THE PENDLETON FAMILY LINE

 

THE ENGLISH PENDLETONS                                                     by Dorothy Shade Rose

The Pendletons were originally from Manchester, England, where the name was well known, some of them being in public life as early as Henry VIII. The Coat of Arms used by these Pendletons of Norwich and by the emigrant Phillip, indicated by the presence of the escalloped shells and by the Cardinal’s chapeau in the crest, connection with Crusader tradition.
 
The descendents of Brian Pendleton of the New England Pendletons came from Lancaster and show a different Coat of Arms.
 
The will of John Pettus, Knight of Norwich, England, dated 1613 stated “I appoint my cousin Henry Pendleton supervisor of my estate.” Also Thomas Pettus of Caistree, St. Edmond’s, Norfolk, said in his will “To my cousin Henry Pendleton and Susan his wife, annuity out of my houses In Norwich, England.”
 
Three miles from Manchester, England (Lancashire) Is the town of Pendleton, a part of Salfordborough. Over the door of one of the inns swings the Arms of the Pendleton family. Some little distance off is the Manor House, occupied still by Pendletons and around the old church are the tombs of the Pendletons. Under that roof tree are the records that would carry us back along the line of English history to the Crusades.
 
George Pendleton, Gentleman, married Elizabeth Pettengall, daughter of John Pettengall, Gentleman, of Norwich England. Moved from Manchester, England to Norwich in 1613.
 
Henry Pendleton, son and heir of George Pendleton, married Susan Conniger in 1605 in St. Simons and St. Judes Church. He was buried July 15, 1635 at St. Stephens.
 
Henry Pendleton, third son of Henry Pendleton and Susan Conniger, married Elizabeth. They had two sons, Nathaniel and Phillip born in Norwich.

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THE AMERICAN PENDLETONS


Phillip Pendleton, son of Henry Pendleton, Jr., and his wife Elizabeth, was born in Norwich, England in 1650. He and his brother Nathaniel emigrated to the Colony of Virginia to make their home there in 1674. Nathaniel a clergyman died very soon, unmarried. He evidently held no clerical charge in the Colony as his name has never been given among the lists of clergy at that time.
 
Phillip returned to England about 1680. Tradition says that he married a lady of high social position but she died soon after, and he returned to the Colony. In 1682 he married Isabella Hurt, Hert, or Hart and from this marriage are descended all the Pendletons of Virginia.

He settled in New Kent County in the portion that afterward became Caroline County, the records of which were destroyed in 1861-65. He died in 1721 the same year that his son Henry died and his grandson, Edmund was born.

(1) The issue of Phillip Pendleton and Isabella were Henry, Elizabeth, Rachel, Catherine, John, Isabella and Phillip.

(2) Henry, our ancestor married Mary Taylor in 1701. Mary was the daughter of James Taylor of Carlisle, England and his second wife, Mary Gregory. 

Henry was born in 1683 and was 18 years old at the time of his marriage.

Mary was 13 years old. Their issue were James 1702, Isabella 1703,

Phillip 1704, Mary 1705, John 1714, Nathaniel 1715, and Edmund, 1721.

Henry died in 1721 before Edmund’s birth.

(3) Nathaniel, our ancestor, married his second cousin, Susan Clayton daughter of Major Phillip Clayton of Catalpa. Major Clayton was the son of Samuel Clayton and his wife Elizabeth Pendleton. Nathaniel was born in 1715 and died in 1794 in Culpeper County, Virginia. Issue of Nathaniel and Susan were Nathaniel, William, Henry, Phillip, Mary, Elizabeth and Susanna. The date of their parents marriage is 1740.

(4) William Pendleton, our ancestor, the second son of Nathaniel and Susan was born 1748. He married Elizabeth Daniels of Culpeper, Virginia in 1772. William died in 1820. Elizabeth, born in 1753, died in 1822. Their issue were Mary, Elizabeth, Susan, Eleanor, Benjamin, Frances, Nathaniel, Emily, William, and a daughter.

(5) Eleanor Pendleton, our ancestor, and my father’s grandmother, was born in 1795. She died in 1850. She was married first to William Walker, son of James Walker and his wife Mary. William was born in Stratford-Fairfield, Connecticut June 11, 1787 and died 1820. They were married September 27, 1814. Issue of this marriage were Eleanor, William, James (born December 7, 1820 and died July 30, 1822) and Eliza Jane. Eleanor Pendleton’s father disinherited her because of this marriage and never spoke to her again. She married, second, John Maxwell, our ancestor, in 1825. He was born In 1800 and died in 1857. Issue of this marriage were Richard Channing born August 18, 1826 and died March 7, 1830; Nathaniel Pendleton born October 25, 1829 and died January 13, 1830; Frances Susan born January 23, 1831 in Hagerstown, Maryland and Amelia Jane born December 23, 1838 and died September 28, 1916.

(6) Frances Susan Maxwell, my father’s mother, was born January 23, 1831. She married first Lewis R. Shade, born July 27, 1823 in Middletown, Maryland. They were married February 25, 1846 in St. Thomas, Pennsylvania by the Reverend S. S. Wysong. Lewis was killed by a falling tree in 1854. Issue of this marriage were John Shade born in 1847 on March 10; William Pendleton Shade born June 4, 1849 in St. Thomas; Laura Jane Shade born May 23, 1852; died July 24 aged two months; Charles Wesley born September 9, 1853. Frances Susan Shade married, second, Malcolm Magill on December 22, 1863. They were married in Lexington, Illinois by the Reverend Job Mills. Issue of this marriage were Mary Garnette born April 14, 1868 and Lewis Malcolm Magill born November 26, 1871. Frances Susan Magill died August 7, 1892 aged 61 years, 6 months. Malcolm Magill was born February 13, 1821 in Coatsvllle, Pennsylvania.

