Chapter 5
Son ~ James Ware II

     Three years after the birth of Nicholas, Agnes Ware gave birth to her third son.  James II, obviously named for his father, was born on March 13, 1741, also in Gloucester County, Virginia.  Both of his parents were 28 years old at the time of his birth.  Since several references have stated that he was “one of the handsomest mMapRef602.jpg (16033 bytes)en in the state and one of the finest looking men to be found anywhere,” he was probably a beautiful baby as well. (Ref. 6, 33)   James later studied medicine and moved to Caroline County to set up his practice.”(Ref. 2)    It was in that county that he met young Virginia Catherine Todd, a close neighbor.  Her nickname was Caty and she “was the daughter of Dr. James Todd, an eminent physician and a Scotchman.” (Ref. 2)  It must have been quite a mutual attraction because James and Caty married in 1767, with James being twenty-six and Caty not quite fourteen at the time! (Ref. 2,35G, 602)  The newlyweds remained in Caroline County until their first child was born.  They then moved to Frederick County and continued to live there until 1791. (Ref. 602) 

     Military records show that James II was “a cavalry soldier in a Virginia unit” & he is listed as a Revolutionary War Patriot. (Ref. 629,834) ChartRef629.jpg (23668 bytes)Once the war was over and they did move from Gloucester to Frederick County, James and his wife probably lived in Winchester for “there is a deed still on record there that conveys to him half an acre of land in Winchester in 1781. (Ref 372) 

     James not only practiced medicine, but he was obviously involved in civic matters as well.  It is recorded that “James Ware, along with Edward Smith and other inhabitants of Winchester, communicated with the Executive of Virginia on January 8, 1782, setting forth reasons why the British prisoners in barracks near Winchester should not be moved.” (Ref 372)  The Revolutionary War was due to end later that year.

     Dr. Ware and Caty also provided many grandchildren for James and Agnes.  They welcomed their first son in 1769, and named him Thompson.  It’s rather ironic that Thompson was born in the very same year that Daniel Boone began exploring Kentucky; the eventual final resting place for himself, his grandparents, and almost all ofParis Courthouse his immediate family members. 

     As a child, Thompson was raised and educated in Virginia with his younger brother James III. (Ref 35E)  He didn’t go to Kentucky until he was about 22 years old, and it was there he met and married his wife, Sallie Conn.   “He settled near Paris, which later became the county seat for Bourbon County.” (Ref. 299 & 845) As his nephew Josiah once said, “Thompson Ware went to Kentucky as an Indian fighter when Cincinnati was just two or three cabins and some stumps.” (Ref. #299)

     The boundaries between counties and what would eventually become states were much different than they look today.   Most of Kentucky was simply just still a part of Virginia in the 1700’s.  “In 1776, a part of Fincastle County was taken to form Kentucky County, Virginia. 

1776 County Map of Kentucky and Virginia

Kentucky County was then divided by the Virginia legislature in 1780 to form the counties of Fayette, Jefferson, and Lincoln.” (Ref 864)

     It was on June 1, 1792, that the United States Congress accepted Kentucky into the Union as the 15th state.” (Ref. 864)

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     Thompson and Sallie flourished in Bourbon County and had a very large family.  As he wrote in a letter to his niece back in Virginia, “we have had twelve children – eleven living and eight of them daughters.” (Ref 35E)   The first three were Thompson, Hadassa, and Mary (1798).  Mary went by the name of Polly and she married Grant Allen on December 20, 1827.  Polly tragically died from childbirth complications.   Her sister, Kitty (1799), took care of her new baby.  In October 1830, Kitty married Grant Allen too.  She was 31 years old at the time.

     Thompson and Sallie also had Cassandra (birth date unknown) who married Samuel Woodson in November 1837, Lucy (1810) who married Henry Clay Bedford in September 1829, Sarah “Sally” (circa 1811) who married Robert Spotswood Russell in May 1826, and Davidella (1812) who married Asa Kentucky Lewis Bedford in May 1834. (Ref. 950)  During the year Davidella was born, Thompson Ware served in the War of 1812 with the 71st Regiment and attained the rank of Colonel.  (Ref 968)

     After all those girls, a son was born in 1814.  He was named James Thompson Ware and he also became a Colonel in the military.  James married Patsy Bedford.  When he died in 1871, James was buried in the Paris cemetery.

