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Descendants of William Denham, Sr.

6. MARGARET ANN "PEGGY"³ DENHAM (WILLIAM², JAMES¹) was born 1779 in Rowan Co., NC ⁴⁹, and died 19 January 1850 in Bethel, Clermont Co., OH. She married WILLIAM HILL 21 April 1802 in Pulaski Co., KY ⁵⁰. He was born Abt. 1779, and died Unknown.

Notes for MARGARET ANN "PEGGY" DENHAM:
1819 Migrated to Denhamtown, Clermont Co., OH
Separated from husband
Buried Denham-Burke Cemetery in Bethel, OH

Early American Marriages: Atlantic South Region
Kentucky, Pulaski County

Denham, Peggy married Hill, William on 21 Apr 1802 in Pulaski County, Kentucky

More About MARGARET ANN "PEGGY" DENHAM:
Fact 8: Boone Co., MO, Clermont Co., OH
Fact 9: Baptist

Notes for WILLIAM HILL:
Abt 1804 Migrated to Boone Co., MO

Early American Marriages: Atlantic South Region
Kentucky, Pulaski County

Denham, Peggy married Hill, William on 21 Apr 1802 in Pulaski County, Kentucky

More About WILLIAM HILL:
Occupation: Slave Trader

More About WILLIAM HILL and MARGARET DENHAM:
Marriage: 21 April 1802, Pulaski Co., KY⁵⁰

Children of MARGARET DENHAM and WILLIAM HILL are:

34.	i.		JAMES WALTER⁴ HILL, b. 1803, Pulaski Co., KY; d. 14 June 1832, Bethel, Clermont Co., OH.
	ii.		MINERVA HILL, b. 1808, Pulaski Co., KY; d. 19 March 1873, Bethel, Clermont Co., OH; m. DAVID OSBORNE, 30 April 1833, Bethel, Clermont Co., OH; b. 1808, Bethel, Clermont Co., OH; d. 7 August 1888, Bethel, Clermont Co., OH.

More About DAVID OSBORNE:
Fact 8: Bethel, Clermont Co., OH
Fact 10: Children: Mary E., Elizabeth E., Lewis
Occupation: Farmer

More About DAVID OSBORNE and MINERVA HILL:
Marriage: 30 April 1833, Bethel, Clermont Co., OH

iii.

EMELINE HILL, b. 1818, Missouri Territory; d. 13 April 1889, Bethel, Clermont Co., OH; m. KELLY D. BURKE, 30 April 1833; b. 1808, Bethel, Clermont Co., OH; d. 19 November 1848, Bethel, Clermont Co., OH.

Notes for KELLY D. BURKE:
Kelly & Emeline were 3rd cousins; Children: Orville, James D., & Alpheus; Buried Denham-Burke Cemetery, Bethel, OH

More About KELLY D. BURKE:
Fact 8: Bethel, Clermont Co., OH

More About KELLY BURKE and EMELINE HILL:
Marriage: 30 April 1833

7. ELIZA JANE "JENNY"³ DENHAM (WILLIAM², JAMES¹) was born 1780 in Rowan Co., NC ⁵¹, and died Abt. 1865 in IL. She married WILLIS J. EMBRY 28 August 1798 in Madison Co., KY. He was born Abt. 1780, and died March 1825 in Adair Co., KY.

Notes for ELIZA JANE "JENNY" DENHAM:
Information from The History of William Denham and His Family, by Marie Foster
Pages 105-110

Eliza Jane Denham, daughter of William Denham, was born in Rowan (now Wilkes County) North Carolina in 1780. Her mother was a Turner. She was a small child when her mother died and she was brought up by her stepmother, Elizabeth Parker Denham.

Eliza Jane, called both Jane and Jennie throughout her lifetime (except a few court records have used Eliza Jane), married Willis Jm Embry in Madison County,Kentucky, on August 28, 1798. Her father gave his consent to the marriage. John McWhorter a minister of the Gospel, performed the ceremony. They made their home in Adair County, Kentucky where Willis had taken upland grants.

