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THE CUNNINGHAMS OF CUB CREEK by John Goodwin Herndon, Haverford, Pennsylvania from Genealogies of Virginia Families – from The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography

The story of Cub Creek may be said to commence 11 April 1738 when the Donegal Presbytery (Lancaster, Penna.) approved the supplication of John Caldwell “in behalf of himself and many families of our persuasion who are about to settle in the back parts of Virginia, desiring that some members of the Synod may be appointed to wait upon that government to solicit their favour in behalf of our interest in that place.” (Records of the Presbyterian Church in the United States of America, embracing the Minutes of the General Presbytery and General Synod, 1706-1788, pp. 138-139). John Caldwell, an elder in the Chestnut Level Presbyterian Church in Lancaster County, Penna., is the recognized founder of the Cub Creek Congregation, in which movement he was ably assisted by Andrew and Thomas Cunningham, along with 14 others who purchased land, then in Brunswick County from Richard and William Kennon. (The 17 founders were David, John and William Caldwell, and William, son of John Caldwell; Andrew and Thomas Cunningham; Thomas Daugherty, Richard Dudgeon, James Franklin, William Fuqua, William Hardwick; David and James Logan; Alexander McConnel, Israel Pickens, John Stewart, and Thomas Vernon, as noted in Elizabeth Venable Gaines: Cub Creek and Congregation, 1738-1838, p. 93)

It seems likely that these two brothers, Andrew and Thomas (Cunningham), were born in Northern Ireland, and came to Pennsylvania in 1737. It is of record that Andrew lived in 1737 in Little Britain township, Lancaster County, next to George Caldwell’s (Pennsylvania Gazette, Vol. 26, p. 53). The name of their father is not absolutely known and since the Cunninghams of Lancaster County were by that time a numerous clan, his identity may remain an unsolved mystery. But there is good reason to believe that such may not be the case, for one descendant of the Southside Virginia Cunninghams has furnished a copy of a paper pasted in the lid of an old chest, the sort brought from the old country, which give the following information about the ancestry of one John Cunningham who came to America in 1737 and died in Philadelphia. It says that Patrick Cunningham born in Scotland in 1559 removed at age 44 to Cunningham Manor, Ireland, where he died, aged 85, in 1644; that his son William born 1585 accompanied him in that move, being then 18 years old, and died in Ireland in 1677, when he was 92; that his John lived from 1609 to 1705; that his son James born in 1630; died in 1722; that his son James born in 1652, died at Cunningham Manor in 1736; and that his son John settled in Philadelphia (A copy furnished by W. S. Morton, in Farmville, Va., who obtained it from a descendant of the Cub Creek Cunninghams.) It is no wonder then that Ellis and Evans, in their monumental “History of Lancaster County” refer to the Cunninghams as “one of the notable families of early settlers” of the township where one James Cunningham lived. What makes the above-given genealogy of significance is that James Cunningham, of Cub Creek, in his will (1 Charlotte Wills 224) makes three references to such chests. It therefore is certainly not unreasonable to say that Andrew and Thomas Cunningham may have been brothers of the John Cunningham who migrated to Pennsylvania in 1737. If that identification is correct, we have the ancestry of the Cub Creek Cunninghams back to 1559 in Scotland.

For purposes of enumeration we shall designate the family as having its origin in 1 James (1652-1736) whose sons were 2 John, 3 Andrew and 4 Thomas,

SECOND GENERATION

2. JOHN CUNNINGHAM (son of 1 James) born 1681 at Cunningham Manor, buried in Philadelphia in 1776, had a son James born 1703 and a grandson James born 1727 who accompanied him to this country, the son dying in Bedford Co., Pa., in 1789, the grandson dying in Washington Co., Pa., in 1811 (According to record furnished by W. S. Morton.)

3. ANDREW CUNNINGHAM (son of 1 James) born probably about 1685 located in Little Britain township, Lancaster County, Penna., in 1737 and moved between 1738 and 1745 to Cub Creek, then in Brunswick Co., Va., later in Lunenburg, and now in Charlotte Co. There he purchased 768 acres. The deed for his purchase and the deeds of all the other founders of the Cub Creek settlement were dated 1 January 1745 (Cub Creek and Congregation, 1738-1838) but it seems likely that occupation may have preceded this date several years. In other words, the Kennons were slow in attending to the drafting of the deeds. Andrew Cunningham’s was entered in 1750 in the Brunswick records (Letter dated 27 February 1943 from W. Emory Elmore, clerk of Brunswick Co. to John G. Herndon) by which date the land was in Lunenburg. He made his will (2 Lunenburg Wills 7) 23 September 1760. It was offered for probate 5 May 1761. Therein he provided for distribution of his real and personal property to his wife Jean, his oldest daughter Mary (Cunningham) George, his granddaughter Margaret George, and his two younger daughters Jean and Elizabeth Cunningham. He designated John Machen and John Cunningham, both of Prince Edward County (so stated in his will) as his executors. Witnesses were Matthew Cunningham, James Daugherty and William Cunningham. John Scott and William Cunningham went security for the executors. For the appraisal of the personalty of the estate of the Court appointed James Cunningham, James Daugherty, Robert and James Caldwell, or any three of them (Lunenburg O B. 4.). Although the will does not say so, the analysis made of the Southside records by the present writer indicates that Matthew and William were sons of the testator and John and James were sons of his brother Thomas. (See following Rootsweb archives transcription of will abstract for some name differences)

LUNENBURG COUNTY, VIRGINIA - WILL BOOK 2; Page 7
Cunningham, Andrew 9-23-1760; 5-5-1761; W.B. 2/7
Mentions: Wife: Jean Cunningham; Daughters: Mary George (oldest daughter), Joan Cunningham, Elizabeth Cunningham; Granddaughter: Mary George
Executors: James McMahon, John Cunningham (of Prince Edward Co.)
Witnesses: Matthew Cunningham, James Dougherty, William Cunningham.

Children:
(5) i. Matthew Cunningham
(6) ii. William Cunningham
iii. Mary Cunningham m. George, and had Margaret George (Rootsweb.com will abstract has Mary George as granddaughter)
iv. Jean Cunningham (Rootsweb.com will abstract has her name as “Joan”)
v. Elizabeth Cunningham

4. THOMAS CUNNINGHAM (son of 1 James) was born probably about 1690. How long he lived in Pennsylvania is not known. Since, however, in his will, he mentioned his three married children living in Pennsylvania at that time, he may have spent several years there before settling on Cub Creek where he purchased 685 acres. By successive sales he disposed of 200 acres on the north side of the Stanton River to Jacob Robinson (2 Lunenburg Deeds 474) and 143 acres adjacent thereto to Robert Andrews (ibid, 9). His will (Lunenburg Wills 59) opens with this far-from-usual phrase which evidences his deep religious faith, “In the Name of the Eternal and Almighty God who formed the universe by the Word of His Power and governs it by the Word of His Power and governs it by the enduring dictates of His wisdom, I Thomas Cunningham, of Brunswick County in Virginia …..” Therein he made provision for his “dearly beloved wife Dorcas”, his sons Thomas and John in Virginia, his daughter Mary Cunningham in Virginia and stated that he had already given his son James and his daughters Anne Wilson and Margaret McDey (or McVey) in Pennsylvania “their shares and marriage portions already”. He designated his “trusty and well beloved friends John Caldwell and William Cunningham” to be his “Executors and overseers” and added that his son Thomas Cunningham was to his “administrator”. The will was dated 10 September 1745 and was ordered to be recorded by the Lunenburg Court 7 April 1752 which appointed William Cunningham as executor. His sureties were James Hunt and Thomas Daugherty.

Although the will provided that Thomas’s land should be divided equally between his sons Thomas and John, the actual distribution was between James and John (Lunenburg Deeds 519 and 4 Lunenburg Deeds 112) and since in the Lunenburg records, there is no further mention of Thomas, Jr., we must consider that he died “vita patris", unmarried, or that he sold to his brother James his share of the inheritance without a recording of the deed.

Children:
(7) i. John Cunningham
ii. Thomas Cunningham
iii. Mary Cunningham
(8) iv. James Cunningham
v. Anne Cunningham married Willson
vi. Margaret Cunningham married McVey or McDey

THIRD GENERATION

5. MATTHEW CUNNINGHAM (son of 3 Andrew) was termed Matthew Sr. in the first record pertaining to him so far discovered, dated 11 September 1760 in Prince Edward County (VA) when he was defendant in a suit brought by Robert Hastie and Co. for 29 pounds 17s 1 ½ d (Prince Edward Loose Papers, Package 59) On 8 December 1761 his daughter Mary married Robert Hanna. On 12 April 1762 his sale of 223 acres on Ward’s Fork was recorded (8 Lunenburg Deeds 124) and on 14 June 1764 his sale for 40 pounds of all his personal and real estate to James Cunningham (Lunenburg deeds 122)(his first cousin. He seems then to have left the Cub Creek neighborhood. At least the present writer has found no further record of him.

6. WILLIAM CUNNINGHAM (son of 3 Andrew) was a soldier during the Colonial period in Lunenburg County (Landon C. Bell: “Old Free State”, Vol 1, p. 193). In addition to being mentioned in the wills of his father and uncle we know that he lived in Turnip Creek, in Charlotte County, in 1772, when he sold certain land to his cousin James Cunningham, and his wife was named Elizabeth. (Charlotte Deeds 53)

7. JOHN CUNNINGHAM (son of 4 Thomas) followed his brother James into Amelia County (VA), purchasing there 2,000 acres “beginning at Robert Baker’s Corner” from Stephen Collins for 115 pounds. The deed was dated 18 November 1746. (Amelia Deeds 473) On 16 March 1749 he sold 304 of these “beginning in Thomas Caldwell’s line …. To Patrick Shilladay’s corner” to James Reed for 30 pounds (Amelia Deeds 192) and 350 more “beginning at Thomas Caldwell’s …. to Robert Baker’s” to David McKee for 35 pounds (Amelia Deeds 195). Mary Cunningham waived her dower rights in both cases. Witnesses included Samuel Cunningham (his eldest son), Thomas Cunningham (whether his father, son or brother is uncertain) and James Cunningham (his brother).

On 2 July 1754 was recorded the deed (Lunenburg Deeds 519) dated 1 July 1754, in which John Cunningham conveyed to William Hardwick for 62 pounds part of a tract containing 342 acres of a larger tract granted to Richard and William Kennon. The part conveyed was “all except 30 foot square where Thomas Cunningham was buried.” The property adjoined the lands of Jacob Robinson, Robert Andrews and James Stewart.

All subsequent references to this John Cunningham are in the records of Prince Edward County. There he lived on Spring Creek between the Buffalo River and the County line. There he voted for burgess in the elections of 22 March 1754 and 8 December 1755 (17 Tyler Magazine) Nearby lived Joseph Cunningham (18 Tyler Magazine 52) probably his second son. In March 1754 he conveyed to Edward Shilladay 179 acres on Spring Creek for 17 pounds 18 shillings (1 Prince Edward Deeds 3). As his wife did not join him in that deed or in any other until 1778, the Mary who signed the waiver of her dower rights then was probably John Cunningham’s second wife, believed to be eldest daughter of Daniel Hay who in his will (2 Prince Edward Wills 2) in 1785 mentioned his daughter Mary Cunningham. He and Robert Baker sold 400 acres 8 July 1755 to Patrick Shields (1 Prince Edward deeds 50). Nearly six years later he sold 200 acres to Hugh Porter and 200 more to Samuel Smith (2 Prince Edward Deeds 39). That same year, 1761, he along with John Caldwell, James Daniel and William Watson, the four original trustees of the Buffalo Presbyterian Congregation, took title to the land on which was later erected the first Buffalo church. The grantor was Samuel Cunningham. Soon thereafter John Cunningham and James Anderson, the latter of Cumberland County, conveyed to James Hill for 33 pounds a tract of 165 acres “adjoining Mr. Sankey’s line” (2 Prince Edward Deeds 39) He sold that land for 650 pounds to Nathan Chaffin, of Powhatan County, 9 October 1778 (6 Prince Edward Deeds 194). In September 1776 he had signed the petition of Sundry Inhabitants of Prince Edward County pledging support to the “united American States” and praying for the establishment of religious freedom in Virginia. (18 Va. Mag 40-44). We have found no record of him after 1778. From data available it appears that he had at least four sons:

(9) i. Samuel Cunningham
(10) ii. Joseph Cunningham
(11) iii Thomas Cunningham
(12) iv. Matthew Cunningham

8. JAMES CUNNINGHAM (son of 4 Thomas) was born probably about 1720, presumably at Cunningham Manor, Northern Ireland. It seems likely that it was about 1744 when he married Ann (Thomson) a daughter of Reverend John Thomson. (51 Va. Mag. 402, but the name should have been James Cunningham, Sr., not Jr.)
SOME OF THE DESCENDANTS OF THE REVEREND JOHN THOMSON (c. 1690 -1753) by John Goodwin Herndon
From Genealogies of Virginia Families – from The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography
(10) ANN THOMSON (c. 1728 – c. 1776; daughter of John Thomson) married about 1747, James Cunningham, Jr., of Charlotte County. The present writer has some much material on the descendants of this couple that it will appear as a separate article after the conclusion of the present enumeration of the family of John Thomas.
The first reference to him in the Virginia records is 1 November 1742 when his deed of purchase of 900 acres on Spring Creek in what was then Amelia County was dated. Samuel Cobbs sold him this property for 32 pounds. It extended from James Parks’ corner red oak to Isham Randolph’s line to Joseph Little John’s corner (1 Amelia Deeds 295). Apparently he returned shortly thereafter to Pennsylvania and remained there until after his father made his will in 1745, for in it Thomas Cunningham referred to his son James as being then in Pennsylvania as already noted. He came back to Virginia, however, before his father died, for we find him as a witness to the deed of sale by his brother John of certain Amelia property 16 March 1749 to James Read, as already noted. After the erection of Prince Edward County, we find him voting for burgess at the election of 22 March 1754 and 8 December 1755 (17 Tyler Magazine 58, 193). About that time he was listed as a tithable living between the Bush and Buffalo Rivers (18 Tyler Magazine 53). During this period he disposed of half of the realty owned by his father’s estate which had come to his possession and interestingly referred in the deed to himself as “of Lunenburg County”. That deed was dated 26 April 1755 and was recorded 3 June 1755 (Lunenburg Deeds 112). The following year he disposed of his 900 acres on Spring Creek, selling 700 acres to William Randolph for 250 pounds and 200 acres to Samuel Cunningham (presumably his nephew) for 20 pounds, the latter being described as “whereon the said Samuel now lives”. Both these deeds (1 Prince Edward Deeds 115, 119) mentioned that Ann Cunningham relinquished her dower rights.

