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- History of Kentucky, The Blue Grass State, Volume IV, S. J. Clarke Publishing Company, Chicago-Louisville, 1928. [Found on the ancestry.com boards in full.]
JOHN MORRIS FRAZEE, M.d. As a physician, agriculturist and business man Dr. John Morris Frazee was widely and favorably known throughout Kentucky and his death on July 31, 1923, deprived Mason county of one of its honored pioneers and beloved citizens. He was an earnest, sincere Christian, deeply interested in movements for the spiritual uplift of humanity, and revealed in his nature the splendid mental and moral qualities of his distinguished ancestors, who came to American when this country was one of the colonial possessions of Great Britain. He also attained prominence in public life as a legislator and in other ways left the impress of his individuality on the history of the state. The Frazees are of French Huguenot extraction and the Doctor’s forebears were among the founders of Elizabeth, New Jersey, in 1665.
His grandfather, Samuel Frazee, who was born in November 5, 1753, and died November 12, 1849, was a hunter and Indian fighter and a Revolutionary soldier, being in the battles of Point Pleasant, Todd’s Fork and Chillicothe. He was also an associate and close friend of Simon Kenton and Daniel Boone, Kentucky’s noted pioneers. His son Joseph, who was born September 15, 1794, and died August 7, 1870, was a county magistrate and the office at that time was appointive. He married Ann Cushman, daughter of David Cushman and Dorcas Morris of New Jersey, and they became the parents of Dr. Frazee. Ann Cushman was a descendant of both Robert Cushman (1580-1625) and Isaac Allerton. The latter landed at Plymouth, Massachusetts, in 1620 as one of the Mayflower passengers. Robert Cushman started for America on the companion ship, Speedwell, which leaked and returned to England. He came to this country in 1621, on the Fortune, but did not remain long and continued to act as financial agent of the Pilgrims until his death in 1625. He and John Carver chartered the Mayflower. Isaac Allerton became assistant governor of Plymouth colony. Ann Cushman had seven ancestors who were passengers on the Mayflower. Besides Isaac Allerton, there were his wife and daughter; John Tilley, his wife and daughter; and John Howland.
Joseph Frazee, of the six children of Samuel Frazee, the Revolutionary soldier and his wife, Rebecca Jacobs (1769-1837) married three times.
His first wife was Mary Ann Coburn and to this union were born two sons and one daughter.
The oldest was Anderson Doniphan, who married Elizabeth Kirk and had two children, Lillian and Mary, the latter marrying Walter Russell of Columbia, Missouri, and heir four children are Walter, Loan, Judith and Doniphan.
The second was Susan Isabel, who married John Hervey Walton, a member of the same family as George Walton, the signer of the Declaration of Independence. Their four children were: Isabel, who married Benjamin Burdett of Lancaster, Kentucky; Matthew, a successful lawyer of Lexington, Kentucky, who married Carrier Farrar of Fayette county, Kentucky, and whose only child, Clara Belle, married Captain Frank G. Hughes, a physician in the United States army; now stationed at Annapolis, and they have one child, Carolyn Walton; Joseph Frazee, who married first Lillie Savage and had issue; Samuel, who never married. There were four children born to the above Joseph Frazee Walton and Lillie Savage Walton: Hervey Burdett, who married Dora Renaker and had on eson, William Renaker; Matt Savage, who married Lillias Wheeler, now living in Phoenix, Arizona, and whose children are Matt Savage, Joseph Frazee and Charles Wheeler; Samuel Barton, who married Laura Kinkead, Lexington, Kentucky, and who has three children – Samuel, Laura Stone and an infant; and Mary, who died when a young girl.
The third child of Joseph Frazee and Mary Ann Coburn was Samuel Ephraim and his wife was Netta Dewees of Maysville, Kentucky. They moved to Indianapolis Indiana, to assume charge of a large body of land, part of it being included in the present limits of that city, which had been left him by his father (Joseph Frazee).
