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| 113 | F | i | Mary Eppes was born about 1770. She died in 1810. |
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| 114 | M | ii | James Eppes was born in 1772. He died in 1802. |
| 115 | M | iii | Francis Hamlin Eppes. | |
| 116 | M | iv | Daniel Eppes was born in 1778. He died 1 on 20 Nov 1822 in Frankfort, Kentucky. They had no children. |
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| 117 | F | v | Sarah Eppes was born in 1780/1785. She died in 1801. |
| 118 | F | vi | Elizabeth Eppes. |
28. George Pegram 1, 2 (Edward , Daniel , George ) was born on 29 Aug 1755 in Dinwiddie Co., Virginia.
George Pegram was born 29 August 1755 in Dinwiddie County, Virginia. Pegram raised a company of volunteers during the American Revolution and served as its captain. He served in the House of Delegates representing Dinwiddie County from 1786 to 1789. Pegram was a justice of the peace from 1788 to 1790. Pegram married Elizabeth Williamson and they had eight children.
Copy of land entry, 1 July 1800, for land in Dinwiddie County, Virginia, for George Pegram. Pegram presented land office treasury warrant no. 1, dated 14 November 1797, for the land. A second note, dated 8 March 1821, notes that the original was located the papers of the county clerk and that it was "mainly a probationary paper."
Personal papers collection; 27289b, Va. State Library.
George married Elizabeth Williamson. Elizabeth was born in Dinwiddie Co., Virginia.
They had the following children:
119 M i Daniel Pegram was born in Virginia. 120 M ii John Pegram. 121 F iii Elizabeth (Betsy) Pegram was born in 1779. She died before 1860. 122 F iv Katherine (Kate) Pegram was born in Dinwiddie Co., Virginia. 123 F v Hannah Pegram was born in Dinwiddie Co., Virginia. 124 F vi Sarah (Sallie) Pegram was born in Dinwiddie Co., Virginia.
Sarah was the 3rd wife of David Boisseau. They had no children.Sarah married 1 David Boisseau son of James Boisseau and Anner Fitzpatrick about 1820 in Virginia. David was born 2 in 1780 in Virginia. He died 3 in Apr 1830 in Dinwiddie Co., Virginia. 125 M vii Edward Henry Pegram was born in 1783. He died in Oct 1856.
29. Baker Pegram 1 (Edward , Daniel , George ) was born on 27 Jan 1758 in Dinwiddie Co., Virginia. He died on 14 Oct 1830.
Philip Alfeld, a descendant of Baker Pegram has provided us with the following:
He joined the 6th Virginia Regiment of Continental Line and was mustered in at Williamsburg on January 1, 1776. I wonder if he visited the graves of his grandparents in the Bruton parish churchyard not far from the muster site. He served as a sergeant in Captain Fox's company. Baker Pegram crossed the Delaware on Christmas Day 1776 with Washington and served in the campaigns of 1776-1777. He was with his regiment at Valley Forge in the winter of 1777-1778 and he was mustered out at Valley Forge in February 1778. He spent the remainder of the war as a captain in the Dinwiddie County militia and commanded his company when the militia was called out in 1780 to repel Benedict Arnold's raid along the James River. He was marching his company to Yorktown in October 1781 when he received news of Cornwallis's surrender to Washington. Following the war, Baker Pegram remained an officer in the militia. He ultimately served as a Major of one of the battalions of the Dinwiddie County regiment in the 1790s.
Baker married Mary Manson daughter of Peter Manson and Martha Susannah Hardaway.
They had the following children:
126 M i Peter Pegram 1. 127 M ii Daniel Pegram was born in Dinwiddie Co., Virginia. 128 M iii Edward Pegram was born on 14 Jan 1778. He died on 10 Apr 1824. 129 F iv Susan Manson Pegram was born in 1780. 130 F v Martha Pegram was born in 1782. She died in 1829. 131 M vi George Pegram was born in 1786 in Dinwiddie Co., Virginia. He died on 13 Dec 1813. 132 M vii Benjamin Pegram was born on 18 Nov 1792. He died on 15 Jun 1833. 133 F viii Mary Peter Pegram was born on 22 Jan 1797. 134 M ix William Baker Pegram was born on 22 Jan 1797. He died in 1877. 135 M x Nathaniel James Pegram was born in Feb 1804. He died on 31 May 1866. 136 M xi Pegram was born about 1806 in Dinwiddie Co., Virginia.
