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John Thruston

John Thruston

Male 1761 -

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Generation: 1

  1. 1.  John ThrustonJohn Thruston was born on 15 Oct 1761 in Louisville, Jefferson County, KY.

    John married Elizabeth Thruston Whiting on 13 Oct 1782 in Virginia, USA. Elizabeth was born about 1771 in Virginia, USA; died in Jul 1822 in Kentucky. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

    Children:
    1. 2. Charles Minn Thruston  Descendancy chart to this point was born on 26 Feb 1793 in Sans Souci, Jefferson, KY; died on 7 Jan 1854 in Harrods Creek, KY.
    2. 3. Alfred Thruston  Descendancy chart to this point was born on 16 Apr 1797.
    3. 4. Algernon Sidney Thruston  Descendancy chart to this point was born on 19 May 1801 in Louisville, Jefferson County, KY; died on 5 Mar 1864 in Kentucky.
    4. 5. Lucius Falkland Thruston  Descendancy chart to this point was born on 18 Jul 1799.
    5. 6. Catherine Thruston  Descendancy chart to this point was born on 19 Sep 1790.
    6. 7. Sarah Thruston  Descendancy chart to this point was born on 8 Nov 1788.
    7. 8. Fanny Badello Thruston  Descendancy chart to this point was born on 7 Mar 1798; died in Little Rock, AR.
    8. 9. Mary Buckner Thruston  Descendancy chart to this point was born on 14 Aug 1783.
    9. 10. Thomas Whiting Thruston  Descendancy chart to this point was born on 6 Nov 1786.
    10. 11. Elizabeth Taylor Thruston  Descendancy chart to this point was born on 13 Feb 1785; died in Mar 1838 in Louisville, Jefferson County, KY.


Generation: 2

  1. 2.  Charles Minn ThrustonCharles Minn Thruston Descendancy chart to this point (1.John1) was born on 26 Feb 1793 in Sans Souci, Jefferson, KY; died on 7 Jan 1854 in Harrods Creek, KY.

    Charles married Eliza Sydnor Cosby on 10 Sep 1818. Eliza (daughter of Fortunatus Cosby and Mary Anne Fontaine) was born in 1797; died on 27 Jan 1841 in Harrods Creek, KY. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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


  2. 3.  Alfred ThrustonAlfred Thruston Descendancy chart to this point (1.John1) was born on 16 Apr 1797.

    Other Events and Attributes:

    • Will: 10 Dec 1856, Jefferson County, KY


  3. 4.  Algernon Sidney ThrustonAlgernon Sidney Thruston Descendancy chart to this point (1.John1) was born on 19 May 1801 in Louisville, Jefferson County, KY; died on 5 Mar 1864 in Kentucky.

    Notes:

    THRUSTON, ALGERNON SIDNEY (1801-1864). Algernon Sidney Thruston, soldier and lawyer, was born on May 19, 1801. He married Harriet C. Jacques of St. Louis, MO. They resided in Louisville, Kentucky, where Thruston practiced law. George C. Childress q.v. recommended Thruston to Stephen F. Austin q.v. as a man of quality and a good soldier. Thruston arrived in Houston in September 1837, began practicing law with Henry W. Fontaine, and became involved in local politics. Thruston served as commissary general for the Republic of Texas q.v. in 1837 and as quartermaster general in 1838. Sam Houston q.v. nominated him for attorney general on November 13, 1838, but Mirabeau B. Lamar q.v. became president before the nomination was approved by the Senate, and Thruston never filled the position. He received a headright and bounty certificate from the republic. He was a member of the Masonic Holland Lodge No. 1 of Houston and was a charter member of the Grand Lodge of Texas. He died on March 5, 1864.

    BIBLIOGRAPHY: James David Carter, Masonry in Texas: Background, History and Influence to 1846 (Waco: Grand Lodge of Texas, 1955). James K. Greer, "The Committee on the Texas Declaration of Independence," Southwestern Historical Quarterly 30, 31 (April, July 1927). Louis Wiltz Kemp Papers, Barker Texas History Center, University of Texas at Austin. Telegraph and Texas Register, January 11, September 9, 1837. Amelia W. Williams and Eugene C. Barker, eds., The Writings of Sam Houston, 1813-1863 (8 vols., Austin: University of Texas Press, 1938-43; rpt., Austin and New York: Pemberton Press, 1970).