Samuel Frazee and Joseph Frazee, father and son, had been present at the first Indiana land sales and taken out patents for twenty-seven different portions of land. The oldest child of Samuel Ephraim and Netta Dewees Frazee is Maria Dewees, whose first husband was Charles Gates and whose second, was Henry L. Browning. The children of the second marriage are; Netta Deees, who married George Pittman and whose two children are Georgiana and Sylvia; Henry L., who married Charity Hendrew, three children – Ann M., Henry L., Gilbert H. – being born of this union; Samuel Frazee, whose wife bore the maiden name of Florence Johnson, and who became the father of a daughter, Betty; Mary G., who married A. J. Oneil and whose son is Gordon. Samuel Ephraim and Netta (Dewees) Frazee’s second child is Samuel Ephraim, whose first wife was E. Ormsby, their daughter being Eustacia, who married James Kintner, Davidson, Indiana, and whose children are Edmonia and Stannie.
Samuel’s second wife was Edmonia Ormsby and they are living in Louisville, Ky. The youngest child of Samuel Ephraim and Netta (Dewees) Frazee is Mary F., who is married to Fred G. May, Groton, Massachusetts. Their children are; Maria F.; Fred G., whose wife was before marriage Marian Poole and whose daughter is Mary E.; Richard, who married Kathleen Burke and whose child is Rostrand; Robert, who married Virginia Woods and who has two children, Robert and Eleanor G.
Joseph Frazee’s second wife was Ann (nee Cushman) Holiday, a widow (October 12, 1798 – August 11, 181), and of this union were born three sons and a daughter, Rebecca, the latter dying in childhood. The oldest child of Joseph and Ann Cushman Frazee (married April 22, 1834) was Joseph Thomas 9February 17, 1835 – October 15, 1899), who married Amanda Gordon, their daughter being Harriet, who became the wife of R. K. Hart, Flemingsburg, Kentucky. Their children are Frazee and Arnold, the latter marrying Lela Hurst and having two children, R. K. and Marshall Frazee.
John Morris Frazee, the subject of this sketch, was the second son of Joseph and Ann Cushman Frazee; and their third son is David Cushman, born September 17, 1842, who is a successful business man and prominent citizen of Lexington, Kentucky. He is a worthy representative of his Frazee-Jacobs-Cushman-Morris ancestry. Mr. Frazee is a type of the old-time gentleman. He is genial, courteous, loyal to this friends, the soul of honor, and in appearance, of a handsome, striking personality. For three years he served with General John Morgan in the Confederate army. His wife, before marriage, was Maria Lee, a member of the distinguished Lee family of Virginia and Kentucky. Of this marriage was born one daughter, Jennie Lee, who was called to her heavenly home during her beautiful young girlhood.
Dr. John Morris Frazee was born August 13, 1838, one mile east of Germantown, in Mason county, Kentucky, and attended the private schools of that locality. This was followed by a course in Bethany College under Alexander Campbell and he then matriculated in the Ohio Medical College at Cincinnati. He was next a student at the University of Pennsylvania, from which he received the M. D. degree in 1859, and his first experience as a medical practitioner as gained in Missouri. While in that state he enlisted in the Confederate army at the outbreak of the Civil War, in which he served for four years as a surgeon with the rank of major in the command of General Sterling Price. After the restoration of peace, Dr. Frazee returned to his home community, in which he followed his profession for fifteen years, and his knowledge and skill brought him a large practice. He removed to Maysville, in 1880 and here spent the remainder of his life, devoting his attention to business affairs and to the cultivation of his farm.
Dr. Frazee was called to public office and from 1889 until 1893 represented the county in the state legislature, discharging his duties with characteristic thoroughness and fidelity. He was a popular candidate for commissioner of agriculture in 1898, losing the democratic nomination by one of the tricks of politics after having received the majority of the convention votes. At an early age he united with the Christian church, of which he was a zealous member throughout his life, serving as a deacon and elder and as a teacher in the Sunday school. He was remarkably handsome, of Herculean build and striking personality. In deportment he was dignified, well posed and courteous, and to know him was to be his friend, for he was a gentleman of the old school, chivalrous, hospitable and high-minded.
