B1 Children of Thompson Ware and Sally Conn

Researched and written by Judith Cumbea Ware April 2008

Updated Oct. 2009

B1 Children of:

(Sallie)

Thompson Ware Sr. and Sarah (Sally) Conn

B. April 05, 1769 B. Sept. 22, 1781

D. Sept. 09, 1852 D. Nov. 26, 1851

1. Thompson Ware Jr.              +
     B.                                                                      B.
     D.                                                                      D.

2. Hadassa Ware                  +
    B.                                                                       B.
    D.                                                                       D.

3. Mary Polly Ware                 +                                        Grant Allen
     B. circa 1798                  Dec. 20, 1827                    B. Jan. 20, 1800
     D. Nov. 23, 1828                                                     D. Dec. 11, 1873

4. Catherine Todd Ware              +                                       Grant Allen
       (called Kitty)
     B. Dec. 21, 1799                                                       B. Jan. 20, 1800
     D. July 26, 1863             Oct. 24, 1830                      D. Dec. 11, 1873

5. Cassandra                                  +                      Samuel Woodson
     B.                                 Nov. 08, 1837                   B.
     D.                                                                        D.

6. Lucy C. Ware                      +                         Henry Clay Bedford
     B. Feb. 27, 1810           Sept. 15, 1829              B. 1800
     D.                                                                     D. June 2, 1859
He is the 2^nd cousin, once removed, of Henry Clay, the Statesman (bio at
http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=C000482)

7. Sarah (Sally) Ware                 +                   Robert Spotswood Russell
     B. circa 1811                May 29, 1827                       B. Oct. 27, 1807
     D. 1884                                                                   D. Aug. 30, 1840

8. Davidella Ware                           +          Asa Kentucky Lewis Bedford
B. Feb. 02, 1812                   May 08, 1834                  B. Dec. 14, 1811
D. June 22, 1875                                                      D. June 7, 1846

He is the 2^nd cousin, once removed, of Henry Clay, the Statesman (bio at
http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=C000482)

9. James Thompson Ware                    +                      Patsy Bedford
       B. Dec. 23, 1814                                                       B. circa 1823
       D. Sept. 30, 1871                Nov. 26, 1844                 D. July 03, 1896
Patsy is the 2^nd cousin, once removed, of Henry Clay, the Statesman (bio at
http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=C000482 )

10. Eliza Ware (was 10 or 12 yrs old in his letter) + William D. Crockett

B. circa 1815 July 05, 1849 B.

D. D.

11. Frances A. Ware                   +                                       John Hill
     B. 1817                           Dec. 30, 1847                             B. 1803
     D.                                                                                     D.

12 Charles William Ware
B. 1824 very sickly
D.

In a letter dated December 25, 1825, Thompson wrote to his niece Sally Taliaferro Alexander (Stribling) – daughter of his brother James:

“Sally, we have had twelve children – eleven living and eight of them daughters. Our youngest is a son – one year old. (referring to James) Our families are all in Kentucky, except yours, where we can at least see one another once or twice a year. And your Aunt Polly Webb lives within a mile, where we can see each other every week.”

In the same letter, Thompson writes:

“(my brother and I) were raised and educated together until our father took us to Kentucky and there left us. We got separated; he located at Louisville and I in the neighborhood of Lexington when my age was 20 and his about 18 months younger. We would sometimes accidentally see one another in the course of a year or two for several years until he entered into marriage to your mother in Virginia and took him from Kentucky – where he settled not far from where he was raised. While living, we used to correspond and hear from each others family, but we have been neglectful and absent from each other for a number of years and Josiah William Ware is the first and only one of the family that I ever saw. And, in seeing him, I see your father (James II) more so than any painter could represent.”

Thompson served in the War of 1812 – with the 71^st regiment (ref 968)

Sallie Conn was the daughter of Thomas Conn and Sarah Maddox Conn. Her brother William married Fanny Webb (daughter of Thompson’s sister Polly) and her brother James married Kitty Webb (daughter of Thompson’s sister Lucy Webb).

Thompson “lived on a good farm immediately south of Capt. William Conn’s Bellevue on the west side of Russell Cave Road, Centerville, Ky. In 1997 this was known as Viking Stud Farm and is just south near the Centerville crossroads of the Georgetown pike and Russell Cave road. He called his home Rose Hill.” (ref. 740)

(1) Thompson Ware Jr.