     Three more children rounded out the family for Thompson and Sallie:  Eliza (1815), who married William David Crockett in July 1849; Frances (1817), who married John Hill in December 1847; and Charles William (1824), who remained a sickly child.  It was quite a busy household!  Sallie had delivered all those children by the age of forty-three. (Ref. 591)   Sisters Cassandra, Kitty, Davidella, Eliza, and Lucy were all married by the Reverend John Allen Gano, the husband of their cousin Catherine Conn. (Ref. 967)Russell Cave Road Sign

     Thompson “lived on a good farm immediately south of Capt. William Conn’s ‘Bellevue’ on the west side of Russell Cave Road,  Centerville, Kentucky.  In 1997 this was known as Viking Stud Farm near the Centerville crossroads of the Georgetown pike and Russell Cave road.  Thompson Ware died on Sept. 9, 1852, at the age of 84. (Ref 968)

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CHILDREN OF:  THOMPSON          and               SALLIE CONN WARE

                       B. April 5, 1769                         B. Sept. 22, 1781

                       D. Sept. 9, 1852                          D. Nov. 26, 1851

Thompson was the eldest son of Dr. James Ware and his wife, Virginia (Caty) Todd Ware.  He settled in Paris, Kentucky & married Sallie Conn on March 21, 1799.  Thompson was an Indian fighter and served in the War of 1812.

(1) Catherine (Kitty) Todd Ware – born Dec. 21, 1799      died July 26, 1863

Married Grant Allen on Oct. 24, 1830; after the death of her sister Polly

(2) Thomas Ware - born June 17, 1801             died July 17, 1862

Married Harriet Miller April 29, 1823 

(3) Cassandra Ware – born Jan. 23, 1803          died June 20, 1851

Married Samuel Woodson on Nov. 8, 1837

(4) Sarah (Sally) Ware – born March 18, 1806     died 1884

Married Robert Spotswood Russell on May 29, 1827

(5) Mary (Polly) Ware – born May 29, 1808     died Nov. 23, 1828 

Married Grant Allen on Dec. 20, 1827

(6)Lucy C. Ware – born Feb. 27, 1810 

 Married Henry Clay Bedford on Sept. 13, 1829

(7) Davidella Ware – born Feb.18, 1812          died June 22, 1877

Married Asa Kentucky Lewis Bedford on May 8, 1834

(8) James Thompson Ware – born Dec. 23, 1814    died Sept. 30, 1871

Married Patsy Bedford on Nov. 26, 1844

(9) Frances A. Ware – born Nov. 3, 1816           died Jan. 11, 1892

 Married John Hill on Dec. 30, 1847

(10) A son – not named – born Jan. 3, 1819 (probably stillborn)

(11) Eliza H. Ware – born Feb. 14, 1822    died Feb. 23, 1861

Married William D. Crockett on July 5, 1849

 (12) Charles William Ware – born Dec. 23, 1824         died Oct. 30, 1834

very sickly

 

CHILDREN OF THOMAS AND SARAH CONN

These were the parents of 3 of the Conn children who married into the Ware family

(1)Thomas Conn

(2) John M. Conn

(3) Cassandra Conn

(4) Hezekiah Conn

(5) Sally Conn            Married Thompson Ware (son of James Ware II)

(6) William Conn       Married Fanny Webb (niece of Thompson by his sister Polly Todd Ware Webb)

(7) James Conn         Married Kitty Webb (niece of Thompson by his sister Lucy Ware Webb)


 

     The second son of James and Caty was named after both his father and grandfather; making him James Ware III.  He was born on January 13, 177JamesWareIII.jpg (16555 bytes)1. Photo from Judith C. Ware

     Young James was just four years old when the Declaration of Independence was written.  According to a letter written by his brother Charles, James and his older brother Thompson went to Kentucky in their younger years.  James “then engaged with a Mr. Johnston, the clerk of Jefferson County, and wrote in his office until he became fully acquainted with the business.” (Ref 35G) He later returned to Virginia in the spring of 1791 to help his family make the big move to Kentucky.  He accompanied them some days and then returned to Virginia for health reasons.  “Through the friendship of General Daniel Morgan, he obtained an introduction to General S. Smith of Baltimore, whence he commenced merchandizing in Louisville and continued this business until 1795, in which time he made the beginning of his fortune.” (Ref 35G) 

     James married Elizabeth Alexander, the only daughter of Morgan and Elizabeth (Snickers) Alexander, on November 10, 1796.  They had three children before Elizabeth died of complications from tuberculosis in 1803.  Their first child was Sarah Elizabeth Taliaferro Ware (1797), who married Sigismund Stribling.  Charles Alexander Ware was born in 1800, but he died a young man at the age of 23 in 1823.  Their last child was Josiah William Ware (1802), who married Frances Toy Glassell in 1827 and, upon her death, married Edmonia Jaquelin Smith in 1845.                                                                                          

