Klaiber Cousins

Compiled by Teresa Martin Klaiber 2020

“Dutch Granny” Marguretta Maurer Klaiber with Sophia Crum daughter of Maggie Klaiber Crum. Maggie died age 18 months and is buried in Klaiber Cemetery in an unmarked grave.

We all start our quest about family as a “genealogy newbie”.  We have to start somewhere. That first step is what has become tagged as “grandma’s attic.” Start with what you know about yourself, what family artifacts you discover  in the attic and question relatives.   I spent several early years of my journey writing down all the wonderful tales about my “married into” Klaiber family.  They had welcomed me with open arms and I am very proud to be a member of this wonderful family.

And while my first few publications leave a lot to be desired, from time to time family members ask about them today.  With three little boys to raise, no extra money for self-publication, I decided I wanted to share what I had gathered. In 1981, sitting at the kitchen table in Burlington County, New Jersey, surrounded by answered questionnaires, and piles of notes and interviews I began to compile Klaiber Cousins.  With a cherished Klaiber family group picture and a local printer who had never done a genealogy compilation I was proud of my first endeavor.

Back Row: John, Margaret, Charles. Elizabeth Fannin, Nelson. Seated: Dutch Granny, John Andrew, Mary on lap of Miriam, Lorain “Raney” standing, James Matthew, Harrison standing, Kate holding baby Anna.

In 1981, living in New Jersey, it was a long trip back to Kentucky where progenitor John Andrew Klaiber had settled, to access records.  With the help of established “genies” I ordered microfilm after microfilm, cranking page after page to find census, that today we readily tap on-line in a blink of an eye.

I heard the wonderful stories about the bravery of John Andrew’s mother who everyone simply called “Dutch Granny”.  John settled in what would become Boyd County, Kentucky.  He came to America on the ship Brother Jonathan in 1854.  He married Mary Ann McBrayer the following year in what was then Carter County, Kentucky.  In 1859 he was naturalized in Greenup County, Kentucky.  Yes, you must learn the genealogy of your family AND the history of countries and counties.

 

His widowed mother Marguretta departed Hamburg on the Ship Silesia in June 1870.  From New York she would follow her son’s path to Cincinnati and come up river to Catlettsburg, Kentucky.  She was 71 years old. This compiler is now 71, with health issues, and am awed that she made this trip to America where they lived out their remaining years. 

Her son was at that time living on Panola Street in Catlettsburg, a successful boot maker in town.  By 1883 he moved the family out to Garner. Garner is now my home as well and God willing I will be able to live out my remaining time here as well.

When writing Klaiber Cousin’s we did not know “Dutch Granny’s” maiden name.  We knew the family was from Wurttemberg. We now have established the family was from lovely Hausen Ob Verena in Tuttlingen. Thanks to the wonderful diligence and advancement in technology and placing digitized records on-line we know she is Marguretta Maurer daughter of Johann Andreas Maurer and Anna Christina Glunz[i] Maurer.  She Married John Andrew Klaiber’s father Matthais Klaiber 29 June 1829 in Hausen ob Verena, Tuttlingen, Wurttemberg, Germany.  We are honored to be back in Kentucky, caring for the land and the cemetery where she lays at peace in the on our farm.

Klaiber Cemetery, Boyd County, KY

 A wonderful serendipity is that we chose to name our youngest Klaiber son Matthew in 1975, after James Matthew Klaiber not knowing that we were also honoring his 3^rd great grandfather. We have three wonderful sons that carry on the Klaiber name.

With better records and lots more experience I now have a documented tree from Johann Andreas (John Andrew) Klaiber back four more generations. But for me it will always be the stories and the history teaching me lessons along the way. The chart is just a guide.

(For proper documentation please contact compiler)

 

A quick search at Worldcat.org shows Klaiber Cousins in local libraries as well as the Library of Congress, FHL and New York Public Library System.  The publication also got a mention in several “Who’s who in U.S. Writers, editors & Poets”. I don’t feel like I can take credit for any material in any genealogy. I did compile that is true.  But no compilation could be done in genealogy without all the wonderful gathered information and documents.  It takes a family community.