Thereafter James Cunningham resided in Lunenburg, and in that part thereof which was later in Charlotte County. On 6 December 1756 he joined with Tscharner De Graffenreidt, George Walton, David Garland and seven others in sending to the Lunenburg Court the following certification (4 Lunenburg Deeds 356):

“We, the subscribers, do certifie to the worshipful Court of Lunenburg County that we intend to make use of several places, here mentioned, in this County, for Divine Worship, agreeable and according to the practice of Protestant Dissenters of the Presbyterian Denomination, viz., on the land of Robert Scott, Tscharner De Graffenreidt, Peter Rowlett’s estate, the Hon. Wm. Byrd, Esq., also on or near the land of David Garland, and this certification we make according to the Act of Parliament common. Called the Act of Toleration.”

At this date he seems to have living on the property which he subsequently bought from his cousin Matthew Cunningham. By 1776 he had a total of 1,000 acres within Charlotte County, purchased as follows: from Robert Caldwell 254 acres on Cub Creek 7 April 1761 (7 Lunenburg Deeds 37); from David Caldwelll, 100 acres on Cub Creek 4 August 1761 (6 Lunenburg Deeds 427), from Matthew Cunningham presumably 254 acres on Cub Creek 14 June 1764 (8 Lunenburg Deeds 124); from William Cunningham 274 acres on Turnip Creek 2 March 1772 (8 Lunenburg Deeds 124) and from Samuel Boyd 118 acres on Turnip Creek (3 Charlotte Deeds 53).

In September 1776 he signed the Prince Edward County petition for religious liberty (18 Va. Mag. 40-44, Dr. Eggleston has noted that certain signers lived over the Charlotte line but were of the families of Prince Edward Signers) It is likely that his wife Ann had died earlier that year and he may have gone to live with one of his married children residing in Prince Edward County. A few weeks before he died he married, secondly, Mrs. Jane (Kelso) Daniel, widow of James Daniel of Prince Edward who had died in 1763. All three sons of James and Jane (Kelso) Daniel had married daughters of James and Ann (Thomas) Cunningham (It says Thomas but it should be Thomson). The marriage bond of James Cunningham, of Charlotte County, and Mrs. Jane Daniel, widow, of Prince Edward was dated 27 September 1780. (The author of this record heard his mother mention several times, than in the family of the Cunninghams there were three sisters who married three Daniel brothers, and later that “the old folks, one a widower, the other a widow married.” Here is the confirmation.)

James Daniel was a resident of Amelia from at least as early as October 1738 until Prince Edward County was created. During that period he was plaintiff in suits against John Dabney, ------Mullins, ------Lawrence, Darby, Callahan, Gideon Marr who had been his attorney in a previous case, and Joseph Chatwin (Amelia County O.B., 1735-1746, pp. 54, 274, 318 and 319, and O.B. 1746-1751, pp. 22, 309). He owned at the time of his death 1000 acres in St. Patrick’s Parish, on both sides of Vaughan’s Creek. He was an original trustee and an elder of the Buffalo Presbyterian Church and is buried in an unmarked grave in the cemetery adjacent to the site of the old church. In his will dated 25 March 1763, offered for probate 19 April 1763 (1 Prince Edward Wills 56) he referred to himself as a farmer sick and weak in body. To his wife he left “the Negro wench” who should “be alwise continued upon the plantation”. He also provided that his wife Jean should share with the children in the distribution of his personal property and in addition that she should “get a sufficient livelihood of this plantation during her natural life if she continues a widow”. To his son James he left 400 acres “where Jeames Barret liveth joining Peeter Coffey. To his next son John he left the 300 acres adjoining James’s plantation. To his youngest son William he bequeathed the 300 acres “that I now live upon.” To his three daughters, Margaret, Mary and Jean, and to his three sons John, James and William, he gave to each and every one of them a horse and saddle”…. And a childs peart of all my movebls”… “and a bedding clothes.” At the end were the words “I constitute my well beloved wife Jean and my son James my Executors.” The old gentlemen, being too ill to sign the will, made his mark. The witnesses were John Martin, Thomas and Ellener Caldwell. His name appears at the outset as James Donnell and the end as James Donnel. The inventory of his estate shows one slave, named Lucy, valued at 69 pounds (ibid 58). That her name was not Jennie is of prime importance because one correspondent has insisted that she was the Jennie left by John Daniel of York County, in 1724 to his son James! Not only does there seem to be no evidence of any sort in support of an identity between the James Daniel of Prince Edward and this James Daniel, of York, but all we know tends to show that James Daniel of Prince Edward was himself born in Ireland and came to Pennsylvania, where on one occasion he attended Presbytery with Reverend John Thomson. His wife was Jean (Jane) Kelso, said to be a sister of Colonel Robert Kelso, of Prince Edward, an officer of the American Revolution, whose family had lived in Pennsylvania. (Note by transcriber: Charles Brunk Heinemann is one of the researchers who has this James Daniel descended from John Daniel of York County, VA in his Daniel Families of the Southern States.)

James Daniel, eldest son of James and Jean (Kelso) Daniel, born about 1745, married about 1767, Elizabeth, eldest daughter of James and Ann Cunningham; John Daniel, the second son, born about 1748, married about 1775, Sarah, second daughter of James and Ann Cunningham; Margaret Daniel, born about 1750, married about 1767, Colonel Francis Coleman; William Daniel, youngest son, born about 1754, married 1779 Hannah, youngest daughter of James and Ann Cunningham; Mary Daniel, born about 1757, married 2 January 1733, Samuel Ewing, son of George; while Jean Daniel was, so far as this writer knows, not married.

The surname of members of this family was frequently spelled Donnell, Donald, etc., when written by others but seems to have been invariably signed Daniel by themselves. This particular error in orthography has not been observed in the case of members of the other Daniel families of this section of Virginia in the 1760-1780 period. The inventory of James Daniel’s personalty shows his ownership of Durham’s “Upon the Revelation” and Dickson’s 12s and 1s, 6d., respectively and a parcel of books worth 15s. 3d. The total of this inventory which was filed 10 July 1763 by the executors, with George Ewing, John Caldwell and John Cunningham as witnesses, was 314 pounds, 7 s. 4d. (ibid 57.58)

Calling himself “James Cunningham, planter of the Parish of Cornwall in Charlotte County”, he made his will (1 Charlotte Wills 224) 30 December 1775. In it he left bequests to his “well beloved wife Anne” and to each of his ten children, who he names. The will was presented for probate 6 November 1780 by Captain John Brent, James Daniel (a son-in-law) and Samuel Cunningham (his eldest son), three of the four executors named therein. His wife Ann had been designated executrix, but she was dead. The executor who did not qualify was the Reverend Caleb Wallace, who renounced his proffered Executorship. He was also a witness to the will. Other witnesses were Robert Caldwell, William Dudgeon and Samuel Wallace. Securities for the executors were Robert Caldwell, Matthew Flourney, James Daugherty, Andres Hannah (a son-in-law) and Richard Gaines (a son-in-law).

The inventory of his estate recorded 1 January 1781 shows that Jack of Diamonds and Fearnot were his best horses and that he owned 12 slaves. Among the purchasers of his property at the executors’ sale were his son Samuel Cunningham and his sons-in-law Richard Gaines, James Adams, James Daniel, John Daniel and William Daniel.

His estate was taxed as such until 1790 in which year the assessment ran against James Cunningham, Jr. and so continued through 1796. From 1797 to 1801 the tax was levied against James Cunningham.

“At court held 15 October 1782 for receiving and certifying Public Claims” we read that item 664 was “James Cunningham Estate for 60 lb. of Bacon – paid 3 pounds (Public Claims, Charlotte Clerk’s Book, page 39, in Virginia Archives at Richmond)

His children were:
(13) i. Samuel Cunningham
(14) ii. Elizabeth Cunningham
(15) iii. Sarah Cunningham
(16) iv. Margaret Cunningham
(17) v. Jane Cunningham
(18) vi. Ann Cunningham
(19) vii. Mary Cunningham
(20) viii. Hannah Cunningham
(21) ix. Andrew Cunningham
(22) x. James Cunningham

Excursus on James Cunningham of Meherrin River

In order to show that James Cunningham of Cub Creek could not possibly have been a son of the James Cunningham who was variously called “of Robertson’s Creek” or “of Little Meherrin” or “of Meherrin River” the following information concerning that James Cunningham is furnished. (The alleged father-son relationship has been insisted upon by one correspondent. Whether any kinship existed between these two is not known.)

By his will (2 Lunenburg Wills 26) dated 2 October 1762, proved in November 1762, he left to his son John 212 acres on the Robertson Ford of the Meherrin River, being part of a tract on Watson’s road which he therein states that he had purchased of Captain John Williams; to his son William he left 213 acres, the remainder of that tract; to his son James “the land and plantation whereon I now live”; and to his wife Jane, the rest of his real estate, which on her death was to be divided among the three sons. To each of his sons he bequeathed certain slaves and farm animals. The witnesses were Thomas Pettus, Daniel Hay and Matthew Hay. His widow Jane Cunningham qualified as executrix, with Daniel Hay and John Scott as her sureties.

Because all his children were then minors, guardians were appointed for them: Robert Scott for John Cunningham, and John Scott for William and James Cunningham, Jr. (10 Lunenburg O.B. 206) Before the completion of the settlement of the estate. However, James, Jr., died – between 10 December 1767 and 5 August 1768, as certified by the guardian, and the property was divided 11 August 1768 between the two remaining sons, John and William Cunningham (2 Lunenburg Wills 332).

James Cunningham, Sr. had purchased his home property 4 July 1749 from Henry and Anne Robertson of Amelia, for 35 pounds. It contained 354 acres on the south side of the middle fork of the Meherrin River, and had been in Brunswick County earlier (1 Lunenburg Wills 415) His other realty was purchased 1 June 1762 from Captain Joseph Williams for 25 pounds. It contained 421 acres (more or less) on the north side of the Robertson Fork on the Meherrin River. (7 Lunenburg Deeds 275) The guardians of his children accounted 10 December 1767 for the payment of taxes on these 774 acres. (2 Lunenburg Wills 332). Numerous references to the processioning of these lands are contained in the records of the Vestry of Cumberland Parish. (L. C. Bell: Cumberland Parish, 349, 504, 519)

John Cunningham (son of James) married 2 December 1771 Mary Hill Pettypool (Lunenburg Marriage Register 5). She joined with him in conveying 10 September 1772 to his brother William Cunningham the land devised to him by the will of their father James Cunningham, cited above. The Vestry ordered John and William Cunningham 13 December 1771 to “procession all the lands between the South and Middle Meherrin, from Coxes Road to the fork of the River (L. C. Bell: Cumberland Parish, 431) At the February 1772 Vestry meeting, they reported that they had done as directed. (L. C. Bell: Cumberland Parish, 531) Their own lands were adjacent to John Blankenship. (L. C. Bell: Cumberland Parish, 533)

William Cunningham (son of James) married 7 September 1784 Obedience Hocker, of Petersburg. (L. C. Bell: Cumberland Parish, 304). His widow married, secondly, 9 February 1793, David McKitrick. (L. C. Bell: Cumberland Parish, 313)

FOURTH GENERATION

9. SAMUEL CUNNINGHAM (son of 7 John) appears once on the Amelia records – when he was witness in 1749 to the deed between his father and James Read, already noted (Supra, 138). In Prince Edward he was the plaintiff to a suit against Alexander Hamilton at the January term of court in 1755, alleging assault and battery. Because of the failure of the defendant to appear judgment was entered in favor of the plaintiff, but at the March term following, the Court’s minute shows that the parties had settled the controversy and the case was dismissed. (1 Prince Edward O.B. 26,30.) Samuel Cunningham next was grantee of land from James Cunningham which shortly thereafter he sold for 5 shillings for the benefit of the Presbyterian Congregation at Buffaloe. (2 Prince Edward Deeds 77.) By 1776, when he signed the petition for religious freedom he was called Senior. (18 Va. Mag. 40-44.) On 27 May 1798 he and his wife Eleanor sold to George Booker 456 acres on the two sides of Spring Creek for 273 pounds, 12 shillings. (11 Prince Edward Deeds 280) Later that year they sold 79 acres on Fort Creek to Joel Davis. (11 Prince Edward Deeds 284).

10. JOSEPH CUNNINGHAM (son of 7 John) purchased 13 December 1757 from John Fulton of Lunenburg 200 acres adjoining Joseph Littlejohn’s for 30 pounds. (1 Prince Edward Deeds 120) In 1765 he had purchased from his brother Thomas 278 acres on Fort Creek, adjoining Henry Caldwell’s, (5 Prince Edward Deeds 407) which in 1775, when he was “of Pittsylvania”, he sold to James Smith. (5 Prince Edward Deeds 540). On 28 April 1778 he sold his original holdings of 200 acres to James Frazier. Joseph’s wife waived her dower rights, so the record says, when she was “privily examined”, but her name does not appear. (2 Prince Edward Deeds 66.)

11. THOMAS CUNNINGHAM (son of 7 John) purchased in 1761 from George and Isabel Caldwell the Fort Creek property just mentioned. (2 Prince Edward Deeds 66.) When he sold this to his brother Joseph in October 1765 his wife Agnes waived her dower rights. Some time before 19 October 1773, Thomas died for on that date his widow entered into a marriage settlement with Robert Hannah just prior to her marriage with him. (5 Prince Edward Deeds 309.).

12. MATTHEW CUNNINGHAM (son of 7 John) was, according to numerous of his descendants, a famous gunsmith, active in the cause of the American Revolution. This fits in perfectly with Colonel William Davies’s letter to Governor Jefferson 8 January 1781 wherein he wrote in part, as follows: (Calendar Virginia State Papers 423.)

“There is one Cunningham not far from falling creek church that, I am told is a very good Gun-smith; and has everything in order for that business; perhaps he might be useful. Has taken every precaution in regard to removing the public stores in case of alarm from the enemy. The demand upon him for military stores requires that he should be kept informed by the State Officers.”

He signed the Prince Edward Petition for Religious Liberty whose subscribers first declared their loyalty to the cause of the American States. (Va. Mag. 40-44) He is said to have died in 1808 in Kentucky.

By his wife Sarah Wright he had the following children: (Data furnished by Mrs. L. D. Spight, Ripley, Miss., Mrs. Elizabeth Yates, Killick, Chicago, Ill., and Mrs. W. H. Nicholls, Bowling Green, Ky)

i. Andrew Cunningham m. 7 September 1793 Sally F. (Hundley), daughter of Anthony and Susan (Estes) Hundley; settled in Marion County, Ky.
ii. Wright Cunningham, m. ---------- Taylor, of Tenn., located in Grayson County, Ky., where he died.
iii. James Cunningham, m. 12 February 1803 Nancy Berry Davis, daughter of Littleberry and Catherine (Smith) Davis; removed to Breckenridge Co., Ky.
iv. William Cunningham (1780-1850) M. 19 October 1809, Susan Hundley, sister of Sally F. Hundley, mentioned above;
v. Matthew Cunningham, b. 30 March 1788, m. 8 July 1811, Elizabeth Davis (b. 26 September 1791), sister of Nancy Berry Davis mentioned above.
vi. John Cunningham, b. 19 March 1791, Captain, War of 1812, m. Elizabeth R. Yates of Culpepper County.
vii. Joseph Cunningham, m. 3 September 1798 Jennie Hannah (This marriage bond is recorded in Charlotte County, but certain descendants of Matthew Cunningham say that “this” Joseph died unmarried)
viii. Eliza Cunningham, m. John Rainey

13. SAMUEL CUNNINGHAM (son of 8 James) received from his father’s estate by the term of his will (1 Charlotte Wills 224)

“all my lands lying upon the Banister River in Halifax County …… two Negro Fellows named Isaac and Quone, one Bed and Furniture now in his possession, and one fourth part of the crop made last year (1774) and two-fifths of the crop made this year (1775) on my Plantation at Banister Rivers as my overseer there together with my silver watch, half my hogs and plantation tools and two Choice Cows and Calves, and two Choice Stears for Oxen now at my Plantation, to him and his heirs forever.”

