... James Eward and his wife, Elizabeth, with two daughters, Nancy and Jane, emigrated from Ireland not far from the same time as the Hamiltons, and, stopping in Pennsylvania for a few years, finally passed on South to the region of Augusta, Va. Here were born to them other children — Mary, John, Sarah and Ellen. They again emigrated, about the year 1780, to Kentucky. While on this wilderness journey, the father died, while the resolute widowed mother, with six small children left to her charge, continued her way to the "dark and bloody ground," and, after living a short time at Lexington, finally settled on Taylor's Creek, Bourbon County. ...
