The Genealogy of General J. E. B. Stuart, and of his Collateral Relations on his Mother's Side- -Pannill, Strother, Banks, Bruce, etc. Source: The William and Mary Quarterly, Vol. 6, No. 3 (Jan., 1898), pp. 155-158 Published by: Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/1914601 . Accessed: 19/05/2014 20:19 Your use of the JSTOR archive indicates your acceptance of the Terms & Conditions of Use, available at . http://www.jstor.org/page/info/about/policies/terms.jsp . JSTOR is a not-for-profit service that helps scholars, researchers, and students discover, use, and build upon a wide range of content in a trusted digital archive. We use information technology and tools to increase productivity and facilitate new forms of scholarship. For more information about JSTOR, please contact [email protected]. . Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture is collaborating with JSTOR to digitize, preserve and extend access to The William and Mary Quarterly. http://www.jstor.org This content downloaded from 194.29.185.113 on Mon, 19 May 2014 20:19:26 PM All use subject to JSTOR Terms and Conditions
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The Genealogy of General J. E. B. Stuart, and of his Collateral Relations on his Mother's Side--Pannill, Strother, Banks, Bruce, etc.Source: The William and Mary Quarterly, Vol. 6, No. 3 (Jan., 1898), pp. 155-158Published by: Omohundro Institute of Early American History and CultureStable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/1914601 .
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TEE GENEALOGY OF GENERAL J. E. B. STUART, ETO. 155
John Tayloe departed this world 12th April, 1779, at 11 o'clock -at night, aged 58. He was born 1721.
Rebecca Tayloe, his wife, departed this world on the 22 Jan. in the year 1787, aged 55, at half-past one in the afternoon.
Raplh Wormeley, Sr., died August 19, 1790.
THE GENEALOGY OF GENERAL J. E. B. STUART, AND OF HIS COLLATERAL RELATIONS ON HIS MOTHERS SIDE-PANNILL, STROTHER, BANKS, BRUCE, ETC.
[ Continued from page 116 ] JAMES EWELL BROWN STUART, sixth child (son is a typographical
,error on page 116) of Hon. Archibald Stuart and Elizabeth Letcher Pannill, was born in Patrick county, Va., on the sixth day of Feb- ruary, 1833. On the recommendation of Mr. Averett, who then represented his district in Congress, he received the appointment of cadet to West Point. On completing the course he was commis- sioned a lieutenant, and sent to the western plains, where he was wounded in an encounter with the Indians. While in the west he married Miss Flora, daughter of Col. Philip St. George Cooke. As soon as Virginia seceded, he returned to his native State, and was raised first to the rank of lieutenant-colonel, and ordered to report to Col. J. E. Johnston at Harper's Ferry. His subsequent ,career is matter of general history. On May 11, 1864, he was mortally wounded at the battle near Yellow Tavern. He was taken to Richmond, where he lingered until the evening of May 12th, when death ended his sufferings.
William Letcher Pannill, the second child of David Pannill, was born September 10, 1803, about two months before his father's death. He married Maria Bruce Banks, the daughter of W. B. Banks, before mertioned. He died September 9, 1875, lacking only one day of being seventy-two years old. Like his paternal grandfather, the second William, he had fourteen children, ten of whom, or their children, are now living. Their names are 1, David Henry; 2, James Bruce; 3, Susan P. Rucker; 4, Bethenia P. Martin; 5, Fanny P. Ficklen (dead, leaving children); 6, Louisa Banks Griffith; 7, Nannie P. Ballard; 8, Ruth H. Gordon; 9. John Taylor; 10, Alexander Stuart.
NOTES ON ABOVE GENEALOGY BY D. H. PANNEL.
1. I saw recently a native of Ireland, who informed me that all the Pannells of Ireland were Roman Catholics.
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2. I am indebted to Judge Philip Strother for copies of records of Culpeper county.
3. General Taylor had a brother, named William Dabney Strother Taylor, after the gallant soldier who fell at Guilford., This brother was also an officer in the United States Army. The Duke of Wellington says that General Z. Taylor was the greatest of modern generals, because when confronted by overwhelming numbers at Buena Vista, and his council of war had advised him not to risk a battle, he said: "Gentlemen, I adjourn the council until to.morrow-after the battle."-Sheil's irish Bar, note by McKensie, Vol. II., p. 309.
The military sash worn by General Braddock in the battle near Fort Duquesne (July, 1755), in which that brave but unfortunate British General was mortally wounded, fighting for the American colonies against the French and Indians, having become the pro- perty of a gentleman of New Orleans, he delivered it to General, Gaines of the same city, with the request that he should give it to the general who became most distinguished in the Mexican War, then in progress. General Gaines accordingly presented it to General Taylor. It was of red silk, and so large that it could be, used (and was so intended to be) as a hammock to bear the officer who wore it in battle off the field, if it should be necessary; and it was so used in the case of General Braddock. 11 Is the meshes of the splendid red silk that composed it," says the historian of Western Virginia," was the date of its manufacture, 1707, and al- though it was one hundred and forty (now one hundred and ninety) years old, it glistened as brightly as if it had just come from the loom-save the dark spots that were stained with the blood of the hero who wore it." (History of Western Virginia, by Willis De Haas, in 1847.) This sash is now owned by General Taylor's daughter, Mrs. Betty Taylor Dandridge, of Winchester, Va. (Bal- timore Sun, February, 1897.)
