1 J^^^^b J. Payne 
 
 r Ira William 
 Myrtie Maud 
 Sarah Alice m. | Elraa Pearl 
 
 Wm. McDonald -{ Mamie Catherine 
 Clarence R. 
 George E. 
 L Lottie J. 
 
THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA 
 
 353 
 
 3. Sarah G. West 
 (Continued) 
 
 (i) Catherine 
 Payne 
 (Continued) 
 
 Edward M. m. 
 Maggie J. Palmer 
 
 (2) James L. m. 
 Aramantha 
 
 Vawter 
 
 (3) Milton S. m. 
 ist 
 
 Elizabeth Blair 
 2d 
 
 Mary McFar- 
 land 
 
 (4) J. Silas m. 
 Theresia King 
 
 (5) Lizzie A. m. 
 T. B. Carney 
 
 (6) William M. m. 
 1st 
 
 Eva Grinstead 
 2d 
 
 Martha Mix 
 3d 
 
 Mrs. Martha 
 Clellen 
 
 (7) J. Judson m. 
 Clara A. Clark 
 
 4. Elliott Glover m. 
 Melita Barnett 
 
 (8) Emma E. m. 
 I. Charles E.Hall 
 
 f (i) Maggie m. 
 
 Fox 
 
 (2) James m. 
 
 Tucker 
 
 -{ (3) Indiana m. . 
 
 McKey 
 
 (4) William 
 
 I (5) Philemon 
 
 L (6) Samuel 
 
 '5. David Glover m. ( (i) Florence m. 
 
 Mary E. Hunter / Newell 
 
 GoldieF.,d. 
 Mary Catherine 
 Eva Lena 
 Frank J. 
 1^ Amy May 
 
 Lucinda Eveline 
 m. 
 Allen B. Hutsell 
 
 Nellie May m. 
 
 UthoG. Wright 
 Sarah Ethel 
 Charles William 
 
 Cora m. G. W. 
 Vandergrift 
 
 No children 
 Lillian Rose 
 Edward 
 
 Elma A..d. 
 Charles W. m. 
 Lala Kuhn 
 
 Dessie m. 
 Corwin Bowling 
 
 Sylvia 
 
 Eldo K. m 
 
 Grace Millhouse 
 Silas W. 
 Emma L., d. 
 William H. 
 Jesse M. 
 David C. 
 C. Mable 
 
 Anna May m. 
 
 Sylvester Adams 
 Arthur J. 
 E Roy 
 Blanche E. 
 
 f Alva, d. 
 J Amy Leo 
 I Tressa May 
 I. Emory Edward 
 
 ^ Opal 
 
 ^ Robert W. 
 
 Esther, d. 
 Ethel, d. 
 
 3 Margaret Marie, d. 
 ( Charles H. 
 
 f Monroe 
 \ Ralph Arvii 
 l^ Guy Cecil 
 
 J Mary Jessamine 
 Myron E. 
 
354 THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA 
 
 VIII 
 
 ELIZABETH (VAWTER) GLOVER 
 
 Elizabeth (Betsy) Vavvter, daughter of Philemon and Anna 
 Vawter, was born in Woodford county, Kentucky, March i, 
 1798; married in Jefferson county, Indiana, June 24, 1813, to 
 James Glover, a Baptist minister, who was born in West Vir- 
 ginia, August 14, 1792. They lived in Jefferson county, Indiana, 
 until the death of James Glover at Marble Hill, Indiana, July 
 3, 1856. Elizabeth Glover died at Vernon, Indiana, August 6, 
 1886. 
 
 The children of James and Elizabeth (Vawter) Glover were: 
 Nancy, Ann, Sarah, Elliott and David. 
 
 I 
 
 Nancy (Glover) Baxter 
 
 Nancy Glover, daughter of James and Elizabeth (Vawter) 
 Glover, was born March 12, 1814; married, first, James Coleman, 
 and after his death, Thomas Baxter. They lived and died at 
 Marble Hill, Indiana. 
 
 Children were : James A. Coleman, Lucinda Coleman, Thomas 
 Coleman and David Baxter. All are dead. There was one 
 granddaughter, who went to Tennessee. 
 
 Ann (Glover) West 
 
 Ann Glover, daughter of James and Elizabeth (Vawter) 
 Glover, was born in Jefferson county, Indiana, May 27, 181 6; 
 married December 2, 1831, at Marble Hill, Indiana, to Thomas 
 West, a farmer, who was born in Jefferson county, Indiana, 
 November 14, 1809. Thomas West died near Otto, Clark county, 
 Indiana, December 2, 1888, and Ann, his wife, died December 
 26, 1888, at same place. 
 
 Children of Thomas and Ann (Glover) West were Samuel,, 
 Stephen, John, Sarah, Elizabeth and Mollie A. 
 
THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA 355 
 
 (i) Samuel W. West was born March 6, 1833; married 
 November 19, 1858, to Mary F. Ball. Their children were: 
 
 a. Ida, born June 3. i860; married a Mclntyre; died De- 
 cember 22, 1883. 
 
 b. Ira, born August i, 1862; died February 20, 1883. 
 
 c. Samuel, born June 16, 1864; died January 26, 1866. 
 
 d. Thomas H., born December 9, 1866; died June 28, 1895. 
 Samuel W. West was married, second, to Lottie Staples, who 
 
 was born March 10, 1847. They live at Nabbs, Indiana. Mr. 
 West is crippled by a gunshot wound which he received in the 
 arjny and is unable to engage in any regular work. 
 Children of Samuel W. and Lottie (Staples) West: 
 
 a. Ella, born October 10, 1872. 
 
 b. Susie, born January 22, 1874. 
 
 (2) Stephen A. West was born November 26, 1834; died 
 February 19, 1835. 
 
 (3) John West was born December 7, 1836 ; married October 
 3, 1872, to Kate Staples, who was born October 10, 1849. John 
 West died August 18, 1890. 
 
 Children : 
 
 a. W. H. West, born July 9, 1873. 
 
 b. Minnie, born September 10, 1876. 
 
 (4) Sarah West was born March 31, 1838; married in i860, 
 near Otto, Indiana, to George Giltner, who was born June 3, 
 1818, and died February 14, 1900. Sarah Giltner died December 
 26, 1877. 
 
 Children of George and Sarah (West) Giltner: 
 
 a. T. H. Giltner, born May 29, 1861. 
 
 b. Elenorah Giltner, born December 31, 1862; married a 
 Reed; died November 27, 1901. 
 
 c. Florence Giltner, born August 29, 1864. 
 
 d. William A. Giltner, born April 17, 1866. 
 
 e. Charles T. Giltner, born June 18, 1868. 
 /. Charlotte Giltner, born May 17. 1870. 
 g. Cordelia Giltner, born June 14, 1872. 
 h. Mea Giltner, born May 7, 1874. 
 
 i. George Giltner, Jr., born August 21, 1876. 
 
356 THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA 
 
 (5) Elizabeth West, born September 11, 1840; died May 26,. 
 1844. 
 
 (6) Mollie A. West was born May 12, 1844; married Octo- 
 ber 17, 1872, to J. F. King, a farmer, who was born September 
 20, 1846. They Hve at Marble Hill, Indiana. 
 
 Children : 
 
 a. James B. King, born July 20, 1873. 
 
 h. Addie A. King, born February 14, 1875. 
 
 Sarah (Glover) West 
 
 Sarah Glover, daughter of James and Elizabeth (Vawter) 
 Glover, was born October 29, 181 8; married June 7, 1838, 
 in Jefferson county, Indiana, to Achilles West, who was born in 
 Jefferson county, Indiana, February 29, 181 6. They moved to 
 Jennings county, Indiana, in i860, where Sarah West died, Jan- 
 uary 25, 1891, and Achilles West died September 10, 1892. 
 
 Their children were Catherine, James, Milton S., J. Silas, 
 Lizzie A., William M., J. Judson, Emma E., and Charles J. 
 
 (i) Catherine West, daughter of Achilles and Sarah West, 
 was born February 4, 1841, in Jefferson county, Indiana; mar- 
 ried in Jefferson county, Indiana, by her grandfather, James 
 Glover, March 13, 1856, to Jacob J. Payne, who was born in 
 Jefferson county, Indiana, November 20, 1831. Catherine West 
 Payne died in Jefferson county, Indiana, April 23, 1863. 
 
 Children : 
 
 a. Sarah Alice Payne was born in Jefferson county, Indiana, 
 December 24, 1857; married April 20, 1877, to William E. Mc- 
 Donald, who was born December 15, 1854, and died January 2, 
 1898, in Jefferson county, Indiana. Mrs. Alice McDonald lives 
 at Hanover, Indiana. 
 
 Children : 
 
 (a) Ira William McDonald, born in Jefferson county, Indi- 
 ana, October 2, . 
 
 (b) Myrtie Maud McDonald, born in Clark county, Indiana, 
 February 17, 1880. 
 
THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA 357 
 
 (c) Elma Pearl McDonald, born in Jefferson county, Indi- 
 ana, January 15, 1882. 
 
 (d) Mamie Catherine McDonald, born in Jefferson county, 
 Indiana, September 13, 1885. 
 
 (e) Clarence R. McDonald, born in Clark county, Indiana, 
 May 20, 1888. 
 
 (f) George E. McDonald, born in Jefferson county, Indiana, 
 September 5, 1891. 
 
 (g) Lottie J. McDonald, born in Jefferson county, Indiana, 
 December 9, 1897. 
 
 b. Edward Melton Payne was born in Jefferson county, In- 
 diana, June 10, i860; married November 14, 1886. to Maggie 
 J. Palmer, who was born in Trimble county, Kentucky, April 14, 
 1866. Edward Payne is a farmer, living near Nabbs, Indiana. 
 
 Children : 
 
 (a) Goldie F. Payne, born November 18, 1887; died March 
 20, 1891. 
 
 (b) Mary Catherine Payne, born November 3, 1889. 
 
 (c) Eva Lena Payne, born September 29, 1891. 
 
 (d) Frank J. Payne, born September 29, 1893. 
 
 (e) Amy May Payne, born January 14, 1901. (All born in 
 Clark county, Indiana. ) 
 
 c. Lucinda Eveline Payne was born in Jefferson county, In- 
 diana, November 4, 1862; married January 31, 1883, to Allen 
 Blooford Hutsell, a farmer, who was born in Jefferson county, 
 Indiana, December 3, i860. They live at Hanover, Indiana. 
 
 Children : 
 
 (a) Alva Hutsell, born December 19, 1883; died January 4. 
 1884. 
 
 (b) Amy Leo Hutsell, born July 16, 1885. 
 
 (c) Tressa May Hutsell, born December 24, 1891. 
 
 (d) Emory Edward Hutsell, born July 20, 1895. (All born 
 in Clark county, Indiana.) 
 
 (2) James L. West, son of Achilles and Sarah (Glover) 
 West, was born March 23, 1843; married February i, 1876, to 
 Aramantha M. Vawter; died February 7, 1891. (For children 
 see record of Aramantha (Vawter) West.) 
 
358 THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA 
 
 (3) Milton S. West, son of Achilles and Sarah (Glover) 
 West, was born in Jefferson comity, Indiana, April 20, 1846; 
 married February 2, 1871, to Elizabeth V. Blair, daughter of 
 Thomas and Lucinda (Vawter) Blair, who was born July 17, 
 1845, and died January 2^, 1875. 
 
 Children : 
 
 a. Cora West was born in Jefferson county, Indiana, Septem- 
 ber 25, 1872; married December 18, 1895, to G. W. Vandergrift, 
 who was born May 29, 1872. They live in Anderson, Indiana. 
 Mr. Vandergrift is a fireman and stationary engineer. 
 
 Children : 
 
 (a) Esther Vandergrift, born May 14, 1897; died April 29, 
 1902. 
 
 (b) Ethel Vandergrift, born February 19, 1903 ; died August 
 II, 1903. 
 
 Milton S. West was married, second. May 6, 1896, to Mary 
 McFarland, of Wapakoneta, Ohio, who died November 19, 1900. 
 Milton West was engaged in the mercantile business until the 
 death of his second wife. Since that time he has retired from 
 business and is living with his daughter in Anderson, Indiana. 
 
 (4) J. Silas West, son of Achilles and Sarah (Glover) West, 
 was born April 18, 1850; married August 4, 1874, to Theresia 
 King, who was born September 8, 1851, in Belleview, Jefferson 
 county, Indiana. They had one child, Lillian Rose, who was born 
 January 23, 1876, near Vernon, Indiana. J. Silas West died 
 July 29, 1897, at Ezra, Jennings county, Indiana. Mrs. Theresia 
 West and daughter live near Madison, Indiana, R. R. No. 5. 
 
 (5) Lizzie A. West, daughter of Achilles and Sarah ( Glover) 
 West, was born December 21, 1853; married T. B. Carney in 
 Vernon, Indiana, March 16, 1871 ; died near Butlerville, Indiana, 
 February 26, 1877. They had one child, Edward, who was born 
 April 13, 1872. 
 
 (6) William M. West, son of Achilles and Sarah (Glover) 
 West, was born in Jefferson county, Indiana, April 10, 1855; 
 married, first, March 4, 1875, to Eva Grinstead, who was born 
 in Jennings county, Indiana, November 26, 1854, and died April 
 I, 1886. 
 
THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA 359 
 
 Children : 
 
 a. Elma A. West, born March, 1876; died May, 1881. 
 
 b. Charles W. West, born March 30, 1878; married June 19, 
 1 90 1, to Lala Kuhn, who was born January 20, 1880. Charles 
 W. West is a street-car motorman, living at Indianapolis, Indiana. 
 
 Children : 
 
 (a) Margaret Marie, born February 19, 1902; died July 27, 
 1902. 
 
 (b) Charles H., born March 10, 1905. 
 
 c. Dessie West, born July 11, 1880; married November, 
 1897, to Corwin Bowling, a farmer, living near Veedersburg, In- 
 diana. 
 
 Children : 
 
 (a) Monroe Bowling, born February, 1899. 
 
 (b) Ralph Arvil Bowling, born March 14, 1901. 
 
 (c) Guy Cecil Bowling, born October, 1903. 
 
 d. Sylvia A. West, born March i, 1886. Since the death of 
 her mother she has made her home with her aunt, Mrs. J. Silas 
 West, who lives near Madison, Indiana. 
 
 William West was married, second, November, 1886, to 
 Martha I. Mix, who was born November 16. 1854; died March, 
 1 89 1. No children. 
 
 William West married, third, Mrs. Martha (Hosea) Clellen, 
 who was born in Washington county, Indiana, November 15, 
 1 85 1. William West is a carpenter. He lives in Indianapolis, 
 Indiana. 
 
 (7) J- Judson West, son of Achilles and Sarah (Glover) 
 West, was born in Jefferson county, Indiana, February 17, 1858; 
 married December 11, 1878. to Clara A. Clark, who was born 
 in Jennings county, Indiana, July 26, 1859. J. Judson West is a 
 contractor for railroad work, cross ties, bridge timbers, etc. He 
 lives in Anderson, Indiana. 
 
 Children : 
 
 o. Eldo R. West, born in Jennings county, Indiana, Septem- 
 ber 27, 1879; married September 4, 1901, to Grace A. Millhouse, 
 who was born in Jennings county, Indiana, October 28, 1883. 
 
360 THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA 
 
 Eldo R. West is teaching school. He lives near Butlerville, In- 
 diana. 
 
 Children : 
 
 (a) Mary Jessamine West, born in Jennings county, Indiana, 
 July 18, 1902. 
 
 (b) Myron E. West, born in Jennings county, Indiana, No- 
 vember 30, 1903. 
 
 b. Silas W. West was born in Jennings county, Indiana, 
 February 27, 1882. He lives in Covington, Ky., where he is em- 
 ployed as foreman of construction work. 
 
 c. Emma L. West was born in Jennings county, Indiana, 
 February 4, 1884; died February 17, 1884. 
 
 d. William H. West was born in Jennings county, Indiana, 
 March 4, 1886. Lives in Foster, Indiana, where he is employed 
 by his father. 
 
 c. Jesse M. West was born in Jennings county, Indiana, Sep- 
 tember 21, 1888. 
 
 /. David C. West was born in Fountain county, Indiana, Au- 
 gust 19, 1894. 
 
 g. C. Mabel West was born in Jennings county, Indiana, 
 July 9, 1900. 
 
 (8) Emma E. West, daughter . of Achilles and Sarah 
 (Glover) West, was born in Jennings county, Indiana, July 26, 
 i860; married to Charles E. Hall, who was born in Jefferson 
 county, Indiana, June 20, 1847. 
 
 Children : 
 
 a. Anna May Hall, born in Jennings county, Indiana, June 
 II, 1882; married February 2, 1902, to Sylvester Adams, who 
 was born May 10, 188 1. 
 
 b. Arthur J. Hall, born in Jennings county, Indiana, July 26, 
 1888. 
 
 c. E. Roy Hall, born November 16, 1894, in Jennings county, 
 Indiana. 
 
 d. Blanche E. Hall, born March 26, 1897, in Jennings county, 
 Indiana. 
 
 Mr. and Mrs. Hall live in Anderson, Ind., where Mr. Hall and 
 
THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA 361 
 
 son Arthur and Sylvester Adams are employed by the American 
 Steel and Wire Company. 
 
 (9) Charles J. West, son of Achilles and Sarah (Glover) 
 West, born August 13, 1863; died May 14, 1865. 
 
 Elliott V. Glover 
 
 Elliott V. Glover, son of James and Elizabeth (Vawter) 
 Glover, was born July 17, 1820 ; married Melita Barnett at Marble 
 Hill, Indiana. Both died in Madison, Indiana. 
 
 Children : Maggie, who married a Fox ; James, who married 
 a Tucker ; Indiana, who married a McKey ; William ; Philemon ; 
 Samuel. Their location is unknown. 
 
 5 
 David T. Glover 
 
 David J. Glover, son of James and Elizabeth (Vawter) 
 Glover, was born February 14, 1838; married September 12, 
 1 86 1, to Mary E. Hunter at North Vernon, Indiana; died Febru- 
 ary 6, 1863. His widow went west, and her location is unknown. 
 A daughter, Florence, married a Newell. She was at Seattle,. 
 Washington, in 1900. 
 
IX. 
 
 DAVID VAWTER5 
 
 (Philemon*, David 3, John'^, Johni) 
 
 (1800- I 845) 
 
 m. 
 
 LUCINDA GLOVER 
 
 (1805-1857) 
 
 Children^ 
 
 Grandchildren' 
 
 r (i) Sarah Julia m. 
 Major D. 
 Sterrett 
 
 Alexander Lewis 
 
 Vawter m. 
 Martha Weir 
 
 2. Amanda M. 
 Vawter m. 
 Francisco Lewis 
 
 ^ (2) A. Lewis, Jr., d. 
 
 [ (I) Henry 
 (2) Emma 
 -{ (3) Sarah 
 
 John M. Vawter 
 
 m. 
 Mary Durkee 
 
 {4) Mary Ida 
 (5) Annie L. 
 
 (i) Edwin m. 
 Vesta Sears 
 
 (2) Thomas M. m. 
 Nolle Carter 
 
 (3) Mary Luna m. 
 Lemuel M. 
 
 Vickers 
 
 G. Grandchil- 
 dren* 
 
 Mary Alphene m. 
 Edward Marshall 
 
 Mattie E. m. 
 Seaborn Bell 
 
 Robert Alphonso 
 
 m. Etta Davis 
 Carrie Belle 
 l^ Davie Lewise 
 
 f Sears 
 ■{ Ned 
 (_ Eugene 
 
 May 
 
 Alexander J. 
 Luna K. 
 Lewis Orin 
 Octavia J. 
 Carter 
 D. Lee 
 Wesson 
 
 r John Francis 
 I Lucy Octavia 
 J Mary Elizabeth 
 I Gladys Lee, d. 
 I Thomas Edwin 
 
 G.G. Grandchil- 
 dren' 
 
 ' Julia Ferrel 
 Hennie De 
 Esther Lee 
 Mattie B. 
 
 ( Donie Dowel 
 Robert Ashby 
 Andrew L. 
 Major T. 
 Junior B. 
 AUie 
 
 Etta Roberta 
 Mead Dowel 
 
 l^ Wm. Ernest 
 
THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA 
 
 363 
 
 3. John M. Vawter 
 (Continued) 
 
 4. Louisa Vawter 
 m. 
 Edward Fink 
 
 f Ettie Eugenia 
 (4) George Lewis Walter Lewis 
 m. J David Wyatt, d. 
 
 Ettie Dicker- 1 Matie Octavia 
 son I Junie Magnolia 
 
 L John Ferris 
 
 (5) Frances Louisa 
 
 m. 
 J. R. Noble 
 
 (6) Ella Octavia m. 
 A. S. Victory 
 
 I (7) Katie King 
 
 (i) One child, d. 
 
 5. David M. Vawter f (i) Martha 
 
 en- ■{ Lucinda m. 
 
 Nancy Raycroft L J.W.Cooke 
 
 6. Martha Vawter 
 m. 
 J.C. White 
 
 ■) Four ch 
 
 ildren 
 
 John Vawter 
 Julian Bennett 
 
 David Vawter, d. 
 
 IX 
 
 DAVID VAWTER 
 
 David Vawter, the youngest son of Philemon and Anna Vaw- 
 ter, was born in Kentucky, January 21, 1800; married April 23, 
 1823, to Lucinda Glover, the sister of James Glover, who married 
 David's sister Elizabeth. 
 
 David Vawter traded down the Ohio and Mississippi rivers, 
 running to Natchez and New Orleans. In 1832 he built his first 
 steamboat, the "Bravo." It ran between Natchitoches, Louisiana, 
 on the Red river, and Natchez or New Orleans, as the freight paid 
 best ; but gradually Natchez was left out. He afterwards owned 
 a number of steamboats running on the Mississippi and as high 
 up the Red river as they could go. When he gave up the steam- 
 boat business he sold his Red river home and removed to Texas 
 in May, 1844, where he bought a large tract of land. 
 
 David Vawter died July 13, 1845. Lucinda (Glover) Vawter 
 was born Jyly 8, 1805, and died December 20, 1857. 
 
364 THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA 
 
 Alexander Lewis Vawter 
 
 Alexander Lewis Vawter, the son of David and Lucinda 
 (Glover) Vawter, was born January 24, 1824, in New York; 
 he was married in 1848 to Martha Weir, who was born in Mis- 
 sissippi, February 14, 1827, and died in Rusk county, Texas, Sep- 
 tember 5, i860. 
 
 A. Lewis Vawter was engaged in the mercantile business. He 
 died in Grand Bluff, Texas, January 31, 1856. 
 
 Children of A. Lewis and Martha (Weir) Vawter were: 
 Sarah Julia and A. Lewis, Jr. 
 
 ( I ) Sarah Julia Vawter was born in Grand Bluff, Texas, 
 May 26, 1850; married January 19, 1870, to Dr. Major Dowel 
 Sterrett. They live in Beckville, Texas. Dr. Sterrett was born 
 June 27, 1840, in Columbiana, Alabama. 
 
 Children of Dr. M. D. and Sarah Julia (Vawter) Sterrett: 
 
 a. Mary Alphene Sterrett, born October 27, 1870, at Grand 
 Bluff, Texas; married 1891 to Edward Marshall, of Texarkana, 
 Texas. 
 
 Children : 
 
 (a) Julia Ferrell Marshall, born October i, 1892. 
 
 (b) Hennie De Marshall, born October 16, 1896. 
 
 (c) Esther Lee Marshall, born August 10, 1898. 
 
 (d) Mattie B. Marshall, born July 24, 1902. 
 
 b. Mattie E. Sterrett, born February 21, 1872, at Grand 
 Bluff, Texas; married July 14, 1892, to Seaborn Bell, a merchant 
 of Tenaha, Texas. 
 
 Children : 
 
 (a) Donie Dowel Bell, born March 13, 1893, at Beckville, 
 Texas. 
 
 (b) Robert Ashby Bell, born September 30, 1895, at Beck- 
 ville, Texas. 
 
 (c) Andrew L. Bell, born October 19, 1897, at Tenaha, 
 Texas. 
 
 (d) Major T. Bell, born October 29, 1899, at Tenaha, Texas. 
 
THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA 365 
 
 (e) Junior B. Bell, born June 27, 1901, at Tenaha. Texas. 
 
 (f) Allie Bell, born April 16, 1904, at Tenaha, Texas. 
 
 c. Robert Alphonzo Sterrett was born October 26. 1876, at 
 Grand Bluff, Texas; married in 1900 to Etta Davis, of Jefferson, 
 Texas. Robert A. Sterrett is a physician, living at Boxwood, 
 Texas. 
 
 Children : 
 
 (a) Etta Roberta Sterrett, born November 5, 1902, at Jef- 
 ferson, Texas. 
 
 (b) Mead Dowel Sterrett, born June 3,, 1904, at Jefferson. 
 Texas. 
 
 d. Carrie Belle Sterrett, born October 4, 1885, at Mahan, 
 Texas. Is now a student in the senior class of the Girls' Industrial 
 College of Art at Denton, Texas. 
 
 e. Davie Lewise Sterrett, born February 22, 1892, at Beck- 
 ville, Texas. 
 
 (2) A. Lewis Vawter, Jr., was born August 16, 1856; died 
 February 14, 1863. 
 
 Amanda (Vawter) Lewis 
 
 Amanda Melvina Vawter, daughter of David and Lucinda 
 (Glover) Vawter, was born February 24, 1826; married August 
 14, 1845, at Grand Bluff, Texas, to Francisco Lewis, who was 
 born May 5, 1822, in Franklin City, Alabama. Francisco Lewis 
 was a merchant for the greater portion of his life. 
 
 Children of Francisco and Amanda (Vawter) Lewis: 
 
 (i) Henry F. Lewis was born October 31, 1846, at Grand 
 Bluff, Panola county, Texas. Lives at Shreveport, Louisiana. 
 
 (2) Emma Lewis was born Octobec 15, 1848, at Grand Bluff, 
 Texas; married, first, December 24, 1868. to G. W. Jones. 
 
 Children : 
 
 a. Merril Jones, born October 10, 1869, 
 
 h. Mary Jones, born July 29, 1872. 
 
 c. Emma Jones, born March 15, 1875. 
 
 d. Lizzie Jones, born February 10, 1878. 
 
 i 
 
366 THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA 
 
 e. Mabel Jones, born April 28, 1883. 
 
 /. Harry Jones, born September 27, 1886. 
 
 Emma (Lewis) Jones was married, second, October 15, 1890, 
 to J. P. Elder, who is proprietor of the East Texas Nursery, Mar- 
 shall, Texas. 
 
 (3) Sarah E. Lewis was born January 21, 1851. 
 
 (4) Mary Ida Lewis was born May 22, 1853, at Grand Bluff, 
 Texas; married March 5, 1874, to A. H. Waugh. They had one 
 child, Henry Waugh, born January 29, 1875. 
 
 Ida (Lewis) Waugh was married, second, February, 1882, 
 to James McCann. 
 
 a. James W. McCann, born August 29, 1883. 
 h. Ethel P. McCann, born January 11, 1886. 
 
 (5) Annie L. Lewis, born August 31, 1855. 
 
 John M. Vawter 
 
 John M. Vawter, son of David and Lucinda (Glover) Vawter, 
 was born March 25, 1826; married November 23, 1850, to Mary 
 G. Durkee (daughter of William L. and Marian (Weir) Durkee), 
 who was born August 10, 1836. J. M. Vawter and family lived 
 at Grand Bluff, Panola county, Texas, for many years after his 
 marriage in the old home of his father, which was burned in 1865. 
 While he lived in the Bandera Mountains, forty miles west of 
 San Antonio, he, for years, amid drought and Mormon opposi- 
 tion and persecution, carried on a Sabbath-school, which was at 
 times the only religious service held in that part of the country. 
 
 George Lewis Vawter, a son, says that he does not think an 
 account of their family would be complete without the mention 
 of "Uncle Allen," the old negro slave, who ran the Grand Bluff 
 ferry boat for fifteen years as a slave and many years as a free 
 man. On account of debt, his father and mother and himself 
 were afraid of being sold apart, and so his mother sent him to 
 Lewis Vawter to see if he wouldn't buy them for the David Vaw- 
 ter estate. This he did, and thus "Uncle Allen," "Aunt Lydie" 
 and "Uncle Dick" came into the family. "They helped in the 
 
THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA 367 
 
 care of my mother's family," said G. L. Vawter, "but it was in 
 the contract of sale that 'Aunt Lydie' was never to ha\'e to 'wash 
 clothes.' " 
 
 John M. Vawter has been a merchant and a farmer. He is now 
 retired, and he and his wife live in Timpson, Texas. 
 
 John M. Vawter and wife had twelve children. Those living 
 are : 
 
 ( 1 ) Edwin Vawter was born at Grand Bluff, Texas, May 7, 
 1855; married March, 1883, to Vesta Sears, who was born Au- 
 gust 29, 1848, in Marshall, Texas. Lives in Marshall, Texas. 
 
 Children : 
 
 a. Sears, born May 15, 1884, in Marshall, Texas. 
 
 b. Edwin, born August i, 1887, in Harrison county, Texas. 
 
 c. Eugene, born October 18, 1892, in Harrison county, Texas. 
 
 (2) Thomas M., son of John M. and Mary (Durkee) Vaw- 
 ter, was born at Grand Bluff, Panola county, Texas, May 8, 
 1857; married March 13, 1881, in Rusk county, Texas, to Nolie 
 Carter, who was born February 4, 1857. Thomas M. Vawter is 
 a farmer, living near Marshall, Texas. 
 
 Children : 
 
 a. John Thomas Vawter was born in Rusk county, Texas, 
 April 18, 1882. He is a railroad fireman. 
 
 h. May Vawter, born in Panola, Texas, January 28. 1884; 
 graduated at Baylor College, Belltown, Texas, in June, 1905. 
 
 c. Alexander J. Vawter, born in Bandera county, Texas, Jan- 
 uary 18, 1886. Is bookkeeper for a newspaper company in 
 Marshall. Texas. 
 
 d. Luna K. Vawter, born in Bandera county, Texas, August 
 29, 1887; is at school at Timpson, Texas. 
 
 e. Lewis Orin Vawter, born in Bandera county, Texas, 
 August 21, 1889. 
 
 /. Octavia J. Vawter, born in Bandera county, Texas. March 
 29, 1891. 
 
 g. Carter Vawter, born in Hall county, Texas, August 13, 
 1893. 
 
 h. D. Lee Vawter, born May 23, 1900, in Harrison county, 
 Texas. 
 
 I 
 
368 THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA 
 
 i. Wesson Vawter, born near Marshall, Texas, February 13, 
 1904; died March 13, 1904. 
 
 (3) Mary Luna Vawter, daughter of John M. and Mary 
 (Durkee) Vawter, was born at Grand Bluff, Panola county, 
 Texas, July 13, 1859; attended the Masonic Female Institute at 
 Marshall Texas; married at Grand Bluff, Texas, December 12, 
 1883, to Lemuel M. Vickers, of Hughes' Springs, Texas, who 
 was born in Alabama, March 4, 1851. They live in Hunt county, 
 Texas, four miles south of Greenville. 
 
 Children : 
 
 a. John Francis Vickers, born at Hughes' Springs, February 
 17, 1886. 
 
 b. Lucy Octavia Vickers, born at Hughes' Springs, May 4, 
 1888. 
 
 c. Mary Elizabeth Vickers, born at Hughes' Springs, Feb- 
 ruary 24, 1 89 1. 
 
 d. Gladys Lee Vickers, born at Hughes' Springs, August 3, 
 1893 ; died at Neola, Hunt county, Texas. November 21, 1899. 
 
 c. Thomas Edwin Vickers, born at Neola, Texas, June 27, 
 1896. 
 
 /. William Ernest Vickers, born at Neola, Texas, November 
 24, 1901. 
 
 (4) George Lewis Vawter. son of John M. and Mary 
 (Durkee) Vawter, was born November 22. 1862. at Grand 
 Bluff, Panola county, Texas, in the old homestead of his grand- 
 father, David Vawter. He was married at Pipecreek, Texas, 
 May 25, 1892, to Junie Ettie Dickerson (daughter of Wyatt and 
 Rebecca (Poyner) Dickerson), who was born near Tecumseh, 
 Johnson county, Nebraska, March 8, 1870. George Lewis Vaw- 
 ter was a bridge builder by trade, but while in California in 1888 
 his arm was broken and he has since been unable to follow the 
 bridge business. At Pipecreek he is postmaster, merchant, 
 farmer and ranchman, and is much interested in the question of 
 storm-water irrigation for the part of Texas where he lives. 
 
