Alice Philpot

Family/Spouse: Walter Coles. Walter died in Enniscorthy, Ireland. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Died:
"Coles Hill", Hanover, Virginia, USA

William married Lucy Winston after 1738 in Hanover County, Virginia, USA. Lucy (daughter of Isaac Winston and Mary Ann Dabney) was born about 1707 in Hanover County, Virginia, USA; died in 1784. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Immigration: Abt 1730, Virginia, USA

Notes:

Encyclopedia of Virginia Biography, Volume V

Name: Thomas Jordan Coles

The Coles family has been prominent in England for many generations, one branch of the name taking up Irish residence. The crest of the Coles family is a serpent entwined about a pillar.

The great-great-grandfather of Thomas J. Coles. John (1) Coles, was born in Enniscorthy, Ireland, in 1706, and immigrated to Virginia about 1730. His mother was a Miss Philpot, a relative of Sir Philpot Curran, the noted Irish wit and barrister. John Coles married, in 1733, Mary, of Hanover county, Virginia, daughter of Isaac and Mary (Dabney) Winston. Isaac Winston, a member of an ancient English family, came from Winston Hall in England. A few years after the departure of John Coles for America, his younger brother, William Coles, came to Virginia, married Lucy Winston, a younger daughter of Isaac Winston, and settled at Coles hill in Hanover county, Virginia. Sarah, another daughter of Isaac Winston, married Colonel John Henry, and was the mother of the great patriot, Patrick Henry. William Coles, mentioned above, brother of John Coles, was the grandfather of Dolly Madison, wife of the fourth president of the United States, her mother's maiden name being Mary Coles.

John (1) Coles was one of the first settlers of Richmond, Virginia, assisting Colonel William Byrd in surveying and laying out the town. On Colonel Byrd's original survey of Richmond many of the most valuable lots bear the name of John Coles, land which today is valued at many thousands of dollars. In his will he bequeathed a large share of these lots to his youngest son. Isaac, then a baby, who afterward sold them for a piece of fine linen and a race horse. John Coles became a wealthy and influential man in the colony, although he died comparatively young. In addition to his Richmond property he owned vast landed estates in different parts of the colony, granted him by the King in consideration of services rendered the Crown. He was a colonel of militia and in some old records is also spoken of as major. He was a devoted adherent to the Church of England, and was one of the founders of the famous old St. John's Church, of Richmond, being buried under the chancel of that church. Not many years ago, in the course of some repairs that were being made in the church, there was found under the chancel, among other remains, a brass coffin-plate bearing the name of John Coles. He was church warden from the founding of the church until the day of his death, which occurred in 1747. At that time, the church and state being closely allied, the churchwardens controlled civil and military as well as church affairs, and in consulting old records it is found that John Coles wielded considerable influence in both church and secular affairs. His death in October, 1747, followed the birth of his son. Isaac, by a few months, and in his will he left an immense tract of land in Albemarle county, Virginia, to his son, John (2), willing to his sons, Walter and Isaac, vast estates on the Staunton, Dan, and Bannister rivers in that portion of Brunswick county, Virginia, which was afterward set off as Halifax county, also bequeathing to them other property. His daughters received good estates, Mary, married Henry Tucker, and has many descendants, and Sarah, who married General George Muter, having no children. John (2) Coles married Rebecca Tucker, and built and resided at "Enniscorthy," Albemarle county, Virginia, named after the old home in Ireland whence his father had come. John (2) Coles was the father of Governor Edward Coles, and his descendants have been prominent in many states of the Union, high office and honor coming to many. Mary (Winston) Coles, born in 1721, died in 1758, married (second) a Mr. Donald.

Died:
"Enniscorthy", Albemarle Co., VA

John married Mary Ann Winston in 1733 in Hanover County, Virginia, USA. Mary (daughter of Isaac Winston and Mary Ann Dabney) was born in 1721 in Hanover County, Virginia, USA; died on 24 Oct 1758. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Birth:
"Coles Hill", Hanover, Virginia, USA

Lucy married Isaac Winston on 2 Jun 1770 in Hanover County, Virginia, USA. Isaac (son of Isaac Winston and Mary Anne Fontaine) was born about 1745 in Henrico County, Virginia, USA; died in 1821 in Hanover County, Virginia, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Birth:
"Coles Hill", Hanover, Virginia, USA

Mary married John Payne in 1761 in Guilford County, NC. John (son of Josias Payne and Mary Anna Fleming) was born on 9 Feb 1739 in Goochland County, Virginia, USA; died on 24 Oct 1792 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Died:
"Coles Hill", Hanover, Virginia, USA

Walter married Mary Darricott about 1768 in Hanover County, Virginia, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Encyclopedia of Virginia Biography, Volume I
IV--Burgesses and Other Prominent Persons

Name: Walter Coles
son of John Coles, a merchant of Richmond, who emigrated from "Enniscorthy," Ireland, by his wife Mary, daughter of Isaac Winston, of Hanover county, Virginia, was born November 14, 1739, in Hanover county; was colonel of the militia and burgess for Halifax county in 1765, 1766-1769 and 1769-1771. He married, February 28, 1767, Mildred Lightfoot, daughter of William Lightfoot and his wife, Mildred Howell. He died in Halifax county, November 7, 1780.

Died:
"Mildendo", Halifax Co., VA

Walter married Mildred Lightfoot on 28 Feb 1767. Mildred was born on 11 Feb 1752; died on 1 May 1799. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Encyclopedia of Virginia Biography, Volume V

Name: Thomas Jordan Coles (cont.)

Colonel Isaac Coles, son of John (1) and Mary (Winston) Coles, was born in Richmond, Virginia, March 2, 1747, died on his plantation in Pittsylvania county, Virginia, June 3, 1813, and is there buried. He was educated at William and Mary College, Williamsburg, Virginia, was a colonel of militia during the revolutionary war, and was a member of the Virginia legislature in 1783-84-85-87. He was a member of the convention which met in Richmond in June, 1788, to ratify the new Federal Constitution, and there voted against its ratification. He was a member of the first United States Congress which met in New York City in 1789 and there "voted against the adoption of the Constitution as it came from the hands of its framers, for he saw the poison under its wings." It is also on record that he voted to "abolish the slave trade," although a large land-owner and slave-holder himself, while his brother-in-law, Elbridge Gerry, of Massachusetts, voted to continue it. He held his place in Congress until 1797, and while a member of the Philadelphia Congress he voted "to locate the seat of government on the banks of the Potomac. "He was twice married, (first) in 1771, to Elizabeth, died in 1781, daughter of William Lightfoot, of Charles City county, Virginia. They had three children, only one of whom lived to maturity, Isaac (2), who built and lived at a place called Springwood, near Houston, Halifax county, Virginia, and was the grandfather of the late Hon. Paul C. Edmunds and Captain Henry Edmunds, of Halifax county. Colonel Isaac Coles, Sr., married (second) in January, 1790, Catherine Thompson, a "New York belle and beauty," whom he met while attending the New York Congress. She was a daughter of James and Catherine (Walton) Thompson, of New York, and a descendant of the Beekmans. Her sister, Ann, had previously married Elbridge Gerry, of Massachusetts, an old bachelor at the time of his marriage. Elbridge Gerry was a signer of the Declaration of Independence, governor of Massachusetts, member of Congress, vice-president of the United States at the time of his death in 1814, and was once sent abroad on an important diplomatic mission with Pinckney and Marshall. Catherine Thompson, second wife of Colonel Isaac Coles, Sr., was born in New York City in 1767, died in Pittsylvania county, Virginia, in 1848. being buried by the side of her husband. They were the parents of a large family, of one of whom, Walter, further mention is made. Colonel Isaac Coles, Sr., during his political career, lived on the plantation in Halifax county, Virginia, inherited from his father, located at Coles' Ferry on the Staunton river, and about 1800 moved to Pittsylvania county, Virginia. His home in this locality was a plantation of five thousand and fifty-seven acres, which land he had purchased from Philip Lightfoot, a cousin of his first wife. His reason for disposing of his Halifax property was two-fold; because of the malarial conditions there prevalent, which affected both his health and that of his family, and because of financial embarrassment, for the political positions that had taken such a large share of his time had been honorary or with small remuneration attached and wide inroads had been made upon his finances during his long public service. Colonel Isaac Coles, Sr. was known as a great wit and entertaining raconteur, and in the declining years of his life prominent men from all parts of the country journeyed to his home to enjoy his unmatched hospitality and the gleams from the intellect that time had not deprived of its luster.