As previously stated Samuel Cunningham was one of the executors appointed by his father. It was important for him to be one, for James Cunningham in the twelfth section of his will inserted this provision concerning his plantation at Banister:

“I will and ordain that all debts due to me which can be collected and likewise that the Tobacco made this year on the plantation on which I now live and three-fifths of the Tobacco and Corn made this year at Banister, be applied to the discharge of my debts, Funeral Expenses, and Legacies, and the overplus, if any, to be equally divided among my daughters or their heirs: But if there is not a sufficiency, I will and ordain that so many of my horses, Cows, Sheet, hogs, household furniture of plantation tools be sold as will be sufficient to discharge all my debts, legacies and Funeral Expenses; and that afterwards all and every part of my Estate goods and Chattels of whatever name or kind not herein already mentioned and bequeathed, be the property and for the use of Wife during her natural Life, the better to enable her to support and Educate my children now with her till they come to the age of Twenty-one years, and I will and ordain that my Wife have full Power at her death or any time before to give and bequest to any or all of my Children and to their heirs forever, but to no other person or persons whatsoever, all or any part of my Estate. Goods and Chattels hereby declared to be her property, and I will and ordain that after her death, all such estate as she has not disposed of shall be sold and equally divided between my seven Daughters or their heirs. (1 Charlotte Wills 224)
In his capacity as executor Samuel Cunningham, with the other executors, brought suit against George Walton (Prince Edward O.B. 1782-85, p. 97) at the July 1783 court but neither the subject matter nor the outcome of this suit is known to this writer.

He subsequently moved, as did so many of his relatives, to Greene County, Georgia, where he died in 1805. His sons Samuel and Andrew applied for letter of administration on his estate in December 1805. (Green County Administration Book E, 70) William Daniel whose first wife Hannah was Samuel Cunningham’s youngest sister, was one of the appraisers of the estate whose report was filed 12 March 1806 (Greene County Administrations Book E, 465). Among the purchasers of personalty belonging to the estate were his children Samuel, Andrew and Hannah Cunningham (Greene County Administrations Book E, 470) Whether he had other children is not known to the compiler of this record.

14. ELIZABETH CUNNINGHAM (daughter of 8 James Cunningham) born about 1749, married JAMES DANIEL (Believed to be son of James Daniel and Jean Jane Kelso) probably in 1767. In his will, her father gave one Negro girl named Dinah, fifty-two pounds and upwards which he had paid to Field and Call on account of her husband James Daniel, and “all whatsoever of my gods or Chattels which I have given or lent her since her marriage.” In addition, as already noted James Cunningham designated his son-in-law James Daniel as one of his executors.

Some uncertainty having arisen as to the exact meaning of the will of James Daniel of 1763, his son James entered into a deed (6 Prince Edward Deeds 4,7.) 20 April 1778 with his brother John and another with his other brother William for the perfection of their title to the 300 acre tract willed to each of them by their father. Not only is this deed important as showing the refusal of James Daniel to take advantage of a technicality whereby he might have gained a substantial financial advantage over his brothers, but also as eliminating all doubt of the identity of the Donald-Donnell-Donnel family with the Daniel family of Prince Edward. Interestingly enough thereafter there is no further misspelling of the name in the records, it being constantly DANIEL.

His descendants can cite three different Revolutionary War “services” of his. First, he and two brother signed the Prince Edward petition for religious freedom in 1776 (18 Virginia Magazine 40-44) Secondly, he was a private in Captain Thomas Watkins’s troop of dragoons, organized in Prince Edward County in 1780, serving in General Sawyer’s brigade (14 Tyler Magazine 157). In the third place, he furnished “one horse, 4 years old, 4 ft. 11 in. high, blooded and well-formed”, 458 pounds of grass beer and 5 bushels of wheat “all for Continental use”, for which he received, according to the court record of 28 June 1782, (Public Claims of the Revolutionary War, warrant 397 and Clerk’s Book, page 8, “At a court for Prince Edward County” in the Virginia Archives at Richmond), a total of 105 pounds, 11s, 8d.

Following the burning of the burning of the old Buffalo church the Prince Edward Court 16 May 1785 “ordered that Dick Holland, William Daniel and James Daniel do view a way to turn the road by the burnt Church”. (Prince Edward O.B. 1785-88) At the November term 1787 James Daniel was sworn in as deputy Sheriff of the County.

The three brothers continued to live in Prince Edward and to pay taxes through 1791 on their 400, 300 and 300 acre tracts which they had inherited from their father (Real Estate tax rolls for Prince Edward County in the Virginia Archives at Richmond). On 17 October 1791, however, James Daniel sold his Prince Edward lands to William Gray of Amelia, Elizabeth, wife of James, waiving her dower rights (Prince Edward Deeds 52). On the same day William Daniel sold his Prince Edward real estate to his brother John (ibid, 49). About that time James and William and their families removed to Georgia, where some years earlier they had purchased lands in Wilkes and Greene Counties. They spent the remainder of their lives in Georgia.
“James Daniel prospered in Georgia and accumulated an estate of thousands of acres and numerous slaves. His home was located in Oglethorpe County, but his plantation extended into Greene, Wilkes and Taliaferro counties (Descendants of John Daniel of York County, Virginia” in the Southern Historical Research Magazine, June 1936, p. 273.) The present writer believes that the descent of this James Daniel from that John Daniel is not only not proved but is not even likely.) He had bought land in Georgia first in 1787 in partnership with Joseph Park, who, like himself, had married a granddaughter of Reverend John Thomson (51 Virginia Magazine 400. The Wilkes County records show that in 1787 Joseph Park(s) and James Daniel purchased jointly from Jesse Sanders of Richmond County 1159 acres on the Oconee River on both sides of Fish Creek. In 1796 Joseph Parks was mentioned as “of Oglethorpe County”. He was an elder in the Old Liberty Presbyterian Church of Wilkes County (Bowen’s “History of Wilkes”, p. 139). His death occurred between 28 September 1819 when he signed his will (It calls him “James Daniel of Oglethorpe”) and 5 November 1821 when it was probated. His wife had predeceased him. They had eleven children, all referred to in his will as follows:

(23) i. James Daniel (also called James Cunningham Daniel)
(24) ii. Cunningham Daniel
(25) iii. John Thompson Daniel
(26) iv. William T. Daniel
v. Jane Daniel, unmarried in 1834
(27) vi. Sarah Daniel
vii. daughter married John Colvert; she died without issue
(28) viii. Samuel Daniel
ix. Thomas Daniel, died in interstate without wife or issue in 1825 in Wilkes County, Ga. It is possible that he was the Thomas Daniel who 1 September 1818 married Eliza Anne Neal in that county and that she had predeceased him. A suit over his property mentions the names of all his then living heirs at law. His brothers John Thompson Daniel and Cunningham Daniel were administrators of his estate (Grace G. Davidson: “Records of Wilkes County (GA), Vol. 2, p. 219)
(29) x. Richard Sankey Daniel
xi. David Daniel married 13 August 1818, Margaret Findley in Wilkes County, Ga. In 1821 he was appointed guardian to the children of his brother-in-law James Findley.

15. SARAH CUNNINGHAM (daughter of James Cunningham) is mentioned in will of her father as “my daughter Sarah, relict of Samuel Caldwell, dec’d., and now wife of John Donald (Daniel)”. To her he gave “one Negro Wench, named Luce, and one Negro child named Cathe, the daughter of said Luce. Likewise all whatsoever goods and chattels which I have given or lent her since her marriage with said Caldwell, to her and to her heirs forever.” The marriage bond for her marriage to Samuel Caldwell was dated 28 May 1770, Charlotte County (VA). The exact date of her second marriage is lacking but it probably occurred in 1775. The second husband was John Daniel, next younger brother of James Daniel who had married Elizabeth Cunningham, Sarah’s older sister. Sarah died July 1816 (Buffalo Church Records)

John Daniel also had three different types of Revolutionary War services. It has been mentioned that he and his brothers signed the petition for religious freedom in 1776. He served under Colonel Henry Skipworth of Carolina (11 DAR 53-54) and in the Prince Edward troop of Thomas Watkins (14 Tyler Magazine 156). In addition John Daniel furnished 159 lbs of Grass Beef (receiving 1 pound, 11s, 10d therefore) and pasturage for 38 horses for one night (receiving 9 shillings) as approved by the Court 28 June 1782. (Clerk’s Book of Public Claims of the Revolutionary War, p. 8. “At a court for Prince Edward County” in the Virginia Archives at Richmond.)

John Daniel, who was for many years an elder in the Old Buffalo Presbyterian Church (Southern Historical Research Magazine for June, 1936, p. 277) died in Prince Edward County between 24 October 1827, the date of his will (7 Prince Edward Wills 19) and 16 August 1830 when it was probated (Prince Edward Wills 19). It named all their children as follows:

(30) i. James Kelso Daniel
(31) ii. Betsy Ann Daniel
(32) iii. Jane Daniel
(33) iv. Sarah Daniel
(34) v. Polly Daniel
vi. Margaret Daniel, died ante 24 October 1827, married 22 July 1812, Rezin Porter, who in 1828 married Margaret Cunningham, daughter of John M. Cunningham, son of Alexander Cunningham and Esther Mary Michaux (Va. Mag. P. 82-3)
(35) vii. Frances Daniel
viii. Samuel J. Daniel, who owned 630 acres in Prince Edward County, VA, died unmarried

16. MARGARET CUNNINGHAM (daughter of 8 James) was mentioned in her father’s will as “my daughter Margaret, the wife of Richard Gaines, Jr.” To her he left “one Negro wench named Sarah and one Negro boy named Ned, the son of said Sarah … likewise two Cows and Calves at the discretion of my wife, ten pounds Cash and all whatsoever goods and Chattels which have given or lent her since her marriage, to her and her heirs forever.” When she and her husband died is not known to the compiler of this record. They had, possibly among others, the following children (according to W. S. Ray, Austin, Texas)

(36) i. Heirom Gaines
ii. Mary Pendleton Gaines
iii. Anne Gaines m. Jonathan Reed

17. JANE CUNNINGHAM (daughter of 8 James) was mentioned in the will of her father as “my daughter Jane, the wife of James Adams, Junr.
To her he lent. “one Negro wench named Nance now in the service of said Adams, and one Negro boy named Jacob to be for her use and support during her natural life; and I also will and ordain that all whatsoever goods and Chattels I have lent her since her marriage continue in her possession for her use and support during her natural life, and at her death I give and bequeath the said Negroes, goods and Chattels with their increase to her daughter Anne Thompson Adams, to her and her heirs forever.

This is the only mention of a grandchild in James Cunningham’s will. It is particularly significant that the child was named for her grandmother, the daughter of Reverend John Thomson. The spelling “Thompson” is more or less consistently used by the later generations of the family. Children, possibly among other (According to W. S. Ray, Austin, Texas)

(37) i. Samuel Adams
ii. Anne Thompson Adams, married her first cousin Heirom Gaines (36)
iii. John Adams
iv. William Adams

18. ANN CUNNINGHAM (daughter of 8 James Cunningham) was unmarried at the date of her father’s will in which he bequeathed to her two slaves, “a Saddle and Bridle now in her Possession, Ten Pounds Cash, two Cows and Calves, a Bed and Furniture and a Chest of Draws.” Andrew Hannah whom she married in 1776 was one of the Securitys” for the executors of Ann‘s father’s will. He was also one of the signers of the petition for religious liberty so often mentioned in these pages. Ann was born 18 February 1755 (according to W. S. Ray, Austin, TX). Her husband was one of the sons of George Hannah (1700-1783) and George’s wife Jane. Andrew Hannah was born in 1754. In 1778 he was commissioned an ensign and in 1781 promoted to a second lieutenancy in Charlotte County. Andrew Hannah was murdered in March 1793 one evening as he was returning from court and was nearing the gate of his plantation, just east of Ward’s Fork. His murderer was never apprehended, nor is the cause of the attack on him known. He had made his will 2 February 1793, leaving to his wife Ann the whole of his estate “during her life or widowhood, towards the schooling and maintaining of her and my children.” Its concluding sentence was “I do appoint my beloved wife Ann Hannah Executrix and my friends Joel Watkins and Richard Gaines, Jr., Executors of this my last will.” Richard Gaines, Jr. was the husband of Ann’s sister Margaret. The inventory of Andrew Hannah’s personal estate included eight slaves, six horses, two yoke of oxen, 26 cattle, 20 sheep, 49 hogs, and all the usual run of items to make comfortable the growing family of a successful farmer who was himself not yet 40 years of age. It was valued at 753 pounds, 13s, 6d. Ann (Cunningham) Hannah, married secondly 11 January 1804 (date of bond) Richard Dabbs, Sr. No children were born of this second marriage. She died 27 April 1825 (Most of the other Hannah family dates were supplied by Dr. J. D. Eggleston who has corresponded with more than a score of Hannah descendants to obtain the data which constitutes the basis of most of what is hereinafter published about the Hannahs.)

i. Ann Thomson Hannah b. 31 July 1777, m. her cousin John Thompson Daniel (25) q.v.
ii. John Hannah b. 17 February 1779, died in infancy
iii. Andrew Hanna b.10 September 1780, no further info
(38) iv. George Hannah
v. Jane Hannah, b. June 1784, d. 1825; m. b. 3 September 1798 Joseph Cunningham in Charlotte County
vi. Mary Hannah, b September 1785, m 7 February 1803 Josiah Dabbs, Jr. in Charlotte County
(39) vii. James Cunningham Hannah
(40) viii. William C. Hannah
(41) ix. Samuel Hannah

19. MARY CUNNINGHAM (daughter of 8 James) was the recipient of the same type of property by the will of her father as was her sister Margaret. She is called therein “my daughter Mary, the wife of William Johnston.”. Concerning her family all the information we have is that she had a daughter Ann who married a Mr. Remick or Renick and sons Sam, Peyton and John Johnston, the last of whom is mentioned in the will of his cousin Heirom Gaines in Elbert Count, Georgia, in 1815 (Samuel Adams, Peyton Adams and Ann Renick are shown on the John Cunningham chart of descendants of the Reverend John Thomas, cited in 51 Va. Mag. Hist. and Biog. 395; Mr. Ray adds John Adams)