 

(7) William Pendleton Shade , my father, married first Alice Dorsey. She
died in childbirth, leaving a baby girl who died in Infancy. Married second Sophie Busher, born March 14, 1860 died January 30, 1930. issue were Walter Busher born September 30, 1879; George Pendleton May 11, 1883; Louise August 18, 1886; Lewis William October 2, 1888; Charles Alfred February 2, 1890; Dorothy Josephine May 25, 1891; Harriet Ellen March 21, 1893.

 

(8) Dorothy Josephine Shade sixth child and second daughter of William P. Shade and Sophie B. Shade, born Nay 25, 1891 married Dr. Milton Edward Rose , born May 10, 1891, died on July 21, 1917. Issue from this marriage were Mary Louise Rose born June 11, 1920; Josephine Ann Rose born Nay 2, 1922; and William Pendleton Shade Rose born December 21, 1928.
 

Mary Louise Rose was married to Arthur L. Lutz on December 27, 1941. Children were William Arthur Lutz, adopted, born August 10, 1950; Jo Ann Lutz born November 25, 1953; and Stephen Lloyd Lutz born December 13,

1955.
 
Josephine Ann Rose married to David John Bailey on October 12, r946.
Issue were Elizabeth Ann born December 22, 1947; Cynthia Ellen born on
April 25, 1949; Nary Louise born August 23, 1951; and Dorothy Josephine
born Nay 27, 1956.
 
William Pendleton Rose married first Helen Andrews Ogden on November 5,
1950. Divorced in 19óO [HAO says December 15, 1961].  Issue were Debra born on October 10, 1952; Kelton Pendleton born June 22, 1954; and Gregory born April 1, 1959.
Married second Janice Lee Huff on December 23, 1961. Issue were Jeffrey Pendleton born January 9, 1965.
 

THE PENDLETON-TAYLOR LINE

 

James Taylor of Carlisle England settled on Chesapeake Bay. Died 1698. He lived in St. Stephen’s Parish, King and Queen County, Virginia. He was a lawyer and public officer. His first wife, Frances, died September 22, 1680. He married Mary Gregory August 12, 1682.

 

                                       James Taylor and Mary Gregory

 

James married---------------------------Issue--------------------------Mary Taylor married

Martha Strother                                                                                 Henry Pendleton

           |                                                                                                               |

Richard married                         Frances married                             Nathaniel Pendleton married

Sara Strother                              Ambrose Madison                          Susan Clayton

           |                                                   |                                                            |

Gen. Zachary Taylor                  James Madison married                 William Pendleton married

           |                                       Nellie Conway                               Elizabeth Daniels

           |                                                   |                                                            |

Sara Knox Taylor married         James Madison, Jr.                         Eleanor Pendleton married

Jefferson Davis                          Pres. U.S.A.                                   John Maxwell

Pres. C.S.A                                                                                                         |  

                                                                                                          Frances  Susan Maxwell married

                                                                                                          Lewis R. Shade

                                                                                                                            |

                                                                                                          William Pendleton Shade married

                                                                                                           Sophia Busher

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                                                                                                           Dorothy Shade married

                                                                                                                            |

                                                                                                            Dr. Milton E. Shade

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PENDLETON-CLAYTON LINE

Major Phillip Clayton whose daughter married into the Pendleton-Taylor families was William Pendleton Shade’s ancestor. He was a surveyor and planted the first Catalpa tree in America. He moved from New Kent County to Culpeper County.

The first Clayton who appears in Virginia history is the Reverend John Clayton of Yorkshire, England. In 1683 he addressed the Royal Society of England upon "Several Observables in Virginia" (soil, climate, natural resources, natural history, and agriculture of the colony).

Next is the Reverend David Clayton, minister, Bliss Land Parish, New Kent County, Virginia from 1704 to 1724. In his report to the Bishop of London in 1724 he says his parish is 60 miles long with 136 families and 70 communicants,

Then there is John Clayton at Williamsburg, Virginia, Attorney General and friend of Governor Spottswood.

The Claytons come into our history through the marriage of Major Phillip Clayton’s daughter, Susan, to Nathaniel Pendleton son of Mary Taylor, daughter of James Taylor the first Taylor to come to America.

On June 17, 1933 at Court House in King and Queen County, Virginia, a statue of James Taylor was unveiled by his great granddaughter Jacqueline Taylor.

(Brother) Henry Pendleton &                             (Sister) Elizabeth Pendleton &

                Mary Taylor                                                     Samuel Clayton

                         |                                                                             |

                         |                                                           Major Phillip Clayton    

                                                                                                       |

            Nathaniel Pendleton----------------------------------- Susan Clayton

                                                                    |

                                                      William Pendleton

 

THE MAXWELL LINE

The name Maxwell comes from the name Maccus, probably an Anglo Norman who was the foreign favorite of David I of Scotland. Maccus called his chief palace of residence Maccusville. From this comes Maxwell. A Maccus was one of the gallant three who defended the bridge at Maldon in 991 A.D. (from Family Names and Their Story by S. Baring Gould, London)

James Maxwell, our ancestor, was born near Londonderry, Ireland in 1765. He settled first in Pennsylvania, them moved to Martinsburg, Virginia now West Virginia, His brothers and other members of the family went West.