Their first home place was located on Casey Creek in the Northeastern portion of the county. Mr. Embry became the owner of many acres of land in Adair County. he was frequently involved in lawsuits over land transactions.

Jane and Willis J. Embry did not get along well together during their married life. She sued him for divorce in the September term of Court in Adair County in 1818. She dropped the suit because she was "great with child". (This was proved in the Russell County, Kentucky Court at a later date.) She was granted her divorce on the first Tuesday of the March term of court in Adair County in 1819. (Order Book E, Page 160.) Willis Embry had agreed that she would take the home place on Casey Creek, some money and some notes for which he had loaned money to various people.

On March 17, 1819, Jane Embry's brother, Alexander Denham and his wife, Nancy Denham, of Pulaski County, Kentucky deeded her 200 acres of land lying and located on the Cumberland River in southeast Adair County, Kentucky, "out of love and affection for his sister". Immediately Jane and her children moved to the new home place. (Deed Book E, Page 556). It seemed that Alexander Denham was getting his sister, Jane Embry, away from her troubles.

Jane Embry's brother, William Denham, Jr., and family had arrived in the Cumberland River valley in 1824. He had no place to go, so Jane sold him her Casey Creek plantation on a "confidence of trust plan" to pay later. Time went on and she had not heard anything from her brother, so she appointed her brother-in-law, John McWhorter, as her power of attorney to look into the matter. In September 1825, McWhorter filed suit in the Adair County Circuit Court against William Denham, Jr. The court records failed to show anything concerning this suit until the September term of court one year later (1826). It had been found that William Denham, Jr. had died in Adair County, Kentucky before the September term of court, 1826.

In Court Order Book G, Page 19 (Adair County) one reads the following: "This Day came the complainant by her Council and produced and filed in Court her bill of revision against the heirs of the said William Denham, deceased, and on her Council's motion it is ordered this suit be reversed and revised against Nancy Denham, the widow, Dicey Redder and James Redder, Parthena Penecost and Darby Penecost, Myrah Denham, Delina Denham, George Washington Denham, and Caroline Denham, heirs at law of William Denham, deceased, who has departed this life since the commencement of this suit. It is further declared that this case be continued until next Term of Court." The suit was evidently settled out of court. The tax records of Adair County, Kentucky from 1827 through 1834, show that James Redder, the son-in-law of Nancy (Simpson) Denham, became the new owner of the Casey Creek plantation.

Court records throughout the counties of Adair, Russell, Wayne, Pulaski, and others, tend to show that Jane Embry had become a hard woman to deal with, as her name appears in many lawsuits. An example of what she had to endure is shown by the following record found in the circuit court's office in Russell County, Kentucky, File Box 170, 1827-1828:
      "On October 30, 1827, one James Campbell, who owed Jane Embry money on a note that her husband had given her (during the divorce settlement in 1819), refused to pay the note many times when asked to do so. When she sued him for payment of the note, he began to have slanderous talk about her throughout the neighborhood. He had stated that her last born son, Thomas T. Embry, was a bastard. Jane filed the second suit against him; cleared her name and made him retract the statement he had made concerning her son's birth. The court awarded her damages: Mr. Campbell had to pay her 25 pounds Current Money for "Defamation of Character" and pay off the note he owed her. Her witnesses were many from her former home place in Adair County, and her two divorce suits of 1818 and 1819 were brought forward concerning the birth of her child. Her kinsmen were most loyal to her."

In August 1824, Jane Embry received her share of her father's estate in Pulaski County, Kentucky. She used her money well. She bought up more land on the Cumberland River, Wolf Creek, Indian Creek and others. She took her invalid sister, Abigaile (Denham) Shanks to care for in 1827. She also had the use of her sister's money and real property, toward her upkeep and welfare.