General Taylor had a son named Richard Taylor, after Gen. Tay- lor's father. He was a brave soldier, and rendered valuable service to the Confederacy in the Valley of Virginia and in Louisiana. He- rose to the rank of lieutenant-general, and showed himself a worthy son of the hero of Buena Vista, and a worthy kinsman of the gallant Stuart. He was generally known as General "Dick" Taylor, and he wrote an account of that portion of the war in which he was engaged, called "Destruction and Reconstruction," which is very popular.
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THE GENEALOGY OF GENERAL J. E. B. STUART, ETC. 157
4. William Bruce Banks was the son of Gerard Banks of Staf- ford county, Va., who married Fanny Bruce. This Gerard Banks was the son of Gerard Bankis, Sr., who was the son of Adam Banks. The records of Stafford county show that Gerard Banks, Sr., con- veyed land that was bought by his father Adam Banks in 1674. W. B. Banks was born on the second of October, 1776, at Green Bank, on the Rappahannock, near Banks' Ford, famous in the Chancellorsville campaign in the late Civil War. He died on the fourth of August, 1852, being nearly seventy-six years old. He was educated at William and Mary College, and graduated in 1796. The catalogue of the alumni of the college issued before the war mentions him as having been judge of the superior court. But this is a mistake. After he was admitted to the bar he first settled in Lynchburg, Va. After a residence there of several years, persuaded by his cousin, James Bruce, he removed to Halifax county, Va., where he married. He was for many years commonwealth's attorney of the superior courts of Halifax, Charlotte, Mecklenburg, Franklin, Patrick, Henry, and Pittsylvania. His sister married Mr. Hening, author of Hening's Statutes at Large, a work fre- quently referred to by Bancroft in his history of the United States. He also had a gifted niece, who was Mrs. Eliza Schermerhorn, of Indiana. She wrote a beautiful piece of poetry on the death of her uncle, W. B. Banks, commencing as follows:
" Last of a household, that whilom side by side Sprang, where the Rappahannock rolls its tide. Where widowed love and filial fondness weep, Would, too, my tender vigils keep," etc.
Another of John Pannill's daughters married Mr. Love, a promi- nent lawyer of -the same bar with W. B. Banks. But he soon died, leaving only one child-a daughter. She married the late Col. T. S. Flournoy, of Halifax county, Va.
5. This third William also had a son named William, who moved to Petersburg, Va., where he spent his life, being at one time President of the Southside Railroad Company. He was also pro- vost-marshal of Petersburg during the late Civil War. His only daughter married a son of Hill Carter, of Shirley. A daughter of the third William, of North Carolina, married the late Bishop Otey, of Tennessee, and her daughter maaried B. B. Minor, now of Rich- mond, Va., and formerly editor of The Southern Literary Mes- eenger.
6. Archibald's Stuart's father was Judge Alexander Stuart, and
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his grandfather was Major Alexander Stuart. Major Stuart was severely wounded at the battle of Guilford 0. H., and taken pris- oner. He was, however, soon exchanged, and his sword, which was returned to him, is now preserved as a valuable relic in the family of his grandson, the late Hon. A. H. H. Stuart, of Staunton, Va.
7. Thus, as seen, General J. E. B. Stuart, was of revolutionary stock on both sides of the house. There is some resemblance be- tween him and his maternal great-grandfather in the manner of their deaths. Both of them were engaged in a war for independ- ence, and were killed in the prime of life, in the spring of the year, and in the year in which the contest was practically decided, and when their country was overrun by hostile forces. Col. Letcher was assassinated, and General Stuart virtually so, being delibe- rately shot, after the battle was over, by a single man, separated from the troops to which he belonged, and whose life Stuart had spared, thinking he would surrender.
Ci.&vAM, VA., March, 1897.
LIBRARY OF COL. WILLIAM FLEMING.
Miss Louisa Baxter, of Lexington, Va., a great-granddaughter of Colonel William Fleming, has an account book from which Miss Maria Pendleton Duval was kind enough to copy the following list of Fleming's library. He
kept an account of these books, to whom loaned, etc. A short diary (1787) precedes the list.
Colonel William Fleming was born in Jedborough, Scotland, in 1729. He came to Virginia, 1755, after taking his degree as M. D. in the University of
Edinburgh. In August, 1755, he entered Washington's regiment. He distin- guished himself as ensign, lieutenant, and captain until 1762, when the regi- ment was disbanded, and he resumed the practice of medicine. He held a
warrant from Governor Dinwiddie to act as surgeon, and was sometimes de- tailed for special service. During Tarleton's famous raid he was acting gov- ernor for a short while. In 1779 he was commissioned to settle land claims in
Kentucky. [For a fuller sketch, see Grigsby, Convention of 1788.1
