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National Pike Chapter DAR, a Pennsylvania Chapter, was organized February 1, 1973. Later the road was completed to Vandalia, Illinois.

The National Pike, known to many simply as Route 40, was created from the drafting of a piece of legislation that was ultimately signed into law by the Federal Government and Thomas Jefferson in 1806. Construction began in 1811 in Maryland and the portion through Wheeling, West Virginia was completed in 1818. National Pike Chapter was named to honor our National Pike and the gifts it has brought us.

11/05/2026

FROM NSDAR LINEAGE BOOK #4:

MARIA PENDLETON DUVAL (1852-1943) (FIRST PICTURE) was DAR member #3748. She was born in Virginia. (Maria Pendleton Duval was born October 4, 1852 and died December 29, 1943. She was an educator. For many years she was principal of the Virginia Female Institute, Staunton, Virginia (SECOND PICTURE). Later she was head of St. Hilda’s Hall, Charlestown, Virginia (THIRD PICTURE). She is buried in Hollywood Cemetery, Richmond, Virginia. – FOURTH PICTURE. Her obit is FIFTH PICTURE.)

She was a daughter of Robert Randolph Duval (1816-1875) (SIXTH PICTURE) and Sally Dandridge Cooke (1826-1887) (SEVENTH PICTURE), his wife. (Robert Randolph Duval was born October 1, 1816 and died May 26, 1875. In 1849 he married Sally Dandridge Cooke. Sally Dandridge Cooke was born March 18, 1826 and died December 14, 1887. Their children were: Maria Pendleton Duval, b. 4 Oct 1852; Florence Beverley Duval, b. 4 Mar 1855; Willie Randolph Duval, b. Aug 1857; Katherine Cooke Duval, b. 15 Sep 1859, Richmond, VA; Robert Randolph Duval, b. 11 Feb 1862; Sarah Esten Duval, b. 28 Jun 1866; Philip St. John Duval, b. 9 Sep 1868, Virginia; and Edmund Pendleton Randolph Duval, b. 4 Dec 1871. They were buried in Hollywood Cemetery, Richmond, Virginia. – EIGHTH PICTURE.)

She was a granddaughter of Philip Duval (1789-1847) and Maria Beverly Randolph (1794-1845), his wife. (Philip Duval was born in 1789 and died December 3, 1847. He was buried in Shockoe Hill Cemetery, Richmond, Virginia. – NINTH PICTURE.) (Maria Beverly Randolph was born April 4, 1794 in Essex County, Virginia and died June 10, 1845 in Richmond, Virginia. She was buried in Shockoe Hill Cemetery, Richmond, Virginia. – TENTH PICTURE.)

She was a great-granddaughter of Benjamin Duval (1765-1826) and Mary Warrock, his wife. (Benjamin Duval was born January 24, 1765 in Goochland County, Virginia and died July 18, 1826 in Richmond, Virginia. Married Elizabeth Worrock April 6, 1785. She was the daughter of apothocary Ludovic Warrock and Mary Bransford. They were the parents of Mary, Alexander and Phillip. After the death of his father in law, Benjamen took over his apothocary business in Richmond and ran it the rest of his life. Associated with his apothocary business, he also ran a pottery business beginning in 1791 that made various sizes of storage vessels. - ELEVENTH PICTURE. In 1808 they began making clay roofing times and in 1811 salt-glazed stoneware. He was buried in Saint John’s Episcopal Churchyard, Richmond, Virginia. – TWELFTH PICTURE of cemetery.)

She was a great-great-granddaughter of William Duval (1748-1842) (THIRTEENTH PICTURE) and Ann Pope, his wife. (William DuVal was the son of Samuel and Lucie Claiborne DuVal. William married Nancy "Anne" Pope on 08 June 1772 in Louisa Co., Virginia. William as a resident of Henrico Co., VA in May 1775 volunteered for nine days as a private under Col. Patrick Henry in the VA troops for the purpose of taking possession of a gunpowder magazine at Williamsburg; two months service from June 1775 as Lieutenant of Capt. Thomas Prosser's VA Company for the purpose of defending Williamsburg and the surrounding lower country from British; and five months, 14 days service beginning in the Fall of 1775, as Captain (appointed by the Committee of Safety to raise a battalion of minute men from Henrico Co., VA) in the regiment of Col. Thomas Elliot in the VA State Line for the purpose of defending the eastern part of VA. In Jan. 1781, as a resident of Hanover Co., VA he volunteered and served two weeks as private assisting in repelling Arnold's invasion. With his wife Nancy they had six children: Anne, Lucy, Samuel, William, Nathaniel, and John. Each child carrying their mother maiden name of Pope. He was buried in Saint John’s Episcopal Churchyard, Richmond, Virginia.) (Nancy Ann Pope was born in 1753 in Henrico County, Virginia and died October 3, 1792 in Richmond, Virginia and was buried in Saint John’s Episcopal Churchyard, Richmond, Virginia.)