 Children : 
 
 a. Ettie Eugenia Vawter, born April 25, 1893. 
 
 b. Walter Lewis Vawter, born September 27, 1895. 
 
THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA 369 
 
 c. David Wyatt Vawter, born December i, 1896 ; died August 
 26, 1899. 
 
 d. Matie Octavia Vawter, born September 6, 1898. 
 
 e. Junie Magnolia Vawter, born September 19, 1900. 
 /. John Ferris Vawter, born March 7, 1904. 
 
 ( 5 ) Frances Louisa Vawter, daughter of John M. and Mary 
 (Durkee) Vawter, was born in Marshall, Texas, January 7, 
 1867 : married January 20, 1890. to John B. Noble, who was born 
 February 7, 1863, and died December 10, 1898. Mrs. Noble and 
 children live at Timpson, Texas. 
 
 Children : 
 
 a. John Vawter Noble, born October 5, 1891. 
 
 b. Julian Bennett Noble, born January 30, 1896. 
 
 (6) Ella Octavia Vawter, daughter of John M. and Mary 
 (Durkee) Vawter, was born May 31, 1872; married September 
 9, 1903, to A. S. Victory, a log contractor for a lumber company, 
 who was born February 14, 1868. 
 
 (7) Katie King Vawter, daughter of John M. and Mary 
 (Durkee) Vawter, was born May 15, 1877. 
 
 4 
 Louisa (Vawter) Fink 
 
 Louisa Vawter, daughter of David and Lucinda (Glover) 
 Vawter, was born February 9, 1830; married in 1845 to Edward 
 Fink. They had one child who died in 1863. Both Edward Fink 
 and Louisa, his wife, are dead. 
 
 5 
 David M. Vawter 
 
 David M. Vawter, son of David and Lucinda (Glover) Vaw- 
 ter, was born in Madison, Indiana, January 17, 1833; married 
 July 25, 1858, to Nancy Raycroft, who was born in Tennessee, 
 January 12, 1837. David M. Vawter was a physician. 
 
370 THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA 
 
 Children : 
 
 (i) Martha Lucmda (called "Chic"), married January 6, 
 1897, to J. W. Cooke, of Pembroke. Kentucky. 
 
 Children : 
 
 a. David Vawter Cooke, born October 16, 1897; died De- 
 cember 22, 1903. y 
 
 Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Cooke live at Carthage, Missouri, where al 
 
 Mr. Cooke is cashier of the First National Bank. 
 
 Martha (Vawter) White 
 
 Martha Vawter, daughter of David and Lucinda (Glover) ll 
 
 Vawter, was born September 16, 1836; married December, 1852, 
 to J. C. White. They lived in Austin, Texas. They have four 
 children. 
 
RUSSELL VAWTER 
 
 (1755 ) 
 
 m. 
 
 MARY SPARKS 
 (1757 ) 
 
 Children 
 
 1. John Vawter 
 
 2. Elizabeth 
 
 Vawter 
 
 Grandchildren 
 
 (i) James M. 
 (2) John Russell 
 
 r (I) John 
 
 3. Beverly Vawter -j (2) Allan 
 
 J , , , I (3) William 
 
 4. Infant, d. ^-^ 
 
 5. Nancy Vawter 
 
 6. Bradford Vawter 
 
 [ (I) Geo. T. m. 
 Charlotte 
 
 Vogler 
 
 7. Chadwell Vawter 
 m. 
 Susan Taylor 
 
 G. Grandchil- 
 dren 
 
 Joseph Early 
 Vawter m. 
 1st 
 Polly Larimore 
 
 (2) Pauline 
 
 (3) Beverly S. 
 
 (4) William 
 
 (5) Matilda 
 
 (6) Sophronia 
 
 (7) Josiah 
 
 (i) Washington R. 
 
 (2) Thomas S. m. 
 Nancy 
 
 Chapman 
 
 (3) Edith P. 
 
 (4) Patsy A. 
 
 f Geo. W. 
 John M. 
 
 Samuel M. m. 
 Sarah McShane 
 
 Rosalie m. 
 
 R. A. Gordon 
 Emma S. m. 
 
 Katcliffe 
 
 John 
 
 f Martha, d. 
 -{ William M. m. 
 1^ Nancy J. Burk 
 
 (5) Joseph M. m. 
 Mary L. 
 Furgeson 
 
 ^ 
 
 f Trueman C. ra. 
 
 I Myrta Bourne 
 George Early 
 Ray Partee m. 
 Rose Smith 
 
 ^ Anna Mae 
 
 G. G. Grandchil- 
 dren 
 
 Frank 
 Fred Mc. 
 Charles A. 
 Harold H. 
 Isaac 
 ^ Homer G. 
 
 Ida m. 
 Eugene Smith 
 (Jennievee) 
 Emma E. m. 
 Charles Baxter 
 (Clara Ermine, 
 
 d. 
 Mildred May,d. 
 Dow Vawter) 
 John Wm. m. 
 Claudine C. 
 Fowler 
 (Ara Bertie 
 Maud Illinois 
 Earl V.) 
 
 Clare 
 
372 
 
 THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA 
 
 Joseph Early 
 Vawter 
 (Conlinued) 
 
 2d 
 
 Nancy Smith 
 
 (6) Nancy A. 
 
 (7) James J. m. 
 Susan Hol- 
 landsworth 
 
 (8) 
 
 William 
 DeWitt 
 
 (9) Katy A. 
 
 (10) Amanda J. 
 
 (11) Sallie K. 
 
 (i2) Allen Vaul 
 Elizabeth 
 Sinclair 
 
 (13) Mary P. 
 
 (14) John E. 
 
 Joseph T. m. 
 Bedie Dewbre 
 
 Allen v., d. 
 
 Mary J. m. 
 James Hagan 
 
 Amanda S. m. 
 Joseph M. 
 Sympson 
 
 Nancy W., d. 
 Mintie B. m. 
 
 f William J. 
 j DoraB. 
 ■i Maude, d. 
 j Evie L. 
 i^ Annie 
 
 ( Ibb 
 \ Vir 
 
 aB. 
 
 gil Vawter 
 
 f Ingram 
 \ Electa, d. 
 1^ Jennievee 
 
 f Ada S. 
 I Dewey S. 
 Eva A. 
 
 e 
 
 I 
 
 Benjamin Hardin ] Nelli 
 I Ray 
 i_ Irene 
 
 Earl 
 May 
 
 (15) Josephus R. 
 
 m. \ 
 
 Mary Williams 
 
 (16) Beverly P. m. 
 Maria L. 
 Graves 
 
 Julia A. m. 
 Ansel S. Palraore 
 
 Frank B. 
 
 Joseph Thomas, d. 
 Margaret E. m. 
 
 W. A. Reynolds 
 Walter Alien 
 Josephine Allen m. 
 
 O. L. Settle 
 Allene 
 
 Leona, d. 
 
 Nancy Adalaide m. 
 Peyton Lacy 
 Cook 
 
 Margaret, d. 
 
 Leighton, d. 
 
 Bennie B. m. 
 Valera A. 
 Crawford 
 
 Minnie, d. 
 
 Edgar S. m. 
 Melissa E. 
 Crawford 
 
 Melissa H. m. 
 Robert John 
 Briggs 
 
 Alice, d. 
 Frederick D. 
 
 I Trueman 
 t Kate 
 
 9. Polly Vawter 
 
 10. Peachy Vawter 
 
 11. Infant, d. 
 
 Margaret Berneice 
 
 [■ Frederick Clyde 
 
 I Melissa lola 
 
 i Clinton Culberson 
 
 I Bertha 
 
 j Burleson Beverly 
 
 I Mary 
 
 j Leyton Leroy 
 
 i. Wm. Peyton 
 
 Edgar Allen 
 Lillian 
 Thelma 
 Clifford 
 
 r Violo 
 
 \ Edgar Crawford 
 
 I Addie 
 
 C Roberta Beverly 
 -{ Victoria Mary 
 I. Infant, d. 
 
 ■■ V, 
 
 ■w ■ 
 
 i 
 
 I 
 
 i 
 
THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA 373 
 
 RUSSELL VAWTER 
 
 Russell Vawter was born June 22, 1755, and lived in Cul- 
 peper county, Virginia. It is not known who was the father of 
 Russell, but he was probably a son of a brother of David, 
 the son of John. David Vawter was born in 1720, and one 
 of his sons, Jesse, was born in the same year as Russell. It is 
 reasonably certain that they were closely related, as they both 
 lived in the same county in Virginia and the same family names 
 run through both families — such names as Elliott and Beverly. 
 
 Jesse Vawter, the son of David, in his account of the journey 
 westward, speaks of one Joseph Early. One of Russell Vawter's 
 children is named Joseph Early, probably for this same man. 
 
 Russell Vawter was married to Mary Sparks, who was born 
 September 17, 1757. 
 
 Children : 
 
 I John Vawter, born April 22, 1778; lived in North Caro- 
 lina; had two sons, James M. and John Russell. Both moved to 
 southern Indiana about 1838. James then moved to Tipton 
 county, in about 1848, and John Russell to Switzerland county. 
 James died about 1872, and John Russell about 1843. 
 
 II Elizabeth Vawter, born April 21, 1780. 
 
 III Beverly Vawter, born September 22, 1782; came from 
 Virginia and settled at Marrow Bone, Cumberland county, Ken- 
 tucky; sold out about 1836 and went to Macomb, Illinois. Three 
 of his sons were John, Allan and William. Allan died November 
 4, 1904. 
 
 IV Infant, died. 
 
 V Nancy Vawter, born March 19, 1786. 
 
 VI Bradford Vawter, born July 26, 1788. 
 
 VII Chadwell Vawter, born September 14, 1790. 
 
 VIII Joseph Early Vawter, born February 19, 1793. 
 
 IX Polly Vawter, born August 20, 1796. 
 
 X Peachy Vawter. born August 10, 1798; died 1804. 
 
 XI Infant, stillborn. 
 
 VII Chadwell Vawter married Susan Taylor; after nearly 
 
374 THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA 
 
 all of his children were born he moved to Stokes, now Forsyth 
 comity, North Carolina. 
 Children : 
 
 1. George T. Vawter, born September lo, 1817 ; moved with 
 his parents to North Carolina when about fifteen years old; 
 moved to Indiana in 1851 ; married Charlotte C. Vogler; died in 
 1894. Charlotte (Vogler) Vawter died in 1892. 
 
 Children : 
 
 ( i) George W. Vawter, born November, 1840. Is now dead, 
 but has a family living in Indiana. 
 
 (2) John M. Vawter, born January 28, 1844. Is dead, but 
 has a family living in Indiana. 
 
 (3) Samuel M. Vawter, born in North Carolina, October 
 29, 1847; married Sarah E. McShane. Has been living in Jeffer- 
 sonville, Indiana, but is at present in Atlanta, Georgia. 
 
 Children : 
 
 a. S. Frank, born April 2, 1879. Lives in Tipton, Indiana. 
 
 b. Fred Mc, born May 19, 1880. Lives in Tipton, Indiana. 
 
 c. Charles A., born July 26, 1882. 
 
 d. Harold H., born December i, 1884. 
 
 e. Isaac, born March 6, 1891 ; died. 
 /. Homer G., born May 21, 1895. 
 
 (4) Rosalie A. Vawter, born December 3, 1849; married 
 R. A. Gordon. Lives in Indiana. 
 
 (5) Emma S., born August 30, 1851 ; married — Ratcliffe. 
 Lives in Indiana. 
 
 2. Pauline Vawter. born in 18 19. 
 
 3. Beverly S.. born in 1821 ; moved from North Carolina to 
 Illinois in 1852; afterward to Kansas. 
 
 4. William Vawter, born in 1823; moved from North Caro- 
 lina to Illinois in 1852 ; died in 1859. Had a son John. 
 
 5. Matilda Vawter, born in 1826. 
 
 6. Sophronia Vawter, born in 1829. 
 
 7. Josiah Vawter, born in 1832 ; died in Confederate army. 
 VIII Joseph Early Vawter, the son of Russell and Mary 
 
 (Sparks) Vawter, was born in Culpeper county, Virginia, in 
 1793. He went from Virginia, by way of North Carolina, to 
 
THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA 375 
 
 Monroe county, Kentucky, where he settled in about 1823, ;ind 
 where three of his children are living to-day. Joseph Early Vaw- 
 ter was a miller, farmer and teacher. He wrote an almanac 
 (which was never published). He made a bench which he carried 
 to school for his pupils to sit on and then carried it home each 
 night for his children to sit on at the table. The bench is still 
 in the family, and the old house stands to-day just as it was built 
 by Joseph Early Vawter. He died in 1861. 
 
 Joseph Early Vawter was married September 15, 18 12, to 
 Polly Larimore, who was born February i, 1795, and died No- 
 vember 8, 1838. 
 
 Children : 
 
 1. Washington R. Vawter, born July 29, 181 3. Was a physi- 
 cian. 
 
 2. Thomas S. Vawter, born August 17, 181 5. 
 
 3. Edith P. Vawter, born November 9, 181 7. 
 
 4. Patsy A. Vawter, born March 19, 1820. 
 
 5. Joseph M. Vawter. born September 8, 1822. 
 
 6. Nancy A. Vawter, born January 2, 1825. 
 
 7. James J. Vawter, born January 4, 1827. 
 
 8. William D. Vawter, born March 9, 1829. 
 
 9. Katy A. Vawter, born March 5, 1831. 
 
 10. Amanda J. Vawter, born April 13, 1833. 
 
 11. Sallie K. Vawter, born January 11, 1835. 
 
 12. Allen V. Vawter, twin, born July 18, 1837. 
 
 13. Mary P. Vawter, twin, born July 18, 1837. 
 
 Joseph Early Vawter married, second, Nancy Smith, who died 
 in 1878. 
 Children : 
 
 14. John E. Vawter, born July 18, 1840. 
 
 15. Josephus R. Vawter, born January 9, 1842. 
 
 16. Beverly P. Vawter, born October 3, 1844. 
 
 Thomas S. Vawter, son of Joseph Early and Polly (Lari- 
 more) Vawter, was born August 17, 1815; married Nancy A. 
 
yjd THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA 
 
 Chapman, who was born February 9, 1820; died December 30, 
 1873. Thomas S. Vawter died in 1854 near Hillsboro, Ilhnois. 
 
 Children : 
 
 (i) Martha, who died in 1861. 
 
 (2) WilHam M., born in Monroe county, Kentucky, Novem- 
 ber 27, 1842; married January 10, 1864, to Nancy Jane Burk, 
 who was born at Walshville, IlHnois, June 12, 1846. W. M. 
 Vawter had a "bus line and carried mail in Hillsboro, Illinois, 
 but is now retired. 
 
 Children of William and Nancy ( Burk) Vawter : 
 
 a. Ida M. Vawter. born December 4, 1864; married August 
 17, 1886, to Eugene Smith, who was born in Bond county, Illi- 
 nois, October 9, 1859. They live in Hillsboro, Illinois, and have 
 one child, Jennievee Eugenia, born February 3, 1888. 
 
 h. Emma E. Vawter, born August 22, 1867; married April 
 26, 1887, to Charles Baxter, who was born at Walshville, Illi- 
 nois, August II, 1861. They live in Hillsboro, Illinois, where 
 Mr. Baxter deals in coal and owns the transfer line. 
 
 Children : 
 
 (a) Clara Ermine, born July 24, 1893; died September 29, 
 
 1893. 
 
 (b) Mildred May, born August 25, 1896; died November 
 
 15. 1896. 
 
 (c) Dow Vawter, born January 16, 1898. 
 
 c. John William Vawter, born January 22, 1870; married at 
 Arkansas Pass, Texas, October 7, 1897, to Claudine C. Fowler, 
 who was born in Smithfield, Missouri, January 17, 1875. They 
 live in Hillsboro, Illinois, where J. W. Vawter is engaged in the 
 transfer business. They have one child, Monroe Fowler, who 
 was born December 18, 1899. 
 
 d. Ara Bertie Vawter, born October 17, 1872; died. 
 
 e. Maud Illinois Vawter, born April 3, 1873; died. 
 /. Earl V. Vawter, born September 24. 1879. 
 
THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA 3/7 
 
 5 
 
 Joseph Monroe Vawter, son of Joseph Early and Polly ( Lari- 
 more) Vawter, was born September 8, 1822; married Mary 
 Louise Furgeson, who was born in Virginia in 1844. Joseph M. 
 Vawter was a farmer, a stock-breeder, a hotel-keeper ; operated 
 livery stable, 'bus line, canal boats, and was commissioner of 
 Franklin county, Indiana, for six years. Lived in Brookville; 
 died in 1903. 
 
 Children : 
 
 (i) Trueman Carpenter, born in 1875; married Myrta 
 Bourne in 1897. No children. Trueman C. Vawter is commer- 
 cial salesman of vehicles, Brookville, Indiana. 
 
 (2) George Early, born in 1877. Is a lawyer and manager 
 of Central Business College of Sedalia, Missouri. 
 
 (3) Ray Partee, born in 1879; married Rose Smith in 1902. 
 They have one child, Clare, \yho was born in 1904. Ray P. Vaw- 
 ter is a farmer, living near Brookville, Indiana. 
 
 (4) Anna Mae, born in 1884. Is a teacher in the public 
 schools of Brookville, Indiana. 
 
 James J. Vawter, son of Joseph Early and Polly (Larimore) 
 Vawter, was born January 4, 1827; married Susan Hollands- 
 worth, who was born April 11, 1832, at Marrow Bone, Ken- 
 tucky. J. J. Vawter is engaged in the mercantile business in 
 Persimon, Kentucky. 
 
 Children : 
 
 ( I ) Joseph T. Vawter, son of James J. and Susan ( Hollands- 
 worth) Vawter, was born March 10, 1852; married Bedie Dew- 
 bre, who was born at Marrow Bone, Kentucky, J. T. Vawter 
 lives near Persimon, Kentucky, where he is engaged in farming. 
 
 Children : 
 
 a. William J. Vawter, born October 19, 1873. 
 
 h. Dora B. Vawter, born November 18, 1877. 
 
 c. Maude Vawter, born May 15, 1880; died August 14, 1889. 
 
^yS THE VAVVTER FAMILY IN AMERICA 
 
 d. Evie L. Vawter, born August 25, 1883. 
 c. Annie Vawter, born April 13, 1887. 
 
 (2) Allen V. Vawter, born April 27, 1855; died May 18, 
 1882. 
 
 (3) Mary J. Vawter, born July 3, 1858; married James 
 Hagan. Their children are Ibba B. and Virgil Vawter. 
 
 (4) Amanda S. Vawter, born May 8, 1862; married Joseph 
 M. Sympson. Their children are Ingram, Electa, who died young, 
 and Jenievee. 
 
 (5) Nancy W. Vawter, born June 16, 1865; died February 
 8, 1866. 
 
 (6) Mintie B. Vawter, born June 4, 1867; married Benja- 
 min G. Hardin. Their children are Ada S., Dewey S., Eva A., 
 Nellie, Ray and Irene. 
 
 (7) Julia A. Vawter, born December 23, 1871 ; married 
 Ansel S. Palmore. Their children are Earl. Mae, Trueman and 
 Kate. 
 
 8 
 
 William DeWitt Vawter, son of Joseph Early and Polly (Lari- 
 more) Vawter, was born in Monroe county, Kentucky, in 1829; 
 went to Macomb, Illinois, in 185 1, and to Kansas in 1869. Lives 
 in Burlington, Kansas. Has a son, Frank B. Vawter, a druggist, 
 living in Randolph, Kansas. 
 
 12 
 
 Allen Vaul Vawter, son of Joseph Early and Polly (Larimore) 
 Vawter, was born in Monroe county, Kentucky, July 18, 1837. 
 He was a twin. He was a farmer, left Kentucky and moved near 
 Columbia, Missouri, where he was killed May 12, 1888. He was 
 married to Elizabeth Sinclair, who was born in Providence, Mis- 
 souri, in 1855 ^^'^ died February 25, 1894. 
 
 Children : 
 
 ( 1 ) Joseph Thomas Vawter, who died at about two years of 
 age. 
 
 (2) Margaret E. Vawter, born September 24, 1880; married 
 
THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA 379 
 
 June 8, 1903, to W. A. Reynolds, who was born February lo, 
 1877. They Hve in Eldon, Miller county, Missouri, where Mr. 
 Reynolds is in the grocery business. 
 
 (3) Walter Allen Vawter, born December 24. 1882, near 
 Columbia, Missouri. Lives in Lamar. Barton county, Missouri. 
 
 (4) Josephine Allen, born September 30, 1884; near Colum- 
 bia, Missouri; married April 7, 1903, to O. L. Settle, who was 
 born October 31, 1884. They live in Lamar, Missouri, where 
 O. L. Settle has a meat market. 
 
 Children : 
 
 a. Margaret Berneice Settle, born February 18, 1905. 
 
 (5) Allene Vawter, born January 30, 1889; near Columbia, 
 Missouri. Lives in Lamar, Missouri. 
 
 15 
 
 Josephus R. Vawter, son of Joseph Early and Nancy (Smith) 
 Vawter, was born in Monroe county, Kentucky, January 9, 1842; 
 married May 26. 1867, to Mary J. Williams, who was born April 
 4, 1849, in Monroe county, Kentucky. Josephus R. Vawter was 
 a farmer and lived in Monroe county, Kentucky. He died May 3, 
 1882. 
 
 Children : 
 
 (i) Leona Vawter, born March 23, 1868; died May i, 1897. 
 
 (2) Nancy Adalaide Vawter, was born April 5, 1869, in 
 Monroe county, Kentucky; married January 19, 1888, to Peyton 
 Lacy Cook, a farmer, who was born in Alabama, April 12, 1861. 
 They live in Cordell, Oklahoma Territory. 
 
 Children : 
 
 a. Frederick Clyde Cook, born December 22, 1888; died De- 
 cember 27, 1889. 
 
 b. Melissa lola Cook, born January 28, 1891. 
 
 c. Clinton Culberson Cook, born January 29, 1893. 
 
 d. Bertha Cook, born February 13, 1895. 
 
 e. Burleson Beverly Cook, born April 29, 1896. 
 /. Mary Cook, born January 6, 1900. 
 
380 THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA 
 
 X 
 
 g. Ley ton Leroy Cook, born March 5, 1902. 
 
 h. William Peyton Cook, born September 11, 1904. 
 
 (3) Margaret Vawter, born October 12, 1870; died No- 
 vember, 1870. 
 
 (4) Leighton Vawter, born July 21, 1872; died July. 1873. 
 
 (5) Bennie B. Vawter, born in Monroe county, Kentucky, 
 August 21, 1874; married December 25, 1895, to Valera A. 
 Crawford, who was born in Tennessee, June 3, 1878. B. B. Vaw- 
 ter has been a rural mail carrier, but is at present employed as a 
 salesman in a dry-goods store. He lives in Cordell, Oklahoma 
 Territory. 
 
 Children : 
 
 a. Edgar Allen Vawter, born March 19, 1898. 
 
 b. Lillian, born June 16, 1900. 
 
 c. Thelma, born March 22, 1902; died June 27, 1903. 
 
 d. Clifford, born January 22, 1904. 
 
 (6) Minnie Vawter was born August 21, 1874; died Novem- 
 ber 12, 1875. Bennie B. and Minnie Vawter were twins. 
 
 (7) Edgar S. Vawter was born in Monroe county, Kentucky, 
 December 22, 1876; married October 15, 1899, to Melissa E. 
 Crawford, who was born February 6, 1882, in Johnson county, 
 Texas. Edgar S. Vawter is a farmer, living near Rocky, Okla- 
 homa Territory. 
 
 Children : 
 
 a. Violo Vawter, born November 24, 1900. 
 
 b. Edgar Crawford Vawter. born August 10, 1902. 
 
 c. Addie Vawter, born August 27, 1904. 
 
 (8) Melissa H. Vawter was born in Monroe county, Ken- 
 tucky, January 4, 1879; married September 25, 1898, in Tarrant 
 county, Texas, to Robert John Briggs, who was born in Canada, 
 March 14, 1871. They live in Dalhart, Texas, where Mr. Briggs 
 is a painter and paper-hanger. 
 
 Children : 
 
 Roberta Beverly Briggs, born June 11, 1899 in Tarrant county, 
 Texas. 
 
THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA 38 1 
 
 Victoria Mary Briggs, born September 23. 1901, in Tarrant 
 county, Texas. 
 
 (9) Infant, born and died February, 1880. 
 
 16 
 
 Beverly P. Vawter, son of Joseph Early and Nancy (Smith) 
 Vawter, was born October 3, 1844; married to Maria L. Graves 
 at Scottsville, Illinois, November 17, 1867; lives at Modesto, 
 Illinois. 
 
 Maria (Graves) Vawter died March 10, 1904. 
 
 Children : 
 
 a. Alice, born in 1878; died in infancy. 
 
 b. Frederick D., born in 1880. Is a physician at Gessie, In- 
 diana. 
 

 EDWARD VAWTER 
 
 Edward Vawter, the son of John, Bartholomew or Angus Vaw- 
 ter (it is not certain which), settled in Essex county, Virginia, 
 where his two sons, Edward and William, were born. There was 
 also a son Thomas. 
 
 Edward Vawter, the first, built a church in Essex county, in 
 1 73 1, which is still standing and in use. It is called "Vauter's 
 Church." An account of it taken from "Old Churches, Ministers 
 and Families of Virginia," by W. Meade, is as follows : 
 
 "Upon a branch of Blackburn's Creek called Church Swamp 
 stands Vauter's Church, built, as indicated by a date inscribed 
 upon its walls, in 1731. This church is in a good state of preser- 
 vation. Mrs. Lewis, who is descended from the Pendletons and 
 Gaines of Culpeper, the Vauters of Essex and the Ruckers, says : 
 There were two churches, the brick and the South Church, which 
 was about sixteen miles distant and four miles below the present 
 site of the Madison court-house. It was a frame building and 
 stood on the land of Richard Vauter. Both buildings were old at 
 the commencement of the Revolutionary War. The Episcopal 
 families around these churches were the Ruckers, the Barbours, 
 Beales, Keastleys, Lewis and Vauters.' " 
 
 William, son of Edward the first, was born May 6, 1735. He 
 was married to Anne Ballard. He and his brother Edward both 
 served in the Revolutionary War. He was a large landowner in 
 Greenbrier county, Virginia. He died March 6, 181 5. Anne 
 (Ballard) Vawter, his wife, was born October 23, 1733; died 
 May 24, 1814. 
 
 William Vawter,* son of William and Anne (Ballard) Vaw- 
 ter, was born May 26, 1765. He was in the Revolutionary War 
 and in the battle of Yorktown. He secured the appointment of 
 government surveyor from the governor of Virginia ; moved to 
 West Virginia in 1791, and married February 12, 1795, Margaret, 
 the daughter of John and Anne (Givens) Henderson, of Point 
 
THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA 383 
 
 Pleasant, West Virginia. They located on Hans Creek, Monroe 
 county, West Virginia. William Vawter died November 15, 
 1822. Margaret, his wife, was born February 12, 1771, and died 
 September 8, 1853. 
 
 Children of William and Margaret (Henderson) Vawter: 
 
 1. Elizabeth,'^ born January 28, 1798; married Robert Young, 
 of Monroe county. 
 
 2. John Henderson,^ born January 23, 1800; died June 8, 
 
 1877- 
 
 3. Anne,^ born March 18, 1802 ; married Lorenzo Dow Cook; 
 
 rjoved to Indiana. 
 
 4. Jean or Jennie,^ born June 14, 1805; married Andrew 
 Shanklin ; moved to Indiana. 
 
 5. Mary or Polly,^ born September 8, 1808; married Moses 
 Kerr; moved to Indiana; died November 23, 1887. 
 
 6. Elliott,^ born March 9, 1812; married Julia Pack, 
 
 2. John Henderson Vawter, son of William and Margaret 
 (Henderson) Vawter, was born in Monroe county. West Vir- 
 ginia, January 23, 1800. He inherited his father's estate and 
 continued to reside there until his death. He was a successful 
 planter and a civil engineer of considerable ability, locating nearly 
 all of the Middle Tennessee Railroad. He was for a long time 
 surveyor of Monroe county, and before the war he represented 
 that county in the Virginia Assembly for nearly twenty years. 
 From the summer of 1862 till the close of the war, he was a cap- 
 tain on the staff of General John Echols, C. S. A. He had four 
 sons in the Confederate army. They were Dr. Louis A., captain 
 of Company C, Sharpshooters, Thirtieth Virginia. William en- 
 tered Company D, Twenty-seventh Regiment, Stonewall Brigade, 
 in August, 1862; wounded at the battle of the Wilderness, and 
 promoted to commissary department, with rank of captain. 
 James E., entered Twelfth Mississippi Regiment in 1861, elected 
 captain of Company I in May, 1862; shot five times at Frazier's 
 Farm and died July 2, 1862. Charles E., entered Monroe Guards 
 in May, 1861, then into the Twenty-seventh Regiment, Stonewall 
 Brigade; appointed captain of a company of sharpshooters in 
 
384 THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA 
 
 1862 ; captured and imprisoned in Fort Delaware in March, 1865 ; 
 released in June, 1865. 
 
 John Henderson Vawter married, first, Adaline Dunlap, Jan- 
 uary 22, 1828; she died November 8, 1828, at the birth of her 
 first child, who also died a year later. June 17, 1833, he married, 
 second, Clara S. Peck, of Giles county. 
 
 Children of John Henderson and Clara (Peck) Vawter: 
 
 ( 1 ) John William,® born September 30, 1834; married Eliza- 
 beth Dew Kean. 
 
 (2) Elizabeth Mary,'' born January 2, 1836. 
 
 (3) Margaret Anne,*^ born July i, 1837, died single, 1885. 
 
 (4) Louis Addison,^ born October 22, 1838; died January 5, 
 1900. 
 
 (5) James Elliott," born March i, 1840; died single, 1862. 
 
 (6) Charles E.,** born June 9, 1841. 
 
 (7) Allen Henderson, "^ born January 8, 1843; died single. 
 
 (8) Matilda Ellen,*' born March 16, 1844; married William 
 Farnier. 
 
 (9) Sarah Josephine,*' born July 10, 1847; married Frank 
 Peck Sweeny ; died. 
 
 (10) Joseph Snyder," born July 17, 1849; died single, 1863. 
 
 (11) Clara Virginia," born August 23, 1851 ; married Lewis 
 Peck ; died. 
 
 (12) Henry Alexander," born xA.pril 23, 1853 ; married Nettie 
 Baber. 
 
 (13) George W.," born April 5, 1855; married Eliza L. 
 Gwinn. 
 
 (4) Louis Addison Vawter received his primary education 
 under a tutor, later attending the Union Academy, and then en- 
 tering the Emory and Henry College in Washington county, 
 West Virginia, graduating at the latter institution in 1854, after 
 which he studied medicine. At the opening of the Civil War, he 
 entered the Confederate service as captain of volunteer infantry. 
 Thirtieth Battalion; was taken a prisoner at the battle of Win- 
 chester, September 19, 1864, and held at Fort Delaware until in 
 
THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA 385 
 
 July, 1865, when he was set at hberty. Returning to his father's 
 home in West Virginia, he had charge of the plantation there 
 for a time. During the winter of 1867-68, he took a course of 
 lectures at Cincinnati in the Ohio Medical College, and in the 
 latter year began the practice of his profession at Ballardsville, 
 West Virginia. He moved to Indiana and practiced medicine with 
 R. E. Barnett in Hancock county, Indiana, until 1882. He then 
 received an appointment as physician to the Round Valley Indian 
 Agency in California. He resigned his position there in 1884 and 
 went to Radersburg. Montana, where he remained until 1893. 
 After that he practiced his profession in Boulder, Montana. He 
 was a member of the Presbyterian Church, and was identified 
 with the Democratic party. Louis A. Vawter married, first, Mary 
 Adair, of Red Sulphur Springs. She died and he was married 
 January 16, 1867. to Emma M. Damson, who was born in Alle- 
 ghany county, Virginia, December 14, 1838. 
 
 Children of Louis and Emma (Damson) Vawter: 
 o. Mary Allen Vaw-ter, born in Virginia, November 14, 1868; 
 died in Greenfield, Indiana, January 20, 1895. 
 
 b. John William Vawter, born in Virginia, April 13, 1871. 
 Is an illustrator of ability. Is very well known through his illus- 
 trations of James Whitcomb Riley's books. 
 
 c. Clara Peck Vawter, born in Virginia, September 25, 1873. 
 Had published one book, the Rabbit's Ransom, and some other 
 short stories and poems. Was a fine judge of literature and 
 seemed to have a brilliant future opening before her, when she 
 died in Indianapolis, Indiana, October 12, 1900. 
 
 d. Charles Elliott Vawter, born in Greenfield, Indiana, June 
 4, 1882. 
 
