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7.
** JAMES II married Catherine Todd who was born on February 9, 1753. Her full name was Virginia Catherine Todd (Ref. 33), but she was known as Catherine, Caty, or sometimes Katy. She was the daughter of Dr. James Todd of Gloucester County, Virginia. (Ref. 33, 27) When James and Caty wed in 1767, she was just turning 14. This is verified by a letter from their son, Charles Ware, who stated: “my parents were married early in life, particularly your grandmother (before she was 14 years old.)” (Ref. 35G) That made for a twelve year difference between the newlyweds.
Dr. Ware and Caty moved to Winchester, Virginia after they had been married a
few years, and he practiced medicine in the area.
(Ref.35G) The deed Cornelia mentioned above is
on file in the courthouse in Winchester, and they also owned land in Berryville
– previously known as Battletown.
8.
THOMPSON WARE, born April 5, 1769, located near Lexington. He married Miss Conn. They had twelve children, eight of
them daughters - Sally, who married Mr. Russell, Kitty, Cassandra, Davidella,
Frances, and Eliza. The only son
mentioned is Charles William.
Another daughter, Lucy, married Mr. Bedford.
“Aunt Polly” (Mrs. Charles Webb) lived within one mile of the Thompson
Wares.
** Thompson Ware was, indeed, born on April 5, 1769, and he died September 9,
1852, at the age of 83.
(Ref. 33, 27) He married Miss Sarah (Sally) Conn,
who was from Kentucky.
(Ref. 2, 3, 4, 33, 35D) She was born September 22, 1781 and
later died on
(1) Catherine (Kitty) Todd Ware (Dec. 21, 1799 - July 26, 1863) married Grant
Allen on Oct. 24, 1830; after the death of her sister Polly.
(2) Thomas Ware (June 17, 1801 - July 17, 1862) married Harriet Miller April
29, 1823.
(3) Cassandra Ware (Jan. 23, 1803 - June 20, 1851) married Samuel Woodson on
Nov. 8, 1837.
(4) Sarah (Sally) Ware (March 18, 1806 – 1884) married Robert Spotswood
Russell on May 29, 1827.
(5) Mary (Polly) Ware (May 29, 1808 - Nov. 23, 1828) married Grant Allen on
Dec. 20, 1827.
(6)Lucy C. Ware (Feb. 27, 1810) married Henry Clay Bedford on Sept. 13, 1829
(7) Davidella Ware (Feb.18, 1812 - June 22, 1877) married Asa Kentucky Lewis
Bedford on May 8, 1834.
(8) James T. Ware (Dec. 23, 1814 - Sept. 30, 1871) married Patsy Bedford on
Nov. 26, 1844.
(9) Frances Ann Ware (Nov. 3, 1816 - Jan. 11, 1892) married John Hill on Dec.
30, 1847.
(10) A son – not named (born Jan. 3, 1819) was probably stillborn.
(11) Eliza H. Ware (born Feb. 14, 1822 - Feb. 23, 1861) married William D.
Crockett on July 5, 1849.
(12) Charles William Ware (Dec. 23, 1824 - Oct. 30, 1834) was a very sickly
child.
New information provided from the Ware Family Bible of James Thompson Ware –
generously shared courtesy of Debbie McArdle
#1070
When Reverend Horace Hayden wrote his renowned family genealogy in the late
1800s, he unfortunately made (as we all do) some mistakes. There were quite a few errors in the
naming of the children of Thompson, which have been perpetuated over the years. Luckily, recent family bibles have
surfaced which clear up the confusion.
Since much of the Ware family no longer lived in Virginia at the time
Hayden was writing his book, he simply did not have the benefit of firsthand
information which the computer now allows us.
Many details of Thompson Ware’s family can now be found in the books
New Nation/New Home and Virginia Roots in Kentucky Soil written by
Judy C. Ware.
9.
May 1, 1777, married Col. (who was also a Dr.) John M. Scott. He must have been a splendid man; he
is spoken of so many times with such admiration.
There were 5 children: (1) Betsy, (2)
Thompson (who married Winny Webb in 1811) (3) Catherine . . . as a
widow, “Aunt Kitty” and her two daughters lived with
Betsy Sharp, a cousin. Her mother
“Caty Ware” wrote in 1830 “very amiable girls, (4) Catherine, who would make one
of the finest wives for rich or poor, and (5) Arabella, the latter thought
handsome, but of a wild turn.”
CORRECTION: As with Cornelia, I believe there
were five children, but my research shows different names: Cornelia may have been using Hayden’s
genealogy work for some of her references, and in the errata (at the end of his
book) he admitted that he had the children for Catherine Ware and George Ware
listed erroneously.
The children of
Catherine Ware Scott and John Mitchell Scott were:
(1)
Elizabeth Thompson (called Betsy
or Eliza), (2) William Henry Harrison (called Harrison), (3) Arabella who married William
Davis and then Sylvester Welch,
**
Catherine (Kitty)
Ware was born on May 1, 1777 in Frederick County, Virginia.
(Ref. 3, 4, 6, 27) She married Colonel John
Mitchell Scott -
“one of the earliest property holders in
Frankfort, Kentucky.” [Ref.6] Col. Scott was also a gifted
physician who was highly thought of by many people.
(Ref. 2, 25)
He even served as
the private physician for William Henry Harrison.
Col. John Mitchell Scott and Catherine (Kitty) Ware Scott
Kitty’s daughter,
Betsy, (often called Eliza) Scott married Colonel Solomon Portius Sharp, and
they had three children: (1) Jean,
(2) John Scott, and (3) Thomas (Solomon).