She was a great-great-great-granddaughter of Samuel Duval (1714-1784) and Lucy Claiborne (1725-1810), his wife. (Samuel DuVal was the son of Daniel DuVal and was born January 14, 1714 in Gloucester County, Virginia. In 1745 he married Lucie Claiborne the daughter of William and Elizabeth Whitehead Claiborne. Planter, Civic Leader and Patriot. Member of House of Burgesses, 1773 – 1775. First Virginia Convention 1774. Committees of Safety and Correspondence Richmond and Henrico, 1775. Second Virginia Convention when Patrick Henry Made His Immortal Address, March 23, 1775. Directorate for Removing Capital from Capitol from Williamsburg to Richmond, 1779 – 1784. Samuel DuVal Sr. died in February 1784 in Henrico County, Virginia, having witnessed the birth of the new nation he helped support. Buried in Saint John’s Episcopal Churchyard, Richmond, Virginia. – PLAQUE is FOURTEENTH PICTURE.) (Lucy Claiborne was born in 1725 in New Kent County, Virginia and died March 6, 1810 in Henrico County, Virginia. Her burial details are unknown.)

11/04/2026

Deepest sympathy to Phyllis Morrow Sams on the death of her father.

11/04/2026

FROM NSDAR LINEAGE BOOK #4:

F***Y BRAXTON YOUNG MILLER (1859-1914) was DAR member #3747. She was born in Virginia. She was the wife of James Mason Miller (1846-1901). (James Mason Miller was born on 15 October 1846, in Madison, Alabama. His father, James Mason Miller, was 32 and his mother, Margaret Jane Erskine, was 22. He married Bettie Klounslar Miller (1847-1884) on 10 January 1872, in Guadalupe, Texas, United States. They were the parents of Mary Patterson Miller - 1874–1955; Alexander Erskine Miller - 1879–1961; Bettie Kounslar Miller - 1884–1976. He died on 27 November 1901, in Staunton, Virginia, at the age of 55, and was buried in Thornrose Cemetery, Staunton, Virginia. – FIRST PICTURE.) (Fannie Braxton Young was born on 8 December 1859, in Henrico, Virginia. Her father, John Brooke Young Sr., was 45 and her mother, Fannie Churchill Braxton, was 31. She married James Mason Miller in 1889 and they were the parents of Fannie Braxton Miller - 1890–1970 and Margaret Erskine Miller - 1895–1958. At the time of her death, she was living at 412 West Franklin St., Richmond, Virginia – SECOND PICTURE. She died on 21 April 1914, in Richmond, Henrico, Virginia, at the age of 54, and was buried in Hollywood Cemetery, Richmond, Virginia. – THIRD PICTURE. Her obit is FOURTH PICTURE.)

She was a daughter of John B. Young (1814-1886) and F***y Churchill Braxton (1828-1894), his wife. (John B. Young was born in 1814 in Henrico County, Virginia and died September 12, 1886 in Westbrook, Henrico County, Virginia. He was compensated for opposing the annexation of Henrico by the City of Richmond in 1861. He was a lawyer. He was buried in Hollywood Cemetery, Richmond, Virginia. – FIFTH PICTURE.) (Fannie Churchill Braxton was born on 24 June 1828, in King William, Virginia. Her father, Dr. Corbin Braxton M D, was 36 and her mother, Mary Williamson Tomlin, was 25. She married John Brooke Young Sr. on 9 November 1858, in King William, Virginia. They were the parents of Fannie Braxton Young - 1859–1914; John Brooke Young Jr - 1861–1924; Mary Tomlin Young - 1863–1907; William Ormond Young - 1867–1950; Armistead Churchill Young Sr. - 1869–1955; William Churchill Young - 1870–Deceased; Edward Aubrey Young - 1871–1922. She died in 1894, in Richmond, Virginia, at the age of 66, and was buried in Hollywood Cemetery, Richmond, Virginia.)