20. HANNAH CUNNINGHAM (daughter of James Cunningham), born about 1761, was unmarried when her father made his will by which he left to her two Negro girls, 15 pounds, a bed and furniture, a chest of drawers, two cows and calves. She married 6 December 1779 William Daniel (13 Tyler Magazine 87) youngest son of James and Jane (Kelso) Daniel. William Daniel, like his older brothers, had signed the petition for religious liberty (Appearing as William Donnell in 10 Virginia Magazine 40-44) and furnished supplies to the Army, his being 220 pounds of Grass Beef for which he was certified on 28 June 1782 to be entitled to 2 pounds (Prince Edward O.B. 28 June 1782, p. 8). Since he was commissioned major of the 1st battalion, Greene County, Georgia Militia 9 May 1793 (Record from Department of Archives and History, Atlanta, Ga.) which was only a short time after he had located in Georgia, there can be little doubt about his previous service during the Revolution. There are numerous references in the Virginia and Georgia records to the services of persons named William Daniel but which relate to this William Daniel cannot now be proved. In 1783 he was taxed on 5 slaves and 14 horses and cattle, in 1786 on 8 slaves and 15 horses and cattle, in 1790 on 5 and 4 respectively (Real Estate Tax Books for Prince Edward County in the Virginia Archives at Richmond). He was getting ready to move to Georgia where he had already purchased land in Greene County. It has already been noted (Supra, 147) that he sold 17 October 1791 his inherited plantation to his brother John. Although there is no record of his wife’s waiver of her dower rights in this land, we know that her death did not occur before 1797 when her last child was born. Her husband married, secondly, in Wilkes County, Ga., 29 August 1807, Sarah Pettus. His will dated 19 February 1814, was probated 16 March 1816 in Greene County, Georgia (Green County Will Book E, pp. 146-7) Therein he left to his wife Sarah “a comfortable support on the plantation whereon I now reside”, property to each of his five children whom he named and to his son-in-law Captain (later Major) John G. Colbert who had married his daughter Mary (then deceased). The executors were his sons James and Samuel C. Daniel and his son-in-law Dr. Alexander Brown Linton who had married his daughter Jane; witnesses were James Daniel Sr., his eldest brother, John Wingfield and Jesse Eley. The children of William Daniel and his first wife Hannah Cunningham were:

(42) i. James Daniel
(43) ii. Ann Daniel
iii. Mary Daniel, b. ca 1783, died vita patris; m. John G. Colbert. (By a peculiar coincidence her double first cousin, a daughter of James and Elizabeth (Cunninham) Daneil, married one John Colbert, the son-in-law being mentioned in the will of the father-in-law (See 14 – vii) Whether these were the same John Colbert is not clear.).
(44) iv. Jane Daniel
v. Samuel C. Daniel, b. Dec. 1792; died 22 April 1818, Madison, Ga.
(45) vi. William Daniel

21. ANDREW CUNNINGHAM (son of 8 James) received under the will of his father all the lands he had bought of William Cunningham and Samuel Boyd; two Negroes, a chest with the letters A. C. marked on its back, a breeding sow, a horse, saddle and bridle, half of James’s plantation tools and two cows and calves. He married Isabel Hannah, sister of Andrew Hannah who married Ann Cunningham. Their Charlotte County marriage bond was dated 3 January 1785. Whether he is the same Andrew Cunningham who married 9 April 1791 Martha (Scott), daughter of Samuel Scott, in Prince Edward County is not known to the compiler of this record. The fact that Andrew Cunningham was not taxed on any personal property before 1785 or after 1789. (Personal Tax Books for Prince Edward County in the Virginia Archives at Richmond) tends to support the idea of a change of his residence in 1790. He continued for the next few years to own 63 acres in Charlotte County. (Real Estate Tax Books for Prince Edward County in the Virginia Archives at Richmond.). We have no further information concerning him or his family.

22. JAMES CUNNINGHAM (son of 8 James) was born 23 August 1767 in Charlotte County. (This and subsequently recorded dates of birth and death of members of this family were copied personally by John G. Herndon from the Family Bible of John Cunningham, son of this James.) He was given by the terms of his fathers will (1 Charlotte Wills 224.) “all the tract of Land on which I now live on Cub Creek, to him and his heirs forever, after the death of my wife. Likewise two Negro fellows named Will and Fill, a chest marked on the back J. C., two cows and calves, and a bid and furniture at the discretion of my executors, and Fifteen pounds Cash, to him and his heirs forever.”

He married 3 January 1789 Frances Redd in Prince Edward County, (51 Va. Mag. 208.) was commissioned a justice of the peace for Charlotte County 10 June 1793; and commissioned a justice of the peace for Charlotte County 10 June 1793; and continued to live there until 1803 in which year he and his family settled in Greene County, Ga. There he purchased 3 November 1803 from Ezekiel E. Park and Jonathan Opsyck for $2,100 a 575 tract on the Oconee River. His deed to this property was recorded 5 June 1805, the day on which Susannah Park renounced her right of dower therein. (4 Greene Deeds 180-1) He entered into partnership with his nephew James Kelso Daniel shortly after arriving in Georgia for the transaction of a general merchandise business, located at Madison, Greene County, Ga. He and his family, however, lived on the outskirts of Greensboro, opposite the present home of Mrs. Minnie (Linton) Winn, one of his great-granddaughters. In 1808 he was elected to the Georgia House of Representatives and served therein the following year. (Record of this legislative service obtained from the Department of Archives and History, Atlanta, Ga.) Bad health caused him to decide not to seek re-election.

He made his will 2 March 1810, added a codicil 10 September 1812, and died three days later. His will, with codicil, was probated 24 September 1812, and died three days later. His will, with codicil, was probated 24 September 1812. (Greene County Will Book E, pp. 110-113.) Therein he provided that his children should “Have a good English education – reading, writing and arithmetic – at a private country school”; that his sons should go “one year to an academy of publick boarding school for studying English grammar, geography, etc.” that his daughters attend “publick school or keep a school mistress, the time to be discretionary with my wife Frances”; that his sons should “have a liberal education, if they have a good genius, and desire it …. (and) when not at school, and of ability, to be kept constantly at farming or some other honest occupation, adapted to their genius and bodily strength.” To each child he left $1,200 which, by the codicil he increased to $1,500. He named as executors his wife Frances, his friend Thomas Terrell, Jeremiah Early who had married his oldest daughter, his partner James Kelso Daniel and his son Thomas Cunningham as soon as he reach 21 years of age. Among the witnesses to the codicil were Nathaniel and Polly McClurg, brother-in-law and sister of the testator’s wife, Frances.

The breadth of the interests of James Cunningham may be judged by considering the titles of books in his library mentioned in the inventory of his estate, among which (the whole list being too long for publication here) were the following: one large family Bible (from which most of the dates mentioned of birth, death and marriage of members of his family were copied), a small Bible and two Testaments, Simson’s Euclid, Buffopn’s Natural History, Georgia Digest, Henning’s Justice, Montaigne’s Reflections, Constitution of the United States, Tristram Shandy, the Tatler, Clarissa Harlowe, Humphrey Clinker, Explanation of the Catechism, Life of Frederick III, Don Quixote, The Columbian Orator, Patillo’s Sermons, Pamela, Joseph Andrews, Hieroglyphically Bible, Life of Mahomet, two volumes of plays, two volumes entitled French Adventure, Buchan’s Valiant Travels, and a Medical Companion. His personally was appraised at $14,590.19, exclusive of his $4,091.91 interest in the store at Madison, Ga. (Greene County Inventories, etc., Book G, pp. 171,195)

His widow Frances was born 9 October 1771, eldest of the children of Captain Thomas Redd by his third wife Frances Anderson, daughter of Charles and Elizabeth (Chambers) Anderson. The parents of Charles Anderson were Thomas (who died in 1752 in Albemarle County) and Elizabeth Anderson. The mother of Elizabeth Chambers was Elizabeth, daughter of Roger Williams, son of the Roger Williams who died in Old Rappahannock County in 1677. On 27 April 1817, Mrs. Frances (Redd) Cunningham married Thomas Baytop Scott. (From the Family Bible mentioned in footnote 125) Thereafter she was called “Aunt Scott” by her numerous nephews and nieces. Mr. Scott died intestate about 1827. The Family Bible says that she died 18 January 1843 (Not 18 June 1943, as erroneously stated in 51 Va. Mag. 208) but on a tombstone erected to her memory in 1855, the inscription says she “died in 1843, aged 71 years, 3 months, 11 days (Her burial place in Greensboro, Ga. Cemetery) Children of James and Frances (Redd) Cunningham were:

(46) i. Thomas Cunningham
ii. Elizabeth Cunningham, born 13 December 1791, died 1807, married 6 October 1806, Jeremiah Early, as his second wife. He had first married Jane Sturgis. His third wife was Ann Billups, whose second husband was John Cunningham, second son of James and Frances Cunningham. Jeremiah Early was the sixth of the children of John Early, who was a lieutenant in the Virginia Line stationed in 1781 at Travis Point, delegate to the Virginia Convention from Culpeper County, who married in 1772 Lucy Smith, and moved to Wilkes County, Ga., in 1792. Jeremiah’s oldest brother Peter Early was Governor of Georgia 1813. His youngest sister Lucy married Colonel Charles Lewis Mathews, son of George Matthews, Governor of Georgia, 1787, and 1793-6.
(47) iii. John Cunningham
iv. Samuel Cunningham born 23 August 1796, died unmarried, 23 July 1816
(48) v. Mary M. Cunningham
vi. James T. Cunningham, born 28 October 1800, died 1 August 1821 unmarried
(49) vii. Harriet Frances Cunningham
(50) viii. Martha Indiana Cunningham
(51) ix. Eliza Early Cunningham
(52) x. William Redd Cunningham

FIFTH GENERATION

23. JAMES CUNNINGHAM DANIEL (son of (James Daniel and) 14 Elizabeth Cunningham) born 30 December 1768, Prince Edward County, Co.
December 1768, Prince Edward Co., Va., died 27 April 1806 in Greene Co., Ga.; married in Prince Edward County 4 February 1790 Mary Park(s) (daughter of Joseph Park and Elizabeth Sankey) born 30 January 1769 in Prince Edward County, Va. (From the Bible of James Cunningham Daniel, owned by the late Mrs. G. L. Sankey of Snowdown, Ala., photostatic copies of which were furnished by her to Mrs. Thomas H. Seay, of Washington, DC. Through the courtesy of Mrs. Seay a transcribed copy of the record from that Bible was furnished to the author of this article. The exact dates of birth and death of the children in this family are copied therefrom.) Her will dated 12 October 1839 was probated 5 July 1845 in Greene County, Ga (Greene County Probate Records Book G, 40) The family Bible says this couple “came to Georgia December 26, 1791.” By the terms of his father’s will, “the heirs of James Daniel, deceased” were granted “the land whereon the widow now lives”, certain slaves and $200. (Probated in Wilkes County, Ga., 5 November 1821) Although his next younger brother was called Cunningham (and had no other given name) this person was called in the family circle James Cunningham Daniel but elsewhere merely James Daniel. He and his wife had the following children (The record of their marriages, noted below, copies from Greene County, Ga. Marriage records)

i. Elizabeth Ann Daniel, b 9 December 1790, d. 26 March 1857, unmarried
(53) ii. Nancy Baker Daniel
iii. Sarah Cunningham Daniel, m. William Daniel (45 q.v.)
iv. Charlotte Daniel, b. 2 July 1798, m. 13 January 1819 Joseph Foster.
v. Jane Daniel, b. 18 October 1800, m. 26 November 1824 William N. Jackson
vi Margaret Daniel, b. 19 November 1802, m. 2 March 1824, William Daniel Sankey (43 i)
vii. Mary Daniel, b. 17 January 1805, d. 4 May 1833, m. 2 November 1824 Harrison Hicks Watts

24. CUNNINGHAM DANIEL (son of (James Daniel and) 14 Elizabeth Cunningham) born about 1771, predeceased his wife, nee Jane Coffee, who died in 1847 in Wilkes County, Ga., where her will is recorded. He was an executor under the will of his father and an administrator of the estate of his brother Richard Sankey Daniel (See the will indexed “Early Records of George: Wilkes County”, edited by Grace G. Davidson and published by the Georgia D.A.R. for authority for these and all subsequent statements of Wilkes County happenings). In the Georgia Land Lottery of 1802, he and brother John Thomson Daniel, then living in Captain Sherrod Malone’s district, were each entitled to two draws. These two brothers were appointed 2 January 1826 administrators of the estate of their brother Thomas. Children:

(54) i. Robert C. Daniel
(55) ii. Samuel Ewing Daniel
iii. Elizabeth A. Daniel, m. 18 December 1828 David McJunkin (This and the next two marriages mentioned took place in Wilkes County (GA)
iv. Emeline E. Daniel, m. 20 December 1832 John Goodrum
v. Mary Daniel m. 2 January, Edmond Butler

25. JOHN THOMSON DANIEL (son of (James Daniel and) 14 Elizabeth Cunningham) born in Prince Edward County, Va., 29 January 1773, died in Taliaferro County, Ga., 9 March 1845; married 16 June 1803 Ann Thomas Hannah, daughter of Andrew Hannah and Ann Cunningham (19), q.v. She was born 31 July 1777 at Gravel Hill, Charlotte County, Va., died 15 July 1837 in Taliaferro Co., Ga. (The family records here recorded are copied from the Bible of John Thomson Daniel, furnished by Mrs. W. Crawford, Nixburg, Ala., to Mrs. Worth S. Ray, Austin, Texas, who generously forwarded them and many other records to the author of this article. Mrs. George M. Keller, Bartow, Fla., supplied the date of the marriage of J. T. Daniel and Anne T. Hannah.) He received tuition for William, David and Jane Finley, orphans of James Finley whose lands passed by dower 27 February 1821 to James Finley’s widow Isabella. He and his brother Thomas witnessed the will of John Lawson, Sr., in Wilkes Co., 13 June 1821. In 1822 he was the executor of the will of William Evans to which his brothers Cunningham and Thomas Daniel were witnesses. He was appointed 6 May 1822, administrator for George Cunningham, deceased. Children:

i. James Andrew Daniel b. 22 August 1806, d. young
(56) ii. William Hannah Daniel
iii. Eliza Anne Daniel, b. 14 September 1810, d. 1 September 1836; m. Thomas Butler King.
(57) iv. Jane Cunningham Daniel
(58) v. Mary Ann Daniel

26. WILLIAM T. DANIEL (Son of James Daniel and) 14 Elizabeth Cunningham) was born 1775 in Prince Edward County, Va., where he married 12 September 1809, Elizabeth (Bell), daughter of George Bell and Rebecca Calhoun, daughter of Adam Calhoun, Sr. He died in 1815. His father by his will left the plantation whereon his son William, deceased, lived, to Williams’s little daughter Elizabeth William Daniel, and to his widow and daughter certain slaves. Elizabeth (Bell) Daniel’s will was dated 1 April 1856 and probated 15 September 1856 in Prince Edward County.