Died:
"Coles Hill", Pittsylvania Co., VA

Isaac married Elizabeth Lightfoot on 1 Apr 1771. Elizabeth (daughter of William Lightfoot and Mildred Howell) died in 1781. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Isaac married Catherine Thompson on 2 Jan 1790 in New York City, New York, New York, USA. Catherine (daughter of James Thompson and Catherine Walton) was born in 1767 in New York City, New York, New York, USA; died in 1848 in Pittsylvania County, VA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Mary married Henry Tucker on 17 Feb 1765 in Norfolk, VA. Henry died in of Norfolk, VA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Birth:
"Enniscorthy", Albemarle Co., VA

Died:
"Enniscorthy II", Albemarle Co., VA

John married Rebecca Elizabeth Tucker on 9 Feb 1769. Rebecca died in 1826. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: George Muter. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Martha married Peter Fontaine Armistead in 1810. Peter (son of Bowles Armistead and Mary Ann Fontaine) was born in 1778 in Virginia, USA; died in 1866 in Mississippi. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Mary Thornton. Mary (daughter of John Thornton and Jane Augusta Washington) was born about 1785. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: S. F. Dade. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Walter married Lucinda Summerville Dade on 7 Aug 1810. Lucinda was born on 9 Apr 1792 in Culpeper, Culpeper County, VA; died on 4 Oct 1849 in Columbus, Lowndes County, MS. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

William married Mary Howson Wallace on 2 Sep 1813. Mary was born on 16 Oct 1796 in Ellerslie, Stafford County, VA; died on 9 Nov 1853 in Culpepper County, Virginia, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Beckwith. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Mary married John George Jackson in 1800 in Montpelier, Orange County, VA. John (son of George Jackson and Elizabeth Brake) was born on 22 Sep 1777 in near Buckhannon, WV; died on 29 Mar 1825 in Clarksburg, Harrison County, WV. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Clara Wilcox. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

BIOGRAPHY: The Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans: Volume VII M. Madison, George page 214

BIOGRAPHY: MADISON, Dorothy (Payne) Todd, wife of President Madison, was born in North Carolina, May 20, 1767; daughter of John and Mary (Coles)Payne and granddaughter of John and Hannah (Fleming) Payne, and of William Coles of Coles Hill, Va. Her paternal grandfather emigrated from England to Virginia early in the 18th century and her paternal grandmother was a granddaughter of Sir Thomas Fleming, one of the pioneer settlers of Jamestown. Her parents removed to Philadelphia while Dorothy was a child and joined the Society of Friends, in which faith she was reared. She was married in 1786 to John Todd, a young lawyer of Philadelphia, Pa., who died in 1789 leaving her with an infant son. She made her home with her widowed mother in Philadelphia and assisted her in keeping a boarding house. She was married secondly in 1794 to James Madison, one of her mother's boarders, in attendance as representative from Virginia in the 3d congress. The ceremony was performed at "Harewood," Jefferson county, Va., the home of her younger sister Lucy, the wife of George Steptoe Washington. They resided at "Montpelier," Mr. Madison's summer home, until 1809 when he was appointed secretary of state and they removed to Washington, D.C. Mrs. Madison became the centre of Washington's social circle, and upon the elevation of her husband as President of the United States, she filled the position of mistress of the White House brilliantly and successfully. In 1814 the British army marched against the national capital and the President and his cabinet fled to Virginia, but Mrs. Madison remained at the White House where she packed many important cabinet papers into trunks which were put into a carriage, and as an afterthought she removed Stuart's portrait of Washington from its frame and saw it in a place of safety before leaving. She was rejoined by Mr. Madison in Washington and together they fled to Virginia. [p.214] A few days later she returned to Washington, where she found her home in ashes. The President followed the next day and they rented the house called the "Octagon" owned by Colonel Taylor, where they resided until the White House was rebuilt. In 1817, upon the expiration of President Madison's second term, they returned to Montpelier, where she lived in retirement. Congress conferred on her the franking privilege and voted her a seat upon the floor of the senate. She removed to Washington one year after her husband's death and again entered society. She died in Washington, D.C., July 12, 1849.

Dorothea married John Todd on 7 Jan 1790 in Philadelphia, Delaware, Pennsylvania, USA. John (son of John Todd and Mary Duburow) was born on 17 Nov 1763 in Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA; died on 24 Oct 1793 in Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Dorothea married Jr. James Madison on 15 Sep 1794. James (son of James Madison and Eleanor Rose (Nelly) Conway) was born on 16 Mar 1751 in Port Conway, King George, Virginia, USA; died on 28 Jun 1836. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

She as a Widow married Thomas Todd of Kentucky, a widower whose first wife was Elizabeth Harris

Birth:
"Coles Hill", Hanover, Virginia, USA

Lucy married George Steptoe Washington on 20 May 1793 in Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. George (son of Samuel Washington and Anne Steptoe) was born on 17 Aug 1771; died on 10 Jan 1809 in Augusta, Columbia, Georgia, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Lucy married Thomas Todd on 29 Mar 1812 in The White House, Washington, DC. Thomas was born on 23 Jan 1765 in King and Queen, Virginia, USA; died on 7 Feb 1826 in Frankfort, Franklin, Kentucky, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Anna married Richard Cutts on 31 Mar 1804 in Virginia, USA. Richard (son of Thomas Cutts and Elizabeth Scammon) was born on 22 Jun 1771 in Cutts Island, Saco, York, Maine, USA; died on 7 Apr 1845 in Washington City, District Of Columbia, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Thornton Augustine Washington. Thornton was born in 1758 in Stafford, Stafford, Virginia, USA; died on 26 Jun 1787 in Jefferson, Alexandria, Virginia, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

From Family Tree Maker, CD 174 Virginia Vital Records # 1, 1600s- I 800s, Virginia Will Records, The Wills of the Reverend Patrick Henry and Walter Coles of Hanover County, Va., (C) Broderbund Software, Inc., Banner Blue Division

Walter Coles, of Coles Hill, Hanover County, Virginia (only child of Walter and Mary [Darracott] Coles) was born 18 November 1769, seven months after his father's death, and died at Coles Hill between 9 November and 27 December 1815. He was a member of the County Court of Hanover for a number of years and as such an active participant in the fight between the Republican and Federalist members of the Court over the nominations made for that body in 1810. In politics he was a Federalist. He resided at Coles Hill, a very beautiful, if isolated, estate on the South Anna of the Pamunkey, which adjoined the Doswell estate known as Allen's Creek and which was separated from Rocky Mills and Mount Brilliant by the South Anna. It also lies in the general neighborhood of Chilton which was owned by Hugh Nelson and was later the home of Col. Nathaniel Pope, and of Aldingharn, the home of Col. Charles Dabney. Walter Coles owned numerous slaves and was fairly wealthy for his time.