    Algernon married Harriet C. Jacques on 19 Dec 1846 in Marshall County, TX. Harriet was born on 5 May 1827 in Missouri; died on 28 Oct 1873 in Kentucky. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

    Children:
    1. 12. Elizabeth Thruston  Descendancy chart to this point was born on 15 Jul 1847 in Texas.
    2. 13. Sidney Alegernon Thruston  Descendancy chart to this point was born on 20 Aug 1848 in Texas; died on 21 Oct 1925 in Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, CA.
    3. 14. Alfred Thruston  Descendancy chart to this point was born on 20 Aug 1848 in Texas; died on 9 Oct 1909 in Kentucky.
    4. 15. Curran Thruston  Descendancy chart to this point was born on 16 May 1850 in Kentucky; died on 20 Sep 1851 in Kentucky.
    5. 16. Curran Thruston  Descendancy chart to this point was born on 15 Jan 1852 in Kentucky; died on 4 May 1927.
    6. 17. Gay Thruston  Descendancy chart to this point was born on 4 Feb 1854 in Kentucky; died on 12 Oct 1854 in Kentucky.
    7. 18. Fanny Thruston  Descendancy chart to this point was born on 22 Sep 1855 in Kentucky; died on 26 Feb 1856 in Kentucky.
    8. 19. Thomas January Thruston  Descendancy chart to this point was born on 30 Nov 1856 in Kentucky; died on 26 Feb 1868 in Kentucky.
    9. 20. Ada Gay Thruston  Descendancy chart to this point was born on 13 Mar 1853 in Kentucky; died on 20 Oct 1873 in Kentucky.
    10. 21. Charles Mynn Thruston  Descendancy chart to this point was born on 4 Feb 1854; died in Owensboro, KY.

  4. 5.  Lucius Falkland ThrustonLucius Falkland Thruston Descendancy chart to this point (1.John1) was born on 18 Jul 1799.

  5. 6.  Catherine ThrustonCatherine Thruston Descendancy chart to this point (1.John1) was born on 19 Sep 1790.

    Catherine married Samuel Luckett on 13 Oct 1818. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

    Children:
    1. 22. Thruston Luckett  Descendancy chart to this point
    2. 23. Elizabeth Luckett  Descendancy chart to this point
    3. 24. Alfred Luckett  Descendancy chart to this point
    4. 25. Philip Luckett  Descendancy chart to this point
    5. 26. Catherine Luckett  Descendancy chart to this point

  6. 7.  Sarah ThrustonSarah Thruston Descendancy chart to this point (1.John1) was born on 8 Nov 1788.

    Family/Spouse: Worden Pope. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]


  7. 8.  Fanny Badello ThrustonFanny Badello Thruston Descendancy chart to this point (1.John1) was born on 7 Mar 1798; died in Little Rock, AR.

    Notes:

    Henry Massey Rector served as governor of Arkansas from 1860-1862. He
    was the son of Elias and Fanny Bardella (Thurston) Rector, b.
    1816...near as I can tell.

    "The first gov. surveys of AR were accomplished by Gen. Wm Rector and
    his brothers, Elias, Wharton, Stephen, and Thomas; his nephews William
    V. Rector, son of Wharton and Frederick Rector Conway of Ann Rector
    Conway, his sister. This as the beginning of the Rector influence in AR."

    Family/Spouse: Stephen Trigg. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

    Fanny married Elias Rector on 30 Aug 1810 in Louisville, Jefferson County, KY. Elias died in 1822 in St Louis MO. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

    Children:
    1. 27. Henry Massey Rector  Descendancy chart to this point was born on 1 May 1816 in Louisville, Jefferson County, KY; died on 12 Aug 1899 in Little Rock, AR.
    2. 28. Sidney Rector  Descendancy chart to this point
    3. 29. Elizabeth Rector  Descendancy chart to this point

  8. 9.  Mary Buckner ThrustonMary Buckner Thruston Descendancy chart to this point (1.John1) was born on 14 Aug 1783.

    Mary married Thomas Harrison January on 14 Nov 1799. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]


  9. 10.  Thomas Whiting ThrustonThomas Whiting Thruston Descendancy chart to this point (1.John1) was born on 6 Nov 1786.

    Thomas married Mary Dorsey Luckett on 30 Aug 1808. Mary died on 3 Oct 1816. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

    Children:
    1. 30. Mary Eliza Thruston  Descendancy chart to this point was born on 6 Oct 1809.
    2. 31. John E. Thruston  Descendancy chart to this point was born on 22 Apr 1811 in Kentucky; died on 4 Jun 1811 in Kentucky.
    3. 32. Mountjoy Luckett Thruston  Descendancy chart to this point was born on 17 Apr 1812 in Kentucky; died in 1836 in The Alamo County, TX.
    4. 33. Sarah Thruston  Descendancy chart to this point was born in 1814.

