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Ancestors of John Franklin Bush, Sr.

24. Henry Shouse²⁹, born February 17, 1770 in Bethania, Stokes County, North Carolina²⁹; died 1817 in Franklin County, Kentucky²⁹. He was the son of 48. Heinrich Schauss and 49. Elizabeth Bone. He married 25. Sally Elizabeth Watts December 12, 1793 in Woodford County, Kentucky²⁹.

25. Sally Elizabeth Watts²⁹, born Abt. 1775²⁹; died Bef. May 07, 1846 in Kentucky²⁹. She was the daughter of 50. John Watts and 51. Frances Morton.

Notes for Henry Shouse:
Regarding the possible military service of John Watts in the Kentucky militia, the following comes from the reminisences of his captain, Cave Johnson, found at http://www.geocities.com/baptist_documents/johnson.cave.abio.html

"In the year 1786, the government authorized General [George Rogers] Clark to carry out another expedition against them [the Shawnees], which he undertook, and raised a considerable force [1200 men]. Colonel Levi Todd was selected to command the Fayette troops, and Benjamin Logan from the south side of Kentucky; Colonel William Steele, Captain Robert Sanders and myself were selected as Captains, with others, whose names I do not recollect. In Colonel Todd's regiment we rendezvoused at the Falls [of the Ohio, Clarksville, IN], where General Clark took command. He sent his field piece by water down the Ohio and up the Wabash. The army marched through by land, and on the way, before reaching Vincennes, the officers held a council of war, and sent Colonel Logan back for the purposes of raising another army and marching into the Indian country on the Miami, presuming that the Indians were generally collected on the Wabash in order to meet our expedition. We marched on Vincennes, where we remained a number of days waiting for our cannon, which was detained by low water until we had eaten up the greater part of our provisions. When our cannon arrived, we marched on up the river about two days, when the regiment that Logan left mutinied and refused to go further, alleging they had not a sufficient stock of provisions, &c. I suppose losing their Colonel had its influence. General Clark was much mortified. We returned home. Colonel Logan, with the command he had raised, went on into the Miami country and succeeded against the Indians in that quarter, fully up to expectations."

Cave Johnson's company would have been part of the Fayette troops serving under Col. Todd. In "William Clark and the Shaping of the West" by Landon Y. Jones, pp. 53-54, the 1786 expedition to Vincennes is described as a "disaster." See also "Background to Glory" by John Bakeless, pp. 319-324. Col. Logan had better luck, destroying food stocks on the Upper Miami river and taking some prisoners.

More About Henry Shouse:
Military service: November 07, 1793, 11th Reg., Kentucky militia of Woodford Co.²⁹
Military service-2: 1786, Capt. Cave Johnson's company ³⁰

Notes for Sally Elizabeth Watts:
I have seen almost no evidence of research to determine the name of Sally Elizabeth Watt's parents. She is clearly associated with a John Watts (b. about 1750-1767), whose name appears as a surety on her Woodford County marriage bond.

One source of possible clues is contemporaneous marriages. Edmund Watts married Alpha Lane. Jeremiah Watts, probably his brother, married Lucinda Lane in Woodford Co., KY, in 1796. There is also a William Watts who married Nancy Vingant (prob. should be read as Vinsant, Vincent, or Vinson) in 1791, although his connection appears to be more distant. He may be of a different line. These marriages bracket the marriage of Henry Shouse and Sally Elizabeth Watts in Woodford Co. in 1793, so they could possibly be her brothers and sons of John Watts, who married Frances Morton. Because John's approximate age (b. ca. 1750-1767) is older than Sally's (in order to be surety on the Franklin county marriage bonds of daughters Fanny [Frances] to Jesse Vawter, 1807, and Polley [Mary] to Berry Searcy, 1810), I would guess that he is Sally's father also.

The names of Sally Elizabeth Watts Shouse's other children may also be helpful. For example, one of them is named "Willis Watts," b. in 1801. In the case of Sally's family the name Willis may hark back to a marriage between Benjamin Hawkins and Sarah Willis, because John Morton's wife is said to have been a Hawkins, which would connect with a Hawkins-Willis line.

Child of Henry Shouse and Sally Watts is:

John Shouse, born September 17, 1796 in Woodford Co., KY; died June 24, 1862 in Clay Co., MO; married Sarah E. Slaughter May 08, 1819 in Franklin Co., KY.

26. George Slaughter^31,³², born Bet. 1765 - 1771 in VA; died Bet. 1830 - 1838 in Prob. Fayette Co., KY³². He was the son of 52. Lawrence Slaughter and 53. Elizabeth Field. He married 27. ? Cochran.

27. ? Cochran She was the daughter of 54. Dr. William Cochran and 55. Mildred Meriwether Syme.