Died:
"Coles Hill", Hanover, Virginia, USA

Walter married Mary Randolph Price on 27 Dec 1792 in Hanover County, Virginia, USA. Mary (daughter of Thomas Price and Barbara Overton Winston) was born on 6 Oct 1776 in Cool Water, Hanover County, VA; died on 16 Jan 1847. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

DAR # 593761 and # 502396 - calls her Mrs. Pouge, also; prob. a second marriage.

Birth:
"Mildendo", Halifax Co., VA

Died:
"Sylvan Hill", Charlotte Co., VA

Mildred married Jr. Paul Carrington on 24 Aug 1786 in Halifax County, VA. Paul (son of Paul Carrington and Margaret Read) was born on 20 Sep 1764; died on 8 Jan 1816. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Sarah married James Bruce on 1 Aug 1799. James was born on 20 Mar 1763; died on 12 May 1837 in Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, PA; was buried in St Andrews churchyard, Philadelphia, PA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Isaac married Mildred Lightfoot Carrington on 7 Feb 1811. Mildred (daughter of Jr. Paul Carrington and Mildred Howell Coles) was born on 9 Apr 1792; died on 10 Mar 1820. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Mary married Isaac Howell Carrington on 19 Apr 1853. Isaac (son of Paul Sydenham Carrington and Emma Catherine Cabell) was born on 7 Mar 1827; died on 30 Jan 1887. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Louisa Woodson Payne. Louisa (daughter of Philip Payne and Elizabeth Dandridge) was born on 11 Oct 1807; died in 1821/1901. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Catherine married Baldwin Matthews Payne in 1827. Baldwin (son of Philip Payne and Elizabeth Dandridge) was born on 11 Dec 1796; died in 1832/1887. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Catherine Patton. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Mary married James M. Whittle in 1834. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Eliza Patton. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

DAR # 593761 and # 502396

Encyclopedia of Virginia Biography, Volume V

Name: Thomas Jordan Coles (cont.)

Walter Coles, son of Colonel Isaac, Sr. and Catherine (Thompson) Coles, was born in December, 1790, died at Coles Hill, Pittsylvania county, Virginia, in November, 1857. He was first a lieutenant and later a captain in the American army in the war of 1812, and for ten years held a seat in the Virginia legislature, from which body he was sent to Congress, of which he was a member from 1835 to 1845, his father having preceded him to both law making institutions. He was a man of practical wisdom, unblemished honor and patriotism, and successful in all his undertakings. The Democratic party claimed his allegiance throughout his entire career. He married Lettice P., who died in 1875, youngest daughter of Judge Paul Carrington, Sr. Judge Paul Carrington, Sr., was a son of George Carrington, a member of the Virginia house of burgesses. George Carrington, when a youth of nineteen years, assisted Colonel William Byrd in running the boundary line between Virginia and North Carolina, and in his mature years was a personage of influence and power in his colony. Judge Paul Carrington, Sr. was a member of the Virginia house of burgesses from 1765 to 1775, in which latter year it was replaced by the conventions of the people. In 1765 he voted against Patrick Henry's resolutions in regard to the Stamp Act, considering that the colonies had too few munitions of war with which to oppose a mighty kingdom grown old in waging victorious wars on land and sea. In the journals of the house of burgesses Paul Carrington's name is found as a member of every important committee appointed between 1765 and 1775 He was a member of each of the three conventions of 1775 and was appointed one of the eleven members of the celebrated committee of safety, which at that time held the supreme executive power in the colony. He also sat in the famous Virginia convention of 1776, and on the organization of the new government took a seat in the house of delegates, from which he passed to the bench of the general court and thence to the court of appeals. He was a judge of this latter court until 1811, when, in the seventy-ninth year of his age, he resigned, being succeeded by his nephew, Governor William H. Cabell, and died in 1818, aged eighty-five years. Apart from the invaluable service he rendered his state and country he gave three youthful sons to the Colonial army in the war for independence. Walter and Lettice P. (Carrington) Coles were the parents of: Lettice, died aged fourteen years, and is buried in the Congressional Cemetery, Washington; Isaetta, died in childhood, buried at Coles Hill, Pittsylvania county, Virginia; Isaac, died in childhood, buried at Coles Hill, Virginia; Walter, of whom further; Helen C., died at Coles Hill in 1897; Mildred H., married Colonel Stanhope Flournoy, died in Missouri, in 1901; Agnes C., married Dr. J. G. Cabell, of Richmond, and died January 31, 1901.

Died:
"Coles Hill", Pittsylvania Co., VA

Family/Spouse: Lettice P. Carrington. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Colonial Fams. of the US, Vol. 7, p. 454 (from Ancestry.com)
DAR # 593761 and # 502396

Died:
"Oak Hill", Halifax Co., VA

Sarah married George Carrington on 6 Apr 1784. George (son of Paul Carrington and Margaret Read) was born in 1756; died in 1809. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Isaac married Juliana Stricker in 1830. Juliana was born in 1796; died in 1876. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Isaac married Louisa Nevison in 1823. Louisa was born in Norfolk, VA; died in 1824. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Helen Skipwith. Helen (daughter of Peyton Skipwith and Jean Miller) was born in 1789; died in 1864. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Occupation: Illinois; Governor

Notes:

Dear George,

As a direct descendant of both Thomas Jefferson and Edward Coles, I am a perfect example of the complexities of life our founding fathers experienced, that all Americans experience, except that in my case it is a direct family experience. President Jefferson, slave owner; Governor Coles, anti-slavery son of Virginia. Ultimately they became relatives through the marriage of my mother and father.

In 1819 Edward Coles left his family home 'Enniscorthy' in his beloved Albemarle County, Virginia, selling his possessions. In April, Coles and his slave Ralph Crawford managed the exodus of about 20 slaves, traveling in covered wagons to Brownsville Pennsylvania, where the group boarded boats for the trip down the Ohio River. Near Pittsburg, he informed his slaves they were free and that they could either leave or continue on with him. After arriving in Illinois, he gave to the head of each family 160 acres of land as a gift for their service.

In October, 1821, Edward Coles ran for and was elected second governor of Illinois on an anti-slavery platform. Three pro-slavery candidates also ran which split the electorate and allowed Coles a slim margin of victory...167 votes. In 1822, Governor Coles asked the General Assembly to ban slavery and enact laws protecting free blacks. Instead, the pro-slavery legislature presented the electorate with a referendum calling for a Constitutional Convention to make Illinois a slave state. On August 2, 1824, the Convention was defeated by a vote of 6, 640 to 4, 972. After the Convention was defeated and in this process he made many political enemies who emerged during his run for Congress; he was badly beaten.

However, controversy was not a stranger. Let us not forget the times...Edward was born into a slave-holding family. Yet while attending William and Mary College he developed his anti-slavery attitude resolving that 'he would not hold slaves or live in a state which upheld the institution of slavery.'

At the conclusion of his second term as Governor, after being sued for bringing his slaves to Illinois, and losing his home to fire, in 1832 Edward Coles went to Philadelphia and met and married Sally Logan Roberts. Ironically, many years later, their son Roberts Coles left Pennsylvania and became the Commander of Company I(2), The Green Mountain Grays of the 46th Virginia Infantry. Captain Roberts Coles was killed on the 8th of February, 1862, during the first days of the Battle of Roanoke Island. As a further irony, the attending Confederate surgeon turned out to be his cousin, Walter Coles, who is presently buried in the family graveyard at Enniscorthy.