31. Ann (Nancy) Baker Pegram (Edward , Daniel , George ) was born on 4 Jul 1762. She died 1 after 1806.
Ann married Thomas Manson son of Peter Manson and Martha Susannah Hardaway about 1780 in Dinwiddie Co., Virginia. Thomas was born 1 about 1757 in Brunswick Co., Virginia. He died 2 in Apr 1806 in Brunswick Co., Virginia.
They had the following children:
137 F i Susannah Hardaway Manson died on 5 Oct 1814. 138 F ii Mary Baker Manson was born about 1785. 139 F iii Martha Pegram Manson was born on 18 Aug 1791. She died on 29 Apr 1827. 140 F iv Agnes Thweat Manson was born on 9 Dec 1793. She died on 17 Dec 1861. 141 M v Edward Manson was born about 1795. He died in 1821/1886. 142 M vi Thomas James Manson was born about 1804. He died on 15 Feb 1844.
32. Daniel Pegram (Edward , Daniel , George ) was born on 30 Mar 1767 in Dinwiddie Co., Virginia. He died on 23 Oct 1832. He was buried in Old Mason Cemetery, Mecklenberg Co., North Carolina.
Daniel married Nancy Hardaway on 4 Aug 1785 in Brunswick Co., Virginia. Nancy was born on 15 Jun 1768 in Dinwiddie Co., Virginia. She died on 13 Nov 1815 in North Carolina. She was buried in Old Mason Cemetery, Mecklenberg Co., North Carolina.
She is buried in the Mason Cemetery (a/k/a Youngblood Cemetery). This cemetery is located at the end of Youngblood Road, in lower Steele Creek. The cemetery sits in a field located near the banks of Lake Wylieand in the 1800s, was near the Wright's Ferry, where the oldCharlotte-York road crossed the Catawba River before the Buster Boyd Bridge was built. The property the cemetery was originally on belonged to the Mason family. In 1851, Richard Calvin Youngblood purchased the property from the Mason Estate. The property remained in the Youngblood family until the land was purchased by Duke Power Co. to build Lake Wylie.
Daniel and Nancy had the following children:
143 M i Edward Pegram was born on 14 Feb 1787. He died on 29 Aug 1878. 144 F ii Mary Pegram was born on 27 Feb 1789. She died on 20 Aug 1843. 145 M iii Thomas Pegram was born on 20 Apr 1791. He died in Aug 1818. 146 F iv Susan Pegram was born on 20 Apr 1793 in Dinwiddie Co., Virginia. She died on 14 Oct 1891 in South Point, Gaston Co., North Carolina. Susan married Edward T. Brandon on 20 Jan 1832. Edward was born about 1808 in North Carolina. He died in 1871. 147 F v Nancy Pegram was born on 31 Jan 1796. 148 M vi Winchester Pegram was born on 23 Jan 1799. He died on 28 Nov 1862. 149 F vii Martha Pegram was born on 10 Mar 1802. 150 F viii Harriet Pegram was born on 6 Jun 1804. She died on 26 Oct 1832. 151 F ix Julia Ann Pegram was born on 21 Aug 1806 in Dinwiddie Co., Virginia. She died on 20 Jun 1874. She was buried in Old Mason Cemetery, Mecklenberg Co., North Carolina. 152 F x Emeline Pegram was born on 20 Jun 1809 in Dinwiddie Co., Virginia. 153 F xi Adeline Pegram was born on 26 Mar 1812 in Dinwiddie Co., Virginia.
33. Thomas Henry Rives (Mary Pegram , Daniel , George ) was born about 1740 in probably, Prince George, Virginia. He died in 1809 in Chatham Co., North Carolina.
The will of Thomas Henry Rives, in which he disposed of some 33 slaves and other property, was dated June 10, 1807, and proved February 1809, in Chatham county, N. C., as follows:
In the name of God Amen I Thomas Rives of the County of Chatham and State of North Carolina being of sound and perfect mind and memory (blessed be to God) do this tenth day of June in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and seven make and publish this my last Will and Testament in manner and form following viz:
1st. I give and bequeath unto my son Thomas Rives in addition to the land I have before given him One Negro Man named Step to him and his heirs forever previously delivered unto my said son Thomas.
2nd. I give and bequeath unto my son Edwards Rives in addition to the Land I have before given him, one Negro Man named Pompey to him and his heirs forever previously delivered unto my said son Edwards.
3rd. I give and bequeath unto my son John Rives in addition to the Land before given him one negro Man named Adam to him and his Heirs forever previously delivered unto my said son John Rives.
4. I give and bequeath unto my son Reuben Rives one Negro Man named Anthony and all that tract of Land whereon I now live known by the name of the Barrax with all the other Lands belonging to me adjoining said Tract, one good Feather Bed and Furniture, one good Horse Four Head of Cattle with other furniture necessary for a new beginner as to Housekeeping and working Tools sufficient for his plantation and unto him my said son Reuben his heirs and assigns forever.