     After his wife passed away, James III married again in 1808; this tiBetseyTaylor.jpg (26491 bytes)me to his cousin, Harriot Milton Taylor.  They had six children together:  James W. (1809), Bushrod (1810), Thomas (1812), Lucy (1814), Harriot (1816), and Elizabeth Alexander Ware (1818), who was named for James’ first wife.  Tragically, tuberculosis plagued the family and took the lives of all but one child who lived long enough to marry.  Both Harriot and James died of complications of tuberculosis too.  James passed away on Thursday night, September 12, 1821, and Harriot followed the next year on Friday night, November 1, 1822. (Ref. 1)

     The children James had with his first wife, Sarah Elizabeth, Charles, and Josiah William, were adults and on their own by the time James and his second wife died.  That still left four orphans from the union with Harriot who needed rearing though.  Step-brothers Josiah and Charles were still unmarried bachelors and Sarah Ware Stribling was a brand new bride.  Fortunately, Harriot had already asked (before her death) if her brother Bushrod and his wife, Betsey Stribling Taylor, would raise her (Photo ref.900)      children if anything happened to her.  Betsey had no children of her own and lovingly adopted these four little ones.  Sadly, only Lucy Catherine Ware lived long enough to marry.  She wed Dr. William McGuire and they lived at ‘Riverside’, the home her father built in his youth. (Ref 590, 899, 900)

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Births

Mrs. Sarah Snickers Alexander January 18, 1756
Mrs. Catherine Macky August 20, 1757
William Snickers July 20, 1759
Mrs. Betty Snickers Stribling November 11, 1761

Deaths

Elizabeth T. Ware August 29th, 1803
Bushrod T. Ware June 14, 1817
Elizabeth Alexander Ware January 6th, 1820 12:O'Clock
James Ware died on Thursday night the 13th September 1821
Harriet M. Ware died on Friday the first day of November 1822 11O'Clock
Harriet Mary Todd Ware departed this life on Tuesday the 5th day of February, 1828
James W. Ware departed this life on the 7th April 1827 on board the ship Herald bound to CharlesTown South Carolina - - Capt. Graham Master
Thomas Marshall Ware on the 12th of October 1832

Original family bible owned by James and Judith C. Ware


 CHILDREN OF:  JAMES WARE III   and     ELIZABETH ALEXANDER WARE

                B. January 13, 1771                              B. Oct. 26, 1774

                D. Sept. 13, 1821                                    D. Aug. 29, 1803

James was the son of Dr. James Ware II and his wife, Caty Todd Ware.  He was also the grandson of James Ware I and his wife, Agnes Todd Ware.   He traveled to Kentucky but ultimately settled back in Virginia where he married Elizabeth Alexander Ware on Nov. 10, 1796

 

(1)Sarah Elizabeth Taliaferro Ware – born Oct. 1, 1797       died April 16, 1878

Married Sigismund Stribling   Nov. 7, 1820

(2) Charles Alexander Ware – born July 3, 1800    died Dec. 3, 1823 at age 23 

(3) Josiah William Ware – born Aug. 19, 1802          died    Aug. 13, 1883

Married Frances Toy Glassell on Feb. 22, 1827 and   Edmonia Jaquelin Smith on Jan. 30, 1845

 

CHILDREN OF:  JAMES WARE III  and     Harriot Milton Taylor (2nd wife)

                B. January 13, 1771                              B. April 26, 1790

                D. Sept. 13, 1821                                   D. Nov. 1, 1822

When his 1st wife, Elizabeth Alexander Ware, died at a young age, James remarried – this time to Harriot Milton Taylor on March 17, 1808 

       

(1) James W. Ware – born Feb. 1, 1809       died April 7, 1827   age 18

  (“on board the ship Herald bound to CharlesTown, South Carolina”)

(2) Bushrod Thomas Ware – born Sept. 10, 1810   died June 14, 1817   age 7

(3) Thomas Marshall Ware – born July 3, 1812   died Oct. 12, 1832    age 20

(4) Lucy Catherine Ware – born July 26, 1814         died   April 5th, 1838

Married Dr. William D. McGuire

(5) Harriet Mary Todd Ware - Nov. 21, 1816    Feb. 5, 1828 (Tuesday)   age 12

(6) Elizabeth Alexander Ware – born Nov. 6, 1818   died Jan. 6, 1820 (14 months)

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Riverside


     James and Agnes welcomed a new granddaughter MaryPollyToddWare.jpg (30542 bytes)from the union of James and Caty Ware on September 4, 1772.  Her name was Mary Todd Ware, but she was forever known as Polly.  She married Charles Webb on February 24, 1791.   Photo courtesy of Sandra Walker

