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MAY LENA (THOMAS) HAYS was the daughter of WILLIS THOMAS & ALICE BLEWETT (HOWARD MALCOLM BLEWETT & ELIZABETH V MCELWAIN).
HOWARD MALCOLM BLEWETT served the Confederacy during the “War Between the States”. He served with Companies B, D, and L of the 2nd Kentucky Cavalry, riding with “MORGAN'S Raider’s.”
HOWARD MALCOLM BLEWETT was captured at Rankin Point, Ohio 21 July 1863 & transferred from Camp Douglas, Chicago, Illinois 13 Feb 1865 to Point Lookout, Maryland for exchange.
He was paroled 14 April 1865 on “Oath of Allegiance, at Chattanooga, Tennessee.” He was then transferred to Chimborazo Hospital in Richmond, Va, due to severe malnutrition due to starvation and disease.
This writer is a member of the United Daughters of the Confederacy, Confederate Dames Chapter #1225 in honor of my great, great grandfather, HOWARD MALCOLM BLEWETT.
HOWARD BLEWETT and his wife ELIZABETH V MCELWAIN are buried in the MCELWAIN Family Cemetery in Simpson County, Kentucky. HOWARD MALCOLM BLEWETT died in 1921. ELIZABETH MCELWAIN died 12 June 1880 in Simpson County, Ky.
ELIZABETH V MCELWAIN was the daughter of JOHN SAMSON MCELWAIN & NANCY ANN HURT, as the 1850 Simpson County, Ky Census, lists the following children for JOHN age 58-m and NANCY age 53-f MCELWAIN:
1) J. H. MCELWAIN age 22 male
2) WM. A. MCELWAIN age 21 male
3) F .M. MCELWAIN age 16 female
4) N. A. MCELWAIN age 12 female
5) E. J. MCELWAIN age 10 female
On March 19, 2000 the Irish mystery of the MCELWAIN'S has been solved. I found a cousin on line by the name of DOROTHY DONNELL STEERS, who was looking for a JOHN SAMPSON MCELWAIN, who was the son of Irish immigrants.
JOHN SAMSON MCELWAIN & FRANCES MCELWAIN, arrived in Cecil County, Maryland about 1800. She stated they lived there until about 1812 and then moved to Kentucky.
DOROTHY stated there was a daughter also named FRANCES SIDNEY MCELWAIN.
After looking at some Kentucky biographies on the MCELWAIN family in Warren, Simpson, Todd, and Logan Counties, it was discovered that an ALEXANDER MCELWAIN, born 1797 in Ireland, was the son of SAMPSON & FRANCES MCELWAIN.
The following history is from “History of Todd County, Ky” ed. J.H. Battle, 1884, F. A. Battery Publishing Co., 1884, pp. 325-326.
JAMES C MCELWAIN b. May 14, 1821 near Russellville, KY removed with his parents to Todd County KY, where he was reared and still resides.
He is the son of ALEXANDER MCELWAIN b. 1780, a native of the city of Cork, Ireland, and immigrated in 1790 with his widowed mother to Maryland then to Logan County, KY about 1800 where his mother and family followed him. He purchased 1,000 acres of land south of Shakertown on which his mother died.
ALEXANDER MCELWAIN m. MARY W FRAZIER of Logan County. There children were: 1) FRANCES MCELWAIN (PARRISH), 2) ELIZA J MCELWAIN (YOUNG)., 3) MARY MCELWAIN (YOUNG)., 4) JOHN W MCELWAIN, 5) CAROLINE MCELWAIN (HARREL), 6) JAMES C MCELWAIN, and 7) ALEXANDER B MCELWAIN.
JAMES C MCELWAIN (6) m. 1841 to MISS MARY YANCY, daughter of GABRIEL L YANCY, of Todd County. There children were:
1) CLEMENTINE MCELWAIN (CHILES)., 2) MARIA L MCELWAIN(BRONAUGH), 3) JAMES W MCELWAIN, 4) MARY W MCELWAIN (HORD)., and 5) EDWARD L MCELWAIN.
After the death of his wife in 1861, JAMES C MCELWAIN m. in 1862 to MISS ELIZABETH A THOMPSON, daughter of GEORGE O THOMPSON of Hopkinsville, KY and from this union sprang: 1) ELLEN G MCELWAIN, 2) GEORGE A MCELWAIN, 3) GERTRUDE MCELWAIN and 4) CARRIE MCELWAIN.
JAMES C MCELWAIN is engaged in the business of farming, owning 225 acres of very fine land which he successfully cultivated in wheat, corn and tobacco. He is a Cumberland Prebyterian, a Granger, formerly an Old Line Whig, but now a Democrat!
The above mentioned ALEXANDER MCELWAIN was the son of ALEXANDER & FRANCES MCELWAIN. ALEXANDER MCELWAIN SR died in Londonderry, now known as Derry County, Ireland. His wife FRANCES left Ireland a widow with 11 children. Her daughter FRANCES, was my 4th great grandmother. She married JOHN SAMSON MCELWAIN, as stated in grandmother FRANCES MCELWAIN'S will, on file in Logan County, KY.