  10. 11.  Elizabeth Taylor ThrustonElizabeth Taylor Thruston Descendancy chart to this point (1.John1) was born on 13 Feb 1785; died in Mar 1838 in Louisville, Jefferson County, KY.

    Notes:

    In 1804 Worden Pope married Elizabeth Thruston, a lineal descendant
    of the Thruston of the revolution, an eloquent divine who left his pulpit
    and fought gallantly in the Colonial ranks against Great Britain and who
    in consequence of his courageous service has ever since been known by the
    sobriquet of "The Warrior Parson." She was a daughter of John Thruston,
    who represented Kentucky in the Virginia Legislature before the former
    became a State, and also the niece of Judge Buckner Thruston, who was one
    of the first two United States Senators from Kentucky. She was also the
    sister of Charles M. Thruston, of Louisville, a great lawyer and a
    speaker,
    who, when in the mood or aroused, was the equal of any one.
    The fruit of the marriage of Worden Pope with Elizabeth Thruston was
    a large family. Of all the children, thirteen in number, Hamilton Pope
    alone has reached an old age. He has enjoyed a long, successful and most
    honorable career at the Louisville Bar, and is a man of decided ability
    and marked characteristics. Averse to public life, he has never sought
    office; indeed, he has declined several times the nomination for Congress
    tendered him by the Whig party, although in early life he was induced to
    serve the people of Louisville in the Legislature and in the Senate at
    Frankfort. Had he chosen to follow the paths which lead to public honor,
    he would have achieved a national fame and been eminent in the councils of
    the Nation. Standing six feet and four inches high, he is a man of
    commanding presence, of the very purest private and professional
    character,
    of an integrity that has never been sullied, and is possessed of a
    magnetism which has made his personality potent in its influence with all
    those with whom he has come in contact. In the fall of 1855 he was
    married to Mrs. Prather, of Washington County, Kentucky, the daughter of
    Mr. Samuel Booker, and a woman of many personal attractions, of brilliant
    attainments and gifted with rare conversational powers.
    Patrick Pope, the eldest son of Worden Pope, died in his
    thirty-fourth
    year. Graduating as valedictorian from St. Joseph's College, Bardstown,
    Kentucky, he began the practice of law in the city of his birth, in 1827.
    He speedily rose to distinction in his profession. By his ability and
    eloquence he overcame a Whig majority of one thousand, being elected to
    the Legislature over the beloved and talented Henry Crittenden. When he
    made this brilliant canvass he was not yet twenty-five years of age. He
    ably co-operated with his father and the other members of his family in
    bringing out General Jackson for their presidency. Declining the place
    of Secretary of State, tendered him by Governor Breathitt, he was elected
    in his twenty-eighth year to Congress, which position he filled with
    credit
    and reputation to himself and with acceptance to his electors. He died
    May 4, 1840. Notwithstanding his premature death Mr. Pope had attained an
    enviable public rank. His conversational powers, integrity of character
    and eloquence, made him one of the first lawyers of his time.
    Edmund Pendleton Pope, who was generally known as Pendleton Pope, was
    the third son. He was tall and slender, with a strong and most pleasing
    face, and graceful person; graduated with honor in the regular course at
    Transylvania University; was, like his brother Patrick, gifted with rare
    conversational power, and inherited the constitutional intrepidity of his
    father. He was for fifteen years clerk of the Circuit Court, and
    afterward practiced law with great success to the day of his death, which
    occurred in his forty-seventh year. More than thirty years ago the
    writer heard his argument in defense of Johnson, who killed Lawrence, and
    so great was the impression then made, that the more eloquent parts of
    his speech remain in the memory of the write to this day. He married
    Nancy, the daughter of Colonel James Johnson, of Scott County, Ky., and
    has three sons--Judge Alfred Thruston Pope, Captain James Worden Pope and
    Hamilton Pope, Jr., who survive him.
    Curran Pope, the fourth son, graduated at West Point in 1836, and
    after a short service in the army he resigned to take one of the
    clerkships
    made vacant by his father. He held the office for seventeen years, the
    last
    four of which were by election by the people. He was a citizen of much of
    much public spirit; one of the original projectors and directors of the
    Louisville & Nashville Railroad; one of the main promoters of Louisville
    Water Works; devoted much of his time as trustee of Danville College, and
    as trustee of various educational institutions of Louisville especially to
    a seminary organized and established by himself and others in the old
    homestead of his father; served for eleven years in the General Council of
    Louisville; and on the breaking out of the late war he espoused the cause
    of the Union. He raised the Fifteenth Kentucky Regiment, which, after a
    varied service, was decimated in the battle of Perryville, which, for the
    number and length of time engaged, is said to have been the bloodiest
    battle of the war. Early in the action Colonel Pope's horse was killed
    under him, and toward the close of the engagement he was shot through the
    shoulder. E.P. Humphrey, D.D., LL.D., the scholarly author of "Sacred
    History from the Creation to the Giving of the Law" who was the co-laborer
    in many fields of usefulness with Colonel Pope, and who was his life-long
    friend, thus writes of him a short time after Colonel Pope's death: . .
    "through his father, the late Worden Pope, Esq.--in his day one of the
    foremost citizens of the commonwealth--and through his excellent mother
    and
    amiable wife as well, he was allied to some of the most influential
    families in the country. . . His ample private fortune released him, in a
    large measure, from professional labor; so that he was able to devote the
    last twelve years of his life to the general interests of society.
    As an office-bearer in one of our largest city churches, and in many
    other positions, he rendered the most important services. He brought to
    all his trusts a fine capacity for business, public spirit, unwearied
    diligence, habits of system, order, and punctuality, and a nice sense of
    duty. Few men of his generation here have performed as much gratuitous
    and
    arduous labor for the common good. It happened to him to be of the number
    of those in whom all the great issues of life flow together in a single
    hour of supreme necessity and peril; when the high qualities, which have