     Polly and Charles had several children; the first was a daughter named FFrancesWebb.gif (52253 bytes)rances (Fanny) Webb (1791), who married William Conn in 1808.    Fanny Webb      Fanny became one of the first “great” grandchildren for James and Agnes.  (They would end up with many!)  Sadly though, Fanny died shortly after the birth of her only child whom they named Catherine.  William never remarried.  He became a veteran of the War of 1812 and eventually died at his home, called Bellevue, near Centerville in Bourbon County on August 7, 1872.” (Ref 941)   His daughter Catherine married Reverend John Allen Gano, the minister who officiated at the weddings of so many of her Uncle Thompson’s daughters.

     Between the years 1793 to 1797, there were three sons born to Charles and Polly (James, Charles, and Charles H.) who didn’t survive infancy.  It must have been heartbreaking for them, but in 1798, a son named Charles Henry Webb was born, who not CharlesHenryWebb.gif (70810 bytes)only survived childhood but married Cassandra Ford in 1827.  Another baby, John, died as an infant, but two healthy daughters rounded out the family.  Nancy Webb (1801) married Dr. Harry Eggleston Innes.  He served Fayette County in the Kentucky Legislature.  Harry’s cousin, Thomas Todd, would later be named by Jefferson as a Justice of the Supreme Court. 

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Thomas Todd House

The last daughter, Winny Webb (1804), married
George W. Williams on March 25, 1824.
(Ref. 589)  

     Polly had delivered her first child in Virginia, but all her other children were born in Kentucky.  Her firstborn was “but three months old” when they came to Kentucky.  As Polly reported later, “they descended the Ohio in flat boats in momentary apprehension of being attacked by the Indians.”(Ref.602)  The family had every right to be fearful because in the time frame just before their move, from 1783 to 1790, there had been “no less than 1,500 authenticated instances of men, women and children being killed or captured by the Indians in the sparsely settled Kentucky. (Ref. 904)   Even “as late as 1793, a party of hunters were pursued by the Indians to within five miles of Frankfort.” (Ref. 1026)  The flatboats, built with green timber and put together with wooden pegs, were hardly a comfortable way to travel, let alone being safe. (Ref. 903, 904)  

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     It’s difficult to imagine the differences in life styles that must have emerged upon this frontier adventure.  The same year that Polly was living with the fear of having her head scalped, Thomas Jefferson, in writing to his daughter Patsy, admonished her to remember that from the moment you rise till you go to bed, be as cleanly and properly dressed as at the hours of dinner or tea. Nothing is so disgusting to men as a want of cleanliness and delicacy in women. I hope, therefore, the moment you rise from bed, your first work will be to dress yourself in such style, as that you may be seen by any gentleman without his being able to discover a pin amiss, or any other circumstance of neatness wanting...” (Ref. 902)   It is doubtful that Polly Ware was concerned about having a “pin amiss” on her trip to Kentucky.

     Charles and Polly raised their large family in that harsh frontier environment and they settled around the Versailles area.  Their land was “on the waters of David’s Fork of Elkhorn in Fayette County.” newsletter

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     Polly’s brother, Thompson Ware, wrote in a letter that, “Your Aunt Polly Webb lives within a mile, where we can see each other every week.”  (Ref. 35E) Her daughter Nancy & Dr. Innes lived close by in Paris where they owned 880 acres of land on the Elkhorn River, up by Russell Cave Road.  Polly’s granddaughter, Catharine Conn Gano, lived with her family on a nice farm given to her by her father, William Conn.  It was “part of his land which encompassed 2,196 acres on Elkhorn and Licking near Centerville.(Ref. 782, 951) Charles Webb died by the year 1806, but Polly lived to be 82 and died in December 1854 of paralysis. (Ref. 970)

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CHILDREN OF: MARY (POLLY) TODD WARE  and   CHARLES WEBB

                      B. Sept. 4, (14?) 1772                         B. Feb. 6, 1755

                       D. Dec. 29, 1854                                  D. 1806

Polly Ware was the daughter of James Ware II and Caty Todd Ware.  She was also the granddaughter of James Ware I and Agnes Todd Ware.  She married Charles Webb on Feb. 24, 1791 -  shortly before the big move to Kentucky.               