If you stop by to honor John Andrew, Mary Ann and “Dutch Granny,” in Klaiber Cemetery please take a few minutes to come share your stories at our log home across the road.  Come sit a spell and have a cuppa with me.  The whisper of the stories and the memories shared is truly the definition of genealogy.

 

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[i] Stay tuned for the next addition of my blog concerning the Glunz/Gluntz surname

Merryman Marshall migration to Kentucky: Continued Happy Trails

 

Compiled by Teresa Martin Klaiber 2020

 

I mentioned both George Marshall (1768-1827) and Thomas W. Peek (1788 – 1860) in a blog post Happy Trails Too You[i] August 2010.  Thomas W. Peek was the son-in-law of George Marshall.   September of this year I wrote about Thomas W. Peek’s parents simply titled Francis Peake.

 

Thomas W. Peek married Frances Marshall (1799-1872), daughter of George Marshall. George Marshall married Nancy Ann Rossell and is often confused with another George Marshall in Kentucky during the same period.  George died 26 September 1827 in Caldwell County, Kentucky. Nancy Ann Rossell/Roszell Marshall died 23 February 1822 and is buried in the Old Pettit Cemetery in Caldwell County.  She was the daughter of Dr. Nehemiah Roszell/Rossell who died 21 March 1797 in the Northwest Territory (Historical).

 

 

 

George Marshall (1768–1827) was the son of Merryman Marshall[ii].  Merryman has a lyrical tone to me.  Merryman Marshall was the son of William Marshall and Anne Hudson born in King George County then British America, now Virginia. 

 

I have based my estimated birth of Merryman Marshall by utilizing William Blackstone’s Commentaries on the Laws of England and two deeds dated 18 July 1753, Hanover Parish, King George County between William Marshall and Ann Marshall (his mother) to Thomas Turner. The deeds are selling 123 acres with a release of reversion of inheritance by Anne allowing her life rights.  The land was her inheritance from husband William, deceased, with eldest son William, in his late 20’s, and herself as executors. The money was to be equally divided by 4 sons, one now deceased[iii].  The deceased son was brother Rush Marshall.     

 

The grantee, Thomas Turner, was a vestryman in Hanover Parish and the year the deed was made, a member of the House of Burgess. Turner died in 1757.

 

Hudson, George and Merryman Marshall, were considered “infants” below the age of 21, under English Law, when their father died in 1748. William and another brother, Benjamin were above the lawful age.  Under the law they could own property, especially from inheritance, but could not resell it in their own right until age 21. 

 

Merryman Marshall married Margaret “Peggy” Farguson, daughter of Joshua and Ann Markham Farguson, in his early twenties.  Five children of this union have been identified by this compiler: Elizabeth[iv] born about 1755; George[v] 1768; Reuben 1772; Jane[vi] 1774; and Susannah[vii]. 

 

After his marriage, Merryman Marshall purchased 50 acres in Hanover Parish, bounded by brother William Marshall, from Joseph and Mary Settle/Suttle, 11 November 1758.[viii]  He paid 8 pounds current Virginia money.  The second boundary described within the deed  mentions “Ame” Settle.

 

 

 

The next year, Merryman Marshall was in court in King George County where he witnessed the release of property sold to his brother George Marshall on 1 March 1759.  The deed from Walter Anderson, which was written 1 August 1758, excluded ½ acres of a burial ground with the property bounding the glebe[ix] of Hanover Parish.[x]  Brother George Marshall had married Merryman’s sister-in-law Ann Farguson.  Brother-in-law Joshua Farguson had deeded his sister Ann and George Marshall 130 acres in King George County being the plantation whereon Joshua Farguson, deceased father of Joshua formerly lived[xi] in December 1753.

 

On 1 May 1760 both George and Merryman sold brother William Marshall portions of their inheritance[xii]  before Merryman migrated to Orange County between May 1760 and October 1763.  In October ’63, in Orange County, brother-in-law Joshua Ferguson (aka Farguson) sold Merryman Marshall cattle, a feather bed…a case of bottles, (& other sundry items) 13 pewter plates, tobacco, fodder, corn and the lot of land where Joshua had resided[xiii].

