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John Graham (1765 - 1835)

John Graham
Born in Augusta County, Virginiamap
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Died at age 70 in Emma, Floyd County, Kentucky, United Statesmap
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Biography

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John Graham served with 1776 Project Needs Additional Sources during the American Revolution.

John was born about 1 January 1765 in Augusta County, Virginia[1] and died on 20 April 1835 in Floyd County, Kentucky.[1] He was the son of David Graham and Jane Walkup or Wachub.

Education:

He was probably educated at Liberty Hall (later called Washington and Lee University)

Occupation:

Between 1787 and 1820, Graham surveyed approximately 100,000 acres of the Big Sandy Valley and eastern Kentucky for Col. John Preston. He surveyed the original plan of the town of Prestonburg, Kentucky.

Marriage:

He was married on 10 February 1803 to Rebecca WITTEN.[2]

Spouse:

Rebecca WITTEN was born about 29 January 1775[1] in Tazewell County, Virginia and died on 28 August 1843[1] in Floyd County, Kentucky. She was the daughter of Thomas Jefferson WITTEN and Eleanor CECIL. She is buried in John Graham Cemetery, Emma, Floyd County, Kentucky.

  • Find A Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com : accessed 24 April 2018), memorial page for Rebecca Witten Graham (29 Jan 1775–28 Aug 1843), Find A Grave Memorial no. 68,242,414, citing John Graham Cemetery, Emma, Floyd County, Kentucky, USA ; Maintained by Jim Spencer (contributor 46557132).

Will

In the name of God Amen.
I, John Graham of the County of Floyd and State of Kentucky do make, ordain and publish this as my last will and testament in the manner as follow to wit:
I will that after my decease my body be decently buried.
Item First: I will that all my just debts be first paid by my executors hereinafter named.
Item Second: I will and bequeath to my beloved wife, Rebecca Graham all that part of the tract of land whereon I now live, Beginning at Sandy River and running straight with the upper cross fence of the meadow to the back line of the survey, thence with said back line to David Morgan's line, thence to Sandy River, and thence down the river to the beginning: also one Negro boy named Henry, one Negro girl named Delpha, also one Negro woman named Rachel and one Negro boy named Nelson: also all the geese, fifteen head of sheep, four cows and calves, one brown mare, one black horse Snap and twenty head of hogs, also all the dead victuals, corn oats and hay on the farm at the time of my decease, all of which land, Negroes and other property my said wife Rebecca Graham is to dispose of at her death as she sees proper in full of her part of my estate.
Item third: I will and bequeath unto my daughter Rebecca Mayo a tract of land lying on Sandy river called the Cains place which I have heretofore conveyed to her husband Jacob Mayo, also one Negro girl named Jemima, two cows and calves, two beds and furniture which I have heretofore given to the said Rebecca Mayo as a part of her estate.
Item Fourth: I will and bequeath unto my daughter Dorothy Trimble a tract of land and whereon her husband Edwin Trimble now lives which I have heretofore deeded to the said Trimble, also one Negro girl Nancy, also two cows and calves, two beds and furniture which I have heretofore given the said Dorothy Trimble as a part of her estate.
Item Fifth: I will and bequeath unto my daughter Eleanor Morgan the tract of land whereon her hunband David Morgan now lives which I have heretofore conveyed to the said David Morgan two cows and calves, two beds and furniture which I have heretofore given the said Eleanor Morgan as a part of her estate.
Item Sixth: I will and bequeath unto my daughter Sophia Layne, one Negro girl named Sally, two cows and calves, two beds and furniture which I have heretofore given her as a part of her estate,, and I have executed to her husband William H. Layne, a title bond for the tract of land whereon he now lives upon,, he and James S. Layne paying me one thousand dollars for which they are bound to my estate which I considered equal to the portions given to my other children over and above the said one thousand dolars as a part of the estate of the said Sophia Layne.
Item Seventh: I will and bequeath unto my daughter Tabitha Graham all the land which I won on the waters of Cow and Calf Creeks and the Broad hollow supposed to contain Seven Hundred and fifty acres, two cows and calves, two beds and furniture and one Negro girl named Hester Ann as a part of the said Tabitha Graham's estate.
Item Eighth: I will and bequeath unto my daughter Elizabeth Graham all that part of the farm whereon I now live, Beginning at Sandy river thence on a straight line with the upper cross fence of the meadow to the back line of the survey, then down with said back line to Jacob Mayo's upper line thence to Sandy river, thence up the same to the beginning two cows and calves, two beds and furniture, one roan filly, also one Negro girl Jane, as a part of the estate of the said Elizabeth Graham.
Item Ninth: I will that at my death my Negro woman named Suckey (the wife of the Negro Jack) go free from me and my heirs forever.
Item Tenth: I will and bequeath that the following Slaves to wit: John, Stamper, Clay and Caroline and all of my personal estate after the payment of my debts be equally divided among all my children, and it is my wish and desire that none of said Slaves go out of the family.
Item Eleventh: It is my will and desire if the part of my estate however, bequeathed to my daughter Tabitha Graham, should not be considered equal to the portions given to my other children that it shall be made up to her in money out of my estate.
Item Twelfth: I will and desire that my executors herinafter named settle and adjust all the debts, dues and demands from and against the estate of my son Thomas W. Graham deceased, of which I was the Administrator and sole heir.
Item Thirteenth: I hereby nominate constitute and appoint Jacob Mayo and Edwin Trimble sole executors of this my last will and testament. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my Seal this 19th day of April in the year 1835.