(2) Hadassa In his letter to Sally, Thompson says specifically that,

“we have had twelve children – eleven living and eight of them (those living) daughters.” Since all of his other eight daughters have a lot of information to be found about them, I can only assume that Hadassa was the one who probably died young.

(3) Mary Polly Ware was always called Polly. She was born around 1798. She married Grant Allen and they had 2 children together –

(a) James Allen in 1827 & (b) Thompson Ware Allen on Nov. 4, 1828. According to a letter written to Sally Stribling (Josiah Ware’s sister) by her Aunt Lucy Webb around 1829, Lucy writes:

“I suppose you heard his (Thompson’s) daughter Polly Allen died very suddenly. Her child (baby Thompson ) was about 3 or 4 weeks old. She had been quite sick for two weeks, but Mary (her aunt) thought had gotten well. She (Polly) got up in the morning, put on her clothes, walked to the fire, fell sick, was carried to the bed, and died in a few minutes. She left a son – Kitty (her sister) takes care of it as if it was her own.”

Kitty eventually married Grant Allen herself and went on to have a family of her own with him.

(4) Catherine (Kitty) Todd Ware was born December 21, 1799. (Her father was 30 years old at the time.) Kitty married Grant Allen on Oct. 24, 1830 – when she was 31 years old. Grant had first been married to her sister Polly, but when Polly died suddenly after the birth of her last son (Thompson), Kitty took the boy in to raise him and later married Grant (her brother-in-law). Rev. John Allen Gano performed the wedding.

Kitty and Grant had 6 children of their own:

(1) Thomas Allen born in 1831

(2) Amanda Allen born in 1833

(3) Charles Ware Allen born in 1835

(4) Sallie Ware Allen born in 1837 who married Mr. Jackson

(5) Lucy Bedford Allen born on Aug. 30, 1838 who married Mr. Gorham and

died on Nov. 06, 1878

(6) Mary Catherine Allen born in 1842 who married Mr. Lowen.

(5) Cassandra Ware - There is not a lot of information on Cassandra at this time, but many references list her. In one letter from Lucy Webb to her niece Sally Stribling, she mentions that “Kitty and Cassandra are still single.” Since Kitty married in 1830, Cassandra was still alive prior to that time. Cassandra married Samuel Woodson on November 08, 1837. Rev. John Allen Gano performed the wedding. (ref 967 & 968)

(6) Lucy C. Ware married Henry Clay Bedford on September 15, 1829 He is the 2^nd cousin, once removed, of Henry Clay, the Statesman. Rev. John Gano performed the wedding. In the same letter from Lucy Webb to Sally Stribling, she goes on to say:

“Lucy Ware, another of your Uncle Thompson Ware’s daughters, has married Mr. Bedford. He married two of Mr. Blanton’s daughters – both of them died in childbed; I have no doubt of want of skill in their physicians. He then married Miss Hutchcraft, she had two children and died when the youngest was 6 months old. He then married Lucy Ware. I should have disliked being any man’s fourth wife, but he is a very clever man, not more than 26 years old, made an excellent husband and is quite independent. I hope she will do well.”

(7) Sarah (Sally) Ware was born around 1811. She married Robert Spotswood Russell on May 29, 1827. In the same letter from Lucy Webb, she writes: “Your Uncle Thompson Ware’s daughter, Sally Russell, has been as ill as ever any person was, to recover. She had a son and in three weeks was taken ill with child-bed-fever. When her life was despaired of by her physician, Dr. Innis, and every person that beheld her, they sent for Dr. Scott. (Dr. Joseph Scott from Chillicothe who married Lucy Webb, daughter of Polly and Charles Webb) They kept him three days there. Your Aunt (Polly) Webb went from here last week. She was satisfied that she (Sally) would not have lived until morning. When he (Dr. Scott) came, she said it really appeared like raising the dead. Sally was taken with strong convulsion fits in an hour after he got there – which lasted nearly two days; one after another. But before he came away, she began to mend slowly and has been mending ever since. She can now walk about the yard but not entirely come to her reason. I suppose your Aunt Ware (Thompson’s wife Sally) would have been frightened almost to death had not Dr. Scott told them she would be quite childlike – perhaps for two or three months.”

Sally died in 1884. Since the time frame of this letter from Lucy is around 1829, Sally obviously recovered well enough to live many more years!

(8) Davidella Ware was born on Feb. 02, 1812. She married Asa Kentucky Lewis Bedford on May 08, 1834. He is the 2^nd cousin, once removed, of Henry Clay, the Statesman. Rev. John Gano performed the wedding.