(1)Frances (Fanny) Webb - born Dec. 20, 1791    died before 1820                                                             

 Married William Conn on December 17, 1808

(2)James Webb - born Nov. 28, 1793

(3) Charles Webb - born Sept. 26, 1795     died in infancy

(4) Charles H. Webb - born July 3, 1797   died in infancy

(5) Dr. Charles Henry Webb Jr. - born July 2, 1798   died Oct. 30, 1844                                               

Married Cassandra Ford on Feb. 15, 1827

(6) John Webb - born Oct. 23, 1799       died   Oct. 23, 1799

(7) Nancy Webb - born 1801     died 1884

Married Dr. Henry E. Innes on Tuesday, July 27, 1819

(8) Winifred (Winny) Webb - born Feb. 29, 1804   

Married George W. Williams on March 25, 1824


     After the birth of Polly, another granddaughter was born to James and Agnes who would make the perilous trip to Kentucky.  Born on November 12, 1773, her parents named her Lucy Catherine.  Lucy came into the world just one short month before the colonies were turned upside down by a little incident called the Boston Tea Party.  While James and Agnes were probably soothing the cries of protest from their new little granddaughter, some of their fellow colonists up in Boston were also emitting unhappy cries of protest too, as they dumped British tea in the local harbor.  The turbulence of the times was increasing daily.

     Lucy would have had firsthand knowledge of all the changes occurring in this historic time during her childhood.  By her wedding on December 23, 1790, the war was over and President George Washington had been in office for one year.  Her husband, Isaac Webb, had served as a captain in the war.  “He was an officer in the 7th Virginia Continental Line and served under Green in the 14th campaiLucy Ware Webbgn.” (Ref. 934)  It was “in large part due to his persuasion that the move to Kentucky was made.” (Ref 2)   He had acquired a great deal of land in Fayette and Bourbon counties of Kentucky as a ‘grant’ (reward) given by the government for service in the Revolutionary War.”(Ref. 174)  The actual documents he obtained “were signed by both Thomas Jefferson and James Madison.” (Ref. 174)

     Lucy and Isaac settled on their property in close proximity to the land of her parents, James and Caty Ware.  The Kentucky library descrBriarHillRoadSign.jpg (3604 bytes)ibes the location as such:  The property is in Fayette County, about two miles on the Houston Road from its intersection with Briar Hill Pike in Fayette County.  The road runs northwesterly to and along a Houston creek on to where it meets the Lexington-Paris Pike.  The Antioch Church is at the Lexington-Paris Pike juncture in Bourbon County where it is known as the Antioch Pike.  The road markers (as of 1998) show that road as the Huston-Antioch Road and a map of 1998 shows the name as Antioch Road - most of it in Bourbon County.”  (Ref. 944)    

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     Lucy and Isaac had the following children:  Catherine (Kitty) Webb (1791), Winny Webb (1793), James Webb (1795), Isaac Webb III (1797), LucYoungLucyWareWebbHayes.jpg (24330 bytes)y Caroline Webb (1799), Cuthbert Webb (1801), Mary Ann Todd Webb (1803), John Thompson Webb (1805), and Elizabeth (Betsy) Frances Webb (1806).  It was Lucy’s son, Dr. James Webb and his wife Maria, who were the parents of Lucy Ware Webb who married Rutherford B. Hayes, President of the United States.  She was, therefore, the great-great- granddaughter of James and Agnes Ware.

     The year 1833 brought great sadness to both the Ware and Webb families as a cholera epidemic swept through Kentucky.  Lucy’s family was one of the ones hardest hit.  Not only did she and Isaac die within mere days of each other, but many of their other family members passed away as well.  There is a graveyard in Kentucky that marks this tragic event. Between the three summer months of May, June, and July, eight new graves were added to this little family cemetery. (Ref 588,602)

Directions for this cemetery are given as follows: 
About 2 miles along the Houston Road from its intersection
with Briar Hill Pike in Fayette County - near Isaac Webb’s house. 
(ref. 944
)
Another source has it located on Stewart Road.
(Ref. 934)  

     In 1931, Ware and Webb family descendants restored the cemetery and even placed a plaque commemorating the site.  Years took its toll, however, and the family resting place again fell into sad disrepair.  The large tombstone of Isaac’s sister (Winny Webb) had all but broken apart and the surrounding wall and other graves were hardly recognizable.  The following are photos of the site just prior to the new millennium.  

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Ware/Webb Cemetery in Kentucky before restoration

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Marker in the Ware/Webb
Cemetery  

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     In 2006, this wonderful, old cemetery got another facelift from some very caring family members.  The amount of time, money, and love that went into its restoration is a testimony to the kind hearts of those involved.  Mike Riegert and Tom Moore were the historical preservationists on the project and Susie Stahl did an incredible job of overseeing everything and keeping it well documented.