 (6) Charles Erastus Vawter, son of John Henderson and 
 Clara (Peck) Vawter, at the close of the war returned to Emory 
 and Henry from which he was graduated in 1866. He then 
 taught in Chattanooga till 1868, when he entered the University 
 of Virginia for a special course in mathematics. In the same year 
 he w^as elected professor of mathematics at his alma mater, where 
 he taught until he was made president of the famous Miller 
 
386 THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA 
 
 Manual Training School in Albemarle county, in 1878. He mar- 
 ried, July 24, 1866, Virginia Longley, of Tennessee. 
 
 Children of Charles E. and Virginia (Longley) Vawter: 
 a. Mary Longley, who married Harrison Robertson of Dan- 
 ville. 
 
 h. Josephine, who married Stonewall Tompkins, a member of 
 the Miller School faculty. 
 
 c. Charles E., Jr.. a graduate of the University of Virginia 
 and professor of mathematics and physics at the Virginia Poly- 1 
 technic Institute. 
 
 d. Lenora Leigh. 
 
 e. James Elliot. 
 /. Virginia Longley. 
 g. Edmund Longley. 
 For the above account of the descendents of Edward Vawter 
 
 credit is here given in part to a book on the "Ancestry and De- 
 scendants of Lieutenant John Henderson," by Joseph Lyon Mil- 
 ler, Ashland. Kentucky, and to the ''History of Montana," by 
 Joaquin Miller. 
 
 Thomas Vawter, son of Edward, the first, was born in 1750. 
 He had a son, Edward, born in 1775. This son Edward had a 
 daughter Elizabeth, who married her cousin Thomas Vawter. 
 Thomas and Elizabeth Vawter were the ancestors of Mrs. Egbert 
 Jones, Holly Springs, Mississippi. 
 
 A 
 
MADISON AND VICINITY A HUNDRED YEARS AGO 
 
 It might perhaps be interesting to know something of Madi- 
 son, the conditions of the surrounding country- and the cus- 
 toms at the time the Vawters first came to Indiana. The history 
 of all the Vawters descended from Jesse and many of those de- 
 scended from Philemon has, in the past, if not now, been 
 intimately connected with the history of Madison itself. In a 
 Madison paper there appeared many years ago a series of inter- 
 views with the early pioneers of Jefferson county. One of these 
 is with James Burns, the father of Maxa Burns, who married 
 ]\Iaria \^awter. This article is here given as it was written : 
 
 JAMES BURNS 
 
 "James Burns, one of the oldest and most intelligent of our 
 early settlers, is living on Second street, in the extreme western 
 part of Madison. He is the father of ex-Mayor Miles S. Burns. 
 Mr. Burns was born in Loudoun county, Virginia, near Alexan- 
 dria, in 1/86. He moved to Kentucky, traveling in a wagon, in 
 the year 1794. Mason and Bracken counties were his stopping 
 places until 1806, when, accompanied by a young wife he had 
 lately married, he removed again into Ohio. In December, 1806, 
 Burns entered Fort Washington for the first time. The fort and 
 surrounding village had not yet received its present name — Cin- 
 cinnati. The tract of land back from the river was called Hob- 
 son's Choice, the rest, facing the river. Fort Washington. The 
 houses were few and scattered here and there in the woods and 
 clearings. Mr. Burns rented a farm and lived upon it. He was 
 enrolled in the militia and saw extensive service against the Ohio 
 Indians. When Aaron Burr came west and fled southward for 
 New Orleans. Burns was among the militia who kept guard along 
 the river at Cincinnati to intercept and capture him. The wily 
 
388 THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA 
 
 Burr, however, evaded the authorities and passed south without 
 detection. Burns came to Madison in 1814, the Indians being 
 then at war with the settlers. James Hartsock, John Burns and 
 James Burns together purchased a boat at Cincinnati in which 
 to bring themselves, their families and household possessions to 
 Madison. The boat w^as about one hundred feet long and roofed 
 over. Three days were occupied in floating down to Madison. 
 *We landed,' says Mr. Burns, 'opposite the big frame house 
 that old John Mclntire put up. It is the same house that John 
 Marsh now lives in, though it has been remodeled several times. 
 Main street at that time — 18 14 — was the only street in the town. 
 Main Cross was laid out only a little way down toward Mul- 
 berry. A person had to drive around logs and trees to go any- 
 where. The timber was cut down to make a show but was not 
 cut up or hauled away. There were eight or ten families in the 
 town, not more. The bottom was almost entirely covered with 
 woods, only a little spot cleared for houses. Burnett's public 
 house stood on Main Cross, close to where the old Indiana Bank 
 is now. On Main street, was John Booth's tavern, a hewed log 
 house on the east side of Main, below our court-house. A man 
 named Wilson had a cabinet shop near the tavern. Colonel Paul 
 lived in a brick house near the river bank, the only brick house in 
 the town then. Three or four lawyers were boarding with him, 
 William Hendricks, Cristopher Harrison, the government sur- 
 veyor, and others. Soon after I came, Harrison was elected to 
 congress. This was before he was married. Basil Bentley, the 
 first sheriff of this county, also boarded with Colonel Paul. I 
 took dinner shortly after I came to town with Colonel Paul and 
 saw them all. Old Wagner, Ike Wagner's father, had a black- 
 smith shop between Main and Mulberry, on High street. John 
 Mclntire kept a dry-goods store in his big frame house. Colonel 
 Paul had a mill back and above the present burying ground on 
 Crooked Creek. The mill was up and had just got to grinding 
 corn when I came. It was run by water power. Dawson Black- 
 more lived on the corner of Walnut and High, in a one-story 
 hewed log house. He had three sons and two daughters. Dawson 
 Blackmore, Jr., was the first white male child born in Madison. 
 
THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA 389 
 
 Betty Strickland, a daughter of Judge Strickland, who lived be- 
 yond Blackmore's on Walnut street, was the first girl baby born 
 about here. The Vawters w^ere here and a few others besides, 
 when our party landed. 
 
 " 'As we went up town from the boat we found everybody 
 sitting around watching for Indians, afraid to go out of the 
 house almost. A man named Jim Moore invited us to his house 
 to stay a few days, and we went. After taking our families to 
 Moore's, Hartsock and myself took our guns and went to Wirt, 
 then a fort or blockhouse. We passed the blockhouse at old 
 James Edwards' mill on Clifty Creek. When we got out to the 
 other blockhouse on Harbert's Creek the people ran out and closed 
 the gate, thinking we were Indians. They made us stand off and 
 hello a good deal before they let us in. After the gate was opened 
 they stood staring and gaping to see whether we were all right 
 or not. I examined the land I had bought that day and the next 
 morning we got horses and returned to Madison. I then hired 
 a team and hauled out two or three loads of furniture and things. 
 Next we sold the boat to John and Jim Cowden. Our three fam- 
 ilies moved out to Harbert's blockhouse together. The first night 
 we camped by a big log on old Jesse Vawter's place. We slept 
 on the ground before a log fire near the blockhouse. 
 
 " 'We located on Harbert's Creek, on the site of the village of 
 Wirt, six miles from Madison. Five families were living in the 
 blockhouse at this time; our party adding three more. William 
 Harbert, the first settler, after whom the creek took its name, who 
 went out and built a cabin in 1811, before the war began, was 
 there with his family. Daniel Hickman, John Brock, Samuel 
 Chasteen, William West and their families were the others. We 
 all lived in the blockhouse and were in continual fear of the In- 
 dians. Every night we kept guard, and Judge Dunn passed once 
 or twice every week with his rangers. The Indians came in sight 
 frequently, threatening us. Several persons that had wandered 
 off in the woods hunting disappeared and were never afterwards 
 heard of, no doubt having been murdered or carried away by the 
 Indians. The blockhouse stood about fifteen rods east of my late 
 
390 THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA 
 
 residence at Wirt. The site of the fort is now a part of the farm 
 of Hiram Francisco. 
 
 " 'The blockhouse was a square inclosing about one-half an 
 acre. In each of the four corners were log houses built unusually 
 strong. The upper part hung over on the outside to prevent the 
 Indians climbing up on the roof, and all the sides Vvcre pierced 
 with port-holes. There were other houses close up to the picket 
 walls, v/hich served to strengthen the pickets. The picket was a 
 fence of high, heavy posts driven into the ground and sharpened 
 on the ends. There was a gate on the north side of the fort, and 
 one on the east. Inside the fort was a hollow square, all the 
 houses being close up to the walls. The families that lived there 
 had built cabins on their land when they first made the settlement, 
 all of them from a half-mile to three or four miles distant from 
 Harbert's. When the Indians came they were afraid to be sep- 
 arated so far from each other, so the blockhouse was built. The 
 location was a first rate one. It was on the high bank just south 
 of "the creek. The land on the east and west sides sloped down a 
 little lower than where the fort was. A fine large spring was near 
 the fort, too. 
 
 " 'In those days we all dressed in buckskin breeches and hunt- 
 ing shirts. We never went out without our guns ready for an en- 
 counter with the Indians or wild animals. The woods were so 
 full of game that the rangers shot all they had to eat. If they 
 didn't shoot the game they had to go without. This country be- 
 longed to old Captain White-Eyes and his brood. White-Eyes 
 pretended to be a big chief and friendly to the whites, but there 
 was no dependence in him. He was a bold-looking jockey, rather 
 sassy, about thirty years old and not short of six feet in height. 
 He wore the Indian garb — breech clout, leggins and moccasins, 
 with a blanket thrown over his shoulders. His leggins were of 
 dark blue or black woolen cloth, pretty fine, too. Indians were par- 
 ticular about cloth, they knew what was good and wouldn't buy it 
 if it wasn't. His hair was long and black and had buzzard's quills 
 stuck around in it. He always carried a gun and a tomahawk. 
 His tomahawk was made with a pipe in the pole. He was the big- 
 srest Indian in his tribe, the Pottawattomies. The tribe came from 
 
THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA 39 1 
 
 out on the Wabash. There were well onto a hundred with White- 
 Eyes. 
 
 " These Indians had a camp on Marble Creek, close to Hillis' 
 blockhouse. It was in Lancaster township on Stout's farm. The 
 camp was on a little knoll. All about it the bark was pulled off 
 the trees and set on end for shelter. Trees were peeled as high 
 as they could reach and for a good bit around, as they had about 
 fifteen wigwams. Indians wouldn't go into a house and sit down 
 in a chair to eat from a table — they'd get down on their knees 
 around the table and take things off the plates with their hands. 
 They mostly ate meat. I've seen Indians eating meat off one end 
 of a chunk and a dog biting and chewing at the other. They 
 thought as much of their dogs as they did of themselves. In the 
 logs and stumps about the camp you'd see little holes hollowed 
 out where they put their corn and pounded it with their toma- 
 hawks. They had a good many ponies which they used in pack- 
 ing their things from place to place. Every man carried his rifle 
 and hunting gear. Old White-Eyes rode generally. The squaws 
 wrapped a lot of stuff, sometimes a bushel or two of corn, in a 
 blanket and swung it on their backs, having the ends tied and 
 pressing against their foreheads. The Indians were accustomed 
 to come here to trade and never got away without being pretty 
 well melted with liquor. They always had a jug. 
 
 " 'The Indians were good marksmen. They shot with rifle and 
 bow and arrow. One time, when thirty or forty of White-Eyes' 
 men were passing through my place I coaxed one of them into 
 my stable to see a bay mare the Indians had stolen once. The 
 mare hated the sight of an Indian. She'd begin to plunge and 
 kick the moment she saw one. Before he got fairly in the stable 
 the mare squealed and kicked at him. The Indian broke and ran, 
 saying, "She's no good horse, no good horse." 
 
 " 'Madison was owned originally by Paul, Burnet, Davis and 
 Lyon. Burnet lived in Cincinnati, Davis some place in Ohio, and 
 Lyon at Eagle Hollow. Davis and Burnet came in after the first 
 sale of lots by Paul and Lyon in i8i i. Jefferson county extended 
 to the Indian country and was called Jackson's purchase. The first 
 steamboat that passed this point was the Robert Fulton. I think 
 
392 THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA 
 
 she passed here in 1815 or 1816. The first boat I was ever on was 
 the Hibernia. I went to Cincinnati on her from this place in 
 181 7 or 1 81 8. The boat was not running regularly between any 
 points. 
 
 " 'Wirt was laid out by Colonel Arion. James Vawter and my- 
 self. I proposed Wyandotte as the name of the place. Colonel 
 Arion suggested Wirt, after William Wirt, of Virginia, and so 
 it got that name. The Baptists (Iron Jackets) organized a church 
 at Wirt in February, 181 8. The meeting was held in the log 
 school-house. The members were William West and wife, Wil- 
 liam Harbert and wife, John Burns and wife, James Burns and 
 wife, Robert Harbert, a single man, a young woman named Re- 
 becca Marshall, John Stevens, Wilson Moncrief, Abner Mon- 
 crief, James Harbert, Thomas Glover and Rachel Johnson. 
 Daniel Stogsdill, the preacher, was from Pulaski county, Ken- 
 tucky. Church was held in the school-house for nine years. Then 
 a little brick house was built. The present church is almost ex- 
 actly on the same site as the first one, just a small distance east of 
 the old one. The first baptism recorded by the church was in 
 June, 1825. The first school-house was built pretty near the pres- 
 ent church. It was started in 1819. The teacher was a Scotch- 
 man named Carmichael, who boarded at my house. The first 
 miill-dam ever built on Big Creek was made by James Hayes. It 
 was in Lancaster township, and is now the property of John B. 
 Craft. It was formerly owned by Horace Byfield. The dam is 
 there yet. I had my wheat and corn ground there for three or 
 four years.' " 
 
 Among the early settlers of Madison, Indiana, were Robert 
 Cotton, one of the first officers of Jefferson county, Howard 
 Watts, a leading doctor, Shadrick Wilber, a merchant, John H. 
 Wagner, a blacksmith, William Watlington, a farmer and Phile- 
 mon Vawter, who came to Madison in 1808. 
 
 JOHN H. WAGONER 
 
 "John H. Wagner and family, consisting of three sons, Samuel, 
 Lewis and George, and four daughters, Jane, Betsy, Katy and 
 
 
THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA 393 
 
 Phoebe, disembarked from a flatboat on the first day of May, 
 1808, at a point on the Ohio river where the town of Madison 
 was afterwards located. At this date not a cabin of any kind was 
 built in the bottoms at this place, excepting- one which was built 
 and occupied by a man by the name of Booth. This was in the 
 upper portion of the bottom, where Isom Ross afterward located 
 and operated his tan-yard. 
 
 "J- H. Wagner came from Pennsylvania, and was of the old 
 German stock of that state. He was a blacksmith by trade and 
 brought a portion of his tools with him. After transferring his 
 tools and what few household effects there were to the second 
 bottom, the camp was located at a point on the bluff near where 
 John T. Schofield's residence now stands — the northwest corner 
 of Jefferson and High streets. 
 
 "The smoke from the camp-fire attracted the attention of 
 Jesse Vawter, who had landed at this place some two years be- 
 fore, but had located on top of the hill near where the Michigan 
 roads now runs. When Mr. Vawter saw the smoke curling up 
 through the tree tops from the camp in the bottom below he at 
 once set out to visit the camp and learn who the new settlers 
 were. In those days neighbors were so few and far between that 
 it was a genuine pleasure to look into the face of a stranger, if 
 a white man, whether he was traveling through the country or 
 seeking a home. Mr. Vawter gave Mr. Wagner and his family 
 a hearty welcome, and when he saw the blacksmith tools he was 
 rejoiced to know that they were to have a blacksmith among them, 
 for in those days the settlers were in greater need of the handi- 
 work of this trade than that of any other one occupation. After 
 assisting in raising their tent and in making things as comfortable 
 as was possible under the surrounding conditions, Mr. Vawter 
 departed for his home on the hill top. but not before giving Mr. 
 Wagner to understand that he would be glad to assist him in any 
 way he could in starting his new home. 
 
 "In a short time Mr. Wagner had a log house built on the site 
 of his camp and a blacksmith shop nearby. After a time his 
 house served as a tavern or stopping place for the travelers to 
 and from Kentucky and the settlements back from the river. 
 
394 THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA 
 
 These two buildings were the first erected in what was after 
 wards the old town of Madison." 
 
 WILLIAM WATLINGTON 
 
 "In the early part of the year 1814 William Watlington, of 
 Bridgetown, New Jersey, landed at a point on the Ohio River 
 where Madison now is. At that time it was an almost unbroken 
 forest, as only two or three log houses were to be found in the 
 bottom, the early settlers having located on the hill-tops and high 
 rolling lands back from the river. 
 
 "William Watlington entered one hundred and sixty acres 
 from the government, five miles north of the river on an Indian 
 trail leading from the river to Graham Creek. The Graham 
 Road was afterwards located along this trail. During the sum- 
 mer Mr. Watlington built two log cabins on his claim. One of 
 the cabins he fitted up for himself, the other being built for John 
 Bramwell and his family, whom he had employed to care for his 
 cows and other property while he should be away. In the fall of 
 the same year he returned to New Jersey, and the following 
 spring, 181 5, with his wife he again returned to Indiana. Dur- 
 ing the summer of 181 5 he made a trip by flatboat to New Or- 
 leans. He returned, chiefly on foot, and contracted a fever, dying 
 shortly after reaching his home in Indiana, on October 15, 181 5." 
 
 JOHN SMOCK 
 
 "John Smock, in talking of the early times, said : Tor a few 
 years after coming to Indiana the early settlers had to go to 
 Kentucky for provisions or to Work's mill in Clark county, near 
 Charlestown. It was not long until Mr. Edwards built a mill on 
 Clifty Creek, just above where the road now crosses the creek. 
 
 " 'The first fruit trees were brought to the neighborhood of 
 Madison by Samuel Smock and Peter Veneleane. The first 
 mill was a hand-mill. The neighbors would come there with their 
 corn and would take turns in grinding it. The sheep were penned 
 every night to keep them from the wolves. To exterminate the 
 
THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA 395 
 
 wolves the settlers built pens to trap them. The pens were built 
 of logs, generally split logs. The top was so heavy a wolf could 
 not raise it. It was constructed with a trigger to which a piece 
 of meat was fastened. The trigger was attached to a pole which 
 held the lid or top of the pen up. When the wolf got into the 
 pen and pulled the meat the trap fell and Mr. Wolf was caught 
 and killed, and $2 received for his scalp, which was the legal 
 price for both ears. 
 
 " 'The people were more social then than they are now. The 
 men frequently went ten or twelve miles to help one another raise 
 cabins. The young women would go to visit at each other's 
 houses in numbers. It made no difference if it happened to be 
 wash-day. They all helped, and merriment and work went on 
 together. 
 
 " 'The grass, generally called broom sage, is a native of North 
 Carolina. It was brought to Madison by a family by the name 
 of White. They thought that they were going to a new country 
 — a wilderness where they could get nothing to sweep with, so 
 the woman tied a few bunches carefully together and brought 
 them along. That carried the seed here. The farmers know to 
 their sorrow how it will spread.' " 
 
 ANDREW DINWIDDIE 
 
 "Andrew Dinwiddle said that his father came to Jefferson 
 county first in 1807, but, because the Indians proved so trouble- 
 some, he returned to Kentucky at the end of a year. He came 
 back to Hanover township in 1809. He said : 'Father settled one 
 mile northwest of Hanover. The settlers in the vicinity met one 
 day and built a fort on his place for protection against the Indi- 
 ans. Below this fort an old weaver by the name of West had 
 put up a small cabin. He provided a way of escape from the 
 Indians, in case they attacked him suddenly at night or surprised 
 him during the day and got between his cabin and the fort. Un- 
 derneath his puncheon floor he dug a hole and excavated the 
 earth for some distance making a tunnel through which he could 
 crawl to a bushy place in the woods near by. Coming out of 
 
396 THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA 
 
 this tunnel unobserved by his enemies, an escape to the fort would 
 not have been difficult. 
 
 " 'After the Pigeon Roost massacre we had no further trouble 
 with hostile Indians. The friendly ones, however, were continu- 
 ally prowling around doing all the mischief in their power. The 
 Indians frequently cut across our land when out hunting. One 
 day a party of eight or ten came along, and all were drunk but 
 one. Old White-Eyes was with them. They had not gone far 
 before I heard a crash, and looking around I saw that one Indian 
 had fallen off his horse and was sprawling on the ground with 
 his five or six guns scattered about him. The sober one of the 
 party spent some time trying to get him mounted, but before his 
 task was accomplished quite a crowd of spectators had assembled 
 who enjoyed the fun very much. 
 
 " 'Shortly after this old White-Eyes entered a house and found 
 a woman making soap. By threatening her, he compelled her to 
 drink a half-pint of strong lye and then left. Her husband re- 
 turned in a few moments and gave her an emetic which relieved 
 her sufferings. Then the husband gathered together two or 
 three men and went in search of the Indian intending to kill him, 
 but failed to find him. Shortly afterwards, White-Eyes turned 
 up in Scott county, to the terror of all the inhabitants. Old Doc- 
 tor Hicks, thinking to rid them of him. gave him poison in 
 whisky, but gave him too much, and, instead of having the de- 
 sired effect, it acted as an emetic. White-Eyes did not appreciate 
 such hospitality and left for parts unknown.' " 
 
 THOMAS ROSEBERRY 
 
 "Thomas Roseberry, of Graham township, said : 'When my 
 father built a double-hewed log house in 1812 it was necessary 
 to go as far as the Ohio River to obtain help to raise it. The set- 
 tlers were three days getting it up and drank fifteen gallons of 
 whisky while at it. Without the whisky they could not have 
 raised it at all. The old house is standing yet (about 1850), with 
 all the port-holes through which watch was kept, oftentimes night 
 and day. My brothers Thomas, John and George would stand 
 
THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA 397 
 
 sentry alternately. George was the youngest and would say : 
 "Oh, I'm so tired. I don't think any 'Injuns' will come to-night." 
 When the Pigeon Roost massacre occurred the settlers were ter- 
 ror-stricken and vv'ent to the blockhouse on the farm of Georee 
 Campbell. During these alarming times the farmers guarded the 
 women with guns in hand while the cows were being milked. 
 Guns were also carried on plows while plowing the ground. Old 
 White-Eyes visited our folks sometimes, after the massacre, and 
 pretended to be friendly. He always had an aversion to white 
 babies, and he said that all those whose heads were not shaped 
 to suit him ought to be tomahawked.' " 
 
 HIRAM PRATHER 
 
 "Colonel Hiram Prather, of Jennings county, in speaking of 
 the Indians, said : 'The Indians were encamped on the south 
 fork of the Muscukutuck Creek ; their camps extending several 
 miles up the creek. They were under the direct control of Cap- 
 tains White-Eyes and Big-John. Bill Kilbuck seemed to be their 
 chief. He was half white, could read and write, and was the son 
 of old Kilbuck, who was killed by Captain Collins near the 
 Pigeon Roost Settlement the evening before the massacre. These 
 Indians were Delawares and Potawattomies. In the spring of 
 1 817 they left their camp and by hundreds passed our cabin going 
 west. They used to trade with our folks, selling baskets, dressed 
 skins, bead work, etc' " 
 
 JAMES E. LEWIS 
 
 "James E. Lewis said : 'The old market-house in Madison was 
 built by setting four posts with a fork in the upper end and poles 
 laid in them. It was then covered with clapboards, with logs to 
 hold them on. The house used as a court-house stood where V. 
 Firth's house now stands. The court was held in the upper room. 
 The stairs w^as on the outside. The jail was hard to beat. It was 
 a house with a house built on the outside so close that nothing 
 
398 THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA 
 
 could be moved, as the outside held everything in its place. David 
 Kent was jailor. 
 
 " 'It was hard to make change in these times, as money was 
 scarce. The old Spanish dollar was universally used. Half-dol- 
 lars and twenty-five-cent pieces, bits and tips (twelve and one- 
 half and six and one-quarter cents). Ten-cent pieces passed for 
 twelve and one-half or eight for a dollar. In 1831 or 1832, when 
 Mr. Jesse Whitehead opened store, he used to bring out a keg 
 full of ten and five cent pieces and make change for any one want- 
 ing it. He gave eight dimes and sixteen five cent pieces for a 
 dollar. The pieces were soon called Jesse and half Jesse. Before 
 this time they used to cut the money to make change. This cut 
 money was called sharpshins. 
 
 " Tt is not to be wondered at if many of our citizens have little 
 learning. In the early days many had to go to school two and 
 three miles, and all the way through the woods, with blazes on 
 the trees to prevent them from getting lost. Such school-houses 
 as we had ! One log was left out to light the house, and this in 
 cold weather, too, for we had to work in the summer. 
 
 " 'Whenever there was a night meeting it was held at early 
 candle lighting. At the appointed time the heads of each family 
 would take one or two candles in their hands ; some would bring 
 lanterns. If many came the house would be well lighted, and if 
 few came they would have poor lights. 
 
 " 'About this time John Brown and C. B. Lewis went down to 
 the mouth of Crooked Creek to fish. A strange-looking craft 
 soon rounded the point. They immediately concluded it was the 
 Indians, and they dropped everything and ran through the woods 
 and into the town and reported the Indians coming. The citizens 
 went armed to the river and saw the first steamboat that came and 
 landed at Madison, 
 
 " 'The country around Madison was settled before the town it- 
 self. The name of Madison was at first Wakefield. Jefferson 
 county and Scott county were formed from Clark county, and 
 were one for some time. Jefferson county was named for Jeffer- 
 son, then President, and Madison was named for President Madi- 
 son in 1809 or 1810. 
 
THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA 399 
 
 " 'The town of Madison was bought at the sale at Jefferson- 
 ville, where the land-office was located, in 1809, by John Paul, 
 Jonathan Lyon and Lewis Davis, at $6.16 per acre. These were 
 the original proprietors who laid out the town and made the first 
 sale of lots in February, 181 o. Colonel John Vawter was present. 
 
 " 'The first newspaper published in Madison was the Western 
 Eagle, published by Seth M. Leavenworth and Wm. Hendricks. 
 Colonel John Vawter told me that this paper was published in his 
 kitchen. 
 
 " 'In 1825 or 1826 David McClure, Sr., lived in what was then 
 called Dorsey's tavern, just west of the First National Bank. He 
 had just gotten two or more cords of wood about five feet long. 
 This was the length in those days, and when cut in two was the 
 proper length for the fire-place. On Christmas eve the stars were 
 bright at ten o'clock, when Samuel David, Jr., Marsh McClure, 
 Jim Collins and Napoleon Collins (afterwards captain in the 
 United States Navy) and Dick Canby (afterwards General 
 Canby) took this wood and built a fence across Main Cross street. 
 The next morning the snow was about a foot deep, and David 
 McClure and his two brothers had to take down the fence and 
 pile up the wood for a Christmas morning frolic. I don't believe 
 David, Sr., has ever forgiven me to this day for that morning's 
 work.' " 
 
 "At the time when our forefathers first settled in Madison the 
 navigation of the river was of the simplest kind. There were no 
 steamboats then. Broadhorns could float down, but to go up 
 stream the keel-boat was used — a craft something similar to the 
 present canal-boat, but very rude; the guards were about a foot 
 wide and had cleets nailed on the floor. Two or three men on 
 each side with long poles would push it against the current with 
 their shoulders. When the water was deep or rapid the men 
 looked as though they were all lying down. Six miles was con- 
 sidered a good day's run. 
 
 "After selecting a site, the first thing for the early settler to do 
 was to erect a log cabin in which to live. The cabin of that day 
 was built as follows: The logs were small and as nearly of a 
 size as possible. Clapboards filled the spaces between the logs 
 
400 THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA 
 
 and were held in place by wooden pins driven in auger holes in the 
 logs. The floors were of heavy puncheons ; the roof of clapboards 
 secured by poles laid across them ; the hinges and catches of the 
 door were of wood. In many of them not a nail was used. The 
 bedsteads were made by inserting poles in auger holes in the 
 walls at the proper distance for length and breadth, the other 
 ends of the poles being secured to a corner post. Upon this frame 
 was placed a layer of poles covered with deer skins, and over this 
 a tick filled with leaves." Perhaps many of the women brought 
 with them, as did Elizabeth Vawter, their own feather beds from 
 Virginia or Kentucky. 
 
 "After the erection of the cabin, the forest trees had to be re- 
 moved to make room for a patch of corn and potatoes. All the 
 neighbors helped each other in building, clearing and log rolling. 
 One of the old settlers said that he once hired a man for three 
 months and only had his labor four weeks. Two-thirds of the 
 time he was working on the neighbors' farms. 
 
 "The main dependence for clothing," said an early settler of 
 Jennings county, "was a flax lint manufactured into cloth and 
 worn by both men and women. Boots and shoes were costly ar- 
 ticles and only enjoyed to any extent by the most favored set- 
 tlers. Moccasins were the most popular covering for the foot. 
 They were made principally from the deer skin tanned in a 
 wooden trough. The skins of the deer were also used for pants. 
 Hats were made from wool and fur and worn for many years. 
 
 "Wild game was abundant, especially wild turkeys. One man 
 caught twelve in traps during a single night. He said : 'We 
 used the deer, bear and turkey for meat. We had more meat than 
 bread, corn-bread and Johnny-cake being all we got generally. 
 We kept a little white flour for company, and were always glad 
 when any came, because then we had biscuits. Venison was not 
 considered such a luxury then. A fine fat buck brought only 
 $1.50. Corn was made into meal by pounding it.' 
 
 "Vension hams dried, bear bacon and coon skins, with other 
 peltries, were the trading stock of the times and legal tender for 
 ordinary debts and marriage licenses. Our trading was done at 
 Madison. We carried our flour on pack horses, making the trip 
 
THE VAWTER FAMILY IN AMERICA 40 1 
 
 from Vernon to Madison and back in three days, staying one 
 night at Grandfather Vawter's and the other at John Badger's 
 on Cap Creek. The first barrel of salt was hauled on a one-horse 
 sled and sold to Samuel Campbell, Joseph Pool and Mr. Prather 
 for $22 in silver. 
 
 "We sold corn for twelve and a half cents a bushel, oats for 
 ten cents, potatoes were ten to fifteen cents a bushel, pork a dollar 
 and a half to a dollar seventy-five a barrel, chickens fifty to 
 seventy-five cents a dozen, turkeys ten to twenty-five cents each, 
 milch cows seven dollars. The first market for wheat opened at 
 thirty-seven and a half cents, and remained at that figure for two 
 or three years. 
 
 "We paid six bits a pound for coffee, which we only used on 
 Sunday, and six bits a yard for steam-mill cotton goods for shirts. 
 Men in those days worked from sun up to sun down for three bits 
 a day; cleared land in the gum woods for eight dollars an acre; 
 split rails for twenty-five cents per hundred, and reaped wheat 
 for fifty cents a day." 
 
 "In 1828 there wasn't such a thing known as a cast stove, and 
 there were no cook stoves until about 1835 or 1836. In 1825 
 there were no wood saws. The wood was chopped with an 
 ax. Such things as matches were unknown until about 1835, 
 and then they were of the rudest kind. A vial with some kind of 
 preparation in it was necessary, and a stick with sulphur on the 
 end, which, when put into this vial, would ignite. At last, some 
 man invented our present match. At first one had to have a piece 
 of sand paper, and when the matches were rubbed on this paper 
 they would light. These were called 'Locofoco matches.' " 
 
OTHER VAWTERS 
 
 Robert Vawter, Coin, Page county, Iowa. 
 
 Dr. Vawter, Wellington, Kansas. 
 
 L. E. Vawter (son of Allan), Macomb, 111. 
 
 Dr. G. A. Vawter (son of Allan), Cambridge, Illinois. 
 
 Dr. H. M. Vawter (son of Allan), Knoxville, Iowa. 
 
 Captain Tazewell Vawter, died soon after the Civil War and 
 left a son at Elwood, Indiana. 
 
 Samuel T. Vawter, Francesville, Pulaski county, Indiana. 
 
 Two Vawter brothers at Burleson, Burleson county, Texas. 
 
 Vawters at Jefferson City, Missouri. 
 
 Miss Sallie Vawter, Graffenburg, Kentucky. 
 
 Miss Lida Vawter, Graffenburg, Kentucky. 
 
 Mrs. Mary A. Denham, Forktown, Kentucky, granddaughter 
 of Joseph Early Vawter. 
 