In the same letter from Thompson’s sister, Lucy Webb to Sally Taliaferrro Alexander Stribling, she simply said that (at the time of the letter; which had no date attached) “Davidella was grown.” She obviously went on to marry Asa Kentucky Lewis Bedford. 1860: Federal Census, Jefferson County, Kentucky Davidella operated a boarding house. (Source: Bedford & Kirker, "Bedford Family of Virginia", Tennessee Valley Publishing, 1994, p78) Davidella died on June 22, 1875.

(9) Col. James Thompson Ware was born December 23, 1814. He married a girl named Patsy Bedford who was a sister to Henry Clay Bedford who married James’ sister Lucy Ware. (#6) She was also the sister to Asa Kentucky Lewis Bedford who married James’ sister Davidella (#8). Patsy Bedford was the 2^nd cousin, once removed, of Henry Clay, the Statesman. James and Patsy were married on Nov. 26, 1844 in Bourbon County, Kentucky. 1855-1857: James T. Ware, served as a member of the Kentucky House of Representatives from 1855-1857. James died on Sept. 30, 1871 in Bourbon County, Kentucky. His tombstone is located in the Paris Kentucky cemetery. All of the information for James Thompson has been kindly given courtesy of Debbie McArdle.

(10) Eliza H. Ware was born around 1815. Lucy mentions that Eliza was “ten or twelve years old” at the time of her letter (which was written shortly after 1828 and before 1830.) She married William D. Crockett on July 05, 1849. Rev. John Gano performed the wedding.

(11) Frances A. Ware was born in 1817. She married John Hill on Dec. 30, 1847.

(12) Charles William Ware was also mentioned in Lucy’s letter of 1829. She wrote: “Charles William I suppose never will walk a smart child. He was taken sick and continued so for a year. His head enlarged (opened) when he was sick at about two years old. He never walked since; his head very large now. Whether he took too much calomel or what, I don’t know.”

In the letter that Thompson wrote to Sally Ware Stribling on December 25, 1825, he states that “Our youngest is a son – one year old.”

**** All the additions in red ink represent contributions by:

Debbie McArdle
6705 Connecticut Trail
Crystal Lake, IL 60012-3125
jjmcard@mc.net

I would like to give her my heartfelt thanks for helping me correct and add information to this piece.

REFERENCES:

2. Original long letter of Cornelia Ware Anker (1945)

6. VIRGINIA GENEALOGIES: by Rev. Horace Edwin Hayden, M. A. Printed in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania in 1891 – copyrighted 1885. Original copy owned by Jim & Judy Ware.

35A. Letter from Catherine (Caty) Ware to her granddaughter Sarah Elizabeth Taliaferro Ware. Written in 1799 (Sarah was often called either Sally or Betsy).

35B. Letter to James Ware in 1810 from an unknown source concerning his property management.

35D. Letter from Catharine Conn (called Kitty) to her Cousin, Sarah (Sally) E. Taliaferro Ware at Snickers Ferry in 1819. Sally was the sister of Josiah.

35E. Letter from Thompson Ware to his niece, Sarah (Sally) E.T. Ware. Thompson was the brother of her father (James III) and also the uncle to Josiah.

35G. Letter from Charles Ware to his niece Sarah (Sally) Elizabeth Taliaferro Ware Stribling written in 1831.

173. WARE biographical information given to me from the Hayes Presidential Center – dating way back to Agnes and James I.

174. Large personal and biographical information (with charts) on the WARE/WEBB lineage - given to me by the Hayes Presidential Center. Data includes several different notes from RBH Diaries

192. Loose pages of information on all of James Ware’s family that settled in Kentucky – given me by the Hayes Presidential Center

289. From Rutherford B. Hayes Library (in Fremont, Ohio) copies of a notation from Hayes in his journal about a visit from Josiah Ware

298. Letter from James Ware to his son, James (written from David’s Fork) – Nov. 4, 1812.

597. Transcription of Letter from Lucy Ware Webb to her Niece, Sally Ware Stribling Prior to 1830 Researched & written by Judy Ware 2008

620. Excerpts from Ware Family History by Wanda (Jeanie) Ware DeGidio

967. Brides Index to Bourbon County, Kentucky – Consents, Bonds, and Marriages - Preserved in the Kentucky Historical Society Library Archives in Frankfort, KY

968. Notes on Kentucky Veterans of the War of 1812 by: G. Glenn Clift, publisher: Borderland Books, Anchorage, Kentucky 1964 Preserved in the Kentucky Historical Society Library Archives in Frankfort, KY