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He married Mary Alburtis in 1795. He built the stone house in Martinsburg described by Eleanor Stratton, my father’s cousin, who visited his descendents there. That house was torn down about 1922. He was a surveyor and in the winter, a teacher. The issue of this marriage were:

Maria---married Washington Evans

 

James---married Emily Middlecoff

 

Nancy---married William Reed

 

Diana---unmarried. Died in 1892. It is her silhouette of which I have a copy.

 

Jane----unmarried. Died on April 27, 1903. She is the one Eleanor Stratton visited in the stone house.

 

David---married and moved to Delaware

 

Susan

Amelia    all three died young (Eleanor Stratton thought)

Robert

 

Edward--married a cousin, an Alburtis. He was in the Mexican War. The Strattons have his canteen used in this war and have a daguerreotype of him. Eleanor said that her mother, my father’s Aunt Amelia, was always very proud of "Uncle Ed Maxwell."

 

John----our ancestor, was born In Martinsburg, Virginia in March 1800.

He was married to Eleanor Pendleton Walker, widow, November 17,

1825 by the Reverend John Charles Kraugh. John Maxwell died

June 13, 1857 and was buried at Chambersburg, Pennsylvania.

Eleanor Pendleton Maxwell died August 5, 1850 of cholera in

Pittsburg, Pennsylvania. The issue of this marriage were:

 

Richard Channing--born August 18, 1826. Died March 7, 1830.

Nathaniel Pendleton--born October 25, 1829. Died January 13, 1830.

Frances Susan (my father, William Pendleton Shade’s, mother) was born January 23, 1831 in Hagerstown, Maryland and was baptized by the Reverend Nathaniel Pendleton. Married Lewis H. Shade in 1846 in St. Thomas, Pennsylvania. The issue from this marriage were: John Shade born March 10, 1847 and killed in the battle of Gettysburg; William Pendleton Shade born June 4, 1849 died December 12, 1938; Charles Shade born in 1853 the year before his father Lewis H. Shade was killed by a falling tree, He died in 1939. Frances Susan Maxwell Shade married the second time, Malcolm Magill of Lexington, Illinois. She and her father-in-law and his wife came to Illinois during the Civil War in 1861 by wagon train. She married Magill on February 22, 1863. Frances Susan Maxwell and Malcolm Magill had two children, Garnette born 1868 and Lewis born 1870 who lived to be ninety years old. He was a dentist and my brother Lewis, his wife, my sister Harriet, my husband Mi1ton Rose, and I visited him on his 80th birthday in Lexington, Illinois. Frances Susan Magill died in 1892 as did her second  husband,  Malcolm Magill.

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THE MAXWELL TARTAN

 

The groundwork of the tartan is vermillion red.

There are two widths of green stripes running both vertically and horizontally.

There are medium width black stripes crossing the green and red both vertically and horizontally
From "Scottish Clans and their Tartans" by A. K. Johnson

Published by Charles Scribner and Sons, New York

 

SHADE DATA

        There is little to go on about the Shade side of the family. My father’s grandfather, whom they always seemed to call Grandpap Shade, was John Shade whose first wife was named Maria. They had five children only two of whom lived to maturity. These were John Alfred Shade and Lewis R. Shade.  Maria Shade died and John Shade married the second time, a McMullen. There were four children of this marriage, Hilton, Pendleton, Harriet, and Marian.

        John Alfred Shade, my father's uncle, was born February 28, 1822, in Middletown, Pennsylvania.  He was a physician, and on January 1, 1846, he married Ellen Cromwell Ashman, daughter of John Ashman of Three Springs, Pennsylvania.  There were four children of this marriage: Harriet Cromwell, born January 1, 1848, and died on March 20, 1887; Cromwell Ashman, born June 16, 1850, and died August 31, 1850; Sewall, born October 28, 1854, and died May 30, 1857; John Ashman, born August 19, 1857, and died December 9, 1875.

        Harriet Shade married Cresswell Reese, December 29, 1871.  De. John Alfred Shade was murdered by Reese on December, 1876.

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Lewis R. Shade, our ancestor (my grandfather) was born July 27, 1823 in Middletown, Maryland and married Frances Susan Maxwell February 25, 1846. He was killed instantly by a falling tree on January 6, 1854. The issue of this marriage were John Alfred born March 10, 1847; William Pendleton born June 4, 1849; and Charles Wesley born September 9, 1853. Frances Maxwell Shade went west by wagon train in 1861 together with two of her children, John and Charles, my father being left behind as he was living with his uncle, Dr. Shade in Shade Gap, Pennsylvania. She went with her father-in— law, Grandpap, and his children of his second marriage. They settled in Lexington, Illinois where Frances Maxwell Shade on December 22, 1863 married Malcolm Magill.

Here is a little verse that is written in the Shade family Bible. It was written by my grandmother at the time my grandfather was killed.

                                                  Ah! my husband!

How vain is all beneath the skies

How transient every earthly bliss

How slender all the fondest ties

That bind us to a world like this.

The Bible itself was evidently bought by grandfather Lewis Shade because his name is In the front of it in his handwriting.

