J. R. Lough

I always knew there were some problems with James Randolph Lough's ancestry records; I simply never had time to work them out.

I have been in contact with a distant cousin (if J. R.'s ancestry proves correct), who has helped sort out some information.

What it amounts to is that a lot of things are in doubt: J. R.'s birth date, his mother's name, and even whether he is a son of Philip Lough. I am sure that he is, but there is a dearth of recorded information that simply makes it contingent. It is possible that, instead of being a twin brother of Joseph Lough, J. R. may be a twin brother of John A. Lough. Probably not, but maybe.

I am still trying to track down the family of J. R.'s eldest daughter (Lexenia). Perhaps they  have an old Bible or something that will lead us to a solution to the problems.

Or...I am planning a foray back to Frankfort, Indiana, and into Ohio, to try to get a line on firming up some of the names in the family tree. (I had a bevy of stories from the Frankfort newspapers about the Lough family--and my computer crashed and I lost almost all of them. There's something to be said for photocopies in the place of JPEGs.)

Some sort of information is lurking somewhere...I just know it.

David Thomas Montgomery

Edward Pedigo (Pediford)

Edward Pedigo (or Pediford) is my sixth great-grandfather. He was married to Hannah Elkins and they gave birth to a son Levi. Levi married Mary Newland and their daughter Elizabeth was married to William Pedigo Tanner, who is the grandfather of my Grandma Wescott (my great-grandmother). Ned Pedigo, as he was known, was born 24 December 1732 in Baltimore, Maryland. He died 26 April 1834 in Barren, Kentucky.

According to an application for membership to the National Society of the Sons of the American Revolution, filed by Norman Fine Lincoln of New Mexico, Ned served in the Revolution for three years. He had enlisted "for the war" and was granted a land warrant by the state of Virginia in recognition of his services.

According to the transcribed roll of "The U.S. Revolutionary War Rolls, 1775-1783", Ned was a private his entire time in the war. He served first in the 7th Virginia Regiment, commanded by Capt. Charles Fleming; then he served in the 3rd and 7th Virginia Regiment, as well as the 5th and 11th regiments, under Capt. Henry Young. Since Norman Lincoln's application says that Ned served for three years, I assume that he left the Virginia Regiment about 1780. There is no record of the battles he participated in and that's a matter for further research.

The application also states that Ned had served in the French and Indian War. He was with Washington at the march on Fort Duquesne and was present at Braddock's defeat. He was one of only 30 Virginians who left that battlefield alive.

The French and Indian War was fought between 1754-1763, which would make Ned about 22 when the war began and about 31 when the war ended. Braddock's defeat occurred at the Monongahela River on 9 July 1755. There is no record of Ned's service and therefore no account of why he was serving with the British. He may have been some sort of scout; he may have served in a larger unit of Virginia militia.

According to the membership application, he lived in Patrick County, Virginia during the Revolutionary War. Patrick County is in the southeastern corner of the state of Virginia, almost in Kentucky. Ned must have migrated south from Baltimore which might put him near the Potomac River area where George Washington lived and this may explain why he was a member of the Virginians fighting the French and Indians.

You may note that Ned was 101 years old when he died. He is buried in the Pedigo-Neville-Genie Glass Cemetery, Randolph, Metcalfe County, Kentucky. This is near the town of Barren where records list that Ned died.

This and $1.50 will get you a cup of coffee at McDonald’s ($25 at Starbuck’s).

We Loughs (David, Keith, Denise) are descended from the Gaines family through our mother, Hattie Esther Gaines Lough. The line goes like this: Hattie Esther, daughter of Carl Buford, son of James Emory, son of Henry Pendleton, son of Joseph Pendleton, son of William Prior, son of Joseph, son of James (II), son of Richard, son of James (I), son of Thomas, who is rumored to be descended from Daffyd Llewellyn, King of Wales.

The name "Gaines" seems to come from a Welsh name "Gam" that means "Squinty eyes". It evolved into Game and Games and then to Gaines.

(The remainder of this information comes from a genealogical publication about Arkansas families—but I can’t for the life of me remember where I ran across it on the Web! I must learn to take better notes! There is apparently some confusion about some of these families and who their descendants are, according to another article I read but can’t find again. Drat! But I’ll go with this until something more definitive comes along.)

Starting backward from Thomas Gaines, who emigrated about 1641 from Brecon, Wales, to Virginia. He is the great-great grandfather of President James Madison. (I don’t know what the lineage is.) Thomas was born in 1585 in Brecon, Wales and is the son of Sir John Gaines (1559-1606).

Thomas’ son James was born in 1620. According to a deed dated 7 May 1663 and a patent issued 2 March 1667, he lived in Rappahanock County, Virginia.