5. I give and bequeath unto my Daughter Martha Four Negroes (to wit) Lucy and her two children named Jerry and London, also a negro Girl Priscilla and their increase unto my said daughter her heirs and assigns forever. 6th I give and bequeath unto my daughter Mary Two Negro Women that is Frank and Clarissa, also one Negro girl Sarah and two negro Children one named Lewis and the other Dilly and their increase unto my said daughter her Heirs and assigns forever.
7th I give and bequeath unto my daughter Rebecca a negro Winch called Silvey a negro girl named Veney and a negro boy named Osborne and their increase unto my said daughter Rebecca her Heirs and assigns forever.
8th. I give and bequeath unto my Two children William Rives and Johanna Turner Fifty dollars to be divided equally between them having given each of them their portion of property at the time of my residence in Virginia.
9th. I give and bequeath unto my Grand Daughter Mary Rives daughter of my son Thomas Rives, one Negro Girl called Lizza and her increase unto my said Grand daughter and her heirs forever.
10th. I leave unto my wife Mary Nine Negroes that is two fellows young Phil and old Phil and three boys Caleb, James & John, also two Negro Women, Jude and Hannah & Hannah's two Daughters, Jinny and Jude and at my said Wife's decease I will that the nine Negroes should be equally divided among her children to have and to hold them and their Heirs forever. I also lend unto my Wife Mary Rives as much of my Household furniture, Wagon, Still, working Tools, Horses and Stock those things I lend during her life or rather such a part, as she shall deem necessary to support her comfortably during her life and at her decease to be equally divided among her Children. And I further devise that my wife should have the use of the Land and plantation or as much thereof as is necessary for her support comfortably during life and after that to be immediately be possessed by my son Reuben as before mentioned. Further I give and bequeath unto my present Wife's Children, seven negroes that is old Ned Young Ned, Peter, Tom, Stephen, Pere & a Negro Winch Clark with her increase. Also I will that all my remaining Stock, furniture, Money &c. should be equally divided after paying all my Just debts among my present Wifes Children to have to hold to them and their heirs forever. And I hereby make and ordain my Four Sons Thomas, Edwards, John and Reuben Rives and also my Three sons in law James McMath Robert Wilkinson and Abraham Gerred executors of this my last will & testament. In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand & seal the day & year before written.
Thomas Rives (Seal).
Signed, Sealed & published in presence of us Wm. Edwards J. B. Edwards
To those whom it concerns, be it remembered by them that as part of the Negroes included in my Will were left unto my Wife Mary by her Father during her life and at her decease to her Children Jointly; as such to prevent any contention among my said children after my decease relative to said negroes I do hereby promote this obligation.
It is therefore that my said Children do hereby obligate and bind themselves their heirs &c. firmly to abide by the contents of my last Will and Testament in full. And they do hereby agree if they should ever intentionally either of them deviate from the same that then and in that case their property contained in the Will shall devolve unto the other Legatees, otherwise to remain firmly and substantially theirs as by the Will. In witness whereof they have hereunto set their hands and seals this 10th June 1807.
Witness John McMath
William ClarkThomas Rives Seal
Edwards Rives Seal
John Rives Seal
Reuben Rives Seal
James McMath Seal
Robt. Wilkerson Seal
Abraham Gerred Seal
Thomas married (1) Eleanor Neal 1 on 24 Nov 1764 in Amelia Co., Virginia. Eleanor was born in Amelia Co., Virginia. She died about 1767.
Eleanor Neal, was the daughter of David Neal of Amelia Co., Virginia who, on May 23, 1768, deeded to his "two grandchildren William Rives and Joannah Rives, son and daughter to Thomas Rives, four negroes and their increase, named Phillis, Dusillah, Doll and Marriah after me and my wife's decease, to be equally divided between them."
They had the following children:
154 F i Joanna (Joanah) Rives was born in 1765. She died about 1836. 155 M ii William McGuffy Rives was born on 24 Dec 1767. He died about 1839.
Thomas married (2) Mary Edwards in 1769 in Dinwiddie Co., Virginia. Mary was born in Dinwiddie Co., Virginia. She died after 1807.
Others have shown her name to be Ann.