Notes for George Slaughter:
He may have been an ensign in the Franklin co. , KY, militia in 1797. George Slaughter was on the tax roll of Bourbon Co. in 1800 and of Franklin Co. in 1801. He witnessed the will of McClanahan Moore in Bourbon Co. in 1807. (McClanahan Moore is said to be from Westmoreland Co., VA, son of Garland Moore and Martha/Ann McClanahan. Willis Field was his executor in Bourbon Co.]. In 1809 George Slaughter leased a furnished house in Bourbon Co. from John Porter for an annual rent of 110 pounds. He appears in the 1810 census at Paris, in Bourbon Co. [31610-10110], with a pretty large family. He rented the Kentucky Hotel in Lexington from Henry Clay in 1811 and acted as surety on the marriage bond of Lucy Ann Cochran (who married William Turner). By 1818 he appeared in a city directory for Lexington. He was listed as the sole white male with two slaves worth $500 at the boarding house of William T. Banton on Short St. in the city of Lexington. It appears as though his wife had died by that time. He was still in Fayette Co. when he acted as surety on the marriage bonds of his daughter, Lucy Ann Slaughter, to Julius H. Clarkson in 1825 and Gardner Price in 1831. In 1830 he was surety on the bond of Taliaferro Bostick to Mildred M. Syme (with Ann J. Syme giving consent). It was Bostick's second marriage, the first being to Margaret F. Syme three years earlier, where William Cochran (probably George's brother-in-law) had been the surety. I have been unable to determine where or when George Slaughter died, but neither he nor Cochran appears in the 1838 city directory (nor for that matter does Taliaferro Bostick). For some reason George did not appear as a head of household in the 1820 and 1830 censuses, although he was clearly in Fayette co. during each of them. My guess is that he died between 1830 and 1838. If he still owned two slaves when he died there should be a record somewhere regarding the disposition of the two slaves, but it is also possible that he lost ownership of them before he died.

On August 8, 1812, in Bourbon Co., George Slaughter gave a deed of trust on two slaves, a 35 year old female named Beck, and an 11 or 12 year old girl named Rose, to Willis Field, for 154 lbs. and 18 shillings, to pay his debt to Lucy Cochran, the heir of Dr. William Cochran, deceased. Lucy Cochran had apparently received, upon settlement of Dr. Cochran's estate, the right to payment of a debt George had owed Dr. Cochran or his estate, and George fell into arrears in the amount indicated. The trustee could take possession of the slaves and sell them if George failed to make his annual interest payments or principal when due. Having rented a hotel in Lexington it is possible that he was in financial difficulty and might have been living on a loan from Dr. Cochran, his father-in-law, until he could recoup his investment. This Willis Field is a son of Ezekiel Henry Field, and grandson of Col. John Field, the father-in-law of Lawrence Slaughter (George's father). Therefore, Willis Field is the maternal first cousin of George Slaughter. Willis Field lived during his early years in Bourbon County but apears to have ended his years in Woodford County, where he was addressed as "Col." and owned a distillery. He employed for a time Dr. James Crow, whose name is carried forward in the bourbon label "Old Crow."

William Banton may have been from the William Banton family of Buckingham Co., Va., the same county where I think Taliaferro Bostick's family probably came from (his father and a brother were possibly named John Bostick). There is a possibility that William Cochran, Sr.'s wife was a Bostick, or that the Bosticks were in-laws of some sort.

Ann J. Syme may be related somehow to the Richard Syme who married Nancy Colson in Bourbon co. in 1817. Although "Nancy" is a diminutive form of "Ann," Ann's daughters would be too young to marry as early as 1827 if Richard was Ann's husband unless they were adopted from a previous marriage. Perhaps this Richard was her son. See notes for William Cochran in regard to Nicholas Syme, with whom William Cochran may have had some connection. (Nicholas may in turn have some relation to John Syme, Sr. and Jr. John Syme, Jr., named his only son Nicholas, but this is a younger individual].

George was a first cousin, once removed, of Kentucky Governor Gabriel Slaughter, although the governor was actually two years younger than George. For me it is seven generations removed.

Notes for ? Cochran:
At the moment I am becoming increasingly convinced that there is not a close connection between Andrew Cochran of Bourbon county, who comes from Lancaster Co., PA, and William Cochran of Bourbon county, the probable father of this unknown named Cochran. Her father, William, appears to have lived previously in Hanover county, VA, near Culpeper, where George Slaughter is from. The two Cochran families may be related, but there does not appear to be any interaction between them in Bourbon county, and Andrew has no apparent dealings with George Slaughter. If William is related to Andrew he left PA long before Andrew did. It does not appear that Andrew ever lived in Hanover county.