Signed sealed and published in presence of us his Robert (X) Harrel mark Samuel Isaacks
Filed April 7, 1881, H.H. Firzpatrick, C.F.C.C. by G.R. Davidson, D.C.[3]

Children of John GRAHAM and Rebecca WITTEN:

  • A Will of Rebecca (WITTEN) GRAHAM [posted at find a grave memorial of Rebecca (Witten) Graham] was written on 19 August 1843 which listed the following Individuals:
  1. Granddaughter - Ann MORGAN
  2. Grandson - Andrew Jackson HARRIS
  3. Daughter - Rebecca (GRAHAM) MAYO
  4. Daughter - Dorothy (GRAHAM) TRIMBLE
  5. Daughter - Sophia (GRAHAM) LAYNE
  6. Daughter - Elizabeth (GRAHAM) JOHNS
  7. Daughter - Eleanor (GRAHAM) MORGAN
  8. Daughter - Tabitha (GRAHAM) HARRIS
  9. Grandson - Thomas Graham MORGAN
  10. Grandson - Thomas Graham LAYNE [NOTES: Identified as son of Sophia GRAHAM and William Henry LAYNE]
  11. Relationship unspecified - Rebecca MORGAN
  12. Executors appointed were Greenville LACKEY and Edwin TRIMBLE

Of those listed, the following individuals have been identified:

  1. Rebecca GRAHAM (Born: About 1807 in Kentucky; Died: Unknown); Married: 14 December 1826 in Floyd County, Kentucky to Jacob MAYO.[4] - 1850 Census[5]
  2. Dorothy GRAHAM (Born: About 1809 in Kentucky; Died: Unknown, Last known location was Bexar County, Texas); Married: 22 July 1827 in Floyd County, Kentucky to Edwin TRIMBLE.[6] - 1850 Census Record[7]
  3. Tabitha GRAHAM (Born: About 1812 in Kentucky; Died: Unknown); Married: 25 June 1835 in Floyd County, Kentucky to John B. HARRIS.[8] - Her parents did not give permission to marry indicating she probably was over the age of consent. - 1850 Census Record[9]
  4. Sophia GRAHAM (Born: About 1814 in Kentucky; Died: After 1850) - parentage proven by permission given by her father, John Graham, to marry her first husband; Married (1): 28 December 1832 in Floyd County, Kentucky to William Henry LAYNE;[10] Married (2): 27 September 1845 in Floyd County, Kentucky to John NESBIL[11]
  5. Elizabeth GRAHAM (Born: About 1819 in Kentucky; Died: Unknown); Married in 1838 to Thomas P. JOHNS, but file 886, which is indexed to both their names in the index book is missing from microfilm and digital images of the actual files over at family search.[12] - 1850 Census Record[13]

When further research is completed on this family we can add the following child to the list as we obtain her place in the above birth order:

1. Eleanor GRAHAM (Born: Unknown; Died: Unknown); Married: December 1825 in Floyd County, Kentucky to David MORGAN[14]
Possible Match: Nelly MORGAN (Born: 1810 in Kentucky) m. to David MORGAN - 1850 Census Record[15]