Edward Coles is my paternal fifth-great-grandfather. My grandfather, father and I are all named for Captain Roberts Coles, his son. My mother is Thomas Jefferson's fourth-great-granddaughter. Further, Thomas Jefferson and Edward Coles were friends. In 1814, while private secretary to President Madison, he wrote to Jefferson regarding his views on slavery. Many believe Jefferson is responsible for the extension slavery in Virginia; as well, many believe Coles responsible for preventing Illinois from becoming a slave state. I do not think even Roger Wilkins can imagine some of the fire-side conversations which occur on a cold winter's night among members of my family.

Rob Coles (electronic mail, July 10, 2001)
http://www.meetthomasjefferson.com

http://www.rootsweb.com/~ilhistor/governors/coles.html

Edward Coles, second Governor of Illinois, 1823-6, was born Dec. 15, 1786, in Albemarle Co., Va., on the old family estate called "Enniscorthy," on the Green Mountain. His father, John Coles, was a Colonel in the Revolutionary War. Having been fitted for college by private tutors, he was sent to Hampden Sidney, where he remained until the autumn of 1805, when he was removed to William and Mary College, at Williamsburg, Va. This college he left in the summer of 1807, a short time before the final and graduating examination. Among his classmates were Lieut. Gen. Scott, President John Tyler, Wm. S. Archer, United States Senator from Virginia, and Justice Baldwin, of the United States Supreme Court. The President of the latter college, Bishop Madison, was a cousin of President James Madison, and that circumstance was the occasion of Mr. Coles becoming personally acquainted with the President and receiving a position as his private secretary, 1809-15.

The family of Coles was a prominent one in Virginia, and their mansion was the seat of the old-fashioned Virginian hospitality. It was visited by such notables as Patrick Henry, Jefferson, Madison, Monroe, the Randolphs, Tazewell, Wirt, etc. At the age of 23, young Coles found himself heir to a plantation and a considerable number of slaves. Ever since his earlier college days his attention had been drawn to the question of slavery. He read everything on the subject that came in his way, and listened to lectures on the rights of man. The more he reflected upon the subject, the more impossible was it for him to reconcile the immortal declaration "that all men are born free and equal" with the practice of slave-holding. He resolved, therefore, to free his slaves the first opportunity, and even remove his residence to a free State. One reason which determined him to accept the appointment as private secretary to Mr. Madison was because he believed that through the acquaintances he could make at Washington he could better determine in what part of the non-slaveholding portion of the Union he would prefer to settle.

The relations between Mr. Coles and President Madison, as well as Jefferson and other distinguished men, were of a very friendly character, arising from the similarity of their views on the question of slavery and their sympathy for each other in holding doctrines so much at variance with the prevailing sentiment in their own State.

In 1857, he resigned his secretaryship and spent a portion of the following autumn in exploring the Northwest Territory, for the purpose of finding a location and purchasing lands on which to settle his negroes. He traveled with a horse and buggy, with an extra man and horse for emergencies, through many parts of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois and Missouri, determining finally to settle in Illinois. At this time, however, a misunderstanding arose between our Government and Russia, and Mr. Coles was selected to repair to St. Petersburg on a special mission, bearing important papers concerning the matter at issue. The result was a conviction of the Emperor (Alexander) of the error committed by his minister at Washington, and the consequent withdrawal of the latter from the post. On his return, Mr. Coles visited other parts of Europe, especially Paris, where he was introduced to Gen. Lafayette.

In the spring of 1819, he removed with all his negroes from Virginia to Edwardsville, Ill., with the intention of giving them their liberty. He did not make known to them his intention until one beautiful morning in April, as they were descending the Ohio River. He lashed all the boats together and called all the negroes on deck and made them a short address, concluding his remarks by so expressing himself that by a turn of a sentence he proclaimed in the shortest and fullest manner that they were no longer slaves, but free as he was and were at liberty to proceed with him or go ashore at their pleasure. A description of the effect upon the negroes is best described in his own language:

"The effect upon them was electrical. They stared at me and then at each other, as if doubting the accuracy or reality of what they heard. In breathless silence they stood before me, unable to utter a word, but with countenances beaming with expression which no words could convey, and which no language can describe. As they began to see the truth of what they had heard, and realize their situation, there came on a kind of hysterical, giggling laugh. After a pause of intense and unutterable emotion, bathed in tears, and with tremulous voices, they gave vent to their gratitude and implored the blessing of God on me."

Before landing he gave them a general certificate of freedom, and afterward conformed more particularly with the law of this State requiring that each individual should have a certificate. This act of Mr. Coles, all the more noble and heroic considering the overwhelming pro-slavery influences surrounding him, has challenged the admiration of every philanthropist of modern times.

March 5, 1819, President Monroe appointed Mr. Coles Registrar of the Land Office at Edwardsville, at that time one of the principal land offices in the State. While acting in this capacity and gaining many friends by his politeness and general intelligence, the greatest struggle that ever occurred in Illinois on the slavery question culminated in the furious contest characterizing the campaigns and elections of 1822-4. In the summer of 1823, when a new Governor was to be elected to succeed Mr. Bond, the pro-slavery element divided into factions, putting forward for the executive office Joseph Phillips, Chief Justice of the State, Thomas C. Browne and Gen. James B. Moore, of the State Militia. The anti-slavery element united upon Mr. Coles, and, after one of the most bitter campaigns, succeeded in electing him as Governor. His plurality over Judge Phillips was only 59 in a total vote of over 8,000. The Lieutenant Governor was elected by the slavery men. Mr. Coles' inauguration speech was marked by calmness, deliberation and such a wise expression of appropriate suggestions as to elicit the sanction of all judicious politicians. But he compromised not with evil. In his message to the Legislature, the seat of Government being then at Vandalia, he strongly urged the abrogation of the modified form of slavery which then existed in this State, contrary to the Ordinance of 1787. His position on this subject seems the more remarkable, when it is considered that he was a minority Governor, the population of Illinois being at that time almost exclusively from slave-holding States and by a large majority in favor of the perpetuation of that old relic of barbarism. The Legislature itself was, of course, a reflex of the popular sentiment, and a majority of them were led on by fiery men in denunciations of the conscientious Governor, and in curses loud and deep upon him and all his friends. Some of the public men, indeed, went so far as to head a sort of mob, or "shiveree" party, who visited the residence of the Governor and others at Vandalia and yelled and groaned and spat fire.

The Constitution, not establishing or permitting slavery in this State, was thought therefore to be defective by the slavery politicians, and they desired a State Convention to be elected, to devise and submit a new Constitution; and the dominant politics of the day was "Convention" and "anti-Convention." Both parties issued addresses to the people; Gov. Coles himself being the author of the address published by the latter party. This address revealed the schemes of the conspirators in a masterly manner. It is difficult for us at this distant day to estimate the critical and extremely delicate situation in which the Governor was placed at that time.

Our hero maintained himself honorably and with supreme dignity throughout his administration, and in his honor a county in this State is named. He was truly a great man, and those who lived in this State during his sojourn here, like those who lived at the base of the mountain, were too near to see and recognize the greatness that overshadowed them.

Mr. Coles was married Nov. 28, 1833, by Bishop De Lancey, to Miss Sally Logan Roberts, a daughter of Hugh Roberts, a descendant of Welsh ancestry, who came to this country with Wm. Penn in 1682.

After the expiration of his term of service, Gov. Coles continued his residence in Edwardsville, superintending his farm in the vicinity. He was fond of agriculture, and was the founder of the first agricultural society in the State. On account of ill health, however, and having no family to tie him down, he spent much of his time in Eastern cities. About 1832 he changed his residence to Philadelphia, where he died July 7, 1868, and is buried at Woodland, near that city.