Thomas and Mary had the following children:
156 M iii Thomas Rives was born about 1770. He died in 1842. 157 F iv Martha Rives was born about 1772. 158 F v Mary Rives was born about 1774. 159 M vi Edwards Rives was born on 19 Mar 1775. He died on 2 Feb 1840. 160 F vii Rebecca Rives was born about 1778 in Mecklenburg Co., Virginia. Rebecca married Abraham Gerred in 1798 in Mecklenburg Co., Virginia. Abraham was born in Mecklenburg Co., Virginia. 161 M viii John Rives was born about 1780 in Virginia. John married 1 Nancy Brooks daughter of Thomas Brooks and Martha Temple on 28 May 1811 in Chatham Co., North Carolina. Nancy was born in Chatham Co., North Carolina. She died in Tennessee. 162 M ix Reuben Rieves was born about 1781.
34. Robert Rives 1 (Mary Pegram , Daniel , George ) was born on 13 Jul 1743 in Petersburg, Independant City, Virginia. He died 2 in 1809.
Roberts Rives , the owner of extensive estates in Dinwiddie county, Virginia, was born about 1750, and died in Dinwiddie 1807- 09, where he resided throughout his life. The destruction of almost all the early Dinwiddie county records makes it impossible to recite much concerning him.
With Thomas Henry Rives, his brother, he was co-executor of the estate of his father, William Rives, and was co-plaintiff with his brother in numerous suits in Dinwiddie in I789 and subsequently which arose out of the settlement of the various claims which his father left. The gradual growth of his land and slave holdings is not without interest. In 1782, the first year for which there are extant Dinwiddie county tax lists, Robert Rives appears as the owner of 440 acres of land, a holding which was increased to 1,000 acres in 1787 (with the distribution, no doubt, of the landed estate of his father), to 1,331 acres in the years 1794- 98, to 1,434 acres in 1799, to 1,731 acres in 1801, and to 1,959 acres in 1807. In 1809 taxes were assessed against his landed holdings in the name of "Robert Rives' Estate." During this same period of time he was credited with 5 slaves in 1783, 7 in 1784, 9 in 1788, 10 in 1802, 11 in 1805, 12 in I806, and 13 in 1807.
The home of Robert Rives was in Bath Parish, and comprised an estate later known as "Cedar Green," where five - and perhaps six - generation of the family resided without interruption.
Robert Rives. married about I777, Martha Peterson Hardaway, of Hardaway Mills on the Nottoway river, a member of one of the old and leading families of Eastern Virginia in Colonial times. Martha Hardaway was descended from Thomas Hardaway who married Jane Drewry, of Drury's Bluff, and settled early in the 18th century at Osbornis in what was then Prince George County and now Chesterfield. It was her on May 4th, 1733 that the vestry of Bristol Parish met at the house of Mr. Thomas Hardaway and agreed to build a brick Church at Well's Hill. Thus was born Old Blandford Church, now an historic landmark of Petersburg Virginia. Mr. Thomas Hardaway died in 1745.
Robert married Martha Peterson Hardaway daughter of Thomas Hardaway and Agnes Peterson about 1777 in probably Dinwiddie Co., Virginia. Martha was born about 1755 in Dinwiddie Co., Virginia.
They had the following children:
163 M i Robert Rives 1 was born about 1778 in probably Dinwiddie Co., Virginia. Robert married Mary Rogers in 1803 in Dinwiddie Co., Virginia. Mary was born in 1783 in Dinwiddie Co., Virginia. 164 M ii Richard Augustus Rives was born in 1780. He died in 1819. 165 M iii Thomas Rives was born on 3 Nov 1782. He died on 28 May 1845. 166 M iv Benjamin Rives was born about 1785. He died after 1860. 167 M v T. Hardaway Rives 1 was born in 1788 in Dinwiddie Co., Virginia. He died in 1817. 168 F vi Mary Rives 1 was born in 1791 in Dinwiddie Co., Virginia. Mary married Robert Rogers in 1811 in Dinwiddie Co., Virginia. Robert was born about 1790 in Dinwiddie Co., Virginia. 169 F vii Clarissa Rives was born on 16 Apr 1788. She died about 1865. 170 F viii Martha Peterson Rives was born on 23 Apr 1795. She died on 1 Jun 1845.
35. Unknown Son Rives (Mary Pegram , Daniel , George ).
They had the following children:
171 M i Green (Buck) Rives was born on 14 Sep 1776. He died on 29 Jul 1859.
36. Capt. William Scott (Sarah Pegram , Daniel , George ) was born in 1747 in Dinwiddie Co., Virginia. He died in 1791.
William married Ann Mason in 1767 in Virginia. Ann was born about 1747 in Dinwiddie Co., Virginia. She died in 1803 in Dinwiddie Co., Virginia.