    been for nearly fifty years slowly maturing within them, are brought to a
    final and fiery test, and suddenly emerge all aglow with consummate
    splendor. Colonel Pope met that hour on the bloody slopes of Perryville,
    and took the crown. The writer of these lines was during the whole day
    within hearing distance of the artillery and musketry; was at one time on
    the outskirts of the field, and before the dead were all buried he
    carefully surveyed the ground on which the battle was fought. The carnage
    over, the whole field was frightful, and Colonel Pope stood in one of its
    hottest positions. His regiment was posted upon the brow of the hill; the
    enemy was arrayed in two lines on the slope below him, one of these lines
    being partially concealed in a field of standing corn, the other protected
    by a substantial stone-wall. The positions of the rebels being down the
    hill gave them this important advantage. They would not be likely to fire
    too high, while Pope's troops, being so much above them, could hardly
    avoid
    that mistake. Besides, the foremost rebel line had the stone-wall in
    their
    rear, to the cover of which they could at any time retreat, and to which,
    in point of fact, they did retreat under the fire of our gallant
    Fifteenth.
    Furthermore, the right of the regiment rested on a barn, which, early in
    the action, was set on fire by s shell from the enemy, so that our troops
    on that wing were nearly roasted by the flames. And, more than all, the
    brave Jouett and Campbell were shot down in the very beginning; the noble
    McGrath, who went to Jouett's assistance, was instantly killed. Pope's
    horse was shot under him; he himself was wounded, and his men were falling
    in heaps around him. Colonel Pope stood near the center of the column,
    about four feet from the line of battle giving direction to every
    movement.
    Just in front of the position was a low rail fence; further down the hill
    are two trees, the trunks of which are about the size of a man's body. The
    bullet marks in trees and in the rails leave us in wonder how any human
    being standing in that line of battle could have escaped death. Yet such
    was the intrepidity of the regiment and of its commander that they held
    their ground, until ordered to another position, when they filed out into
    the road and marched off in perfect order. Colonel Pope, on reaching his
    new position, ordered his men to lie down under the brow of the hill as a
    protection from the enemy's shells. General Rousseau, observing some
    change in the field, rode up and suggested to Colonel Pope the propriety
    of
    showing his forces to the enemy. Colonel Pope instantly gave the order;
    the men sprang to their feet and marched in line to the battle, to the top
    of the hill. The General was so much struck with their promptness and
    discipline, that he put his cap on his sword and waved it with the cry,
    `Hurra for Kentucky!' Night soon set in; and, of the Fifteenth,
    seventy-two
    slept in death, about a hundred and seventy staunched, as best they could,
    their bleeding wounds, and the others rested on their arms. Colonel Pope
    remained with the army a few days and joined in the pursuit of Bragg, who
    fled to the mountains; but, finding himself utterly exhausted, he returned
    to Danville, where he lingered three weeks and died. He looked forward to
    the eternal world with pious composure, and expressed his unwavering
    confidence in the Savior. But for this opportunity on the field of
    battle,
    none, not his most intimate friends even, would have known the man. In
    him
    we have an instance pointing out the fine distinction between certain
    brutal ferocity, which sometimes passes by the name of courage, and that
    more humane and exalted sentiment which springs out of a nice sense of
    honor, the love of country and the fear of God. Such was Colonel Pope's
    quiet, and amiable, and even diffident manner in society, that no man, not
    even he himself, knew what a brave and gallant heart was hidden in his
    bosom, patiently waiting the hour of his grant manifestation. The hour
    came; the man was fully revealed to the homage of his countrymen, and his
    life was finished, wearing "the beauty of a thing completed" a good work
    well done. He name is enrolled with the dead heroes of the Commonwealth.
    She will never suffer his memory to perish."
    Wm. R. Thompson, in his "Historical Sketch of the Pope Family," thus
    speaks of Colonel Pope: he "was the idol of the men he commanded. Though
    of
    a very gentle and inoffensive disposition, he was one of the bravest, most
    resolute men in the Union army, equally ready to oppose and smite a giant,
    or to soothe and protect a child, and many a tear was shed by his brave
    and
    scar-covered soldiers when he had to leave them. The writer of this, who
    saw Colonel Pope Monday after the battle Perryville, has heard many of his
    soldiers say that after a long and tiresome march, when night came and
    they
    went into camp, other officers sought a house to sleep in, but Colonel
    Pope
    laid down upon the ground with his men, and took their fare. He looked
    upon
    them as a father looks upon his children, and he said it was his duty to
    be
    with them and take care of them. He never sought or claimed any better
    fare
    than his soldiers got; hence his immense popularity with his men who
    revere
    his memory to this day with the affection of a child for its father. When
    you meet one of the Fifteenth Kentucky who fought at Perryville, ask him
    what he thinks of Colonel Curran Pope, and he will give you a better
    eulogy
    than I can write, more graphic and to the point; he can tell facts I know
    not in his undying praise and he will love to talk to you about him. The
    writer of this article was well acquainted with Colonel Curran Pope before
    the war, and saw him several times in his camp after he entered the army,
    and he can bear witness to his great worth as a man, citizen and soldier.
    The slaughter of Pope's regiment at Perryville was so great, that
    afterward
    it was given the sobriquet of the `Bloody Regiment.'"
    General Sherman succeeded General Anderson to the command in Kentucky
    in the earliest stage of the war. His headquarters were at Louisville,
    and
    there he often met Colonel Pope, who had already determined to enter the
    army of the Union. General Sherman had abundant opportunity to form a
    correct estimate of Colonel Pope's character, a correct estimate of
    Colonel
    Pope's character, both as a soldier and as a gentleman. A few days after
    he learned through the public prints of the death of Colonel Pope,
    although
    he was burdened with the absorbing responsibilities of a great military
    command, he wrote Colonel Pope's widow the following letter:

    "Headquarters, Memphis, Tenn.,
    November 10, 1862.

    Dear Madam: --
    . . . . I know you will pardon me, afar off, if, at this your dread
    hour,
    I come to bear my feeble show of honor to him whose name you bear and
    and whose child will in after years look back upon as one of those heroes
    who labored and gave his life to his country. Well do I recall the soft
    and gentle voice of Curran Pope, the peculiar delicacy of his approach,
    the almost unequal courtesy of hi manner and the first faint doubt that
    one
    so gentle, so mild, so beautiful in character, should be a warrior; but
    another look, and his eye, the plain direct assertion of a high and holy
    purpose, with the pressure of his lips, told that he was a man; one to
    lead; one to go where duty called him though the path led through the hail
    storm of battle. Among all the men I have ever met in the progress of
    this
    un-natural war, I cannot recall one in whose every act and expression was
    so manifest the good and true man; one who so well filled the type of
    the Kentucky gentleman.
    He died not upon the battle-field but of wounds inflicted by
    parricidal
    hands on Kentucky's soil and his blood is the cement that will ever more
    bind together the disjointed parts of a mighty nation. Though for a time
    smitten down by the terrible calamity, may you and your child soon learn
    to
    look upon his name and fame as encircled by a halo of glory more beautiful
    than ever decked the victor's brow. Curran Pope is dead, but millions
    will
    battle on, till from his heaven-home he will see his own beloved Kentucky
    the center of his great country, regenerated and disenthralled from the
    toils of wicked men.
    I fear that in trying to carry comfort to an afflicted heart, I do
    it rudely, but I know you will permit me in my blunt way to bear my
    feeble testimony to the goodness, braveness, and gallantry of the man who
    more nearly filled the picture of the preux chevalier of this age, than
    any man I have yet met. I know you are in the midst of a host of friends,
    but should in the progress of years any opportunity come by which I can be
    of service to any of the family of Curran Pope, command me.