Child:
(58)(i) Elizabeth William Daniel

27. SARAH DANIEL (Daughter of James Daniel and) 14 Elizabeth Cunningham) born ca. 1780, died 1828, married Josiah Ellington, Jr. on 13 August 1819, her dower rights in 930 acres on Hardens Creek, Wilkes County, GA were recognized. Letters of administration on her husband’s estate were granted in 1820 to her brothers Cunningham and John T. Daniel. Children:

(60) i. Elizabeth Ellington
(61) ii. William B. Ellington
(62) iii. Simeon Ellington
(63) iv. Thomas P. Ellington
(64) v. Sarah Jane Ellington

28. SAMUEL DANIEL (Son of James Daniel and) 14 Elizabeth Cunningham) was born about 1786, died 1823 in Greene County, GA, where his will is recorded; married 10 November 1808, Mary Evans in Hanco*ck County, Ga. He was designed an executor of his father’s will. Children

(65)(i) Henry Ferguson Daniel
ii. James A. Daniel
iii. Amanda F. Daniel married 18 November 1834, Daniel Day in Warren County, Ga.

29. RICHARD SANKEY DANIEL (Son of James Daniel and) 14 Elizabeth Cunningham) was born ca 1792, died 1817; married 27 December 1813, Wilkes County, Ga., Nancy Ellington, daughter of Josiah Ellington, Sr., and sister of Josiah Ellington, Jr., who married Sarah Daniel (27) q.v. Nancy (Ellington) Daniel married, secondly, 26 October 1820, William S. Morgan. Her brother Josiah Ellington, Jr., and her brother-in-law Cunningham Daniel were appointed 6 December 1817 administrators of the estate of her first husband Richard S. Daniel. Child:

i. Frances Elizabeth Daniel, who, according to the records pertaining to the settlement of the estate of her uncle, Thomas Daniel, “married Charles Baird, who died in the Province of Texas, leaving no will”. Her deposition in this matter was made 13 July 1837 when she was of Autauga Co., Al.

30. JAMES KELSO DANIEL (son of 15 Sarah Cunningham) born ca. 1778 in Prince Edward Co., Va., died in 1845 in Greene Co., Ga.; married in Prince Edward Co., 9 September 1805, Violet Bell, born 5 September 1785, died 27 January 1844. (Data concerning James K. Daniel and his family are contained in (1) letter dated 22 March 1944 from Mrs. Ray to J. G. Herndon, (2) Southern Historical Research Magazine for June, 1936, pp. 277-8, and (3) “Rev. John Thomson and His Orphans”, a typewritten record, by Mr. and Mrs. Ray). Her sister Elizabeth married William T. Daniel (26) a double first cousin of James K. Daniel. He was in the general merchandise business at Madison, Ga., in partnership with his uncle James Cunningham, until the latter’s death in 1812, and later with his cousin Thomas Cunningham (46). Nearby was his large, typically old Southern plantation whose ruins stand gaunt and stark like ghosts of the past, momentoes of Sherman’s march to the sea. The location was close to Penfield. There he and his neighbor Oliver Porter had a private cemetery for their families. The stones were recently removed to Penfield cemetery. Some of the following records were copied from these monuments several years ago. In 1814=15 he served as a private in Captain John Colbert’s company of 1st Class militia, General Stewart’s brigade; was described as then 36 years of age, 6 ft. 1 in tall, of fair complexion with light eyes and dark hair. At the time of his death he was said to be the wealthiest man in Greene County. There his will was filed 7 July 1845. Therein he mentioned nine of his 10 children. The complete order of their birth is not known. Children:

i. Antoinette Daniel, died young
ii. James Kelso Daniel, Jr., died 28 March 1851; m. 28 May 1837, Sarah Gibson; in 1842 was senator from Sumter County.
(66) iii. Sarah Daniel
iv. Jane Daniel, m. Wm B. Ellington (61) q.v.
v. Harriet Daniel, m. Dr. Thomas Foster
vi. Euphrasia Daniel, died young
vii. William R. Daniel, b. 11 April 1821, d. 3 May 1843, unmarried.
(67) viii. Oliver Porter Daniel
ix. Thomas Stocks Daniel, b. 8 May 1825, d. November 1846, unmarried
(68) x. Samuel Clark Daniel

31. BETSY ANN DANIEL (daughter of 15 Sarah Cunningham) born ca. 1779, in Prince Edward County, married there 3 March 1798, William Redd, born 19 March 1775, son of Captain Thomas Redd and his third wife Frances Anderson. They removed to Georgia. Children:

i. Charles Anderson Redd
(69) ii. William Anderson Redd
iii. James Kelso Redd, m. 27 May 1830, Mary E. Lewis
(70) iv. Sarah Antoinette Redd
v. Martha Redd, m. -------------- Park

32. JANE DANIEL (daughter of 15 Sarah Cunningham) born about 1781, married in Prince Edward Co., 6 December 1799, Adam Calhoun, Jr. Children:

i. Sarah Cunningham Calhoun, m. 1823, Lillious Dillon Womack
ii. John Daniel Calhoun, m. Elizabeth C. Johns; lived near Covington, Tenn.
(71) iii. William Calhoun
iv. Margaret Ann Calhoun m. John R. Gilliam
(72) v. James Calhoun
vi. Violet Davis Calhoun, m. 1833, Drury Watson Calhoun
vii. George Bell Calhoun, m. ------------ Bledsoe; lived near Covington, Tenn.
viii. Mary Jane Calhoun, m. William T. Carter

33. SARAH DANIEL (daughter of 15 Sarah Cunningham) died during the lifetime of her father; married Floyd Stewart. He moved to near Lexington, Oglethorpe Co., Georgia, with his children among whom was John Daniel Stewart, of Columbus, Ga., who had a son Eugene Stewart, who had a daughter Mrs. Crosley.

34. MARY DANIEL (daughter 15 Sarah Cunningham) and her sister Margaret had a double wedding. Mary (Polly) marrying James T. C. McDearman. Margaret (Peggy) marrying Rezin Porter, 22 July 1812. Their marriage bonds were dated two days earlier. The McDearman’s had a daughter Sara Elizabeth who married her first cousin James Calhoun (72) q.v.

35. FRANCES DANIEL (daughter of 15 Sarah Cunningham) married 9 December (marriage bond dated 17 November) 1818, William Matthews in Prince Edward County, and had possibly among others

(73) i. William Daniel Matthews

Information concerning persons numbered 35, 36, 37, 42 and 43 largely furnished by Mr. and Mrs. Worth S. Ray.

36. HEIROM GAINES (son of 16 Margaret Cunningham) moved to Elbert County, Ga., where his will was probated 1 May 1812. He married his first cousin Anne Thompson Adams (17 ii). Children, possibly among others:

i. James H. Gaines
ii. William Shanklin Gaines
iii. Margaret Cunningham Gaines
iv. Jennie Gaines

37. SAMUEL ADAMS (son of 17 Jane Cunningham) married Martha Ann Thornton, and had a daughter Caroline Adams who married Williamson Rogers.

38. GEORGE HANNAH (son of 19 Ann Cunningham) b. 18 June (prob. 1782)(1780 per cemetery transcription), d. 12 June 1870 (Most of the dates pertaining to the Hannahs were furnished by Dr. J. D. Eggleston, Hampden-Sydney, Va. Other substantial contributors were Mrs. Anne Atkinson Chamberlayne, also of Hampden-Sydney, and Mrs. Emory Shaffer, Bryn Mawr. Pa.) Captain of Charlotte County cavalry during War of 1812; lived at “Gravel Hill”

Rootsweb.com cemetery transcription
Cub Creek Church Cemetery, Charlotte County, Virginia
39. George Hannah
June 18, 1780
June 12, 1870

Married, first, 5 November 1805 Martha Brent, daughter of James, son of John Brent, and had:

(74) i. Joel Watkins Hannah
ii. Julia Ann Hannah, married Samuel Thomas.

He married secondly, either 5 August or 11 December 1816, Lucy Morton (daughter of Colonel William Morton and Susannah Watkins) born 10 July 1798, died 14 October 1872 and had:
(75) iii. George Cunningham Hannah
(76) iv. William Morton Hannah
(77) v. Susan Watkins Hannah

39. JAMES CUNNINGHAM HANNAH (son of 19 Ann Cunningham) born 24 May 1787, married Elizabeth Roberts Nimmo, daughter of William Nimmo. Their Prince Edward County marriage bond was dated 16 January 1809. Family records say they married two days later in Old Tavern Inn, 14th and Main Streets, Richmond, Children:

(78) i. William Andrew Hannah
(79) ii. James Cunningham Hannah

40. WILLIAM C. HANNAH (son of 19 Ann Cunningham) born 25 February 1790; private in cavalry troop commanded by his brother George during War of 1812; married 24 August 1820 Jane Clack Thornton (24 August 1798 – 15 May 1863) daughter of Peter Presley Thornton and his wife Marry McCulloch, and had:

i. Presley Thornton Hannah, b. 1 June 1821, d. 19 January 1850 in Lynchburg, Va.
ii. Anne E. Hannah, b. 18 January 1825, d. November 1864; married 1845 Robert Nicolson, of Scotland, who came to Virginia, became Confederate soldier; and had five children
iii. William S. Hannah, b. 28 November 1828; lieutenant CSA from Lynchburg, elected captain, fought under Stonewall Jackson, died in hospital of wound received at Chancellorsville
iv. Robert A. Hannah, b. 26 April 1834, d. 26 September 1836

41. SAMUEL HANNAH (son of 19 Ann Cunningham) born 30 April 1792, died 10 July 1859; was living in Charleston, Va. (now West Virginia) when he married 1 February 1837, in Charlotte County, Charlotte Ella Barksdale (9 July 1813 – 16 August 1886). They later lived at “Cliffside”, Charlotte Co., Va. Children:

(80) i. Mary Elliott Hannah
ii. Andrew Hannah, member 14th Virginia Cavalry Regiment, killed in battle in 1863
iii. George B. Hannah, b. 16 November 1842, died 16 September 1914; aide de camp to Brigadier General Jenkins after whose death he acted as adjutant to the 14th Virginia Cavalry; unmarried
iv. Lucy Lavalette Hannah, died in her teens
v. Emmett Hanna (daughter) married Brigadier General John McCausland, CSA of West Virginia, and had Samuel Hannah McCausland, John McCausland, Charlotte Hannah McCausland and Alexander McCausland
vi. Samuel Hannah, studied law University of Virginia; practiced in Danville; on retirement lived with his brother George B. Hannah on the family estate on the Staunton River; died unmarried.

42. JAMES DANIEL (son of 20 Hannah Cunningham) seems to have born in 1780 and to have married in the early 1800’s. He was in 1816 an executor of his father’s will in Greene County, Ga. The name of his wife or wives is not known. He was engaged in the practice of medicine and settled with most of his family in Montgomery, Ala. Children
i. James Daniel m. 20 January 1824 in Wilkes County, Ga. Mary W. Matthews
ii. Rebecca H. Daniel, m. John T. Sankey (43-iii)
iii. Thomas C. Daniel
iv. Margaret T. Daniel m. Oscar A. Daniel (56-iii)
v. Anne Sankey Daniel, m. 19 May 1857 James W. McGehee

43. ANN THOMPSON DANIEL (daughter of 20 Hannah Cunningham) married first in 1801 in Greene Co., Ga, Dr. John Thomson Sankey, who died about 1819 in Wilkes Co., Ga. She married before 16 March 1820 Drury Townes, children:

i. William Daniel Sankey m. 2 March 1824 Margaret Daniel (23-vi); m 10 January 1834, Jane Foster
ii. Dr. Richard Thomson Sankey, graduate of the U. of Penna., m. 28 October 1831 Frances Love, in Greene Co., Ga.
iii. John Thomson Sankey, died 1837, Montgomery, Ala.; married his first cousin, Rebecca H. Daniel (42-ii)
iv. James Cunningham Sankey, m. 11 October 1837 Frances E. Rudale, of Montgomery, Ala.
v. Mary Anne Sankey, m. James B. Stephens

44. JANE DANIEL (daughter of 20 Hannah Cunningham) born 28 February 1789, Prince Edward Co., Va., died 16 August 1829, in Athens, Ga. She was the author of a triple acrostic on Salvation still preserved by her granddaughter Mrs. Minnie (Linton) Winn, of Greensboro, Ga. She was the first wife of Dr. Alexander Brown Linton. In their marriage license dated 15 November 1811 her name is recorded as Jean Daniel. The were married six days later, the officiating minister being Reverend Jesse Mercer, in whose honor Mercer University was later named.

Dr. Alexander Brown Linton, born August 1783 at “Mt. Pleasant” Abbeville District, SC., died 4 December 1838 and was buried in Oconee Cemetery, Athens, Ga. He was the second son of Samuel Linton (17 August 1755 – December 1826) and his first wife Ruth Brown. Samuel Linton, eldest son of Edward Linton, of Mecklenburg County, NC, served in the company of Light Horse, commanded by Captain Charles Polk, in March to May 1776; was granted a patent to land for those services; later moved to Abbeville District, SC, where he served as a private in Captain William Alexander’s Troop D, in Hampton’s Regiment, Sumter’s Brigade of South Carolina Troops, and from 6 June 1782 for eight months as regimental quartermaster. There are preserved today certain letters from Samuel Linton to his son, Dr. A. B. Linton, concerned inter alia with requests for medical advice. Dr. Linton was educated at a private school conducted by Moses Waddell. Where he obtained his medical training is not known to the present writer. It seems likely that he was taught by some local doctor. Numerous references to his medical practice are contained in the records of Wilkes, Greene and Clark Counties, Ga. He removed in 1829 to Athens, Ga. He rendered such services to the father of Alexander H. Stephens, Vice President of the Confederacy, that he named a younger son Linton Stephens as a mark of appreciation. Dr. Alexander B. Linton served as Surgeon, Second Regiment (Jenkins’), Georgia Volunteers and Militia, War of 1812, from 23 August 1813 to 10 March 1814. He married secondly 17 November 1835 in Wilkes County, Ga., Mrs. Sarah Cheney Faver, widow of John Faver, Jr., who had died in 1829 in Wilkes County. Mrs. Sarah (Chene) Linton died at Penfield, Ga., 15 June 1850, in her sixty-first year. Dr. Linton was a director of the Georgia Railway and was instrumental in having the school over which his former tutor, Moses Waddell, presided, Franklin Academy, at Athens, converted into the University of Georgia.

Children: (The following dates of birth and death are taken from a photostatic copy of Bible records of this family furnished by Major Charles H. Smith, Swissville, Pa.)