Dr. Frazee was married November 18, 1869, to Miss Eliza Jennings Lusk, born August 17, 1846, and now living in Maysville, Kentucky, also a member of old and aristocratic families of the south. Her parents were Samuel Lusk and Eliza Alexander (Jennings) Lusk, of Lancaster, the former of whom served in the legislature and for twelve years as circuit judge through appointment of the governor. Judge Lusk lived for many years in Garrard county, Kentucky, and was a stanch republican. He was a great admirer and close friend of Abraham Lincoln. When the Civil war was at its height, the Judge went to Washington for the purpose of collecting the sum of nineteen thousand dollars due him for a large number of mules and a considerable quantity of feed furnished the Union army. When Judge Lusk presented himself and made known his errand, the Great Emancipator immediately gave him a card, on which he had written: “I believe Judge Lusk to be the most iron-necked friend we have in the State of Kentucky and I particularly wish the secretary of war to give him a hearing at once.” It bore the signature of A. Lincoln and date of December 17, 1862, and the words, “the most iron-necked friend,” were underscored. This card is now one of the cherished possessions of Mrs. Fisher Herring, a resident of Lancaster and a granddaughter of Judge Lusk.
To Dr. and Mrs. Frazee were born two children. Their daughter, Anna Cushman, is the widow of Posey Dixon Ball, who was born January 16, 1865, and died May 28, 1898, a descendant of Colonel “Hal” Dixon of Revolutionary fame. Mr. Ball represented Henderson county in the Kentucky legislature during the session of 1891-2. He practiced law with his father, Charles Clay Ball, the latter being mayor of Henderson for thirteen years, and for a number of years in partnership with John Young Brown, the twenty-sixth governor of Kentucky. By this marriage, Posey Dixon Ball had one child, Frances Dixon, who is the wife of Henry Reed Simpson Goggin, Canutillo, Texas, a son of a prominent attorney of El Paso, Texas, James Mann Goggin, and Lilla Hatfield Simpson Goggin – her parents being Samuel Pruitt Simpson (1836-1897) a pioneer banker of Eagle Pass, Texas, and Mary Reed Simpson, whose girlhood home was ‘Airslie,” Lexington, Kentucky. Judge James Mann Goggin was county judge from 1891 to 1896; judge of a district court of Texas from 1899 to 1909; and has been delegate-at-large from Texas to several democratic national convention the memorable Baltimore convention at which Woodrow Wilson was nominated, being one of them. Henry Goggin is a scion on the paternal side, of the Page and Nelson families of Colonial and Revolutionary war fame, and on the maternal side of the distinguished Maryland Dorsey-Todd-Warfield colonial families. Through the Page-Nelson-Throckmortn lines, he can trace unbroken lineage through thirty-nine generations to Alfred the Great, and through almost as many generations, to eighteen of the twenty-five vouchers for the Magna Charta at Runnymede, June 15, 1815, there being only eighteen who left descendants. Henry Reed Simpson Goggin and Francis Dixon (Ball) Goggin have a daughter, Elizabeth Frazee. Mrs. Ball is a Colonial Dame and a member of the Society of the Mayflower Descendants, the latter being an exclusive organization, as the descendants of only twenty-two of the Mayflower passengers have established their right to membership in this society.
Her sister, Frances Lusk, who is also a member of the Mayflower Society, married Henry Lloyd, of Lexington, Kentucky. For twenty-two years Mr. Lloyd filled the chair of mathematics and astronomy in Transylvania College. He was a man of brilliant attainments, having received his Bachelor of Science degree at old Kentucky University, and having done graduate work at Chicago University for three terms. His demise occurred May 15, 1926. He had become the father of Henry Lloyd, Jr., who is now a student in Lexington, Kentucky. Representatives of the Jennings family were distinguished officers in the Continental, Revolutionary and War of 1812 armies and through intermarriage were related to the English family of the Duke of Malborough, both to the first Duke of Marlborough and to the father of the present duke. Mrs. Samuel Lusk was a daughter of General William Jennings, who was an officer in Wayne’s campaign and in the contest which resulted disastrously for St. Clair. He was wounded in both engagements and during the War of 1812 was a colonel in command of the Second Regiment of Kentucky Volunteers. He was born January 9, 1771, and died September 18, 1831. He was married December 11, 194, to Nancy Ballinger, who as born in 1774 and died in 1823.