 Judge James T. Wilhoit, of Versailles, Woodford county, 
 Kentucky, is a descendant of Richard Vawter, of Madison 
 county, Virginia, who was probably the son of John the second 
 (see pages 6 and 7). 
 
 i 
 
CONTINUATION OF RECORD 
 
i 
 
INDEX 
 
 VAWTER FAMILY 
 
 The name in parenthesis is the name of the father, except in the case of a 
 married woman, wliere it is usually the maiden name. 
 
 PAGE 
 
 Absalom (Jesse) 319 
 
 Absalom (William H.) 319 
 
 Achilles (Jesse) 242, 243 
 
 Achilles J. (William) 141-143 
 
 Ada Rachel 314 
 
 Ada V 169 
 
 Adah Mary 317 
 
 A ddie 380 
 
 Albert C 118 
 
 Albert Jesse 131 
 
 Alexander 319 
 
 Alexander J 367 
 
 Alexander Lewis 364 
 
 Alexander Lewis, Jr 365 
 
 Alexander Stewart 299 
 
 Alfred Bnell 160 
 
 Alfred T 161 
 
 Alfred Z 2S8 
 
 Alice 381 
 
 Alice Pearl -jt, 
 
 Allan (Beverly) 2i7Z 
 
 Allan (John) 'j2 
 
 Allen Henderson 384 
 
 Allen Vaul 378 
 
 Allen V. (James J.) 378 
 
 Allene 379 
 
 Alma B 132 
 
 Alpheus 316 
 
 Alva Elroy 133 
 
 Amanda J 375 
 
 Anna (Henry) 246 
 
 Anna Belle 286 
 
 Anna Mae ■yj'j 
 
 Anne (Vawter) 7, 256, 257 
 
 Annie (Henry C.) 284 
 
 Annie (Joseph T.) 378 
 
 Annie (William H.) 319 
 
 Annie Gladys 118 
 
 Annie Laurie 171 
 
 Angus 6 
 
 Ansjus (John II) 7 
 
 Arthur (Edwin J.) 314 
 
 Arthur Lee 118 
 
 PAGE 
 
 Ara Bertie 376 
 
 Arlen O 288 
 
 Aureana (Vawter) 167, 328 
 
 Bartholomew " 6 
 
 Bartholomew (John II) 7 
 
 Benjamin F 135 
 
 Benjamin F. (Jephtha D. ) 2S3 
 
 Benjamin Irvin 132 
 
 Benjamin Stewart 300 
 
 Bennie B 380 
 
 Bertha (Charles H.) 28-, 
 
 Bertha M 245 
 
 Bertha May 112 
 
 Bert Watts 168 
 
 Bessie Alice 160 
 
 Bessie M 165 
 
 Beverly (Beverly) 7 
 
 Beverly (Philemon) 321-324 
 
 Beverly (John II) 7 . 
 
 Beverly (Russell) 373 
 
 Beverly P 381 
 
 Beverly S 374 
 
 Blanche B 280 
 
 Bradford 373 
 
 Brainard 171 
 
 Bruce 317 
 
 Carrie (William H.) 319 
 
 Carter 367 
 
 Cassius Lincoln 314 
 
 Catherine Ti 
 
 Chadwell yjT,, 374 
 
 Charles (Henry) 245 
 
 Charles A. (Presley) 278 
 
 Charles A. (Samuel) 374 
 
 Charles Bright ^J 
 
 Charles D 1 59 
 
 Charles Desmond ''iQ 
 
 Charles Elliott 3^5 
 
 Charles Erastus 384, 385 
 
 Charles Erastus, Jr 386 
 
 Charles Hart 160 
 
 Charles Henry 283 
 
 Charles Knowlton 127. 128 
 
412 
 
 INDEX 
 
 PAGE 
 
 Charles Minton 68, 6q 
 
 Charles Publius 329 
 
 Charles P. L 329 
 
 Charles R. L 329 
 
 Charles William n? 
 
 Chester E 161 
 
 Clara Peck 385 
 
 Clare 111 
 
 Clarence (Henry C.) 284 
 
 Clarence Allan 72) 
 
 Clarence Dudley 281 
 
 Clarence Howell I59 
 
 Clarence M I35 
 
 Claude Philemon 2>2i^ 
 
 Clifford 380 
 
 Clifford George 112 
 
 Clyde 246 
 
 Clyde Elmer 132 
 
 Colfax 166 
 
 Colonel 114 
 
 Cora Catherine 145, 146 
 
 Cornelius L. (Charles A.) 279 
 
 Cornelius L. (John Gray) 299 
 
 Cyrus (Beverly) 2,2,2, 
 
 Cyrus Philemon 332 
 
 David (Achilles) 2,44 
 
 David (David) 369 
 
 David (John H) 7, 8 
 
 David (Philemon) 362, 363 
 
 David Jamieson 313 
 
 David Wyatt 368 
 
 D. Lee 367 
 
 Delia S 317 
 
 Dewey 72) 
 
 Dick Mavity 330 
 
 Dora B 2)77 
 
 Dorothy L 170 
 
 Dotham 32Q 
 
 Dudlev 288 
 
 Earl V 27(^ 
 
 Edgar (James) 246 
 
 Edgar (Jesse Holman) 162 
 
 Edgar Allen 380 
 
 Edgar Crawford 380 
 
 Edgar Frederick 112 
 
 Edgar S 380 
 
 Edmund Longley 386 
 
 Edith P 375 
 
 Edna (Roe) 163 
 
 Edna (Smith K.) 58 
 
 Edna Catherine 112 
 
 Edward 1 382 
 
 Edward (Edward I) 382 
 
 Edward (John T.) in, 112 
 
 Edward (Thomas S.) 171 
 
 Edward J 134 
 
 Edward W 137 
 
 Edwin (Edwin) 367 
 
 Edwin (John M.) 367 
 
 PAGE 
 
 Edwin (Milton) 171 
 
 Edwin (Smith) 57 
 
 Edwin James 124-126 
 
 Edwin James, Jr 126, 127 
 
 Edwin Jamieson 314 
 
 Elizabeth (Russell) 2,72) 
 
 Elizabeth Helper 299 
 
 Elizabeth Louise 160 
 
 Elizabeth Mary 384 
 
 Elbert 246 
 
 Eliza Jane 282, 283 
 
 Ella (Jesse Holman) 162 
 
 Ella Mae 72, 
 
 Ellie Bessie 329 
 
 Elliott (Philemon) 268-276 
 
 Elliott (William) 383 
 
 Elliott Gray 299 
 
 Elmer (Roe) 163 
 
 Elmer H 162 
 
 Elmer M 72, 
 
 Emery B 133 
 
 Emil 114 
 
 Emma (Henry) 170 
 
 Emma (John ) 23 
 
 Emma Knowlton 127 
 
 Ernest T 135 
 
 Ethel 279 
 
 Ettie Eugenie 368 
 
 Eugene 2)^7 
 
 Eva May 69 
 
 Everett Bates 151, 152 
 
 Everett E 132 
 
 Everett F 137 
 
 Evie L 378 
 
 Ezra 58 
 
 Fane F 280 
 
 Fanny S 170 
 
 Fern G 280 
 
 Florence May 171 
 
 Flossie Myrtle 135 
 
 Frances (Elliott) 27() 
 
 Frances (James) 163 
 
 Frances (Philemon) 75-79, 310 
 
 Frances Helen 161 
 
 Francis (Charles H.) 283 
 
 Francis Bertram 72 
 
 Francis Marion 1 18 
 
 Frank (Charles P.) 329 
 
 Frank (Elmer) 72) 
 
 Frank (Frank A.) 245 
 
 Frank A 245 
 
 Frank B 378 
 
 Frank C 168 
 
 Frank Day 72 
 
 Frank Edward 112 
 
 Frank M 146, 147 
 
 Frank Raymond 160 
 
 Frank S 374 
 
 Frank Wesley 112 
 
 \l 
 
INDEX 
 
 PAGE 
 
 Frederick Allan 69 
 
 Fred Beverly 330 
 
 Fred Clay 283 
 
 Fred Mc 374 
 
 Frederick D 381 
 
 Freda Mildred 112 
 
 George (James) 246 
 
 George (Jesse Segal) 70 
 
 George (Smith) 58 
 
 George Adam 112 
 
 George B 280 
 
 George Early 2>17 
 
 George Hadley 146 
 
 George Lewis 368 
 
 George T 374 
 
 George W. (George T.) 374 
 
 George W. (John H.) 384 
 
 George William 286 
 
 George Williams 165 
 
 Goldie Call 282 
 
 Grace (Jesse Segal) 70 
 
 Grace G 134 
 
 Harold H 374 
 
 Harriet 319 
 
 Harry (Henry J.) 170 
 
 Harry Miller 147 
 
 Hattie Lilly 58 
 
 Hazel 171 
 
 Helen (Charles H.) 283 
 
 Helen Miller 147 
 
 Henry (Achilles) 245 
 
 Henry Alexander 384 
 
 Henry C. (Jesse Holman) 162 
 
 Henry Clay 283, 284 
 
 Henry Garfield 329 
 
 Henry J. (Newton W.) 170 
 
 Henry J. (Sherman) 137 
 
 Herman Wallace 318 
 
 Hickman N 55, 56 
 
 Homer G 374 
 
 Homer W 132 
 
 Horace R 73 
 
 Humphreys 331 
 
 Ice Reta 288 
 
 Ida Maria 142 
 
 Ida Ruth "jj, 
 
 Ira E 132 
 
 Isaac 374 
 
 James (Achilles) 246 
 
 James (Beverly) 331 
 
 James ( Frank) 245 
 
 James (Jesse) 154-158 
 
 James (William) 136 
 
 James Alois 160 
 
 James Alois, Jr 160 
 
 James Arthur 329 
 
 James C 163 
 
 James Elliott (Charles E.) 386 
 
 James Elliott (Jephtha) 286 
 
 413 
 
 PAGE 
 
 James Elliott (John H.) 384 
 
 James G 134 
 
 James Hardy 165 
 
 James Hiram 164 
 
 James J Zli, ill 
 
 James L 334 
 
 James Mavity 329 
 
 James M ^y7?^ 
 
 James Oscar 131 
 
 James R 162 
 
 James S 168 
 
 Jamieson 317 
 
 Jamieson S 318 
 
 Jane (Achilles) 243 
 
 Jane (John Gray) 299 
 
 Jane Cravens 121, 122 
 
 Jannette .266 
 
 Jefferson D 318 
 
 Jephtha D 281 
 
 Jephtha Levi 283 
 
 Jennie 168 
 
 Jesse (David) 8, 10-21 
 
 Jesse (D. Jamieson) 316 
 
 Jesse (Fred A.) 69 
 
 Jesse (Philemon) 31 1-3 13 
 
 Jesse (Richard) 261 
 
 Jesse Beryl 161 
 
 Jesse Holman 161, 162 
 
 Jesse (Philemon) 311, 313 
 
 Jesse Piatt 314 
 
 Jesse R 128 
 
 Jesse Segal 70 
 
 Jessie (Jephtha L.) 283 
 
 Jessie (William H.) 319 
 
 Jessie Gertrude 329 
 
 Jessie Mae 147 
 
 Joe Philemon 318 
 
 John I 6 
 
 John II 6, 7 
 
 John (Beverly) z^Z 
 
 John (Jesse) 23-51 
 
 John (Jesse) (Philemon) 318 
 
 John (John) 318 
 
 John (Russell) yj?, 
 
 John (Smith) 58 
 
 John Beverly 326 
 
 John Blaine 133 
 
 John C 162 
 
 John E. (Joseph E.) 375 
 
 John E. (Presley) 278 
 
 John Earl 279 
 
 John Elmer "JZ 
 
 John Ferris 369 
 
 John Gray 299 
 
 John Gray. Jr 299 
 
 John Henderson 383, 384 
 
 John 1 132 
 
 John M'. (Beverly) 334 
 
 John iM. (David) z(^ 
 
414 
 
 INDEX 
 
 PAGE 
 
 John M. (George T.) 374 
 
 John Russell 373 
 
 John S. (Jesse R.) 131 
 
 John S. (John Watts) 160 
 
 John S. (Richard) 261 
 
 John Taylor 109-1 1 1 
 
 John T. (John Taylor) 117 
 
 John Terrell 54, 55 
 
 John Thomas 367 
 
 John Washington 281 
 
 John Watts 158, 159 
 
 John Wesley 316 
 
 John William (John H.) 384 
 
 John William (Louis) 385 
 
 John William (William M.) 376 
 
 Johnson S. (James) 163 
 
 Johnson Smith 165 
 
 Joseph (Richard) 332 
 
 Joseph Early 374, 375 
 
 Joseph M 377 
 
 Joseph Snyder 384 
 
 Joseph T 377 
 
 Joseph Thomas 378 
 
 Josephus R 379 
 
 Josiah 374 
 
 Junie Magnolia 369 
 
 Katie King 369 
 
 Katy A 375 
 
 Keith 326 
 
 Laura 283 
 
 Lena Virginia 317 
 
 Lena Elsie 329 
 
 Lenora Leigh ^ . . .386 
 
 Leona 379 
 
 Leonard F 286 
 
 Lewis (William) 8 
 
 Lewis Clyde 134 
 
 Lewis Henry 284 
 
 Lewis Orin 367 
 
 Leslie Wayne 286 
 
 Lillian 246 
 
 Lillian (Bennie) 380 
 
 Lillian Gray 299 
 
 Louis Addison 384 
 
 Louise 58 
 
 Lucy (Henry C.) 284 
 
 Lucy A 134 
 
 Lucretia (Branham) i6q, 192 
 
 Lulu May 329 
 
 Luna K 367 
 
 'Mabel 162 
 
 Macie Marie 171 
 
 Maria (Foster) 169, 189, 190 
 
 Marion 67 
 
 Margaret (David) 8 
 
 Margaret (Josephus) 380 
 
 Margaret (John H) 7 
 
 ]Margaret Anne 384 
 
 Marjorie Dixon 127 
 
 PAGE 
 
 ^lartha 376 
 
 Martha Clarice 73 
 
 Martha Eleanor 245 
 
 Mary (David) 8 
 
 Mary (Jesse) 320 
 
 Mary (John T.) 117 
 
 Mary (Storey) 54, 61 
 
 Mary (William H.) 319 
 
 Mary A. E 283 
 
 Mary Alice 314 
 
 Mary Allen 385 
 
 Mary Jane 57 
 
 Mary Lucile 330 
 
 Mary P 375 
 
 Mary Ruth (Albert) 118 
 
 Mary Ruth (Elmer) 73 
 
 Matie Octavia 368 
 
 Matilda 174 
 
 Maud (Charles M.) 6q 
 
 Maude (Joseph T.) 377 
 
 Mpude Illinois 376 
 
 May (Alfred T.) 161 
 
 A-Iay (Thomas M.) 367 
 
 Meiinda 330 
 
 Michael 117 
 
 Milly 319 
 
 Milton (Thomas S.) 171 
 
 Milton (Richard) 267 
 
 Milton B. (D. Jameson) 317, 318 
 
 Milton Ballard 318 
 
 ?>Iilton Ben 31S 
 
 Milton Jamieson 317 
 
 Milton S 166, 167 
 
 Minerva E 137 
 
 Minnie E 160 
 
 Minnie (Jesse Holman) 161, 163 
 
 Minnie (Josephus) 380 
 
 Muriel Ben 318 
 
 Myrtle Lowell 282 
 
 Nadyne 168 
 
 Nancy (Russell) 373 
 
 Nancy A 375 
 
 Nancy Tandy 285 
 
 Nancy W 378 
 
 Nellie 137 
 
 Nellie Bly 73 
 
 Newton 162 
 
 Newton W 169, 189, 192 
 
 Noah James 318 
 
 Nona Elma 1 32 
 
 Octavia J 367 
 
 Olive S 165 
 
 Omer Walton 134 
 
 Otis Estis 131 
 
 Pamelia 1 14 
 
 Pascal 324 
 
 Patsy A 375 
 
 Pauline 374 
 
 Paul Leon 73 
 
 i 
 
INDEX 
 
 415 
 
 PAGE 
 
 Peachv 272, 
 
 Pearl E 132 
 
 Philemon (Beverly) 330, 331 
 
 Philemon (David) 8, 255-257 
 
 Philemon C 150, 151 
 
 Philemon (William) 314 
 
 Philip S 279 
 
 Pollv 2,72, 
 
 Presley G. (Elliott) 276-280 
 
 Presley G. (Presley) 280 
 
 Prospey 3^9 
 
 Ralph Emerson 72, 
 
 Rav 162 
 
 Ray P 277 
 
 Raymond 72 
 
 Raymond G 280 
 
 Rebecca 330 
 
 Rena 326 
 
 Rhoyden 168 
 
 Richard (Beverly) 332 
 
 Richard (Philemon) 258-260 
 
 Richard (John II) 7 
 
 Robert (William C.) 165 
 
 Robert Alfred 161 
 
 Robert Newton 170 
 
 Roe 163 
 
 Rufus L 280 
 
 Russell 271-272 
 
 Ruth (James G.) i34 
 
 Ruth E 280 
 
 Ruth Leotia 161 
 
 Sallie K 375 
 
 Samantha 222 
 
 Samuel (Beverly) 334 
 
 Samuel (Smith) 56 
 
 Samuel Dudley 282 
 
 Samuel M 374 
 
 Sophronia 374 
 
 Sarah (Johnson S.) 163 
 
 Sarah Frances i34 
 
 Sarah Jane 287 
 
 Sarah Lavina 284 
 
 Sarah Rebecca 131 
 
 Sears 2^7 
 
 Sherman 136, 137 
 
 Smith (John) 52-54 
 
 Smith K 58 
 
 Smith W 131 
 
 Spencer Coin 165 
 
 Stella May 286 
 
 Susan E 171 
 
 Thelma 380 
 
 Thomas (Jesse Holman) 162 
 
 Thomas (John M.) 367 
 
 Thomas S. (James) 171 
 
 Thomas S. (Joseph E.) 375 
 
 Trueman C 277 
 
 Velma Crystel 329 
 
 PAliE 
 
 Velma 1 135 
 
 Vernon Day 118 
 
 Vernon Hill t,t,^ 
 
 Vernon Monroe 160 
 
 Veva J 288 
 
 Violo 380 
 
 Virginia Longley 386 
 
 Wallace 318 
 
 Wallace Read 152 
 
 Walter Allen 379 
 
 Walter Bachman 161 
 
 Walter Fred 283 
 
 Walter Lewis 368 
 
 Walter W 335 
 
 Washington R 375 
 
 Wayne 283 
 
 Wesson 367 
 
 Wilbert Carl 131 
 
 Wilbur Lutv 112 
 
 Wilbur Wiflis 165 
 
 Wiley R 317 
 
 William (Chadwell) 374 
 
 William TD. Jamieson) 313 
 
 William (David) 8 
 
 William (Edward I) 382 
 
 William (Jesse) 75-96 
 
 William (John Taylor) .. 112, 113, 114 
 
 William (Thomas S.) 376 
 
 William (Wm.) (Edward) 382 
 
 William Alfred 112 
 
 William Allan 129, 130 
 
 William Arthur 144. I45 
 
 William Arthur, Jr 146 
 
 William C. (James) 164 
 
 William Campbell 170 
 
 William Cornett 166 
 
 William Cyrus 3^4 
 
 William David 282 
 
 William DeWitt 378 
 
 William E 162 
 
 William H 3I9 
 
 William Hunter 152, I53 
 
 William Ira 222 
 
 William Ira, Jr 222 
 
 William J. (Jos. T.) 277 
 
 William (Jephtha) 287, 288 
 
 William Jennings 244 
 
 William L 246 
 
 William Riley 69 
 
 William S. (Jamieson) 317 
 
 William Smith 123, 124 
 
 William Scott II4 
 
 William W 280 
 
 Williamson Dunn 1 18-120 
 
 Willie Belle 73 
 
 Willis Isaiah 165 
 
 Winifred (John II) 7 
 
 Winifred (David) 8 
 
OTHER THAN VAWTER 
 
 PAGE 
 
 Ackman, Anna 267 
 
 Adams, Alton M 294 
 
 Adams, Anna ( Hall) 360 
 
 Adams, Ira (Holmes) 294 
 
 Allen, Charles J 306 
 
 Allen, Frank Bratton 306 
 
 Allen, Frank G 305 
 
 Allen, George V 306 
 
 Allen, George William 306 
 
 Allen, Georgia Grace 306 
 
 Allen, Gertrude Alice 305 
 
 Allen, Grace Margarette 306 
 
 Allen, Horace D 305 
 
 Allen, Myrtle Grace 305 
 
 Allen, Ralph J 306 
 
 Allen, Robert Rush 306 
 
 Ambach, Sarah (Gatlin) 307 
 
 Amos, Lucinda (Holmes) 298 
 
 Amos, William A 299 
 
 Amos, Cora M 299 
 
 Amos, Lenna P 299 
 
 Amos, Perry H 299 
 
 Amsden, Abner 252 
 
 Amsden, Agnes 252 
 
 Amsden, Annie 251 
 
 Amsden, Charles 251 
 
 Amsden, Daisy 252 
 
 Amsden, Fred 251 
 
 Amsden, Gertrude 252 
 
 Amsden, Hayworth 252 
 
 Amsden, Howard 252 
 
 Amsden, Jesse V 251 
 
 Amsden, Leila 253 
 
 Amsden, Mabel 251 
 
 Amsden, Nancy (Moncrief) 251 
 
 Amsden, Nellie 251 
 
 Amsden, Robert 251 
 
 Amsden, Ruth 252 
 
 Amsden, William 252 
 
 Anderson, Allene 227 
 
 Anderson, Bertie Clair 227 
 
 Anderson, Gertrude 227 
 
 Anderson, Guy 227 
 
 Anderson, Hugh Leiper 227 
 
 Anderson, Josie (Sanford) 227 
 
 Anderson, Lillian Hester 227 
 
 Anderson, Lutie (Stribling) 225 
 
 Anderson, Ora 225 
 
 Anderson, Paul Chester 227 
 
 Anderson, William S 227 
 
 Atherton, Leona Crawford 342 
 
 PAGE 
 
 Atherton, Letitia (Crawford) . . . .342 
 
 Atherton, Rae M 342 
 
 Atwood, Arthur 187 
 
 Atwood, Ida (Walden) 187 
 
 Atwood, Ruby (Branham) 193 
 
 Atwood, Waldon 187 
 
 Bain, Harry 188 
 
 Bain, Jennie 188 
 
 Bain, Mary 188 
 
 Bain, Radie (Foster) 188 
 
 Baker, Carrie Margaret 66 
 
 Baker, Sarah (Campbell) 66 
 
 Baldwin, Jacob 196 
 
 Balzer, Emeline (Vanosdol) 116 
 
 Balzer, Harry 116 
 
 Balzer, Pearl 116 
 
 Banta, Clara 56 ' 
 
 Banta, Frank 56 
 
 Banta, Irene ( Vawter) 56 
 
 Banta, Maria 56 
 
 Barker, Leroy A 298 
 
 Barker, Lula (Amos) 298 
 
 Barnes, Anna (Vawter) 300 
 
 Barnes, Kenneth B 300 
 
 Bamett, Charles Byron 228 
 
 Barnett, Sarah (Stribling) 228 
 
 Barnett, Walter Jackson 228 
 
 Battey, Alvin G 308 
 
 Battey, Nancy (Gatlin) 308 
 
 Baxter, Clara Ermine 376 
 
 Baxter, David 354 
 
 Baxter, Dow Vawter 376 
 
 Baxter, Emma (Vawter) 376 
 
 Baxter, ^Mildred May 376 
 
 Baxter, Nancy (Glover) 354 
 
 Bayley, Arthur Loring 102 
 
 Bayley, Bertha Alice 102 
 
 Bayley, Edith de Fluria 103 
 
 Bayley, Elizabeth (Burns) 102 
 
 Bayley, Frank Wade 102 
 
 Bayley, Gerald 102 
 
 Bayley, Gladys 102 
 
 Bayley, Henry Ward 102 
 
 Bayley, Floward Glen 103 
 
 Bayley, Minnie Agnes 103 
 
 Bayley, Willard Marion 103 
 
 P-eacham, Roberta (Holland) 263 
 
 Beacham, Norma 263 
 
 Beacham, Braxton B 263 
 
 Beacham, Roberta 263 
 
 Beechly, Emily (Vawter) 57 
 
INDEX 
 
 i'Ac;e 
 
 Beeman, Qyde 139 Branham, 
 
 Beeman, Grace (Holsclaw) 139 Branham, 
 
 Beeman, Wilbur Elvin 139 Branham, 
 
 Bel], Allie 365 Branham, 
 
 Bell, Andrew L 364 Branham, 
 
 Bell, Donie Dowel 364 Branham, 
 
 Bell, Junior B 364 Branham, 
 
 Bell, ]\lajor T 364 Branham, 
 
 Bell, Mattie (Sterrett) 364 Branham, 
 
 Bell, Robert Ashby 364 Branham, 
 
 Benefiel, George Holman 162 Branham, 
 
 Benefiel, Mary (Vawter) 162 Branham, 
 
 Bickford, Marietta ( Branham) ••• I94 Branham, 
 
 Bicknell, Alberta 148 Branham, 
 
 Bicknell, Charlotte 148 Branham, 
 
 Bicknell, Ernestine 148 Branham, 
 
 Bicknell, Grace Constance 148 Branham, 
 
 Bicknell, Grace (Vawter) 147 Branham, 
 
 Binkley, Willie (Garden) 291 Branham, 
 
 Binkley, Annie Ree 291 Branham, 
 
 Binkley, Harry 291 Branham, 
 
 Binkley, Virgil 291 Branham, 
 
 Blair, Lucinda (Vawter) 330 Branham, 
 
 Boeckley, Enid Beth 115 Branham, 
 
 Boeckley, Sarah (Burckhardt) .... 115 Branham, 
 
 Bohall, Lulie (Jenkins) 186 Branham, 
 
 Bowling, Dessie (West) 350 Branham, 
 
 Bowling, Monroe 359 Branham, 
 
 Bowling, Ralph 350 Branham, 
 
 Bowling, Guy 359 Branham, 
 
 Bowman, Mattie (Edwards) 221 Branham, 
 
 Bowman, Milo 221 Branham, 
 
 Bramwell, Annasdale 213 Branham, 
 
 Bramwell, Bessie 213 Branham, 
 
 Bramwell, Dorothy 213 Branham, 
 
 Bramwell, Edgar 213 Branham, 
 
 Bramwell, Edna 21;^ Branham, 
 
 Bramwell, George F 213 Branham, 
 
 Bramwell, Harry L 213 Branham, 
 
 Bramwell, Julia (Vawter) 244 Branham, 
 
 Bramwell, Louise 213 Branham, 
 
 Bramwell, Nancy (Branham) 212 Branham, 
 
 Bramwell, William S 213 Branham, 
 
 Branham, Albert 210 Branham, 
 
 Branham, Alcey (Branham) 184 Branham, 
 
 Branham, Alice Irene 181 Branham, 
 
 Branham, Alta Irene 184 Branham, 
 
 Branham, Ardys 192 Branham, 
 
 Branham, Arthur E I95 Branham. 
 
