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Descendants of Matthew Lyon

19. AMANDA MARTIA³ CADWELL (PAMELIA² LYON, MATTHEW¹) was born July 13, 1818, and died Unknown. She married EDWARD HARVEY. He died Unknown.

Children of AMANDA CADWELL and EDWARD HARVEY are:

WILLIAM⁴ HARVEY, d. Unknown.

More About WILLIAM HARVEY:
Cause of Death: Unknown disease.
Military service: Died in the Civil War.

75.

ii.

HELEN AMELIA HARVEY, d. April 15, 1879.

20. ELVIRA ADALINE³ CADWELL (PAMELIA² LYON, MATTHEW¹) was born November 23, 1821 in Madison Co., Illinois, and died July 31, 1849 in Madison Co., Illinois. She married J. HENDERSON. He died Unknown.

Children of ELVIRA CADWELL and J. HENDERSON are:

	i.		ELON⁴ HENDERSON, d. Unknown.
	ii.		MALCOLM HENDERSON, d. Unknown.

21. AUGUSTA JANE³ CADWELL (PAMELIA² LYON, MATTHEW¹) was born April 15, 1824 in Madison Co., Illinois, and died August 05, 1886 in Vail, Crawford Co., Iowa. She married (1) WILLIAM JACKSON TODD October 20, 1849 in Jacksonville, Morgan Co., Illinois. He was born November 29, 1826, and died June 13, 1861. She married (2) WILLIAM H. MARSHALL December 24, 1862. He was born April 25, 1824, and died Unknown.

Children of AUGUSTA CADWELL and WILLIAM TODD are:

76.	i.	LUELLA MARGARETTA⁴ TODD, b. October 05, 1850, Morgan Co., Illinois; d. June 16, 1930, California.
77.	ii.	JOHN SYLVANUS HOLSTON TODD, b. February 20, 1853, Morgan Co., Illinois; d. June 17, 1935.
	iii.	CARRIE BELLE TODD, b. April 27, 1859; d. September 15, 1861.

Children of AUGUSTA CADWELL and WILLIAM MARSHALL are:

	iv.		GEORGE WILLIAM ETHELMONT⁴ MARSHALL, b. December 05, 1863; d. June 29, 1866.
	v.		HELEN EULALA ESTELLE MARSHALL, b. March 12, 1865; d. September 14, 1886.
	vi.		CELESTIA MAY MARSHALL, b. December 25, 1866; d. 1938.

22. HELEN MARY³ CATLETT (MINERVA² LYON, MATTHEW¹) was born Abt. 1807 in Eddyville, Caldwell Co., Kentucky, and died Abt. 1887 in Eddyville, Lyon Co., Kentucky. She married FREDERICK HENRY SKINNER, son of HENRY SKINNER and AURELIA LYON. He was born 1815 in Eddyville, Caldwell Co., Kentucky, and died April 06, 1893 in Eddyville, Lyon Co., Kentucky.

Children of HELEN CATLETT and FREDERICK SKINNER are:

	i.	HENRY⁴ SKINNER, d. Unknown, Age 2.
	ii.	JOHN STEWARD SKINNER, d. Unknown, 18 months.
	iii.	FREDERICK SKINNER, d. Unknown, Age 1.
	iv.	GILES LYON SKINNER, d. Unknown, 9 months.
78.	v.	AURELIA SKINNER, d. Unknown.
	vi.	HYLAN SKINNER, d. Unknown; m. ALABET CURRY; d. Unknown.
	vii.	HELEN MARY SKINNER, d. Unknown.
	viii.	MARION SKINNER, d. Unknown.
79.	ix.	THOMAS CATLETT SKINNER, d. June 09, 1910.

23. MINERVA³ CATLETT (MINERVA² LYON, MATTHEW¹) was born 1822, and died 1904. She married MALCOLM MURRAY 1840. He was born 1802, and died 1865.

Children of MINERVA CATLETT and MALCOLM MURRAY are:

80.	i.	ALBERT F.⁴ MURRAY, b. 1841; d. 1904.
81.	ii.	ELLA MURRAY, b. 1853; d. Unknown.
82.	iii.	MINERVA MURRAY, b. 1855; d. Unknown.

24. ANN FAIRFAX³ CATLETT (MINERVA² LYON, MATTHEW¹) was born 1806, and died 1844. She married (1) GEORGE SHORTRIDGE HAMPTON. He died Unknown. She married (2) JAMES SCHMIDT HEPBURN Abt. 1820. He was born 1800, and died Unknown.