Richard Gaines, son of James, was born in New Kent County, Virginia (now King and Queen County) in 1670. He died 13 February 1755 in Culpeper County, Virginia. There is some confusion about his wife (or wives): Dorothy Kelley or Catherine Madison or Catherine Rawlins. Richard was father of: James, William Henry, Francis, Henry, Thomas, John, Richard, and Roger.

We are descended from James, born 18 January 1710 in Culpeper, Virginia. He died 10 March 1786 in Culpeper, Virginia. He married Mary Pendleton (this is where the Pendleton name comes from in our lineage) in 1731 in Culpeper County. I would love to have a look at both wills, James’ in Culpeper County, Mary’s in Madison County (which used to be Culpeper County). I wonder if they were well off—and this is why they didn’t move from this one spot in Virginia.

Mary is the daughter of Henry and Mary Bishop (Taylor) Pendleton III. She was born in 1717 in King and Queen County, Virginia and died in Madison County in 1803. Mary is supposedly descended from Charlemagne through her maternal line, Gregory. The Pendletons must be some sort of influential family all across the south. I wonder if Pendleton County, Virginia (now West Virginia), is named for them. This is where our Lough family migrates through on their way to Ohio.

James and Mary had 12 children: James (III), Rev. Henry Gaines (who migrated to South Carolina and died there in 1830), Richard Edward, Joseph, William, Francis, Thomas, Catherine, Mary, Sarah, and Isabella. Richard, Catherine, and Sarah married mates with the last name of Broaddus. That name will pop up a couple of generations later in the son of Joseph Pendleton Gaines, Thomas Broaddus. Are they all cousins or siblings? I need to do some research on the Broaddus family, just for fun. It might say a lot about the relationships families had in colonial Virginia. I think at least some of the Broaddus family migrates to Kentucky, which is also where Joseph Gaines and Francis Gaines go.  Thomas Gaines and the Rev. Henry Gaines moved to South Carolina.

James, by the way, may be a Revolutionary War Veteran. If he is, he would be in his late 60s. Maybe he was just tough. You never know about militias. Or maybe this is another James Gaines. Hard to tell.

Joseph Gaines, born in 1747, moved to Kentucky. That is about all the information I can find about him. I have found a “Joseph Gaines” who signed the Ten-Thousand Name Petition in Virginia in 1776. If this is the same Joseph, that might indicate that he moved to Kentucky after the Revolutionary War. That would be after Boone and others blaze the trail across the Blue Ridge into Kentucky. There is also a record from the Mason County, Kentucky, Marriage Abstracts, 12 August 1789, that lists Joseph Gaines as a bondsman in the marriage of George Headly. Since Joseph’s grandson (Joseph Pendleton Gaines) lives and died in Nicholas, KY, which is in Mason County, I think there is good reason to believe that this Joseph is our Joseph. So Joseph moved somewhere between 1776 and 1789.

My records show that Joseph married Lucinda J. Wheeler, having a son William Prior, born in 1775, (which means that Joseph and Lucinda were married in Virginia). Joseph died in Kentucky in 1803.  I assume this came from somebody’s family Bible. Information about Joseph and his son William Prior is scarce. It is possible that William did not go with his father to Kentucky until later (or ever), maybe moving to Kentucky to take over his father’s land after Joseph’s death (?). William’s son Joseph Pendleton is born in Virginia in 22 September 1802.

(Joseph is the last Gaines in our lineage to be mentioned in the Arkansas article.)

Lough Family Pictures

Surprises await around every corner! After a long search for my great-grandmother's identity, I found out that all I had to do was ask Aunt Lois. And she even had pictures! So here are a group of pictures with various people: Charles and Linnie Garrett (my great-grandmother--Jim's mother--and her husband); Jim and Susan Lough (grandparents); Dan and Lois (my Dad and Aunt); E. O. and Annie Wescott (my great-grandparents on Susan's side); and Jessie (Jim's half-sister) and Edna Garrett (Charles O's daughter).

Linnie Lough
(Unknown date)

Malinda E. Lough (don't know what the "E" stood for) was born in September 1882 somewhere in the neighborhood of Farmersville, Texas. Her father, J. R. Lough, had bought a tract of land on Pilot Grove Creek in 1878 and that is probably where Linnie was born. She was still living with her family in that area in the census of 1900.

James and Linnie Lough
(Son and Mother)

Linnie had a son (out of wedlock), James Carey Lough, on 12 March 1902. Whether she was living at home or somewhere else I don't know, but somewhere along in here she moved to Fort Worth. In 1907 she lived in a boarding house run by Miss Eugene Carroll at 205 1/2 West Weatherford (downtown Fort Worth). She worked as a cook at a sanitarium overseen by Carrie Webster, a nurse, in 1910. This sanitarium was on 8th Avenue, near where the Baylor Hospital is today. In 1908, she had given birth to a daughter named Jessie, again out of wedlock.