She was a granddaughter of Corbin Braxton (1792-1852) and Mary Williamson Tomlin (1806-1871), his wife. (Dr. Corbin Braxton M D was born on 3 May 1792, in Chericoke, King William, Virginia. His father, George Braxton, was 29 and his mother, Mary Walker, was 28. He married Mary Williamson Tomlin about 1825, in Virginia. They were the parents of William Armistead Braxton - 1825–1864; Margaret Williamson Braxton - 1826–Deceased; Fannie Churchill Braxton - 1828–1894; Charles Carter Braxton - 1830–Deceased; Dr. Tomlin Braxton - 1832–1892; Elizabeth Pope "Betty" Braxton - 1835–1927; Margaret Braxton - 1836–Deceased; Lucy Tomlin Braxton - 1838–1928. He died on 12 February 1852, in Chericoke, King William, Virginia, at the age of 59. - Buried at Chericoke. - SIXTH PICTURE.)

She was a great-granddaughter of George Braxton (1767-1801) and Mary Walker Carter (1763-1844), his wife. (George Braxton was born in 1767 and died in 1801 in King William County, Virginia. Mary Walker Carter was born October 27, 1863 and died September 23, 1844. They were buried at Chericoke, the Carter family estate, in King William County, Virginia. - SEVENTH PICTURE.)

She was a great-great-great-granddaughter of Carter Braxton (1736-1797) (EIGHTH PICTURE), who was a delegate to the Continental Congress and a member of the Committee of Safety. He was a signer of the Declaration of Independence. (Carter Braxton was born September 10, 1736, a son of George Braxton and Mary Carter Braxton, on Newington Plantation in King and Queen County, Virginia and educated at the College of William and Mary. He married a wealthy heiress named Judith Robinson at the age nineteen, but she died two years later, leaving him two daughters, and he journeyed to England for two years. Braxton returned to the colonies in 1760, marrying again, this time to Elizabeth Corbin, and represented King William County in the Virginia House of Burgesses. He joined the patriot's Committee of Safety in Virginia in 1774 and represented his county in the Virginia Convention. When Peyton Randolph died in 1775, Braxton was appointed to take his place in the Continental Congress. He served in the Congress from February 1776 until August, when Virginia reduced its delegation to five members. In that capacity he signed the Declaration of Independence, although he had previously opposed it as premature in Committee of the Whole. Afterwards he returned to the House of Burgesses, and later served on the State's Executive Council. Braxton invested a great deal of his wealth in the American Revolution. He loaned money to the cause and funded shipping and privateering, but was censured by the Continental Congress in 1780 for his role in the seizure of a neutral Portuguese vessel. The British destroyed Braxton's shipping investments and several of his plantations were destroyed during the war as well. Braxton accumulated a great deal of debt from the war and never recovered financially. He was forced to sell his estate in 1786 and move to a smaller residence ("row-house") in Richmond. Chericoke (NINTH PICTURE) and Elsing Green (TENTH PICTURE) are some plantations at which he resided. Chericoke is still in the family's possession today and Elsing Green is available for tourism. He is buried at Chericoke, Carter Family Estate, King William County, Virginia. - ELEVENTH PICTURE) (His wife was Judith Robinson Braxton (later Robinson) (1736-1757). Judith Robinson was born June 2, 1736, a daughter of Christopher Robinson and Mary Barclay Robinson, in Herwick, Middlesex County, Virginia, and died December 30, 1757 in Elsing Green, King William County, Virginia, giving birth to her second daughter.) His second wife was Elizabeth Corbin (1743-1814). They had sixteen children. She is also buried at Chericoke, Carter Family Estate, King William County, Virginia.

11/03/2026

FROM LINEAGE BOOK #4 OF NSDAR:

MARY DOUGLASS BISSELL (1819-1905) was DAR member $3746. She was born in Missouri. She was the wife of Captain Lewis Bissell (1789-1868). (The Bissell Mansion, situated on a high bluff overlooking the Mississippi River, was built by Captain Lewis Bissell in 1823. Bissell, born in Connecticut on October 12, 1789, came from an impressive family of American military leaders. Lewis Bissell began his military career at 19 and was soon sent by President Thomas Jefferson to what was then known as the Western frontier. When he returned from the “frontier,” Bissell began acquiring real estate in the 1820s, mainly some 1,500 acres known as Bissell’s Point. FIRST PICTURE -The “point” stretched East of Bissell’s Mansion to the Mississippi River and North to the frontier outpost of Fort Bellefontaine, which guarded the confluence of the Mississippi and Illinois Rivers. He also married Mary Woodbridge in 1821. Once his mansion was completed, several more fine houses were built on Bissell Point, which quickly became “the place to live” in North St. Louis. Bissell’s home was surrounded by many trees and had an orchard extending toward the river. Lewis’ wife Mary died in 1831, and he remarried six years later to Mary Jane Douglas. Bissell lived in the house for more than four decades before he died there at 79 in 1868. He was buried in Bellefontaine Cemetery, St. Louis, Missouri. – SECOND PICTURE.) (Mary Douglass was born January 19, 1819 in St. Louis, Missouri and died April 1, 1905 in Staunton, Virginia. Mrs. Mary J. Bissell, relict of Captain Lewis Bissell and formerly of St. Louis, Mo., in her 87th year, having been born on Jan. 19, 1819. She left three children-Taylor Bissell and H. B. Wilson, of this city, and Mrs. Cheney, of Connecticut. Interment in Thornrose Cemetery, Staunton, Virginia.)

She was a daughter of Thompson Douglass (1787-1841) and Cornelia Bissell (1801-1871), his wife. (Thompson Douglass was born in 1787 in Maryland and died August 30, 1841 in St. Louis, Missouri. Thompson Douglass came to St. Louis during the war of 1812-15, as paymaster in the United States service, until the reduction of the Army following the peace of 1815, when he was mustered out. After this he was appointed a Justice of the Peace and Notary Public for St. Louis. Maj. Douglass was married September 23rd 1817 to Miss Cornelia Richmond Bissell, third daughter of General Daniel Bissell, U. S. Army. This union was blessed with four known children. Maj. Thompson Douglass was a Worshipful Master and a zealous Mason; who built Lodge #12, located on the north side of the present Elm Street, between Main and Second Streets in Saint Louis.) (Cornelia Bissell was born September 13, 1801 in Middletown, Connecticut and died February 2, 1871 in St. Louis, Missouri. They were buried in Bellefontaine Cemetery, St. Louis, Missouri. – THIRD AND FOURTH PICTURES.)

She was a granddaughter of General Daniel Bissell (1768-1833) (FIFTH PICTURE) and Deborah Sebor (1774-1843), his wife. (Daniel Bissell was born in 1768 in Bolton, Connecticut and died December 14, 1833 in St. Louis, Missouri. He is remembered as an American military figure with his service starting as a twelve-year-old fifer with the Connecticut's troops during the American Revolutionary. In 1788 he enlisted with the U.S. Army, commencing a military career that saw service along the frontier from New Orleans to Canada. As Captain Bissell, he came to Missouri in 1804 where he became a close friend of frontiersman Daniel Boone. Bissell received the official transfer of the Spanish fort at New Madrid, Missouri; the post was commissioned to him by Captain Amos Stoddard as agent of the French Republic. In 1807 he was ordered to Fort Bellefontaine upon the death of his older brother Major Russell Bissell. He appointed Commander of Fort Bellefontaine and Military Governor of Upper Louisiana by President Thomas Jefferson in 1808. He served with distinction during the War of 1812 and was promoted to brigadier general on March 9, 1814. After retiring from active duty, he was prominent in the early affairs of St. Louis, Missouri. He died from the complications of pneumonia. SIXTH PICTURE - His home is now owned by the St Louis County Missouri Parks Service and opened to the public for historical tours.) (Deborah Sebor was born November, 1774 in Middletown, Connecticut and died November 15, 1843 in St. Louis, Missouri. By 1802, The Bissell family had moved to Missouri; where Daniel Bissell would be appointed Commander of Fort Bellefontaine & Military Governor of Upper Louisiana by President Jefferson in 1808. In 1815, the family started the construction of their home, located east of the village of Florissant north of Saint Louis. The farm would grow to over 2300 arces and be known as Franklinville Farm. After General Bissell died in 1833, Deborah Bissell would continue to run the farm and entertain the society of Saint Louis at her home. She departed this life on November 15th 1843 in the 69th year of her age. Deborah Bissell and her husband, General Daniel Bissell, were re-interred on April 30th 1890 at Bellefontaine Cemetery near their son, James Russell Bissell. – SEVENTH, EIGHTH AND NINTH PICTURES.)