 

 

By 1764/65 Merryman Marshall begins to appear in court orders in Orange County and was involved in several debt cases Involving various individuals including John Askew, Robert Pearson, and George Head.   On the 4^th of July 1765 Merryman and wife Margaret Marshall of Orange County, Virginia sold the land purchased from Joseph Settle in King George County, bounded by William Marshall and Thomas Smith to Amy Settle/Suttle for twenty pounds[xiv]. 

 

Merryman Marshall’s son, George[xv] was born in Orange County in 1768.  August, the same year, Merryman and “Peggy” his wife sold 300 acres to Ludwell Grymes[xvi].  The digitized scan copy which this compiler viewed is black and grainy making it very difficult to read.  The land was near Piney Mountains. Piney Mountains probably refers to the range that runs to Piney Mountain in Albemarle County which borders Orange on its southwest line.  Youtube has a folk song Piney Mountain by Bruce Molsky that shows the range as he plays his fiddle which my readers might enjoy.

The indenture cites a patent, 28 August 1746, to Michael Pearson but is hard to read.  These 300 acres were surveyed by Zachariah Taylor,[xvii] deceased at the time of filing.  In fact, Taylor died 1 March 1768 and is buried in the family cemetery in Orange County.  One of the bounds described in the deed is with Taylor whose home plantation was called Meadowfarm.  Another bound is with George Head who Merryman Marshall had a debt case with the year before, in 1765. Another debt case in 1765 involved Robert Pearson son of the patent holder Michael Pearson.

 

Just to show how much our ancestors moved around from county to county (and beyond) Merryman Marshall witnessed a deed in Spotsylvania County January 6, 1769 between Samuel and Mary Simpson of Albemarle County and Peter Marye of Spotsylvania County[xviii]. Among the other witness’ to this transaction was James Marshall.  James is the son of Lucy Marye and husband Mungo Marshall.[xix] Lucy was the daughter of Peter Marye cited in the indenture.  Mungo was an early minister in St. Thomas Parish, Orange County. He died in 1758 in St. Thomas Parish.  Widow Lucy remarried  Dr. Jason Marsden. Both she and son James Marshall died in Culpeper County.  At this writing I have found no familial relationship with Merryman Marshall.  Merryman Marshall next appears in Culpeper County which lays on the northern border of Orange.

Merryman Marshall is listed as in the military in Orange County in 1771 and by August 1771 is cited in Culpeper when  Richard Vernon describes  property in a deed to Vernon’s son-in-law William Roebuck…

“…to Cave's old road...cup the branch to Merryman Marshall's line where it crosses the branch...along the old road to Mr. Buford's corner...to Beautiful Run…”

 

Merryman Marshall “of Culpeper” indemnified himself to his “beloved friend” Richard Vernon who had given a money obligation on his behalf on 17 March 1771.

“I Merryman Marshall of Culpeper, planter for divers good causes me thereunto moving but more especially to keep indemnified my trusty and well beloved friend Richard Vernon who has layed himself under money obligations on my behalf in the way of bail and security...make over to Richard Vernon[xx] my negro boy named London and negro girl named Jude or Judith, to be by him sold to the best advantage he can at any time when he shall be in danger of distress on the accounts…further I do impower Richard Vernon to enter into any house belonging to me or any person under me where these negroes shall be kept or supposed to be kept or any ways secreted and lease and secure them for the purposes above...wit Richard Quinn, Anthony Deering and Wm Roebuck.”[xxi]

 This compiler has not yet found a case involving bail and security for Marshall and Vernon.

By 1781 Merryman is back in Orange County.  In February he was one of many who petitions to repeal compulsory eighteen month service in the Continental line.  The petition was rejected.

 

In May he along with wife “Peggy” sold Benjamin Johnson.  of King George., a plantation in Hanover Parish of King George containing 100 acres, it being land that William Marshall Sr. purchased of John Ingland and devised to elder son Benjamin Marshall. As with the other lands devised by the senior William Marshall once a son was deceased it was to descend to the other issues.  Merryman’s brother Benjamin died in July 1778 in King George county[xxii].

Merryman and Peggy’s son George married Nancy Ann Rossell, 30 September 1787 in St. Thomas Parish, Orange County.

The 1790 census schedules for Virginia were destroyed during the War of 1812.  State enumerations made in 1783, 84 and 85 have been utilized in various publications as a form of replacement.  The reconstructed list for a William Bell show Merryman Marshall with “6 white souls.”  With George marriage in 1787 and Daughter Elizabeth  married in 1789 it is unclear which year or years were utilized as a reference point for the Marshall family.