From: "Portrait and Biographical Album of Champaign County, Illinois," Chapman Brothers, Chicago, 1887

Birth:
"Enniscorthy", Albemarle Co., VA

Edward married Sally Logan Roberts on 28 Nov 1833 in Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, PA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Robert Hill Carter. Robert was born in 1778; died in 1809. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Richard Singleton. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: John Rutherfoord. John was born in 1792; died in 1866. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Emily married John Rutherfoord in 1816. John was born in 1792; died in 1866. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

From "History of Albemarle County", by Rev. Edgar Woods, 1901, page 172:

COLES

John Coles' father, John, came to this country from Enniscorthy, Ireland, and established himself in Hanover County, Virginia, where he married Mary Winston. His children were Walter, Sarah, Mary, the wife of John Payne, and mother of Dorothy, President Madison's wife, John, and Isaac, who lived in Halifax County, and was a member of Congress from that district. John settled in Albemarle on the land above mentioned. He married Rebecca E. Tucker, who first drew the breath of life in the historic city of Jamestown. His children were Walter, John, Isaac, Tucker, Edward, Rebecca, the wife of Richard Singleton, of South Carolina, Mary Eliza, the wife of Robert Carter, Sarah, the wife of Andrew Stevenson, Elizabeth, and Emily, the wife of John Rutherford, of Richmond. John Coles died in 1808, and his wife in 1826.

John married Selina Skipwith, of Mecklenburg. His home was Estouteville, where he died in 1848. He left three sons, John, who lived near Warren, Peyton, who married his cousin Isaetta, and succeeded his father at Estouteville, wher he died in 1887, and Tucker, whose present residence is Viewmont.

Birth:
"Enniscorthy II", Albemarle Co., VA

Died:
fire at hearth/"Estouteville", Albemarle County, Virginia

John married Selina Skipwith about 1825. Selina (daughter of Peyton Skipwith and Jean Miller) was born on 30 Jul 1793 in Prestwould, Mecklenburg, Virginia, USA; died on 9 Aug 1870 in Esmont, Albemarle, Virginia, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Birth:
"Enniscorthy II", Albemarle Co., VA

Died:
"Woodville", Albemarle Co., VA

Family/Spouse: Eliza Fauntleroy Cocke. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Sally Thompson Craig. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Sarah married Andrew Stevenson on 8 Jan 1816. Andrew was born on 21 Jan 1784 in Culpepper County, VA; died on 25 Jan 1857. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Died:
at birth

Family/Spouse: Clanton. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Lanier. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: A. Thompson. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Spears. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Tankersley. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Caroline married John S. Hamilton on 12 Aug 1858. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

The Winstons of Hanover County, Sheet 198, says Arthur enlisted May 1661, 7th VA Inf. Kemper's Brigade, Pickett's Div. Possibly captured @ Milford and held at Pt. Lookout.

Notes:

Richmond Whig & public advertiser, Date of Publication Tuesday, July 25, 1843
Married - On July 18, by Rev. John W. Woodville, John J. W. Payne, of Columbus, Miss., to Miss Martha Virginia Winston, dau. of Wm. A. Winston, of Culpeper County, Va. Page 2, column 5

Martha married John James Woodson Payne on 18 Jul 1843 in Culpepper County, Virginia, USA. John (son of William Major Payne and Francis Stevenson Woodville) was born on 20 Jan 1820 in Culpeper, Culpeper County, VA; died on 16 Feb 1889 in Scottsboro, Jackson County, AL. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Mary married Daniel French Slaughter on 20 Nov 1855. Daniel was born on 15 Oct 1799; died on 13 Oct 1882. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Mary married John James Allen on 11 Nov 1824 in Clarksburg, Harrison County, WV. John was born in 1793; died in 1863. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

History of West Virginia and the People (The Lee Line). (IV) General John Jay Jackson, son of Hon. John George Jackson, was, like his father, eminent in both the law and the army. He was born in Wood county, Virginia. February 13, 1800. He passed his early life in Parkersburg, becoming identified with its village growth and its later municipal prosperity. His education was begun under Dr. David Creel, who subsequently resided in Chillicothe, Ohio, and was afterward conducted atone of the best schools in Virginia, taught by Dr. Tower at Clarksburg in Harrison county. Young Jackson was a very apt pupil, and at thirteen years of age was admitted to Washington College, Pennsylvania, where he remained for a year, when he was appointed by President James Monroe as a cadet to West Point, which institution he entered in 1815, graduating there from in 1818, in the nineteenth year of his age. He was at once commissioned as second lieutenant in the United States army and attached to the corps of artillery ordered to Norfolk, Virginia, where he performed garrison service until the latter part of the year 1819, being then transferred to the fourth infantry. In 1820 and 1821 he performed active service in Florida in the Seminole war, and while thus engaged was commissioned as adjutant and transferred to regimental headquarters at Montpelier, Alabama. At this place and at Pensacola he was a member of General Andrew Jackson's staff. In 1822 he visited Parkersburg on a six months' furlough, and about January 1, 1823, he resigned his commission in the army and turned his attention to law. He completed his preparatory course of study and was licensed to practice law in Virginia April 28, 1823. He soon reached the front ranks in his profession, maintaining his high position to the end of his career. He was in 1826 appointed prosecuting attorney of Wood county, in the county court, and in 1830 he was appointed to the same office in the circuit superior court, holding the position until 1852, when he retired. He was also prosecutor in the circuit supreme court of Ritchie county. For six several terms he served as representative from Wood county to the Virginia house of delegates, and in each of the legislatures to which he was returned he filled a prominent position. In 1842 he was commissioned brigadier-general of the twenty-third brigade of Virginia militia, remaining in this post until the outbreak of the civil war. In politics he belonged to the school of Clay and Webster, believing in the capability of the people for self rule. He was a member of the historic convention at Richmond in 1861 and eloquently upheld the Union, this being about his last public service, though he made various speeches during and after the war in which he advocated forbearance and reconciliation. He was active in every enterprise for the benefit of the community; when the Baltimore & Ohio railway sought right of way from the Potomac to the Ohio, he urged needed legislation, and was one of the earliest and largest contributors to the subscription stock toward the building of the Northwestern Virginia railroad. In later years his means and time were largely used to promote the improvement of the Little Kanawha river, forming a company which erected locks and dams to make it navigable the year round. He organized and was president of the Second National Bank of Parkersburg, and was at various times member of the municipal council and mayor of the city. He died January 1, 1877, leaving to posterity the memory of a fame which rested more upon his legal ability than his political successes. Like his cousin, "Stonewall" Jackson, he was a superb horseman; and like him was also temperate, persevering and purposeful, possessing unusual natural gifts. He was a member of the Episcopal church, and was for over forty years senior warden of Trinity parish. General Jackson married (first) Emma G. Beeson in 1823; she died in 1842; married (second) Jane E. B. Gardner in 1843. He was the father of five sons: Hon. Judge John Jay Jackson, United States District Judge James Monroe Jackson, Governor Jacob Beeson Jackson, Henry Clay Jackson and Andrew Gardner, of whom further. Also three daughters living at the time of his death: Mrs. William H. Small, Mrs. George W. Thompson, Mrs. William H. Smith.