She was a great-granddaughter of Ozias Bissell (1729-1822) and Mabel Roberts (1727-1803), his wife. Ozias Bissell marched to the relief of Ticonderoga, and was commissioned captain January 1, 1776. He was at the battle of Long Island, where he was wounded and taken prisoner. When exchanged, served under Col. Huntington in 1778, and in 1779 was taken prisoner in a skirmish on the Hudson River. (Ozias Bissell was born May 13, 1729 in Bolton, Connecticut and died November 16, 1822 in Vernon, Connecticut. Mabel Roberts was born in 1727 and died October 31, 1803. They are buried in East Cemetery, Manchester, Connecticut. - TENTH AND ELEVENTH PICTURES.)

11/02/2026

FROM LINEAGE BOOK #4 OF NSDAR:

MARY JULIA BALDWIN (1829-1897) was DAR member #3745. (Mary Julia Baldwin was born on 4 October 1829, in Wi******er, Virginia. Her father, Dr. William Daniel Baldwin, was 26 and her mother, Margaret Sarah Sowers, was 18. She suffered an illness as a child that paralyzed one side of her face. (Because of this disfigurement, Baldwin never permitted portraits or later photographs to be taken of her.) Baldwin’s mother died in 1837, leaving her an orphan, and she moved in with her grandparents in Staunton. At age 12 she was among the first students who enrolled at the new Augusta Female Seminary. Miss Mary Julia Baldwin, principal of the Augusta Female Seminary (FIRST AND SECOND PICTURES), was one of the most distinguished educators of young ladies in the south. In 1895: Renamed Mary Baldwin Seminary in honor of Mary Julia Baldwin. In 1923: Became Mary Baldwin College as a four-year liberal arts institution. She was a member of the Beverley Manor Chapter, DAR. She died on 1 July 1897, in Staunton, Virginia, at the age of 67, and was buried in Thornrose Cemetery, Staunton, Virginia. - THIRD PICTURE.)

She was a daughter of William Daniel Baldwin (1803-1830) and Margaret Sowers (1810-1837), his wife. (Dr. William Daniel Baldwin was born on 8 March 1803, in Wi******er, Virginia. His father, Cornelius Baldwin, was 52 and his mother, Mary Briscoe, was 36. He and Margaret Sarah Sowers were the parents of Mary Julia Baldwin (1829-1897). He died in February 1830, in his hometown, at the age of 26, and was buried in Thornrose Cemetery, Staunton, Virginia. – FOURTH PICTURE..) (Margaret Sarah Sowers was born on 17 October 1810, in Staunton, Augusta, Virginia. Her father, John Colson Sowers, was 31 and her mother, Mary Lauck Heiskell, was 26. In 1833 she married Dr. Henry Lee Heiskell. She died on 15 May 1837, in Staunton, Virginia, at the age of 26, and was buried in Thornrose Cemetery, Staunton, Virginia. – FIFTH PICTURE.)

She was a granddaughter of Cornelius Baldwin (1757-1826) and Mary Briscoe (1766-1808) (SIXTH PICTURE), his wife. Cornelius Baldwin was surgeon of the Eighth Virginia in 1777; captured at Charleston and exchanged November, 1780. He was a member of the original Society of the Cincinnati. (Cornelius Baldwin was born from 1751 to 1754, in Elizabethtown, Essex, New Jersey. His father, Elijah Baldwin, was 37 and his mother, Abigale Elizabeth Culver, was 30. He married Mary Briscoe on 16 October 1783, in Frederick, Virginia. They were the parents of Margaret Baldwin - 1784–1824; Eliza Cook Baldwin - 1786–1844; Judge Briscoe Gerard Baldwin - 1789–1852; Dr. Cornelius Elijah Baldwin - 1791–1828; Dr. Robert Thomas Baldwin Sr. - 1793–1863; Dr. Archibald Stuart Baldwin - 1796–1873; Hugh Holmes Baldwin - 1798–Deceased; Mary Briscoe Baldwin - 1800–1879; Dr. William Daniel Baldwin - 1803–1830; Lt. Alexander G. Baldwin - 1805–1837. Dr. Baldwin settled in Wi******er after serving as a Surgeon in the American Revolution with the 8th Virginia Regiment. His first wife, Mary Briscoe, was from Wi******er. He died on 19 December 1826, in Wi******er, Virginia, United States, and was buried in Mount Hebron Cemetery, Wi******er, Virginia. - SEVENTH PICTURE.) (Mary Briscoe was born on 2 October 1766. Her father, Col Gerard Briscoe, was 29 and her mother, Margaret Baker, was 27. She died on 26 September 1808, in Wi******er, Virginia, at the age of 41.)