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CHILDREN OF:      LUCY WARE        and         CAPTAIN ISAAC WEBB

                             B. Nov. 12, 1773                     B. Jan. 19, 1758

                             D. June 22, 1833                    D. June 26, 1833

Lucy was the daughter of James Ware II and Caty Todd Ware.  She was also the granddaughter of James Ware I and Agnes Todd Ware.  She married Capt. Isaac Webb on Dec. 23, 1790 – shortly before the big move to Kentucky                                              

(1)Catherine J. (Kitty) Webb -born Sept. 15, 1791      died    May 24, 1820

Married James Conn                                          

(2) Winny Webb - born Jan. 28, 1793            died July 8, 1833

Married Matthew Thompson Scott on June 12, 1811 (1810?)                                                              

(3) James Webb - born March 17, 1795     died July 1, 1833

Married Maria Cook on April 18, 1826                    

(4) Isaac Webb III - born March 2, 1797   died June 26, 1833          

Married Louisa Harrison Jones

(5) Lucy Caroline Webb - born Feb. 16, 1799       died March 17, 1868

Married Dr. Joseph Thompson Scott on July 31, 1817      

(6) Cuthbert Webb - born Jan. 20, 1801   died 1860

Married

(7) Mary Ann Todd Webb - born March 15, 1803

Married William Nicholson on Oct. 19, 1820        

(8) John Thompson Webb - born March 18, 1805   died in Alabama 1875

Married Lovina ___

(9) Elizabeth (Betsy) Frances Webb - born Sept. 12, 1806

Married Rev. Joseph P. Cunningham (1823) & Matthew Thompson Scott (1836)

(ref. 934)


     The grief that befell the family in 1833 was thankfully not known to James and Caty in 1775, however, as they added another son to the Ware clan.  Charles Ware, born August 19, 1775, was 16 years old when the whole family later moved to Kentucky.  He recorded in his letters that he stayed with his parents for about two years, and then he went back to Virginia to live with his older brother, James III, for a while.  He wrote to his niece in later years that, “I did not go to live with him (James) until the fall of 1793.  We then continued together almost until I married in 1803.” (Ref. 35G)  When Charles and Frances Whiting did marry, they decided to settle in Versailles, Kentucky and put down their roots for good.  They never had any children of their own, but they were surrounded by lots of nieces and nephews. (Ref 602)   There is a deed dated Oct. 8, 1811 that shows “a purchase of 177¼ acres of land for Charles Ware on the waters of Glenn’s Creek” (Ref. 1027)   which was close to his father’s home called Wareland.

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     The last will & testament for Charles Ware was dated July 27, 1839, and probated in May 1840.

     On May 1, 1777, James and Agnes welcomed another new granddaughter by James and Caty.  Her name was Catherine, probably after her mother, but everyone called her either Caty or Kitty.  The colonies were fully embroiled in war at this time, and a new baby in the family must have brought welcomed good news.  Washington's troops had just defeated the British at Princeton on the 3rd of January and by Kitty’s birth date in the spring, he had recruited 8,000 men.  At this point, there was still a long battle ahead for the colonists.  The war raged on for four more years.

     When Kitty was grown, she married Dr. John Mitchell Scott in 1796, an officer who showed his own kind of patriotism in the War of 1812.  He was a very beloved physician and also, at one time, served as the Sheriff of Franklin County, Kentucky.   Dr. Scott was “a doctor who frequently traveled to Indiana to act as personal physician to General Harrison while he was Governor of the Indiana Territory and before he became President of the U.S.  They were such close personal friends that General Harrison named his 5th child (Dr. Scott assisted at this birth) after him (John Scott Harrison) and Dr. Scott and Kitty named their son (born in 1805) William Henry Harrison Scott.(Ref. 942)

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     Dr. Scott and Kitty had five children, but Grandfather James would live long enough to only know about one.  Eliza Scott, sometimes called Betsy, was born in 1798 and she married Congressman Solomon Sharp, who was unfortunately assassinated while in office.  He was stabbed to death in his home in front of his family.   According to a letter written by her Uncle Thompson and sent to another niece in Virginia,

Your cousin, Betsy Sharp, lost her husband the 1st Sunday in November last by a midnight assassin.  He was stabbed in the abdomen in his own house at 1 or 2 o’clock and expired without speaking a word in a few minutes in the midst of his family.   The night before the Legislature was to meet (he was a member,) a man was taken up on suspicion and sent for further trial.  Poor Betsy was quite deranged for several days.  She has since recovered and has come to her right mind.  She has three children – a daughter and two sons.  Mr. Sharp has left her a sufficient competency for her support.   He had a very severe spell of sickness last summer which caused him to make a will, and he left Betsy everything except two farms, as I am informed.”  (Ref. 35E)   

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Congressman Solomon Sharp

     Both Solomon and Eliza are buried in the Frankfort cemetery, a beautiful cemetery that overlooks the city.