John married Emma G. Beeson on 29 Jun 1823. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

John married Jane Elizabeth Beeson on 17 Jul 1843 in Wood County, WV. Jane was born about 1820 in Pennsylvania. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Birth:
"Harewood" Berkley Co., WV

Samuel married Louisa Clemson in 1822. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Margaret Catherine Fletcher. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Augusta Hawkins. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Residence: 1850, Washington Ward 2, Washington, District of Columbia
• Residence: 1860, Washington Ward 4, Washington, District of Columbia, USA

James married Eleanora (Ellen) Elizabeth O'Neale on 16 Dec 1833 in Montgomery, Montgomery, Maryland, USA. Eleanora (daughter of John O'Neale and Eliza Henrietta Hamilton) was born in 1811 in Maryland, USA; died in Feb 1897. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Francis Scott. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: William Shelton. William was born in of Louisa County, VA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Walter married Alice Cabell on 15 Nov 1817. Alice (daughter of George Cabell and Sarah Winston) was born in 1800; died in 1846. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

no children by her marriage to William Booker Green

Anne married Charles de la Boulay Fontaine on 29 Dec 1810. Charles (son of John Smith Fontaine and Martha "Patsy" Henry) was born on 30 Jan 1779 in Richmond City, Virginia, USA; died in Jan 1818 in Halifax County, Virginia, USA; was buried in Centerville, Halifax, Virginia, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Anne married William Booker Green about 30 May 183. William was born in 1789 in Prince Edward County, VA; died in 1870. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Died:
"Berry Hill", Halifax Co., VA

Edward married Elizabeth Henry Preston on 15 May 1820. Elizabeth (daughter of Francis Smith Preston and Sarah Buchanan Campbell) was born on 11 Aug 1796 in Salt Works, Washington, Virginia, USA; died on 11 Jan 1876 in Charlottesville, Virginia. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Paul married Emma Catherine Cabell on 9 May 1826 in Richmond, Virginia, USA. Emma (daughter of William H. Cabell and Agnes Sarah Bell Gamble) was born on 10 Mar 1808; died on 31 Mar 1887. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

William married Sarah (Sara) Embry Scott on 8 Jun 1819 in Halifax County, VA. Sarah was born in Jan 1800; died on 12 Aug 1872 in Staunton, VA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Birth:
"Sylvan Hill", Charlotte Co., VA

Died:
"Springwood", Halifax, Halifax Co., VA

Mildred married Isaac Howell Coles on 7 Feb 1811. Isaac (son of Isaac Coles and Elizabeth Lightfoot) was born on 16 Dec 1777 in of "Springwood", Halifax County, VA; died on 28 Sep 1820. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Isaac married Sarah Embrea Read on 7 May 1834. Sarah was born on 28 Sep 1811; died on 12 Sep 1855. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Eliza D.. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Elizabeth married William Joel Watkins on 11 May 1831. William was born on 4 Jan 1808; died on 9 Aug 1884 in St. Augustine, FL. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Isaac married Frances Keeling Green on 7 May 1840. Frances was born on 24 Mar 1824; died on 17 Jul 1881. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Mildred married John Richard Edmunds in Jan 1836 in Virginia, USA. John (son of Henry Edmunds and Martha W. Morton) was born on 26 Aug 1812; died on 8 May 1873. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Cabell says died 1869 Read & Rel.-258 says 1884

Family/Spouse: Roger Arkinson. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Encyclopedia of Virginia Biography, Volume V

Name: Thomas Jordan Coles (cont.)

Captain Walter (2) Coles, son of Hon. Walter (1) and Lettice P. (Carrington) Coles, was born August 12, 1825, died November 11, 1914. He was educated at Benjamin Hallowel's celebrated school at Alexandria, Virginia, and at the University of Virginia. He entered into the practice of law, but the declining health of his father and mother made it necessary for him to abandon his chosen profession to assume the responsibilities of the management of the Coles Hill estate. With the breaking out of the war between the states he was assigned to a high position in the quartermaster's department with the rank of captain, having charge of much government property and large sums of money. Evidence of the faithfulness of his war record is evinced by personal letters which he had in his possession addressed to Captain Walter Coles, from Quarter Master-General A. C. Myers, Major-General James G. Paxton and Major Johnson. Just before the close of the war he was commissioned to furnish the army of General Lee with all necessary horses but before he could assume charge of this position together with its promotion in rank the surrender came. In 1860 he was a delegate to the Democratic conventions which met in Charleston, South Carolina, and Baltimore, Maryland. In 1869-71 he was a member of the Virginia state legislature, and although he was urged to again become a candidate for re-election, he refused, pleading pressing duties and private responsibilities. For many years after the close of the civil war he was a member of the Democratic committee of Pittsylvania, and during the reconstruction period he worked tirelessly to restore the South to its former high standard and to secure white supremacy in place of ignorant dominion. In public office, in private business transactions, in all occasions of life causing contact with his fellow-men his actions were marked by unfaltering honor and an integrity that left no room for doubt or question. He resided on the home plantation, Coles Hill, Pittsylvania county, Virginia, and despite the weight of almost ninety years took an active interest in the affairs of the day and the home acres. At his death there passed away a splendid type which will soon disappear from our land, a man, a noble gentleman and devoted churchman, a lifelong resident of the county who filled a large and honorable place in its history, full of years and the recipient of the regard and esteem of his countrymen.

He married, in 1862, Lavinia Catherine Jordan, born in Luray, Page county, Virginia, August 3, 1833, died January 20, 1906, daughter of Gabriel and Elizabeth Ann (Sibert) Jordan. Her father, born in 1792, died in 1862, was a patriotic citizen, devoting his life to the improvement of the section of the country in which he lived; a man of many affairs, who had accumulated considerable wealth at the outbreak of the war between the states. Her father fitted out a cavalry company at his own expense, her youngest brother, Macon, being made captain; it being known as Jordan's Cavalry. Her maternal grand-uncle, a Mr. Withers of South Carolina, served with distinction on the staff of General Sumpter. Her Jordan ancestors were of English origin and related to the Washingtons of England. Her grandfather, Thomas Jordan, fought in the revolution, associated with the Marquis De Lafayette. In a letter written years afterward, in 1824, to her father, Gabriel Jordan, of Luray, Virginia, the Marquis De Lafayette regrets his inability to visit him, "The worthy son of my gallant old Comrade in arms, Thomas Jordan." Her brother, Francis, was a captain on General Beauregard's staff. Her brother, Colonel Gabriel Jordan, was a prominent railroad man in the South, being at different times vice-president and general manager of the Mobile & Ohio Railroad, the Memphis & Charleston Railroad, and the Houston & Texas Central Railroad.

Her eldest brother, General Thomas Jordan, for whom Thomas Jordan Coles was named, was a West Point graduate in 1840, two of his classmates having been General U. S. Grant and William T. Sherman, the latter having been his room-mate. General Thomas Jordan entered service at once and early distinguished himself in Florida in the Seminole uprising, 1841 to 1843. While still a lieutenant he served in the Mexican war, his company with three others being the first battalion to cross the Rio Grande, as a cover to the crossing of General Taylor's whole army into Mexico. Later, he was made captain on General Taylor's staff and was assigned to the quartermaster's department, and finally, owing to the illness of his senior, he had charge of all the quartermaster's arrangements, and was the last American soldier to leave the soil of Mexico. His efficiency in this service was especially mentioned by General Twiggs, the commander at Vera Cruz. From 1852 to 1860 he served on the Pacific coast during the suppression of an Indian insurrection in the present state of Washington. In May, 1861, under a sense of superior obligation, he resigned his commission in the United States army and offered his sword and life to his native state, Virginia. He was appointed lieutenant-colonel on the staff of General Phillip St. George Cocke. Colonel Jordan became convinced of the strategic importance of Manassas Junction and the critical necessity of immediately occupying it in force. He successfully commended the movement to General Lee, by whom Colonel Jordan was complimented in a personal letter and assigned as adjutant-general of the forces which were thereupon ordered to assemble there. On June 3rd General Beauregard took command and on July 21st the first battle of Manassas or Bull Run was fought. After the battle Colonel Jordan suggested to General Beauregard that the Federal surgeons be released without parole to which General Beauregard acceded, this being the first time in war that an enemy's surgeons were thus treated as non-combatants. During the Shiloh and Corinth campaigns Colonel Jordan was the adjutant-general of the Confederate army, and then promoted a brigadier-general.