I have no hard evidence of who is the mother of Sarah E. Slaughter. Identifying the mother of Sarah E. Slaughter and her Cochran parents is no easy task. I pushed back the generations two times in order to find the most likely generational slot in the Andrew Cochran family. Not only is she probably not the granddaughter of Andrew by one of his sons [who would have to have been born after 1777 if Andrew was his father), she is probably not even the daughter of Andrew Cochran (Jr.) of Bourbon county, because his will mentions no daughter surnamed Slaughter. The probable year of Andrew Jr.'s marriage (after the range of years in which Sarah E. Slaughter's mother was born) pushes the timeline back probably to Andrew's father, also named Andrew Cochran, who died in Lancaster Co., PA, in 1775. George Slaughter's future wife could be an unmarried or widowed sister of Andrew, Jr. I have not found marriages for two of his sisters, Jean and Martha, but neither name occurs among Sarah E. Slaughter's immediate descendants. So I doubt that she fits into the Andrew Cochran family.

I think that William Cochran of Rockingham Co. is probably the brother of Andrew, Jr., who bore the name "William." He married the widow Elizabeth (Cochran] Fulton in Augusta Co. I have found no indication that Andrew, Jr., traveled to Bourbon county with any of his other brothers. He seems to have been with his in-laws, the Bairds.

The names of Sarah E. Slaughter Shouse's children do not help much. Apart from Willis and Matilda the names appear to derive more from the Shouse side than the Slaughter side.

Children of George Slaughter and ? Cochran are:

	13	i.		Sarah E. Slaughter, born February 14, 1792; died September 22, 1875 in Clay Co., MO; married John Shouse May 08, 1819 in Franklin Co., KY.
		ii.		Lucy Ann Slaughter, born Abt. 1807 in KY; married (1) Julius M. Clarkson October 27, 1825 in Fayette Co., KY; died Bef. February 1828 in Wilkinson Co., MS; married (2) Gardner Price January 20, 1831 in Fayette Co., KY; born 1782 in Prince Edward Co., VA; died Abt. 1833 in Fayette Co., KY.

Notes for Lucy Ann Slaughter:
If her second husband died by 1833 then it is quite possible she married a third time, but I have not yet found a marriage record for her after his death.

Notes for Julius M. Clarkson:
From: http://www.shawhan.com/Wills/willabstracts.html

JULIUS M. (MATTOCK) CLARKSON-Will Book H, page 19-Wife, Lycy Ann Clarkson. Executors: Wife and brother, Charles S. Clarkson. Written at home of brother, Charles C. Clarkson in county of Wilkinson, Miss., January 31, 1827. Proved February 1828. Witness: Charles S. Clarkson.

The following info comes from http://genforum.genealogy.com/cgi-bin/pageload.cgi?Julius,Slaughter::clarkson::552.html

A second reply regarding Barthear A. Clarkson because I have a Barthear listed as a child of Julius Fielding Clarkson and his first wife, Elvira Price Holt. They were Quakers. This Barthear was born in 1838 and married Sophronita Lee Younger of Kansas City, MO. His younger sister, Elvira Holt Clarkson, was the wife of a Richard SLAUGHTER. They had a son, William Wallace Slaughter, who married my "Aunt Lute," who is long deceased. Before I married a James I was told by her that we were related to Jesse James. I do not what she meant, but I have wondered about Barthaer's wife. The Clarksons are from Albemarle County, VA. They lived next door to Thomas Jefferson. I received this information from a distant cousin who lived in the Charlottesville area. Some of the Clarkson's moved to Kentucky, then moved again to JACKSON CO., MO area. My grandmother (sister of Aunt Lute), Mary Susan Clarkson Halsey, moved to CA, with my grandfather, B.J. Halsey in the 1940's where I grew up. They told us about Julius' wives and children. I hope this information helps you.

      28. John Cook^33,³⁴, born Abt. 1770 in North Carolina³⁴; died Abt. 1860³⁴. He was the son of 56. Christopher Cook. He married 29. Mary Green.

      29. Mary Green³⁴, born in North Carolina³⁴; died Abt. 1836³⁴. She was the daughter of 58. Obediah Green and 59. Elizabeth.

Child of John Cook and Mary Green is:

John Cook, Jr., born 1800 in KY; married (1) Elizabeth Ellis; married (2) Louisiana Buster October 21, 1833 in Russell County, Kentucky.

      30. John Buster³⁴, born 1780 in Virginia³⁴; died 1832 in Pulaski County, Kentucky³⁴. He was the son of 60. Claudius Buster and 61. Dorcas Franklin. He married 31. Martha Tate.

      31. Martha Tate³⁴, born 1777 in Virginia³⁴; died 1847 in Pulaski County, Kentucky³⁴. She was the daughter of 62. Col. John Tate and 63. Mary Bracken.

Child of John Buster and Martha Tate is:

Louisiana Buster, born 1814 in Kentucky; married John Cook, Jr. October 21, 1833 in Russell County, Kentucky.

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