Samuel Jesup 6 (James Edward Jesup 5, Blackleach Jesup 4, Edward Jesup 3, Edward Jessup 2, Edward Jesup 1) was born in Kentucky November 12, 1792, the son of James Edward and Ann (O'Neal) Jesup. Samuel fought in the War of 1812 with one of his brothers, Thomas Sydney Jesup. On September 2, 1813 he married Catherine Sydner [5] in Fayete County, Kentucky, and moved to what was then Christian County ( now Todd County ) in 1830. Catherine Sydner's father's name was Martin Sydner, Jr., of Bourbon County, Kentucky. "There is a tract of land located in this county containing twenty-six hundred acres, of the finest quality, equal to any in the blue grass region. Samuel entered into a partnership with his brother General Thomas Sydney Jesup on October 5, 1828, who had acquired ownership of Croghan's Grove in Todd County from the Croghan's of Locust Grove in Louisville, Ky. Whereby General Jesup would survey the grove and Samuel would buy 250 acres of land, set up a sawmill, build a house, develop a farm, fence it, and stock it with horses, cattle, and hogs. Samuel came to Todd County in 1829 and the first farm was cut out of Croghan's Grove, 5 1/2 miles west of Elkton on both sides of the trace and along east Fork Creek. On an elevation north of the road and west of the creek he built his eight room, two storey, house with four stone chimneys, probably in the early 1830's He renewed his partnership agreement with his brother Thomas in 1838 at which time Samuel was serving as a State Senator of Kentucky.In 1882 the farm was divided into four farms and is regarded as the garden spot of Southern Kentucky." "Col. Jesup represented his county in the lower house of the State Legislature from 1836 to 1840, and from 1840 to 1844 was a member of the State Senate. In a letter written to his daughter Mrs. Tandy, when in 1851 he was once more a member of the Legislature, he gives utterance to some opinions dictated by his straightforward common-sense views of things, that might be found applicable to other States than Kentucky. The letter is as follows: -
My Dear Daughter, - I have received your letter, dated the 13th inst., informing me that you and the Dr. and family are all well, which I was pleased to hear, and that Dick wished very much to see me. I can assure you that it would give me great pleasure to see him, as well as all my family; but I am confined here and cannot say when it will be likely for me to get home, for I will say that I never have been in a Legislature when there has been such a mass of business before the House and so little done. We have forty-one lawyers in the House and twenty in the Senate, and it does seem that they are determined to have everything their own way or not at all. I have always said that our State would become bankrupt if we continued them in the Legislature. But for them we might have been almost ready at his time to have come home; but as it is, no one can predict when we will leave Frankfort, but I still hope for the better. Remember me, my dear Margaret, to your mother and all the family, and believe me your affectionate father,Samuel B. Jesup.
Todd County History (Source)
"He was a man of sound mind, well read, an eloquent speaker, and a very popular man. He died August 14, 1866, leaving a large landed estate, and his wife Katherine died July 22, 1870.
" He was a planter. a
a - The Kentucky branch of the Jesup family are and always have been members of the Democratic party, and during the civil war were in sympathy with the South, but not bitter partisans, one only enlisting in the Confederate army. They have the utmost respect for the political opinions of those who differ from them. Families with which they are closely allied belong to the opposite party, were Unionists, and lost equally with them as the result of the emancipation proclamation, losses which neither side are now disposed to regret."
Samuel's will was most interesting - It contained a map which showed exactly which section of this 552 acres of land he wished his widow and each child to inherit. Caroline Cash's section joined the part left to her mother and she and her husband lived there until Mrs. Jesup's death. In time some of the heirs had sold their inheritances and the land north of the highway was purchased early in the 20th century by John W. Keeling and it remained in that family until September 1969. Two of the original oaks still stand just west of the house built by Samuel Jesup. The old kitchen and the dog run stood on the east side of the house were torn down in 1906 and a new front porch of a different style, and the back porches were added some years later. Otherwise the house is as Samuel Jesup left it.