Sources

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Charles (Blocky) Layne, "Charles Layne," Floyd County Bicentennial History Book Committee, Floyd County, Kentucky History (Paducah, Kentucky : Turner Publishing Company, 1992), p. 268.
  2. ↑ Source: #S733
  3. ↑ reproduced from one made by G.H. Davidson, Deputy Clerk of Floyd County for Judge Graham's grandson, James Polk Harris, April 7, 1881. Retrieved by Willard Rouse Jillson, author of THE BIG SANDY VALLEY (1923), from W.C. Gobel, Deputy Clerk of the Floyd Circuit Court on November 8, 1923.
  4. ↑ Floyd County, Kentucky, "Marriages 1803 - 1829 (file no. 2 - 656)," file 542, Jacob Mayo and Rebecca Graham, 14 December 1826; digital images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-C91F-TS7T-G?i=693&cat=726744 and https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-C91F-TS7R-S?i=694&cat=726744 : accessed 24 April 2018); citing Floyd County Courthouse, Prestonsburg, Kentucky; Family History Library microfilm 2,109,935, image 694 and 695 of 926.
  5. ↑ "United States Census, 1850," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M65S-X2J : 12 April 2016), Jacob Mayo, Floyd county, Floyd, Kentucky, United States; citing family 426, NARA microfilm publication M432 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.).
  6. ↑ Floyd County, Kentucky, "Marriages 1817 - 1849 (file no. 657 - 1440)," file 758, Edwin Trimble and Dorothy Graham, 22 July 1827; digital images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-C91F-Y4LH-M?i=120&cat=726744 and https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-C91F-Y4L4-7?i=121&cat=726744 : accessed 24 April 2018); citing Floyd County Courthouse, Prestonsburg, Kentucky; Family History Library microfilm 2,109,936, images 121 and 122 of 1014.
  7. ↑ "United States Census, 1850," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M65S-8JL : 12 April 2016), Edwin Trimble, Floyd county, Floyd, Kentucky, United States; citing family 862, NARA microfilm publication M432 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.).
  8. ↑ Floyd County, Kentucky, "Marriages 1817 - 1849 (file no. 657 - 1440)," file 1134, John B. Harris and Tabitha Graham, 25 June 1835; digital images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-C91F-Y42M-V?i=602&cat=726744 and https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-C91F-Y4G4-5?i=603&cat=726744 : accessed 24 April 2018); citing Floyd County Courthouse, Prestonsburg, Kentucky; Family History Library microfilm 2,109,936, image 603 and 604 of 1014.
  9. ↑ "United States Census, 1850," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M65S-7G4 : 12 April 2016), John B Harris, Floyd county, Floyd, Kentucky, United States; citing family 143, NARA microfilm publication M432 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.).
  10. ↑ Floyd County, Kentucky, "Marriages, 1817 - 1849 (file no. 657 - 1440)," file 981, William Layne and Sophia Graham, 28 December 1832; digital images FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-C91F-Y42W-X?i=399&cat=726744 and https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-C91F-Y4PM-F?i=400&cat=726744 : accessed 23 April 2018) ; citing Floyd County, Kentucky Clerk of Court, Prestonsburg, Kentucky, Family History Library microfilm 2,109,936, image 401 and 402 of 1014.
  11. ↑ Floyd County, Kentucky, "Marriages, 1817 - 1849 (file no. 657 - 1440)," file 1399, John Nesbil and Sophia Layne, 27 September 1845; digital images FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-C91F-Y421-L?i=945&cat=726744 and https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-C91F-Y4KM-Q?i=946&cat=726744 : accessed 23 April 2018) ; citing Floyd County, Kentucky Clerk of Court, Prestonsburg, Kentucky, Family History Library microfilm 2,109,936, image 946 and 947 of 1014.
  12. ↑ Floyd County, Kentucky, "Marriages 1817 - 1849 (file no. 657 - 1440)," file 886, missing from film, indexed as Thomas P. John and Elizabeth Graham, 1838; digital images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-C91F-Y4VJ-1?i=274&cat=726744 : accessed 24 April 2018); citing Floyd County Courthouse, Prestonsburg, Kentucky; Family History Library microfilm 2,109,936, image 275 of 1014.
  13. ↑ "United States Census, 1850," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M65S-62M : 12 April 2016), Thomas P Johns, Floyd county, Floyd, Kentucky, United States; citing family 175, NARA microfilm publication M432 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.).
  14. ↑ Floyd County, Kentucky, "Marriages 1803 - 1829 (file no. 2 - 656)," file 537, David Morgan and Eleanor Graham, December 1825; digital images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-C91F-TS7R-B?i=687&cat=726744 and https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-C91F-TS7T-8?i=688&cat=726744 : accessed 24 April 2018); citing Floyd County Courthouse, Prestonsburg, Kentucky; Family History Library microfilm 2,109,935, image 688 and 689 of 926.
  15. ↑ "United States Census, 1850," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M65S-9TM : 12 April 2016), David Morgan, Floyd county, Floyd, Kentucky, United States; citing family 132, NARA microfilm publication M432 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.).

See also:

  • Daughters of the American Revolution, DAR Genealogical Research Databases, database online, (http://www.dar.org/), "Record of John Graham", Ancestor # A046737.
  • Descendant List of John Graham, Daughters of the American Revolution, Ancestor #A046737.
  • John Graham of Virginia and Kentucky, 1765-1835, A Chronology, Series: Early Kentucky Settlers
  • Source: S733 Text: Family Group Records prepared by Patricia Craig Johnson CONT 127 W. Stonecastle Dr. CONT Granite Shoals, TX 78654-1948 CONT 830-596-1738 CONT Aug 2010




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