They had the following children:
172 F i Elizabeth Winfield Scott was born in 1767. She died in 1836. 173 F ii Rebecca Scott was born about 1780. She died before 1850. 174 F iii Mary Mason Scott was born in 1772. She died in 1838. 175 F iv Ann Scott was born in 1775. She died in 1872. 176 M v Col. James Scott was born on 24 Feb 1777. He died in 1840. 177 F vi Martha Scott was born in 1783 in Dinwiddie Co., Virginia. Martha married Thomas Field 1 about 1805. Thomas was born about 1781 in Dinwiddie Co., Virginia. He died 2 in 1828 in Little Rock, Pulaski Co., Arkansas. Thomas was born 3 about 1781 in Dinwiddie County, Virginia. He died in 1828 in Little Rock, Pulaski County, Arkansas.
Source: DAR Lineage Book V. 76;;Ancestry.com;p 193;NOTE:Dar ID# 75512.
!Source: R. Bolling Batte Papers. !BIOGRAPHY: Samuel W. Simmons, THE PEGRAMS OF VIRGINIA AND THEIR
DESCENDANTS; 1688-1984; Atlanta GA, 1984;p 20; FHL 929.273/P349s.
!Judge.178 M vii Winfield Scott was born on 13 Jun 1786. He died on 29 May 1866.
37. George Pegram (George , Daniel , George ) died 1 in Jan 1812 in Petersburg, Independant City, Virginia.
They had the following children:
179 M i George Scott Pegram was born about 1775. He died in Feb 1848.
38. Sallie Pegram (George , Daniel , George ) was born 1 in Virginia. She died 2 in Virginia.
Sallie married David Browder 1 son of Richard Browder and Mary Thompson. David was born 2 about 1755 in Virginia. He died 3, 4 in 1814 in Virginia.
The following is an extensive biographical sketch of the family from The Kentucky Biographical Dictionary, 1896. We are including it in the entirety for the benefit of Browder family members who may benefit from the additional material.
"WILBUR FISK BROWDER, one of the most distinguished lawyers iii the state, and a prominent citizen of Russellville, was horn in Clarksville, Tennessee, December 12, 1848. His father, David Browder, was born in Dinwiddie County, Virginia, near Petersburg, November 11, 1818, and came to Logan County, Kentucky, with his parents in 1819. He was educated in what was known as Russellville Academy, in a building which is still standing and now used as a public school. When he had reached his majority he became largely interested in buying tobacco and preparing it for the foreign markets. In 1842, having married a second time, he removed to Clarksville, Tennessee, where he continued in the tobacco business in connection with merchandising. He had extensive business interests in the city and was one of the leading and most enterprising citizens of Clarksville. He subsequently removed to Montgomery, Alabama, where he was engaged in merchandising and cotton planting until his death, January 6, 1871.
David Browder was married April 16, 1838, to Mary Evans, who was horn in Logan County in July, 1819. She belonged to one of the oldest and most respectable families in the state. She died in October, 1839, leaving no children. Mr. Browder was married again November 8, 1842, to Elizabeth E. Irvine, daughter of Caleb Irvine, a native of Tennessee. She was born in Robertson County, Tennessee, May 18, 1823, and was educated in the Russellville Female Academy, which is now known as Logan College. She survived her husband about three years, and died in Russellville, July 28, 1874. There were ten children by this marriage: Bettie G., born September 28, 1843, died June 7, 1845; James Thomas, born January 9, 1845, died April 14, 1845; Robert Irvine, born August 30, 1846, died July 19, 1893; Wilbur F., born December 12, 1848; Helen May, born February 21, 1851, died August 5, 1851; David, born September 12, 1852, died November although it has been difficult for a man of his ability and popularity to keep out of office. As a means of diversion from the exacting duties of his extensive practice and to help his friends, he has indulged to some extent in politics, but has steadily set his face against all temptations to run for, or to accept, any political office, even in the line of his profession.
In 1874 he was appointed register in bankruptcy for the Third Congressional District by the chief justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, upon the recommendation of judge Bland Ballard of the United States Circuit Court of Kentucky; and he accepted and held that office until the repeal of the bankrupt law in 1878. He was appointed master commissioner of Logan County in 1880, but resigned that office in the same year. He was local attorney for the Louisville & Nashville Railroad Company from 1882 to 1889, when his territory was extended and he was made district attorney for that company. He was one of the organizers of the Logan County Bank, in which he has been a director and stockholder since it was opened for business.
Mr. Browder was married January 18, 1872, to Bettie B. Wills, who was born in Logan County, March 11, 1849. She was educated principally in St. Mary's College, St. Louis, Missouri, from which institution she is a graduate. She is a lady of rare accomplishments, being a fine Latin and French scholar. Her father, John M. Wills, was born in Logan County, July 26, 1821; married Eliza H. Bibb, who was born in Russellville, February 27, 1827. She was a niece of George M. Bibb of Russellville, who was the first chancellor of the old Louisville Chancery Court; was judge of the Kentucky Court of Appeals; United States senator from Kentucky, and secretary of the treasury under President Pierce.