General William Jennings traced his lineage to John Jennings, who was laid to rest in a cemetery at Birmingham, England, August 3, 1575. John’s son, William, was married at St. Mastins to Joan Elliott, who died in 1622. They were the parents of John Jennings, a native of Birmingham, England. He was baptized in 1579 and his will was proven in 1653. In 1602, John married his cousin, Mary Jennens, and by his second wife, Joyce, had a son, Humphrey Jennings, who was baptized in 1629. In 1657 Humphrey married Mary Millward, who died in 1708, and his demise occurred in 1690. His first home was Edrington Hall, situated in the parish of Aston, or Acton, and the county of Warwick, England. In 1680 he purchased the manor of Nether Whitacre, also located in Warwick county, and his will was proven in 1690. He was the father of William Jennings, who was born November 10, 1675, in Yorkshire, England, and died in 1733 in Nottoway county, Virginia. He was first married in England and his son Augustine was baptized January 3, 1699, at Aston Place. Augustine married Hannah Williams and died in Fauquier County, Virginia, in 1778. According to the records he was a major in the colonial militia of that county March 26, 1770, and in 1741 he voted in Prince William county, Virginia. His son, William Jennings, was born in Virginia and held the rank of captain in the Continental army. He received a land bounty for his services and migrated to Garrard county, Kentucky, about 1790. He was accompanied by members of the Ballinger and Price families, some of whom located in Knox county, Kentucky. He was married December 24, 1764, in Virginia, to Elizabeth Withers, daughter of Captian James and Jemima Withers. She died July 15, 1826, and his demise occurred on April 6, 1814. In their family were nine children; William; Augustine; John, who first married Sallie Rosser, while his second union was with her sister, Betsy; Nancy, who became Mrs. Daniel Boone Duncan; Mary; Hannah, whose husband, John Ballinger, was a brother to Nancy Ballinger, the wife of William Jennings; Betsy, who was married in 1792 to Richard, a son of Joseph Ballinger; Catherine; and Lucy, who was Mrs. William Price and the mother of Commodore Cicero Price, of Albany, New York. He was the father of Lillie Price, who first wedded Louis Hammersley, of New York city. Her second union was with the Duke of Marlboough and her third husband was Lord Beresford.
As before mentioned, William Jennings married Nancy Ballinger and they became the parents of eleven children, two of whom were named Fawnia. The first was born September 6, 1795, and die May 27, 1796. The second was born March 13, 1797, and became the wife of Dr. Alexander Edmiston. She attained the age of forty-eight years, passing away July 18, 1845. Her brother, John Jennings, was born December 28, 1798. He was married January 17, 1822, to Elizabeth May Love and died March 11, 1833. William was born September 30, 1800, and died unmarried December 14, 1822. Susan was born August 28, 1802, and died February 26, 1819. Josephine, born January 12, 1805, was married January 4, 1826 to Gabriel Ballinger, a brother of Jennings Ballinger, and passed away February 12, 1867. Napoleon was born December 13, 1806 and lived but a few weeks, dying January 20, 1807. Angelina was born February 8, 1808, and on January 19, 1826 became the wife of Jennings Ballinger, whose parents were John and Hannah (Jennings) Ballinger. Nancy was born January 26, 1810, and died August 21 of the following year. Nancy, the second of the name, was born April 28, 1812, and on May 20, 1829, became the wife of Meredith Myers. Eliza Alexander, the youngest of the children, was born October 10, 1814, and passed away October 20, 1863. She was married December 25, 1834 to Samuel Lusk, who was born in 1799 and died February 2, 1872.