In 1826 Jane Embry was sued by Joel Embry for a note that Jane had held in her possession since her divorce in 1819. The ironic part is that the note was on her former husband's brother for $600.00. Records proved that Jane Embry never tried to collect this note from her brother-in-law, Joel Embry. He claimed he never owed it in the first place and sued to have Jane Embry give it back to him. She refused. He brought suit once more against Jane and all her children. The children, most of whom were living in Illinois, refused to answer the complaint. Joel Embry kept this suit going in court for a period of ten years. Jane won the case. Again her brothers and brothers-in-law remained at her side, "one for all and all for one".

Jane Embry owned real property in Hawesville, Hancock county, Kentucky. She paid taxes on this town property while living in Russell County, Kentucky. A married daughter lived in Hawesville.

On September 18, 1858 Jane Embry began selling her land, which lay in the counties of Russell, Wayne, Pulaski, Adair and Hancock Kentucky. She sold her nephew, George McWhorter, of Russell county 810 acres of land on Long Bottom of the Cumberland River for $4,500.00. Two-thirds of the land lay in Wayne county and the balance lay in Russell County. George McWhorter let Jane have five slaves toward payment of the land, valued at $500.00. They were Saray, age 57, Jack, age 13, Jeddy Ann, age 8, William, age 9, and Amos, age 5. The father, John McWhorter paid the balance due Jane Embry for the land. (Deed Book E, Page 181 through 186.) These slaves became known as the "Jane Embry slaves."

Jane Embry's children had married and migrated to the State of Illinois. Only one daughter remained in Russell County. (Mary Woolridge and family). It is believed that Jane Embry left for Illinois during her waning years. By 1865, all of her land was sold with the exception of the 200 acres on Cumberland River that her now deceased brother, Alexander Denham, had given her "when times were rough for her." It is assumed, where ever she lived and died, she had left a will and one of her heirs received this "coveted land".

The Embry children's father, Willis J. Embry, died in Adair County, Kentucky in March 1825.

Russell County Circuit Court Joel Embry vs. Jane Embry
File Box No. 174 File on June 25, 1828

      "To the Honorable Judge of Russell County Circuit Court in Chancery setting Your Orator, Joel Embry, complaineths and showth that a certain Jane Embry, formerly the wife of J. Willis Embry (who is since deceased and from whom as your Orator is informed, she was divorced in the lifetime of J. Willis Embry, deceased, holds in her possession a Note purporting to have been given by your Orator in 1812, or there about to the said J. Willis Embry for $600.00 -- he furthers states that he is informed that the Note also purports to have been assigned to the said Eliza Jane Embry by J. Willis Embry after such a divorce was obtained and decreed. He states that he does not owe one Cent of the said note and never did and can prove it by William Lear of Russell County an perhaps some others, but he is apprehensive that said note will be held up until said Mr. Lear and others may die. The suit has never been brought on said Note and your Orator never could prevail upon said Eliza Jane Embry either to sue on the said note or give said note up. Wherefore your Orator prays that the said Eliza Jane, may be made defendant to this Bill and compelled to answer the same. Your Orator states that the said J. Willis Embry departed this life some years since the Day of (in the twenties), and he, your Orator, has been informed that no Administrator has been regularly appointed and he knows no Representative of the children and heirs of said Embry - - - who are to wit: Jesse W. Embry, Mary "Polly" Embry, Wiley S. Embry, Merrill Embry, Parker Denham Embry, Thersa Embry, Eliza Jane Embry, Jr., Elizabeth Embry and Thomas Turner Embry, all married and living out of State except Mary, Eliza Jane, Jr., the nine year old boy and their mother, all of whom are made defendants to this bill along with their mother,Eliza Jane Embry, Sr. Wherefore your Orator prays that your Honor will devise that leave will be given to your Orator to take the deposition of William Lear and others and by your decree perpetrate the same to be used and read after his or (their) deaths in suits that may be brought on the said note. Your Orator further states that he has no precise recollection of the date that the said note was given. He thinks it was in 1812, but not being certain as to the time he prays that the said Jane Embry may be compelled to produce the same or state on oath the amount, when given and date due.
                                          Joel Embry

State of Kentucky, Garrard County
      I do hereby certify that Joel Embry made oath before me that the facts as stated in this Bill of his own knowledge are true and those stated from the information of others he believes to be true. Given under my hand as a Justice of the Peace and County aforesaid this Day 25th of June, 1828.

