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8751 While "Georges Creek" is often cited as a part of "Fayette County," Paul E. Williams points out that "'Fayette County, Pennsylvania 1763'" is not accurate, since "'Fayette County' was created on September 26, 1783, from part of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania." Thomas, Hezekiah (I43630)
 
8752 While "Georges Creek" is often cited as a part of "Fayette County," Paul E. Williams points out that "'Fayette County, Pennsylvania 1763'" is not accurate, since "'Fayette County' was created on September 26, 1783, from part of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania." Hardin, Martin Stull (I43692)
 
8753 While her parents and siblings appear in the family in the 1920 Federal Census for Chicago, she is not listed. She must have been married and moved out. Horwitz, Fannie (I0513)
 
8754 While Samuel Burgess may have been married to Elizabeth I have seen no convincing documentation that she was Elizabeth Hopkins the daughter of John Hopkins.
There are many family trees at familysearch.org and ancestry.com that do show her as Hopkins. However, I am not convinced.
Dave Howard Nov 2010 
Elizabeth (I0122)
 
8755 While Thomas Paine the father of Thomas Paine has been associated with Margaret Pulteney or Pultney as a possible spouse I believe this to be in error.

Our Paine family probably came from Suffolk, England and Margaret was part of the Paine family from Huntingdonshire and her family came from Leicestershire.

There is an excellent history of the Paine family online written by Patrick Payne, ppayne1203@earthlink.net including DNA studies. Here is the link to the actual webpage -

http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/PAYNE-PRE1700/2002-07/1026410091

Dave Howard Nov 2010 
Paine, Thomas (I0214)
 
8756 White House web site: ELIZABETH KORTRIGHT MONROE

"Romance glints from the little that is known about Elizabeth Kortright's early life. She was born in New York City in 1768, daughter of an old New York family. Her father, Lawrence, had served the Crown by privateering during the French and Indian War and made a fortune. He took no active part in the War of Independence; and James Monroe wrote to his friend Thomas Jefferson in Paris in 1786 that he had married the daughter of a gentleman, 'injured in his fortunes' by the Revolution.

Strange choice, perhaps, for a patriot veteran with political ambitions and little money of his own; but Elizabeth was beautiful, and love was decisive. They were married in February 1786, when the bride was not yet 18.

The young couple planned to live in Fredericksburg, Virginia, where Monroe began his practice of law. His political career, however, kept them on the move as the family increased by two daughters and a son who died in infancy.

In 1794, Elizabeth Monroe accompanied her husband to France when President Washington appointed him United States Minister. Arriving in Paris in the midst of the French Revolution, she took a dramatic part in saving Lafayette's wife, imprisoned and expecting death on the guillotine. With only her servants in her carriage, the American Minister's wife went to the prison and asked to see Madame Lafayette. Soon after this hint of American interest, the prisoner was set free. The Monroes became very popular in France, where the diplomat's lady received the affectionate name of la belle Americaine.

For 17 years Monroe, his wife at his side, alternated between foreign missions and service as governor or legislator of Virginia. They made the plantation of Oak Hill their home after he inherited it from an uncle, and appeared on the Washington scene in 1811 when he became Madison's Secretary of State.

Elizabeth Monroe was an accomplished hostess when her husband took the Presidential oath in 1817. Through much of the administration, however, she was in poor health and curtailed her activities. Wives of the diplomatic corps and other dignitaries took it amiss when she decided to pay no calls--an arduous social duty in a city of widely scattered dwellings and unpaved streets.

Moreover, she and her daughter Eliza changed White House customs to create the formal atmosphere of European courts. Even the White House wedding of her daughter Maria was private, in 'the New York style' rather than the expansive Virginia social style made popular by Dolley Madison. A guest at the Monroes' last levee, on New Year's Day in 1825, described the First Lady as 'regal-looking' and noted details of interest: 'Her dress was superb black velvet; neck and arms bare and beautifully formed; her hair in puffs and dressed high on the head and ornamented with white ostrich plumes; around her neck an elegant pearl necklace. Though no longer young, she is still a very handsome woman.

In retirement at Oak Hill, Elizabeth Monroe died on September 23, 1830; and family tradition says that her husband burned the letters of their life together."

http://www.whitehouse.gov/history/firstladies/em5.html  
Kortright, Elizabeth (I14113)
 
8757 White House web site: JAMES MONROE

"On New Year's Day, 1825, at the last of his annual White House receptions, President James Monroe made a pleasing impression upon a Virginia lady who shook his hand:

'He is tall and well formed. His dress plain and in the old style.... His manner was quiet and dignified. From the frank, honest expression of his eye ... I think he well deserves the encomium passed upon him by the great Jefferson, who said, "Monroe was so honest that if you turned his soul inside out there would not be a spot on it."'

Born in Westmoreland County, Virginia, in 1758, Monroe attended the College of William and Mary, fought with distinction in the Continental Army, and practiced law in Fredericksburg, Virginia.