    With great respect,
    Your obedient servant,
    W. T. Sherman.
    Maj. Gen. Vols."

    Curran Pope was married to Matilda Prather, a daughter of John I.
    Jacob, by whom he was blessed with one daughter, Mary Tyler Pope, who is
    possessed of many accomplishments, great force of character and intellect,
    and of much beauty, and who still lives in the home of her heroic father,
    the happy wife of Judge Alfred Thruston Pope, and the devoted mother of an
    interesting family.

    Pope Walker May Ormsby Brown Penn Marshall Field Daniel Rowan Jacob
    Thruston Johnson Humphrey Jouett Campbell McGrath
    =
    Bullitt-KY Nelson-KY Washington-KY Scott-KY Westmoreland-VA AL IN

    Elizabeth married Worden Pope on 11 Sep 1804. Worden was born in 1776; died in May 1837 in Louisville, Jefferson County, KY. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]



Generation: 3

  1. 12.  Elizabeth ThrustonElizabeth Thruston Descendancy chart to this point (4.Algernon2, 1.John1) was born on 15 Jul 1847 in Texas.

  2. 13.  Sidney Alegernon ThrustonSidney Alegernon Thruston Descendancy chart to this point (4.Algernon2, 1.John1) was born on 20 Aug 1848 in Texas; died on 21 Oct 1925 in Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, CA.

  3. 14.  Alfred ThrustonAlfred Thruston Descendancy chart to this point (4.Algernon2, 1.John1) was born on 20 Aug 1848 in Texas; died on 9 Oct 1909 in Kentucky.

  4. 15.  Curran ThrustonCurran Thruston Descendancy chart to this point (4.Algernon2, 1.John1) was born on 16 May 1850 in Kentucky; died on 20 Sep 1851 in Kentucky.

  5. 16.  Curran ThrustonCurran Thruston Descendancy chart to this point (4.Algernon2, 1.John1) was born on 15 Jan 1852 in Kentucky; died on 4 May 1927.

    Family/Spouse: Robert Todd. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]


  6. 17.  Gay ThrustonGay Thruston Descendancy chart to this point (4.Algernon2, 1.John1) was born on 4 Feb 1854 in Kentucky; died on 12 Oct 1854 in Kentucky.

  7. 18.  Fanny ThrustonFanny Thruston Descendancy chart to this point (4.Algernon2, 1.John1) was born on 22 Sep 1855 in Kentucky; died on 26 Feb 1856 in Kentucky.

  8. 19.  Thomas January ThrustonThomas January Thruston Descendancy chart to this point (4.Algernon2, 1.John1) was born on 30 Nov 1856 in Kentucky; died on 26 Feb 1868 in Kentucky.

  9. 20.  Ada Gay ThrustonAda Gay Thruston Descendancy chart to this point (4.Algernon2, 1.John1) was born on 13 Mar 1853 in Kentucky; died on 20 Oct 1873 in Kentucky.

  10. 21.  Charles Mynn ThrustonCharles Mynn Thruston Descendancy chart to this point (4.Algernon2, 1.John1) was born on 4 Feb 1854; died in Owensboro, KY.

    Family/Spouse: David Todd. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]


  11. 22.  Thruston LuckettThruston Luckett Descendancy chart to this point (6.Catherine2, 1.John1)

  12. 23.  Elizabeth LuckettElizabeth Luckett Descendancy chart to this point (6.Catherine2, 1.John1)

  13. 24.  Alfred LuckettAlfred Luckett Descendancy chart to this point (6.Catherine2, 1.John1)

  14. 25.  Philip LuckettPhilip Luckett Descendancy chart to this point (6.Catherine2, 1.John1)

  15. 26.  Catherine LuckettCatherine Luckett Descendancy chart to this point (6.Catherine2, 1.John1)

  16. 27.  Henry Massey RectorHenry Massey Rector Descendancy chart to this point (8.Fanny2, 1.John1) was born on 1 May 1816 in Louisville, Jefferson County, KY; died on 12 Aug 1899 in Little Rock, AR.