 

Merryman Marshall is cited  in a transaction, in December 1792, when William and Mary Settles of King George sell James Edward land which included lands Merryman had sold Amy Settles.[xxiii]

 

The Library of Virginia Chancery Index shows Farguson vs. Marshall in 1794 in Orange County. We assume this involves one of Margert “Peggy” Farguson Marshall’s brother’s.  However “assume” is a dangerous word when building a genealogy so I reserve any further comments until I can look at the reel.  The entry is mentioned as a reference that the Marshall’s are still in Orange County in 1794.  Son George along with Dr. Roszell and others have migrated up through the Cumberland Gap into Scott County, Kentucky[xxiv] and appear on the Scott County, Kentucky tax list[xxv].

 

With George gone and Elizabeth married The remaining family prepared for more marriages in 1795. Daughter Susannah marries William Taylor November 1795 in Orange County.  Daughter Jane marries in December 1795 Thaddeus Blackerby.   

 

In 1792 Madison County had been formed from Culpeper County and the newly formed county now borders  a northern portion of Orange County.

 

By 1797, according to researcher, Debbie Vaughn, Merryman gave his son Reuben all his household goods in Madison County, Virginia.  In a letter to this compiler she states she found the reference in Madison County “miscellaneous records” at the Filson Club.[xxvi] I find both Meriman (sic) and Reuben listed on the 19 April 1797 Madison Personal Property Tax list.  Meriman with one white male over 21 and one horse. Reuben only marked as a white male over 21.  Reuben would be 25 years old.[xxvii]  Then on October 27, 1797, recorded in the Madison County Order Book, I find the following: “A bill of sale between Merryman Marshall of the one part and Reuben Marshall of the other was produced into court and proved by the oaths of John Mountague and James Merry Mountague witness thereto and ordered recorded.”[xxviii]  The actual bill of sale is in Madison deed book 2 page 109. “Know all men by these presents that I Merryman Marshall of Madison County …have bargained and sold unto my son Reuben Marshall of the said county…two feather beds with their furniture…one chest, a bell, Mettle (sic) skillet, two iron pots, half a dozen chears (sic), one frying pan, one griddle, one table, three wooden water vessels, a parcel of stoneware and some pewter, a tin coffee pot, pair of five tongues, two fat hogs for the sum of twenty pounds lawful money.  Recd. Of my son for the above mentioned goods and do warrant and defend the above mentioned goods unto the said Reuben Marshall from the claim…of any persons…this 26^th day of October 1797. Merryman Marshall. Teste John Mountague and James Merry Mountague (by mark). At a court continued and held for Madison County on Thursday 26^th day of October 1794 this bill of sale from Merryman Marshall of Madison County on the one part to Reuben Marshall of the other proved by John Mountague and James Merry Mountague[xxix] and ordered to be recorded. Teste John Walk Jr. clerk.” This compiler would hesitate to assume it was all Merryman Marshall’s worldly goods since the son paid for the items instead of receiving same for “love and affection.” But a transaction two years later in Orange county would indicate that Reuben was caring for his parents.

 

Reuben files an agreement in Orange County 27 August 1799, with his brother-in-law Thaddeus Blackerby to care for his father and mother.[xxx] Reuben transferred the following: one bay mare, one cow and calf, two feather beds, 15 head of hogs, corn and tobacco, utensils, his household and plantation to Blackerby stating Blackerby “undertakes on his part to support and maintain in a decent and respectful manner the father and mother of said Reuben in board, cloathing, and every necessary incident to their situation during their lives…”

Merryman and Peggy Marshall’s son Reuben would migrate to Kentucky, and serve in the War of 1812.[xxxi]  Daughter Jane and husband Thaddeus Blackerby now have the responsibility of Merryman and Peggy Marshall.  They also migrate to Kentucky.  Son George is already settled in Scott County, Kentucky. where we find Merryman Marshall listed as “exempt” on the county tax list for 1811.[xxxii]  Most over 65 are exempted by the courts and Merryman is now 75 years of age. 