As a youthful politician, he joined the anti-Federalists in the Virginia Convention which ratified the Constitution, and in 1790, an advocate of Jeffersonian policies, was elected United States Senator. As Minister to France in 1794-1796, he displayed strong sympathies for the French cause; later, with Robert R. Livingston, he helped negotiate the Louisiana Purchase."
http://www.whitehouse.gov/history/presidents/jm5.html July 2007

 
Monroe, James 5th President of USA (I12880)
 
8758 Who Was Who, Volume III, 1951-1960:

"COTHRAN, Perrin Chiles, insurance exec.; b. Chiles Crossroads (Millway), SC, Feb. 22, 1886; s. Capt. (CSA) Wade Elephare and Sara (Chiles) Cothran; B.S., C.E. Clemson Coll., SC, 1904; m. Annie Wilson Howe, Dec. 31, 1910 (divorced 1916); 1 dau., Josephine (Mrs. Samuel Wilson); m. 2d, Ruth Galbrait h, Sept. 18, 1941; children-Perrin Galbraith, Robert Chiles. Asst. resident engr., Carolina, Clinchfield & Ohio R.R., Clinchport, Va., 1904-1906; resident engr. Va. Pocahontas Coal Co., Coalwood, W. Va., 1906-08; resident engr. N. & S. Ry., Raleigh, N.C., 1910-12; Conn. Fire Ins. Co., Richmond, Va., 1912-17; mgr. Am. Fgn. Ins. Assn. of east coast, S. A., Rio de Jan eiro, Brazil, 1919-27; spl. agt. Phoenix Ins. Co., Phila., 1927-28; sec. Phoenix Ins. Co., Hartford, Conn., 1928-35; vice pres. and sec., Phoenix Co Group of ins. cos.; dir. Phoenix Ins. Co., Conn. Fire Ins. Co.; pres. and director, Stock Co. Assn., Washington, D.C.; vice pres. and dir. Reliance Ins. Co., Montreal, Can., dir. First Nat. Bank of Hartford, since 1941. Mem. governing com. New York Fire Ins.: Rating Orgn., New York City, governing Com. Md. Rating Bur., Baltimore, Md., bd. of govs. Middle Dep t. Assn. of Fire Underwriters, Phila., Pa. Served as capt., Major and Lt. Col. of Engrs., 195th Engrs., 30th Am. Div., III corps, U.S. Army, IV British Army, A.E.F.; Col. Res. Corps Engrs., Comdg. Officer 301st Engrs., 76th Div., U.S. Army; trans. Inactive Res., 1940. Mem. bd. of finance, City of Hartford, 1937-44. Democrat. Mason. Clubs: Bankers (New Yo rk City); Dauntless (Essex, Conn.); Hartford, Hartford Golf (Hartford, Con n.). Home: 11 Woodside Circle, Office: 30 Trinity St., Hartford, Conn. Died Dec. 23, 1959."
 
Cothran, Perrin Chiles I (I39140)
 
8759 Widow 1746 Family F7956
 
8760 Widowed at age 27, Hilma practiced nursing for 25 years and was well-known for her outstanding work. Adamson, Hilma Margareta (I1220)
 
8761 Wigaila is an unusual feminine first name. I have gone through Alexander Beider's book on given names and the closest I can come right now is Feyge which is similar to the German word vogel meaning bird and the Yiddish word for bird as well. It is a calque of the biblical name Zipporah which is the English version of the Hebrew name Tsipoyre which means bird in Hebrew.

The other women in our family named Zippa or some name similar to this are also named bird.

Helen is of Greek origin and means ray of shining light.

Dave Howard
Aug 2007 
Daug of Shender, Helen (I0491)
 
8762 Wikipedia, "Kentucky" & "Mercer County, KY": "In November, 1780, Virginia divided Kentucky County into three counties: Fayette, Jefferson, and Lincoln. . . . Mercer County, Virginia was formed from Lincoln County, Virginia in 1786. Finally, on June 1, 1792, with Virginia consenting to the separation, the United States Congress accepted the Kentucky Constitution and admitted it as the 15th state, without creating a territory first." Thomas, Elizabeth (I41672)
 
8763 Wikipedia, "Kentucky" & "Mercer County, KY": "In November, 1780, Virginia divided Kentucky County into three counties: Fayette, Jefferson, and Lincoln. . . . Mercer County, Virginia was formed from Lincoln County, Virginia in 1786. Finally, on June 1, 1792, with Virginia consenting to the separation, the United States Congress accepted the Kentucky Constitution and admitted it as the 15th state, without creating a territory first." Thomas, Anna (I41677)
 
8764 Wikipedia, "Kentucky" & "Mercer County, KY": "In November, 1780, Virginia divided Kentucky County into three counties: Fayette, Jefferson, and Lincoln. . . . Mercer County, Virginia was formed from Lincoln County, Virginia in 1786. Finally, on June 1, 1792, with Virginia consenting to the separation, the United States Congress accepted the Kentucky Constitution and admitted it as the 15th state, without creating a territory first." Thomas, Eunice Jinny (I41676)
 