                              Forbus P __________ (unreadable)

The Attorney for Joel Embry was E. G. Robinson, Garrard County, Kentucky. The suit ran in the Russell County Court for eight years, being postponed each term of court. Jane Embry won the suit in January 1836 and Joel Embry had to pay the note. It was brought out in court that if he had not become excited over the note, Jane Embry would never have sold it or asked him for payment of the $600.00.

CHRISTENING: Mar 1819, Divorced in Adair Co., KY

Posted by Syble Moore Embrey on May 16, 1998 at 15:11:05:

Seeking information on the parents of Eliza Jane Denham who married Willis Sims Embry on August 28, 1798 in Madison Co, KY. Jane's mother is reported to be _____ Turner, given name unknown at this time. It is also reported that William married 2nd Elizabeth Parker who reared Jane. Does anyone know when Jane Denham Embry died? There was a land patent in Adair Co, KY for 200 acres to Willis Sims Embry. As I understand it the boundary lines changed and she was shown in Adair, Russel and Wayne Counties but she never sold the original land she and Willis owned. Does anyone know of an estate settlement when she died? Jane was on the 1850 census and the 1854 tax roll of Wayne Co, KY nothing further can be found. William Denham's will was probated in Pulaski Co, Ky July 29, 1818. Any information will be appreciated please contact me at morembry@gmi.net

Posted by Kathryn Denham DuBois, email: dubois-l-k@worldnet.att.net
on January 03, 1999 at 17:40:22:

In Reply to: William Denham posted by Syble Moore Embrey on May 16, 1998 at 15:11:05:

The Denham Family History has several pages of notes on Eliza "Jane" Denham married to Willis J. Embry. They divorced in 1819--Jane received home place on Casey Creek (n.e. Adair Co.). She sold this property to her brother Wm. Denham, Jr. but he died soon after and it became property of Wm's son-in-law James Redder. In 1819, Jane received 200 acres of land located on the Cumberland River (s.e. Adair Co.) from her brother, Alexander Denham and this became home place for she and her children. Does your question refer to the property in northeast or southeast Adair County? Let me know if you want further details of Court records.

More About WILLIS J. EMBRY:
Fact 8: Adair Co., KY

More About WILLIS EMBRY and ELIZA DENHAM:
Divorce: March 1819, Adair Co., KY ⁵²
Marriage: 28 August 1798, Madison Co., KY

Children of ELIZA DENHAM and WILLIS EMBRY are:

	i.		JESSE W.⁴ EMBRY, b. Abt. 1781, Adair Co., KY.
	ii.		WILEY S. EMBRY, b. Abt. 1783, Adair Co., KY.
	iii.		MERRILL W. EMBRY, b. Abt. 1785, Adair Co., KY.
	iv.		THERESA EMBRY, b. Abt. 1787, Adair Co., KY.
	v.		ELIZABETH EMBRY, b. Abt. 1789, Adair Co., KY.
	vi.		PARKER DENHAM EMBRY, b. Abt. 1791, Adair Co., KY.
	vii.		MARY "POLLY" EMBRY, b. Abt. 1799, Adair Co., KY; m. STEPHEN WOOLRIDGE, 9 March 1828.

More About STEPHEN WOOLRIDGE and MARY EMBRY:
Marriage: 9 March 1828

	viii.		ELIZA JANE EMBRY, b. 1817, Adair Co., KY ⁵³.
35.	ix.		THOMAS TURNER EMBRY, b. 1819, Adair Co., KY.

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