The Blackerby family went ton Garrard County and will later move to Lincoln County.  Merryman will appear one last time (after death) in the will of his son Reuben written 6 February 1856: “to my aged and affectionate wife Catherine Elizabeth...(among other things) land warrant now in my possession for my service in the War of 1812 calling for 120 acres...also the unsettled claim which I have against the US for services of my father in the Revolutionary War”.

 

Scott county Courthouse has had several disasters, the first in 1837. Many pieces of deeds have been recopied, transcribed and even include guesstimate dates.  As stated earlier, Merryman Marshall’s son George appears in Scott County in 1794.  He is cited in a wonderful Kentucky Land survey involving the Denny’s and father-in-law Nehemiah Roszell.[xxxiii]  Indexed under the Denny surname it was quite an exciting find.  George was still in Scott county as late as July 1819 when he sells property[xxxiv] and migrates westward, across the state of Kentucky to Caldwell county.  He left son John W. and son Stephan his attorney of fact in Scott county on two occasions.  Nancy Ann Rossell/Roszell Marshall died 23 February 1822 and is buried in Caldwell County.  George then married Clara Wright the first of  August in Caldwell County.  They divorced in Fayette County in February 1826[xxxv]   where he then married Polly Connell.  George left probate records in Caldwell County and died the next year, 26 September 1827 and was buried next to his first wife in Pettit Cemetery.

Lyrical sounding Merryman Marshall took me on trails leading through various counties of Virginia and a trek to Kentucky.  I suspect Merryman was named for his grandmother Sarah who married William Marshall.  I need to follow that trail. William married a 2^nd time after the death of his first wife to Ann nee Buckenham.   Until we meet again, Happy Trails.

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[i] Roy Rogers grew up in Scioto County, Ohio and I believe he would be pleased that I still remember him, his family and his quote.
[ii] Compiler’s sixth great grandfather
[iii] Virginia, King George, Deeds, book 4 p 41.
[iv] Elizabeth Marshall married William jarrell 24 Dec 1789 in Albemarle County, VA.
[v] George Marshall married 30 Sep 1787 St. Thomas Parish, Orange Co., VA Nancy Ann Rossell
[vi] Jane Mashall married Thaddeus Blackerby 4 Dec3mber 1795 Orange County, VA.
[vii] Susannah Marshall m# 1 – Gibson m # 2 William Taylor 26 November 1795 Orange County, VA.
[viii] Virginia, King George, Deeds, book 4 p 375.
[ix] Glebe lands to support Parish priest
[x] Virginia, King George, Deeds, book 4 p 380-384.
[xi] VA, King George dbk 4 p 67
[xii] Virginia, King George, Deeds, book 4 p 438-439.
[xiii] Virginia, Orange County, Deeds, book 1759-65 (bk 13) p 417
[xiv] Virginia, King George, Deeds, book 4 ...p 607-8.
[xv] Compiler’s ancestor
[xvi] Virginia, Orange County, Deeds, book 14 p 326.
[xvii] Grandfather of President Zachary Taylor
[xviii] VA., Spotsylvania Dbk
[xix] married Spotsylvania County 16 March 1748.
[xx] Richard Vernon m. Sarah Tinsley prob. Orange Co. Va. Also had lands in Surry Co., NC.
[xxi] Culpeper County, Virginia, : Book F p 425.
[xxii] Virginia, King George, Deeds, page 1238-1240.
[xxiii] William Emmett Reese, The Settle- Suttle Family (Carrollton, Georgia: Thomasson Printing Company, n.d.), page 208.
[xxiv] Kentucky, Knox, Deeds, Book A page 83-98,
[xxv] Kentucky, Scott County. Kentucky Historical Society. , Tax Rolls. FHL Microfilm 8221. Church of Latter Day Saints, .
[xxvi] Filson Club, 310 S 3^rd, Louisville, KY
[xxvii] VA., Madison. Personal Property Tax FHL film dgs 7836233.
[xxviii] VA, Madison, Court Orders. Film 008151730. Page 425.
[xxix] James Merry Montague s/o John Montague migrated to Scott County, KY and married there 10 Sep 1812 Frances Richards Threlkeld.
[xxx] Virginia, Orange County, Deeds, bk 21 p 460.
[xxxi] 17 Francesco’s Kentucky Militia (Service Record. Fold3) At this writing the 1812 KY pension files are incomplete at Fold3
[xxxii] Kentucky, Scott County. Kentucky Historical Society. , Tax Rolls. FHL Microfilm 8221. Church of Latter Day Saints, .
[xxxiii] Filed as Denny, E and others, April 1800, Survey 5564, ; Kentucky Kentucky Land Office , Kentucky Land Office, Frankfort, Kentucky.
[xxxiv] Scott County, Kentucky, Deeds, Deed book C page 140.
[xxxv] Fayette County, Kentucky, Circuit Court Case Index, 1826 page 623; ; Church of Latter Day Saints, ; FHL microfilm FHL film 2111026.