 Branham, Benjamin 204 Branham, 
 
 Branham, Bertha B IQ5 Branham, 
 
 Branham, Bertha Lula 184 Branham, 
 
 Branham, Bromley E 192 Branham, 
 
 Branham, C. A I95 Branham, 
 
 Branham, Cecil Hunter 181 Branham, 
 
 Branham, Charles Greenleaf 181 Branham, 
 
 Branham, Charles H 208 Branham, 
 
 Branham, Charles N 208 Branham, 
 
 Branham, Danville (John) ... 189. 190 Branham, 
 
 4^7 
 
 P.\GK 
 
 Danville (Uriah) 187 
 
 David (Linsfield) . .204, 205 
 
 David C. (Edwin) 207 
 
 David C (William C.).I93 
 
 David Hickman 193 
 
 David McClure 208 
 
 David Owens 194 
 
 Davis 183, 184 
 
 Davis Bishop 184 
 
 Davis S 184 
 
 Delaney E 181 
 
 Donald (Delaney E. ) . . . 181 
 Donald (Bromley E.) . .192 
 
 Edith 179 
 
 Edna Marie 184 
 
 Edward (William) .... 170 
 
 Edward F 200 
 
 Edward L 195 
 
 Edward (John) 179 
 
 Edwin (David) 206 
 
 Edwin (David C. ) 207 
 
 Edwin (George F. ) . . . .2o5 
 
 Elizabeth 209 
 
 Eliz'bth (Branham) 191. 2C9 
 
 Elizabeth J 184 
 
 Elmer C 184 
 
 Ernest 2:0 
 
 Estel 185 
 
 Ethel Pearl 1S4 
 
 Etta 179 
 
 Eva May 105 
 
 Flora 179 
 
 Florence E 184 
 
 Frances (Vawter) 172-178 
 
 Frank 184 
 
 Fred 211 
 
 George (John) 179 
 
 George Chandler. . 193, 194 
 
 George F 206 
 
 George W. (John) 190-192 
 
 George W. (Uriah) 182 
 
 Gilbert C '9- 
 
 Grace I79 
 
 Granville 202 
 
 Hal Harwood 102 
 
 Harold Delaney 181 
 
 Harrye Bo3mton 192 
 
 Hazel 179 
 
 Helen Lee 209 
 
 Helen Louisa 207 
 
 Henry Clay 192 
 
 Hickman 208 
 
 Hiram S 180 
 
 Ida (James) I95 
 
 Ida (John) I79 
 
 Ida P 184 
 
 Ira E 184 
 
 J. Foster I79 
 
 James (John) i94 
 
4i8 
 
 INDEX 
 
 PAGE 
 
 Branham, James Ernest 184 
 
 Branham, James H. (Larose) .... 195 
 
 Branham, James Harvey 195 
 
 Branham, James N 187 
 
 Branham, Jennie 179 
 
 Branham, Jesse (Edward) 180 
 
 Branham, Jesse V. (Jesse) 180 
 
 Branham. Jesse V. (John) .. .178, 179 
 
 Branham, Jessie 193 
 
 Branham, John (William) 179 
 
 Branham, John Albert 184 
 
 Branham, John Clark 192 
 
 Branham, John Edward 195 
 
 Branham, John T 196 
 
 Branham, John Warner 192 
 
 Branham, Joseph (Davis) 184 
 
 Branham, Joseph Cary 194 
 
 Branham, Joseph Warren 214 
 
 Branham, Jnd J 185 
 
 Branham, Katherine E 207 
 
 Branham, Larose 195 
 
 Branham, Lester E 184 
 
 Branham, Lillian 179 
 
 Branham, Lolla 211 
 
 Branham, Lynn C 209 
 
 Branham, Mabel Clare 184 
 
 Branham, McClure 209, 210 
 
 Branham, Maria 182 
 
 Branham, Mary 192 
 
 Branham, Mary (Bramwell) 206, 213 
 Branham, Mary ( Vawter) . . . 198-201 
 
 Branham, Mary Ufiford 209 
 
 Branham, Minnie (Charles H.)...2o8 
 Branham, Minnie (William Hick- 
 man) 20Q 
 
 Branham, Nannie 208 
 
 Branham, Nellie 179 
 
 Branham, Oscar 206 
 
 Branham, Robert 180 
 
 Branham, Roger Vawter 181 
 
 Branham, Roscoe R 184 
 
 Branham, Russell C 184 
 
 Branham, Sadie 179 
 
 Branham, Samantha 210 
 
 Branham, Sophronia 205 
 
 Branham, Sarah Adaline 206 
 
 Branham, Scott 179. 184 
 
 Branham, Smith Vawter 196 
 
 Branham, Spencer Vance 184 
 
 Branham, Stella (George C.) 194 
 
 Branham, Stella (Scott) 179 
 
 Branham, Thom>as F 181 
 
 Branham, Thomas Leon 181 
 
 Branham, Uriah (George W.) ... .182 
 
 Branham, Uriah (John) 181, 182 
 
 Branham, Vera .187 
 
 Branham, William (David) 207 
 
 Branham, William (Jesse V.)....i79 
 
 PAGE 
 
 Branham, William (Hickman (Me- 
 
 linda)) 208 
 
 Branham, William (Hickman 
 
 (Jane)) 20S 
 
 Branham, William (John) 179 
 
 Branham, William (William) 179 
 
 Branham, William Allan 205 
 
 Branham, William Cummings. . . . 193 
 
 Branham, William Hickman 207 
 
 Branham, William Jennings 210 
 
 Branham, Zerelda 179 
 
 Briggs, Melissa (Vawter) 380 
 
 Briggs, Roberta 380 
 
 Briggs, Victoria 381 
 
 Brooks, Artemus 116 
 
 Brooks, Aurora 116 
 
 Brooks, Daisy 183 
 
 Brooks, Gerald 1 16 
 
 Brooks, Mary (Vanosdol) 116 
 
 Brooks, Matilda (Branham) 183 
 
 Brooks, Orlando Parks 183 
 
 Brougher, Lillian (Cornelius) .... 197 
 
 Brown, Cora (Vawter) 131 
 
 Brown, Dorothy M 325 
 
 Brown, Earl Radford 325 
 
 Brown, Ida 185 
 
 Brown, Mary (Branham) 185 
 
 Brown, Mary Freda 186 
 
 Brown, Morton 185 
 
 Brown, Myrtle M 325 
 
 Brown, Rosa Blanche (Hedges) . . .325 
 
 Brown, Wilbur Fee 131 
 
 Brown, William H 185 
 
 Burckhardt, Frances (Vawter), 
 
 114, 115 
 
 Burckhardt, George 115 
 
 Burckhardt, John Frederick 115 
 
 Burckhardt, Lulu Christman 115 
 
 Burckhardt, Mamie 115 
 
 Burckhardt, Margaret Pamelia. . . . 115 
 
 Burckhardt, Mary Elizabeth 115 
 
 Burns, Alice (Branham) 181 
 
 Burns, Anna Gertrude 98 
 
 Burns, Byron Elliot 99 
 
 Bums, Charles 241 
 
 Burns, Charles F 98 
 
 Burns, Charles W 99 
 
 Burns, Danforth loi 
 
 Burns, David V 100, lOi 
 
 Burns, Edith loi 
 
 Burns, Edward 241 
 
 Burns, Ellen 241 
 
 Burns, Grace loi 
 
 Burns, Harrison 99 
 
 Burns, Hiram D 180 
 
 Burns, James 98 
 
 Bums, Jasper 241 
 
 Bums, Jesse V 98 
 
INDEX 
 
 419 
 
 PAGE 
 
 Burns, Joseph Lee 98 
 
 Burns, Lee 99, 100 
 
 Burns, Livingston S 100 
 
 Bums, Mack 241 
 
 Burns. Margaret 99 
 
 Burns. Maria (Vawter) 96 
 
 Burns, Mary Wise 241 
 
 Burns, Nellie loi 
 
 Bums, William Conduit 99 
 
 Burns. William Douglas iSi 
 
 Burns, William V 98 
 
 Burns, Susan 241 
 
 Calloway, Juliette (Branham) 210 
 
 Calloway, Marian 210 
 
 Calloway, Myrtle Helen 210 
 
 Campbell, Emily (Vawter) 65 
 
 Campbell, Gamette Carolyn 67 
 
 Campbell, Gladys 67 
 
 Campbell, Glenn Solon 67 
 
 Campbell, Hazel 66 
 
 Campbell, James Burt 66 
 
 Campbell, Jane (Foster) 189 
 
 Campbell, John 65 
 
 Campbell, John D 67 
 
 Campbell, Joseph Allan ... 66 
 
 Campbell. Kemper Bramwell 67 
 
 Campbell, Mary (Allan) 65 
 
 Campbell, Mary (John) 65 
 
 Campbell, Smith Vawter 65 
 
 Campbell, Solon B 66 
 
 Campbell, Vernon Otterman 66 
 
 Garden, Clara May 291 
 
 Garden, Clarence A 291 
 
 Garden, Corinne 290 
 
 Garden, Earl 290 
 
 Garden, Gertrude 290 
 
 Garden, Grace 201 
 
 Garden, Hansel 290 
 
 Garden, Hebren 290 
 
 Garden, James 290 
 
 Garden, James Lewis 289 
 
 Garden, Jesse 291 
 
 Garden, John H 290 
 
 Garden, Lee 291 
 
 Garden, Loto 290 
 
 Garden, Marguerite 290 
 
 Garden, Rollie 291 
 
 Garden, Ruth 290 
 
 Garden, Sarah (Tutt) 289 
 
 Carey, Augusta i,34 
 
 Carey. Elvira (Vawter) 134 
 
 Carey, Lila I34 
 
 Carey, Vivian I34 
 
 Carnegie, May (Ward) 252 
 
 Carney, Lizzie (W^est) 358 
 
 Carney, Edward 358 
 
 Carrell, Genevieve 307 
 
 Carrell, Lake E. 307 
 
 Carson, Edwinnie I39 
 
 PAGE 
 
 Carson, Ethel Grace 139 
 
 Carson, Hazel Lavone 139 
 
 Carson, Jennie (Holsclaw) 139 
 
 Carson, Lizzie 139 
 
 Catching, Ben H 347 
 
 Catching, J. Reuben 347 
 
 Catching, Jesse Franklin 347 
 
 Catching, Nira (Smith) 347 
 
 Catching, Oliver C 347 
 
 Chaffin, Gertrude (Tidd) 240 
 
 Chaille, Ann (Stribling) 229 
 
 Chaille, Bertha Elizabeth 108 
 
 Chaille, D. D 230 
 
 Chaille, Elmer V 230 
 
 Chaille, Elmore J 230 
 
 Chaille, Emerson Wayland 234 
 
 Chaille, Emest 234 
 
 Chaille, Floyd 231 
 
 Chaille, Freda 234 
 
 Chaille, Grace 234 
 
 Chaille, Harold L 234 
 
 Chaille, J. H 230 
 
 Chaille, J. Howard 231 
 
 Chaille, Jennie Stott 108 
 
 Chaille, Jesse V 234 
 
 Chaille. Jessie Katrine 234 
 
 Chaille, John C 234 
 
 Chaille, John E 230 
 
 Chaille, Josiah F 231 
 
 Chaille, Josiah M 234 
 
 Chaille. Loyd 231 
 
 Chaille, M. A 230 
 
 Chaille, May Corinne 234 
 
 Chaille, Newton T 230 
 
 Chaille, Oren 234 
 
 Chaille, Ravmond 234 
 
 Chaille, Ruth Jane 234 
 
 Chaille, Sarah ( Stribling) 233 
 
 Chaille, Thomas D 234 
 
 Chaille, Tibit 230 
 
 Chaille, Uriah 234 
 
 Chaille, Vivian 230 
 
 Chaille, W. W 230 
 
 Chaille, William H. (William H.) 231 
 
 Chaille, William Hickman 231 
 
 Chaille, William T 234 
 
 Childers, Josephine (Rossen) 232 
 
 Church. Alice Crawford 342 
 
 Clark, Mattie (Moody) 303 
 
 Clarkson, Albert V 129 
 
 Glarkson, Bertha May 129 
 
 Clarkson, Edith Idella 129 
 
 Clarkson. Elizabeth ( Vawter) 129 
 
 Glarkson, Elvin Grant 129 
 
 Clarkson, Jesse F 129 
 
 Clarkson. Thomas Osborn 129 
 
 Cobb, George O 206 
 
 Cobb, George O., Jr 206 
 
 Cobb, Harold 206 
 
420 
 
 INDEX 
 
 PAGE 
 
 Cobb, Hazel 206 
 
 Cobb, John M 206 
 
 Cobb, John Malcomb 206 
 
 Cobb, Lulu 206 
 
 Cobb, Mary (Branham) 205 
 
 Cobb, Pearl 206 
 
 Cobb, Raymond 206 
 
 Cobb, Samuel H 206 
 
 Cobb, Samuel H., Jr 206 
 
 Coffey, Cecil Louise 195 
 
 Coffey, Josephine 195 
 
 Coffey, Jule Hubert 195 
 
 Coffey, Nelle (Branham) 195 
 
 Coffey, Thatcher Howe 195 
 
 Cole, Fannie (Vawter) 318 
 
 Cole, John 319 
 
 Cole, Mary 319 
 
 Coleman, Clayton Carrell 309 
 
 Coleman, Dwight Leonidas 309 
 
 Coleman, James A 354 
 
 Coleman, Lucinda 354 
 
 Coleman, Mary (Gatlin) 309 
 
 Coleman, Shirley Vawter 309 
 
 Coleman, Thomas 354 
 
 Conger, Beulah 291 
 
 Conger, Guy 291 
 
 Conger, Ida (Carden) 290 
 
 Conger, Lena 290 
 
 Conger, Martha (Lewis) 35: 
 
 Conger, Vera 291 
 
 Conover, H. D 344 
 
 Conover, O. M 344 
 
 Cook, Anne (Vawter) 383 
 
 Cook, Bertha 379 
 
 Ccok, Burleson 379 
 
 Cook, Clinton 379 
 
 Cook, Frederick 379 
 
 Cook, Gladys (Foster) 189 
 
 Cook, Leyton Leroy 380 
 
 Cook, Mary 379 
 
 Cook, Melissa Tola 379 
 
 Cook, Nancy (Vawter) 379 
 
 Cook, William Peyton 380 
 
 Cooke, David Vawter 369 
 
 Cooke, Martha L. (Vawter) 369 
 
 Corbitt, Annie Mary 224 
 
 Corbitt, Alvin Hawkins 224 
 
 Corbitt, Bates 229 
 
 Corbitt, Bessie 229 
 
 Corbitt, Bessie Rewbine 224 
 
 Corbitt, Desmukes 229 
 
 Corbitt, Eddie Smith 224 
 
 Corbitt, Emerine (Stribling) 223 
 
 Corbitt, Emma 224 
 
 Corbitt, Flora Elton 224 
 
 Corbitt, Gladys 224 
 
 Corbitt, Grace 229 
 
 Corbitt, Hessie 224 
 
 Corbitt, Jesse Vawter 224 
 
 PAGE 
 
 Corbitt, Jessie Allen 224 
 
 Corbitt, Mollie (Miller) 229 
 
 Corbitt, Nancy 224 
 
 Corbitt, Odia 229 
 
 Corbitt, Pleasant Stribling 224 
 
 Corbitt, Reuben E 224 
 
 Corbitt, Sadie Pauline 224 
 
 Corbitt, Weldon Plant 224 
 
 Corbitt, William H 229 
 
 Corbitt, Wyley Welch 224 
 
 Cornelius, Ernest (Henry) 197 
 
 Cornelius, Ernest (Harry) 197 
 
 Cornelius, Grace Alice 197 
 
 Cornelius, Harry B 197 
 
 Cornelius, Lucy (Foster) 196 
 
 Cornelius, Marjorie 197 
 
 Cornelius, Rade 197 
 
 Cornelius, Royal 197 
 
 Costigan, Ellen (Branham) 210 
 
 Covert, Edith (Branham) 192 
 
 Covert, John Stanley 193 
 
 Crane, Helen Mary 212 
 
 Crane, Julia (Robinson) 211 
 
 Crawford, Arthur 342 
 
 Crawford, B. Vawter 346 
 
 Crawford, Beverly V 341 
 
 Crawford, Clyde Franklin 346 
 
 Crawford, Clyde Piatt 342 
 
 Crawford, Cora May 342 
 
 Crawford, Edwin Manifred 343 
 
 Crawford, Elvin J 343 
 
 Crawford, Elvin J., Jr 343 
 
 Crawford, George 343 
 
 Crawford, Gertrude 342 
 
 Crawford, Goodwin 344 
 
 Crawford, Henry Paschal 341 
 
 Crawford, J. Spencer 342 
 
 Crawford, James Vawter 346 
 
 Crawford, Janet Content 342 
 
 Crawford, Jasper Garfield 343 
 
 Crawford, Jasper Vincent 3J.2 
 
 Crawford, Jasper Vincent, Jr 342 
 
 Crawford, Jesse Dunlap 343 
 
 Crawford, Lewis Guy 346 
 
 Crawford, Lucy (Vawter) . . . .336-338 
 
 Crawford, Margaret 342 
 
 Crawford, Orville Franklin 343 
 
 Crawford, Otheo 344 
 
 Crawford, Otheo Glenn 343 
 
 Crawford, Philemon Vawter 
 
 (James) 338-341 
 
 Crawford, Philemon V. (Jasper 
 
 V.) 342 
 
 Crawford, Philemon V. (Henry).. 342 
 Crawford, Philemon Vawter (El- 
 vin J.) . 344 
 
 Crawford, Richard F 342 
 
 Crawford, Robert 338 
 
 Crawford, Robert Neal 343 
 
INDEX 
 
 421 
 
 PAGE 
 
 Crawford, Ulric L 344 
 
 Crawford, Uleric Zwingle 344 
 
 Crawford. Virginia E 342 
 
 Crawford, William Vawter 342 
 
 Crawford, William Vawter, Jr 342 
 
 Crawford, Zilpha 345 
 
 Cronkhite. Ida (Hedges) 3^5 
 
 Cronkhite, Mary E 325 
 
 Crum, Flora M I34 
 
 Crnm, Jamie A I34 
 
 Crum. Mary (Vawter) 134 
 
 Cull. Sylvia (Vawter) 318 
 
 Curtis. Lillian 231 
 
 Daniels, Kate (Holland) 263 
 
 Dalv. Martha (Branham) 194 
 
 Davis, Daniel 190 
 
 Davis, Edward 190 
 
 Davis. Elizabeth (Branham) 190 
 
 Davis. James 190 
 
 Davis, John 190 
 
 DeGarmo, James Ralph 310 
 
 Denger. Myrtle (Hedges) 326 
 
 Deupree, Alva William 170 
 
 Dickson, Allie 230 
 
 Dickson, Alonzo 230 
 
 Dickson, Edgar 230 
 
 Dickson. Elizabeth (Chaille) 230 
 
 Dixon, Donald Storey 62 
 
 Dixon. Dorothy 62 
 
 Dixon, Esther Claire 62 
 
 Dixon, Kate (Calloway) 210 
 
 Dixon, Kate (Storey) 6r. 62 
 
 Donlon, Lillian (Williamson) 301 
 
 Doubt. Eleanor (Fruit) 277 
 
 Doughtj', Virginia (Vawter) 317 
 
 Draper, Nannie (Vawter) 334 
 
 Duncan, Emma (Corbitt) 224 
 
 Dunlap, Elvin Crawford 345 
 
 Dunlap, George L 345 
 
 Dunlap. John B 344 
 
 Dunlap, Lou Bessie Ella 345 
 
 Dunlap, Mary (Crawford) 344 
 
 Dunlap, William P 345 
 
 Dunning, Carrie 7° 
 
 Dunning. Earl Raymond 70 
 
 Dunning, Luella 7° 
 
 Dunning, Mary (Vawter) 70 
 
 Dunning. Tillie Allan 70 
 
 Eads, Arthur 319 
 
 Eads, Clifford 319 
 
 Eads. Drucilla (Vawter) 319 
 
 Eads, Edward 3^9 
 
 Eads, Harry 319 
 
 Eads, Lena 319 
 
 Eads. Mary 319 
 
 Eads, Robert 3^9 
 
 Eads, Sherley 31O 
 
 Edwards, Charles 221 
 
 Edwards, Edgar Flavins 221 
 
 PAGE 
 
 Edwards, Flavins 221 
 
 Edwards, Frances ( Stribling).220, 221 
 
 Edwards, Frank 221 
 
 Edwards, Gus ^L^lcomb 221 
 
 Edwards, Hettie J 221 
 
 Edwards, John Malcomb 221 
 
 Edwards, ^lary Zerelda 221 
 
 Edwards, William T 221 
 
 Edwards, William Thomas 221 
 
 Eichelberger. Elizabeth (Vaughn)267 
 
 Elder, Emma (Lewis) 366 
 
 Enix, Clara M 326 
 
 Enix, Elmo 326 
 
 Enix, Lourena (Hedges) 326 
 
 Evans, Elizabeth (Hunter) 239 
 
 Everson, Cora (Brown) 185 
 
 Everson, Howard 185 
 
 Everson, Lenore 185 
 
 Farnier, ^Matilda (Vawter) 384 
 
 Feagler, Bessie 149 
 
 Feagler, Charles Alfred 149 
 
 Feagler, Charles A. (James W. )..I49 
 
 Feagler, Fannie Fern 149 
 
 Feagler, Florence Edith 149 
 
 Feagler. Fred Willard 149 
 
 Feagler, James William 148 
 
 Feagler, Marie i49 
 
 Feagler, Marie Cordelia 148 
 
 Feagler, Mary (Vawter) 148 
 
 Feagler, Merlin Duncan 149 
 
 Feagler, Philemon Edwin 149 
 
 Feagler, Roena Kate 150 
 
 Feagler, Rose Bonnel 149 
 
 Feagler, Vawter John 149 
 
 Felts, Albert Garland 302 
 
 Felts. Eben Vick 302 
 
 Felts, Effie Vick 302 
 
 Felts, Florence (Williamson) 302 
 
 Felts, Garnett Elbert 302 
 
 Felts, Herbert Guy ,302 
 
 Fenton, Effie (Crawford) 343 
 
 Fenton, Orin 343 
 
 Fenton, Ralph 343 
 
 Fenton, Theda 343 
 
 Fergason. Elizabeth (Stribling).. .221 
 
 Fesler, Esther 7i 
 
 Fesler, James Leon 71 
 
 Fesler, Jennie A 71 
 
 Fesler, Martha (Obenshain) 71 
 
 Fesler, Susie C 7i 
 
 Fesler, Timothy C 71 
 
 Fink, Louisa (Vawter) 369 
 
 Firebaugh, Alice (Hedges) 325 
 
 Firebaugh. Harold 325 
 
 Firebaugh, Lee 325 
 
 Firebaugh. Lela 325 
 
 Firebaugh, Lois 325 
 
 Firebaugh. P. T. Norman 325 
 
 Fisher. Edna 334 
 
422 
 
 INDEX 
 
 PAGE 
 
 Fisher, Mollie (Vawter) 334 
 
 Fitzhngh, Carrell C 308 
 
 Fitzhugh, Clarence H 308 
 
 Fitzhugh, Edgar J 308 
 
 Fitzhugh, Faye Pearl 308 
 
 Fitzhugh, Gordon D 308 
 
 Fitzhugh, Hallie 308 
 
 Fitzhugh, Harry F 308 
 
 Fitzhugh, Kate (Gatlin) 307 
 
 Fitzhugh, Mack A 308 
 
 Fitzhugh, Roy W 308 
 
 Fleming, Mary (O'Conner) 183 
 
 Ford, Annie Asilee 292 
 
 Ford, Corene 292 
 
 Ford, Delia May 292 
 
 Ford, Lorene 292 
 
 Ford, Mary Alice 292 
 
 Ford, Mary (Whitaker) 292 
 
 Ford, Neppie Virginia 292 
 
 Ford, Tripsley D 292 
 
 Ford, William Dudley 292 
 
 Forester, Alen Fowler 223 
 
 Forester, Esrom Boid 22}, 
 
 Forester, George Monroe 223 
 
 Forester, Mary (Fergason).. .222, 222, 
 
 Foster, Arthur 189 
 
 Foster, Audrey 188 
 
 Foster, Frances 196 
 
 Foster, Gayle 189 
 
 Foster, George R 197 
 
 Foster, Harold 188 
 
 Foster. Jane ( Branham ) 196 
 
 Foster, John A 1S9 
 
 Foster, Jonathan 18S 
 
 Foster, Leland 188 
 
 Foster, Leslie 189 
 
 Foster, Mary (Branham) 187 
 
 Foster, Radie 188 
 
 Foster, Raymond 189 
 
 Foster, Watts 189 
 
 Foster, William J 188 
 
 Fowlkes, Ella (Malcomb) 226 
 
 Fox, Maggie (Glover) 361 
 
 Freeman, Myrtie (Mitchell) 297 
 
 Freeman, Thelma 297 
 
 Freeman, Willie P 297 
 
 Fruit, Allen Jefferson 277 
 
 Fruit, Bessie 2"/"] 
 
 Fruit, Edmund Presley 2TJ 
 
 Fruit, Elizabeth (Vawter) 2TJ 
 
 Fruit, Julian Elliott 278 
 
 Fruit, Logan Brown 277 
 
 Fruit, Rhoda Elizabeth 277 
 
 Fruit, Walter E 278 
 
 Fuller, Zilpha (Little) 344 
 
 Gatlin, Charles 309 
 
 Gatlin, Faye 309 
 
 Gatlin, Jephtha D 308 
 
 Gatlin, Lake E 309 
 
 PAGE 
 
 Gatlin, Nancy (Vawter) 304 
 
 Gatlin, Ross 309 
 
 Gatlin, Wayne 309 
 
 George, Emma (Gatlin) 309 
 
 George, Max B 309 
 
 George, Ollie Vawter 309 
 
 Gibbens, Fred A 309 
 
 Gibbens, James D 309 
 
 Gibbens, Laura lone 309 
 
 Gibbens, Margaret (Gatlin) 309 
 
 Gibbens, Ray R 309 
 
 Gibbens. Vawter Morton 309 
 
 Gill, Lida (Hedges) 327 
 
 Gillan, Augusta (Hinman) 284 
 
 Gillan, Charles Ross 284 
 
 Gillan, Edna May 284 
 
 Gillan, Harrj' Laurence 284 
 
 Gillan, Laura Maud 284 
 
 Gillan, Lewis Elbert 284 
 
 Gillan, Mabel Augusta 284 
 
 Gillan, Margaret 285 
 
 Gillan, Mary (Hinman) 284 
 
 Gillan. Nellie Margaret 284 
 
 Gillan, Nina May 284 
 
 Gillan, Richard Hugh 284 
 
 Gillan, Ruth Caroline 284 
 
 Gillan, Walter Hinman 285 
 
 Gillan, Walter Leigh 284 
 
 Giltner, Cordelia 355 
 
 Giltner, Charles T 355 
 
 Giltner, Charlotte 355 
 
 Giltner, Elenorah 355 
 
 Giltner, Florence 355 
 
 Giltner, George 355 
 
 Giltner, Mea 355 
 
 Giltner, Sarah (West) 355 
 
 Giltner, T. H 355 
 
 Giltner, William A 355 
 
 Giovannoli, Agnes Price 265 
 
 Giovannoli, Annie Mosley 265 
 
 Giovannoli, Charles Leonard 264 
 
 Giovannoli, Harry (Andrea) 264 
 
 Giovannoli, Harry (Harry) 264 
 
 Giovannoli, Katherine (Harris) . . .263 
 
 Giovannoli, Louise Katherine 265 
 
 Giovannoli, Olive Mai]garet. . .264, 265 
 
 Giovannoli, Robert Kinnaird 264 
 
 Gish, Alice (Garden) 289 
 
 Gish, Laura 289 
 
 Gish, Jacob 289 
 
 Glover, David J 361 
 
 Glover, Elizabeth (Vawter) 320 
 
 Glover, Elizabeth (Vawter).. .352-354 
 
 Glover, Elliott V 361 
 
 Glover, James 361 
 
 Glover, Philemon 361 
 
 Glover, Samuel 361 
 
 Glover, William 361 
 
 Good, Donnel 187 
 
INDEX 
 
 423 
 
 PAGE 
 
 Good, Edgar 187 
 
 Good, Jessie 187 
 
 Good, Lillian 187 
 
 Good, ^laggie 187 
 
 Good, Mary (Walden) 187 
 
 Good, Nora 187 
 
 Goodson, Addie 278 
 
 Goodson, Alice 278 
 
 Goodson, Harry 278 
 
 Goodson, Hattie 278 
 
 Goodson, Nancy (Vawter) 278 
 
 Goodson, Orson 278 
 
 Goodson, Thomas 278 
 
 Gordon, Mary 179 
 
 Gordon, Mary (Branham) 179 
 
 Gordon, Rosalie (Vawter) 374 
 
 Graham, Eliza M. (Williamson) . .300 
 
 Graham, Althea 300 
 
 Graham, Catherine Eliza 301 
 
 Graham, Edwin D 301 
 
 Graham, James W 301 
 
 Graham, Joseph Irwin 301 
 
 Graham, Prince Alphonso 301 
 
 Graham, Robert Lacy 300 
 
 Graham, Sarah 300 
 
 Gray, Bertha (Vawter) 135 
 
 Gray, Charles P 232 
 
 Gray, Ezra William 135 
 
 Gray, Margaret (Stribling) 232 
 
 Greer, Eliza (Amos) 298 
 
 Greer, Mildred J 298 
 
 Gregg, Esther (Vawter) 262 
 
 Gregg, George Vawter 262 
 
 Gregg, James ^Madison 262 
 
 Griffith, Imogene (Vawter) 314 
 
 Grindell, Claude 180 
 
 Grindell, George 180 
 
 Grindell, Ida (Branham) 180 
 
 Grindell, Sophronia 180 
 
 Grindell, William 180 
 
 Grinstead, Anna (Lewis) 351 
 
 Grinstead, Bertha Edith 133 
 
 Grinstead, Carl James 134 
 
 Grinstead, Claud Ellsworth 133 
 
 Grinstead, Emma Ethel 134 
 
 Grinstead, Esther 133 
 
 Grinstead, Fannie Bell 133 
 
 Grinstead, Jesse Edward 133 
 
 Grinstead, Lew Emmerson 133 
 
 Grinstead, Marshall 351 
 
 Grinstead, Myrtle Blanche 133 
 
 Grinstead, Nancy 351 
 
 Grinstead, Sarah (Vawter) 133 
 
 Grinstead Vila Gail 134 
 
 Grinstead, William Wirt 351 
 
 Gullet, Alice 180 
 
 Gullet, Edward , 180 
 
 Gullet, Elberta Louise 180 
 
 Gullet, Louisa (Branham) 180 
 
 PAGE 
 
 Gullet, William Fitch 180 
 
 Gullet, William Lou 180 
 
 Ha^an, Ibba 378 
 
 Hagan, Virgil Vawter 378 
 
 Hagan, Mar\' (Vawter) 378 
 
 Hall, Arthur 360 
 
 Hall, E. Roy 360 
 
 Hall, Emma (West) 360 
 
 Hall, Blanche 360 
 
 Ham, Clarence 197 
 
 Ham, Eugene 197 
 
 Ham, Grace 197 
 
 Ham, Lora 197 
 
 Ham. Maud (Cornelius) 197 
 
 Hardin, Ada S S7i< 
 
 Hardin, Dewey S 378 
 
 Hardin, Eva A 378 
 
 Hardin, Irene 378 
 
 Hardin, Mintie (Vawter) 378 
 
 Hardin, Nellie 378 
 
 Hardin, Ray 378 
 
 Hardy, Sarah (Vawter) 164 
 
 Harold, Minnie (Vawter) 334 
 
 Harper, Zulah (Chaille) 231 
 
 Harris, Beverly Humphreys 331 
 
 Harris, Charles 265 
 
 Harris, Edward 265 
 
 Harris, Edwin Vawter 331 
 
 Harris, Elizabeth (Vawter) 262 
 
 Harris, Ellen 265 
 
 Harris, George H 262 
 
 Harris, Hettie Vawter 331 
 
 Harris, Margaret M 263 
 
 Harris, Martin V 263 
 
 Harris, Mary Louise 265 
 
 Harris, Rebecca 263 
 
 Harris, Richard Perry 26:? 
 