11/01/2026

FROM LINEAGE BOOK #4 OF NSDAR:

LALEAH DUNWOODY WADDELL (1844-1919) was DAR member #3744. She was born in Alabama. She was the wife of Joseph Addison Waddell (1823-1914) (FIRST PICTURE). (Joseph Addison Waddell (March 19, 1823 – February 17, 1914) was an American lawyer, politician, newspaperman and author from Virginia. He served in the Virginia Constitutional Convention of 1868, representing Augusta County, Virginia, and also briefly represented that county's voters in both houses of the Virginia General Assembly. Waddell served as president pro tem of the Virginia Senate in 1870–71. Joseph Waddell was educated in Virginia: first at the Staunton Academy, then briefly at Washington College (which later became Washington and Lee University). He then moved to Charlottesville to study at the University of Virginia, then completed his legal studies back in Staunton at a private law school conducted by Judge Lucas P. Thompson. In 1842, Joseph Waddell married Virginia McClung (1822-1889), but they had no children. A year after her death, in 1890, he married Laleah Dunwody (1844-1919), who survived him. After admission to the Virginia bar, Waddell had a private legal practice in his native Augusta County, but was drawn to journalism. He became co-editor and co-proprietor of the Staunton Spectator for twelve years. Originally a Whig, Waddell later became a Democrat. In 1860, Waddell was appointed a commissioner in chancery, under the guidance of his mentor Judge Thompson, who presided over the circuit court for three decades, including during the American Civil War. Waddell would remain a commissioner in chancery for the rest of his legal career. He also served as the county's commissioner of accounts, and clerk of the Virginia Court of Appeals when it sat in Staunton. In 1865, Augusta county voters elected Waddell to represent them, part-time in the Virginia House of Delegates. In 1867 they elected him as a Conservative to represent them at the Virginia Constitutional Convention of 1868. In the following election, he ran for the Virginia Senate, where he represented Augusta and neighboring Highland County until the district was redistricted to include only Augusta County following the census of 1870.) (Laleah Dunwody was born September 24, 1844 in Tuscaloosa, alabama and died May 21, 1919. He married Laleah Georgiana Wood Pratt on 14 April 1842, in St. Marys, Camden, Georgia. They are buried in Thornrose, Staunton, Virginia. – SECOND PICTURE.)

She was a daughter of Rev. James Bulloch Dunwoody (1816-1902) (THIRD PICTURE) and Laleah Georgiana Wood Pratt (1823-1853), his wife. (James Bulloch Dunwoody was born September 24, 1816 in Wilkes County, Georgia. Graduated Yale College, 1836, Presbyterian Seminary, Columbia, South Carolina, 1841. Missionary in Cherokee Country before he was ordained in Charleston, SC, in 1845. He then served at Stony Creek Presbyterian Meeting House, Pocotaligo, SC, for 10 years, returning again in 1873 where he remained as spiritual leader for the rest of his life. Married 1) Laleah W. Pratt of Tuscaloosa, Ala (1842); 2) Ellen Galt Martin of Bindon Plantation and McPhersonville, Beaufort Co. SC (1853); 3) Caroline Indiana Hagood (1859) of Barnwell, SC. He died June 26, 1902 in Walterboro, Colleton, South Carolina and was buried in Live Oak Cemetery, Walterboro, Colleton, South Carolina. – FOURTH PICTURE.) (Laleah Georgiana Wood Pratt was born December 16, 1823 in Saint Mary’s, Camden, Georgia and died October 25, 1863 in McPhersonville, Hampden, South Carolina. He married Laleah Georgiana Wood Pratt on 14 April 1842, in St. Marys, Camden, Georgia, United States. They were the parents of Jane Bayldon Dunwoody - 1843–1844; Laleah Georgiana Dunwody - 1844–1919; Inez Dunwody - 1848–Deceased; Horace Pratt Dunwoody - 1849–1850; John Henry Dunwody - 1852–1918; Marion Glen Dunwoody - 1853–Deceased and was buried in Stoney Creek Cemetery, Sheldon, Beaufort, South Carolina. – FIFTH PICTURE of cemetery.)

