Children of James Ware I and Their Families
Researched
and written by © Judith C.Ware
July 2009
A6 Children of:
William
Ware
and
Sarah
Samuel
B. March 29, 1750
by 1776
B.
1754
D. September 10, 1829
D.
September 10, 1829
1. Elizabeth Ware
+
John
Bacon
B. May 30, 1776 May
30, 1799
B. March
10, 1767-9
D. July 30, 1849
D.
2. James
Ware +
B.
May 12, 1780
B.
D.
D.
3. Samuel
Ware
+
Anne
Read
B. 1781
B.
D.
D.
also
married Mrs. Elizabeth Bullock Redd
B.
D.
4. Agnes
Ware
+
Philemon
Row
B. May 17, 1783
B.
D.
D.
Also
married William Porter
B.
D.
5. Rebecca Ware
+
Willis
Blanton
B. 1785
January
1, 1812
B.
D.
D.
6. Sarah Ware
+
William
Porter Jr.
B. 1788
B.
D.
D.
William Ware was born on March 29, 1750 in Gloucester
County, Virginia. He married Sarah Samuel, the
daughter of William Samuel. He served as a
Private during the Revolutionary War. (ref.
629) William “came to Kentucky with other members
of the family and settled in Woodford County on a part of his father’s estate, but
after the death of his father he took charge of the old home and died there. (ref.874)
(1) Elizabeth Ware was known as Betsey. She was born on May 30, 1776, and
she married John Bacon on May 30, 1799. (ref.869) He had been married previously to Anne Patterson. John Bacon was the son of Lyddall and Ann
(Apperson) Bacon. There were eight children
born to Betsey and John: (1) Anne Apperson
Bacon (born March 28, 1800) who married Rev. Philip Slater Fall, (2) Sarah Ware Bacon, (3) William W. Bacon (born March 7, 1804) who
married Ann Noel, (4) Dr. James Ware Bacon
(born March 23, 1807) who married Alice Riggs, (5)
Richard Apperson Bacon (born July 2, 1809) who married Elizabeth Ellen Terrell, (6) John Mosby Bacon who married Sarah Jane
Haggin, (7) Elizabeth P. Bacon, (8) and Albert Gallatin Bacon. Elizabeth and John lived in Frankfort, Kentucky,
and Elizabeth died on July 30, 1849. (ref.
869, 874)
**
The daughter of Elizabeth and John Bacon named Anne Apperson Bacon (number 1) married
Reverend Philip Slater Fall. She and Rev. Fall
were the grandparents of Mrs. Jouett Taylor Cannon; the (at one time) secretary-treasurer
of the Kentucky Historical Society. (ref. 873) Reverend Fall was also the grandfather of U.S. Senator A.B. Fall of New
Mexico. (ref.873)
(2) James Ware was born on May 12, 1780.
(3) Samuel Ware was born
in 1781
and married twice. His first wife was Anne
Read and his second wife was Betsy (Bullock) Redd; the widow of Thomas M. Redd. Samuel’s first wife (Anne Read) was a daughter
of Hanson Read, a pioneer. Anne and Samuel
lived on a farm not far from Ducker’s Station, a part of his father’s estate. They had the following children: William Jr., James
Jr., Hankerson Ware, Agnes Ware, and Ann Read Ware. By
his second marriage to Betsy Bullock Redd, Samuel also had a daughter named Elizabeth
Ware. Samuel served in the Revolutionary War,
or at least he drew a pension for service rendered either by himself or his father. (ref.#
874) Samuel’s
daughter Agnes married Major Thomas Bullock Jr., who resided on the farm now known as the
Walker Farm – beyond Mortonsville, but later moved to Illinois. (ref.
874)
Samuel’s
youngest daughter by Anne Read, Ann Read Ware, married Capt. Elijah Fogg. His daughter Elizabeth Ware (by Betsy Bullock Redd)
married John Benjamine Utterback. (ref 874)
(4) Agnes Ware was born on May 17, 1783, and
she married first Philemon Rouzee and second, William Porter
(5) Rebecca Ware was born in 1785, and on January
1, 1812, she married Willis Blanton; the son of John Blanton and Nancy Roberson, who lived
near Grassy Springs church. They lived on a
farm owned by the widow of Lafayette Crutcher, on the Versailles and Frankfort Road, in
full view of the church. Rebecca Ware and
Willis Blanton “were on a farm with his mother, Nancy, in 1812 and they inherited the
land at her death.” (ref. 873)
They
had the following children: (1)
Dr.
John
William Blanton who married first Elizabeth Anne Samuel and then also Miss Buck –
both Woodford County girls. (ref.