 Harris, Sarah (Vawter) 331 
 
 Harris, Sarah Elizabeth 262 
 
 Harris, Thomas Perry 263 
 
 Harrison, Nannie (San ford) 227 
 
 Harwood, May (Vawter) ... .120, 121 
 
 Hawkins, Nancy (Vawter) 7 
 
 Hawley, Ellen (Goodson) 278 
 
 Hayden, Isaiah 319 
 
 Hayden. Nancy (Vawter) 319 
 
 Heath, Adaline (Vawter) 130 
 
 Heath, Bowen C, Jr 131 
 
 Heath, Fern 131 
 
 Heath, James H 130 
 
 Heath, Ray 130 
 
 Heath, Ruth 131 
 
 Heath, Sarah A 130 
 
 Heath, William A 130 
 
 Hedges, Albion Tourgee 327 
 
 Hedges. Arthur 325 
 
 Hedges, Ashba V 327 
 
 Hedges, Ashba V., Jr 327 
 
 Hedges, Bertram 325 
 
424 
 
 INDEX 
 
 PAGE 
 
 Hedges, Charles E 2,2'1 
 
 Hedges, Charles M 325 
 
 Hedges, Dora A 325 
 
 Hedges, Effie Grace 2)^7 
 
 Hedges, Eva Luella z^l 
 
 Hedges, Fred A 325 
 
 Hedges, Grace 325 
 
 Hedges, Herman 325 
 
 Hedges, John M 327 
 
 Hedges, Levi Marion 328 
 
 Hedges, Lora O Z^l 
 
 Hedges, Mary (Thaddeus) 325 
 
 Hedges, Mary A. (Vawter) 324 
 
 Hedges, Mary Mildred 2,-1 
 
 Hedges, Mattie D 325 
 
 Hedges, Melinda S 327 
 
 Hedges, Mildred 325 
 
 Hedges, Perpecta Marie 328 
 
 Hedges, Samantha ( Vawter) 326 
 
 Hedges, Thaddeus A 325 
 
 Hedges, Thelma Alay 327 
 
 Hedges, Walter G 328 
 
 Hedges, William R ZV 
 
 Heflin, Abner 250 
 
 Heflin, Charles 250 
 
 Heflin, Effie 250 
 
 Heflin, Elizabeth (Moncrief) 250 
 
 Heflin, Jasper 250 
 
 Heflin, John Caleb 250 
 
 Heflin, Lilly 250 
 
 Heflin, Mary J 250 
 
 Heflin, Wilford 250 
 
 Heflin, William Jasper 250 
 
 Henson, Ed 290 
 
 Henson, Pearl 290 
 
 Hilton, Emma (Obenshain) 71 
 
 Hilton, Fred E 71 
 
 Hinchman, Lucy 253 
 
 Hinman, Eva May 285 
 
 Hinman, Henry Vawter 284 
 
 Hinman, Lucinda (Vawter) 284 
 
 Hinman, Nina Jane 285 
 
 Hinman, Richard Franklin 285 
 
 Hobart, Julia (Tripp) 203 
 
 Hobson, Eliza (Smith) 300 
 
 Hobson, Ladie 300 
 
 Hockmuth, Ora (Grinstead) 133 
 
 Hodge, Mary (Tutt) 292 
 
 Holland, Amanda (Harris) 262 
 
 Holland, Benjamin B 263 
 
 Holland, Capitola Elizabeth 263 
 
 Holland, Clara 263 
 
 Holland, Daniel C 263 
 
 Holland, Francis Arthur 263 
 
 Holland, James E 263 
 
 Holland, Richard L 263 
 
 Holland, Roberta 263 
 
 Holmes, Charles H 295 
 
 Holmes, Dudley 298 
 
 PAGE 
 
 Holmes, George W 299 
 
 Holmes, Henry B 298 
 
 Holmes, Henry Clay 294 
 
 Holmes, Henry Cornelius 294 
 
 Holmes, James D 295 
 
 Holmes, Jephtha Burnley 294 
 
 Holmes, John Elliott 295 
 
 Holmes, John P 294 
 
 Holmes, Lance D 295 
 
 Holmes, Lether C 295 
 
 Holmes, Lottie B 295 
 
 Holmes, Lucinda 294 
 
 Holmes, Lucinda (Vawter) 293 
 
 Holmes, Martha F 294 
 
 Holmes, Mary L 295 
 
 Holmes, Millie A 295 
 
 Holmes, Nancy C 294 
 
 Holmes, Nellie 1 295 
 
 Holmes, Presley Dudley 297 
 
 Holmes, Riley L 294 
 
 Holmes, William E 295 
 
 Holmes, William B 298 
 
 Holmes, William H 295 
 
 Holton, Adda 130 
 
 Holton, Amelia (Vawter) 130 
 
 Holton, Annie J 130 
 
 Holton, Clyde E 130 
 
 Holton, Elizabeth 130 
 
 Holton, Lelia May 130 
 
 Holton, Meta 130 
 
 Holsclaw, Alma 139 
 
 Holsclaw, Almira ( King) 138 
 
 Holsclaw, Blanche Vernon 139 
 
 Holsclaw, Bertha Alice 140 
 
 Holsclaw, Ezra 138, 139 
 
 Holsclaw, Gladys 139 
 
 Holsclaw, Hubert 139 
 
 Holsclaw, Jacob Harrison 139 
 
 Holsclaw, Jessie 139 
 
 Holsclaw, Mary Belle 139 
 
 Holsclaw, Ruth 139 
 
 Holsclaw, Smith 139 
 
 Holsclaw, William E 139 
 
 Hunter, Eva Jean 240 
 
 Hunter, James Vincent 239 
 
 Hunter, Lucretia (Wise) 239 
 
 Hunter, Mary E 278 
 
 Hunter, Ollie M 278 
 
 Hunter, Ophelia (Vawter) 278 
 
 Hutsell, Alva 357 
 
 Hutsell, Amy Leo 357 
 
 Hutsell, Emory Edward 357 
 
 Hutsell, Eveline (Payne) 357 
 
 Hutsell, Tressa May 357 
 
 Irwin, Anna (Vawter) 332 
 
 Irwin, Joseph 332 
 
 Irwin, Vawter Oliver 2Z~ 
 
 Isaacs, Alfred Abram 277 
 
 Isaacs, Nancy (Fruit) 277 
 
INDEX 
 
 4-25 
 
 PAGE 
 
 Isaacs, Thomas Edmund 277 
 
 Isaacs, Walter Fruit 277 
 
 Jackson, Kate (Bamett) 228 
 
 Jackson, Lucy (Neblett) 222 
 
 Jenkins, Annie (Walden) 186 
 
 Jenkins, Carrie 57 
 
 Jenkins, Fannie 186 
 
 Jenkins, Georgia A 186 
 
 Jenkins, Hazel Etta 186 
 
 Jenkins, Jennie (Beechly) 57 
 
 Jenkins, Vawter 57 
 
 Jenkins, Virginia 57 
 
 Johnson, Grace (Torbet) 253 
 
 Johnson, Jennie (Vawter) 332 
 
 Jones, A. Foster 189 
 
 Jones, Emma 365 
 
 Jones, Francis Vawter 342 
 
 Jones, Gayle A 189 
 
 Jones, Gladys O 189 
 
 Jones, Harry 365 
 
 Jones, Harry Allen 306 
 
 Jones, Isabelle A 189 
 
 Jones, Lizzie 365 
 
 Jones, M. Pearle 189 
 
 Jones, Mabel 365 
 
 Jones, Mary 365 
 
 Jones, Mattie (Foster) 189 
 
 Jones, Maud (Crawford) 342 
 
 Jones, Merril 365 
 
 Jones, Melnotte B 189 
 
 Jones, N. Augusta 189 
 
 Jones, Olive 188 
 
 Jones, Royal C 189 
 
 Jones, Virginia (Gatlin) 305 
 
 Joyce, Hettie (Vawter) 331 
 
 Joyce, Maurice Humphreys 331 
 
 Kanoff, Ethel F 305 
 
 Kanoff, George W 305 
 
 Kanoff, Grace (Allen) 305 
 
 Kanoff, Harold F 305 
 
 Kanoff, Hazel Hester 305 
 
 Kanoff, J. Wilson 305 
 
 Kanoff, John Homer 305 
 
 Kendall, Mary (Sheehan) 265 
 
 Kenny, Edith (Stott) 108 
 
 Kerr, Arleigh Robert 169 
 
 Kerr, Effie (Vawter) 169 
 
 Kerr, Mary (Vawter) 383 
 
 Kerr, Rees Vawter 169 
 
 Kerr, Stanley 169 
 
 Kessick, Emma 241 
 
 Kessick, Julia 241 
 
 Kessick, Matthew 241 
 
 Kessick, Mollie 241 
 
 Kessick, Patsy (Wise) 241 
 
 Kessick, Prudence 241 
 
 Kimball, Alicia 343 
 
 Kimball, Clark 343 
 
 Kimball, Duane 343 
 
 I'AUE 
 
 Kimball, Mary L. (Crawford).. . .343 
 
 King, Addie A 356 
 
 King, Alzora 140 
 
 King, Edna Hazel 140 
 
 King, Ezra 140 
 
 King, Frances (Vawter) 137, 138 
 
 King, George Elvin 140 
 
 King, Grace (Feagler) 149 
 
 King, Hazel (Mitchell) 246 
 
 King, Helen Grace 149 
 
 King, James B 356 
 
 King, Lula Ellis 140 
 
 King, Mildred Rose 149 
 
 King, Mollie (West) 356 
 
 King, Robert Feagler 149 
 
 King, Russell Aubrey 149 
 
 King, William V 140 
 
 Kincart, Lillie (Hefiin) 250 
 
 Kingsley, Jennie (Wise) 240 
 
 Kirk, Mary (Garden) 290 
 
 Kittle, Annie (Moncrief) 254 
 
 Kyle, Katherine (Vawter) 246 
 
 Kyle, Ralph V 246 
 
 Larkins, Grace (Storey) 63 
 
 Larkins, Storey 63 
 
 Laswell, Jesse Pearl (Vawter) .... 135 
 
 Laswell, Millie Myree 135 
 
 Laswell, Minerva May 135 
 
 Lattimore, Emma (Storey) 64 
 
 Leavitt, Charles Dunn 120 
 
 Leavitt, Florence Mary 120 
 
 Leavitt, Ellen (Vawter) 120 
 
 Lee, Fannie (Vawter) 170 
 
 Lee, Fanny Jane 170 
 
 Lewis, Amanda (Vawter) 365 
 
 Lewis, Annie Ethel 346 
 
 Lewis, Annie L 366 
 
 Lewis, Charles 351 
 
 Lewis, David 350 
 
 Lewis, Edwin 351 
 
 Lewis, Eunice Viola 346 
 
 Lewis, Floyd Lindsay 346 
 
 Lewis, Francis Crawford 345 
 
 Lewis, Francis 351 
 
 Lewis, Henry 365 
 
 Lewis, Josie Mary 346 
 
 Lewis, Lester Ambrose 346 
 
 Lewis, Lila Catherine 346 
 
 Lewis, Louisa (Crawford) 345 
 
 Lewis, Nancy (Vawter) 350 
 
 Lewis, Nina E 351 
 
 Lewis, Oran Wright 346 
 
 Lewis, Pauline 351 
 
 Lewis, Ralph Everett 346 
 
 Lewis. Rilla Ainslee 346 
 
 Lewis, Sarah E 366 
 
 Little. Margaret (Crawford) 344 
 
 Loomis, George D 104 
 
 Loomis, Grace B 104 
 
426 
 
 INDEX 
 
 PAGE 
 
 Loomis, Sallie (Bums) 103, 104 
 
 Long, Carrie (Robinson) 212 
 
 Long, George S., Jr 212 
 
 Long, Helen 212 
 
 Long, Margaret R 212 
 
 Lukenbill, Kenneth 247 
 
 Lukenbill. Virginia (Read) 247 
 
 Luther, Anice 297 
 
 Luther, Charley Lucille 297 
 
 Luther, Horace 296 
 
 Luther, Mattie (Mitchell) 296 
 
 Luther, Mitchell 297 
 
 Luther, Myrtie Bernice 297 
 
 Luther, .Raymond 296 
 
 Luther, Shirley 296 
 
 Malcomb, Alnieda (Stribling) 225 
 
 Malcomb, Dixie 226 
 
 Malcomb, Edith 226 
 
 Malcomb, Gertrude 226 
 
 Malcomb, Hattie C 226 
 
 Malcomb, Howard Ford 226 
 
 Malcomb, Hubert A 226 
 
 Malcomb, John Levin 226 
 
 Malcomb, John Lilbern 226 
 
 Malcomb, Mary 226 
 
 Malcomb, Robert F 226 
 
 Malcomb, Ronald 226 
 
 Malcomb, Samuel Guy 226 
 
 Marsh, Mariema (Foster) 197 
 
 Marsh, Sarah I97 
 
 Marshall, Carrie 239 
 
 Marshall, Charles 239 
 
 Marshall, Esther Lee 364 
 
 Marshall, Frank 239 
 
 Marshall, Frank (Frank) 239 
 
 Marshall, George 239 
 
 Marshall, Hennie De 364 
 
 Marshall, Jessie ( Walden) 187 
 
 Marshall, Julia Ferrel 364 
 
 Marshall, Julia (Wise) 238 
 
 Marshall, Mary A. (Sterrett) 364 
 
 Marshall, Mattie B 364 
 
 Marshall, Nellie 239 
 
 Martin, Belle (Wise) 240 
 
 Martin, David Alexander 240 
 
 Martin, Esther Storey 240 
 
 Martin, Helen Ruth 240 
 
 Martin, Lucy Neal 240 
 
 McCann, Ida Lewis 366 
 
 McCann, Ethel 366 
 
 McCann, James W 366 
 
 McAllister, Arnice Lee 297 
 
 McAllister, Dommie (Mitchell).. .297 
 
 McAllister, Gladys Love 297 
 
 McAllister, Mattie Aleen 297 
 
 McAllister, William Macon 297 
 
 McCauley, Frank D 202 
 
 McCauley, Lydia (Stribling) 225 
 
 McCauley, Marge 225 
 
 PAGE 
 
 McCauley, Mary L 225 
 
 McCauley, Pearle 202 
 
 McCauley, Vida (Webb) 202 
 
 McColley, Carrie 187 
 
 McColley, Elizabeth (Walden).. .. 187 
 
 McColley, James 187 
 
 McColley, Walter 187 
 
 McColley, William 187 
 
 McColm, George Elmer 285 
 
 McColm, Louisa Ellen (Vawter)..285 
 
 McColm, Viola Olivia 285 
 
 McDaniels, James 266 
 
 McDaniels, Melita (Vavvter) 266 
 
 McDonald, Alice (Payne) 356 
 
 McDonald, Clarence R 357 
 
 McDonald, Elma Pearl 357 
 
 McDonald, George E 357 
 
 McDonald, Ira William 356 
 
 McDonald, Lottie J 357 
 
 McDonald, Mamie Catherine 357 
 
 McDonald, Myrtie Maud 356 
 
 Mclntyre, Ida (\Vest) 355 
 
 McKey, Indiana (Glover) 361 
 
 McNew, Clara Alice (O'Conner) .182 
 
 McNew, Etta N 183 
 
 McNew, Norma E 183 
 
 McNew, Oscar 183 
 
 McNew, Wilber E 183 
 
 McNew, Zuma F 183 
 
 McKnight, Mrs 187 
 
 Mays, John Ann (Clark) 223 
 
 Maynor, Tommie E. (Tutt) 293 
 
 Mead, Carl Owen 287 
 
 Mead, Elsie May 287 
 
 Mead. Harriet (Vawter) 287 
 
 Mead, Jephtha Dudley 287 
 
 Mead, Nina Modised 287 
 
 Mead, Mina Myrtle 287 
 
 Michels, Mary (Vawter) 314 
 
 Miller, Clayborn 230 
 
 Miller, Elese 230 
 
 Miller, Elphia 230 
 
 Miller, Gertrude 230 
 
 Miller, Indiana R. (Vawter) 134 
 
 Miller, Irvin I34 
 
 Miller, Jesse 230 
 
 Miller, Matthew A 229 
 
 Miller, Murvel 230 
 
 Miller, Sarah 230 
 
 Miller, Sarah (Chaille) 229 
 
 Miller, Vance 134 
 
 Millican, Jean 239 
 
 Millican, Mary 239 
 
 Millican, Nadine 239 
 
 Millican, Virginia (Marshall) 239 
 
 Milliken, Robert (Vawter) 331 
 
 Milliken, Rhoda Jamieson 331 
 
 Mitchell, Charles 245 
 
 Mitchell, Eddie Lee 296 
 
INDEX 
 
 PAGE 
 
 4^7 
 
 PAGE 
 
 Mitchell, Henry H 296 
 
 Mitchell, Henr>' P 296 
 
 Mitchell, Herbert S 296 
 
 Mitchell, Ida (Vawter) 245 
 
 Mitchell, John Leroy 297 
 
 Mitchell, Lorine 296 
 
 Mitchell, Marie 296 
 
 Mitchell, Marjorie 246 
 
 Mitchell, Alinnie Lee 296 
 
 IMitchell, Mollie Bell 297 
 
 Mitchell, Myrtie May 296 
 
 Mitchell, Nannie Aleen 296 
 
 Mitchell, Robert A 296 
 
 IMitchell, Sallie (Fergason) 222 
 
 Mitchell, Uriah C 222 
 
 Mitchell. Walter 245 
 
 Mitchell, William Allie 296 
 
 ]\Iitchell, William M 296 
 
 Mitchell, V.'illiam T 222 
 
 Moncrief, Agnes Wilbur 253 
 
 Moncrief, Ann (Vawter) . . . .248, 249 
 
 IMoncrief, Annie Evelyn 251 
 
 Moncrief, Benjamin J 251 
 
 jMoncrief, Caleb 106 
 
 Moncrief, Charles E 251 
 
 Moncrief, Daisy 251 
 
 IMoncrief, Earl 251 
 
 IMoncrief, Jennie 106 
 
 Moncrief, Jesse 250 
 
 Moncrief, Martha (Stott) 106 
 
 IMoncrief, Ray 251 
 
 IMoncrief, William 251 
 
 Moncrief, William Robert 251 
 
 Montgomerj-, Alvin 252 
 
 Montgomery, Carrie 252 
 
 Montgomery, Emma (Ward) 252 
 
 Montgomery, Eva 252 
 
 Montgomery, Mantie 252 
 
 Moody, Annie Gray 304 
 
 Moody, Annie Gray (James) 303 
 
 Moody, Daniel C ,304 
 
 IMoody, James S 303 
 
 Moody, Mollie (Smith) 303 
 
 Moody, Mollie C 304 
 
 Moodey, Ira 'SI 132 
 
 Moodey, Mabel 132 
 
 IMoodey, Maud (Vawter) 132 
 
 Moodey, Sivlia V 132 
 
 IMoodey, Velma E 132 
 
 Moore, Mary (Vawter) 124 
 
 Morgan, Jane (Chaille) 235 
 
 Morrisett, Allie (Bamett) 228 
 
 Morrisett, Alma 228 
 
 Morrisett, Gladvs Marguerite 228 
 
 Morrisett. Virgil 228 
 
 IMosley, Frances (Vawter) 266 
 
 Mosley, Annie 266 
 
 Mullen, Aureana (Truesdell) 328 
 
 Mullen, Herbert Orin 328 
 
 Mullen, John Shea 328 
 
 Mullen, Louise 328 
 
 Mullen, Maud M 328 
 
 Mullis, Sarah (Heflin) 250 
 
 Neblett, Edna 222 
 
 Neblett, J. M 222 
 
 Neblett, Mary 222 
 
 Neblett, Nannie Lillian 222 
 
 Neel, Eva (Branham) 185 
 
 Neel, Inez 185 
 
 Negley, Bertie (Sanford) 227 
 
 I\ egley, Carl 227 
 
 Negley, Mai 227 
 
 Nelson, Rade (Marsh) 197 
 
 Netherland, John Ray 316 
 
 Netherland, Harriet Virginia 317 
 
 Netherland, Josephine 317 
 
 Newell, Florence (Glover) 361 
 
 Newland, George Ballard 102 
 
 Newland, James Edwin 102 
 
 Newland, Jesse Guy 102 
 
 Newland, Mary (Bums) lOi 
 
 Newland, Ralph Guy 102 
 
 Newland, Robert Nelson 102 
 
 Newman, Harold Anson 286 
 
 Newman, Sarah (Vawter) 286 
 
 Nichols. Adaline (Vawter) 319 
 
 Noble, Louisa (Vawter) 369 
 
 Noble, John Vawter 369 
 
 Noble, Julian Bennett .369 
 
 Norris, Carrie (Vawter) 244 
 
 Norris, Frederick De Witt 244 
 
 Norris, Helen Louise 244 
 
 Norris, Mabel Vawter 244 
 
 Norris, Philip Endicott 244 
 
 Obenshain, Carrie 71 
 
 Obenshain, Frank Allan 71 
 
 Obenshain, John W 71 
 
 Obenshain, Mary (Vawter) 70 
 
 Obenshain, Smith 71 
 
 O'Conner, Chester C 183 
 
 O'Conner, Elizabeth (Branham) .. 182 
 
 O'Conner, Florence Jane 183 
 
 O'Conner, Hickman D 183 
 
 O'Conner, Jesse Branham 182 
 
 O'Conner, Lenora Etha 182 
 
 O'Conner, Oral Ami 182 
 
 O'Conner, Orlando Parks 182 
 
 O'Conner, Solon B 182 
 
 O'Conner, Wilber S 183 
 
 O'Conner, William A 183 
 
 Ogden, Mary (Catching) 347 
 
 Osrden, Viola Lucreta 347 
 
 Oliver, Adolphus 294 
 
 Oliver. Henry 294 
 
 Oliver, Ira 204 
 
 Oliver, Mabel 204 
 
 Oliver, Mary (Holmes) 204 
 
 Oliver, Wendell 294 
 
 Orr, Lettie (Marsh) I97 
 
 Owen, Louise 2.30 
 
428 
 
 INDEX 
 
 PAGE 
 
 Owen, Maud (Chaille) 230 
 
 Palmer, Helen (Wise) 239 
 
 Palmer, Judson M 227 
 
 Palmer, Laura 240 
 
 Palmer, May 240 
 
 Palmer, Sadie Hester 227 
 
 Palmer, Samuel E., Jr 239 
 
 Palmer, Smith 240 
 
 Palmer, Thomas 239 
 
 Palmer, William D 240 
 
 Palmore, Earl 378 
 
 Palm.ore, Julia ( Vawter) 378 
 
 Palmore, Kate 378 
 
 Palmore, Mae 378 
 
 Palmore, Trueman 378 
 
 Parker, Cyril Rodney 107 
 
 Parker. Grace ( Stott ) 107 
 
 Patzold, Ida (Bums) loi 
 
 Payne, Amy May 357 
 
 Payne, Catherine (West) 356 
 
 Payne, Edward Melton 357 
 
 Payne, Eva Lena 357 
 
 Payne, Frank J 357 
 
 Payne, Goldie F 357 
 
 Payne, Mary Catherine 357 
 
 Peck, Clara Virginia (Vawter) . . .384 
 
 Pence, Clara (Vawter) 55 
 
 Pence, LaFayette (Vawter) 55 
 
 Perrigo, Bertha Winifred 116 
 
 Perrigo, Floyd 116 
 
 Perrigo. Sarah (Vanosdol) 116 
 
 Perry, Amy (Vawter) 283 
 
 Perry, Junia 283 
 
 Perry. Wayland 283 
 
 Perkinson, Goldie (Vawter) 318 
 
 Perkinson, Pauline 318 
 
 Philliber, Clara B 132 
 
 Philliber, Ira Grace 132 
 
 Philliber, Margaret (Vawter) 131 
 
 Philliber, Mary E 132 
 
 Philliber, Oral Floyd 132 
 
 Philliber, Orville L 132 
 
 Philliber, Otto 132 
 
 Philliber, Perry H 132 
 
 Philliber, Raymond L 132 
 
 Pickard, Anna Fern 308 
 
 Pickard, Grace Myrtle 308 
 
 Pickard, Sina (Gatlin) 308 
 
 Pickett, Addie Belle (Branham).. 185 
 
 Pickett. Glenn 185 
 
 Pickett, Hazel 185 
 
 Pickett, Mattie (Branham) 185 
 
 Pierce, Elinor Shirley 307 
 
 Pierce, Marian 307 
 
 Pierce, Myrtle (Carrell) 306 
 
 Plant, Kathleen 228 
 
 Plant, Ralph Barnett .228 
 
 Plant, Rex Malcomb 228 
 
 Plant, Stella (Barnett) 228 
 
 PAGE 
 
 Pool, Clara ( Clarkson ) 129 
 
 Porter, Charles 206 
 
 Porter, Cynthia (Cobb) 205, 206 
 
 Porter, Edward 206 
 
 Porter, Marion 206 
 
 Porth, Elma May (Crawford).. . .344 
 
 Forth, Wilma 344 
 
 Pritchard, Harry Lee 298 
 
 Pritchard. Lula (Holmes) 298 
 
 Pritchard, William R 298 
 
 Ratcliffe, Emma (Vawter) 374 
 
 Rea, Kennedy F 196 
 
 Rea, Sarah (Foster) 196 
 
 Read, Achilles 247 
 
 Read, Alice 58 
 
 Read, Bert 58 
 
 Read, Catherine (Vawter) 246 
 
 Read, Clark B 247 
 
 Read, Edgar F 247 
 
 Read, Fabricius 246 
 
 Read, James H 247 
 
 Read, Joseph S 247 
 
 Read, Marcellus 247 
 
 Read, Mattie 247 
 
 Read, Pleasant 247 
 
 Read, Samuel 247 
 
 Read, Sarah (Vawter) 57 
 
 Read, Smith H 58 
 
 Read, William 247 
 
 Reamer, Roscoe 58 
 
 Reamer, Virginia K 58 
 
 Reamer, Virginia (Read) 57 
 
 Redden, Annie (Holmes) 298 
 
 Redden, Freeman 298 
 
 Redden, Jessie 298 
 
 Reeves, Nancy (Fergason) 223 
 
 Reynolds, Margaret (Vawter) 378, 379 
 
 Rice, Allen 290 
 
 Rice, Crawford 290 
 
 Rice, May (Garden) 290 
 
 Rice, OIlie James 290 
 
 Rice, Sarah 290 
 
 Rice, William Henry 290 
 
 Riggs, Albert R 315 
 
 Riggs, Ariel 1 316 
 
 Rip-fs, Charles Edmund 315 
 
 Riggs, Charles Russell 316 
 
 Riggs, Edwin T 315 
 
 Riggs, Elizabeth Viola May 315 
 
 Riggs, Emmett V 316 
 
 Riggs, Flora Lee 315 
 
 Rii?gs, George A 315 
 
 Riggs, George W 315 
 
 Riggs, Ida May 315 
 
 Riggs, Jane Elizabeth 315 
 
 Riggs, John Thomas 315 
 
 Riggs, Julia (Vawter) 315 
 
 Riggs, Julia Catherine 315 
 
 Riggs, Julia L 316 
 
INDEX 
 
 PAGE 
 
 Kiggs, Richard J 316 
 
 Rinehart, Hattie (Dunlap) 345 
 
 Ritchie, Arthur 251 
 
 Ritchie, Charles 251 
 
 Ritchie, Esther 251 
 
 Ritchie, Everett 251 
 
 Ritchie, Ruth 251 
 
 Ritchie, Sarah (Amsden) 251 
 
 Roberts, Catherine (Rossen) 251 
 
 Robertson, Marj' ( Vawter) 386 
 
 Robinson, Alfred Edward 212 
 
 Robinson, Anna Julia 212 
 
 Robinson, Arthur 283 
 
 Robinson, Earl 283 
 
 Robinson, Edward Linsfield 212 
 
 Robinson, Ellen (Vawter) 283 
 
 Robinson, Emma (Brown) 185 
 
 Robinson, Emma Nettie 212 
 
 Robinson, Frederick Edward 212 
 
 Robinson, Leonard 283 
 
 Robinson, Mary Anna 212 
 
 Robinson, Mary Louisa 212 
 
 Robinson, Mary (Branham) 211 
 
 Robinson, Mary Rebecca 211 
 
 Robinson, Walter Scott 212 
 
 Robinson, William Hickman 211 
 
 Rodange, Louisa (Branham) iSr 
 
 Rodange, Marguerite Louise 181 
 
 Rogers, Elizabeth (Wise) 241 
 
 Rogers, Jesse 241 
 
 Rogers, Matthew 241 
 
 Rokobrant, Alice E. (Vawter) .... 165 
 
 Rokobrant, George Carl 165 
 
 Rokobrant, Myrtle Olive 165 
 
 Rossen, Amanda (Stribling) 232 
 
 Rossen, John 22,2 
 
 Rossen, Julia (Moncrief) 250 
 
 Rossen, Richard" 250 
 
 Rossman, Arnold J 102 
 
 Rossman, Cora Alice 102 
 
 Rossman, Elvie Elizabeth 102 
 
 Rossman, Eva Grace 102 
 
 Rossman, Jennie (Bayley) 102 
 
 Rossman, Nellie Viola 102 
 
 Routh, Clifford 282 
 
 Routh, Evan B 282 
 
 Routh, Florence (Vawter) 282 
 
 Rowan, Carrie (Vawter) 58 
 
 Rowan, Vawter 59 
 
 Rutherford, Emma 318 
 
 Rutherford, Ernest 318 
 
 Rutherford, Harry 318 
 
 Rutherford, Howard 318 
 
 Rutherford, Katherine 318 
 
 Rutherford, Mary (Vawter) 318 
 
 Rutherford, Roy 318 
 
 Ryan, Emma (Branham) 208 
 
 Ryan, Harry 208 
 
 Ryan, Robert 208 
 
 429 
 
 PAGE 
 
 Sanborn, Emma (Branham) 193 
 
 Sanborn, Fred Roi 193 
 
 Sanborn, Lsaac Basil 193 
 
 Sanborn, Joseph Warren 193 
 
 Sanborn, Perita 193 
 
 Sanborn, Thor Warren 193 
 
 Sanford, Charles Vawter 227 
 
 vSanford, Gussie 227 
 
 Sanford, Junius Palmer 228 
 
 Sanford, Lydia Hester (Stribling) 226 
 
 Seaman, Bertha (Waldcn) 186 
 
 Settle, Josephine (Vawter) 379 
 
 Settle, Margaret Berneice ^y^ 
 
 Shanklin, Jennie (Vawter) 383 
 
 Shaw, Cora (Smith) 60 
 
 Shawancy, Julia (Heflin) 250 
 
 Sheehan, Annie Agnes 266 
 
 Sheehan, Annie (Harris) 265 
 
 Sheehan, Eugene Andrew 266 
 
 Sheehan, George Curry 266 
 
 Sheehan, John Edward 266 
 
 Sheehan, Joseph Daniel 265 
 
 Sheehan, Mary Elizabeth 265 
 
 Sheehan, Martin Thomas 266 
 
 Sheets, Elizabeth (Vawter) 160 
 
 Sheets, Emma A 160 
 
 Sheets, Narcissa F 160 
 
 Shelton, Alpha (Vawter) 7 
 
 Snelton, Smedley 7 
 
 Shepherd, Ethel (Wagner) 129 
 
 Shepherd, Ralph 129 
 
 Shields, David G 345 
 
 Shields, Hattie Lauretta 345 
 
 Shields, Lottie (Dunlap) 345 
 
 Shig, Amanda (Vaughn) 267 
 
 Shig, Katie 267 
 
 Shig, Richard 267 
 
 Shinold, Alvaretta (Vawter) 134 
 
 Shinold, Arthur E 134 
 
 Shinold, Matilda A 134 
 
 Shoff, Mabel (Fuller) 344 
 
 Simpson, Josephine Ellen 286 
 
 Simpson, Martha C. (Vawter) . . . .285 
 
 Simpson, Vernon Oak 286 
 
 Sims, Ada (Smith) 302 
 
 Sims, Hugh Graeme 302 
 
 Sims, Richard Raymond 302 
 
 Sites, Edna (Burns) loi 
 
 Smartz, Bessie Ruth 150 
 
 Smartz, Everett Marion 150 
 
 Smartz, Katie Frances 150 
 
 Smartz, Margaret Fay 1 50 
 
 Smartz, Mary Elizabeth 150 
 
 Smartz, May (Feagler) 149 
 
 Smartz, Robert George 150 
 
 Smartz, Wilhelmina H 150 
 
 Smith, Alfred W 347 
 
 Smith, Alma 60 
 
 Smith, Anna Rachel 348 
 
430 
 
 INDEX 
 
 Smith 
 Smith 
 Smith 
 Smith 
 Smith 
 Smith 
 Smith 
 Smith 
 Smith 
 Smith 
 Smith 
 Smith 
 Smith 
 Smith 
 Smith 
 Smith 
 Smith 
 Smith 
 Smith 
 Smith 
 Smith 
 Smith 
 Smith 
 Smith 
 Smith 
 Smith 
 Smith 
 Smith 
 Smith 
 Smith 
 Smith 
 Smith 
 Smith 
 Smith 
 Smith 
 Smith 
 Smith 
 Smith 
 Smith 
 Smith 
 Smith 
 Smith 
 Smith 
 Smith 
 Smith 
 Smith 
 Smith 
 Smith 
 Smith 
 Smith 
 Smith 
 
 PAGE 
 
 Annie (Vawter) 261 
 
 Archibald 301 
 
 Basil Duke 303 
 
 Burnley Duke 302 
 
 Catherine (Vawter) 300 
 
 Charles S 303 
 
 Elliott Minor 303 
 
 Elmer 60 
 
 Emma 60 
 
 George Keland 303 
 
 George L 347 
 
 George Robert 347 
 
 Grayce 188 
 
 Ida (Vawter) 376 
 
 James Crawford 347 
 
 Jennievee 376 
 
 Jesse R 347 
 
 Jesse Vawter 347 
 
 John Allen 347 
 
 John H 347 
 
 PAGE 
 
 John 
 Julia 
 L. E. 
 