But the dilemma is, who did JOHN SAMSON MCELWAIN belong to? Many assume FRAMCES MCELWAIN and JOHN SAMSON MCELWAIN were 1st cousins? JOHN & FRANCES (MCELWAIN) MCELWAIN were parents of JOHN SAMSON MCELWAIN, who married NANCY HURT.
NANCY HURT is the daughter of JOHN HURT, as stated on their marriage license on file in Warren County, Ky.
The following history is taken from “Simpson County Kentucky Families-Past and Present” page 14:
FRANCES MCELWAIN, the daughter of LORD ROWDEN of Londonderry, Ireland ran off and married a “commoner”, ALEXANDER MCELWAIN. Her family dis-owned her. ALEXANDER & FRANCES were the parents of 11 children. They lived in Cork, Ireland.
After a period of time, ALEXANDER MCELWAIN died and FRANCES decided to come to America. She paid passage for her 11 children, an aunt, an uncle, and also for seven white servants and all their personal belongings. They came across in a wooden hull ship, taking nine weeks and three days before they landed.
FRANCES MCELWAIN bought 384 acres of real estate in Annapolis, Montgomery County, Maryland, near Rockville. She paid 642 pounds for the 384 acres in 1791.
Later, FRANCES MCELWAIN decided to go to Kentucky. In 1810 she purchased 1,273 acres some two and one half miles southeast of Auburn on Highway 1039, then it was the great Kentucky Road. She died in 1825 and along with most of her children, are buried on the farm on the Simpson-Logan County line.
Some of the land is owned by DODGER & VARDEE HOLLINS and some owned by JAMES WILSON at the present time, September, 1988. An article was written by DAVID APPLING about this.
The following is a transcribed copy of the will of FRANCES ROWDEN MCELWAIN, my 5th great grandmother. Her will is on file in Logan County, Kentucky:
Logan County, Kentucky, Will Bk C, pp 175-176, 16 December 1813, probated 04 April 1825.
In the name of God Amen. I, FRANCES MCELWAIN of the county of Logan and State of Kentucky, knowing the great uncertainty of life and certainty of death, do make this my last will and Testament, revoking wills heretofore made, in substance and form as follows:
Item (1). To my Son JAMES MCELWAIN, I give and bequeath to him and his heirs forever one negro boy known by the name of NATHAN, also one other negro boy by the name of EDESTLEY, also my wagon gear and the four horses that are known as waggon horses & also all my stock of cattle, horses, sheep and hoggs not hereafter disposed of, and I...in consequence of leaving my said son JAMES MCELWAIN to support my daughters ANN MCELWAIN, MARY MCELWAIN, GRASAH MCELWAIN and MARGARET MCELWAIN so long as they shall remain unmarried or seek proper to live with their Brother....and....?
Item (2). To my son JOSEPH MCELWAIN I give and bequeath to him and his heirs forever one negro boy named CHARLES also one mare and colt, one bed, bedstead and the clothing thereunto belonging together with-/-cow and calves.
Item (3). To my daughter ANN MCELWAIN I give and bequeath to her and her heirs forever my negro girl SYLVIA with all her issue, also bed, bedstead and the clothing thereunto belonging together with one young horse.
Item (4). To my daughter MARY MCELWAIN I give and bequeath to her and her heirs forever, my negro girl AMEY with her increase, also one bed, bedstead and and the clothing thereunto belonging, together with one young horse.
Item (5). To my daughter GRASEAL MCELWAIN I give and bequeath to her and her heirs forever my negro girl EVENNAH with her increase, also one bed, bedstead and the clothing thereunto belonging together with a sorrel horse known by my -(?)- family as hers.
Item (6). To my daughter MARGARET MCELWAIN I give and bequeath to her and her heirs forever my negro girl SYLVIA with her mother LETTY and their increase, also one bed, bedstead and the clothing thereunto belonging, together with one young horse.
Item (7). To my daughter LYDIA, who intermarried with DAVID RUSSELL, I leave one cow and calf. I give her no more, having at her marriage given her a negro girl named CASS with her future increase, also a bed, bedstead and clothing thereunto belonging together with a mare.
Item (8). To my sons MICHAEL MCELWAIN, ALEXANDER MCELWAIN and my daughter FRANCES (BARB (HAYS) CLAYTON'S 4th great grandmother) who intermarried with JOHN SAMSON MCELWAIN and my daughter ELIZABETH MCELWAIN who intermarried with WILLIAM ORR, I leave and bequeath to each of them ten dollars in cash to be paid by my executor hereafter named.
Item (9). I leave and appoint my son JAMES MCELWAIN my sole executor to fulfill and carry this my will into effect.