In 1869 General Jordan consented to direct the revolutionary forces of Cuba and was commissioned by the Cuban government commander-in-chief. The odds against him in that campaign are now well known. Spain valued his services against her one hundred thousand dollars which she placed upon his head. General Beauregard in his history pronounced General Thomas Jordan as one of the ablest military organizers living. After the civil war and prior to his services in Cuba, General Jordan had been for a time editor of the "Memphis Appeal." After his return from Cuba to New York he founded the "Financial and Mining Record," and was recognized as an authority on the silver question. General Thomas Jordan was born 1819 in Luray, Virginia, died in New York City, 1895.

Children of Walter (2) and Lavinia Catherine (Jordan) Coles: 1. Walter (3), born July 25, 1863; manager of the Coles Hill farm; married Miss Wooding, of Virginia, and has a son, Walter (4). 2. Russell Jordan, born December 31, 1865, for twenty-five years identified with the tobacco trade of Danville, Virginia. 3. Agnes Cabell, born April 17, 1868; married Edward B. Ambler, of Monroe, Virginia. 4. Lettice Carrington, born September 17, 1870, died in 1882, aged twelve years. 5. Harry Carrington, born February 26, 1873; living in New York City, connected with the United States civil service; married Miss Marshall, of Fauquier county, Virginia, a great-granddaughter of Chief Justice Marshall. 6. Thomas Jordan, of whom further.

Walter married Lavinia Catherine Jordan in 1862. Lavinia was born on 3 Aug 1833 in Luray, Page County, VA; died on 20 Jan 1906. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: John Grattan Cabell. John (son of William H. Cabell and Agnes Sarah Bell Gamble) was born on 17 Jun 1817. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Died:
"Coles Hill", Pittsylvania Co., VA

Mildred married Thomas Stanhope Flournoy on 22 Jul 1852. Thomas (son of John James Flournoy and Ann Carrington Cabell) was born on 15 Dec 1811 in Prince Edward County, Virginia, USA; died on 12 Mar 1883 in Halifax County, VA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Papers of Harriet V. Miller.
DAR papers for Mary E. Miller; also #548112
Colonial Fams. of the US, Vol. 7, p. 454 (from Ancestry.com)

Emily married Paul Carrington Venable on 29 Jul 1824. Paul (son of Samuel Woodson Venable and Mary Scott Carrington) was born on 16 Oct 1794; died on 4 Apr 1876 in Bedford Springs, VA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Died:
"Sunnyside", Mecklenburg Co., VA

Henry married Elizabeth Morton on 24 Apr 1820. Elizabeth was born in of "Elmwood", Halifax County, VA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

William married Jane Watkins Carrington on 16 Jan 1834. Jane died after 1834. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Mary married Joseph Wyatt Scott on 3 Oct 1805. Joseph was born on 19 Dec 1780. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Died:
"Berry Hill", Halifax Co., VA

Edward married Elizabeth Ragland on 3 Oct 1838. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

John married Judith Wimbish on 11 Sep 1828 in Halifax County, VA. Judith was born on 24 Dec 1804; died on 31 Aug 1878; was buried . [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: 3 Apr 1831, Baltimore, Maryland
• Residence: 1860, St Annes Parish, Albemarle, Virginia, USA; Age: 30
• Residence: 1880, Scottsville, Albemarle, Virginia, USA; Age: 49; Marital Status: Married; Relation to Head of House: Wife
• Residence: 1900, Scottsville, Albemarle, Virginia, USA; Age: 69; Marital Status: Widowed; Relation to Head of House: Head

Notes:

Died:
Age: 76

Julia married Peyton Skipwith Coles on 17 Mar 1852 in her mother's house in Charlottesville, VA. Peyton (son of John Coles, III and Selina Skipwith) was born on 1 Apr 1826; died on 25 Jun 1887; was buried in Esmont, Albemarle County, Virginia, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Sarah married Benjamin Franklin Randolph on 13 Nov 1834. Benjamin (son of Jr. Thomas Mann Randolph and Martha Jefferson) was born on 14 Jul 1808; died on 18 Feb 1871. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: George Rives. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Died:
"Blenheim", Picke Co., MO

John married Ellen Monroe Wayles Bankhead on 7 Jul 1832 in Washington, DC. Ellen died on 12 Jan 1838. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Margaret Rachel Higginbotham. Margaret died in 1872. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Margaret Smith. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Sarah married Abraham Van Buren on 29 Dec 1878 in Singleton Mansion, Sumter, SC. Abraham (son of Martin Van Buren and Hannah Hoes) was born on 27 Nov 1807 in Kinderhook, Columbia County, NY; died on 15 Mar 1873 in New York City, New York, New York, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

John married Mary Lewis Carter in 1836. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Residence: 1850, Albemarle, Virginia, USA; Age: 24
• Civil: 3 Jun 1851, Richmond, Virginia; Age: 25
• Residence: 9 Jul 1860, Saint Anne Parish, Albemarle, Virginia, USA; Age: 34
• Residence: 1870, St Amos Parish, Albemarle, Virginia, USA; Age: 44
• Residence: 1880, Scottsville, Albemarle, Virginia, USA; Age: 54; Marital Status: Married; Relation to Head of House: Self

Notes:

Birth:
"Estouteville", Albemarle County, Virginia

Died:
Age: 61/"Enniscorthy", Albemarle Co., VA

Peyton married Julia Isaetta Coles on 17 Mar 1852 in her mother's house in Charlottesville, VA. Julia (daughter of Isaac Coles and Juliana Stricker) was born on 13 Jan 1831 in Baltimore, Maryland; died in 1907 in Esmont, Albemarle, Virginia, USA; was buried in Esmont, Albemarle County, Virginia, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Residence: 1900, Scottsville, Albemarle, Virginia, USA; Age: 72; Marital Status: Widowed; Relation to Head of House: Head

Notes:

Birth:
"Estouteville", Albemarle County, Virginia

Died:
Age: 79

Tucker married Selina Skipwith on 24 Jun 1854. Selina was born on 2 Jan 1835 in Virginia, USA; died on 2 Dec 1894. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Tucker married Frances Ann Rixey on 26 Dec 1900. Frances was born on 20 May 1848 in Culpepper County, Virginia, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Tucker married Margaret Venable Locke on 1 Feb 1899. Margaret was born on 7 Nov 1854 in Halifax County, VA; died on 16 Jan 1900 in Louisville, KY. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Sally married Benjamin Franklin Taylor on 25 Sep 1822. Benjamin was born on 10 Jul 1791 in Columbia, Richland, South Carolina, USA; died on 12 May 1852. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

William married Margaret Brown on 21 Feb 1871. Margaret was born on 1 Nov 1846 in Scottsboro, Jackson County, AL. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Daniel married Katherine Rogers Somerville on 8 Jun 1898 in Culpepper County, Virginia, USA. Katherine was born on 9 Apr 1868 in Culpepper County, Virginia, USA; died on 4 Jun 1940 in Culpepper County, Virginia, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Gail Budda Henry Hart Beeson's Genealogy
Extracted from H.H. Beeson's book on the Beeson Family - some data known to be incorrect For more information on the Beeson/Beason Family go to our homepage at http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~beeson