    Notes:

    1. How does Gov. Henry Massey Rector tie into the descendents of the
    early Virginia Rectors? His aunt was Ann Rector who married Thomas
    Conway. (They were married in Greene Co., Tennessee, the home of John B.
    Rector and his wife Rebecca Sevier.) Two sons of Thomas and Ann Rector
    Conway were governors of Arkansas too...James Sevier Conway (No. 1) and
    Elias Nelson Conway. Son Henry Wharton Conway was a territorial
    Congressman from Arkansas. Ann's nephew was a US Senator.
    2. Does anyone know how to obtain a copy of RECTOR RECORDS by King?

    John Fishback (Johannes Fishbach] of the 1714 Colony, moved from
    Germantown to Jeffersonton, Culpeper County, Virginia. He was the
    progenitor of five governors of States:

    James Lawson Kemper (Virginia)
    James Sevier Conway (Arkansas)
    Elias Nelson Conway (Arkansas)
    Henry Massey Rector (Arkansas)
    William Meade Fishbach (Arkansas)

    From Arkansas History Commission- March 2, 1934 Henry M.
    Rector, sixth governor of the State of Arkansas, was born in
    Louisville, Kentucky, May 1, 1816, a son of Elias and Fannie B.
    ( Thurston) Rector. Soon after his birth his family moved to St.
    Louis, MO, where Elias Rector died in 1822. Subsequently
    the widow married Stephen Trigg and removed to Saline County,
    MO. Here Mr. Twiggs engaged in the manufacture of salt.
    From the time that he was 13 until he was 17 years of age, it
    was Henry's task to haul wood with an ox team to the salt works.
    During this time he had no opportunity to attend school, but his
    mother, who was an educated woman, taught him the rudiments of
    an English education
    [2613] In 1833 his Kentucky relatives sent him to Francis Goddard's
    school in Louisville where he remained a student for two years
    and then came to Arkansas to look after certain lands, which he,
    as the only surviving child, had inherited from his father. Some
    of the land in question is now a part of the Hot Springs
    Reservation, which had been located upon the New Madrid
    Certificate. Many years were spent in prosecution this claim
    against other persons, and finally against the United States
    Government, but Rector was unsuccessful in his efforts to
    establish title to his claim.

    [2614] During the years 1839 and 1840 Rector held a position as a
    teller in a bank of the State of Arkansas. In 1841 he moved to a
    farm in Saline County where he began to study law. From 1843 to
    1845 he was United States Marshal for the District of Arkansas.
    He was then admitted to the bar and began the practice of his
    profession in Little Rock, Arkansas, but soon returned to Saline
    Co. In 1848 he was elected to the State Senate for the district
    composed of Perry and Saline Counties. He was Surveyor General
    from 1853 to 1857: was elected to the lower house of the
    legislature from Pulaski county in 1854 and in 1859 was elected
    Associate Justice of the Supreme Court by the General Assembly.

    [2615] In 1860 he resigned his position on the Supreme Bench to become
    an independent Democratic candidate for governor. What was
    known as the " Conway-Johnson Dynasty" was thought to be all
    powerful in Arkansas politics. Rector, however, was a forcible
    and convincing orator. By his persuasive eloquence and his
    appeal to the common sense of the voters, he overthrew the "
    Dynasty " and was elected by over a 2000 majority. There was the
    a paper called The Independent published at Fayetteville by
    William Quesenbury - popularly known as "Bill Cush" who was
    very clever cartoonist. Immediately after the election he
    published a cartoon entitled, "Tom Dick and Harry" in which
    Thomas Hubbard, the Wig candidate, was represented as Old Mother
    Hubbard examining a bare cupboard, Dick Johnson was seated
    astride a whiskey barrel surrounded by a crowd of his supporters
    to who he was explaining how it happened to his supporters,
    while "Harry" Rector represented as a rooster was strutting
    about and making a welkin ring with his crowing. (Welkin means
    in the sky )

    [2616] Professor Shinn in his " Pioneers and Makers of Arkansas says: "
    the regular Democrats smarting under their defeat, took an undue
    advantage of him in the convention of 1861 The body, while
    providing for a new constitution which contained certain offices
    in force, intentionally or unintentionally omitted to make any
    provision whatever for the Governor's office. Rector's adherents
    have always claimed that this was done intentionally and from
    the meager records which have come down to posterity, it is
    entirely safe to say that this contention of Rector's friend was
    true. All the events, it was claimed that, as the constitution
    did not provide for a Governor, a vacancy existed, which
    contention was upheld by the Supreme Court. He served as
    Governor from Nov. 15, 1860 to Nov. 4, 1862."