 .302 
 
 (Burns) 241 
 
 303 
 
 Lillian (Vawter) 74 
 
 Louisa H 347 
 
 Martha Jane (Storey) 60 
 
 Mary Catherine 3*^3 
 
 Mary (Foster) 188 
 
 Mary (Hedges) 327 
 
 Mary (Vawter) 56 
 
 Mattie Emmett 303 
 
 Melita F 261 
 
 Milton V 56, 57 
 
 Nancy (Vawter) 261 
 
 Nannie (Hunter) 239 
 
 Nira E 347 
 
 Olive L (Vawter) 284 
 
 Rachel ( Crawford ) . . . 346-349 
 
 Rebecca (Crawford) 346 
 
 Richard Ricks 303 
 
 Roy 60 
 
 Sarah 261 
 
 Spottswood G 303 
 
 Thomas Allan 74 
 
 Thomas Benton 347 
 
 Thomas B., Jr 347 
 
 Viola C 347 
 
 Vivian Minor 3^3 
 
 Walter 60 
 
 Wanda 301 
 
 William Franklin 347 
 
 Snell, Olive (Grinstead) 133 
 
 Snyder, Blanche (Battey) 308 
 
 Snyder, Floyd T 308 
 
 Snyder, Waldo A 308 
 
 Soward, Gladys 189 
 
 Soward, Lucy (Foster) 189 
 
 Soward, Ross 189 
 
 Soward, Winnie 189 
 
 Speare, Mabel (Lattimore) 64 
 
 Sprague, Daisy Belle (Read) 58 
 
 Spriggs, Riley 250 
 
 Spriggs, Scott 250 
 
 Staggs, Frances ( Vanosdol) 116 
 
 Stahl, Effie (Stout) 287 
 
 Stapp, Anna C. (Robinson) 211 
 
 Stapp, Ely 9 
 
 Stapp, Florence 211 
 
 Stapp, Mary 211 
 
 Stapp, Milton 9 
 
 Stapp, William 211 
 
 Starks, Benjamin Earl 301 
 
 Starks, Florence Althea 302 
 
 Starks, Frank William 301 
 
 Starks, James Lee 302 
 
 Starks, Mary (Williamson) 301 
 
 Starks, Millicent Laverne 302 
 
 Starks, Myrtle Lucile 301 
 
 Stellhorn, Ethel 185 
 
 Stellhom, Jennie (Brown) 185 
 
 Stennett, Arta (Lewis) 345 
 
 Stennett, Claud Atherton 345 
 
 Stennett, Vera Camille 345 
 
 Sterrett, Carrie Belle 365 
 
 Sterrett, Davie Lewise 365 
 
 Sterrett, Etta Roberta 365 
 
 Sterrett, Mead Dowel 365 
 
 Sterrett, Robert A 365 
 
 Sterrett, Sarah J. (Vawter) 364 
 
 Stewart, Virginia (Tutt) 292 
 
 Stitt, Curte C 224 
 
 Stitt, Ford G 224 
 
 Stitt, Nellie 224 
 
 Stitt, Nellie ( Corbitt ) 224 
 
 Stitt, Samuel 224 
 
 Storey, Blanche 62 
 
 Storey, Charles 61 
 
 Storey, Cora V 61 
 
 Storey, David 62 
 
 Storey, Elizabeth 63 
 
 Storey, Emily 61 
 
 Storey, Ezra 61 
 
 Storey, Frances C 64 
 
 Storey, Frank 61 
 
 Storey, George W 64 
 
 Storey, Guy 63 
 
 Storey, James Marshall 62, 63 
 
 Storey, Jane (Vawter) 59, 60 
 
 Storey, John T 63 
 
 Storey, John V 60, 61 
 
 Storey, John V. (George W.).... 64 
 
 Storey, Mabel Emma 64 
 
 Storey, Margaret H 64 
 
 Storey, Martha (Wise) 61, 239 
 
 Storey, Oscar Sears 63 
 
 Storey, Ralph G 64 
 
 Storey, Riley Clark 63, 64 
 
 Storey, Smith William 61, 62 
 
INDEX 
 
 PAGE 
 
 Storey, Smith William, Jr 62 
 
 Storey, Smith William C George 
 
 W.) 64 
 
 Storey, Thomas Andrew 64 
 
 Storey, Thomas Henry 62 
 
 Storey, William David 61 
 
 Stott, Cyril H 108 
 
 Stott, Elizabeth (Vawter) ...104, 105 
 
 Stott. Mary F 108 
 
 Stott, Roscoe G 108 
 
 Stott, Wilfred T 107 
 
 Stott, William T 106, 107 
 
 Stott, Vawter 105 
 
 Stout, Herbert Oscar 287 
 
 Stout, Laura Mabel 287 
 
 Stout, Sabrina (Vawter) 287 
 
 __Stribling, Annie Russell 228 
 
 Stribling, Charles Morehead 228 
 
 Stribling, Ernest Gilderoy 229 
 
 Stribling, Frederick Slaton 225 
 
 Stribling, Harry Leo 225 
 
 Stribling, Jesse Vawter 224 
 
 Stribling, John 225 
 
 Stribling, John Malcomb 225 
 
 Stribling, RLiry 226 
 
 Stribling, Milton S 232 
 
 Stribling, Newton W 232 
 
 Stribling, Pleasant 223 
 
 Stribling, Sallie Ann 225 
 
 Stribling, Sarah (Vawter) ...215-220 
 
 Stribling, Silas 233 
 
 Stribling, Thomas Tibbett 225 
 
 Stribling, Uriah 233 
 
 Stribling, William L 229 
 
 Stribling, William Morehead 225 
 
 Stricklett, Alverda (Truesdell) . . .328 
 
 Stricklett, Earl Rea ^^^28 
 
 Stricklett, Shubert 328 
 
 Sweeny, Sarah J. (Vawter) 384 
 
 Swiney, Mary (Hayden) 319 
 
 Svmpson, Amanda (Vawter) 378 
 
 Svmpson, Electa 378 
 
 Sympson, Ingram 378 
 
 Sympson, Jenievee 378 
 
 Tanksley, Albert 117 
 
 Tanksley, Charles W 117 
 
 Tanksley, Henry F 117 
 
 Tanksley, James M 117 
 
 Tanksley, Louisa (Vawter) 117 
 
 Tanksley, Minnie 117 
 
 Tanksley, Samuel 117 
 
 Tanksley. Thomas Oliver 117 
 
 Tatom, Barteels 223 
 
 Tatom, Cecilia 223 
 
 Tatom, Jennie (Neblett) 222 
 
 Tatom, Kate Eugene 223 
 
 Taylor, Charles 133 
 
 Taylor, Deny 133 
 
 Taylor, Ella (Grinstead) 133 
 
 431 
 
 PAGE 
 
 Taylor, Frank 133 
 
 Taylor, Harold 133 
 
 Taylor, Jessie (Sanford) 227 
 
 Taylor, Mabel 133 
 
 Taylor, Myrtle 133 
 
 Taylor, Olive 133 
 
 Telford, Leila (Branham ) 208 
 
 Thompson, Naomi (Gregg) 262 
 
 Thompson, Frank Vawter 262 
 
 Thrallkill, Polly (Vawter) 244 
 
 Tidd, Edith 240 
 
 Tidd, Florence (Wise) 240 
 
 Tiffany, Maria (Lewis) 351 
 
 Tillotson, Flora E 326 
 
 Tillotson, L. B. Arden 326 
 
 Tillotson, Minnie (Hedges) 326 
 
 Tingle, Elizabeth Vawter 264 
 
 Tingle, Harry Giovannoli 264 
 
 Tingle, Mary (Giovannoli) 264 
 
 Tingle. Leonard G 264 
 
 Tompkins, Josephine (Vawter) .. .386 
 
 Torbet, Mary (Moncrief) 253 
 
 Trick, Emma (Moncrief) 106 
 
 Tripp, Frank 203 
 
 Tripp, Mary (Webb) 203 
 
 Truesdell, Alecy (Vawter) 328 
 
 Truesdell, Oleta 329 
 
 Truesdell, Quintus Vawter. . .328, 329 
 
 Truesdell, Sallie 328 
 
 Tullis, Margaret (x\mos) 298 
 
 Tullis, Lola B 298 
 
 Tutt, Alice 289 
 
 Tutt, Annie Hope 289 
 
 Tutt, Arthur C 292 
 
 Tutt, Benjamin F 292 
 
 Tutt, Ben Floyd 289 
 
 Tutt, Benjamin Lee 293 
 
 Tutt, Birdie May 293 
 
 Tutt, Carrie L 292 
 
 Tutt, Charles L 288 
 
 Tutt. David Vawter 289 
 
 Tutt, Eugene Noval 293 
 
 Tutt, Frank M 292 
 
 Tutt, George D 292 
 
 Tutt, George W 288 
 
 Tutt, Henry Day 291 
 
 Tutt, Henry M 292 
 
 Tutt, Horace R 292 
 
 Tutt, Ida Bell 293 
 
 Tutt, James 289 
 
 Tutt, James E 293 
 
 Tutt, James Elliott 289 
 
 Tutt, James Leonard 289 
 
 Tutt, Jephtha 293 
 
 Tutt. Jesse 293 
 
 Tutt, John If 293 
 
 Tutt, John L 292 
 
 Tutt, John P 288 
 
 Tutt, Lawrence W 289 
 
432 
 
 INDEX 
 
 PAGE 
 
 Tint, Lena S 292 
 
 Tutt, Mamie A 292 
 
 Tutt, Meredith D 292 
 
 Tutt, Myra 289 
 
 Tutt, Oscar Elliott 293 
 
 Tutt, Otis Floyd 292 
 
 Tutt, Robert L 293 
 
 Tutt, Sabrina (Vawter) 288 
 
 Tutt, Thomas 293 
 
 Tutt, Wyatt 293 
 
 Umensetter, Arietta (Lewis) 351 
 
 LTmensetter, Charles H 351 
 
 L^mensetter, Clara R 351 
 
 Umensetter, Edith A 351 
 
 Vandergrift, Cora (West) 358 
 
 Vandergrift, Esther 358 
 
 Vandergrift, Ethel 358 
 
 Van Horn, Ada (Grinstead) 133 
 
 Vanosdol, Cora Lee 117 
 
 Vanosdol, Isaac Morton 117 
 
 Vanosdol, James Monroe 116 
 
 Vanosdol. Katherine (Vawter) . . . 
 
 115, 116 
 
 Vanosdol, Lulu Ludica 117 
 
 Vanosdol, Scott 116 
 
 Vanosdol, William Weaver 117 
 
 Van Trees, Mary (Branham) 214 
 
 Varian, Emma (Vawter) 314 
 
 Varian, George William 314 
 
 Varian, Jessie Cornelia 314 
 
 Vater, Agnes Eugenie 123 
 
 Vater, Aramantha (Vawter) 122 
 
 Vater, Thomas Eugene 123 
 
 Vater, Williamson Dunn 123 
 
 Vaughn, Amanda (Vawter) 267 
 
 Vaughn, Allen K 267 
 
 Vaughn, Beulah ( Webb) 203 
 
 Vaughn, Eugene Morris 203 
 
 Vaughn, George W 267 
 
 Vaughn, Jesse 203 
 
 Vaughn, Joseph Webb 203 
 
 Vaughn, Lesley Ellsworth 267 
 
 Vaughn, Manles E 267 
 
 Vaughn, Metta L 267 
 
 Vaughn, Ollie M 267 
 
 Vaughn, Raymond 267 
 
 Vaughn, Roger F 267 
 
 Vaughn, Sarah Agnes 203 
 
 Vaughn, Stanley Edison 267 
 
 Vaughn, Richard Vawter 267 
 
 Vaughn, William Russell 203 
 
 Vaught, Leila 203 
 
 Vaught, Ruth (Webb) 203 
 
 Vickers, Gladys Lee 368 
 
 Vickers, John Francis 368 
 
 Vickers, Lucy Octavia 368 
 
 Vickers, Mary Elizabeth 368 
 
 Vickers, Mary L. (Vawter) 368 
 
 Vickers, Thomas Edwin 368 
 
 PAGE 
 
 Vickers, William Ernest 368 
 
 Victory, Ella Octavia (Vawter) . .369 
 
 Waggoner, Charles 295 
 
 Waggoner, Harold Coke 225 
 
 Waggoner, Olivia (Holmes) 295 
 
 Waggoner, Jessie Aline 225 
 
 Waggoner, Mary E 295 
 
 Waggoner, INIattie (Stribling) . . . .225 
 Wagner, Elizabeth (Branham).. .. 193 
 
 Wagner, Jesse R 129 
 
 Wagner, Margaret (Vawter) 129 
 
 Wagner, Mary Elizabeth 193 
 
 Walden, Ada 186 
 
 Walden, Alice 186 
 
 Walden, Bonnie 186 
 
 Walden, Carl 186 
 
 Walden, Charles F 186 
 
 Walden, Clarence 186 
 
 Walden, Dorothy 186 
 
 Walden, Ezra F 186 
 
 Walden, Frances (Branham) 186 
 
 Walden, Harry 186 
 
 Walden, Homer 186 
 
 Walden, James Richey 186 
 
 Walden, John 186 
 
 Walden, Leslie 186 
 
 Walden, Lillian 186 
 
 Walden, Mauree 186 
 
 Walden, Noble 186 
 
 Walden, Orion Noble 187 
 
 Walden, Otis Morton 187 
 
 Walden, Susie 1S6 
 
 Walden, Uriah Branham 186 
 
 Walden, William 186 
 
 Walden, William Orval 186 
 
 Walker, Albert Dudley 297 
 
 Walker, Nancy Katherine 
 
 (Holmes) 297 
 
 Waltmire, Ernest Everett 285 
 
 Waltmire, Otis Vernon 285 
 
 Ward, Charles 252 
 
 Ward, Charles E 252 
 
 Ward, Everett 252 
 
 Ward, John 252 
 
 Ward, Josephine E 253 
 
 Ward, Katherine A 253 
 
 Ward, Mary Ferris 253 
 
 Ward, Raymond L 253 
 
 Ward, Sarah (Moncrief ) 252 
 
 Warren, Annie Gertrude 232 
 
 Warren, Chris. Duncan 232 
 
 Warren, David L 226 
 
 Warren, Ella 226 
 
 Warren, Ethel 225 
 
 Warren, Guy M 226 
 
 Warren, Henry E 226 
 
 Warren, Joanna (Chaille) 231 
 
 Warren, John Edward 231 
 
 Warren, John L 226 
 
INDEX 
 
 433 
 
 Warren, Lula (Malcomb) 
 
 Warren, Mary Addie 
 
 Warren, Max H 
 
 Warren, Myrtle 
 
 Warren, Newton Homer 
 
 Warren, Paul Frederick 
 
 Warren, Wyly Brown 
 
 Waters, Annie L. (Branham) 
 
 Waters, Arley 
 
 Waters, Dunward 
 
 Waters, Virgil 
 
 Watson, Azilee (Garden) 
 
 Watson, Etwell 
 
 Watson, George 
 
 Watson, Sallie May 
 
 Watson, Vernon 
 
 Waugh, Henry 
 
 Webb, Arthur 
 
 Webb, Benjamin 
 
 Webb, Edwin P 
 
 Webb, Howard 
 
 Webb, Ida M 
 
 Webb, Julia (Branham) 
 
 Vs'ebb, Jesse 
 
 Webb, Jesse Lamar 
 
 Webb, Levon B 
 
 Webb, Mary B 
 
 Webb, Mary E 
 
 Webb, Nelle 
 
 Webb, Rov H 
 
 Webb. Wilbur Hilton 
 
 Webb, William 
 
 Webb, Winifred E 
 
 Welch, Gharles V 
 
 Welch, Glarence V 
 
 Welch, Frank J 
 
 Welch, Grace B 
 
 Welch, Margaret L. ( Vawter) . . . , 
 
 Welch, Margaret R 
 
 Welch, Mary E 
 
 Welch, Nellie F 
 
 Welch, Robert G 
 
 Welch, Sarah Belle (Vawter) 
 
 Welch, William O 
 
 West, Ann (Glover) 
 
 West, Aramantha (Vawter) 
 
 West, C. Mabel 
 
 West, Charles H 
 
 West, Charles J 
 
 West, Charles W. (James) 
 
 West, Charles W. (William) 
 
 West, David C 
 
 West, Eldo R 
 
 West, Elizabeth 
 
 West, Elizabeth (Blair) 330, 
 
 West, Ella 
 
 West, Elma A 
 
 West, Emma L 
 
 West, Ira 
 
 PAGE 
 
 ..225 
 . -231 
 . .226 
 . .226 
 • • 232 
 ..231 
 ■ -232 
 . . 184 
 ..185 
 ..185 
 ..185 
 . .291 
 . .291 
 ..291 
 . .291 
 . .291 
 ..366 
 . .204 
 . .203 
 . .202 
 . .203 
 . .202 
 . .202 
 . .202 
 . .202 
 . .204 
 . .202 
 ..203 
 . .204 
 . .204 
 . .202 
 
 203 
 204 
 279 
 280 
 279 
 280 
 279 
 
 279 
 280 
 
 279 
 280 
 280 
 280 
 
 354 
 135 
 360 
 
 359 
 361 
 136 
 
 359 
 360 
 
 359 
 
 356 
 358 
 355 
 359 
 360 
 
 355 
 
 West, James .. 
 
 West, Jesse M. 
 
 West, 
 
 West, 
 
 West, 
 
 West, 
 
 135, 
 
 J. Judson 
 
 J. Silas 
 
 John 
 
 Lillian Rose 
 
 West, Margaret Marie 
 
 West, Mary Jessamine 
 
 West, Milton S 
 
 West, Minnie 
 
 West, Myron E 
 
 West, Samuel 
 
 West, Samuel W 
 
 West. Sarah Ethel 
 
 West, Sarah (Glover) 
 
 West, Silas W 
 
 West, Stephen A 
 
 West, Susie 
 
 West, Sylvia 
 
 West, Thomas H 
 
 West, William H. (J. Judson). 
 West, William 
 West, William 
 
 H. 
 
 M. 
 
 Whitcomb, Emma (Clarkson). 
 
 White, Bessie 
 
 White, Martha (Vawter) 
 
 White, Mattie (Malcomb) 
 
 White, Robert (Malcomb) 
 
 Whitson, Maggie (Burns).... 
 
 Whittemore, Arthur Monroe. . 
 
 Whittemore, Mary (Gullet). 
 
 W 
 
 W 
 
 W 
 
 W 
 
 W 
 
 W 
 
 W 
 
 W 
 
 W 
 
 W 
 
 W 
 
 W 
 
 W 
 
 W 
 
 W 
 
 W 
 
 w 
 w 
 w 
 w 
 w 
 w 
 w 
 w 
 w 
 w 
 w 
 w 
 
 Icox, Laurence 
 
 Icox, Mattie (Vanosdol) . . . . 
 
 Icox, William Gilbert 
 
 Ihite, Anne 
 
 Ihite, Elliott 
 
 Ihite, Ely 
 
 Ihite, Melinda 
 
 ite, Nancy 
 
 ams, Almira Corinne 
 
 ams, Emma (Vawter) . . . . 
 
 ams, Fannie (Holsclaw).. 
 
 ams, Helene 
 
 ams, Lois Mildred 
 
 ams, Mary Louesa 
 
 ams, Maud 
 
 ams, Maud (Branham)... 
 
 ams, Theodosia (Vawter). 
 
 ams, Virgil Elvin 
 
 amson. Althea 
 
 amson, Althea Grey 
 
 amson, Althea Lee 
 
 am.son, Dorothy E 
 
 amson, Frederick B 
 
 amson, James W 
 
 amson, Leander A 
 
 lliamson, Martha TSmith) . . 
 
 lliamson, Ruth Artensia 
 
 Ison, Bertha 
 
 I'AGE 
 
 357 
 .360 
 
 •359 
 .358 
 •355 
 .358 
 
 •359 
 .360 
 
 •358 
 ■355 
 .360 
 
 •355 
 •355 
 .136 
 
 • 356 
 .360 
 ■355 
 •355 
 
 ■ .^59 
 ■355 
 .360 
 
 ■355 
 .358 
 .129 
 .226 
 
 • 3-0 
 .276 
 .226 
 
 ■ 09 
 .1^0 
 .iSo 
 .ri6 
 .116 
 .116 
 
 ■ 7 
 
 ■ 7 
 
 / 
 .130 
 ■159 
 -139 
 
 • 139 
 
 • 139 
 
 • 159 
 .159 
 .185 
 .165 
 .139 
 .300 
 .302 
 ..wr 
 .301 
 
 • 301 
 ..^01 
 .301 
 .300 
 .301 
 .183 
 
434 
 
 INDEX 
 
 PAGE 
 
 PAGE 
 
 Wilson, Cristel 183 
 
 Wilson, Leslie C 183 
 
 Wilson, Mabel 183 
 
 Wilson, Nora (O'Conner) 183 
 
 Wilson, Omer 183 
 
 Wise, Copeland 238 
 
 Wise, Edgar D 239 
 
 Wise, Julia ( Vawter) 2^"]. 238 
 
 Wise, Mack B 240 
 
 Wise, Prudence 241 
 
 Wise, Virginia 240 
 
 Wright, Nellie (West) I35 
 
 Wright, Opal I35 
 
 Wright, Robert W 135 
 
 Wolf, Artemecia (Stribling) 235 
 
 Wolf, Harry E 236 
 
 Wolf, Ida (Branham) 208 
 
 Wolf, Martha E 236 
 
 Wolf, Nancy Hester 236 
 
 Wolf, Sarah Frances 235 
 
 Wolf, Thomas Elmer 236 
 
 Wolf, Walter M 236 
 
 Wolfert, Emily (Campbell) 66 
 
 Wood, Carrie (Fesler) 71 
 
 Wood, Harold H 72 
 
 Wood, Mary Cynisea 207 
 
 Wood, Nannie (Branham) 207 
 
 Wood, Ruth (Obenshain) ■/2 
 
 Wood, Virginia Branham 207 
 
 Wooden, Arthur E 235 
 
 Wooden, Elizabeth (Wolf) 235 
 
 Wooden, Fannie B 235 
 
 Wooden, Minnie O 235 
 
 Wooden, Perry M 235 
 
 Wooden, Walter B 235 
 
 Wooden, William D 235 
 
 Yeager, Cora ( Vawter) 74 
 
 Young, Chatie Luciel 222 
 
 Young, Ellie (Sanford) 227 
 
 Young, Elizabeth (Vawter) 383 
 
 Young, J^va 222 
 
 Young, Mary Lee 222 
 
 Yonng, Myrtle 222 
 
 Young, Nannie C. (Neblett) 222 
 
RELATED TO THE VAWTER 
 FAMILY BY MARRIAGE 
 
 PAGE 
 
 Ackman, George 267 Bramwell 
 
 Adams, Wayland 294 Bramwell 
 
 Adams, Sylvester 360 Bramwell 
 
 Allen, Alice (Bratton) 305 Bramwell 
 
 Allen, Bertha (Harvey) 306 Bramwell 
 
 Allen, George V 305 Branham, 
 
 Allen, Mae Alarian (Crafts) 306 Branham, 
 
 Allen, Margarette (Caldwell) ....305 Branham, 
 
 Allen, Zella (Newton) 306 Branham, 
 
 Amback, Charles A 307 Branham, 
 
 Amos, Clara (Gallaher) 299 Branham, 
 
 Amos, James T 298 Branham, 
 
 Amsden, Caleb 251 Branham, 
 
 Amsden, Ida (Thompson) 251 Branham, 
 
 Amsden, Josephine ( ) 252 Branham, 
 
 Amsden, Sophie (Dean) 252 Branham, 
 
 Anderson, Joseph F 225 Branham, 
 
 -Anderson, W. T 227 Branham, 
 
 Atherton, Lewis G 342 Branham, 
 
 Atwood, Gordon B 193 Branham, 
 
 Atwood, James K 187 Branham, 
 
 Bain, Mandeville 188 Branham, 
 
 Baker, George B 66 Branham, 
 
 Baldwin, George 196 Branham, 
 
 Balzer, George W 1 16 Branham, 
 
 Banta, George 56 Branham, 
 
 Barker, W. A 298 Branham, 
 
 Barnes, Myron E 300 Branham, 
 
 Barnett, Mary (Thompson) 228 Branham, 
 
 Bamett, Virgil A 228 Branham, 
 
 Battey, Dwight R 308 Branham, 
 
 Baxter, Charles 376 Branham, 
 
 Baxter, Thomas 354 Branham, 
 
 Bayley, Clara Summers 102 Branham, 
 
 Bayley, Henry 102 Branham, 
 
 Baylev, Melinda (Lamson) 102 Branham, 
 
 Beacham, Braxton 263 Branham, 
 
 Beechly, 57 Branham, 
 
 Beeman, Oscar 139 Branham, 
 
 Bell, Seaborn 364 Branham, 
 
 Benefiel, William 162 Branham, 
 
 Bickford, George 194 Branham, 
 
 Bicknell, Ernest P 147, 148 Branham, 
 
 Binkley, Jesse 291 Branham, 
 
 Blair, Thomas 330 Branham, 
 
 Boeckley, Henry W 115 Branham, 
 
 Bohall, Everett R 186 Branham, 
 
 Bowman, M. J 221 Branham, 
 
 Bowling, Corwin 359 Branham, 
 
 PAGE 
 
 , Adelia (Francisco) ...213 
 , Lillian (Farnsworth) .213 
 
 , Lillie (Robinson) 213 
 
 , Mary (Reilly) 213 
 
 Solon C 212 
 
 Adaline (Nichols) 206 
 
 Alcey (Davis) 181 
 
 Caroline (Bateman) . . . .192 
 
 Cynthia (Watson) 204 
 
 Daisy (Lee) 209 
 
 Dicy Green 194 
 
 Lienor (Wilton) 192 
 
 Elizabeth (Brumit) 184 
 
 Emma (Friedersdorf)..207 
 
 Eveline (Adams) 195 
 
 Frances Watson 210 
 
 Ida Belle ( Cooper) 184 
 
 Ida (Newsome) 208 
 
 Ira E. (Downey) 184 
 
 Jessie ( Bruce ) 185 
 
 Jessie (Greenleaf) 180 
 
 Jessie (Ryker) 209 
 
 John 178 
 
 Julia (McDowell) 179 
 
 Kate (Bromley) 192 
 
 Kate (Faulkner) 180 
 
 Kate (Owens) 210 
 
 Leiitia (Kidd) 204 
 
 Linsfield 201 
 
 Livia Jane ( Stow ) 208 
 
 Lotta (Hunter) 206 
 
 Louisa (Hutchins) 210 
 
 Louisiana (Compton).. . 183 
 
 Margaret (Comer) 193 
 
 Martha (La Masters) . . .179 
 
 Mary (Butler) 178, 179 
 
 Mary (Davis) I79 
 
 ^Lary (Gilbert) 193 
 
 Mary (Kareger) 179 
 
 Mary (Stapp) 9 
 
 Mary (Stark) 180 
 
 Mary Wilson I93 
 
 May (Galvin) 181 
 
 Melinda (Watson) 207 
 
 Nancy (Stapp) 9 
 
 Nancy ( Owens ) 194 
 
 Nettie (Hand) 181 
 
 Nettie (Springer) 208 
 
 Priscilla (0'Laughley)..2i4 
 
436 
 
 INDEX 
 
 PAGE 
 
 Branham, Rose (Strother) 195 
 
 Branham, Sarah (Huckleberry).. . 182 
 
 Branham, Susan (Halbert) 195 
 
 Branham, Vera ( Miller) 193 
 
 Briggs, Robert J 380 
 
 Brooks, John 183 
 
 Brooks, Joseph 116 
 
 Brougher, A. L 197 
 
 Brown, Araminta (McElroy) 185 
 
 Brown, Hiram 325 
 
 Brown, Rose (Walrick) 185 
 
 Brown, Samuel 185 
 
 Brown, William Henry 131 
 
 Burckhardt, John G 115 
 
 Burckhardt, Minnie (Baker) 115 
 
 Burns, Mary C. (Smydth) 99 
 
 Burns, Eudora ( Danf orth ) 100 
 
 Burns, Georgia Minnick 99 
 
 Burns, Julia (Tomlinson) 99 
 
 Burns, Maxa 96, 97 
 
 Bums, Mary (Coleman) 99 
 
 Burns, Nancy (Smith) 98 
 
 Bums. Sarah (Black) 98 
 
 Bums, Taulman 241 
 
 Burns, William R 181 
 
 Calloway, Thomas 210 
 
 Campbell, Allan 65 
 
 Campbell, Carolyn (Otterman).. . . 66 
 
 Campbell. Carrie (Davis) 65 
 
 Campbell, Granville P 189 
 
 Campbell, Janice (Findus) 66 
 
 Campbell, Margaret (Coan) 65 
 
 Garden, Mary (Hawkins) 291 
 
 Garden, Netta (Binkley) 290 
 
 Garden, Rebecca (Guthrie) 290 
 
 Garden, Sallie (Brown) 291 
 
 Garden, William Henry 289 
 
 Carey, Charles H 134 
 
 Carnegie. 252 
 
 Carney, T. B 358 
 
 Carrell, George W 306 
 
 Carson, Edwin 139 
 
 Catching, James 347 
 
 Ghafifin, 240 
 
 Chaille, Alice ( Neal ) 234 
 
 Chaille, Carrie (Christman) 231 
 
 Chaille, Ella (Lambertson) 234 
 
 Chaille, F. A. (Posey) 230 
 
 Chaille, James N 233 
 
 Chaille, Josiah 229 
 
 Chaille, L. J. (Dickson) 230 
 
 Chaille, Minnie (Hall) 231 
 
 Chaille, Mollie (Absher) 234 
 
 Chaille, Susan (Tate) 230 
 
 Ghilders, 232 
 
 Church, ^42 
 
 Clark, John E 223 
 
 Clark, J. D 303 
 
 Clarkson, Thom.as 129 
 
 PAGE 
 
 Cobb, Edith (Fedder) 206 
 
 Cobb, Minnie (Beeker) 206 
 
 Cobb, Minnie (Cotton) 206 
 
 Cobb. Samuel 205 
 
 Coffey, Byron H 195 
 
 Cole, 318 
 
 Coleman, Catherine (Cross) 309 
 
 Coleman, James 354 
 
 Coleman, John A 309 
 
 Conger, Elias 351 
 
 Conger, Quint 290 
 
 Conover, William 344 
 
 Cook, Lorenzo Dow 383 
 
 Cook, O. A 189 
 
 Cook, Peyton Lacy 379 
 
 Cooke, J. W 369 
 
 Gorbitt, Ada (Plant) 224 
 
 Gorbitt, Allen T 223 
 
 Gorbitt, Bessie (Plant) 224 
 
 Gorbitt, R. M 229 
 
 Gorbitt, Rena (McCreary) 224 
 
 Cornelius, Henry 196 
 
 Costigan, Frank 210 
 
 Covert, John M 193 
 
 Crane, Archer H 211 
 
 Crawford. Alice (Adams) 343 
 
 Crawford, Anna Mills 343 
 
 Crawford, Cora (Spencer) 342 
 
 Crawford, Elizabeth (Dunlap).. . .342 
 
 Crawford, Elizabeth (Finley) 341 
 
 Crawford, Jam_es Maxwell 338 
 
 Crawford, Letitia (Smith) 338 
 
 Crawford, Margaret (Gartwright) 343 
 
 Crawford, Mary (Cowgill) 346 
 
 Crawford, Mary J. (Waymire) . ...343 
 
 Gronkhite, Lee 325 
 
 Grum, Irvin R 134 
 
 Gull. Harry 318 
 
 Curtis, James 231 
 
 Daniels, B. F 263 
 
 Daly. 194 
 
 Davis, Daniel 190 
 
 De Garmo, Everett 310 
 
 Denger, Albert 326 
 
 Deupree, John W 170 
 
 Dickson, A. W 230 
 
 Dixon, Joe Curtis 210 
 
 Dixon, Lincoln 61 
 
 Donlon. Thomas 301 
 
 Doubt, Jefferson 277 
 
 Doughty, Charles A 317 
 
 Draper, Winfield S 334 
 
 Duncan, W. A 224 
 
 Dunlap, Graciel (Tabler) ^aa 
 
 Dunlap, M. A 344 
 
 Dunning, Richard 70 
 
 Eads, John 319 
 
 Edwards, Alice (Epps) 221 
 
 Edwards, James 220, 221 
 
INDEX 
 
 437 
 
 PAGE 
 
 Edwards, MoUie (Dickson) 221 
 
 Edwards, Zerelda (Malcomb) 221 
 
 Eichelburger, James W 267 
 
 Elder, J. P 366 
 
 Enix, Joseph B 326 
 
 Evans, • 239 
 
 Everson, Jesse 185 
 
 Farnier, William 384 
 
 Feagler, Helen (Gardener) 149 
 
 Feagler, Mary (King) 148 
 
 Feagler, Ormand 148 
 
 Felts. Exie 302 
 
 Fenton, Edwin 343 
 
 Fergason, Nathaniel 221 
 
 Fesler, Joseph L 71 
 
 Fesler, Lula (Coleman) 71 
 
 Fink, Edward 369 
 
 Firebaugh, C. E 325 
 
 Fisher, Herbert 334 
 
 Fitzhugh, H. T 307 
 
 Fitzhugh, Hattie (South) 308 
 
 Fleming, William 183 
 
 Ford, John W 292 
 
 Forester, Stephen 223 
 
 Foster, Annie (Powell) 189 
 
 Foster. Isabelle (Green) 188 
 
 Foster, Jared 187, 188, 196 
 
 Foster, Sadie (Brock) 188 
 
 Fowlkes, R. E 226 
 
 Fox, 361 
 
 Freeman, William W 297 
 
 Fruit, Ellen (Grossman) 278 
 
 Fruit, Jefferson 277 
 
 Fruit, Jessie (Morrison) 277 
 
 Fruit, Sallie (Mocroft) 2^]^ 
 
 Fuller, V. R 344 
 
 Gatlin, James 304 
 
 Gatlin, Mattie Dunn 309 
 
 George, Frank B 309 
 
 Gibbens. Morton R 309 
 
 Gill, J. S 327 
 
 Gillan, James 284 
 
 Gillan, William 284 
 
 Giltner, George 355 
 
 Giovannoli, Andrea 263, 264 
 
 Giovannoli, Carrie (Kinnaird) . . . .264 
 
 Gish, George 289 
 
 Glover, James 354 
 
 Glover; (Tucker) 361 
 
 Glover, Mary E. (Hunter) 361 
 
 Glover, Melita (Barnett) 361 
 
 Glover, 320 
 
 Good, Leslie 187 
 
 Goodson, Spencer M 278 
 
 Gordon, Joseph 179 
 
 Gordon, R. A 374 
 
 Graham, Joseph 300 
 
 Gray, J. M 232 
 
 Gray, Joseph W 135 
 
 PAGE 
 
 Greer, J. J 298 
 
 Gregg, George 262 
 
 Griffith, J. C 314 
 
 Grindell, Wilbur 180 
 
 Grinstead, Dana ( Norris ) 133 
 
 Grinstead, Lewis P 351 
 
 Grinstead, Thomas F 133 
 
 Gullet, Grace ( Sherman ) 180 
 
 Gullet, Josephine (Campbell) 180 
 
 Gullet, Monroe 180 
 
 Hagan, James 378 
 
 Hall, Charles E 360 
 
 Ham, Charles 197 
 
 Hardin, Benjamin G 378 
 
 Hardy, James 164 
 
 Harold, Alfonso R 334 
 
 Harper, Robert L 231 
 
 Harris, Edward 262 
 
 Harris, Mary (Harris) 263 
 
 Harris, William H 331 
 
 Harrison, George L 227 
 
 Harwood, S. S 121 
 
 Hawley, Augustus 278 
 
 Hayden, 319 
 
 Heath, Bowen C 130 
 
 Hedges, Effie (Saunders) 327 
 
 Hedges, Ida (Heloy) 325 
 
 Hedges, Levi M 326 
 
 Hedges, Mamie (Wills) 328 
 
 Hedges, Mary (Atkinson) 325 
 
 Hedges, Mary Mildred (Wear).. ..327 
 
 Hedges, Peter T 324 
 
 Hedges, Vietta (Kingham) 2,2'] 
 