His will read thus:
(1) To Katherine, His widow 1/3 value of tract 150 acres on north side of highway, and all buildings and spring.(2) To Caroline Cash, wife of G.W. Cash, 88 acres joining her mothers land on the north.
(3) To George W. Jesup, 69 1/2 acres. (His wife Susan Brame, daughter of Richard and Mary Mosley Brame.)
(4) To Eliza A., wife of P.L. Yancy, 54 acres. (This was probably Preston Yancy, brother of John Yancy.)
(5) To Margaret J., wife of Dr. D.M. Tandy, 54 1/2 acres . (They lived at the present Will Crenshaw Farm, but formerly known as the Mill's Tandy Farm.)
(6) To James E. Jesup, 64 acres.
(7) To Virginia Crouch, wife of William S. Crouch, 72 acres.
Their seven children were as follows:
1. Eliza A. Jesup, born July 22, 1814; married November 1832 to Preston L. Yancy, and lived in Dycusburgh, Crittenden County. They had eight children. She died January 1882.2. Margarette Jesup, born January 5, 1819; married November 4, 1845 to Dr. N.M. Tandy, and settled near Fairview, Kentucky. They had two children. She died August 24, 1877. He died July 1881.
3.James Edward Jesup, born December 17, 1820.
1850 Todd County Census Index Born
1. James Jesup 29 M Kentucky
2. Lucy 27 F Kentucky
3. Kate 2 F Kentucky
4. Susan 9/12 F Kentucky
4. George W. Jesup, born February 10, 1823; married April 30, 1857 to Susan Brame. No Children.5. Caledonia {will says Caroline, a nickname?} Jesup, born September 3, 1825, married G.W. Cash on December 19, 1849, and settled near Fairview. Two Children.
6. Virginia Jesup, born March 13, 1828; married William Smith Crouch March 10, 1852 and settled near Fairview. Eight children living in 1888.
7. Winfield Thomas Jesup, born September 21, 1816; died February 15, 1835.
[1] See Edward Jessup and His Descendants by Rev. Henry Griswold Jesup. printed by John Wilson and Son 1887.
[2] 'The Maligned General' by Chester L. Kieffer.
[3] Mrs. Luther D. Weeks, Elkton, Kentucky.
[4] 1850 Todd County Census Index.......................................Born
1. Samuel B. Jesup..........59................M.................Virginia
2. Catherine Jesup...........55.................F..................Tennessee
3. George Jesup...............24................M..................Kentucky
[5] Todd County History Book under a Biographical Sketch for George Jesup states that Catherine Cidner (more common spelling Sidener / Sydner) Jesup married Samuel Blackleach Jesup in Bourbon, County Kentucky on September 2, 1813 and that her father was Jacob Cidner. The validity of the biographer's information is strongly questioned as in the sentence previous to the Jacob Cidner statement, he states that Edward Jesup, the father of Samuel Jesup was the immigrant ancestor. The book "Edward Jessup and His Descendants" shows that the biographer was off by 4 generations. Catherine Sydner had a brother by the name of Jacob and it is believed the biographer confused her brother as being her father. Church records at Loradale in Fayette County, Kentucky indicate that Samuel B. Jesup married Catherine Sydner September 1813, which concurs with the Todd County History Books biographical sketch. The Todd County History Book also indicates she and/or her ancestors were from Washington County, she and/or her ancestors were from the small hamlet/town namedWashington, just outside of Maysville, Kentucky.