William Pendleton Shade was born on June 4, 1849 In St. Thomas, Pennsylvania. After his father was killed by a falling tree in 1854, he went to live with his uncle John A. Shade, a physician in Shade Gap, Pennsylvania. His Aunt Ellen Ashman Shade brought him up with her two living children. His uncle, a successful man saw that he was educated at Milnwood Academy there being no public schools there at the time. In 1867 he went to Lexington, Illinois, where his mother and stepfather were living. He married first Alice Dorsey who died in childbirth. The infant was cared for by relatives but died at the age of nine months. In 1878, December 23, he married Sophie Busher, daughter of William Frederick Busher of Decatur, Illinois and his wife Louisa Bekemeyer Busher. The issue from this marriage were:

Walter Busher Shade born September 30, 1879; George Pendleton Shade born May 11, 1883; Louise Shade born August 18, 1886; Lewis William Shade born October 2, 1888; Charles Shade born February 2, 1890; Dorothy Josephine Shade born May 25, 1891 and Harriet Ellen Shade born March 21, 1893.

Walter Shade married Olive May Brinkmeyer on September 30, 1901. There were no issue from this marriage. Walter Shade died in Royal Oak Michigan in March 1939. His wife died in 1967. George Shade died in Denver Colorado on February 21, 1912. Louise Shade died in infancy on her birthday August 18, 1887. Charles Shade died in infancy in September 1890. Lewis Shade, Harriet Shade Colby, and Dorothy Shade Rose are still living at the present time, July 1968. Lewis Shade and Florence Tucker were married in September 1907. Harriet Shade married Merrill 1. Colby October 4, 1916. Dorothy Shade and Dr. Milton Edward Rose were married July 21, 1917.

William Pendleton Shade died December 12, 1938. Sophie Busher Shade died January 30, 1930.

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BUSHER DATA
 
William Frederick Bush~ , my mother’s father, was born in 1831 in Hanover, Germany the son of Frederick Busher and Dorothy Reimer Busher. He came to America in 1849 going first to Cincinnati where he attended school and also worked. He came to Decatur in 1854. On February 20, 1856 he married Louisa Bekemeyer of Springfield, Illinois. Louisa Bekemeyer was born June 30, 1835 in the Province of Prussia. She emigrated to America in 1849 going first to Baltimore, Maryland then in 1851 going with her family to Springfield.
 
The issue of this marriage were Walter, Carrie, Sophia and Josephine.
Walter died of typhoid fever at the age of eighteen. Carrie married Captain
George Zeiss, Sophia married William P. Shade and Josephine married Charles
Schuck of Springfield, Illinois.
 

ROSE DATA
 
The data on the Rose family is also sketchy. The information I have is that Charles Rose , my husband’s grandfather, was born in Hamburg, Germany in 1820 and died in Dubuque, Iowa January 3, 1868. He was described to me as a Danish sailor. He married Magdalene Gehrig born December 14, 1829 in Wallenstadtberg, Switzerland.
 
Magdalene Gehrig was the daughter of Joseph Gehrig born in Alsace Loraine, and Katherine Kress. The Gehrigs came to the United States in 1845 with eight children.
 
All of the children of Charles Rose and Magdalene Gehrig were born in Dubuque, Iowa. I’ve heard that Charles Rose could stand on his porch and shoot deer on their farm. They also had eight children. Emma born January 2, 1853 died in Miami, Florida March 10, 1937. She was the mother of Hugh Kreuter, whose son Colonel Robert Kreuter of Santa Monica, California has given me this information. Colonel Kreuter is the grandson of Emma.
 
Hugh visited us in Minneapolis in 1919 when he was operated upon by Doctor Farr whom my husband was assisting at that time.
 
The oldest son of Magdalene and Charles Rose was Henry Rose , father of Milton Rose, my husband.
 
The names Of their other children of whom I know anything were: Augusta born January 27, 1858 died in Seattle April 1914. She was the mother of Warren and Karl Schenck - Charles Rose, father of Margaret Rose Pohlman, Dubuque, Iowa - Magdalene Rose married to Frank Kaltenbach. She was born January 9, 1868 and died October 16, 1961.
 
Henry Rose , my husband’s father was born In Dubuque Iowa in 1856. On November 23, 1886 he was married to Marie Pfersch , daughter of Phillip Pfersch born in Alsace Lorraine on May 15, 1834 and Maria, born In Mecklenburg near Hamburg, Germany on January 1, 1840. Phillip Pfersch emigrated to the United States in 1854. He worked in Buffalo, New York, for three years

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and in 1857 moved to Dubuque, Iowa. His wife is believed to have come directly to Dubuque upon emigration. Phillip Pfersch died March 18, 1898 and his wife, Maria June 4, 1910. The issue of this marriage were: Carrie, Marie , Louise and Phillip Jr.
 
Henry Rose died in Dubuque in 1928 and his wife, Marie died in Decatur, Illinois on July 21, 1939. Their issue were: Myrtle, and my husband Milton Edward Rose , born May 10, 1891 and died April 9, 1967.
 
PENDLETON ADDENDA
 
Henry Pendleton - our ancestor and oldest son of Phillip Pendleton, emigrant, died in 1721 the same year his youngest son Edmund was born. Mary Taylor, his wife, married a second time, Ed Watkyns. She died in 1770.
 
