Person:Robert Cunningham (34)

Watchers
Robert Cunningham
b.15 Sep 1775 Virginia
  1. Robert Cunningham1775 -
  1. John Cunningham1795 - 1864
  2. Belinda CunninghamAbt 1797 -
  3. Jesse CunninghamAbt 1797 -
  4. Abner CunninghamAbt 1801 -
  5. Lucinda CunninghamAbt 1801 -
  6. Isaac CunninghamAbt 1803 -
  7. Jemima CunninghamAbt 1805 -
  8. Elizabeth CunninghamAbt 1805 -
  9. Maria CunninghamAbt 1807 -
  10. Mary CunninghamAbt 1807 -
  11. Rebecca CunninghamAbt 1809 -
Facts and Events
Name Robert Cunningham
Gender Male
Birth[1] 15 Sep 1775 Virginia
Marriage to Mary Robinson
Death? Clark County, Kentucky
References
  1. Family Recorded, in Perrin, William Henry, ed. History of Bourbon, Scott, Harrison and Nicholas Counties, Kentucky. (Chicago, IL, USA: O. L. Baskin, 1882)
    553, 554.

    ... He was born June 15, 1795, in Hardy County, Virginia. His parents
    were Robert and Mary Robinson Cunningham, both of whom were natives of
    the old Dominion.

    Robert was born September 15, 1775. Robert was a son John Cunningham, a native or Ireland, who emigrated to Virginia prior to the Revolution. Robert was a participant in the Whiskey Rebellion of 1794, and served as Major; his sword is yet in the hands of grandchildren here in Clintonville. He came to Kentucky in 1796, embarking at Wheeling in a flat boat, and settled on Strode's Creek in Clark County. To him were born John, Belinda, Jesse, Abner, Lucinda, Isaac, Jemima, Maria and Mary. John and Abner settled in Bourbon County; Jesse, Isaac and Maria settled in Clark County; Maria became the wife of Matthew Hume; Elizabeth, wife of John Flournoy, of Scott County; Mary, of George Carlysle, of Woodford County; Isaac became the father of twenty-three children; but one of the number came to maturity, Rebecca, who married Isaac Vanmeter, of Clark County. ...

    ... Robert, who,
    impressed with the advantages to be found in a new and rapidly developing
    country, determined to try his fortunes in Kentucky, toward which the tide
    of emigration was rapidly flowing. Accordingly taking passage on a flat
    boat at Wheeling, he set our for "the dark and bloody ground" for the
    mastery of which civilization and savage fury was yet contending. The
    voyage was a perilous one. Simon Girty, with his Indian warriors kept
    watch from either bank of the Ohio, and whenever their frail craft drifted
    near the shore the sharp report of a rifle was sure to break in upon the
    scene. This necessitated keeping in the middle of the stream. Finally
    after many adventures the boat arrived at Limestone, as Maysville was then
    called. From Maysville he went to Clark County and settled. Here in 1795
    was born to him a son, John Cunningham ...