Notes for GEORGE SHORTRIDGE HAMPTON:
He served with distinction during the Civil War on the staff of General Rosecrans. In 1841 he and Ann moved to Iowa.

Children of ANN CATLETT and GEORGE HAMPTON are:

83.	i.	CATHERINE CATLETT⁴ HAMPTON, b. Wellsville, Ohio; d. Unknown.
84.	ii.	GEORGE SHORTRIDGE HAMPTON, b. Abt. 1838; d. 1911.
	iii.	COLUMBUS HAMPTON, b. Abt. 1840; d. Unknown.

Children of ANN CATLETT and JAMES HEPBURN are:

iv.

FRANCES MINERVA⁴ HEPBURN, b. 1822, Pittsburg, Pennsylvania; d. 1914, Washington, District of Columbia.

Notes for FRANCES MINERVA HEPBURN:
"She was woman of great intelligence, and her extensive acquaintance with public men, gave her a fund of valuable information. She furnished indirectly some of the material from this branch of the family."

85.

HON. WILLIAM PETERS HEPBURN, b. November 04, 1833, Wellsville, Ohio; d. February 07, 1916, Clarinda, Iowa.

25. ALBERT GALLATIN³ CATLETT (MINERVA² LYON, MATTHEW¹) was born November 26, 1818 in Old Fort Belle Fountaine, Missouri, and died March 14, 1848 in Wellsville, Ohio. He married CATHERINE ANN ATEN October 29, 1835 in Wellsville, Ohio. She was born Abt. 1818, and died Abt. 1880 in Wellsville, Ohio.

Notes for ALBERT GALLATIN CATLETT:
Albert was a wholesale grocer in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and Wellsville, Ohio.

Children of ALBERT CATLETT and CATHERINE ATEN are:

	i.	HANSON HENRY⁴ CATLETT, b. April 16, 1839, New Troy, Pennsylvania; d. Aft. 1918; m. RACHEL MARKER, 1887; d. Unknown.
86.	ii.	JOHN CHADWICK CATLETT, b. May 30, 1841, Wellsville, Ohio; d. Abt. 1920.
	iii.	CATHERINE VIRGINIA CATLETT, b. September 23, 1846, Wellsville, Ohio; d. August 15, 1857, Wellsville, Ohio.

26. MARY ANN³ LYON (CHITTENDEN², MATTHEW¹) was born February 17, 1818 in Eddyville, Caldwell (now Lyon) County, Kentucky, and died November 22, 1873 in Lyon Co., Kentucky. She married REUBEN R. O'HARA April 25, 1833 in Caldwell Co., Kentucky. He was born August 14, 1807 in Eddyville, Caldwell (now Lyon) County, Kentucky, and died September 10, 1864 in Lyon Co., Kentucky.

Children of MARY LYON and REUBEN O'HARA are:

87.	i.		LAURA⁴ O'HARA, b. August 31, 1839, Eddyville, Caldwell Co., Kentucky; d. April 04, 1865, Eddyville, Lyon Co., Kentucky.
88.	ii.		MARY FLORENCE O'HARA, b. October 14, 1844, Eddyville, Caldwell Co., Kentucky; d. February 28, 1883, Eddyville, Lyon Co., Kentucky.

27. MARGARET AURELIA³ LYON (CHITTENDEN², MATTHEW¹) was born January 28, 1820, and died May 12, 1852. She married COL. WILLIS BENSON MACHEN December 29, 1835, son of HENRY MACHEN and NANCY TARRANT. He was born April 10, 1810 in Caldwell County, Kentucky, and died September 29, 1893 in Hopkinsville, Christian County, Kentucky.

Notes for COL. WILLIS BENSON MACHEN:
Kentucky: A History of the State, Battle, Perrin & Kniffin, 3rd ed. 1886.
Lyon Co.