Mr. and Mrs. Browder have five sons: Wilbur F., Jr., born November 24, 1872; educated at Bethel College, Russellville, and at the University of the South at Suwanee, Tennessee, where he was a member of the class of 1890; is now engaged in manufacturing leather in Russellville.
Marion Castner, born June 6, 1874; graduated from Bethel Colledge June 18, 1892, from the University of Virginia in the Class of 1894 and from the University of Berlin, Germany in September 1895. He has chosen journalism as his profession. 24, i856; Caleb Ewing, born April 22, 1854, died April 25, 1871; Richard D., born June 15, 1856; Edward M., born September 11, 1859; Fannie Irvine, born July 11, 1863.
Richard Browder (grandfather) was born in Dinwiddie County, Virginia, April 1, 1789. He came to Logan County, Kentucky, with his brothers, William C. and Robert, in 1819; these three brothers purchased three farms of five hundred acres each, upon which they lived and prospered. Richard Browder was married in Dinwiddie County, Virginia, February 24, 1813, to Elizabeth Anderson, who died in Logan County, June 2, 1858.
David Browder (great-grandfather), a native of Virginia, married Sallie Pegram, also a Virginian, and they lived and died in their native county.
Richard Browder (great-great-grandfather), a Virginian by birth and lifetime resident, had two sons, Charles and John, who were killed in the Revolutionary war.
Caleb Irvine (maternal grandfather) was drowned while attempting to cross Mayfield Creek in Graves County, Kentucky, when he was twenty-four years of age. lie married Elizabeth Ewing Mitchell of Robertson County, Tennessee, who lived to be eighty years of age, and died in 1867. They had three children: Elizabeth E. (mother) and two sons, Robert Green Irvine, who became a distinguished Methodist minister, was a member of the Tennessee Conference when he was twenty-one years of age. He became widely known throughout the state as one of the leading preachers in the Methodist Church. The second son, Caleb Ewing Irvine, enlisted for the Mexican war in 1847, and was engaged with General Winfield Scott in all of his engagements in the war with Mexico and was present at the final surrender of the Mexican army. He was captain of a company and was only twenty-two years of age at the close of the war. He wrote his sister (Wilbur F. Browder's mother) that he did not intend to return to the States, but told her that as long as she received the "Oregonian" newspaper through the mail she would know that he was alive, and when that paper ceased to make its visits she would know that he was dead. The paper came to her for seven years, and then, corming no longer, his friends supposed he was dead. For twenty years they heard nothing of him, but in 1885 the family learned that he was a circuit judge in Montana, residing at Deer Lodge. They learned, further, that the district which he served on the bench was strongly Republican in politics, but he had been frequently elected as a Democrat. After the close of the Mexican war he had been appointed captain in the United States army, but did not accept the commission. This promotion was offered him on account of his bravery and gallantry in battle. Be died in 1889, having given no reason for thus isolating himself from his family.
Wilbur F. Browder received the best education that the wealth and fondest ambition of his parents could afford. His private tutor in Montgomery, Alabama, was Dr. Moses, now the honored rabbi of the Jewish Temple, Louisville, Kentucky, who prepared him for college. In 1865 he entered the University of Virginia at Charlottesville, remaining three years and graduating in the class of 1868, in which were many students who have since that time become men of national distinction, including Senators Daniel and Faulkner, John S. Wise, a distinguished lawyer of New York; George P. Raney, chief justice of Florida; Rev. Dr. Whitsett, president of the Louisville Baptist Theological Seminary; Judge Alexander P. Humphrey; Judge William O. Harris of Louisville; Hon. Ben T. Perkins of Elkton, Todd County, and quite a number of gentlemen who have acquitted themselves with honor and credit in the National House of Representatives.
In September, 1868, Mr. Browder began the study of law in the State University at Lexington, Kentucky, and graduated from that institution in June, 1869, before he was twenty-one years of age. His instructors in law were Madison C. Johnson, who was Dean of the faculty, John B. Huston and William Cassius Goodloe.
In November, 1869, he was admitted to the bar in Russellville and at once began the practice of his profession in that city, with the result that he is today not only a leading member of the bar of Russellville, but one of the best known and most successful lawyers of the state. He has never been a candidate for any political office,
John Caldwell, born March 27, 1870; graduated from Bethel College in June, 1895; now a student at the University of Virginia.