Of his five sons, James the oldest, and the third Nathaniel, were for many years clerks of the Vestry and lay readers at the small chapels of St. Mark’s parish. Phillip, the son of James, was clerk in 1782 when the Vestry books closed.
 
Henry’s two daughters married brothers, James and William Henry Gaines. His youngest son Edmund, though without a father’s care, made for himself a name that will be known and remembered as long as Virginia’s sons read her history. By his large circles of nieces and nephews he was loved and revered and the tradition of his kindness and ever ready help is handed down through nearly every branch of the family. Almost all of the Pendletons of Virginia trace their descent to Henry Pendleton and Nary Taylor.
 
Their issue were: James born 1702, Phillip born 1704 died 1778, Nathaniel our ancestor born 1715 died in 1794 in Culpeper, Virginia, John born In 1719 died in 1799, Edmund born September 1721, Mary Pendleton married James Gaines, her sister Isabella married William H. Gaines and was the grandmother of General Edmund Pendleton Gaines, U. S. A.
 
Probably the most illustrious of the Pendleton family was Edmund Pendleton, brother of our ancestor Nathaniel Pendleton. I have two volumes of his biography written by John Nays of Richmond, Virginia, who received the Pulitzer Prize in biography In 1954 for this work. Edmund Pendleton died without issue and is at present buried in the transept of the Bruton Parish Church in restored Williamsburg, Virginia. His epitaph reads thus:
 
“Here lies the remains of Edmund Pendleton of Caroline County. Born September 9, 1721. Died October 28, 1803. Author of the Resolution adopted unanimously by the Virginia Convention of May 15, 1776 instructing the Virginia delegates in the Continental Congress to introduce a bill to declare the colonies free and independent states. He was for twenty-five years a member of the House of Burgesses, delegate to the Continental Congress, member of the all Virginia Congress of 1775-76, chairman of the Committee of Safety, one of the committee of five which revised the laws of Virginia, among them the bill for establishing religious freedom, Speaker of the House of Delegates, First President of the Court of Appeals of Virginia, and many years a vestryman of Drusdale Parish.

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His remains were removed from his plantation at Edmundsbury and re-interred under this stone July 1907 by his great niece Caroline Pendleton. Here are interred the remains of his two wives and infant child.”
 
Copied by Eleanor Stratton, a grand niece, from the stone over the grave in the floor of the transcept of Bruton Parish Church.
 
Appleton's Encyclopedia of American Biography says of Edmund Pendleton:
 
Edmund Pendleton, statesman, was born in Caroline County, Virginia September 9, 1721. His grandfather Phillip, descended from the Pendletons of Manchester, Lancaster County England, came from Norwich, England to this country in 1674. Edmund began his career in the clerk’s office of Caroline County. He was licensed to practice law in 1744, became County Justice in 1751, and the following year was elected to the House of Burgesses. In 1764 he was one of the committee to memorialize the King. During the session of 1776 he gave the opinion that the Stamp Act was void for want of Constitutional authority in Parliament to pass it, and voted the affirmative on the resolution that the act did not bind the inhabitants of Virginia. He was one of the Committee of Correspondence in 1768 and County Lieutenant of Caroline in 1774. A member of the Colonial Convention of the latter year that was consequent on~ the Boston Port Bill and was chosen by that body to the first Continental Congress. Accordingly in company with General Washington, Peyton Randolph, Patrick Henry, Benjamin Harrison, and Richard Henry Lee, he attended in Philadelphia in 1774. As President of the Virginia Convention he was at the head of the Government of the Colony from 1775 until the creation of the Virginia Constitution In 1776 and was appointed President of the Committee of Safety that year. In May 1776 he presided over the convention and drew up the celebrated resolutions by which the delegates from Virginia were instructed to propose a declaration of independence in Congress, using the words that were afterwards incorporated, almost verbatim with the Declaration. As the leader of the Cavalier or plantation class he was the opponent of Patrick Henry and as the leader of the Committee of Public Safety he was active in the control of the military and naval operations and of the foreign correspondence of Virginia. On the organization of the State Government he was chosen speaker of the House and appointed with Chancelor George Wythe and Thomas Jefferson to revise the Colonial laws. In 1777 he was crippled for life by a fall from his horse but the same year he was reelected Speaker of the House of Burgesses and President of the County Chancery. In 1779 he became President of the Court of Appeals holding the office until his death. He presided over the State Convention which ratified the Constitution of the United States in 1788. His masterly advocacy of the document gained him the econium from Thomas Jefferson that “Taken all in all, he was the ablest man in debate that I ever met.” He received very large grants of land from the state and having no children was very generous to his nieces and nephews whose descendents still hold his memory in tender veneration. He died in 1803. He left his estate of Edmundston to his grandnephew Edmund.
 
The Pendleton Record says of Edmund Pendleton, born September 9, 1721~ died Richmond Virginia October 1803. Patriot and jurist, married first Elizabeth Ray who died same year, second married Sarah Pollard in 1743. He was born the same year his grandfather Phillip and father Henry were born. There are on record in the Virginia Land Registers Office grants in his name of nearly 10,000 acres of land.