History of Todd County, Kentucky, ed. J. H. Battle, 1884, F. A. Battey
Publishing Co., 1884, Page 271. {Fairview Precinct]
GEORGE W. JESUP. The gentleman who name appears at the head of this sketch is one of the active, energetic and naturally intelligent citizens of Todd County, Ky. He is a native of Fayette County, in this State, where he was born February 10, 1823, and in 1829 removed with his parents to Todd County, where he has since resided. His father, Col. Samuel B. Jesup, was born in Orange County, Va.; immigrated to Kentucky in 1793; was a gallant soldier in the war of 1812; was once a member of the House of Representatives, and eight years a member of the Senate of Kentucky, and died in 1866 at the age of seventy-three years. His father, James E. Jesup, was an Englishman (everyone born in the American colonies before the American War for Independence were technically Englishmen), and his brother, Gen. Thomas S. Jesup, is well known in history. Subject's mother, Catherine, daughter of Jacob Cidner (Sydner), of Bourbon County, Ky., was born in 1796, and died in 1872. To her and Samuel B. Jesup, her husband, were born: Eliza A. (Yancey), W. Thomas, Margaret J. (wife of Dr. Tandy), James E., subject, Caroline (Cash) and Virginia (Crouch). Subject's educational advantages were limited, but he has long been a reading man. On April 30, 1857, Mr. Jesup was married to Miss Susan, daughter of Richard and Mary (Mosley) Brame, of Christian County, Ky. Subject is a farmer, owning 250 acres of very valuable and productive land (a part of the Croghan Grove tract) in a high state of cultivation, and in fine condition, which he successfully cultivates in the staple products of the country. In politics he is identified with the Democrat party.
History of Todd County, Kentucky, ed. J. H. Battle, 1884, F. A. Battey
Publishing Co., 1884, p. 283. [Fairview Precinct]
CHARLES E. TANDY, one of Todd County's young and enterprising farmers and stock-breeders, was born November 12, 1860, in Todd County, Ky. He is a son of Dr. N. M. and Margaret J. (Jesup) Tandy. The latter was a daughter of Col. Samuel B. Jesup, born November, 1792, died August, 1866, and Catherine Jesup, born March 1795, died July, 1870. Subject's father was born 1810, died July, 1881; his mother born 1819, died August, 1877.Parents were natives of Christian and Todd Counties respectively. Our subject received more than an ordinary education, having attended Fairview and Olmstead Academies two years and Bethel College one year, after which he engaged in farming at home. In November, 1882, he located where he now lives on what is called Col. Jesup's farm; it consists of 250 acres of which 150 are in good state of cultivation, improved with buildings, etc. Mr. Tandy is engaged in general farming and in breeding and training the best of Mambrino horses. Has a track on his farm and is energetic and active in procuring the finest quality of trotting stock. He was married November 23, 1882, to Miss Clara B. Layne, daughter of Alexander and A.M. (Elgin) Layne. This union is blessed with the birth of one child--David H. Mrs. Tandy is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church.
History of Todd County, Kentucky, ed. J. H. Battle, 1884, F. A. Battey
Publishing Co., 1884, pp. 282-83. [Fairview Precinct]
JOHN DAVIS TANDY. The subject of this sketch was born January 23, 1837, in Todd County, Ky. where he still retains his residence. He father, Nathaniel Mills Tandy, was born in 1810, in Christian County; he removed to Todd County, Ky, in 1834, where he died in 1881. He was the son of Mills Tandy, who was born in Virginia in 1780; moved to Barren County in 1808, where he remained six months; moved to Christian County in 1809, and died in Christian County, Ky., in 1861. His father was Henry Tandy, of Virginia. Subject's mother, Mary E., daughter of John and Mary (Pendleton) Davis, was born in 1815 and died in 1843. To her and her husband, Nathaniel Mills Tandy, were born: Olivia (deceased) and our subject. To Nathaniel Mills Tandy and his second wife (Margaret J. Jesup), were born: Samuel R. Jesup M. and Charles E. Subject secured a good common education and is a general reader of standard books and current literature. He was married October 23, 1860, to Miss Catherine, daughter of Preston L. and Elizabeth A. (Jesup) Yancy, of Crittenden County., Ky., and this union has been blessed with: Preston E., Robert M., Mary D. and Clarence. Subject is by profession a farmer, owning 700 acres of good and valuable land, which is finely improved and in a high state of cultivation. He is prudently turning his attention largely to the growth of the grasses, thereby maintaining and improving the fertility of his already productive farm. He is enterprising, energetic and public spirited. He is an honored member of the Masonic fraternity, a Baptist and a Democrat.
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