Lucien McClure, horn February 6, 1878; now a student in Bethel College.
Eugene Irvine, born July 4, 1882; in school in Russellville.
W. F. Browder, Jr., was married November 23, 1893, to Harriet Morton Frazer. She was born in Russellville, July 30, 1871, and is a daughter of Thomas A. Frazer, deceased, who was a very prominent citizen of Russellville and cashier of the Bank of Russellville at the time of his death. Wilbur F. Browder, Jr., is the father of Wilbur F. Browder the third, who was born February 19, 1895."
They had the following children:
180 M i Richard Browder was born on 1 Apr 1789. He died on 2 Jan 1878.
39. Mary Pegram (George , Daniel , George ) was born 1 about 1756 in Virginia.
Mary married 2 David Browder 1 son of Richard Browder and Mary Thompson about 1776 in Dinwiddie Co., Virginia. David was born 3 about 1755 in Virginia. He died 4, 5 in 1814 in Virginia.
The following is an extensive biographical sketch of the family from The Kentucky Biographical Dictionary, 1896. We are including it in the entirety for the benefit of Browder family members who may benefit from the additional material.
"WILBUR FISK BROWDER, one of the most distinguished lawyers iii the state, and a prominent citizen of Russellville, was horn in Clarksville, Tennessee, December 12, 1848. His father, David Browder, was born in Dinwiddie County, Virginia, near Petersburg, November 11, 1818, and came to Logan County, Kentucky, with his parents in 1819. He was educated in what was known as Russellville Academy, in a building which is still standing and now used as a public school. When he had reached his majority he became largely interested in buying tobacco and preparing it for the foreign markets. In 1842, having married a second time, he removed to Clarksville, Tennessee, where he continued in the tobacco business in connection with merchandising. He had extensive business interests in the city and was one of the leading and most enterprising citizens of Clarksville. He subsequently removed to Montgomery, Alabama, where he was engaged in merchandising and cotton planting until his death, January 6, 1871.
David Browder was married April 16, 1838, to Mary Evans, who was horn in Logan County in July, 1819. She belonged to one of the oldest and most respectable families in the state. She died in October, 1839, leaving no children. Mr. Browder was married again November 8, 1842, to Elizabeth E. Irvine, daughter of Caleb Irvine, a native of Tennessee. She was born in Robertson County, Tennessee, May 18, 1823, and was educated in the Russellville Female Academy, which is now known as Logan College. She survived her husband about three years, and died in Russellville, July 28, 1874. There were ten children by this marriage: Bettie G., born September 28, 1843, died June 7, 1845; James Thomas, born January 9, 1845, died April 14, 1845; Robert Irvine, born August 30, 1846, died July 19, 1893; Wilbur F., born December 12, 1848; Helen May, born February 21, 1851, died August 5, 1851; David, born September 12, 1852, died November although it has been difficult for a man of his ability and popularity to keep out of office. As a means of diversion from the exacting duties of his extensive practice and to help his friends, he has indulged to some extent in politics, but has steadily set his face against all temptations to run for, or to accept, any political office, even in the line of his profession.
In 1874 he was appointed register in bankruptcy for the Third Congressional District by the chief justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, upon the recommendation of judge Bland Ballard of the United States Circuit Court of Kentucky; and he accepted and held that office until the repeal of the bankrupt law in 1878. He was appointed master commissioner of Logan County in 1880, but resigned that office in the same year. He was local attorney for the Louisville & Nashville Railroad Company from 1882 to 1889, when his territory was extended and he was made district attorney for that company. He was one of the organizers of the Logan County Bank, in which he has been a director and stockholder since it was opened for business.
Mr. Browder was married January 18, 1872, to Bettie B. Wills, who was born in Logan County, March 11, 1849. She was educated principally in St. Mary's College, St. Louis, Missouri, from which institution she is a graduate. She is a lady of rare accomplishments, being a fine Latin and French scholar. Her father, John M. Wills, was born in Logan County, July 26, 1821; married Eliza H. Bibb, who was born in Russellville, February 27, 1827. She was a niece of George M. Bibb of Russellville, who was the first chancellor of the old Louisville Chancery Court; was judge of the Kentucky Court of Appeals; United States senator from Kentucky, and secretary of the treasury under President Pierce.
Mr. and Mrs. Browder have five sons: Wilbur F., Jr., born November 24, 1872; educated at Bethel College, Russellville, and at the University of the South at Suwanee, Tennessee, where he was a member of the class of 1890; is now engaged in manufacturing leather in Russellville.