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John Pendleton, brother of our ancestor, Nathaniel Pendleton, Sr., the son of Henry Pendleton and Mary Taylor, was born in 1719 and died In 1799. He was in his 58th year at the beginning of the Revolutionary War. He held various offices of honor and trust in the Colony of Virginia and In the Senate. He was appointed by a convention of delegates and corporations in the Colony of Virginia at Richmond Town, on July 17, 1775 to sign a large issue of Treasury Notes. These notes were issued upon credit, the taxes and duties having been suspended to suit the distressed circumstances of the Colonists. The issue was about 350,000 pounds and the ordinance read, “Of the notes to be so issued 50,000 shall be of the denomination of one shilling and shall be signed by John Pendleton, Jr., Gentleman, which notes last named shall be on good paper.” John Pendleton was appointed by the governor of Virginia as judge of her courts at a time when they were composed of the leading men of the Colony --- (from Hennings Statutes at Large, Volume 9).
 
Phillip Clayton, father of Susan Clayton Pendleton, served in the Revolutionary War as Captain-Lieutenant in the 7th Virginia Regiment. He was commissioned March 10, 1780 and was “deranged” (discharged) January 1, 1783.
 
Nathaniel , our ancestor, son of Henry and Mary Taylor Pendleton, married Susan Clayton. lie served In the Revolution. The records show that he served as Captain of the 1st Virginia Continental Line. He was commissioned March 11, 1777. His name appears in an alphabetical list of the officers of the Virginia Line who were deranged (discharged) January 1, 1783. He received about five thousand acres of land for his service to the state.
 
Nathaniel Pendleton, Jr. served in the Revolutionary War as a Lieutenant in Captain Gabriel Long’s Company together with parts of the companies of Captains Shepherd, west, and Brady, 11th Virginia Regiment of foot, commanded by Colonel Daniel Morgan. He was commissioned July 23, 1776 and was taken prisoner at Fort Washington in November 1776. Another report says that he was born In 1745 and died in New York October 20, 1821. He entered the Revolutionary army in 1775 and was aide-de-camp to General Green. He became a prominent lawyer and jurist in New York and was second to Alexander Hamilton in his duel with Aaron Burr. He was a Culpeper Minute Man. The pistol used by Hamilton in the duel was given by Nathaniel Pendleton to the Kentucky Museum and is now in the old Capitol Building In Frankfort, Kentucky. The other pistol is in the bottom of the Mississippi River. Nathaniel was a charter member of the Cincinnati of Virginia. He was taken prisoner at Fort Washington and exchanged in 1780. He was married to a Susan Bard.
 
Henry Pendleton son of Nathaniel Pendleton Sr. was a member of the Culpeper Committee of Safety, 1775, and Patriotic Convention of 1775-76. He was a signer of Culpeper Resolution and also Protest Against the Stamp Act.
 
The Reverend Philip Pendleton, son of Nathaniel Pendleton Sr. was also a colonel of Militia. He was born in Martinsburg, Virginia in 1752.

NOTE: All of the above military data was furnished from the War Department Adjutant General’s Office, Washington, July 20, 1912 and signed by Henry P. McCain, Adjutant General.

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Mary, daughter of Nathaniel Pendleton, Sr. married a John Williams. There was no issue of this marriage.
 
Elizabeth, daughter of Nathaniel Pendleton, Sr. and Susan Clayton married Benjamin Tutt.
 
Susanna, daughter of our ancestor Nathaniel Pendleton, Sr. and his wife Susan Clayton married a Mr. Wilson.
 
William Pendleton , son of Nathaniel Pendleton Sr. and my father’s great grandfather, for whom he, William Pendleton Shade was named, seems to have no military record. Must have minded the family property and sat the war out. He is described in the Pendleton genealogy as having moved to Berkeley County; had a large estate which he left to his son William. He was a man of classical education and composed many sermons and essays.
 
Nary Pendleton, daughter of our ancestor William Pendleton and Elizabeth Daniels married Nicholas Orrick and moved to Cumberland, Maryland where their descendents still live. Eleanor Stratton, my father’s cousin, writes “The above Nary .Pendleton’s sister Frances married a James Campbell. ~I met the Orrick and Campbell children in 1900.”
 
Eleanor Pendleton , our ancestor, fifth child of William Pendleton and Elizabeth Daniels was born November 12, 1795 in Berkeley County, Virginia. She married September 27, 1814, James Walker, born in Stratford Fairfield, Connecticut on June 11, 1787 and son of James and Nary Walker. James Walker, husband of Eleanor Pendleton died In 1820, The Issue from this marriage were Eleanor Pendleton Walker, William Pendleton Walker (born July 25, l8l8)* James Eli Walker (born December 7, 1820 died July 30, 1822) and Eliza Jane Walker.
 
Eleanor Pendleton Walker married a second time, John Maxwell,- son of James Maxwell and Mary Alburtis, his wife. John Maxwell was born March 1800 in Martinsburg, Virginia. He married Eleanor Pendleton Walker, widow, on November 17, 1825 at Martinsburg, Virginia by the Reverend John Charles Kraugh. John Maxwell died June 13, 1851 and was buried at Chambersburg, Pennsylvania. Eleanor Pendleton Maxwell died August 5, 1850 at Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania of cholera. The issue of this marriage were Richard Channing born August 18, 1826 died March 7, 1830; Nathaniel Pendleton Maxwell born October 25, 1829 died January 13, 1830; Frances Susan born January 23, 1831 in Hagerstown, Maryland baptized by the Reverend Nathaniel Pendleton; Amelia Jane born December 23, 1838 baptized by the Reverend McFadden, died September 28, 1916 in Ashville, North Carolina. She and Eleanor visited us at 360 East Wood, Decatur one summer and I remember her very well and Eleanor sent me data on the Maxwell line in 1927. We visited Eleanor and her sister Susie In 1941 my sister Harriet, her daughter Dorothy, I and my daughter, Jo Ann. After that she and I corresponded until her death at the age of ninety in 1958.
 