EX-UNITED STATES SENATOR, WILLIS B. MACHEN was born April 5, 1810 in Caldwell, now Lyon County, Ky. His parents, Henry and Nancy (Tarrant) Machen, came from South Carolina in 1809, located on a farm near where subject now resides. The father was a prosperous farmer, and a man of much energy and good sense. His death occurred in 1860; that of his wife in 1852. There are only two of their children living - subject, and Frank, of Princeton, Ky. The Machens are the out-growth of intermarriages on one side of Huguenots and Irish, and Scotch and English on the other. Many of the ancestral connection,[sic] of Mr. Machen served the colonies with distinction during the war of Independence, among others was his great- grandfather Woods, who was killed by the Tories, and whose death was severely avenged by his brother, Col. Woods, of South Carolina. Mr. Machen's early training was that common to farmer boys, attending the county schools in the winter and working on the farm in summer, but at the age of twenty entered Cumberland College, Princeton, Ky. Leaving school, he engaged in the manufacture of iron with C. C. Cobb, in Livingston County, in which he was engaged for seven years, and in 1838 entered the mercantile business with no capital but a good name; meeting with reverses he failed three years after, but paid all debts, &c. He then went to contracting and building turnpikes at which he was successful, but being severely hurt while thus engaged, he withdrew from hard labor, and in 1843, began the study of law; was admitted to the bar, and almost immediately built up a large clientage, practicing until 1850 in both Lyon and Caldwell Counties, when he retired to assume the management of a farm he had purchased where he now resides. His fine brick residence is situated on a small hill, at the foot of which runs the Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad, and the Cumberland River, and on either side not over a mile distant are the towns of Eddyville and Kuttawa. In 1849 Mr. Machen was a member of the convention that framed the present constitution of Kentucky, and in 1853 defeated his popular opponent, George W. Barbour, for the State senate. He was elected to the lower house in 1855-60-61. After the outbreak of the war he was elected by the convention while at Russellville, a member of the Provisional State government, and served as chairman of that body for some months. He was then elected a member of the Confederate congress by soldiers in the field and residents of his district, and served two terms; was reelected by the soldiers in the field alone the second time, and was a member of that body at the close of the war, when he made his escape to Canada. He was soon after joined by his family, but was pardoned in three months by President Andrew Johnson, and returned home. In 1872, upon the death of Garret Davis he was first appointed and then elected to fill his unexpired term in the United States senate. In 1870, he was very strongly urged to accept the nomination for governor, but declined as there was a question as to his eligibility. He has since refused to allow his name to be used before conventions for same office, although indorsed [sic] by many of the State papers. In 1882, he was appointed by Gov. Blackburn one of the State railroad commissioners, which position he held two years.
Mr. Machen was first married to Margaret A. Lyon, youngest daughter of Chittenden and Nancy Lyon. Two children of this union are still living. His second wife was Eliza N. Dobbins of Eddyville. His present wife, Victoria T. Mims, he married in 1859. They are blessed with five children: Frank P., Willis B., Charles V., Minnie, now Mrs. A. D. Sayers, of Alabama, and Marjorie, his youngest child.

Machen Tarrant Woods Cobb Barbour Johnson Davis Blackburn Lyon Dobbins Mims Sayers
Caldwell-KY SC Livingston-KY Canada AL

From: Brenda Jerome
Date: Fri, 21 Mar 1997 11:18:55 -0600
Subject: KY-F: Obit - Machen - SC - Caldwell Co

Crittenden Press 14 Sep 1893
His Mind a Wreck

(Eddyville, Ky.) Ex-U.S. Senator Willis B. Machen was taken to the asylum at Hopkinsville yesterday. He had a severe attack of la grippe last winter which affected his mind greatly and it has been gradually giving way ever since. He is about 82 years old.

Willis Benson Machen was born April 5, 1810 in Caldwell County, Ky. His father, Henry Machen, was a farmer of that county for many years, being a native of South Carolina and coming to Ky. in 1809. He obtained a good education in the schools of his native country and in Cumberland College in Princeton, Ky.

More About COL. WILLIS BENSON MACHEN:
Burial: Unknown, River View Cemetery, Eddyville, Kentucky

Children of MARGARET LYON and WILLIS MACHEN are:

	i.	HENRY BYRON⁴ MACHEN, b. October 17, 1836; d. November 13, 1836.
	ii.	MARY JOSEPHINE MACHEN, b. September 30, 1838; d. May 07, 1854.
	iii.	EDWARD CHITTENDEN MACHEN, b. May 01, 1840; d. October 05, 1845.
89.	iv.	HENRY LYON MACHEN, b. August 25, 1843; d. July 01, 1894.
	v.	WILLIS B. MACHEN, b. April 01, 1849, Lyon County, Kentucky; d. Aft. July 1850, Lyon County, Kentucky.
	vi.	WILLIS B. MACHEN, b. December 11, 1851, Lyon County, Kentucky; d. March 29, 1852, Lyon County, Kentucky.

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