(81) i. John Sankey Linton
ii. Mary Hannah Linton, b. 5 February 1815, died 1 March 1858, m. March 1833 William M. Bacon and had Mary Jane Bacon, b. 14 June 1835 (82) iii. Samuel Daniel Linton
iv. Eliza Jane Linton, b. 21 October 1818, d. 5 May 1827
(83) v. William Alexander Linton
vi. James Thompson Linton, b. 3 January 1823, d. 20 January 1842
viii. Ruth Linton, b. 22 March 1825, d. 21 October 1826
(84) viii. Ann Linton

45. WILLIAM DANIEL (son of 20 Hannah Cunningham) born 17 January 1797 in Prince Edward County, Va., died 23 February 1880, aged 83 years. (This family data copied in 1939 from William Daniel’s Bible then owned by Miss Ida Fluker, of Woodville, Ga., his granddaughter, since married) He lived at Daniels Spring on Little River, Greene County, Ga. He was a member of the Georgia Constitutional Convention of 1839, and represented Green County in the Georgia House of Representatives 1839, 1840 and 1841 (These items furnished by the Georgia Department of Archives and History, Atlanta) He married first, 6 March 1817 Sarah Cunningham Daniel (23-iii), born 21 February 1795, died ante 1853, by whom he had:

i. William Daniel, Jr., b. 27 November 1817
ii. Mary Hannah Daniel, b. 13 April 1820
iii. Unnamed infant, b. 27 October 1823
iv. Unnamed infant, b. 21 January 1827
v. James Cunningham Daniel, b. 2 February 1831

He married, secondly 20 December 1853, Sarah Jane Watts, by whom he had:

(85) vi. Mary Jane Daniel
vii. Samuel Cunningham Daniel, b. 25 January 1856, d. 1874

46. THOMAS CUNNINGHAM (son of 22 James) born 21 March 1790 in Virginia. (All exact dates of birth, death and marriage mentioned in this and the other sketches of children of James Cunningham (22) were copied from entries in family Bibles now in the possession of Mrs. Minnie (Linton) Winn, Greensboro, Ga. Or from court records. When years only are mentioned, they were usually calculated from the age of the parties concerned as given in Federal Census records) He married first, 28 October 1817 Harriet B. McClurg, his first cousin, born 1801, only child of Nathaniel McClurg and Polly Redd. After the death of Nathaniel McClurg, his widow made her home with her son-in-law and daughter Thomas and Harriet Cunningham. Harriet died 8 January 1838. By his first wife Thomas Cunningham had:

i. James Nathaniel Cunningham, b. 24 September 1818, d. 24 January 1829
ii. Albert Cunningham, married and had three children mentioned but not named in the will of Thomas Cunningham
iii. Mary Frances Cunningham, born 1831, married, first, a Mr. Hill, and secondly, a Dr. Henry. (She was regularly called Mary Frank)
iv. Thomas Scott Cunningham, d. 14 June 1851.

He married secondly, 8 October 1839, Mary Ros - - - -. The spelling in the family Bible is blurred. She was born in Connecticut, To them were born:

v. Lucy Cunningham, b. 1840
vi. William H. Cunningham, b. 1842

After the death of his first wife, her mother Mrs. Polly (Redd) McClurg, who was Thomas Cunningham’s aunt, being his mother’s sister, continued to live with him and became a veritable grandmother to Thomas Cunningham’s children by his second wife. In 1822 record of Greene County slave owners he is listed as owning 31. The census of 1850 lists him as a merchant with realty worth $5,000. Not only did he successfully continue the business established by his father, but he followed him in his civil and political interests as well, for he served three terms as justice of the inferior court of Greene County (GA), those beginning 10 January 1842, 8 January 1845 and 3 January 1849. (These items furnished by the Georgia Department of Archives and History, Atlanta)

As administrator of the estate of his mother Mrs. Frances Scott he sold land of hers in Gordon County, Ga. One item of expense listed was $174.02 for her gravestone, letters thereon and enclosing the grave. (As stated in letter from E. Lloyd Lewis, Ordinary of Green County, to John G. Herndon, dated 11 March 1943.

A lively correspondence continued through many years between members of this family and the Hannah kin at Gravel Hill, Charlotte County, Va. Many of these letters have been preserved and speak of the visits of Thomas Cunningham and his children during the summer months. As stated in letter from Mrs. A. A. Chamberlayne, Hampden-Sydney, Va., to John G. Herndon, dated 27 March 1944. His will was dated 14 August 1863, and probated 26 December 1865. (Greene County Will Book G, 314-315)

47. JOHN CUNNINGHAM (son of 22 James) was born 16 November 1793 in Charlotte County, Va. (Although two correspondents have said that the subject of this sketch was named John Daniel Cunningham, the present writer has failed to find a single reference to him except as John Cunningham. Even his own Bible contains no intimation that he was named John Daniel Cunningham, but of course he have been. He wrote his name “Jno. Cunningham”.) He married, first, in Richmond County, Ga., 5 May 1819 Eliza Sturges who died 2 March 1820. Their child John Cunningham, Jr., born 25 February 1820, died three days later. He married secondly, 7 June 1821, Mrs. Ann L. (Billups) Early, born 1793, widow of Jeremiah Early, and only daughter of Richard Billups and Elizabeth (Betsy Ann) Redd. She and Jeremiah Early had had two children, Alexander J. Early (In his will dated 28 April 1843 (Greene County Will Book G, 22-23) he provided for his mother Ann L. Cunningham; left $1,000 to Mrs. Eliza (Early (Cunningham)) Grimes; mentioned his uncle Major Joseph Billups, of Alabama; left to his “friend” (brother-in-law) William R. Cunningham $5,000 in trust for Mary L. Redd, daughter of Charles A. Redd, dec’d., (Frances) Adeline and (Martha) Indiana Grimes, daughters of Dr. Joseph W. Grimes, dec’d, and Eliza C. and Ann H. Park, daughters of John S. Park; mentioned his friend Thomas Cunningham and his sister Ann Eliza Cunningham; and designated John, Thomas and William R. Cunningham and Thomas Stock as executors. James R. Nickelson was a witness) and Eliza Early. The latter married William Redd Cunningham, youngest brother of John Cunningham. In the taxpayers lists of Greene County preserved for certain years John Cunningham’s name appears in 1822, owning 28 slaves, and in 1854, owning25 slaves. He had four great interests: his family, his business, the Presbyterian Church and education in the liberal arts. As to his family interests, it may be appropriately mentioned that he was largely responsible for preserving many of the records of the “connection” and was held in affectionate regard by a host of relatives who have written about him. With his son “Corrie” and his son-in-law Samuel Daniel Linton he formed a partnership for carrying on a general-store business in Rome, Ga., located next to the depot of the Rome Railroad, or Memphis Branch as it was then called. In that enterprise they were eminently successful. John Cunningham continued, however, to live in Greensboro. There in 1850 he was enumerated in the Federal Census and shown as owning real estate valued at $12,000. About 1852 he and his son “Corrie” served as executors of the will of Joseph W. Billups, then of Alabama.

In 1851 he presented to the Synod of Georgia, as an outright gift, the Greensboro Female College. He was president of its board of trustees, one of whom was Reverend I. S. K. Axson. One of his most intimate friends was Reverend Joseph R. Wilson, who a little later was moderator of the Synod, and one of whose sons was President Woodrow Wilson. (Copy of the original prospectus owned by John G. Herndon) John Cunningham, as fiscal agent of the college, in an announcement dated February 1853, objected to the use of “Female” in the title, and says, “We have objected (and do yet)(but) to meet popular prejudice and “for the time being” (have) given way”. (Copy of this announcement owned by Mrs. A. A. Chamberlayne, Hampden-Sydney, Va. In 1860 the following were the subjects taught at the College; rhetoric, logic, mental philosophy, natural sciences, mathematics, astronomy, moral philosophy, evidences of Christianity, English literature, French, drawing and painting, and vocal and instrumental music.

In a letter (also owned by Mrs. Chamberlayne) written by John Cunningham in August 1861 about farming he mentioned his discovery of a new wheat and another called “Daniel wheat after our kinsman Robert C. Daniel, grandson of an old Uncle James Daniel” added “have been in many new and experimental enterprises”.

His wife died 11 August 1863, His death occurred 8 February 1874. Their children were:

(86) i. Cornelium Thompson Cunningham
ii. Frances Sturges Cunningham m. M. Alfred Wingfield (88) q.v.
iii. Mary Wingfield Cunningham m. Samuel Daniel Linton (82) q.v

48. MARY M. CUNNINGHAM (daughter of 22 James) born 25 October 1798, died 22 October 1851; married in Greensboro, Ga., 3 December 1816, Dr. John Wingfield, who died March 1857. (He was a son of John Wingfield and Rebecca Nelson who Married 1 February 1781 in Hanover County, Va., (6 William and Mary Quarterly, First Series, 78); grandson of Thomas Wingfield and his wife Elizabeth Terrell; and great-grandson of John Wingfield has been recognized by the D. A. R. as a patriot who furnished supplies to the American Army in Virginia. His son Thomas, born about 1733, signed the Hanover Petition 24 May 1782 (Eckenrode: Revolutionary Soldiers of Virginia, (1912), page 478, column 2). His home in Washington, Ga., is described as one of the most interesting ones in that city, in the recent Federal Writer Project of the WPA entitled “Washington and Wilkes County, Ga.”
Children: (As shown in the John Wingfield – Sarah Garland Family Tree, prepared about 1850)

(87) i. Frances Wingfield
ii. Augustus Wingfield
iii. Amanda Wingfield
(88) iv. M. Alfred Wingfield
v. Montgomery Pike Wingfield m. 2 April 1842 Mary E. Singleton
vi. Mary Wingfield m. Alonzo Church
vii. Josephine Wingfield
viii. Louise Wingfield
ix. Marcus Wingfield

49. HARRIET FRANCES CUNNINGHAM (daughter of 22 James) was born 21 April 1802, probably in Wilkes County, Ga., died 14 September 1833 in Greene County, Ga., where she married 23 August 1820 James Sankey Park. Children (Data furnished by Mrs. Thomas H. Merriam, Rome, Ga.)

i. Alfred Park, died unmarried 1849
(89) ii. Eliza Catherine Park
iii. John Park, died unmarried 1872
(90) iv. Ann Heard Park
v. Frances Park married a Mr. Davis

50. MARTHA INDIANA CUNNINGHAM (daughter of 22 James) born 15 September 1804, died 29 February 1844; married 21 October 1824 in Greensboro, Ga., Dr. Wylie W. Mason, and had James Mason, Annie Mason, William Redd Mason, Wylie W. Mason (Jr.) and Frances Mason

51. ELIZA EARLY CUNNINGHAM (daughter of 22 James) was born 13 July 1807 at Greensboro, Ga., shortly after the death of her oldest sister in memory of whom she was named. To one unfamiliar with the different persons in this family it would be well nigh impossible to distinguish correctly this Eliza Early Cunning from her oldest sister Eliza (Cunningham) Early and sister-in-law Eliza (Early) Cunningham. The subject of this sketch and her next older sister were married in a double wedding ceremony 21 October 1824, Reverend Francis Bowman, pastor of the Greensboro Presbyterian Church, officiating. Eliza’s husband was Dr. Joseph W. Grimes who had graduated in medicine a few months before at the University of Pennsylvania. (University of Pennsylvania General Alumni Catalogue, 1923 edition, p. 492) He died between 4 July 1842 and 28 April 1843 (On the former of these dates Dangerfield Bowden conveyed property to him; so the later he was mentioned as deceased. (Greene County Deed Books MM-145 and Will Book G, pp. 22-23) He was the eldest of the children of Thomas Wingfield Grimes and Charity, daughter of Joseph and Lilias “Jack” Nickelson. Thomas Wingfield Grimes was a son of John Grimes, a Revolutionary Soldier of Hanover County, Va., and Elizabeth, daughter of Thomas and Elizabeth (Terrell) Wingfield, mentioned above. Joseph Nickelson, also a Revolutionary soldier from North Carolina, was executor under the will of his father-in-law Patrick Jack, a recognized patriot of Mecklenburg County, NC whose home the Tories burned in retaliation for the patriotic activities of Patrick Jack’s family (C. L. Hunter: Sketches of Western North Carolina, pp. 61-84) His widow married, secondly, in October 1851 Hampton Sidney Smith, as his second wife. His first wife had been Sarah Antoinette Redd (d. 1850) daughter of William and Elizabeth Ann (Daniel) Redd. There were no children of this second marriage. There was never a more generous step=father than was Mr. Smith to his wife’s children, and later on as grandfather to her grandchildren. This devoted couple made their home in Enterprise, Miss., where Mrs. Smith died 22 August `868. To Dr. Joseph W. Grimes and his wife Eliza Early Cunningham were born:

i. Frances Adeline Grimes, usually called “Addie’, died unmarried
ii. Martha Indian Grimes, b. 21 December 1829 in Greensboro, Ga., died 16 February 1893 in Birmingham, Ala., and buried in Myrtle Hill Cemetery, Rome, Ga.; married 5 August 1847 at Greensboro, William Alexander Linton, b. 20 October 1820 at Greensboro, died 1 October 1860 at Enterprise, Miss.

52. WILLIAM REDD CUNNINGHAM (son of 22 James) born 18 February 1809 in Greensboro, Ga., married there 15 July 1830 Eliza Early (also called Ann Eliza), born 1811, died about 1840, only daughter of Jeremiah Early by his third wife Ann L. Billups. He and his distinguished cousin Dr. Alexander Brown Linton were members of the original board of directors of the Georgia Railroad. He married secondly Mary Ella Hill, daughter of Blanton and Ann Hill. (A. L. Hull: Annals of Athens (Ga.) 454-455) After the death of his second wife he married Elizabeth D. Berry. His children were born by his first wife (Eliza Early):

i. Jeremiah Early Cunningham
(91) ii. James Thompson Cunningham
iii. William Redd Cunningham, Jr. who lived at Forth Worth, Texas in 1915
iv. Clara Cunningham

SIXTH GENERATION

53. NANCY BAKER DANIEL (daughter of 23 James C. Daniel) born 18 January 1792, died 21 April 1840; married 18 January 1815 Frederick H. Williams, and had (Data copied from the D.A.R. papers of Mrs. Thomas H. Seay, Washington, DC with her written permission) probably among others:

Nancy Margaret Williams, born February 1826, died August 1878; married 21 September 1845 William Thomas Watts, born 12 December 1827, died 24 April 1877, son of William Hix Watts (28 November 1777 – 17 February 1833) and his first wife whom he married 19 February 1804 Patsy Roberts (1 November 1783 – 26 May 1828)

54. ROBERT C. DANIEL (son of 24 Cunningham Daniel) born 31 October 1807, died 1 December 1863; lived near Philomath, Greene County, Ga. Behind his old home, still standing, there is a well kept family burying ground. The dates of birth and death mentioned in this sketch were copied from inscriptions on tombstones there. His father and grandfather had lived at Philomath before its name was changed from Woodstock. In Miss Bowen’s History of Wilkes County, (GA) published in 1880, we read:

“When the Presbyterians built their new church at Woodstock, they had new elders, one going to the second Salem. Robert C. Daniel, a son of Cunningham Daniel, became an elder, and after his death his son William Daniel, and afterwards his son John Daniel became elders, the latter now (1880) holding office. These four generations of Daniel in direct succession: James Daniel, Cunningham Daniel, Robert C. Daniel, and his sons William and John Daniel, have served the old church which has been called Liberty, Salem and Woodstock … for more than one hundred years without interval.”