873,874) (2) Horace Blanton who married first Martha Lamb
and then Eliza Thompson. (3) Elizabeth Blanton who married John Y. Mills. (4) Maria Louise Blanton married Nathaniel
Currier. (ref.873)
(6) Sarah Ware was born in 1788 and married William Porter Jr. Sarah & William had a son named Dudley Porter
Jr. who was a lawyer in Paris, Kentucky, and also a daughter named Elizabeth who married
D.C. Atkins who was a United States Senator.
REFERENCES
1. The Ware Family Bible – This
is kept in my home and has dates and names recorded in it that date all the way back to
the 1700’s.
2. Original long letter of Cornelia Ware Anker (1945)
- Cornelia was the daughter of Sigismund Stribling Ware (son of Josiah William Ware.)
5. Wares of Virginia by Frances C. Griffin
6. VIRGINIA GENEALOGIES: A Genealogy
of the Glassell Family of Scotland and Virginia by Rev. Horace Edwin Hayden, M. A.
Printed in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania in 1891 – copyrighted 1885.
621. Original Webb Family Bible from the Julia S. Ardery Genealogical Collection,
Box 19, Reel #3634, Webb Bible, Margaret I. King Library, University of Kentucky at
Lexington. Provided by Debbie McArdle.
629. DAR Patriot Index,
2003, NSDAR gives military info for John Ware, James Ware II, James Ware I, Nicholas Ware,
and William Ware. Gives ranks/dates/wives/ and
service
651. Old original lineage pages owned by Jane &
Scott Dudgeon - dating back to James Ware and Agnes – gives a good listing of all
their children (particularly James, John, & Nicholas)
Transcribed & triple referenced by Judy C. Ware April 2009
692. Military info on James Ware I, James Ware II,
& James Ware III given by Vicki Cheesman
from Ware Family History American Genealogical Research Institute, Washington DC,
Heritage Press, 1978
818. Cheesman/Ware/Dreisbach/Jorgenson Family
Tree – Genealogical charts & research done by Vicki Cheesman.
830. Ware Family History: Descendants from Ancient, Medieval,
and Modern Kings and Queens, and Presidents of the United States By Wanda Ware DeGidio Edition: illustrated
Published by Xlibris Corp, 2003 ISBN 1401099300, 9781401099305
834. Military records
for James Ware (son of John) James Ware Sr., James Ware Jr., Henry Ware Sr., John Ware,
and William Ware. The American Genealogical
Research Institute, Washington D.C., Heritage Press, 1978
871. Genealogies of Kentucky Families From the
Register of the Kentucky Historical Society Vol. II Mentions
entire family of James Ware I and their
children. Compiled by Philip Fall Taylor and
his sister Mrs. Jouett Taylor Cannon.
873. The Register of the Kentucky
State Historical Society, Vol. 10, No. 30
Frankfort, Kentucky The State Journal Company copyright 1912. Info on Bullocks, Blantons, Rebecca Ware, William
Ware & wife (son of James Ware I), Mrs. Jouett Taylor Cannon, Taylor’s, etc.
874. The
Register of the Kentucky State Historical Society, Vol. 19, No. 55 Frankfort, Kentucky Good info on James Ware I and all his family
894A. Harrison-Payne-Ware
Part I from Pittsylvania County, Virginia Heritage 1161-2004
Submitted by Mrs. Ann Burnett, Grafton, Virginia. Provided courtesy of Vicki Cheesman
894B. Harrison-Payne-Ware
Part IV & V from Pittsylvania County, Virginia Heritage 1161-2004 Submitted by Betty Fitzgerald, Raleigh, North
Carolina Provided courtesy of Vicki Cheesman
895. John H. Mosby,
son of Alfred Daniel Mosby, married Jane Ware of Goochland on 11 April 1799 per Mosby
Family Bible Records, 1765-1896, Powhatan Co.
898. The History of Pittsylvania County Virginia
by: Maud Carter Clement, J.P. Bell Company, Inc. Lynchburg, VA. 1929 Provided courtesy of Vicki Cheesman
EXTRA
The
Register of the Kentucky State Historical Society, Vol. 25-26
This
is a record of a Bacon family bible which primarily shows the family of John Bacon
(1767-1817) Information about Lyddall Bacon
and his children comes from a Bacon Family bible.
Parish
Register of Saint Peter's, New Kent County, Virginia 1680-1787
Page,
147 - 1767, John son of Lydall and Ann Bacon
Four
of John Bacon's brothers, Langston, Lyddall, Edmund and Benedict, followed him to
Kentucky. Edward married first Eleanor Pemberton and second Pamela Anderson
(afterward Mrs. Sawyer). Lyddall married Miss Graham and Langston married Miss
Samuel and moved with his family to Missouri. |
