The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1905-03-26

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anxious to learn more about my people
prior to Ills time. Any information you
can give viii be greatly appreciated.
T.. r. X, Danvillc, Va.
Vaughan.
Dear Sir, Would like to know some
thing about the family OF Mary Dudley
! iyauglian,, who married, first, William
Claiborne Harrison, and had children.
i Mary Frances Harrison and " illiam Hen
ny Harrlson;y after the death Of William
Claiborne Harrison she married her
cousin. Samuel Nelson Eite, about 49,,
lii Richmond, Va. They went to either
Frankfort or Louisville, KY, from there.
to New Orleans, where he died about
| 1866. He left two sons, Cadwallader Me-
| Intosh Hitcl and George Dudley Hite. the
latter died III New Orleans. Cadwala8
der Mcintosh HIte.S born in Kentucky
June i, 1928 (either In Frankfort or
Louisville lived for while In New Or
leans, then went to Houston, Texas
! There, on July y 10. 1866. he married
Frances Belle Renshaw left three chill
sdren.2 He died In Houston April 20. $50.
Samuel Nelson Hite claimed descent from
Jost Hitc, first settler Of Valley of Vir-.3
GINA. 8 sfE IS fg,f
a If anyfisof5 tho Vaughan Harrison Of
Htc descendants can throw any light
nl this subject by telling to which fam-S
ily these part les bel onged they will Con
3fer2a great favor pot, II. G..t8
Mr. Editor--ypill you kindly publish
1.-THE gencalogy OF William Ferry. who
settled in Virginia I'm 1926 z also the gee
ncalogy d OF William Butler,.sWh settled
in Virginia Culpcper county about ~ 3d.
III i. L. sis9
Douglass.
Ii reply to 4. Reader. Z ford Cty.f will.
say that we are not certain that Miss
Corinne Douglass Robinson . President
Roosevelt S niece is any near connection
Uhough she may bel through descent
from the Rev. William Douglass WHO
came to Virginia between 1850 and 1885,
bringing his only child. his daughter,
Margaret, and two nepheWs, as his adopt.
ed sons, William and j Ame s w lam re-
turned TO Scotland Il James settled IN N ewS
York q ty; q .daught ter of his y married.
aSnephew of .Presid ents n 1T
lnlece sS :5.tf n H
m The writer has much OF the old records
concerning the Rev Parson Douglass, of
Scotland "a Some of his books, sermons
and history in connection with the fam
lilies Of Louisa county His daug hter.
Margaret. married into he Meriweather
family, from whom descended the Doug
hope to give more concerning them in I a
short time 8g ss ss8
5ss Queries.
Editor Of Genealogical Department of.
The Times D ispatcll: 25}5 " 5a l
Ed Sir,-PlcAse tell mo the ancestry Of the
Nicholson. Il think his first name was
Jonnthan), who removed to Virginia from
villa b Is now Orange county n. y. u be-
fore the year 1900, and married a lady Of
fortune. He must have gone to Virginia
between 1929 and 1926. His ancestor Is
supposed to have come over from Ireland
with Colonel Charles Clinton in 1870 What
was the first name Of each, and any
account and address, OF some living de-.
sccndent } s$sS n
Flow related are the Franklin, Crane Or
Grain, Howe Stone, Ward !, Dunbar
Fletcher families, of Virginia, to those
who settled in the New England colony
and in New York, New Jersey and Mary
land, to each other? 81 s
What ancestry. Of Captain John Crane
who changed the spelling OF his name
to Grain? He married Mary Bailey; was
a captain in the war Of 1912, and lives in
the old family mansion in Springfield
near Afiddleburgh, Fauquier county, Va
One Of his sisters married Colonel Bron-
augh aid to General G George Washing tom
when Braddock was killed, The following
are children OF said Captain John ana
Mary Bailey Grain !: LIST, John; I'd, Jamcs;
3D. Bailey; 4th, Mary; 9Th, Robert. Alex
ander, born November 4, 1859, married
Elizabeth, daughter Of Peter Wood and
Anne CAN'T, of Woodvllle, Prince George
EpOl y IN RI I, ,uI,t 4
married 8----- Danford What relation
is the ancestor of the above Captain John
Grain to the first Jasper Crane, Sr., of
New Haven, Conn. 1850, and of Newark,
N. j., about 1867? P;s n
"a Who will give tho ancestry OF d j ohm
Grain Of North Carolina who moved to
Georgia and later to Texns? His chill
Fdren nre said to be: !. James;2. Newton;
80 William TIA bison; latIasper, and s.
Lewis Grain. It Is sail that his parents
or grandparents wero from kentucky.
They went to North Carolina about one
hundred years ago, Il more or less, The
following are additional family namcs:R
Joseph, Philip. Madison, William and
Riley Grain. What relation Ii the ances-
tor Of the above John Grain to iirst. Jas
per Grain. of New Haven, Conn. and
New Jersey? H., il. c.
Editor OF The Times-D lspntch:1
III sir,-Y You would confer u favor OH me 1
by giving anything concerning my ances-
tors. My mother was N Miss Penn, Of
Patrick county. va. 81 daughter Of Captain
Thomas Penn and Mary Christian Ken
3nerly; granddaughter OF Abraham Penn
and Ruth stoyal, and Observation-Disclosures
of Robert Penn and Mary or Martha
Douglas, Abra ham ennfentered the Com
Etinental army as Gu plain and finally be-
came colonel. His father was IA brother
foe Noses Penn. who was tho father OF
John Penn, signer Of the Declaration Of
Independence. MY grandfather Penn was
twice married. and, ! II am otsmstaken,
his Arst wife was Miss Martha Lcaths
of Chesterfield county, Va. BY this mar
Erage3 he had 5tiireo sons--Pete j q cksons
and Columbus The latter was tho father
of Mrs, ireland, whose husband was Goyr
kernor. OF Texas, Jackson Penn married.
Martha Kennhrly, Soungest sister of my