Mary W. Coles

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]

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]

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]

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]