Here it might be well to tell of my father’s Aunt Amelia, the sister of his mother, Frances Susan Maxwell Shade. This aunt and her daughters Eleanor and Susan my father kept in contact with. Aunt Amelia Maxwell married William Goode Stratton in Farmville Virginia March 1866. Her three children,

 

* He was killed at the Battle of Chancellorsville under Stonewall Jackson in 1863.

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Eleanor Pendleton Stratton, Susan Goode Stratton, and William Walker Stratton were my father’s first cousins. Eleanor Pendleton Stratton is still living at the age of 88 years and it is from her genealogical notes that I am writing this data. (September 1956) Susan Stratton married Robert Andrew Coyner and had two children, Amelia and Stratton Coyner. Only Stratton is now living, in Winston Salem, North Carolina. William Stratton, brother of Eleanor wandered many places and is believed to have died of yellow fever in Texas. We remember that he was in Decatur when 360 was being built in 1895.
 
William Walker Stratton was named after my grandmother’s and my great aunt Amelia’s half brother William Walker, son of Eleanor Pendleton and James Walker. This William Pendleton Walker was the grandson of William Pendleton ~nd my father was named for either one or both. William Pendleton Walker was a captain in the 44 Virginia Infantry, Stonewall Jackson Brigade. He was killed at Chancellorsville, Virginia May 2, 1863 and buried in a churchyard at Chancellorsville. His descendents have a diary he kept of Jackson’s campaign. He had five children, James Walker who died in infancy; Mary Ellen Walker born in 1846 died unmarried in Farmville, Virginia; Barbara Ann Walker born 1848 died unmarried in Farmville, Virginia; Susan Frances Walker, called Fanny, born 1860 in old age moved from Farmville, Virginia to live with her sister Mi1.ly’s children in Texas died unmarried; Amelia Wa1ker, called Milly, born 1850 married John Houston of Farmville and moved to Texas. They had three children, Mary Houston, Ruth Houston, and Rosella Houston.
 
So much for the cousins, known and unknown. There are undoubtedly many others.
 
FAMILY STORIES
 
This record of the Pendletons and Maxwells has been copied by me from a record sent to me by my father’s cousin Eleanor Stratton now 88 years old this September 1956 and living in Winston Salem, North Carolina. The sources for her data she gives as follows:

1.       Some Prominent Virginia Families by Louise Pecaquet du Bellet, 

          1907 J. P. Bell Company, Lynchburg, Virginia

2.      A Book of the Pendleton Family
3.      Family Bibles, family papers, things told me (Eleanor Stratton)
Family Bibles, family papers, things told me (Eleanor Stratton by my parents and relatives, also records of the Adjutant General’s Office, Washington, D.C., the state archives at Richmond, Virginia, Virginia Court Records, encyclopedias, and other reference books.
 
My (Eleanor Stratton) great grandfather, William Pendleton, was a very handsome young man who rode around on a beautiful black horse, followed by his negro servant also on a fine horse. William was in love with Elizabeth Daniel but her mother objected to his attentions to Elizabeth because of her youth and refused to let Elizabeth see him. He begged for a last interview with Elizabeth. Her mother consented to his seeing her for a few minutes,

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but only on the front porch. He dismounted and left his servant to hold his horse while he went on the porch to talk to Elizabeth. They whispered together for a few minutes and then William beckoned to his servant to bring his horse to the porch.
 
He mounted and then swung Elizabeth up in front of him and they galloped off, the servant riding ahead of him to open and shut the plantation gates. Mrs. Daniel ordered her carriage and followed the runaway couple but they had reached the courthouse and been married by the time Mrs. Daniel arrived.
 
She threatened to have William jailed for kidnapping a minor and the marriage annulled but he had thought of that possibility and had placed Elizabeth in front of him with the reins In her hands. Thus, she had run off with him and not he with her. Seeing that nothing could. be done, Mrs. Daniel forgave them and gave them her blessing.
 
My great grandmother Mary Alburtus Maxwell was 98 years o]d when she died. Up until a little while before her death she attended church regularly in good weather. The church in Martinsburg was only a short distance from her house so when the weather permitted she would sally forth Sunday morning on the arm of one of her two unmarried daughters accompanied by a negro girl carrying a long warm cape and a small foot stove filled with glowing charcoal. She would enter the square boxed, pew and place the stove on the floor and then put the cape around grandmother and seat her and place her feet on the stove. Churches were unheated then and this was done whenever It was cold.
 
James Reed the son of Nancy Maxwell and William Reed and a cousin of Eleanor’s mother, Amelia Maxwell Stratton and also a cousin of my father’s mother, Frances Susan Shade, was a member of the 2nd Virginia infantry Stonewall Jackson brigade. He was killed in battle. Eleanor Stratton writes of him “We have a daguerreotype of him. He and my mother were once engaged but the family broke it up because they were cousins. He was the one at home on furlough whom Aunt Jane Maxwell hid in the closet under the eaves of the house and threatened to scald the Yankee soldiers when they came back to search for him.
 