To Judge Samuel Lusk and his wife, Eliza Jennings, seven children were born. The eldest, William Jennings, who married Mary Faulkner, was the father of the following named: Eliza Jennings, the first wife of Lewis Walter; Faulkner; Jane, the wife of Rev. Hervey McDowell, a member of the distinguished McDowell family of Kentucky, and they have two daughters, Elizabeth and Louise; George, who married Georgia Miller; and William Jennings.
The second of Samuel and Eliza Lusk’s children was Mary, who married her second cousin, Henry Clay Jennings, and to this union three children were born: Eliza Jennings, who became the wife of Peter Orand of Waco, Texas, and the mother of one child, Mary; John Brandford, of Tulsa, Oklahoma, who married Fannie Doty and has one son, Clay; Margaret Susan, the wife of a prominent attorney, Judge Woodruff I. Williams of Tulsa, Oklahoma, and the mother of three children – Mary Clay, Woodruff and Bradford.The third child was Nancy Ballinger, who married Dan Anderson of Lancaster, Kentucky, and their only child, Eliza, is the wife of Fisher Herring, Lancaster, Kentucky. Mrs. Herring is a contributor to some of the most popular magazines of the country. John Samuel, the fourth child, married Alice Holmes Kaufman and to hem were born four children: Mary Holmes, Frank, Samuel and one who died in childhood. The first named is the wife of Julius W. Freeman of Baltimore, Maryland, and a leader in club and philantrophic circles. She is in the list of the forty-nine greatest women in America, having been chosen by ballot of the American Woman’s Association, as the outstanding woman of Maryland.
Eliza Jennings, the fifth in order of birth in the family of Judge Samuel and Eliza (Jennings) Lusk, became the wife of Dr. John Morris Frazee, whose name introduces this review. Margaret Susan, the sixth of the family, married John M. Orand and moved to Waco, Texas, their children – Samuel Lusk, Linder and Margaret Talley – being prominent citizens of that place. Fannie Edminston married Gideon Talley of Waco, Texas, but left no issue.
The Ballinger family is of French origin and the name was formerly De La Ballinger, De Bullinger or Boulinger. The genealogy is traced to William Ballenger, who, according to the register of Charlton Kings Parish, England, “married Elizabeth Harris, ye last day of ye year 1555.” It is recorded that John Ballinger was baptized in London in 1564, that Aubrey was married in Westminister Abbey in 1620, and that Richard Le Ballinger lived in England during the early part of the fifteenth century. Henry Ballinger, the American progenitor of the family, was a member of the Society of Friends of Nailsworth, Gloucestershire, England, and owing to religious persecution came to this country in 1678. He settled in Burlington county, New Jersey, and was a Quaker member of the New Jersey assembly, while his name also appears on the civil list in the book of the Society of the Colonial Wars. In the Friends meeting house at Burlington, New Jersey, he was married in 1684 to Mary Harding, with whom he had previously appeared before the monthly meeting of the society in England, and they became the parents of ten children. Thomas married Elizabeth Elkinton. In 1727 Henry Ballinger married Hannah Wright, his second wife, and their children lived in Virginia, North Carolina and Ohio. Josiah, the third son, was married in 1727 to Mary Wright and their children migrated to Virginia. Amariah wedded Elizabeth Larwood and their children remained in New Jersey. The other members of the family were: Mary, whose husband was a Mr. Ridgeway; Mrs. Ester Butterworth; Hannah and Ruth, spinsters; Elizabeth, who was married in 1724 to Henry Willard; and Joseph, who wedded Charity Wade, of Virginia prior to 1744. It is this Joseph from whom Mrs. Frazee