Catherine Storke (Peyton) Conway (1786 - 1865)

Born 20 Jul 1786 in Stafford Co., Virginia, USA

Ancestors

Wife of John Moncure Conway — married 29 Dec 1802 in Stafford Co., Virginia, USA

Descendants

Died 10 Apr 1865 at age 78 in Stafford Co., Virginia, USA

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Biography

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Catherine was born in 1786. She was the daughter of Valentine Peyton and Mary Washington. She married John Moncure Conway in 1802. ^[1] She passed away in 1865. ^[2]

She is thought to have had 14 children.^[3]

My grandmother (nee Catherine Storke Peyton) was to her numerous grandchildren the queen of the whole world. When any school holiday came the joy of it was that they were to go to "Erleslie [House]," and how so many children were packed away at night is inexplicable. On one side of the house was a playground. We had our supper in summer under the apple-trees griddle-cake and molasses, bonny-clabber, preserves. Our aunts at tended us, and near by sat "grandma" tall, stately, eyes sparkling with humour, her head crowned with a snowy turban, clasped with a ruby and a rose. ^[4]

Sources

1. ↑ Hayden: Page 278
2. ↑ Hayden: Pages 516, 517
3. ↑ https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/vitals/LH93-872
4. ↑ Conway, Moncure Daniel. Autobiography, memories and experiences of Moncure Daniel Conway: with two portraits. 1904. https://archive.org/details/conwaysexperienc01conwuoft

• https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/vitals/LH93-872
• https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/23178365/catharine-storke-conway
• Hayden, Horace Edwin. Hayden's Virginia Genealogies (E.B. Yordy, Pennsylvania. : 1891)