Happy Trails Too You.

compiled by Teresa Martin Klaiber August 2010

I admit that I am a complete and total fan of Leonard Sly aka Roy Rogers. And I must confess I am borrowing and humming the song, Happy Trails To You. But since Roy was from Ohio and lived in Scioto County it has little to do with Eastern Kentucky trails. 

In genealogy we have paper trails and migration trails. And in the past few weeks I have been busy following both types of trails. Both trails I have been working on have led into the Bluegrass section of the state and show just how easy it was for entire waves of migration to just pass us by here in Eastern Kentucky. 

Carrie Eldridge has written several different publications in Atlas style showing migration routes that lead into Kentucky that are invaluable to researchers. She has been a frequent researcher at the Boyd County library for many years. Her atlas publications are also in the stacks and are showing the wear of much use. One quickly sees that the Pound and the rivers were the main routes into Eastern Kentucky.

Those that traveled through our beautiful Cumberland Gap entered the Cumberland Plateau in Eastern Kentucky through what is now Knox County and veered west along Boone's Trace and the Wilderness Road into the heart of Kentucky to the stations near Lexington and Scott County.

I discovered that George Marshall and his wife Nancy Ann Roszell Marshall, along with her father Dr. Nehemiah Roszell, were involved with land transactions, circa 1795. The land lay just north of the Cumberland River just above the Trace. The land appears to lay in what is Knox County today. George Marshall testified that he later sold his 1000 acre moiety to Cary Clark. The transactions are in the Old Kentucky Entries at the Kentucky Land Office. Patent OK5566 gives the most revealing information on this family. At the time of the transactions [there are a total of 3 patents] the entire area was a portion of Lincoln County. Had this family migrated just a few miles to the east their lives and the terrain would have been entirely different. 

The Roszell's and Marshall's followed the trail and settled in Scott County on Miller's Run and Cherry Run. George's daughter Frances married Thomas W. Peek who resided near Stamping Ground on McConnell Run also in Scott County. By 1819 George Marshall, along with son-in-law Thomas W. Peek were on the move again. George went west looking at land along the Green River but ended up with a purchase of land in Caldwell County not far from the newly opened Jackson Purchase.

 It is interesting how trails can create and influence lives. Son-in-law Thomas W. Peek, was just a small boy when his mother and family followed the trail to Scott County by a totally different route. Thomas' father, Francis Peake died at Wheeling, Virginia and Mary brought her family into Scott County by the northern route. His mother states that she brought her family to Kentucky in 1793. The National Road aka Cumberland Road would not be built from Wheeling until 1811 and Ebenezer Zane would not start blazing Zane's Trace until 1796. Thus the practical way, as well as the safest way for her to migrate to Kentucky would be along the Ohio River from Wheeling. A woman pioneering before Zane ever cleared those Indian trails.

 I think about the widow Mary Peake and her children and how they could easily have stopped along the Ohio River at the mouth of the Big Sandy or chosen any number of other trails. But she also headed for land near settled stations in Scott County. 

Families grow and continue to move and with several generations my own line ended up in Eastern Kentucky which their ancestors had skirted and managed to avoid in the early pioneer days.

I am so proud that this is my family that traveled these early pioneering trails across Kentucky in so many regions. I think Nancy Ann Roszell's father may be the most pioneering of the group. Dr. Nehemiah Roszell crossed the Ohio River into the Northwest territory and was just a couple of miles from the mouth of the Miami when he died in 1797. I doubt he ever saw my beautiful Eastern Kentucky, unless he was looking over his shoulder at the mountains and hills.

Happy Trails Too You until we meet again.