The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-08-31
United states treasurer for many.

Major Henry Tyler. OF the Marino Il
Corps. lived In the same city. nnd there \.
was familiar intercourse between theSs
families. While the title OF cousiti-st;
ship. so customary in Virginia some-s
times, even to fifth generation. was
not used in address among them. the y
fact of relationship was known aud
acknowledged. M
In a letter from Charles Tyler de-
ceased. son of Major Henry. l read: t'I y
have often heard my father speak Of
yours as his valued relative" 1t was \
my father only who could explain the
manner OF relationship. He remem
bered no had often heard his mother
say she was second cousin to Major
Tyler. and that meant herself and Wil-sS
liam Tyler (his fathcr) were first s
cousins: her father. Charles Tyler, and s
John Tyler, of Dumfries. brothers.
! She had also told her daughters that
/ her grandmother was Eleanor Middle-I
| ton. whose mother was nee Mann. The
eldest daughter of Charles Tyler was
given this name in full-Eleanor MIDI
dleton-as was the only child of his
| brother. William Tyler. So there was
/ no doubt about it. 3
There Is n deed on record In Prince
William in which, in 179S. Margaree~,
/ Tyler widow OF John Tyler (son of the
| Clerk Henry and brother OF Charles)
names her chldren-Charles, William,
| George, Mary. Sarah. 1t is not known
who she was. | have some recollection
of being told she was Grayson. but
can produce no butterfly oGI her son,
| William. married Priscili. Webb, anI
=! was father OF Judge John Webb Tyler.
lof Warrenton. and Colonel Henry. above
named. This line has been traced down
in Hayden.
f.! Thore is only one way to account
! for Eleanor Middleton and that too
obvious for question. she was an
earlier wife OF Henry Tyler than Elsie,
OF Overwharton Register mother of
| Charles and William. and perhaps
Thomas Gowry S.rcthcrs Tyler. Tho
book covered a clrcumscribed period. or
| Henry lived out of the parish at tho
| time OF an earlier marriage.
DR. Tyler suggests that the mother
of G.. S. Tyler was nee Strother. It
would truly seem so. One could write
him down as son of Francis and Anne
Strother, but that there is on Richmond
records he was son of the clerk.
| However. the name of Eleanor oc-
ours in the early generation of the
Strother family. when one jeremiah.
born 1866. took Eleanor to wife. and
to this day descendants in williams
and French families are so called. And
II the Mann tradition is to be accounted
for, there was ample time for a Stroth-
cr daughter to have married a Mr..
Mann and been the grandmother OF.
| Eleanor Middleton.
The name of Mann was early in STAFF
ford, purchaser of land from MIR.
Robert Alexander Gland boo<); also
the VIII of n Joseph Mann, 1905; wife
Mary. daughters Margaret and Ursula
AS the children of Charles and EIean-
or Middleton have never been put in
print. | would like to give them just
here-I mean their names and mar
riages:
l. Eleanor Middleton. born January
IL, 1864; wife of Matthew Harrison.
Their marriage contract is on record
lN,( -,
Linton. Mary Tyler. all OF Dumfries.
They have numerous descendants.
named in several Harrison papers.
.. Mary Moore (twin) married Mr.
John Lawson. clerk eff court; descen-
dants in Peyton Harrfson pedigrees.
Sarah Ann married Nathaniel
Chapman Hunter. son Of DIR. John Hun
ter. one of the Colonial trustees of tho
town of Alexandria, 1761-3 and Eliza
beth Chapman. his wife.
4. Jane married prominent lawyer
OF Richmond, Mr.. Thomas Bolts. He
was engaged to defend Aaron Burr.
With his wife and her niece. Miss Ari-
ana Hunter. he lost his life in the burn
ing of Richmond Theatre. They had
four sons: % John Minor Bolts. mar
ried Mary Whiting Blair: (2) Alexander
Bolts. of New York. married Susan
Frances Randolph: CD Thomas Hutch
inson. of Fredericksburg, married Ann
Willis whose sister married Achille
Murat; married. second. Mary Stone, of
fredericksburg; "a Judge Charles
Tyler Bolts, of California, married
Margaret Marshall, of Frederick shurg.
.. Nancy. youngest daughter OF
Charles and Ann Moore, died unmar-
ried
G. Charles. only son. left Dumfries
young man. My father, one Sunday
morning. idly clearing the sod with
his stick from an old stone in ST Paurs
graveyard in front or the western gate,
found his uncle had been buried there.
Two of his sons In mercantile life in
Norfolk, came to see my father as kins-
man. They moved away afterwards
from Norfolk. as did my father, and
knowledge OF them was lost
After the death OF Charles Tyler
(date unknown from loss of records)
his widow married (his second wiz
Mr.. Alexander Lithgow clerk of Pri
William court. Her children:
/. Mary, married, first. Mann r
of Mansfield. near Fredericks
married, second, Burr Harrison. bI.s
OF her two nieces' husbands Philips
Walter Harrison, lawyers of RichmS
>. Mary Hutchinson ('Hutchie') m
ried Alexander Henderson. Jr., her Sc
ond cousin. brother to General Arch.
bald Henderson, and moved to West.
Virginia.
3. Alexander Lithgow. Jr died un-
married.
Mrs. Ann Tyler Lithgow was cousin
of Sallie Moore, who married Alexander
Henderson, Sr., but how the relation
ship is exactly to be traced at this late
day, in default OF records. deponent
knoweth not.
y letter is extant from General
Washington to William Fairfax, in
which he says: The wedding OF our
friend, Alex. Henderson. took place
last night The bride was the beauti-3
full Sa!lic Moore. OF Colchester" This
4 1py
the House OF Burgesscs and one of tho
five to determine the boundary be-
tween the states. The five were George
Washington. George Mason, Thomas
jefferson. James Madison and AleXan-
der Henderson. He was born in Dunn
fries 1887; died in Dumfries 1915 His
wife was born 1744; died in Alexandria,
Va. 1892, aged eighty-scvcn years. He
and his children were stanch church,
men.