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Frankfort Cemetery with the capital in the background   (photos courtesy of James & Judy Ware 2009)

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Marker for the Sharps

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     Eliza welcomed a baby brother in 1805 when Kitty delivered the son they named after their dear family friend, William Henry Harrison Scott.  He married Elizabeth M. Wilkinson and there was another child born in 1841 who carried on the name of William Henry Harrison Scott Jr.

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     In 1807, Kitty and Dr. Scott had another daughter.  She was named Catherine W., but was often called Kate.  She later married William Johnson on June 4, 1834.

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    Four years later, in 1811, another daughter joined the Scott home.  Arabella Scott came into this world just one year before her father went off to serve in the War of 1812.   She married twice, first to William Milton Davis and then to Sylvester Welch.

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     The last child to join the Scott family was John Mitchell Scott, obviously named in honor of his father, who was born in 1813.  He grew up to carry on the proud family tradition of military service by graduating from West Point. (Ref. 587, 602)

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     Dr. Scott “died in Frankfort while still on active duty as the commander of the 1st Infantry Regiment, Kentucky Volunteer Militia” in 1812. (ref. 942)    After his death, Kitty must have found great solace in being close to her family.  In a letter written by Cornelia Ware Anker, she noted that: “Catharine Ware married Col. John M. Scott.  He must have been a splendid man; he is spoken of so many times with such admiration.  There were five children.  Sometime after her oldest daughter was married, ‘Aunt Kitty’ and her two younger daughters lived with Betsy Sharp.” Kitty died on December 11, 1861 at the age of eighty-four.” (Ref. 942)   

 

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Scott family burial site
Photo courtesy of James & Judy Ware 2009

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CHILDREN OF:  CATHERINE WARE     &      Dr. JOHN MITCHELL SCOTT

                             B. May 1, 1777                        B. 1765

                             D. Dec. 11, 1861                       D. Dec. 20, 1812

Catherine, or Kitty as she liked to be called, was the daughter of James Ware II and Caty Todd Ware.   She was also the granddaughter of James Ware I and Agnes Todd Ware.  She married Dr. John Mitchell Scott (who fought in the War of 1812) in the year 1796.

(1) Elizabeth T. (Eliza) Thompson Scott - born 1798       died Jan. 4, 1844

Married Col. Solomon Sharp on Dec. 17, 1818 (he was later assassinated)

(2) William Henry Harrison Scott – born 1805    died 1880

Married Elizabeth M. Wilkinson

(3) Catherine W. (Kate) Scott – born 1807        died   Dec. 18, 1867

Married William Johnson on June 4, 1834

(4) Arabella Scott – born March 14, 1811     died Feb. 21, 1878

Married Mr. William Davis on Dec. 29, 1831 & Sylvester Welch on Nov. 13, 1838

(5) John Mitchell Scott – born Jan. 8, 1813   died Oct. 28, 1850 at age 38

(Ref. 1032)

 

     The last child of James and Caty Ware was George Ware who was born on February 9, 1779.  He married Nancy Ferguson in 1812 and they had many more grandchildren for James and Caty and great grandchildren for James and Agnes.  Nancy delivered ten children in all, some of them just a year apart.  Their children were: Elizabeth Catherine Ware (1813), Mary Webb Ware (1814), James Todd Ware (1816), Ann Ware (1818), Abraham Ware, who was always called Abram (1820), George Clifton Ware, who was always called Clifton, (1822), Charles William Ware (1825), John William Ware (1827), Lucy Arabella Ware (1830), and Joseph Scott Ware (1833).  Ironically, baby Joseph was born in the middle of the cholera epidemic on September 15, 1833.  He died September 26, 1853. (Ref 586,602, 970)

     George and Nancy’s daughter, Catherine, married Robert Didlake on Jan. 31, 1833.  Their other daughter, Lucy Arabella Ware, married James Hutchison Shropshire on Oct. 11, 1850.  Both these families lived in close proximity to James and Caty Ware.

Note the map below mentions Shropshire heirs and the Didlake name as well.

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     George and Nancy “lived on the land of James Ware II and so did their son; Abram.” (Ref. 940)   In fact, it was Abram Ware, grandson of James II and great-grandson of James I, who ultimatley inherited this property.