Colonel Sharp was a member of the U.S. Congress, and John Calhoun once
said, “he was the ablest man of his age that had ever crossed the mountains.”
(Ref. 6) Solomon was assassinated
in Kentucky in November of 1875.
According to a family letter:
“He was stabbed in the abdomen in his house at 1 or 2 o’clock in the morning and
expired without speaking a word in a few minutes in the midst of his family. Poor Betsy was quite deranged for
several days, but has since recovered and has come to her right mind. Mr. Sharp has left her a sufficient
competency for her support. He had a
very severe spell of sickness last summer which caused him to make a will and he
left Betsy everything except two farms.” (Ref. 35E)
After Col. Sharp was killed, Betsy changed her son Thomas’s name to ‘Solomon’ in
his honor.
(Ref. 25) Catherine Ware Scott, who was a
widow herself by 1875, moved in with her oldest daughter to live – bringing her
two younger daughters along with her.
Catherine and Arabella’s grandmother once wrote that they were both
considered to be “amiable girls.”
(Ref. 25) Catherine Ware Scott and John Mitchell Scott actually had nine children, in total. Family records state that “there were four children born to John Mitchell and Catherine Ware Scott that died in infancy.” (Ref. 2227) There were five who lived to adulthood. (1) Eliza Scott (1798), who was the wife of Col. Sharp, (2) William Henry Harrison Scott (1805), who was named after family friend, William Henry Harrison, but called Harrison, (3) Catherine W. Scott (1807), who married William Johnson, (4) Arabella Scott (1811), who first wed Mr. William Davis and later, Sylvester Welch, and (5) John Mitchell Scott Jr., (1813), who attended West Point and died while in service.
John Mitchell
Scott, Jr.
Scott Family section of graves
10.
CORRECTION:
I find, however, that
in the book on Virginia Genealogies
(Ref.6), he is listed
as having died without producing any
children. This is also backed up by
reference 5 which states the same thing.
(d.s.p. means “died sine prole” or ‘without issue’)
Further proof lies in the lack of any mention of children for him in
any of the old letters, and especially in the fact that his Last Will and
Testament lists no beneficiaries except his wife.
** Charles
wrote to his niece, Sally Ware, that he and his brother James
“continued together almost until he [Charles] married in 1803 and sometime after James’ wife, Elizabeth Ware, had quit this world
for a more blessed abroad.”
(Ref. 35G) He also mentioned that he was the
fifth child of James and Catherine.
Charles was born on August 19, 1775.
He married Miss Frances (Fanny) Whiting.
(Ref. 3, 4, 5, 6)
11.
12.
Lucy Ware Webb
** Lucy and Isaac did have a number of children –
several more than Cornelia named. They were: (1) Catherine J. (Kitty) Webb who
married James Conn; (2) Winny Webb who married Matthew Thompson Scott in 1810;
(3) James Webb who married Maria Cook; (4) Isaac Webb III who married Louisa
Harrison Jones; (5) Lucy Caroline Webb who married Dr. Joseph Thompson Scott;
(6) Cuthbert Webb
who never married; (7) Mary Ann Todd Webb who married William Nicholson; (8)
John Thompson Webb who married Lovina; and (9) Elizabeth (Betsy) Frances Webb
who first married Rev. Joseph P. Cunningham in 1823, and then Matthew Thompson
Scott in 1836.
(Ref. 174,794, 934)
(Matthew had previously been married to her sister, Winny, who had died of
cholera.) Mrs. Rutherford B. Hayes was, indeed, the daughter of James and Maria Cook. Her father (Dr. James Webb) died in 1833 during the cholera epidemic – while tending his father’s illness. There is a LOT more information on all the Ware children in the other 2 books I have written.
13.
CORRECTION: The name is Clifton not Clofton.
** George and Nancy had 10 children in all:
(1) Elizabeth Catherine (called Catherine) Ware who married Robert J.
Didlake; (2) Mary Ann Webb Ware who married Thomas Woods Goodloe;
(3) James Todd Ware who never
married; (4) Ann Ware who died at 22; (5) Abraham Thompson Ware who was called
Abram and never married; (6) George Clifton Ware who was
called Clifton; (7)
Charles William Ware; (8)
John William Ware; (9) Lucy Arabella Ware who married James Shropshire and (10)
Joseph Scott Ware who died at 20 years of age.
These facts are verified by several family bibles – specifically the records of Mary Simpson via L. F. Shropshire.
Correction: In the book Virginia Genealogies by Rev. Hayden, he mentions
in the back (under errors) that he mistakenly listed the children of
George and Nancy under Catherine Scott.
This has often caused confusion.
Cornelia mentioned that this branch of the family was Baptist, but in
reality – all the children of James Ware I who left Virginia were Baptists. It was only those who stayed in
Virginia that remained Episcopalian. Those who settled in Kentucky predominately
joined the Forks of Elkhorn Baptist Church and the David’s Fork Baptist Church. Even Nicholas Ware, who went to South
Carolina, joined the Turkey Creek Baptist Church.
James, William, and Edmund Ware held positions of leadership in the Forks
of Elkhorn Church.
If she was referring to only the branch of Wares coming down the line of James
Ware II, most of them were either Baptist or Disciples of Christ. Thompson belonged to the Old Union
Church of Christ, Charles and George had great ties to the David’s Fork Baptist
Church, and Polly joined the Unitarian (Disciples of Christ) Church.
Forks of Elkhorn Church -founded in 1788
David’s Fork
Baptist Church
Turkey Creek Baptist Church in South Carolina
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