Person:Elizabeth Graham (37)

Information on Elizabeth 'Betsy' Graham

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Having thus briefly sketched the descendants of Ann Graham Kincaid, we will now take up the meager account we have of another daughter of John Graham, Sr. His daughter, Betsy, married Robert Armstrong, probably as far back as 1750 to 1760. The best information we have of the number of children and their names of this family is taken from the deposition of Mrs. Alice Cavendish of Bath county in 1818 in a chancery suit between Graham and Armstrong in Monroe county. We are also indebted to these depositions for other valuable information.

Robert Armstrong settled in Bath county on Jackson river and lived there till about the year 1803 or 1804, when he moved to the state of Ohio. The place on Jackson river at or near which he lived was called Mann’s Bottom. At the time he moved west he had living five children; three sons and two daughters, whose names [36] were Elizabeth, Margaret, Archibald, Thomas and Robert. Margaret married Joel Walker; Elizabeth married first Thomas Mann and, after his death, married James Steele of Monroe county. Joel Walker and family moved to Ohio presumably at or near the same time that his father-in-law, Robert Armstrong, moved. Thomas Armstrong also moved to Ohio. Archibald married a Miss Scott of Greenbrier county, who was a sister to both the wives of Lanty and Mathew Kincaid. Archibald settled on Anthony’s Creek and his descendants are still to be found in Greenbrier county. His daughter married Cornelius Rodgers, who lived and died near Blue Sulph,.Ir Springs and of her children there are now living: John, Moses and Archibald Rodgers and their two sisters, Mrs. Keeney, widow of the late John Keeney, and a Mrs. Patterson. Archibald Armstrong also had a son, Robert, but of his descendants the writer has no information.

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