Sarah (Hord) Slaughter (1777 - 1810)

Born 1777 in Caroline County Virginia, USA

Ancestors

Wife of Gabriel Slaughter — married 9 Mar 1797 in Caroline Co., Virginia, USA

Died 1810 at about age 33 in Kentucky, USA

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Biography

Sarah was born in 1777. She was the daughter of John Hord and Anne Peyton. She passed away in 1810.

Sarah was the second wife of Gabriel Slaughter who was born in Culpeper, Colony of Virginia, in 1767, died in Mercer County, Kentucky, in 1830. He married 1st. Sarah Slaughter, a cousin, and the daughter of Thomas Slaughter of Caroline County, Virginia He married 2nd. Miss Elizabeth Hord of Caroline County, Virginia. Col. Gabriel Slaughter commanded a regiment of Kentucky riflemen at the Battle of New Orleans and was highly commended in the official dispatches of Andrew Jackson. He received the thanks of the Kentucky Legislature for conspicuous gallantry on that occasion. He was a member of the Kentucky State Senate. He was also Lieutenant Governor and Governor of the State. ^[1]

Gabriel Slaughter and his first wife Sarah were the parents of two daughters – Mary Buckner Slaughter and Susan Harrison Slaughter. Gabriel Slaughter sold his land in Virginia, and he and his family followed his father to Kentucky. He became known for his generosity, and his large mansion on the turnpike to Lexington was nicknamed "Wayfarer's Rest" because of the vast number of travelers that he allowed to stay there. Among his guests was future lieutenant governor Robert B. McAfee. Soon after his arrival in Kentucky, however, his wife Sarah died, leaving Slaughter to care for his two daughters alone.

On a return trip to Virginia in 1797, Gabriel Slaughter married his second wife, Sara Hord on 9 March 1797 in Caroline County, Virginia. The couple returned to Slaughter's home in Mercer County, where they had three children: John Hord Slaughter, Frances Ann Hord Slaughter, and Felix Grundy Slaughter.

Children of Gabriel Slaughter:

a. Mary Buckner married Jeremiah Fisher.^[1]

b. Susan Harrison married James Caldwell.^[1]

c. John Hord married Mary Belle Weissiger.^[1]

d. Fanny Hord married Rev. John Torrey Worthington.^[1]

e. Felix Grundy-d. s. p.^[1]

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5} Slaughter Family (Continued), Author(s): John S. Carpenter, Source: The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, Vol. 21, No. 4 (Oct., 1913), pp. 427-430 Published by: Virginia Historical Society

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Notes

Virginia, Marriage Records, 1700-1850