She was a granddaughter of John Dunwoody (1786-1858) (SIXTH PICTURE) and Jane Bulloch (1788-1856), his wife. (John Dunwoody was born on 13 January 1786, in Georgia. His father, Dr. James Dunwoody, was 45 and his mother, Esther Dean, was 40. He married Jane Bulloch on 7 June 1808, in Liberty, Georgia. They were the parents of James Bulloch Dunwody - 1816–1902; Lieut. Col. John A Dunwody - 1818–1903; Jane Marion Dunwoody - 1821–1885; Dr William Elliott Dunwody - 1823–1891; Major Henry Macon Dunwody - 1826–1863; Major Charles Archibald Alexander Dunwody - 1829–1905. SEVENTH PICTURE. - Designed for Roswell founding father John Dunwoody, this Greek Revival style home was built in 1840 and rebuilt in 1847 following a devastating fire. Mimosa Hall was named for its many mimosa trees. He died on 6 June 1858, in Georgia, at the age of 72, and was buried in Founders Cemetery, Roswell, Fulton, Georgia. – EIGHTH PICTURE.) (Jane Bulloch was born on 8 April 1788, in Savannah, Chatham, Georgia. Her father, Captain James Stephens Bulloch Sr, was 23 and her mother, Anne Irvine, was 18. She died on 30 June 1856, in Georgia, at the age of 68, and was buried in Founders Cemetery, Roswell, Fulton, Georgia.)

She was a great-granddaughter of James Bulloch (1765-1806) and Ann Irvine (1770-1812), his wife. (Captain James Stephens Bulloch Sr was born in 1765, in Chatham, Georgia. His father, Archibald Stobo Bulloch, was 35 and his mother, Mary Olivia DeVeaux, was 18. He married Anne Irvine in 1786. They were the parents of John Irvine Bulloch - 1787–1827; Jane Bulloch - 1788–1856; James Stephens Bulloch - 1793–1849; Ann Bulloch - 1793–1871; Charlotte Von Glahn Glenn - 1802–1845. . He died on 9 February 1806, in his hometown, at the age of 41, and was buried in Colonial Park Cemetery, Savannah, Chatham, Georgia. – no grave photo) (Anne Irvine was born on 14 January 1770, in Sunbury, Georgia. Her father, Dr. John Robert Irvine, was 27 and her mother, Ann Elizabeth Baillie, was 20. She died on 2 November 1812, in Alpharetta, Fulton, Georgia, at the age of 42. Her burial details are unknown.)

She was a great-great-granddaughter of Archibald Bulloch (1730-1777) (NINTH PICTURE) and Mary De Veaux (1747-1818) (TENTH PICTURE), his wife. Archibald Bulloch, in 1775, was president of the Provincial Congress of Georgia, and delegate to the Continental Congress; official duties called him home, so he did not sign the Declaration of Independence. From 1776-77 he was President of his State. (Archibald Stobo Bulloch was born on 1 January 1730, in Charleston, Charleston, South Carolina. His father, James Bulloch, was 29 and his mother, Jane Stobo, was 29. He married Mary Olivia DeVeaux on 9 October 1764, in Argyle Island, Chatham, Georgia. They were the parents of Captain James Stephens Bulloch Sr - 1765–1806; Burrel Bulloch - 1768–1824; Daniel Bulloch - 1769–Deceased; Jane Bulloch - 1770–1787; Charlott Bulloch - 1770–1808; Zechariah Bulloch - 1772–Deceased; Winnifred Bulloch - 1773–Deceased; Richard Bulloch - 1774–Deceased; Archibald Stobo Bulloch - 1775–1859; Nathaniel Bulloch - 1775–Deceased; Hawkins Bulloch - 1776–Deceased; William Bellinger Bulloch - 1777–1852. He died on 22 February 1777, in Savannah, Chatham, Georgia, at the age of 47, and was buried in Colonial Park Cemetery, Savannah, Chatham, Georgia. – ELEVENTH AND TWELFTH PICTURES.) (Mary Olivia DeVeaux was born on 26 January 1747, in Georgia. Her father, Colonel James DeVeaux, was 37 and her mother, Anne Bellinger Fairchild, was 43. She died on 26 May 1818, in Savannah, Chatham, Georgia, at the age of 71, and was buried in Savannah, Chatham, Georgia.)

10/31/2026

FROM LINEAGE BOOK #4 OF NSDAR:

ISABELLA HURST BRAWLEY (1842-1914) was DAR member #3743. She was born in Pennsylvania. (Isabella Hurst Brawley was born August 10, 1842 and died April 1, 1914. She was an active member of the First Presbyterian church and Sunday School and recording secretary of the Women’s Home Missionary Society of Erie Presbytery. She was a member of the Daughters of the American Revolution, the Women’s Literary Club of Meadville and on the advisory board of City Hospital. Her death certificate says she was buried in Greendale Cemetery, Meadville, Pennsylvania. Her obit is FIRST PICTURE.)