He married first 6 November 1828 Elizabeth Favor, of Wilkes County, and secondly Emily G. Milner, born 27 July 1812, died 30 June 1864. His children were:

i. John J. Daniel, b. 1 March 1833, d. 27 October 1904; married Augusta Drake
ii. William Thomas Daniel b. February 1837, died 1 January 1867; married 11 January 1859 Letitia M. Branch
iii. Marie Antoinette Daniel, b. 4 June 1840, d. 26 June 1911, m. Felix G. Peek, b. 22 December 1839, d. 3 September 1918
iv. Ella C. Daniel, b. 11 September 1846, d. 21 June 1922; m. James McCarter Bryan, b. 8 September 1844, d. 13 October 1907
v. Robert C. Daniel (Jr.) (1851-1861)(at age ten)

55. SAMIEL EWING DANIEL (son of 24 Cunningham Daniel) a planter of Washington County, Ga., married there Mary E. Slaton, daughter of William and Fanny (Goode) Slaton. Although above military age, Mr. Daniel served for a time in the Georgia militia in its fight against Sherman before Atlanta. (Goode: Virginia Cousins) Children:

i. Amaziah Cunningham Daniel m. Elizabeth Dillard, of Oglethorpe County, GA
ii. John Grier Daniel m. Emma Hillman, of McDuffey County, Ga.
iii. Frances Stephens Daniel m. 16 November 1873 Robert S. Dillard, of Oglethorpe County
iv. Samuel Alexander Daniel m. Rebecca Bird, of Taliaferro County
v. Sarah Cornelia Daniel m. Julius Carlton, of Union Point, Greene Co., Ga.

56. WILLIAM HANNAH DANIEL (son of 25 John T. Daniel) born 14 December 1808, died 19 August 1837, married 15 November 1827 Adeline Moore, daughter of Hugh Moore, an elder in the old Bethany Presbyterian Church in Greene Co., Ga. Adeline (Moore) Daniel next married Kindred Jack, who died in 1845. She next married James Carter King as his second wife. His first wife was her sister Elizabeth Moore. (W. S. and Marie W. Ray: Rev. John Thomson and His Orphans, pp. 45, 46, 47, 89, 94-96) Children:

i. Martha Ann Daniel, b. 1828, m. 1st John Scott, 2nd James Wright
ii. Colonel John W. Daniel, CSA, b. 20 December 1830, Greene County, Ga., d. there 5 January 1905 while on a visit to his sister Mrs. James Wright. He m. 1st in Oglethorpe Co., Ga., 19 September 1850 Mary E. Beman, daughter of Samuel H. Beman and his wife Frances Julia Ann Cone. He m. 2nd in 1867 in Georgia a cousin, Martha Moore Rankin, daughter of David and Mary (Moore) Rankin. His first wife had died in Smith County, Texas. He later moved to Dallas County (TX?) which he represented in the legislature may years.
iii. Oscar A. Daniel, d. 1870, m. 2 May 1853 Margaret Daniel (42-iv)
iv. William Hugh Daniel, settled in Garden Valley, Smith County, Texas; served CSA; d. 1882, buried in Oakwood Cemetery, Austin, Texas; m. Serena Carter

57. JANE CUNNINGHAM DANIEL (daughter of 25 John T. Daniel) born 13 January 1813, Wilkes County, Ga., died 11 October 1845, buried in old Bethany Churchyard, Greene Co., Ga.; married in Wilkes 14 April 1835 Major John Borum Lennard, who died 1870 in Woodland, Texas. (Data from family Bible of this couple now in possession of J. H. Kendrick, Nixburg, Ala., copy furnished by Mrs. Mary Thomas Crawford, Nixburg.

i. Mary Ann Lennard, b. Wilkes Co., 25 March 1836, d. 1872 Nixburg, Coosa Co., Ala., m. Anderson M. Kendrick
ii. William Daniel Lennard, b. 15 November 1838, d. in Confederate Service
iii. Eliza Jane Lennard, b. 25 September 1840, d. 20 April 1925; m. as his second wife, her brother=in=law Anderson M. Kendrick
iv. Thomas Cunningham Lennard, b 23 April 1842, killed at Battle of South Mountain, serving in CSA
v. Sarah Frances Lennard, b. 12 October 1843, d. 17 September 1903 at Nixburg, Ala., m. John Alexander Smith
58. MARY ANN DANIEL (daughter of 25 John T. Daniel) born 9 March 1817, married 15 December 1835, probably at Crawfordville, Ga., Joseph W. Billups of Athens, Ga., who died about 1851 in Alabama, s son of Richard and Elizabeth (Redd) Billups. Children:

i. Early Billups m. Jeannette Crawford
ii. John Billups
iii. Mary (Mollie) Billups m. George Norton
iv. Frances Cunningham Billups m. Reverend Mr. Kennebrew
v. Virginia Billups
vii. Elizabeth Billups

59. ELIZABETH WILLIAM DANIEL (daughter of William T. Daniel) married in 1836 Benjamin William Womack in Prince Edward County, VA, and had:

i. Elizabeth Daniel Womack
ii. Violet Jane Womack
iii. James W. Womack
iv. William Daniel Womack
v. Benjamin A. Womack
vi. Nathaniel B. Womack

60. ELIZABETH ELLINGTON (daughter of 27 Sarah Daniel) was mentioned as an heir-at-law of her uncle Thomas Cunningham in the suit against the administrators of his estate in 1831 in Wilkes County, GA.

61. WILILAM B. ELLINGTON (son of 27 Sarah Daniel) was first mentioned in the records of Wilkes County when in 1825 David Mercer was paid tuition for his instruction and his great uncle William Daniel was paid for boarding him and his brother Simeon. He married Jane Daniel (30-iv) and had an only daughter Sarah Antoinette Ellington who died young.

62. SIMEON ELLINGTON (son of 27 Sarah Daniel) married 6 December 1831 Mary Langdon. Their home in Washington, Ga., still stands. It is immediately across the street from the Wilkes County Courthouse. At their home President Jefferson Davis and General John H. Regan are said to have dined on the day of the last meeting of the Confederate Cabinet. (W. S. and Marie W. Ray, opus cit., p. 52.)

63. THOMAS P. ELLINGTON (son of 27 Sarah Daniel) was after 7 March 1831, during the rest of his minority, under the guardianship of his uncle David C. Daniel.

64. SARAH JANE ELLINGTON (daughter of 27 Sarah Daniel) was after 7 March 1837, during the rest of her minority, under the guardianship of Simeon C. Ellington, probably her uncle. (who her brother was named after?)

65. HENRY FERGUSON DANIEL (son of 28 Samuel Daniel) married 20 August 1832, Martha Selena Moore, sister of Adeline Moore who married William Hannah Daniel (56). Children

i. Frances Goulding Daniel, m. Francis Billingslea
ii. Cornelia Daniel m. Reverend William Walker Morrison, of Mecklenburg County, NC

66. SARAH DANIEL (daughter of 30 James Kelso Daniel) married 15 September 1839 Isaac Watts Waddell, son of Moses and Elizabeth W. (Pleasants) Waddell (A. H. Hull: Annals of Athens, pp. 475-6) Children:

i. James Madison Waddell m. Polk County, Ga., 14 January 1857 Medora Newton Sparks, b. 16 August 1837, daughter of Thomas Hunter Sparks and his first wife Mary Ann Lennard. He was clerk of the Georgia House of Representatives 1865=7 and 1871=2 (Georgia Official Statistical Register for 1927)

ii. Elizabeth P. Waddell m. Mr. Stetze
iii. Mary Waddell m. R. P. Lester
iv. Isaac Watts Waddell m. G. Blackwell

67. OLIVER PORTER DANIEL (son of 30 James K. Daniel) married, first, 13 June 1848 Fannie Clark, by whom he had a son Clark Daniel who died young. He married, secondly, 2 November 1858 Jane Virginia Cone, daughter of Judge Hiram F. Cone. After Mr. Daniel’s death his widow married secondly Joel Abbott Billups, a widower, who had first married 4 November 1847 Susan Harrison.

68. SAMUEL CLARK DANIEL (son of 30 James K. Daniel) born 16 October 1830, died 21 March 1876; married ------- and had sons named William, Thomas, Samuel, and James K. Daniel.

69. WILLIAM ANDERSON REDD (son of 31 Betsy Ann Daniel) had sons James K. and William A. Redd

70. SARAH ANTOINETTE REDD (daughter of 31 Betsy Ann Daniel) died 1850, married Hampton Sidney Smith who married secondly, in October 1851 Mrs. Eliza Early (Cunningham) Grimes (5`) q.v. Sarah Antoinette Redd and Hampton S. Smith had, among others, a son J. Morgan Smith (died 1902) who married Kate Duncan (1844-1934), who for may years was a vice-president of the National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution.

71. WILLIAM CALHOUN (son of 32 Jane Daniel) while still a young man migrated to western Tennessee, settled near Covington, about 35 miles from Memphis, married a Miss Smith, and had three children. While they were still young he died. His widow later married a Mr. Barnhill and moved to Texas with her children, whose descendants now live in Austin, Victoria and Houston.

72. JAMES CALHOUN (son of 32 Jane Daniel) married his first cousin Sarah Elizabeth McDearman, moved to Tipton County, Tenn, and had a son John Daniel Calhoun who died in Hill County, Texas.

73. WILLIAM DANIEL MATTHEWS (son of 35 Frances Daniel) married Margaret Gilliam, daughter of John R. Gilliam and Margaret Ann Calhoun (32-iv) and had Margaret Daniel Matthews who married William Edward Gilliam.

74. JOEL WATKINS HANNAH (son of 38 George Hannah) born 1811, died 15 November 1885; married 30 October 1833 in Charlotte County, Va., Lucy Ann Morton (3 July 1813-6 February 1882) daughter of Robert and Marcia (Flournoy) Morton; moved to Arkansas in 1835, living in various places in that state until they settled in Washington, Ark., in 1848. Children:

i. George Samuel Hannah, b. 30 January 1835, d. 29 August 1859
ii. Laura Adelaide Hannah, b. 28 April 1836, d. 22 March 1865; m. 15 November 1853 Samuel Thomas Spragins, b. 8 December 1828, d. 1912) son of John Diggs Spragins and Almira Baldwin.
iii. Robert Morton Hannah, b. 14 February 1842, d. 5 February 1869; m. 19 May 186 Alice A. McFaddin, in Hempstead Co., Ark.
iv. Mary Juliet Hannah, b. 5 June 1844, d. 24 May 1888; m. 11 May 1871 James Franklin Weir, who died 4 May 1882
v. Marcia Flournoy Hannah, b. 5 March 1848, d. 12 April 1859
vi. Flournoy Brent Hannah, b. 3 May 1850, d. 24 October 1921; m. 21 January 1879 Maggie Muldrow (12 November 1853 – 21 September 1896)

75. GEORGE CUNNINGHAM HANNAH (SON OF 38 George Hannah) of “Gravel Hill”, Charlotte Co., born 6 September 1817, died 21 September 1888; elder in the Presbyterian Church; planter; maintained in his home before and during the war of 1861=65 a school for his own and his neighbors’ daughters, which was broken up by the war. Dr. Eggleston has copies of letters showing Mr. Hannah’s efforts to prove that a certain Negro boy was free when he was taken to Arkansas, including the securing of depositions from Charlotte County officials. Mr. Hannah married 18 November 1842 Ann Eliza Spragins (born 24 May 1824, Buckingham County, Va., died 16 June 1873), daughter of John Diggs Spragins and his wife Almira Baldwin, and granddaughter of Thomas Spragins and Nancy Bumpass. George Cunningham Hanna married secondly Margaret Venable, whom he predeceased. Children (all by first wife):

Cub Creek Church Cemetery, Charlotte County, Virginia from Rootsweb.com archives
37. George Cunningham Hannah
Sept 7, 1817
Sept 21, 1888
38. Ann Eliza Spraggins
May 29, 1824
June 16, 1873
"wife of George Cunningham Hannah"
"The memory of the just is blessed"
G.C.H A.E.S. G.H.

i. Samuel Baldwin Hannah, b. 19 October 1843, d. 19 October 1921; first superintendent of the public schools of West Virginia; m. 4 November 1874 Lizzie Archer Hevener (b. 28 October 1855).
ii. John Spragins Hannah, b. 21 November 1845, died 5 July 1901, m. December 1883 Ann Belle Carrington
iii. Joel Morton Hannah, b. 13 January 1848, d. 17 April 1865 of typhoid fever contracted while serving as a V.M.I. cadet in Confederate service in the trenches around Richmond; buried Hollywood Cemetery, Richmond
iv. Lucy Morton Hannah, b. 30 November 1849, d. 20 December 1890; m. 1 February 1872, Reverend William Robert Atkinson (25 April 1840 – 2 March 1901), a Presbyterian minister of Georgetown County, SC, president of the Presbyterian College for Women, Columbia, SC
v. Laura Adelaide Hannah, b. 12 September 1852, died 2 January 1899; m. at “Gravel Hill”, Charlotte Co., Va., 22 August 1872 Marcus Cleveland Elcan (11 March 1838 – 11 February 1912);
vi. Virginia Marshall Hannah, b. 3 August 1854, d. 19 d. 10 April 1912; m. 18 October 1876 Edward Flournoy Daniel (28 February 1853 – 1 September 1935) and had large family.
vii. Thomas Cunningham Hannah, b. 3 September 1857; m. Clara Ranson, of Hinsdale, Ill, dsp.
viii. William Morton Hannah, b. 3 September 1857, twin of Thomas C.; married -----; died in Mississippi without issue
ix. Mary Almira Hannah, b. 3 October 1859, married 3 October 1859, married 3 October 1878 Thomas Clarkson Worth (9 November 1854 – 3 August 1891)
x. Nannie Irene Hannah, born at “Gravel Hill”; m. 27 December 1882 Dr. Paul Brandown Barringer, b. 13 February 1857 at Concord, NC, chairman of the facility of the University of Virginia; later president, Virginia Polytechnic Institute; concerning whom, see “Who’s Who in America, Vol. 12; he died 9 January 1941.
xi. George Gordon Hannah, b. 1865, m. 3 December 1896 at Kankakee, Ill, Isabel Bonfield, b. 1869

76. WILLIAM MORTON HANNAH (son of 28 George Hannah) born 10 April 1820 in that part of Charlotte County which later became Appomattox, lived there until his death 26 January 1893; captain, Appomattox County Guards, served in the Quartermaster’s Department, CSA; member, first Legislature after the Confederacy; justice of the peace; member of the County’s first school board; leader in local Presbyterian affairs; married 31 March 1841 Mary Elizabeth Richardson (23 October 1823 – 17 January 1896), daughter of John P. Richardson and Elizabeth M. Price, and granddaughter of William Price and Caty Gaines. Children:

i. John Kirkpatrick Hannah, b. 18 February 1842, d. 19 January 1922; m. 16 November 1865 Ella Kate Watkins, b. 3 July 1844, d. 13 April 1903; was superintendent of Appomattox schools several years.
ii. William Morton Hannah, b. 7 December 1844, d. 19 June 1919; m. 15 September 1875 Frances Steptoe Hunt (c. 1846-14 June 1898; was a bank president, Norfolk, Va.
iii. Presley Marshall Hannah, b. 13 August 1847, d. 13 August 1919; m. Mary Gray Marshall (17 November 1856 – 12 September 1935)
iv. Elizabeth Lucy Hannah, b. October 1850, d. unmarried 2 June 1871
v. George Cunningham Hannah, b. 25 April 1853, d. unmarried 20 November 1885
vi. Mary Claiborn Hannah, b. 17 July 1858, d. 31 December 1862
vii. Walter Hannah, b. 25 August 1861, d. unmarried 1 January 1932
viii. Lena Hannah, b. 9 June 1865, living 1943, owns Hannah family Bible; m. 17 September 1890 James Littleberry Lewis (21 February 1852 – 26 May 1916

77. SUSAN WATKINS HANNAH (daughter of 38 George Hannah) married in Charlotte County, Va. (bond dated 1 August 1838) Quin LeGrand Morton, and had:

i. George Nash Morton, b. 14 April 1841 in Marshall County, Miss. D. 1925; graduate Hampden-Sydney College and Untion Theological Seminary, Richmod; missionary to Brazil; married Mary Brown, of Baltimore.
ii. Lucy Hannah Morton, d. unmarried 1892
iii. Elizabeth Ann Morton, d. infant
iv. Walter Morton, d infant
v. Emil Coon Morton, b. 21 March 1852, Memphis, Tenn., d. 24 July 1924 Charlotte Co., Va.; m. 20 October 1870 Thomas Edmund Watkins (17 August 1844 – 1 July 1921); private CSA in Stonewall Jackson Brigade; graduated Washington and Lee University; commonwealth attorney 1892-1921.