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     George Ware died on July 28, 1849, and is buried in Lexington. (Ref. 975)

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 CHILDREN OF:   GEORGE WARE    &           NANCY FERGUSON WARE

                        B. Feb. 9, 1779                           B.  June 6, 1790

                        D. July 28, 1849                         D.  Sept. 14, 1849

 

George Ware was the youngest son of James Ware II & his wife, Caty Todd Ware, and also the grandson of James Ware I and his wife, Agnes Todd Ware. He married Nancy Ferguson on October 8, 1812.   George & his wife lived on the property his father (Dr. James Ware II) settled Kentucky and later they passed it on to their son, Abram.

 

(1)Elizabeth Catherine Ware - born July 11, 1813        died July 4, 1868

Married Robert Didlake on Jan. 31, 1833

(2) Mary Ann Webb Ware - born Dec. 18, 1814       died Jan. 9, 1887

Married Thomas Woods Goodloe on Jan. 17, 1844

(3) James Todd Ware - born Dec. 23, 1816      died July 5, 1871

(4) Ann Ware - born Oct. 13, 1818           died Sept. 17, 1840

(5) Abraham (Abram) Thompson Ware - born Nov. 9, 1820   died March 14, 1894

(6) George Clifton (Clifton) Ware - born Dec. 29, 1822      died April 5, 1866 

(7) Charles William Ware - born April 7, 1825

(8) John William Ware - born Sept. 16, 1827     died Aug. 3, 1867

(9) Lucy Arabella Ware - born Sept. 24, 1830   died Nov. 4, 1876

 Married James Hutchison Shropshire on July 11, 1850

(10) Joseph Scott Ware - born Sept. 13, 1833     died Sept. 26, 1863

     James and Agnes received 51 great grandchildren just from the offspring of their grandson James Ware II.  Of course, they did not live to see all of these children born, but no one can say they didn’t do their part to help populate the state of Kentucky! 

     It was in the fall of 1784 when James II decided to visit Kentucky for the first time and he remained there all that winter.  “This was at the time when people lived in stations [forts].” (Ref 334,35G)  As Cornelia Anker later wrote, “this probably meant a stockade as protection against the Indians. (Ref. 2)

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     She was absolutely right because, as the Kentucky Historical site explains,

In the late 1700s, early settlers to Kentucky had to fight for their survival. They came from the east to claim the land and build up settlements out of the wilderness. Life was hard and dangerous. For many, their best hope for survival was in a fort. These forts, and smaller structures called stations, were the beginnings of today’s Kentucky towns.”

     When Dr. Ware and Caty decided to mWareStreetSign.jpg (2232 bytes)ove their family permanently from Virginia to Kentucky, they homesteaded in Fayette County around Lexington on land “that he subsequently lived and died on.” (Ref. 299)

    The Ware and Webb families were close knit; especially since two Webb brothers had married two of James’ daughters.  Consequently, they had properties that were almost side by side.

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     The directions for the home of Dr. Ware were recorded as follows:

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Several family letters were posted from David’s Fork

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     Caty Todd Ware died in 1782 at the young age of 32, and according to DAR records, “James Ware died in February of 1819 in Fayette County.” (Ref. 834)  He lived to be 78 years old.     

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CHILDREN OF:   DR. JAMES L. WARE II   &   VIRGINIA (CATY) TODD WARE

                           B.  March 13, 1741                        B. February 9, 1753

                           D.  May 7, 1820                            D. April 23, 1802

 

Dr. James L. Ware was the 2nd son of James Ware I and his wife, Agnes Todd Ware.  He studied medicine in Virginia and married Virginia Catherine Todd there in 1767.  He later relocated to Kentucky with his whole family except his namesake, James Ware III.

(1) Thompson Ware – born April 5, 1769             died Sept. 9, 1852

Married Sallie Conn – daughter of Thomas Conn  

(2) James Ware III - born Jan. 13, 1771   died on Sept. 13, 1821

Married Elizabeth Alexander on Nov. 10, 1796 and Harriet M. Taylor on March 16, 1808    

(3) Mary (Polly) Todd Ware - born Sept. 4, 1772   died Dec. 29, 1854

Married Charles Webb in 1788   

(4) Lucy Ware - born Nov. 12, 1773         died June 22, 1833

Married Isaac Webb on Dec. 23, 1790  

(5) Charles Ware - born Aug. 19, 1775        died July 1839

Married Frances Whiting on Nov. 29, 1803  

(6) Catherine Ware - born May 1, 1777         died  Dec. 11, 1861  

Married Dr. John M. Scott in 1796

(7) George Ware - born Feb. 09, 1779        died July 28, 1849

Married Nancy Ferguson on June 10, 1812

(Ref 975)

 


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