She was a daughter of James Porter Brawley (1819-1863) and Isabella Hurst Brooks (1817-1872), his wife. (James Porter Brawley, born, November 5, 1819, Meadville, Crawford, Pennsylvania; son of Hugh and Lucy Daniels Brawley; Allegheny College; studied law: married, Isabella Hurst Brooks, children, James Buchanan Brawley; Isabella Hurst Brawley, John Brooks Brawley, Hugh Porter Brawley, Frances Lucy Brawley, Hugh Porter Brawley; elected, Democrat, Pennsylvania State House of Representatives, 1842-1843; elected, Democrat, Pennsylvania State Senate, 1848-1850; Surveyor-General of Pennsylvania, 1850-1856; died, July 23, 1863, New York, New York. Burial location unknown.) (Isabella Hurst Brooks was born November 5, 1817 in Crawford County, Pennsylvania and died January 2, 1872 in Meadville, Pennsylvania. She was buried in Greendale Cemetery, Meadville, Pennsylvania. – SECOND PICTURE.)

She was a granddaughter of John Brooks (1765-1831) and Susan Nichols, his wife. (John Brooks was born May 12, 1765 in County Donegal, Ireland and died June 3, 1831 in Crawford County, Pennsylvania. During his boyhood he received a fair English education, and at the age of fourteen was apprenticed in the city of Belfast, Ireland, and learned the trade of wheelwright. Several years after the expiration of his apprenticeship, in 1786, and after the death of his father, he immigrated to the United States and landed at New York about 1792-93. He remained in New York or vicinity for a brief time, and in 1794 removed to the territory which was afterward organized as Crawford County, Pennsylvania, where he remained during the balance of his life. In 1798 his mother and two brothers, Quenton and William, immigrated to America, and settled in Crawford County, where they remained until their deaths. Mr. Brooks first settled on a farm in what is now Greenwood Township, adjoining the Mercer County line, about a mile from Sheakleyville, and remained there for a few years. He, however, soon removed to Meadville, and commenced business at his trade, which he followed for several years. He afterward entered into mercantile business, which he carried on until about 1828, when he retired to his farm on the Franklin Turnpike, about three miles southeast of Meadville, where he resided till the time of his death. He was the first Justice of the Peace in Crawford County after its organization; was one of the State Commissioners to lay out and construct the Susquehanna & Waterford Turnpike, and for two terms was County Treasurer. In 1813, during the war with Great Britain, he organized and commanded a company which went to Erie to resist the invasion of the soil of Pennsylvania, which was then thought imminent. After arriving in Erie he was appointed aid to Gen. Mead, Division Commander, with the rank of Major. The troops remained at Erie until after the defeat of the British fleet, off Put-in Bay, by Commodore Perry, when the troops were disbanded and returned to their homes. In 1817 he was appointed by Gov. Simon Snyder an Associate Judge of Crawford County, which office he held fourteen years, or until his death. Judge Brooks belonged to what was called the Seceders, a branch of the old Covenanters or Scotch Presbyterians. He was a man of more than ordinary ability, a good English scholar, and well read in the literature of his day. He was upright, honest, and reliable, and an honor to the community in which he lived and spent the greater part of his life. He had three children with his first wife (his first wife being Elizabeth Wright, to whom he was united July 24, 1800): two daughters and one son. With his second wife (Susan Nichols, daughter of Thomas Nichols, of Jersey Shore, Lycoming Co., Penn., to whom he was married August 7, 1810) he had eight children: three sons and five daughters. He died June 3, 1831, aged 66 years, and was buried in Greendale Cemetery, Meadville, Pennsylvania. – THIRD PICTURE of cemetery.)

She was a great-granddaughter of Thomas Nichols (1735-1830) and Margaret Campbell (1760-1854), his wife. Thomas Nichols, in 1781, was a soldier in the Pennsylvania Line. (Thomas Nichols was born in 1735, and settled on a farm 3 miles east of Pine Creek, opposite what was formerly known as Phelps' Mill. The little stream flowing through this land is known even to this day as "Nichols run." With John Jackson he was one of the signers of the Pine Creek Declaration of Independence. He was a soldier in Capt. Thomas Forster's Company, Third Battalion, Northumberland County Militia, commanded by Col. William Hepburn. He served three years as a county commissioner. He is buried in Pine Creek Graveyard, Jersey shore, Lycoming County, Pennsylvania. – FOURTH PICTURE.)

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