is descended. Henry Ballinger gave to his sons Henry, Josiah and Joseph twelve hundred acres of land in Salem county, New Jersey; but they left that state and acquired property in Maryland under Lord Baltimore. In company with others, they journeyed to Virginia and took up several thousand acres of land in old Frederick county. Josiah died there when a young man but Henry was a wanderer and with his family crossed Virginia into North Carolina, locating in Guilford. They were all Quakers and his wife, Hannah Ballinger, was allowed to speak in meeting whenever the spirit moved her, being a minister of that faith. Henry Ballinger was a man of generous nature and with another Friend contributed the ground on which the old meeting house was built. He next went to Ohio and his death occurred on the 4th or 5th of November, 1774. Joseph Ballinger settled in old Henrico, Virginia, and after his marriage became an Episcopalian. His will was proved in 1744 at Goochland, Virginia, and he was survived by his widow, Charity Ballinger and seven children: Mary Wade, Charity Wade, Abigail, Susannah, Elizabeth, Joseph, Jr., and Richard. It is supposed that it was one or both of the last two named who built the Ballinger church (Episcopal) in Amherst county, Virginia, in 1749. Joseph, Jr., and Richard Ballinger married sisters in Virginia, Tansy and Dolly Franklin. It is supposed that this Richard Ballinger is the Captain Richard Ballinger who was at the old barracks in Albemarle county, Virginia, in 1779 and Fort Powhatan in 1780. Richard and Dolly or tansy Ballinger had eight children. (1) Henry, who on August 4, 1788, married Polly Clarkson, in Virginia, later moved to Garrard county, Kentucky, and had a daughter, Nancy. (2) Joseph, known as “Devil Jo” Ballinger, Lincoln county, Kentucky, married Jane Logan, niece of the celebrated General Ben Logan, and their children were: Bonaparte; Nancy; Lucretia, who married Colonel Michael Davidson, Lincoln county, Kentucky; Harriet, who married James Davidson; John L. Ballinger, who married a daughter of Major James Paxton and moved to Texas. (3) John married Hannah Jennings, daughter of Captain William Jennings. He was a major in the United States army, a member of the legislature, and pronounced by Henry Clay to be the best speaker for a non-professional man that he ever heard. His children were: Lucy; Franklin, a distinguished lawyer and judge, who married Jane Adams and moved to Keokuk, Iowa; and their children were: John Randolph, Clay, Sue Jennings, Franklin, Webster, Jennie, William, Sallie, Madison, Lucy and Adams. Two of the above named are now living: Webster, a lawyer of Denver, Colorado, and Lucy, now Mrs. Lindsey, of Kansas City, Missouri. Gabriel Lewis Ballinger, who married his cousin, Josephine Jennings, daughter of General William Jennings and Nancy (Ballinger) Jennings; and Jennings married Angelina Jennings, sister of Josephine. (4) Eastham never married. (5) Mildred married _____ Renshaw and lived in Garrard County, Kentucky. (6) Betsey married G. W. Crump. (7) Another daughter, probably named Sally, married Henry Chiles. (8) Nancy married General William Jennings and their children are recorded in the Jennings line, elsewhere in this article. On April 5, 1782, Joseph Ballinger, Jr., married Tabitha Balloe, his second wife, who was a daughter of Leonard Balloe, and his will, dated February 3, 1802, was proved February 15, 1802. By his first union, with either Dolly or Tansy Franklin, there were eight children: Achilles; Richard (II); James; Peggy; Milly White; Elizabeth, who was married to Samuel Johnson in 1777; Charity, who became the wife of Cox Torrance; and Mrs. Phoebe Tucker. Joseph Ballinger, Jr., the father of the above named, was a brother of Richard, the great-grandfather of Mrs. J. M. Frazee.