 Heflin, Morgan 250 
 
 Henson, Samuel 290 
 
 Hilton, John W 71 
 
 Hinchman, Henry 253 
 
 Hinman, Charles Walter 284 
 
 Hinman, Mary (Leonard) 285 
 
 Hobart, C. L 203 
 
 Hobson, John W .300 
 
 Hockmuth, C. H i33 
 
 Hodge, 292 
 
 Holland, Edward 262 
 
 Holland, Emma (Rogers) 263 
 
 Holland, L. C 2(i:^ 
 
 Holmes, John W 293 
 
 Holmes, Josephine (Freeman) ... .297 
 
 Holmes, Laura (Hopkins) 295 
 
 Holmes, Laura (Jones) 295 
 
 Holmes, Margaret (Alexander) .. .295 
 
 Holmes, Mary (Brann) 294 
 
 Holmes, Mary (Pitman) 295 
 
 Holmes, Mrs. Puryear 295 
 
 Holmes, Nancy (Jones) 294 
 
 Holmes, Tassie (Moore) 295 
 
 Holsclaw, Mattie (Deer) 13O 
 
 Holsclaw, William 138 
 
 Holsclaw, Zclla (Wagner) 139 
 
438 
 
 INDEX 
 
 PAGE 
 
 Holton, H. L 130 
 
 Hunter, Charles E 240 
 
 Hunter, James R 278 
 
 Hunter, W. T 239 
 
 Hutsell, Allen B 357 
 
 Irwin, Charles 332 
 
 Isaacs, Abram 277 
 
 Jackson, T. L 222 
 
 Jackson, W. Stirling 228 
 
 Jenkins, John 57 
 
 Jenkins, William A 186 
 
 Johnson, Richard 332 
 
 Johnson, Samuel 253 
 
 Jones, A. C 189 
 
 Jones, Ansley F 188 
 
 Jones, Charles A 342 
 
 Jones, G. W 365 
 
 Jones, J. West 306 
 
 Joyce, Maurice 331 
 
 Kanofif, Jacob N 305 
 
 Kendall. Harry A 265 
 
 Kenny, Fred G 108 
 
 Kerr, George S 169 
 
 Kerr, Moses 383 
 
 Kessick. William 241 
 
 Kimball, James W 343 
 
 King, Caroline ( Vandever) 140 
 
 King, Edward 246 
 
 King, George 137, 138 
 
 King, J. F 356 
 
 King, Minnie (Tate) 140 
 
 King. Robert 149 
 
 Kincart, 250 
 
 Kingsley, Frederick 240 
 
 Kirk, John F 290 
 
 Kittle, Richard D 254 
 
 Kyle. James 246 
 
 Laswell. Corydon 135 
 
 Larkins, Thomas 63 
 
 Lattimore. Daniel 64 
 
 Leavitt, Ward 120 
 
 Lee, Howard 170 
 
 Lewis, Alexander 350 
 
 Lewis, Ann (Grinstead) 350 
 
 Lewis, Charlotte (Parks) 351 
 
 Lewis, Effie (Buchanan) 351 
 
 Lewis, Francisco 365 
 
 Lewis, Timothy A 345 
 
 Little, H. M 344 
 
 Long, George S 212 
 
 Loomis, George B 104 
 
 Lukenbill, Sherman 247 
 
 Luther. Frank 296 
 
 Malcomb. Ethel (Fowlkes) 226 
 
 Malcomb, Flora Elton 226 
 
 Malcomb, John 225 
 
 Malcomb, Mattie (Plant) 226 
 
 Marsh, Lucebra W 197 
 
 Marshall, Edward 364 
 
 PAGE 
 
 Marshall, Frank 187 
 
 Marshall, Orrin 238 
 
 Martin, John E 240 
 
 Maynor, Walter E 293 
 
 Mays, W. W 223 
 
 McAllister, Jack 297 
 
 McCann, James 366 
 
 McCauley, Edward 202 
 
 McCauley, William H 225 
 
 McColley, W. G 187 
 
 McColm, W. Jesse 285 
 
 • McDaniels, Sanford 266 
 
 McDonald, William E 356 
 
 Mclntyre, 355 
 
 McKey, 361 
 
 McNew. Benjamin 182 
 
 Mead. Lewis A 287 
 
 Michels, 314 
 
 Miller, Henry 229 
 
 Miller. Nora (Brown) 229, 230 
 
 Miller, Moses M 134 
 
 Millican, B. T 239 
 
 Milliken, William A 331 
 
 A'litchell, F. F 222 
 
 Mitchell, Mattie (Anderson) 296 
 
 Mitchell, Lucille (Wheat) 296 
 
 Mitchell, Sarah (Anderson) 296 
 
 Mitchell, William M 295, 296 
 
 Mitchell, Willis 245 
 
 Moncrief, Abner 249 
 
 Moncrief, Cvnthia (Montgomery). 251 
 
 Moncrief, Maxa 106 
 
 Moncrief, Rebecca (Wilson) 251 
 
 Montgomery, Ira 252 
 
 Moody, R. H 303 
 
 Moody, Edna (Russel) 303 
 
 Moodey, William F 132 
 
 Moore, Albert W 210 
 
 Moore, John R 124 
 
 Morgan, James 235 
 
 Morrisett, G. C 228 
 
 Mosley, Joseph 266 
 
 Mullen, John 328 
 
 Mullis, 250 
 
 Neblett, Bettie (Oliver) 222 
 
 Neblett, George 222 
 
 Neblett. Mattie (Mabry) 222 
 
 Neel, Henry D 185 
 
 Negley, Charles F 227 
 
 Nelson, 197 
 
 Netherland, John A 316 
 
 Newell, 361 
 
 Newland, Dallas loi 
 
 Newland, Elsie (Cox) 102 
 
 Newman, F. A 286 
 
 Nichols, William 319 
 
 Noble, J. B 369 
 
 Norris. James C 244 
 
 Obenshain, Berda (Ream) 71 
 
INDEX 
 
 439 
 
 PAGE 
 
 Obenshain, George 70 
 
 O'Conner, Elsie (Davis) 182 
 
 O'Conner, Florence 182 
 
 Ogdcn, Edward F 347 
 
 Oliver, William L 294 
 
 Orr, 197 
 
 Owen, Robert 230 
 
 Palmer, Junius M 227 
 
 Palmer, Samuel E 239 
 
 Palmore, Ansel F 378 
 
 Parker, Clark R 107 
 
 Patzold. Oswald loi 
 
 Payne, Jacob J 356 
 
 Payne, Maggie (Palmer) 357 
 
 Peck, Lewis 384 
 
 Pence, LaFayette 55 
 
 Perkinson, Otis ? 18 
 
 Perrigo, W. R 116 
 
 Perry, Parker 283 
 
 Philliber, William F 131 
 
 Pickard, Aaron 308 
 
 Pickett, David N 185 
 
 Pickett, Samuel H 185 
 
 Pierce, John C 307 
 
 Plant, Charles G 228 
 
 Pool, William 129 
 
 Forth, William E 344 
 
 Porter, E. D 206 
 
 Pritchard, W. J 298 
 
 Ratcliffe, 374 
 
 Rea, Davidson 196 
 
 Read, Alice (Richcreek) 58 
 
 Read, Mabel (Adams) 58 
 
 Read, Elijah 57 
 
 Read, Eliza (Veasey) 247 
 
 Read, Hiram 246 
 
 Read, Lottie ( Doutch ) 247 
 
 Read, Sallie (Anderson) 247 
 
 Reamer, William S 57 
 
 Redden, Samuel 298 
 
 Reeves, Thomas B 223 
 
 Reynolds, W. A 379 
 
 Rice, Watson 290 
 
 Riggs, Catherine (Russell) 316 
 
 Riggs, Elizabeth (Walhouser) . . . .315 
 
 Riggs, Mary (Haberstich) 315 
 
 Riggs, Thomas 315 
 
 Rinehart, Fred D 345 
 
 Ritchie, Walter 251 
 
 Roberts, 251 
 
 Robertson, Harrison 386 
 
 Robinson, Edward J 21 r 
 
 Robinson, Joseph 283 
 
 Robinson, Waldo 185 
 
 Rodange, Peter 181 
 
 Rogers, Ephraim 241 
 
 Rnkobrant, Theodore H 165 
 
 Rossen, John 232 
 
 Rossen, 250 
 
 PAGE 
 
 Rossman, Jesse L 102 
 
 Routh, William 282 
 
 Rowan, George 59 
 
 Rutherford, Emma (King) 318 
 
 Rutherford, Harvey 318 
 
 Ryan, James R 208 
 
 Safely, Charles T 347 
 
 Sanborn, Joseph^ W 193 
 
 Sanford, John O 227 
 
 Seaman. 186 
 
 Settle, O. L 379 
 
 Shanklin, Andrew 383 
 
 Shaw, 60 
 
 Shawancy, 250 
 
 Sheets, Charles 160 
 
 "Sheehan, Daniel 265 
 
 Shepherd. Martin A 129 
 
 Shields, John A 345 
 
 Shig, 
 
 267 
 
 Shinold, John A 134 
 
 Shoff, Park S 344 
 
 Simpson, Richard J 285, 286 
 
 Sims, W^illiam H 302 
 
 Sites, William M loi 
 
 Smartz, McArthur 149 
 
 Smith, Alice (Lane) 303 
 
 Smith, Amelia (Whitten) 347 
 
 Smith, Beulah (Grant) 303 
 
 Smith, C. L 188 
 
 Smith, Catherine (Oaks) 302 
 
 Smith, Charles E 327 
 
 Smith, Clarence 284 
 
 Smith, Emma (Thomas) 348 
 
 Smith, Eugene 376 
 
 Smith, Isaac N 56, 57 
 
 Smith, J. L 60 
 
 Smith, James 261 
 
 Smith, John 261 
 
 Smith, Minnie (Martin) 347 
 
 Smith. Mollie (McLaughlin) 302 
 
 Smith, Nellie (Whitten) 347 
 
 Smith, Peter 346 
 
 Smith, Snottswood K 300 
 
 Smith, Thomas LaFayette 74 
 
 Snell, J. W 133 
 
 Snyder, Virgil L 308 
 
 Soward, Alfred 189 
 
 Speare, Willis Bradley 64 
 
 Sprague, Perley J 58 
 
 Spriggs, 250 
 
 Stas^^s. Albert C 116 
 
 Stahi, Lewis G 287 
 
 Stapp, Achilles 9 
 
 StaDp, Hamilton 211 
 
 Starks, William H 301 
 
 Stellhorn, George 185 
 
 Stennett, Wilson B 345 
 
 Sterrett, M, D 364 
 
 Sterrett, Etta (Davis) 365 
 
440 
 
 INDEX 
 
 PAGE 
 
 PAGE 
 
 Stewart, William 292 
 
 Stitt, A. C 224 
 
 Storey, Addie Moore 61 
 
 Storey, Alice (Stonebrook) 64 
 
 Storey, Hepsie (Johnson) 64 
 
 Storey, Lena (Carlisle) 62 
 
 Storey, Lucia (Barnum) 63 
 
 Storey, Mary (Storey) 60 
 
 Storey, Meta (Mella) 63 
 
 Storey, Parnie O. (Hamilton).... 64 
 
 Storey, Rose (Shaefer) 63 
 
 Storey, Titia ( Sharp) 62 
 
 Storey, Thomas J 59, 60 
 
 Stott, Arabella R. (Tracey) . .106, 107 
 
 Stott, John 105 
 
 Stout, Katherine (Roberts) 287 
 
 Stout, M. Franklin 287 
 
 Stribling, Elizabeth (Taulman) . . .232 
 
 Stribling, Emma (Stephens) 225 
 
 Stribling, Hester (Cobb) 233 
 
 Stribling, Nancy (Moncrief) 232 
 
 Stribling. Sallie Box 225 
 
 Stribling, Sarah (Keith) 233 
 
 Stribling, Sarah (Taulman) 229 
 
 Stribling, Susan (Jackson) 228 
 
 Stribling, Susan (Yarbrough) 224 
 
 Stribling, Thomas 220 
 
 Stribling, Zerelda (Dahoney) 223 
 
 Stricklett, Robert 328 
 
 Sweeny, Frank P 384 
 
 Swiney, William 319 
 
 Sympson, Joseph M 378 
 
 Tanksley, Christena (Wesaw) 117 
 
 Tanksley, Thomas 117 
 
 Tatom, Eugene S 222 
 
 Taylor, A. J I33 
 
 Taylor, Edgar 227 
 
 Telford, W. E... 208 
 
 Thompson, Martin 262 
 
 Tidd, E. B 240 
 
 Tiffany, C. S 35i 
 
 Tillotson, Bertie '26 
 
 Tingle, Leonard 264 
 
 Tompkins, Stonewall 386 
 
 Torbet, Robert 253 
 
 Trick, Robert D 106 
 
 Tripp, Jasper 203 
 
 Truesdell, Flora (Ferris) 329 
 
 -Truesdell, Jesse L 328 
 
 Tullis, W. P 298 
 
 Tutt, Emily (West) 289 
 
 Tutt, Florence (West) 289 
 
 Tutt, Lewis 288 
 
 Tutt, Lockey (Gambreal) 293 
 
 Tutt, Margaret (Powell) 289 
 
 Tutt, Mariah (Donley) 288 
 
 Tutt, Mary 'Duke) 288 
 
 Tutt, Mary (Wood; 291 
 
 Tutt, (Farmer) 292 
 
 Tutt, Virginia (Wood) 292 
 
 Umensetter, W. R 351 
 
 Vandergrift. G. W 358 
 
 Van Horn, T. F 133 
 
 Vanosdol, Elizabeth (Gibbs) 116 
 
 Vanosdol, George 116 
 
 Vanosdol, Mollie (Pence) 116 
 
 Van Trees, 214 
 
 Varian, George H 314 
 
 Vater, Grace (Barker) 123 
 
 Vater, Septimius 122, 123 
 
 Vaughn, Elizabeth (Robertson).. ..267 
 
 Vaughn 
 Vaughn 
 Vaughn 
 Vaught 
 Vawter 
 Vawter 
 Vawter 
 Vawter 
 Vawter, 
 Vaw^ter, 
 Vawter, 
 Vawter, 
 Vawter, 
 Vawter, 
 Vawter, 
 Vawter 
 Vawter 
 Vawter, 
 Vawter 
 Vawter 
 Vawter 
 Vawter 
 Vawter 
 Vawter, 
 Vawter 
 Vawter 
 Vawter 
 Vawter, 
 Vawter 
 Vawter 
 Vawter 
 Vawter, 
 Vawter 
 Vawter 
 Vawter 
 Vawter 
 Vawter 
 Vawter 
 Vawter, 
 Vawter 
 Vawter, 
 Vawter 
 Vawter 
 Vawter 
 Vawter 
 Vawter 
 Vawter 
 
 George W 267 
 
 Hannah (Kipfer) 267 
 
 Luther F 203 
 
 Augustus 203 
 
 Ada (Wilson) 284 
 
 Adah (Vivian) 317 
 
 Adaline (Dunlap) 384 
 
 Alice (Campbell) 69 
 
 Alice (Hadley) 145 
 
 Alma (Dixon) 318 
 
 Almeida (Rollins) 168 
 
 Ann (Hickinson) 313 
 
 Anna (Gray) 276 
 
 Anne (Ballard) 382 
 
 Anne (Shepherd) 246 
 
 Annie (Brigham) 283 
 
 Annie (Hawthorn) 335 
 
 Annie (LeGill) 171 
 
 Angeline (Brace) 162 
 
 Angeline (Cheever) 130 
 
 Armilda Hollister 169 
 
 Barbara (Kroher) iii 
 
 Bedie (Dewbre) 377 
 
 Bessie (Channel) 127 
 
 Caroline (McGill) 319 
 
 Carrie (Timmons) 69 
 
 Catherine (Gunnerman).. 112 
 
 Catherine (Hickey) 72 
 
 Charlotte ( Vogler) 374 
 
 Charlotte (Hobart).. 142, 144 
 Charlotte (Knowlton).. . .120 
 
 Clara (Peck) 384 
 
 Clara (Miller) 146, 147 
 
 Clara (Monroe) 160 
 
 Claudine (Fowler) 376 
 
 Cora (Kiser) 326 
 
 Daisy (Tolle) 118 
 
 Delia (Morrison) 329 
 
 Diana (Moncrief) 163 
 
 Edith (Henning) 283 
 
 Ella (Brown) 70 
 
 Elenor (Floyd) 277 
 
 Eliza (Goodhue) 246 
 
 Eliza (Gwinn) 384 
 
 Eliza (Mavity) 324 
 
 Eliza (Todd) 244 
 
 Elizabeth Baker 142, 143 
 
INDEX 
 
 PAGE 
 
 Vawter, Elizabeth (Caplinger).. . .318 Vawter, 
 
 Vawter, Elizabeth (Crawford).. . .324 Vawter, 
 
 Vawter, Elizabeth (Grinstead).. . . 131 Vawter, 
 
 Vawter, Elizabeth (Irwin) 333 Vawter, 
 
 Vawter, Elizabeth ( Kean ) 384 Vawter, 
 
 Vawter, Elizabeth (Sinclair) 378 Vawter, 
 
 Vawter, Elizabeth (Stewart) 299 Vawter, 
 
 Vawter, Elizabeth (Smith) 56 Vawter, 
 
 Vawter, Elizabeth (Waters) 315 Vawter, 
 
 Vawter, Elizabeth (Watts) 11 Vawter, 
 
 Vawter, Emily (Cooprider) 261 Vawter, 
 
 Vawter, Emily (Gambill) 280 Vawter, 
 
 Vawter, Emma (Damson) 385 Vawter, 
 
 Vawter, Emma (Graupner) 1 12 Vawter, 
 
 Vawter, Emma (Ketcham ) 69 Vawter, 
 
 Vawter, Emma (May) 137 Vawter, 
 
 Vawter, Emma (Thomas) 159 Vawter, 
 
 Vawter, Ethel (Ransdall) 334 Vawter, 
 
 Vawter, Etta (Hill) 333 Vawter, 
 
 Vawter, Ettie (Dickerson) 368 Vawter, 
 
 Vawter, Eva (Savior) 278 Vawter, 
 
 Vawter, Flora (Keith) 326 Vawter, 
 
 Vawter, Frances (Ames) 334 Vawter, 
 
 Vawter, Frances ( Fatten) 162 Vawter, 
 
 Vawter, Frances (Watts) 313 Vawter, 
 
 Vawter, Hattie J. (Woodruff) ... .133 Vawter, 
 
 Vawter, Helen (Read) 152 Vawter, 
 
 Vawter, Huldah (Kendricks) 58 Vawter, 
 
 Vawter, Ida (Britton) 162 Vawter, 
 
 Vawter, Ida ]\Iay (McCoy) 329 Vawter, 
 
 Vawter, Ida (Rahe) 114 Vawter, 
 
 Vawter, Ida (Springsteen) 117 Vawter, 
 
 Vawter, Isabelle Nelson 126 Vawter, 
 
 Vawter, Ivie (McCullough) 282 Vawter, 
 
 Vawter, Jane (Leach) 245 Vawter, 
 
 Vawter, Jane (Smith) 23 Vawter, 
 
 Vawter, Jane (Terrell) 54 Vawter, 
 
 Vawter, Jennie (Moore) 73 Vawter, 
 
 Vawter, Josephine (Churchwell) . . 118 Vawter, 
 
 Vawter, Josie (Willin) 170 Vawter, 
 
 Vawter, Josie (Quinn) 170 Vawter, 
 
 Vawter, Julia (Davidson) 160 Vawter, 
 
 Vawter, Julia (Pack) 383 Vawter, 
 
 Vawter, Kate A. (Luty) 112 Vawter. 
 
 Vawter, Katherine (Ecker) 283 Vawter, 
 
 Vawter, Kittie (Radway) 278 Vawter. 
 
 Vawter, Laura (Dixon) 126 Vawter, 
 
 Vawter, Laura (Shaddy) 171 Vawter, 
 
 Vawter, Laura (Smart) 73 Vawter, 
 
 Vawter, Leila Hunter 57 Vawter, 
 
 Vawter, Letitia (Smith) 338, 339 Vawter, 
 
 Vawter, Lillian (Lepper) 168 Vawter, 
 
 Vawter, Lillie (Hibbs) 170 \ awter, 
 
 Vawter, Lizzie (Davis) 284 Vawter, 
 
 Vawter, Louesa (Bachman) . .158, 159 Vawter, 
 
 Vawter, Louisa (Chestnut) 281 Vawter, 
 
 Vawter, Louisa (Miller) 281 Vawter, 
 
 Vawter, Lucinda (Glover) 363 Vawter, 
 
 Vawter, Lucinda (Johnson) 131 Vawter, 
 
 441 
 
 PAGE 
 
 Lura (Sanderson) 330 
 
 Lydia (Yarrington) 288 
 
 Mahala (Sanders) 132 
 
 Margaret (Henderson).. .382 ■ 
 Margaret (McAdams).. . .278 
 
 Margaret (Ross) 134 
 
 Margaret A. (Sawyer)... 73 
 
 Maria (Bright) 56 
 
 Maria (Dunham) 142 
 
 Maria (Graves) 381 
 
 ]Maria (Lame) 332 
 
 Martha (Hess) 282 
 
 IMartha (Humphreys) . . . .331 
 
 Martha Pearce 23 
 
 Alartha (Pyle) i6r 
 
 ]Martha (Roush) 332 
 
 Martha (Smith) 243 
 
 Martha (Weir) 364 
 
 Mar>' (Adair) 385 
 
 Alary (Bright) 283 
 
 Marj^ (Brown) 58 
 
 Mar>' (Cowell) 168 
 
 Mary (Crowder) 119 
 
 Mary (Elder) 331 
 
 Mary (Durkee) 366 
 
 Mary (Furgason) 377 
 
 Mary (Helper) 299 
 
 Mary (Huxtable) 286 
 
 Mary (Mclntyre) 165 
 
 Mary (Nichols) 318 
 
 Marj^ Nodler 246 
 
 Mary (Ravenal) 319 
 
 Mary (Rucker) 8 
 
 Mary ( Singer) 160 
 
 Mar3' (Sparks) 373 
 
 Marv (Straughter) 112 
 
 Mary (Williams) 329 
 
 Mary J. (Williams) 379 
 
 Mary (Zane) 288 
 
 Matilda (Johnston) 316 
 
 Matilda F. Christman. . . .113 
 
 Mazelle (Ayrcs) 314 
 
 Melissa (Crawford) 380 
 
 Minerva (Bromley) 136 
 
 Minerva (Ross) 135 
 
 ]\Iinnie (Bevans) 279 
 
 Minnie (Harris) 282 
 
 Myrta (Bourne) 377 
 
 N. S. Philliper iii 
 
 Nancy (Raycroft) 369 
 
 Nancy ( Chapman ) 375 
 
 Nancy (Johnson) 246 
 
 Nancy ( Raycroft ) 369 
 
 Nancy (Smith) 375 
 
 Nettie (Baber) 384 
 
 Nolie (Carter) 367 
 
 Pamelia (Dwyer) . . . 109, iii 
 
 Pollv (Larimore) 375 
 
 Polly (Smith) 23 
 
^^ 
 
 442 
 
 INDEX 
 
 PAGE 
 
 Vawter, Rachel (Robinett) 314 
 
 Vawter, Rebecca (Mahafy) 67 
 
 Vawter, Rose (Smith) 2,77 
 
 Vawter, Rosella (Milligan) 245 
 
 Vawter, Ruth (Minton) 22, 
 
 Vawter, Sallie (Kj'le) Davis 245 
 
 Vawter, Sallie (Snyder) 317 
 
 Vawter, Sarah (Finley) 2>22) 
 
 Vawter, Sarah (Davies) 283 
 
 Vawter, Sarah (Foster) 281 
 
 Vawter, Sarah ( Hamilton) 279 
 
 Vawter, Sarah Alaynard 58 
 
 Vawter, Sarah (McClaskey) 124 
 
 Vawter, Sarah (McShane) 374 
 
 Vawter, Sarah (Pardun) 334 
 
 Vawter, Sarah (Parks ) 128 
 
 Vawter, Sarah (Snelling) . . . .258-260 
 
 Vawter, Sarah (Watts) 156 
 
 Vawter, Sarepta (Hamilton) 282 
 
 Vawter, Sydney Olive ( Willis) ... 164 
 
 Vawter, Spicy (Carroll) 57 
 
 Vawter, Stella (Crichlow) 69 
 
 Vawter. Sue (Sebree) 168 
 
 Vawter, Susan (Conner) 316 
 
 Vawter, Susan (Degman) 329 
 
 Vawter, Susan (Hollandsworth) . .377 
 
 Vawter, Susan (Taylor) 2,72> 
 
 Vawter, Sylvia (Hunter) 151 
 
 Vawter, Tillie (Nix) 163 
 
 Vawter, Valera (Crawford) 380 
 
 Vawter, Vesta (Sears) 367 
 
 Vawter, Virginia (Longley) 386 
 
 Vickers, Lemuel M 368 
 
 Victory, A. S 369 
 
 Waggoner, George W 225 
 
 Waggoner, William 295 
 
 Wagner, John H 193 
 
 Wagner, Lewis 129 
 
 Walden, Elizabeth (Baker) 186 
 
 Walden, Emma ( Harper) 186 
 
 Walden. James \ 186 
 
 Walden, Viola ( Smith) 186 
 
 Walker, John M 297 
 
 Waltmire, Alexander 285 
 
 Waltmire, Dora (Dazell) 285 
 
 Ward, Clara (Irwin) 253 
 
 Ward, Josie (Walkup) 252 
 
 Ward, Willis D 252 
 
 Warren, H. E 225 
 
 Warren, Nannie (Byrne) 231 
 
 Warren, Myrtle (Robinson) 232 
 
 Warren, William B 231 
 
 Waters, William 185 
 
 PAGE 
 
 Watson, George 291 
 
 Waugh, A. H 366 
 
 Webb, Elsie (Matthews) 203 
 
 Webb, Henry 202 
 
 Webb, Mary (Hilton) 202 
 
 Webb, Sarah (Brougher) 202 
 
 Welch, Robert H 280 
 
 Welch. Samuel 279 
 
 West, Achilles 356 
 
 West, Clara (Clark) 359 
 
 West, Elizabeth Blair 358 
 
 West, Eva (Grinstead) 358 
 
 West, Grace (Millhouse) 359 
 
 West, Kate Staples 355 
 
 West, Lala (Kuhn) 359 
 
 West, Lottie (Staples) 355 
 
 West, Mary (Ball) 355 
 
 West, Mary (McFarland) 358 
 
 West, Martha Clellen 359 
 
 West, Martha (Mix) 359 
 
 West, Thomas 354 
 
 West, Theresia (King) 358 
 
 Whitaker, Andrew J 292 
 
 Whitcomb Willard 129 
 
 White, J. C 370 
 
 White, William Walter 226 
 
 Whitson, Marsh R 99 
 
 Whittemore, Joseph 180 
 
 Wilcox, W. W ir6 
 
 Williams. Allan 185 
 
 Williams. George L 165, 166 
 
 Williams, Judson 159 
 
 Williams, Smith V 139 
 
 Williamson, Elizabeth (Goedeke) .301 
 
 Williamson, J. W 300 
 
 Wilson, Clarence 183 
 
 Wise, Huldah (Hall) 238 
 
 Wise. Matthew 238 
 
 Wolf, Lilly (Harsh) 236 
 
 Wolf, Michael 235 
 
 Wolf, Minnie (Corner) 236 
 
 Wolf Ufford S 208 
 
 Wolfert. Edward F 66 
 
 Wood, Edward T 207 
 
 Wood, Emerson 71 
 
 Wood, Soencer H 72 
 
 Wooden, Milton 235 
 
 Wright, Charles H 332 
 
 Wright, Otho G 135, 136 
 
 Yeager, Whitfield 74 
 
 Young, J. M. C 222 
 
 Young, Robert 383 
 
 LB -'f\ 
 
o -ci^. 
 
 .^■C:- 
 
 n'*- '-t- 
 
 f 
 
 
 
 ■^ V. 
 
 ^ 
 
 % 
 
 
 
 '^., ■;:•:*?- 
 
 
 ';<. 
 
 ^c/ 
 
 ■ S' 
 
 xO^^ 
 
 
 ,-0-' c' 
 
 o 
 
 A 
 
 'X^' 
 
 1 -^ 
 
 
 
 
 '/- ,^x 
 
 '% ^^' 
 
 'X^' * 
 
 .<^ 
 
 ,v 
 
 -3 
 
 .' ^^., 
 
 -o- 
 
 
 
 
 <:> 
 
 x>^ 
 
 .^'^• 
 
 
 
 v-^- 
 
 
 
 
 
 . '^^. * . ^. ' .'^■> 
 
 
 .^^ -^^.^ \ 
 
 "^. 
 
 
 "oo^ 
 
 t.. v" 
 
 .-^^ 
 
 A"^' 
 .^^ 
 
 :5 -^>. 
 
 V 
 
 .O^r 
 
 -^^ ^,',\^V 
 
 '^ 
 
 C'. 
 
 ^-^ 
 
 .<i 
 
 A-^" ^^ 
 
 (^■ 
 
 ( ■ 
 
 ':<. 
 
 
 
 ' >, 'o 
 
 ' " ^^' A^"^ 
 
 
 
 ^oo. 
 
 ,0 
 
 '-) 
 
 
 ■V 
 
 -bo 
 
 ?5 '<;> 
 
 .^ 
 
 
 
 cP^ 
 
 "oo^ 
 
 ^^. 
 
 %>. 
 
 
 0^ 
 
 
 •J 
 
 -^ 
 
 -is" 
 
 ^' 
 
 >%= X^' 
 
 5:^ ^c^. 
 
 \' 
 
 .0^.. 
 
 c- 
 
 
 
 
 x^^^, 
 
 V 
 
 ^ ^ ^ " " /• > 
 
 
 
 :/^~ 
 
 
 
 S" 
 
 ■ar . 
 
 ■0 
 
 
 V 
 
 
 .\v 
 
 A^ .0 
 
 .V 
 
 0^^ 
 
 
 X 
 
 S"^ 
 ■^A. 
 
 A' 
 
 V 
 
 0^ .-^'-V '"'/% 
 
 x^ 
 
 
 -^^f 
 
 
 ,o y 
 
 ^'^'^"^% 
 
 o >. 
 
 
 ■K 
 
 .^O^ 
 
 -^o ^ : 
 
 1 
 
 .A' s 
 
 >^ 
 
 :^ -n.. 
 
 
 z 
 
 
 r^' 
 
 <S'%- 
 
 
 
 c 
 
 
 ^\^ 
 
 ..■^ 
 
 
 j5 ^C^. 
 
 
 :V^^ 
 
 v\ 
 
 <:? 
 
 a'^ - 
 
 xO<=.. 
 
 J 
 
 c 
 
 
 A^ -n*^. 
 
 \^ ^x. 
 
 ^.. 
 
 ^b. 
 
 
 ■V 
 
 V^' 
 
 .V ^^ 
 
 
\%'' 
 
 •A 
 
 V t/* 
 
 
 <f 
 
 ?x. .-^' 
 
 v^'^ 
 
 
 •-' •\^ 
 
 if- 
 
 
 
 ^>. 
 
 v^ 
 
 
 
 x^ 
 
 °<. 
 
 
 
 
 
 % 
 
 > '/>. 
 
 
 
 =• 
 
 
 * . 
 
 v\' ♦ 
 
 ,■' 
 
 
 V v^^^ 
 
 
 .\0°^ 
 
 % 
 
 \6^ 
 
 v^' 
 
 •^/^. 
 
 ■>', 
 
 .^'^ 
 
 
 ^\^' ■/>, 
 
 V' 
 
 
 ^^^ V^ 
 
 ^ . 
 
 .. ,#' 
 
 ... ,/ 
 
 
 - ^ ■'ft 4 . X 
 
 ■^ c' 
 
 
 
 
 % 
 
 V , 
 
 
 
 ^'^ 
 
 \" 
 
 ?o. 
 
 v^*- 
 
 
 ^ 
 
 I 
 
 ,\ 
 
 
 
 .■^' 
 
 
 ^' 
 
 
 ''^, 
 
 V^ v^' 
 
 
 S>' '^/^ 
 
 G^ 
 
 
 
 "^A v^ 
 
 ;^- .-\: 
 
 ' " '■ '\. 
 
 vOo^ 
 
 •"oo^ 
 
 
 •t) 
 
 .^^.. 
 
 
 '■%^^ 
 
 
 
 ^^^.V^' 
 
 -*. 
 
 i; 
 
 ■' « , I 
 
 '% 4 
 
 '^ 
 
 ^ 
 
 
 ^ N 
 
 
 
 
 i.'V 
 
 
 ,0 0, 
 
 
 X^"^ 
 
 
 A^' 
 
 kV •^', 
 
 
 x\ 
 
 \ 
 
 ,( ' B 
 
 - -> ^ 
 
 
 
 
 .o°<. 
 
 "oo^ 
 
 ''<^. 
 
 V- ^ 
 
 -y 
 
 
 .-O"" 
 
 x^ -n.^ 
 
 v^^ 
 
 a' ,r. 
 
 •X*' 
 
 
 \^