Person:James Graham (60)

Some researchers believe another James Graham to be the son of Col. James Graham and Florence Graham, but based upon information from other long-time Graham researchers, this appears to be in error. The son of Col. James Graham and Florence Graham appears to be this James Graham, born about the same time, who married Leah J. Jarrett. More research is necessary to determine the parentage of the other James Graham who married Agnes Young.

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Leaving the further genealogy of the Jarrett branch of the family, we will now take up that of James Graham, Jr., fourth son of James Graham, Sr. James married Leah Jarrett, a sister of James Jarrett, Sr., of Greenbrier county, in the year 1800 and located on a portion of the farm recently owned by the late D. M. Riffe, he owning and occupying the upper portion and his brother, as before stated, the lower end of said farm. This farm at that day, and even for years afterwards, was believed to be the most productive bottom land on Greenbrier river.

To James add Leah Graham were born five sons and two daughters. The names of the sons: James, Hiram, Jehu, Ezra and Cyrus; and the [65] daughters, Cynthia and Betsey. Of these, James married a Miss Burdette of Monroe county; Betsey, a Mr. Heffner of Greenbrier county; and Hiram married Nancy Graham, daughter of Samuel Graham. The remaining children were unmarried prior to their moving to the west.

James Graham, Jr., died about the year 1815 of a disease known in local phraseology as “The Milk Disorder” or milk disease. This disease was believed to be contracted by drinking milk from cows which had eaten some poisonous weed, herb or grass. Strange to say, what this poisonous substance was could never be found out. A search of the pasture fields and the removal of every suspicious weed failed to prevent an attack of this disease. While some farms were believed to be infested with this plague and others to be free, the occupants of one seemed as liable to the disease as others. It was a dreadful malady and baffled the skill of all the physicians and generally proved fatal to those whose misfortune it was to take it. It was usually brought on [66] in its most fatal form by overexertion or overheating. Cattle were subject to it as well as their owners.

About the year 1827 the widow of James Graham, Jr., moved to Tippecanoe county, Indiana. Her son, James, was a Captain in the Black Hawk War of 1832, since which time but little is known of this family.

Marriage record in Greenbrier County, Virginia: http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/read/WVGREENB/2000-08/0967760261

James Graham To Leah Jarrett 11/12/1800 By John Alderson