Achilles Ballinger married Milly Hudson by license of May 5, 1787, in Amherst county, Virginia, and moved to Garrard county, Kentucky, in 1795. He attained an advanced and died in Missouri prior to 1830. He was the father of eight children. Henry, the oldest, lived in Jacksonville, Illinois, and had four children: Joseph, Achilles, William and Nancy. James, the second son, remained a bachelor. Eastham married and migrated to Missouri, while his brother, Achilles, went to Illinois. Lucy became the wife of Ross Allen and their home was in Garrard county, Kentucky. They had two daughters: Charity, who married George Turpin and lived in Missouri; and Sally, who was the wife of Solomon Carter and resided in Garrard county in 1860. Sally, the sixth in order of birth, married a Mr. Hausley. Charity became the wife of Reuben Torrance, of Henry county, Virginia, and moved to Garrard county, Kentucky, about 1806. They were the parents of four children: Leonard, a resident of Talladega, Alabama, and the father of Mrs. James Hogan; James, a bachelor; Eastham, who married a Miss West and lived in Garrard county; and Achilles, who in 1860 was residing on the homestead in Garrard county. Milly was the youngest member of the family. Richard, the son of Joseph Ballinger, Jr., was married in Garrard county to Elizabeth Jennings, daughter of Captain William Jennings, and in 1792 moved to Knox county, Kentucky. He was clerk of the circuit court and a colonel in the militia. By Elizabeth Jennings, his first wife, he had eight children, as follows: Sally married Isaac Myers and they were the parents of seven children, all of whom died at an early age except Richard, who lived in Rockcastle county, Kentucky, in 1840 Miss Sally Myers, Corbin, Kentucky, is a granddaughter of Isaac and Sally Ballinger Myer. James Franklin was born January 3, 1795. Betsy Withers became the wife of Joseph Eves and moved to Texas in 1741. Hannah wedded William Hogan and their daughter married a Mr. Bates, of Richmond, Kentucky. Lucy became Mrs. James Love and America’s husband was John Gill Eves. Lousiana, the next in order of birth, was married to Milton Eves. Joseph married Elizabeth Herndon, of Pittsylvania county, Virginia, and their children were John Henry and Mary, twins, and Fanny and Virginia. Mary married her cousin, Spencer Tuggles, and they established their home in Missouri. Fanny first wedded John G. Chick and in 1860 became the wife of Henry Smith Pope afterward going to Missouri. John Henry Ballinger, the twin brother of Mary, followed the occupation of farming in Knox county, Kentucky, subsequently becoming a minister of the Christian church, and in 1857 went to Illinois. Nancy, his first wife, was a daughter of Henry Ballinger, son of Richard Ballinger, of Garrard county, Kentucky, and his second union with his cousin, Elizabeth Tuggles, by whom he had two children: Richard Henry; and Lucy, who was living in Seattle, Washington, in 1916. Richard Henry Ballinger, son of John Henry and Elizabeth (Tuggles) Ballinger, was born in 1837 at Barbourville, Kentucky, and married Mary _____. Hey had a son, Richard Achilles Ballinger, a distinguished citizen of Seattle, Washington. He was born July 9, 1858, in the state of Iowa, and served as secretary of the interior under President Taft. James Franklin, one of the children of Richard and Elizabeth Ballinger, first wedded Olivia, a daughter of Judge Randolph Adams, and his second wife was her cousin, Elizabeth Thurston. By his first union he had a son, William Pitt, and a daughter named Lucy. The latter was married to Samuel Miller, a justice of the supreme court of the United States, and they had three children: Olivia, who became the wife of Colonel George Corkhill; Patty, whose husband was Colonel Stocking; and Jane, who died in girlhood. William Pitt Ballinger married Hally Jack in Texas in 1843. He established his home in Galveston and spent the remainder of his life in that city. He was one of the judges of he supreme court of Texas and during the Mexican war served as an adjutant under General Albert S. Johnston. His children and grandchildren are among Galveston’s most prominent citizens today. Lucy, a daughter of William P. Ballinger, married Andrew Graham Mills and their son, Ballinger, wedded Evy Waters, by whom he has one child, Ballinger Mills (II). Lucy has a sister, Betty, who is a leader in all club, civic, and philanthropic activities in Galveston, and her brother, Thomas Jack, married Carrie Mathers, of Michigan. He died in 1899, leaving three children: Lucy Mills, who is he wife of W. P. Marstellar, of Ann Arbor, Michigan; Emily Mathers, who was married to Harold B. Crusoe, of Detroit, Michigan, and has a son, Jack B.; and William Pitt (II). Laura, another daughter of Judge William Pitt Ballinger, married Dr. Edward Radall, of Galveston, Texas, and their son, Edward, studied medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. He entered the service of his country in 1917 and was sent to France with the American Expeditionary force. The children of James Franklin Ballinger and Elizabeth Thurston were America, Joseph, Elizabeth and Greenfield.
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