Jessie, Edna, James, Linnie

Charlie, James, Linnie, Edna, Jessie, Susan

(Jessie is listed in the 1910 census as "Jessie Lough". We--Aunt Lois and I--think that Jessie's last name was Robinson when she died. Jessie was listed as a "boarder"--at the age of 2--with Charley and May Denson, who I think are friends of Linnie, in 1910, Fort Worth. The Denson's also have another boarder living with them, John Thomason, Charley's 21-year-old brother-in-law, who is a laborer at the packing house in Fort Worth. I can't help but speculate on John's relation to Linnie and Jessie, although it would be completely natural for him to live with his in-laws at the same time as little Jesse needed a home. I find it interesting that Charley Denson is a carpenter at the Packing House, which is eventually what Charles Garrett will do for a living. One wonders if the Densons are the way Linnie and Charles Garrett are introduced to each other.)

Charles O. and Linnie Garrett

When she was about 34 (1917), Linnie married Charles Ora Garrett. Charlie had been married before (divorced) and had a daughter, Edna. The Garretts turn up in Morris, Oklahoma, in September 1918, according to Charlie's draft card. He is an "oil worker." Of course, there is no record of Jim being with them, but this may have been the way Jim Lough gets to Oklahoma and begins his work in the oil fields. (According to the Fort Worth Phone Directory, Jim was living with Charlie and Linnie in 1918.)

Charlie and Linnie Garrett

Annie and E. O. Wescott, Dan, Susan, Lois, Linnie

In 1930, Linnie and Charlie make their home at 2624 Gould Avenue in Fort Worth, a house that still stands at the end of Gould Ave. She died 31 May 1946 and is buried at Laurel Land Cemetery in south Fort Worth.

Charlie Garrett with unidentified children
The house on Gould avenue is in the background.

Fort Worth in the early 1900s.

I thought it would be interesting to see how Fort Worth looked during the time my Great-grandmother, Linnie Lough, lived there in 1907. She lived in a boarding house at 205 ½ W. Weatherford, run by Miss Eugene Carroll. This address is fairly close to where Houston Street intersects Weatherford in what is now downtown Fort Worth. There are plenty of pictures posted on the internet of this area of Fort Worth around this time.

This store would have been right down the street from where Linnie boarded.

The Ellison Building would have been about 2 blocks from where Linnie lived; I’m sure she would have been familiar with the Western National Bank and the Moore Building, that were both within 10 blocks of her boarding house.

This hospital was either next-door or very near (within a couple of houses of) the “sanitarium” where Linnie worked in 1910. 

If you want to look at more, click this link: A history of Fort Worth in pictures.

More about Waightstill Avery Montgomery

Photocopy of a photocopy
W. A., Mary, and Hugh
Montgomery

(This information was found in Collin County Families, in an article written by James Ray Montgomery, W.A. Montgomery’s great-grandson.)

Waightstill Avery Montgomery left Burke, North Carolina, in 1857. He was 23. He left North Carolina because the best farmland had been taken and he could buy land in Texas at low prices.

Frying Pan Ranch
--upon which at least a part
of the Montgomery family farm was located

Waightstill settled near his relatives, the Largents, east of Pot Rack Creek (south of Blue Ridge). He married Mary Elizabeth Largent on 6 September 1858 and raised eleven children there.

After the Civil War (see the post Waightstill Avery Montgomery—Civil War Veteran), he resumed farming until 1886. He and his eldest son, William (Billy), opened a mercantile store in Fayburgh. (My granddad Carl Buford Gaines was born in “Fayburg”. That probably means he was born on the farm just a couple of miles east of Fayburg. This article also reveals that Carl Buford's nickname was "Tom".)

Montgomery Family Cemetery

Mary died 6 May 1897 (she is buried in the Montgomery Family cemetery). Waightstill moved to Durant, Indian Territory, where he owned some lots. He helped lay out some of the town sites. (My question about this is: did he go to Durant and then have his family follow him there, or did he follow his family there? Several of his children were living in the Durant area when he died. And my mother and her sisters were born in this area, Bryan County: Lillie and Bonnie in Kemp, Helen and Esther—Mom—in Albany.)

James Montgomery relates that Waightstill like to get maps and go treasure hunting, looking for gold that had been buried during the Civil War.

Waightstill's and Mary's
monument

Waightstill died 30 March 1908 at his daughter’s home in Durant. “He was returned by wagon to the farm near Fayburgh, a trip of about seventy miles over very bad roads.” He was buried in the Montgomery Family cemetery, beside Mary, two daughters (Martha and Mary) and his son Dudley, all of whom died before he did.

[Fayburgh was a community south of Blue Ridge, named by a Captain Bristol when he applied for a Post Office. He named it after his daughter, Fay. The Post Office was established 4 Mar 1884. The spelling of the town was changed to Fayburg, 6 Nov 1893. The Post Office was discontinued on 15 May 1926 and Fayburg disappeared.]