Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-06-20
Genealogical Notes
Queries and Answers
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genealogical Editor. The Times
Dispatch.

oIo-day we are trying to answer
queries Of our faithful and Interested
readers who have already waited too
long for this Internationally
Cary.
! thomas Cary made his will Janu-
airy IS. 1870; was probated December
10 I'92; mentions wife, Frances: SON
in-law. Edmund: son. william; Thomas
TO be guardian; mentions Lucy Serv-
cant and Elizabeth Read Lucas; daurh
,er' Martha Lucas; son. Miles; mentions
lands OF Richard Cary Executors
sons. William, Miles; son-in-law. Ed
mund Curtis; Moses Wafrond. Carter
| Crarord.
! The first wife Of this Thomas Cary
was Miss Whitaker; second wife, Fran
ces Goodwin
Colonel Miles Cary. the emisrant.
was born in England in 1929: came
10 virginia in 1870 and settled in War
WICK County, which has been writ
ten in this paper owe rand over again.
| He was burgess in 1853: eschary.
general Of Virginia. 1865: died In 1861
Married Miss Taylor, daughter Of
Ihomas Taylor. OF Warwick
OF Maybe swamp died l7os Thomas
Cary. OF Maybe Swamp, born, 1870;
died in 1864: sheriN OF Warwick Coun-
! ". l7i2-l7i5; wife unknown; had a
son william Miles. who had daugh-
yer VINO married Edward Curtis
Dudley-Jone-Tnbb.
! George Dudley and Dorothy Tabb
mad daughter. Elizabeth Tabb Dud-
/ ley Jones. Can any one furnish the
| GATE OF her birth and her marriage +?
They lived in Mathews County. Va.
Was the Jones who married Eliza
beth Tabb Dudley, son o: William SAL
vator Jones. and Sarah Muscoe. daugh-
| ter OF Salvador Muscoe, of Essex Coun-
ty who married Philip Edward Jones?
Mason.
Rebecca Mason left Virginia and wen,
to Nicholasville. KY, and married
James Thompkins Moss who vas born
there. He had j. T. Moss. who married
1 Sa!lie Talbot, and went to Howard
( County. Mo- He had three children
! Katherine. Zerelda and George Wash
/ inston Moss.
| Captain Benjamin Mason left Gull
! pepper County, Va, in 1900. when he
| was twenty-one years old, and settled
In Bardstown. Ky. He married Hannah
Doom and had thirteen children. Mel
vile married IsU Rucker and (2d)
Heron Maria married r. T Hollings-
| worth, Olivia married Childs, Minerva
( married Whitfield. George, William,
! Hites. Mary. Frances. Emily Jane,
| Laura. James Lawrence and two who
! died in infancy. Could either of them
have been Rebecca. who married James
| throw any light on Benjamin or Re-
/ becca Mason?
Catiett.
Ihere were iii the American Revolu-
ton TWO Captain Thomas Cattletts. The
| one killed at WaXhau in 1850 was prob
ably from Frederick County. and the
! other certainly from Caroline Besides
| these Thomas Cattletts there were in
/ the Revolution David, George, Peter.
James. William. Henry, John Cattlett.
IT would be interesting to know which
or these Catletts left descendants
Cooke-Thurston.
Emmanuel Jones Thurston married a
daughter Of Nordecai Cooke. grandson
Of the first Mordecai Cooke, OF Glouces-
| ter County, Va.
The will of Ralph Clark was admit
ted TO probate July, 1879 He be-
queathes property to his wife Eliza
beth Clark. his sons. Alexander, John.
James and Robert, and TO his daugh-
| tiers. Elizabeth. Rebecca, Rife. Sarah
Ann and Agnes Clark witnesses,
| Jacob Smith and John Campbell James
Clark also made Will which was pro-
bated August IS, 1901. Mentions chill
| dren. Sarah Lafferty, Alexander and
John.
Robert Clark's children were Eliza
beth. married Edward Dowdy; Lydia,
married George Wikle. and Sally Ann,
who married Philip Crosier. John H
Dowdy, Greenville. Monroe County,
w. Va, or L. S. Rife. Rock Camp. Mon
roe County, w. Va, might give further
information.
Payne.
George Payne. with his brothers
William and Robert. came from Lam
caster, Eng, to Virginia prior to 1900
George Payne settled in Goochland
County and subsequently owned much
land there and many slaves. He was
| high sheriff of Goochland County in
1852. He married Mary Woodson in
! 1904 and died l744. leaving eight chill
dren. among them Josiah, who mar
! ricd Anne Fleming in 1882. He was a
member of the House of Burgesses
1761-l765.
Josiah Payne had a son. Josiah
Payne. who probably also married a
Fleming. His children were Tarleton.
born 1858; Sally, 1859; Josiah 1851;
William. 1854; Fleming, 1856 Charles,
1858; Elizabeth, 1863. Elizabeth, the
youngest child married first Blake
more. and second. Bradford?
Winston.
Martha Overton Winston, daughter
James Winston and Barbara Overton,
married three times. first .!chn Fleming
Price. second William Marshall. and
third George Roper. Eliza winston,
her sister, married probably Terrell
Price and had Thomas R. Price. of
Richmond. father of Professor Thomas
r. Price and Edward Price. James
Lewis Price, son Of John Fleming Price,
and Barbara Overton, removed to Ala
bama in 1880, and married 1884 Louise
Adele. daughter Of Gene Gilbert Shear
er, founder of the town of Selma, and
his wife, Martha Ann Meyfwether
Cowles Maria Overton Lyle Price,
daughter Of J. L. Price. and L. A. Shear
er, married In 1860 Alexander C. David
son and had Louise Overton Davidson.
The late General Edmund Winston Pet
tus was descendant Of Isaac Win
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