    [2617] Upon retiring from his governor's office, Mr. Rector enlisted as
    a private in the Confederate Reserve Corp ( refusing an
    appointment as quartermaster ) and served until the close of the
    war. For several years after the war he engaged in agriculture
    pursuits in Garland County. He was delegate from the County to
    the Constitutional Convention in 1874 and wielded a powerful
    influence in framing the new organic law of Arkansas. He died at
    his home in the City of Little Rock on August 12, 1899.

    [2618] Governor Rector was twice married. His first wife, whom he was
    united in Oct. 1838, was Miss Jane Elizabeth, daughter of
    William Field, of Little Rock. She died November 20, 1857,
    leaving four sons and three daughters, and in 1860 he married
    Miss Ernestine Flore Linde, daughter of Albert Linde, of
    Memphis, Tenn. One daughter was born of the second marriage.
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    [2619] His son Henry Massie Rector MD was good in his profession in
    Little Rock Arkansas Henry Massie 111 was a lawyer in Little
    Rock Also Henry Massie Rector 4th and 5th lived in Little
    Rock. Henry Massie Rector 111

    From HISTORY OF THE SESCENDANTS OF J.J. RECTOR. As Governor of
    Arkansas, Henry Massie Rector, was called upon by the U.S.
    Government to supply troops for the Civil War, refused to send
    troops to help the North. When he was turned out of office by
    the people, he joined the Confederate Army as a private and to
    show his contempt for Lincoln bought a slave in 1863. After the
    war he retired to his plantation in Ark, His son Elias W.
    Rector Married Rosebud Alcorn daughter of the Governor of Miss.

    [2622] This publication has the information that is in the History of
    J.J. Rector and also contains a letter by Henry Massie to John
    Ross Chief of the Cherokee Indians promising support for him and
    at the same time hoping that Ross would stand by the South who
    could supply him Slaves to develop the Cherokee Indians. The
    Indians should support the South as Lincoln was planning on
    using the Cherokee Nation as a home for abolitionists and
    northern moneyed people. Chief Ross said that their natural
    feelings was for the South but the U.S. (north) had promised
    the Indians security and the treaties were with Washington and
    they felt that they had to stay neutral.

    [2625] This morning Governor Rector of Arkansas issued a proclamation,
    drafting into immediate service every man in the State subject
    to military duty to respond in twenty days.

    Henry married Ernestine Flore Linde in 1859. Ernestine was born in 1820 in Louisville, Jefferson County, KY. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

    Henry married Elizabeth Jane Field in 1838. Elizabeth died on 20 Nov 1857. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

    Children:
    1. 34. Elias W. Rector  Descendancy chart to this point
    2. 35. Jr. Henry Massey Rector  Descendancy chart to this point was born in Little Rock, AR; died in Little Rock, AR.

  17. 28.  Sidney RectorSidney Rector Descendancy chart to this point (8.Fanny2, 1.John1)

  18. 29.  Elizabeth RectorElizabeth Rector Descendancy chart to this point (8.Fanny2, 1.John1)

  19. 30.  Mary Eliza ThrustonMary Eliza Thruston Descendancy chart to this point (10.Thomas2, 1.John1) was born on 6 Oct 1809.

  20. 31.  John E. ThrustonJohn E. Thruston Descendancy chart to this point (10.Thomas2, 1.John1) was born on 22 Apr 1811 in Kentucky; died on 4 Jun 1811 in Kentucky.

  21. 32.  Mountjoy Luckett ThrustonMountjoy Luckett Thruston Descendancy chart to this point (10.Thomas2, 1.John1) was born on 17 Apr 1812 in Kentucky; died in 1836 in The Alamo County, TX.

  22. 33.  Sarah ThrustonSarah Thruston Descendancy chart to this point (10.Thomas2, 1.John1) was born in 1814.


Generation: 4

  1. 34.  Elias W. RectorElias W. Rector Descendancy chart to this point (27.Henry3, 8.Fanny2, 1.John1)

    Family/Spouse: Rosebud Alcon. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]


  2. 35.  Jr. Henry Massey RectorJr. Henry Massey Rector Descendancy chart to this point (27.Henry3, 8.Fanny2, 1.John1) was born in Little Rock, AR; died in Little Rock, AR.

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

    Children:
    1. 36. III Henry Massey Rector  Descendancy chart to this point was born in Little Rock, AR; died in Little Rock, AR.