Marion Castner, born June 6, 1874; graduated from Bethel Colledge June 18, 1892, from the University of Virginia in the Class of 1894 and from the University of Berlin, Germany in September 1895. He has chosen journalism as his profession. 24, i856; Caleb Ewing, born April 22, 1854, died April 25, 1871; Richard D., born June 15, 1856; Edward M., born September 11, 1859; Fannie Irvine, born July 11, 1863.
Richard Browder (grandfather) was born in Dinwiddie County, Virginia, April 1, 1789. He came to Logan County, Kentucky, with his brothers, William C. and Robert, in 1819; these three brothers purchased three farms of five hundred acres each, upon which they lived and prospered. Richard Browder was married in Dinwiddie County, Virginia, February 24, 1813, to Elizabeth Anderson, who died in Logan County, June 2, 1858.
David Browder (great-grandfather), a native of Virginia, married Sallie Pegram, also a Virginian, and they lived and died in their native county.
Richard Browder (great-great-grandfather), a Virginian by birth and lifetime resident, had two sons, Charles and John, who were killed in the Revolutionary war.
Caleb Irvine (maternal grandfather) was drowned while attempting to cross Mayfield Creek in Graves County, Kentucky, when he was twenty-four years of age. lie married Elizabeth Ewing Mitchell of Robertson County, Tennessee, who lived to be eighty years of age, and died in 1867. They had three children: Elizabeth E. (mother) and two sons, Robert Green Irvine, who became a distinguished Methodist minister, was a member of the Tennessee Conference when he was twenty-one years of age. He became widely known throughout the state as one of the leading preachers in the Methodist Church. The second son, Caleb Ewing Irvine, enlisted for the Mexican war in 1847, and was engaged with General Winfield Scott in all of his engagements in the war with Mexico and was present at the final surrender of the Mexican army. He was captain of a company and was only twenty-two years of age at the close of the war. He wrote his sister (Wilbur F. Browder's mother) that he did not intend to return to the States, but told her that as long as she received the "Oregonian" newspaper through the mail she would know that he was alive, and when that paper ceased to make its visits she would know that he was dead. The paper came to her for seven years, and then, corming no longer, his friends supposed he was dead. For twenty years they heard nothing of him, but in 1885 the family learned that he was a circuit judge in Montana, residing at Deer Lodge. They learned, further, that the district which he served on the bench was strongly Republican in politics, but he had been frequently elected as a Democrat. After the close of the Mexican war he had been appointed captain in the United States army, but did not accept the commission. This promotion was offered him on account of his bravery and gallantry in battle. Be died in 1889, having given no reason for thus isolating himself from his family.
Wilbur F. Browder received the best education that the wealth and fondest ambition of his parents could afford. His private tutor in Montgomery, Alabama, was Dr. Moses, now the honored rabbi of the Jewish Temple, Louisville, Kentucky, who prepared him for college. In 1865 he entered the University of Virginia at Charlottesville, remaining three years and graduating in the class of 1868, in which were many students who have since that time become men of national distinction, including Senators Daniel and Faulkner, John S. Wise, a distinguished lawyer of New York; George P. Raney, chief justice of Florida; Rev. Dr. Whitsett, president of the Louisville Baptist Theological Seminary; Judge Alexander P. Humphrey; Judge William O. Harris of Louisville; Hon. Ben T. Perkins of Elkton, Todd County, and quite a number of gentlemen who have acquitted themselves with honor and credit in the National House of Representatives.
In September, 1868, Mr. Browder began the study of law in the State University at Lexington, Kentucky, and graduated from that institution in June, 1869, before he was twenty-one years of age. His instructors in law were Madison C. Johnson, who was Dean of the faculty, John B. Huston and William Cassius Goodloe.
In November, 1869, he was admitted to the bar in Russellville and at once began the practice of his profession in that city, with the result that he is today not only a leading member of the bar of Russellville, but one of the best known and most successful lawyers of the state. He has never been a candidate for any political office,
John Caldwell, born March 27, 1870; graduated from Bethel College in June, 1895; now a student at the University of Virginia.
Lucien McClure, horn February 6, 1878; now a student in Bethel College.
Eugene Irvine, born July 4, 1882; in school in Russellville.
W. F. Browder, Jr., was married November 23, 1893, to Harriet Morton Frazer. She was born in Russellville, July 30, 1871, and is a daughter of Thomas A. Frazer, deceased, who was a very prominent citizen of Russellville and cashier of the Bank of Russellville at the time of his death. Wilbur F. Browder, Jr., is the father of Wilbur F. Browder the third, who was born February 19, 1895."
They had the following children:
181 F i Mary Chapman Browder was born on 21 Feb 1781. She died on 21 Jul 1829.
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