8765 Wikipedia, "Kentucky" & "Mercer County, KY": "In November, 1780, Virginia divided Kentucky County into three counties: Fayette, Jefferson, and Lincoln. . . . Mercer County, Virginia was formed from Lincoln County, Virginia in 1786. Finally, on June 1, 1792, with Virginia consenting to the separation, the United States Congress accepted the Kentucky Constitution and admitted it as the 15th state, without creating a territory first." Thomas, Thankful (I41671)
 
8766 Wikipedia, "Kentucky" & "Mercer County, KY": "In November, 1780, Virginia divided Kentucky County into three counties: Fayette, Jefferson, and Lincoln. . . . Mercer County, Virginia was formed from Lincoln County, Virginia in 1786. Finally, on June 1, 1792, with Virginia consenting to the separation, the United States Congress accepted the Kentucky Constitution and admitted it as the 15th state, without creating a territory first." Thomas, Ursula Sally (I41673)
 
8767 Wikipedia, "Kentucky" & "Mercer County, KY": "In November, 1780, Virginia divided Kentucky County into three counties: Fayette, Jefferson, and Lincoln. . . . Mercer County, Virginia was formed from Lincoln County, Virginia in 1786. Finally, on June 1, 1792, with Virginia consenting to the separation, the United States Congress accepted the Kentucky Constitution and admitted it as the 15th state, without creating a territory first." Thomas, Joseph (I41844)
 
8768 Wikipedia, "Kentucky" & "Mercer County, KY": "In November, 1780, Virginia divided Kentucky County into three counties: Fayette, Jefferson, and Lincoln. . . . Mercer County, Virginia was formed from Lincoln County, Virginia in 1786. Finally, on June 1, 1792, with Virginia consenting to the separation, the United States Congress accepted the Kentucky Constitution and admitted it as the 15th state, without creating a territory first." Thomas, Lewis Clark (I41626)
 
8769 Wikipedia, "Kentucky" & "Mercer County, KY": "In November, 1780, Virginia divided Kentucky County into three counties: Fayette, Jefferson, and Lincoln. . . . Mercer County, Virginia was formed from Lincoln County, Virginia in 1786. Finally, on June 1, 1792, with Virginia consenting to the separation, the United States Congress accepted the Kentucky Constitution and admitted it as the 15th state, without creating a territory first." Thomas, John (I41842)
 
8770 Wikipedia, "Kentucky" & "Mercer County, KY": "In November, 1780, Virginia divided Kentucky County into three counties: Fayette, Jefferson, and Lincoln. . . . Mercer County, Virginia was formed from Lincoln County, Virginia in 1786. Finally, on June 1, 1792, with Virginia consenting to the separation, the United States Congress accepted the Kentucky Constitution and admitted it as the 15th state, without creating a territory first." Demaree, Rachel (I19972)
 
8771 Wikipedia, "Kentucky" & "Mercer County, KY": "In November, 1780, Virginia divided Kentucky County into three counties: Fayette, Jefferson, and Lincoln. . . . Mercer County, Virginia was formed from Lincoln County, Virginia in 1786. Finally, on June 1, 1792, with Virginia consenting to the separation, the United States Congress accepted the Kentucky Constitution and admitted it as the 15th state, without creating a territory first." Thomas, Morris (I41619)
 
8772 Wikipedia, "Kentucky" & "Mercer County, KY": "In November, 1780, Virginia divided Kentucky County into three counties: Fayette, Jefferson, and Lincoln. . . . Mercer County, Virginia was formed from Lincoln County, Virginia in 1786. Finally, on June 1, 1792, with Virginia consenting to the separation, the United States Congress accepted the Kentucky Constitution and admitted it as the 15th state, without creating a territory first." Thomas, Pauline (I41620)
 
8773 Wikipedia, "Kentucky" & "Mercer County, KY": "In November, 1780, Virginia divided Kentucky County into three counties: Fayette, Jefferson, and Lincoln. . . . Mercer County, Virginia was formed from Lincoln County, Virginia in 1786. Finally, on June 1, 1792, with Virginia consenting to the separation, the United States Congress accepted the Kentucky Constitution and admitted it as the 15th state, without creating a territory first." Thomas, Lindsey (I41616)
 
8774 Wikipedia, "Kentucky" & "Mercer County, KY": "In November, 1780, Virginia divided Kentucky County into three counties: Fayette, Jefferson, and Lincoln. . . . Mercer County, Virginia was formed from Lincoln County, Virginia in 1786. Finally, on June 1, 1792, with Virginia consenting to the separation, the United States Congress accepted the Kentucky Constitution and admitted it as the 15th state, without creating a territory first." Voris, Francis Voorhees (I41702)
 
8775 Wikipedia, "Kentucky" & "Mercer County, KY": "In November, 1780, Virginia divided Kentucky County into three counties: Fayette, Jefferson, and Lincoln. . . . Mercer County, Virginia was formed from Lincoln County, Virginia in 1786. Finally, on June 1, 1792, with Virginia consenting to the separation, the United States Congress accepted the Kentucky Constitution and admitted it as the 15th state, without creating a territory first." Thomas, Henry (I41847)
 

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