They had searched the house once, ripping things up with their boyonets and had not found him. When they came the second time Aunt Jane held a big bucket of water over the door and threatened to scald them. They withdrew. She disguised James as a girl. He was blond and of slender build. She put him on a pillion behind her on horseback, got a permit for herself to visit a friend outside the lines and took him through the Yankee lines to safety. He wore his uniform under his dress. You couldn’t do that today.”
 
My mother Amelia Jane Maxwell Stratton was living in Farmvllle, Virginia during the Civil War at the home of her half brother Captain William Walker, C. S. A. Her sister Frances Susan Shade and her family lived in Illinois. Susan Shade’s son John Shade ran off and joined the Union Army although only fifteen years old.

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One night my mother heard a voice say “Aunt Millie come to me. Please come!” She got up and went into the room where her, brother’s children were sleeping but they were fast asleep. Her sister-in-law was also sleeping. She went back to bed and had just dropped asleep when she heard the same voice calling her in the same words. She awakened her sister-in-law and told her about It. They wrote down the day and hour the call came and put the paper away.
 
Nothing more was heard. After the surrender when communication was established between the North and the South she had a letter from her sister telling of John Shade’s death and how his Captain was with him when he died. The Captain told her that John kept calling, “Aunt Millie come to me. Please come to me.” My mother wrote to know the hour of John’s death and found that It was the time she had heard the call. John Shade died at Gettysburg. (I, Dorothy Shade Rose, think that he is buried in Bloomington, Illinois.)
For Eleanor Stratton-- in memory
by Dorothy Shade Rose
 
My father’s first cousin, Eleanor Stratton, died in Winston-Salem, North Carolina in 1958 at the age of ninety. To me she was a remarkable woman. Though almost blind the last couple of years of her life she still wrote to me although she had to use a black crayon and write In extremely large letters. She preferred to write her own letters although the effort was great rather than dictate them. I was told that when she was ‘young she was bedfast because of a back ailment ‘but educated herself at the college level through the Chicago University correspondence course. When she was recovered she taught school to support her mother and early in her teaching taught in Oklahoma Territory. She also helped her sister Susie bring up her two children, Amelia and Stratton Coyner. She saved enough money to attend Vanderbilt University, having her mother with her, and after leaving there became principal of the High School In Ashville, North Carolina where she rerna1n~d until her retirement. She was the author of a handbook on English Grammar a copy of which I wish I had. She also wrote a number of articles on the Episcopal Church and the Episcopal Prayer Book which were published In the North Carolina Churchman.
 
In 1941 my sister Harriet Colby and I, together with her daughter Dorothy and my daughter JoAnn, visited her In Winston-Salem where she was living with her sister in Stratton Coyner’s beautiful home.
 
Being a Southerner and as my father used to say ~‘an un-reconstructed rebel” she did make us smile In private when she told us that the reason for Abraham Lincoln’s greatness was that he was the Illegitimate son of a Virginia judge. She did not have an easy life until Stratton Coyner made It easy for her in her old age, but to me she was a wise and wonderful woman.

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To Weesie and Jo Ann if they ever want to belong to the D. A. R.

 

I, Mary Louise Rose Lutz, or I, Jo Ann Rose Bailey, am the daughter of Milton Edward Rose born May 10, 1891 and his wife Dorothy Josephine Shade born May 25, 1891 in Decatur, Illinois, and married July 21, 1917.
 
The said Dorothy Shade is the daughter of William Pendleton Shade born June 4, 1849 in St. Thomas Pennsylvania, and his wife Sophie Busher born March 14, 1860 in Decatur, Illinois married December 23, 1878. William Pendleton Shade died December 13, 1938. Sophie Busher Shade died January 30, 1930.
 
The said William Pendleton Shade was the son of Frances Susan Maxwell born January 23, 1831 in Hagerstown, Maryland married Lewis R. Shade of St. Thomas Pennsylvania who died there 1854.
 
The said Frances Susan Maxwell was the daughter of John Maxwell born March 7, 1800 at Martinsburg, Virginia died June 13, 1857 at Chambersburg, Pennsylvania and his wife Eleanor Pendleton born November 12, 1795 in Berkley County, Virginia died June 13, 1851 in Pittsburg, Pennsylvania - married on November 17, 1820.
 
The said Eleanor Pendleton was the daughter of William Pendleton born 1748 in Virginia died 1820 in Virginia, and his wife Elizabeth Daniels born 1753 in Virginia, died 1822 1n Virginia - married in 1772.
 
The said William Pendleton was the son of Nathaniel Pendleton Sr. born 1715 in Virginia, died 1794 in Virginia., and his wife Susan Elizabeth Clayton, married 1740.
 
The said Susan Clayton was the daughter of Major Phillip Clayton. He was a major in the Colonial Army and it was in his field at Catalpa that the first minute men of Culpeper were drilled. He was my grandfather’s great great great grandfather.
 
The said Nathaniel Pendleton Sr. served in the capacity of signer of the Culpeper Virginia Protest against the Stamp Act.
 
Edmund Pendleton the brother of my ancestor Nathaniel Pendleton Sr. was a member of the first Continental Congress and the friend of Washington.
 
Nathaniel Pendleton Jr. the brother of my ancestor William Pendleton was aide de camp to General Green in the Revolutionary War and second to Alexander Hamilton in his duel with Burr.
 
Also I, Mary Louise Rose Lutz, or I, Jo Ann Rose Bailey, am descended from the same Revolutionary ancestor as Eleanor Stratton whose National Number is 96098.