James married Helen Sophia Seely on 5 Sep 1850 in Trumbull, Warren County, OH. Helen was born in 1827; died in 1861. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Lucy married John Branbridge Packett on 4 Mar 1840. John was born on 18 Feb 1817; died in 1877. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Ann Bull Clemson. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Christine married Richard Blackburn Washington on 20 Nov 1844. Richard was born on 12 Nov 1822. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Anne married Thomas A Brown in 1854. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Was one of the Founders of DAR (Daughters of the American Revolution]

Family/Spouse: Thomas Gaskins Moncure. Thomas was born in of Falmouth, VA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: McPherson. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Served in the Confederate Army [Civil War]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Residence: 1870, Washington, District of Columbia, USA; Washington Ward 4
• Residence: 1880, Saratoga, Douglas, Nebraska, USA
• Residence: 1880, Saratoga, Douglas, Nebraska, USA

Notes:

http://www.npg.si.edu/exh/brady/gallery/85gal.html
Adele Cutts Douglas grew up in Washington, where her good looks, winning personality, and impressive family connections made her a favorite of local society. Her father was the nephew of Dolley Madison, whose Lafayette Square mansion became Adele Cutts's second home. Her mother's sister, Rose Greenhow, also an important hostess, was later convicted of spying for the Confederacy. Cutts met the widower Senator Stephen A. Douglas. in 1856, when he had narrowly lost the Democratic presidential nomination to James Buchanan. They wed after a brief courtship, and Stephen Douglas's substantial fortune supported Adele Douglas's brilliant salon, where together they commanded substantial political power. During the famous Lincoln-Douglas debates in 1858, Adele Douglas traveled with her husband through Illinois, and like her husband, she became Lincoln's warm friend. She accompanied Douglas through his travels south during the 1860 presidential campaign and was by his side when he died in Chicago the following spring. Adele Cutts Douglas later married a career army officer, and raised their six children in the western territories.

Buried:
Arlington National Cemetery

Rose married Robert P. Williams in Jan 1866. Robert (son of Philip Williams and Mildred Catlett) was born on 5 Nov 1829 in Culpeper, Culpeper, Virginia, USA; died on 24 Aug 1901 in Hotel Netherwood, Plainfield, Union, New Jersey, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Rose married Stephen Arnold Douglas, Jr. on 20 Nov 1856 in Washington City, District of Columbia, USA. Stephen (son of Stephen Arnold Douglas and Sallie Fiske) was born on 23 Apr 1813 in Brandon, Rutland, Vermont, USA; died on 3 Jun 1861 in Chicago, Cook, Illinois, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Residence: 1850, Georgetown College, Washington, District of Columbia
• _MILT: Between 1861 and 1868; Brevet Lieutenant Colonel, received triple Medal of Honor Promoted to Full Captain on 23 Jun 1861. Enlisted in Company C, Rhode Island 1st Infantry Regiment on 02 May 1861. Mustered out on 22 Jun 1861. Commissioned an officer in the Regular Army 11th
• Residence: 17 Apr 1861, Providence, Rhode Island
• Residence: 1880, Washington, Washington, District of Columbia, District of Columbia, USA
• Residence: 1900, Washington City, Washington, District of Columbia

Notes:

Buried:
Section Sou. Site Lot 1371

James married Mary Elizabeth Wheeler on 13 Jul 1872 in Washington City, District of Columbia, USA. Mary was born in Apr 1853 in Maryland, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

George married Sarah Winston Henry on 2 Nov 1843 in Amherst County, Virginia, USA. Sarah (daughter of Alexander Spotswood Henry and Paulina Jordan Cabell) was born in 1822; died in 1906. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Paul married Margaret A. Thompson in 1845. Margaret died in 1887. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Catherine Carrington. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Mary Coleman. Mary was born in of Williamsburg, VA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Fowlkes. was born in of Arkansas. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Cockerill. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Isadora Meredith Myrick. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Mary Jett. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Edward married Marie Antoinette Swope on 1 Jun 1848. Marie was born on 17 Mar 1830 in Augusta County, VA; died on 26 Jan 1896 in Washington, DC. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Howe P. Cochran. Howe died in of Charlottesville, VA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Papers of Harriet V. Miller.
"Word Pictures of Longwood," by Harriet V. Miller, Private Printing, 1941
1860 census, VA, Pr. Edw. Co., p. 60, fam. 420: Alec B. Carrington, 26, Presb. Clergyman, $5500 real estate, $7000 personal property, married within the census year.

Alexander married Frances Isabelle Venable on 15 May 1860. Frances (daughter of Nathaniel E. Venable and Mary Embra Scott) was born about 1838; died on 14 Jan 1885 in Virginia, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Alexander married Sarah Ewell in 1887. Sarah died after 1887. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Louisa married Andrew "Black Andrew" Reid Venable on 8 Nov 1860. Andrew (son of William Henry Venable and Margaret M. Reid) was born on 4 Apr 1830 in of Prince Edward County, VA; died on 12 Sep 1913. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Abram married Anne Cabell Read on 7 Jul 1852. Anne was born in 1831 in Charlotte County, VA; died in Apr 1893. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

William married Mildred Coles Carrington on 21 Oct 1863. Mildred (daughter of Isaac Coles Carrington and Sarah Embrea Read) was born on 2 Nov 1839; died on 1 Jan 1923. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Edgar married Mary H. Hanna on 6 Mar 1862. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Birth:
"Gamble's Hill", Richmond, VA

Isaac married Mary Coles on 19 Apr 1853. Mary (daughter of Isaac Coles and Elizabeth Lightfoot) died in 1860. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Isaac married Anne Seddon Smith on 7 Nov 1865. Anne was born in of Gloucester County, VA; died in LIV. 1895. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Robert married Jane C. Spiller in 1861. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Birth:
"Sylvan Hill", Charlotte Co., VA

William married Elizabeth Goodridge Venable on 28 May 1845. Elizabeth (daughter of Nathaniel E. Venable and Mary Embra Scott) was born on 21 Jul 1823; died on 1 Feb 1874 in Prince Edward County, VA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

William married Georgianna Baker Adams on 25 Feb 1880. Georgianna was born on 30 Sep 1849. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Birth:
"Mildendo", Halifax Co., VA

Family/Spouse: Susan Smith Preston McDowell. Susan was born on "Calatto", Lexington, VA; died in 1909. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Mildred married William Goodridge Venable on 16 Jun 1841 in Halifax County, VA. William (son of William Lewis Venable and Frances Watkins Nantz) was born on 2 May 1819; died on 29 Feb 1908 in Falling Springs, VA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Elizabeth married William Joel Watkins on 11 May 1831. William was born on 4 Jan 1808; died on 9 Aug 1884 in St. Augustine, FL. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Isaac married Frances Keeling Green on 7 May 1840. Frances was born on 24 Mar 1824; died on 17 Jul 1881. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Mildred married John Richard Edmunds in Jan 1836 in Virginia, USA. John (son of Henry Edmunds and Martha W. Morton) was born on 26 Aug 1812; died on 8 May 1873. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Isaetta married Edward Carrington Cabell in 1870 in Richmond, Virginia, USA. Edward (son of Robert Gamble Cabell and Margaret Sophia Caskie) was born on 4 Jan 1850 in Richmond, Virginia, USA; died on 13 Jun 1883. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]