In testimony whereof I, FRANCES MCELWAIN, hath set my hand and affixed my seal, this sixteenth day of December in the year of our Lord One Thousand Eight hundred and thirteen. Signed and sealed in presence of JOHN MCCUTCHEON, WILLIAM MCCUTCHEN & GALE L EWES.
Signed FRANCES MCELWAIN.
Logan County Ct. At a County Court held for said county at the courthouse in Russellville on the 4th day of April 1825 the within last will and testament of FRANCES MCELWAIN, deed, produced in open court, proven by the oaths of JOHN & WILLIAM MCCUTCHEON, two of the subscribing witnesses thereto, and ordered to be recorded and the same together with this certificate.
HOWARD MALCOLM BLEWETT was the son of EDWARD BLEWETT & LUCY LEATON. EDWARD BLEWETT was the son of ELI K BLEWETT & ELIZABETH ANN WILLIAMS. ELIZABETH A WILLIAMS was the daughter of EDWARD WILLIAMS & REBECCA HOUSTES, born 09 October 1776 in Pennsylvania.
ELI K BLEWETT (WM BLEWETT & ELIZABETH MORRIS) b. 15 March 1765 Blewett Falls NC d. 08 March 1837 Woodbury, Warren County, Kentucky m. 23 November 1791 in Richmond County, N.C. to ELIZABETH WILLIAMS. Both are buried in Old Zion Church Cemetery in Warren County, Kentucky.
WILLIS THOMAS b. 25 August Kentucky d. 26 August 1941 Taylorville, Christian County, Illinois bur. (with brothers) in Oak Hill Cemetery in Taylorville, Il, m. 1st 23 November 1791 Richmond County, NC to ALICE BLEWETT m. 2nd 10 December 1918 in Taylorville, Christian County, Illinois, to ABBIE PRUITT without first divorcing his 1st wife.
WILLIS THOMAS parents were ISAAC THOMAS & LUCINDA HENSON. ISAAC THOMAS b. 30 November 1845 in either Allen or Simpson County, KY. d. 27 January 1915 in Simpson County, Kentucky bur. in Black Jack Cemetery same county m. LUCINDA JANE HENSON(RILEY HENSON & SARAH WRIGHT) b. 15 March 1855.
RILEY HENSON (JAMES & LUCINDA WARD, both born 1813) b. 10 August 1828 in Simpson County, Kentucky d. 20 May 1911 in Temperence, Simpson County, KY. SARAH WRIGHT b. 12 September 1827 Simpson County, KY d. 25 July 1920 Simpson County, KY. Both bur. in Hopewell Cemetery in Franklin, Simpson County, Kentucky.
SARAH WRIGHT was the daughter of JAMES KENNAN WRIGHT & MALINDA TODD. JAMES WRIGHT b. 1800 and MALINDA TODD b. between 1800-1810.
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Early Settlers
Town of Georgetown
Early settlers in the Town of Georgetown taken from 1784 "History of Chenango & Madison Counties, NY" by JAMES H SMITH; pub. 1880.
Georgetown was formed from DeRuyter, April 7, 1815.
1804
first settlement, EZRA SEXTON, Litchfield, Conn
1804
REUBEN BUCKINHAMN, born Conn, moved from Seabrooks, Mass to
Georgetown in 1806, and
JAMES McELWAIN.,
few years later
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The following history is from “History of Todd County, Ky” ed. J.H. BATTLE, 1884, F. A. BATTERY Publishing Co., 1884, pp. 325-326.
JAMES C MCELWAIN (ALEXANDER MCELWAIN) b. May 14, 1821, near Russellville, KY removed with his parents in childhood to Todd County where he was reared and still resides. He is the son of ALEXANDER MCELWAIN, a native of the city of Cork, Ireland, where he was born in 1780, and immigrated with his widowed mother to Maryland, in 1790, thence to Logan County, KY about 1800 (whither his mother and family followed him), and purchased 1,000 acres of land south of Shakertown, where his mother died. ALEXANDER MCELWAIN married MARY W FRAZIER, of Logan County, and to them were born: FRANCES MCELWAIN (PARRISH), ELIZA J (YOUNG)., MARY (YOUNG)., JOHN W., CAROLINE (HARREL), JAMES C., & ALEXANDER B. JAMES C was married in 1841 to MISS MARY, daughter of GABRIEL L YANCY, of Todd County, and this union was blessed with:
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MCELWAIN, ANDREW - Newton Twp son JAMES MCELWAIN land when he becomes of age - land in dispute between the testator & HUGH ALLEN. Dau ELIZABETH NICHOLSON, wife MARY. Five daus: PRUDENCE, MARY, HANNAH, RUTH, ELONER. Sons: ANDREW, ROBERT, WILLIAM. Executors Brother-in-law ROBERT MICKEY wife Mary MCELWAIN. written 5 Jun. 1770. proven 31 Aug. 1770. witness WILLIAM SAMSON, ALEX LAUGHLIN.
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