The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-10-20
Genealogical and
 Historical Department.

of the Lewis and Clarke expedition, tell i ing her Meriwether Lewis was relative. i grandparents in Pittsylvania County. Virginia, and met many cousins. Meri- | wethers, Stamps, Hunts, Dawsons. etc. | From what she wrote me think it must | have been John Lewis who was son of Robert Lewis of Belvoir. Albemarle County, Virginia. who married Miss Fauntleroy. The Lewis history story only nnS settling on the Dan River. Then there Is no more record of him. The Lewis history also gives Robert, son of Robert roy. I think that this is mistake, for he married his cousin, Frances Lewis, and nothing in his will indicates that ne The The Faunt,eroy I history gives Kate Taun- tleroy as marrying a Lewis. In the Will of Colonel Vim: Fauntleroy of Naylor.s Hole or Hill. of Richmond County, Nr- ginia, he mentions his daughter katha- hs rine Lewis The will is recorded lfos. According to my calculation the Faun- tleroy marriage should have taken place from Philip Taylor and Sallie Lewis and has an old prayerbook of Philip Tayiors which gives this marriage and also states that Sallie Lewis was the daughter of John Lewis and Catharine Fauntle- roy. This correspondent also tells or family tradition of an "old uncle Allen on Dan River" My solution of this n,s,,is IS Taylor, and Apphia Lewis, who married David Allen. were sisters and therefore daughters of John Lewis and Katharine Fauntleroy. I also think that John Lew Is was son of Robert of Belvoir and Katharine Fauntleroy was daughter of Colonel wm. Fauntleroy of Richmond County. I think there were only these two sisters and they married and changed their names and the John Lewis name and records were dropped: There was | John Lewis who lived on Dan River who was killed accidentally in some game; | ha ancestor l no will so the names or his ramiiy cah- not be obtained
 Perhaps the Regent or .ne Lem,s o,,.s | Chapter of Eufaula can throw some light upon this Lewis query.-Edit1or.}
 JONES. Richard C. Jones was grand | son or reat-grandson of Major Peter Elizabeth CrawIey Ward. Their children were Benjamin, Richard and Mary Cath arine Jones, who married Lewis Bnckner
 Lewis Buckner Allen and Mary Catha- | rine Jones had children-Apphia Lewis, Ann Catharine. Richard; William Wara' John Lewis and Elizabeth Crawiey Aileh' who was my grandmother.
 Richard c. Jones married second time Mary Ellis (nee Cocke); thedr Mel chl,Gfeh hanie1 Eliza, Caroline Frances
 pr. William Daniel Jones lived in Ala | bama but returned to Virginia peIore the sixties and visited the oid Jones @ nome thne still in possession of a cousin Tom Jones. Major Peter Jones was the first ances- tor in America. At the time of the Rev olution the father of Richard c. Jones owned large fouring mills in or near Petersburg, Va. and supplied large quan- titles of flour to the American Army. AL one time while trying to get great deal of flour into the American camp Rich | ard C. Jones and his brothers came near being captured by Tarleton They had. 10 swim the mill pond amid the shots or the | 01d helped to load mules and who lived to a very old age. used often to relate this | to the children. Family tradition says l that Richard c, Jones was a general Tn the army and that he had given to him as bounty land the land upon which the city of Chillicothe is now situated. Rich, ard c. Jones had two brothers ai. ron or Notl anu taway Counties. After his second mar
 rlage he lived in Pittsylvania County.
 l wish to know the revolutionary ser
 vices of Richard c. Jones ana tne ms
 tory of his ancestry. M' C' II.
 ANSWERS.
 181. SCOTT. Descended on smy moth !. 1ferH side from family of Scotts, | give ia Sketch of our family which may link
 1t With some of the five families already mentioned or may constitute sixth,
 Sara Ann Winifred Scott was descend,
 ed from Benjamin Carter Scott. He had
 six brothers and three sisters John
 Samuel, Thomas. Lyme, Joseph and Rob ert. Polly who married Samuel Grier Of
 Cuthbert, Ga; Judy, who married Dr.
 Sharpe of same place; Sarah. who mar
 ried Mcdowell and moved to Texas: he , died and she married Hancock: Ben ] jamin Carter Scotts father was Joseph
 He came from North Carolina, originally
 from Virginia. Thomas and Lyme Scott
 were killed in a duel the day William
 Henry Harrison was elected I Pre3ident. e h c S7. SCOTT The Montgomery Republi-
 can. published in Montgomery. Ala, In
 it's issue of Feb. 24th. 1S21 says:
 1ieG On fNoa0hary the 5ih nst ebr1ary5 1 at
 the residence of his brother, General
 John Scott, near Cahaba, in the 6oth year
 of his age, Major Thomas B. Scott, late of Georgia, while on a visit yielding the
 double satisfaction of giving and recelv-
 ing pleasure latent disease assailed
 him with an obstinacy which defied mt d.
 iCal skill. and house of gladness In
 few short days became a house of sor- %
 row. He was a man whose character
 was so far beyond reach of slander
 that his name deserves an honorable
 record in the catalogue of Am srican pa
 triots; his private virtues have left d
 memento engraven on the hearts of his
 relations and friends, as durable as life
 to throb." T. M. o.
 (Thls Thomas Baytop Scott was a son
 of Captain James Scott and Francis Col.
 Her. He married Miss Cunningham or
 Edgefeld District S. C. He is probably
 buried near Cahaba. Can any one desig-
 nate the grave? We would like to add
 his name to the list of Revolutionary pa
 triots whose graves have been located.--
 Editor)
 12l. MIzELL. The following is from
 MT. Earle of Marietta. Ga Patent No.
 257. Thomas Gray, $50 acres in the County
 of James, on the south side of the river
 over against James City. Headlights, William and Thomas Gray, John Btshcp.
 Robert Brown, Robert Welche, Luke Nil
 sell (MizelD and John Bouckes Issued
 about 1855"
 Al. RUFFIN Seeing a query in Sun
 days Advertiser about the Ruffin family, l thought possibly I could give you some i, information. l have an old paper with a list of families of royal descent, among
 them the Ruffin family. "Charemagne.
 Emperor of the West and King of France; Alfred the Great, King of Eng land; Alfonso ", King of Castile: Henry H., King of England and Robert the ) PiOus. King of France, are a few of the magnates to whom the Ruffin family of Prince George County can trace their royal descent Edmund Rufin of Han, over. who died in 1865. claimed to have , opened the war by firing the first gun on [ Fort Sumter, April 12th. 1861. although ? there are others who claim this distinc- ] ton Mrs. John Marshall of Mobile, Mrs , kebecca Henley of Williamsburg and ] Mrs Zoriffa Witherspoon of Petersburs 7 and the Dupuy family of Nottoway
 blood of the above great monarchs of t old"
 : Haywood family of North Carolina
 can give the Harve record also. The Harvies were from Virginia, afterward , of Georgia. 5. T, C.
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