78. WILLIAM ANDREW HANNAH (son of 39 James Cunningham Hannah) married Katherine Robertson. They lived the latter part of their lives in Thomasville, NC where they are buried. Children:

i. James Pinckne Hannah m. Nancy Covington
ii. Melissa Hannah, unmarried
iii. Kate Hannah, m. Charles Basle
iv. Anne Hannah m. John Keene

79. JAMES CUNNINGHAM HANNAH (son of 39 James Cunningham Hannah) born in Virginia in 1824, married 31 January 1854, Sara Jane Hamner (b. June 1826), daughter of Clifton Garland Hamner and his wife Sallie Anderson, of Charlotte County, Va. He died 1899 at Ruffin, NC. He and his wife are buried in the Episcopal Churchyard at Leaksville, NC. Children

i. Mollie Hannah
ii. Archer Hannah
iii. James Cunningham Hannah, Jr., d. ca 119, m. ca 104 Sarah Harris of Cluster Springs, Pittsylvania Co., Va.
iv. Andrew Lee Hannah, b. 11 May 1864 at Cascad, Va., m. 4 June 1902 Martha Virginia Gibson at Ruffin, NC
v. William Nimmo Hannah, m. 1st Marie Price, 2nd Alice Nunnally
vi. Sarah Hannah, m. ----------- Adams
vii. Hamner Hannah, living 1943 Rocky Mount, NC

80. MARY ELLIOTT HANNAH (daughter of 41 Samuel Hannah) born 28 November 1837; married first 6 March 1862, Captain Edgar W. Carrington, CSA who was killed at the battle of Seven Pines; married, secondly, Robert Boyd, CSA of Mecklenburg County, Va., and had:

i. Dr. Andrew Hannah Boyd of Charleston, W. VA., WHO M. Fannie Dickenson
ii. Mary Hannah Boyd of Lexington, Va., historian general of the United Daughters of the Confederacy, who m. Reverend William Cabell Flournoy of Farmville.
iii. Kathryn W. Body who m. James Penn, Jr.
iv. Elsie Boyd who m. Dr. Beverley R. Tucker, of Richmond, Va

81. JOHN SANKEY LINTON (son of 44 Jane Daniel) was born 21 February 1813 in Greene County, Ga., died at Athens, Ga., 10 Sepember 1895. His parents moved in 1829 to Athens to give educational advantages to their children. John S. Linton attended Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia after studying medicine with his father. He soon, however, abandoned the practice of medicine for the more active life of an industrial leader of Athens. Concerning him “The Annals of Athens” and the “History of Athens and Clarke County” say that he built and operated the first paper mill in Georgia, organized in 1853 and operated the Athena Foundry, that it was through his energy that “the present (1923) substantial brick buildings” of the Athens Cotton Mill were erected; that he “enlarged and managed the Athens Foundry, took contracts to build railroads, and at the same time owned large plantations and several hundred Negroes.” Before the Civil War he had organized the Georgia State Fair and Clarke County Fair. He married, first, 14 May 1840 Codelia A. Golding, by whom he had a daughter Mary who died in infancy. His wife died 21 March 1848. He married, secondly, Lucy Ann Hull; and had: (Data from family Bibles in possession of Mr. Minnie (Linton) Winn, Greensboro, Ga.)

i. Henry Hull Linton (“Hal”), Clarke County tax collector for more than 30 years
ii. John S. Linton, died young
iii. Julia Linton, died young
iv. Annie Linto, died unmarried 1941, distinguished educator of Athens
v. Lucy Linton, resident of Athens 1944

82. SAMUEL DANIEL LINTON (son of 44 Jane Daniel) born 5 May 1817, dieid 8 January 1896; married when he was resident of Pickens County, Ala., 21 December at Greensboro, Ga., his first cousin Mary Wingfield Cunningham (47-iii), born 27 May 1830, died 26 March 1876, at Greensboro. He was successively planter, business associate of his father-in-law and brother-in-law at Rome, Ga., Confederate soldier, businessman of Augusta, active hurchman of Augusta and Greensboro. He did more than any one other member of the family in his generation to keep up the record of the descendants of James Cunningham, Sr., of Cub Creek. Chidren: (Dates of birth taken from the family Bible of his couple now owned by John Goodwin Herndon, author of this article, one of their grandsons)
i. Annie Eliza Linton, b. 14 April 1851, d. 10 March 1893
ii. John Alexander Linton, b. 6 November 1852, d. 3 November 1884
iii. Samuel Daniel Linton, b. 18 March 1854, d. 25 August 1855, Augusta, Ga.
iv. William Thomas Linton, b. 29 January 1856, d. 16 April 1913; m. 14 December 1893 Belinda Staten Reid, d. 9 September 1908
v. Jennie Steiner Linton, b. 20 July 1858, d. 21 June 1889, unmarried
vi. Mary W. C. (Minnie) Linton, b. 27 May 1860, living 1944 at Greensboro, Ga., m. 14 January 1904 Colonel Thos. E. Winn, formerly a member of Congress, b. 21 May 1839 Clarke Co., Ga., d. 5 June 1925, Atlanta

83. WILLIAM ALEXANDER LINTON (sonof 44 Jane Daniel) born 20 October 1820 at Greensboro, Ga., where he married 5 August 1847 Martha Indiana Grimes (51-ii). Between 1848 and 1850 they moved to Pickens County, Ala., where they lived a few years before finally settling in Enterprise, Miss. He was an elder in the Presbyterian Church there at the time of his death which occurred suddenly 1 October 1861 from what was diagnosed as congestive chills. At that time his property was appraised at $58,750. He and his brother Sam (82) had had a long correspondence over the desirability of moving his family to Texas, but the coming of the war and then his death put an end to all such ideas. Subsequent to is death his widow made her home with her mother and step-father Mr. and Mrs. Hampton Sidney Smith and subsequently with her daughter and son-in-law Mr. and Mrs. John G. Herndon. She died 16 February 1893 in Birmingham, Ala. And was buried in Myrtle Hill Cemetery Rome, Ga. Children: Dates of birth taken from the family Bible of this couple now owned by John Goodwin Herndon, autor of this article, one of their grandsons.)

i. Eliza Grimes Linton, b. 30 June 1848, Greensboro, d. 24 August 1849
ii. Jenny Daniel Linton, b. 9 March 1850, d. May 187; m. Joseph J. Printup, as his first wife, and died without issue.
iii. Adeline Anna (“Addie”) Linton, b. 3 August 1851, Pickens Co., Ala.; d. 4 April 1931, Washington, DC, m. 9 March 1870 Major Geo. P. Herndon, b. 28 June 1846; d. 9 Sepember 1923, Washington, DC
iv. Nettie Linton, b. and d. 3 November 1854, Cedar Valley, Washington, DC
v. William H. S. Linton, b. 30 April 1865, d. 3 October 1856
vi. Mary Lillian Linton, b. 21 September 1858, d. June 1887; m. Ben H. Elliott
vii. Florence Early Linton, b. 25 November 1860, Enterprise, Miss., d. 8 December 1940, Haverford, Penna.; m. 8 October 1879 at Rome, Ga., John Goodwin Herndon, b. 15 March 1856 near Okolona, Miss., d. 10 June 1938, Washington, DC

84. ANN LINTON (daughter of 44 Jane Daniel) born 17 October 1827 Greene Co., Ga., died May 1895, Rome, Ga.; married by Rev. Joseph Baker, D.D., at the home of her step-mother Mrs. Sarah (Cheney) Linton near Penfield, Ga., 25 February 1845 to Thomas Hunter Sparks as his second wife (Thomas Hunter Sparks (1 September 1814 – 13 September 1863) was son of Milton Peeples Sparks (18 July 1786 – 8 June 1837) and his wife Elizabeth Whatley (28 July 1785 – September 1870) who were married 2 December 1810.) After the death of her mother and until her father’s remarriage in 1835, she lived at the home of her uncle William Daniel and his wife Sarah. Children (All dates in this sketch furnished by Major Charles H. Smith, Swissvale, Penna., copied from family Bibles in his possession)

i. Linton Sparks, b. 18 June 1846, m. 17 December 1867, Sallie Wimberly at Cedar Valley, Ga.
ii. Sarah Jane Sparks, b. 13 August 1848, d. 27 September 1912, Rome, Ga.; m. 17 May 1871 at Athens, Ga., Hines Maguire Smith, b. 19 January 1850, d. 8 June 1835, Chattanooga, Tenn.; son of Major Charles H. Smith, CSA, “Bill Arp”.
iii. Thomas Hunter Sparks, b. 22 April 1850, d. unmarried 25 June 1893
iv. William Daniel Sparks, b. 3 September 1851, d. 1944; m. Annie Wimberly
v. Carter Whatley Sparks, b. 17 February 1853, d. 16 August 1863
vi. Samuel Peeples Sparks, b. 28 December 1854, d. 29 October 1894; m. 27 November 1889 Mrs. Emma C. Edwards of Atlanta
vii. John Vesey Sparks, b. 16 March 1856, d. 14 March 1901, Bessemer, Ala., unmarried
viii. Alexander H. Sparks, b. 29 August 1857, killed in train accident 1 March 1906 at Roseline, La.
ix. Mary Elizabeth Sparks, b. and d. 1 November 1859
x. Annie Elizabeth Townes Sparks, b. 29 December 1860, m. 27 October 1881 David Blount Hamilton, Jr. of Rome, Ga.
xi. Charles Sankey Sparks, b. 8 June 1863 near Rome, Arkansas, d. 23 February 1929, Rome, Ga.; m. 15 October 1891 Lee Ella Smith, of Rome, Ga., who d. 27 October 1939

85. MARY JANE DANIEL (daughter of 45 William Daniel) born 25 January 1855, married 20 December 1877 P. A. Fluker, and had a daughter Ida Fluker of Woodville, Ga., who in 1939 owned the family Bible of her Daniel grandparents.

86. CORNELIUS THOMPSON CUNNINGHAM (son of 47 John) born 19 April 1822, married 9 July 1844 Sarah Elizabeth Cessna. He, HIS FATHER, AND HIS BROTHER-IN-LAW Samuel D. Linton were in the general-store business in Rome, Ga., from about 1849 on, but the records indicate that only Cornelius (“Corrie”) lived in Rome. There he built in 1853 a beautiful home on old Howard Street (now Second Avenue) which was long called the Cunningham Place, but later known as the Montgomery Place. That year Alfred Shorter had deeded to him for $2,655 all the land between East Forth Street and the River, from Second to Third Avenues, using their present names. Still earlier Shorter had sold him the land for his store. He also purchased land near Cave Spring, Ga. (Floyd County Deed Books, F-438 and H-483, Civil Records Book H, and a letter from John L. Harris to Mrs. R. E. (Alva Printup) Harris, of Rome, Ga.) He was mentioned in the 1850 census of Murray County as then living at Dalton, the county seat. In 1853, then a resident of Floyd County, he voted the Whig ticket. Children:

i. Annie Billups Cunningham, d. Washington, DC; m. George Clarence Coleman of Aberdeen, Miss.
ii. August Cunningham
iii. John Cunningham
iv. Joseph Cunningham

87. FRANCES WINGFIELD (daughter of 48 Mary M. Cunningham) married James A. Nisbet, son of Dr. James A. and Penelope (Cooper) Nisbet, of Athens, Ga., and had (A. H. Hull: Annals of Athens, pp. 468-9)

i. Irene Nisbet, who m. George H. Hazelhurst
ii. John W. Nisbet, who m. Henrietta Wingfield
iii. James Cooper Nisbet, who m. Mary E. Young
iv. Anna Lou Nisbet, who m. Marshall DeGraffenreid

88. M. ALFRED WINGFIELD (son of 48 Mary M. Cunningham) married Frances Sturges Cunningham (47-ii), and had Cooper Wingfield and Nisbet Wingfield

89. ELIZA CATHERINE PARK (daughter of 49 Harriet Frances Cunningham) born 1824, died 18 December 1896; married 5 August 1847 Eliab Metcalf Allen, born in Massachusetts 16 June 1818, died 1 May 1894, Marietta, Ga. Child:

i. Julia Allen, d. 7 July 1920, married 6 December 1877 William Penn McClatchey, b. 16 February 1847 in McMinn County, Tenn.

90. ANN HEARD PARK (daughter of 49 Harriet Frances Cunningham) born 1835, Greensboro, Ga., died 1890, Marietta, Ga.; married 19 May 1853 James Walthall Robertson, and had:

i. Katie Robertson, b. 30 November 1864, d. 2 January 1905, m. 2 November 1892 Howard G. Coryell, born 2 July 1858, d. 31 October 1923
ii. Frances Robertson, who m. a Mr. Davis

91. JAMES THOMPSON CUNNINGHAM (son of 52 William R. Cunningham) married in Georgia a Miss Heard, and had a son Reverend James Early Cunningham, a Methodist minister, who lived in Greenwood, Miss, in 1915.

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