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Note: N6 Isaac may have been born in Harrison County, WV, where records seem to indicate his father, David, was living from the early 1770’s until about 1790. Counties had different names in this time period.
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Kentucky Marriage Records gives 17 Dec 1809 as date of marriage to Rachel Rice.
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Isaac Edwards (the father of the Author of these Memoirs), was born in Virginia in the fall of 1782. From whence he moved when quite young to Kentucky, Shelby Co., then an almost entire wilderness. In the year 1800 him and his father's family moved to Breckenridge Co. KY, where they lived forted to prevent the Indians from surprising and killing them off. He was married to Miss Susanah Compton in April 1804 and had by her four children, the first of whom died when but a few days old. The third, David, died when about one year old. When the youngest, Augustin, was about four months old he and his wife, taking with them their child and two of his sisters went on a visit to Grayson Co. to see his wife's people. On their return it became necessary to cross Ruff Creek (1) which from immense rains was running very full and rapid. There being nothing but a canoe to ferry in they ventured aboard, and having but an inexperienced boy to guide the craft when near the opposite shore the canoe struck a tree which had fallen into the stream and simultaneously turned over, throwing them all into the angry current. His wife with one arm clung with a mother's fondness to her little infant, while with the other she vainly endeavored to hold onto the drifting canoe while he encumbered with a heavy overcoat drifted swiftly down the stream, sometimes under, sometimes over, until when life was almost gone, he chanced to catch the twig of a swimming shrub which chanced to dip into the stream which so far supported him as to hold his head above water. But what were his feelings when at the instant he caught the twig which saved him from a watery grave, to see his wife and infant child rush by him in the agonies of death; in vain he reached out his other hand to grasp her. She was too far off and a few minutes more the wild waters closed over her and her tender babe and forever drawed the mantle of death between them and the living. With them perished the two sisters and one of their little children some of whom lay for months undiscovered although often searched for, before they were rescued and the last sad relicks of their human frames were buried beneath the sod of the valley. The two little babes sunk beneath the mad current and were never more seen or heard of.
After hanging on sometime to the slender twig Father was rescued more dead than alive from his perilous situation, the sad and mournful realities to brake upon him once more; to know that all his dear family were gone save one daughter Anna, who had been left at home. Time rolled his ever sturdy course along burying with him all the various changes of seasons and their beautiful varieties, well calculated to restore and console the bereaved in every condition of life.
In the year 1809 Isaac Edwards was on the 26th day of November united in marriage to Rachel Rice (Mother of the Author of these Memoirs), at her Father's, three miles north of Hardensburgh, Breckenridge Co., KY and continued to live there for near two years. In June following his marriage he was baptised and became a professor of religion. In the year 1812, early in the spring (March) he moved with his family (having one son) to Indiana 20 miles below the falls of the Ohio and settled amidst the dreary wilds upon the banks of that beautiful stream.
Scarce a year had passed away until the alarm of Indians who were yet plenty in the western wilds caused them again to return to near Hardensburgh, where they remained until the latter part of 1813 when again they returned to their home in Indiana.
About the first of February 1817 Father left for New Orleans with a load of produce in a flat boat which he sold to good advantage, purchasing a keel boat with the funds. She was well freighted and given in charge to a Mr. Spencer who proceeded on up the Mississippi River and fraudulently sold the boat and load and run off with the proceeds and was never more heard of. Father returned through the Indian Nation and arrived safe at home in April the same year. In the year 1818 he loaded another boat and went in search of Spencer but never heard of him.
At Natchez he was taken sick and died on the 16th day of April 1818 in a strange land amongst those unknown. But the stranger's hand refused not its assistance, and the stranger's heart was not callous to the tender sympathies which bind the noble and the generous in every land, in every clime. One noble, one kind and generous friend John Cann an entire stranger was entrusted with the proceeds of the load and the painful duty of attending to the last sad rites of the dead all of which he performed in the most generous and confidential manner and at his return accounted strictly for every cent.
(from The Memoirs of John Edwards, son of Isaac Edwards)
(1) The Rough River is a 156-mile-long (251 km)[1] tributary of the Green River in west-central Kentucky in the United States. Via the Green and Ohio rivers, it is part of the watershed of the Mississippi River.[2] According to the Geographic Names Information System, it has also been known historically as "Rough Creek.
The Rough River rises in northwestern Hardin County and flows generally west-southwestwardly[4] through or along the boundaries of Grayson, Breckinridge, Ohio and McLean counties, past the town of Hartford. It joins the Green River at the town of Livermore, on the common boundary of McLean and Ohio counties.”
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“Born in Virginia in the fall of 1782, from whence he moved with his father when quite young to Shelby County, KY., then almost a wilderness. In the year 1800 his father and family moved to Breckenridge County, KY., where they lived for several years in constant fear of the Indians.
He married first Susanna Compton in April 1804. Had Issue.
I. Anna born March 25 1805, married Isaac Linder in Crawford County, Indiana
II. David Born December 7th 1807
III. Justin. Born October 10, 1808. When Justin was about four months old, Isaac took his wife and baby to Grayson County to visit the Comptons. On their return, in attempting to cross Ruff Creek in a canoe, they were all thrown out and drowned with the exception of Isaac, who was saved with difficulty. He married Rachel Rice on December 25th, 1809 at her father’s home three miles north of Hardensburg, KY and lived there about two years.
She was born in Shraders Station, eight miles from Louisville, KY., June 10th 1785, and died August 5th, 1865. In June 1810 Isaac Edwards was baptised in the Baptist Church. In March of 1812 he moved with his wife and son Abraham to Indiana, seventy miles the falls of the Ohio River. They had only been there a year when alarmed by the Indian outbreaks, they returned to Hardensburg, where they remained until the latter part of 1813 when they went back to Indiana.
He died in Natchez, Miss., April 16th, 1818. They had issue”
(from a genealogy document marked Los Angeles Jul 25 1932 received from Richard Edwards Maynard of Aledo, IL in 2009)
“In June following his marriage (to Rachel Rice) he was baptised and became a professor of religion.”
(from the “Memoirs of John Edwards”)
Moved to Indiana in 1812, 20 miles below Louisville KY, where he farmed and sold produce (WMB- Brewster Genealogy 1977)
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“ON MOTION OF Jonathan Rice, Administrator of the estate of Isaac Edwards, deceased, by William P. Thomasson, as his attorney, it is ordered that William McKee, Alexander Frakes and Jacob Rice be
appointed commissioners to convey a certain piece of land to John Peckenpaugh which said Isaac
Edwards, deceased, gave his obligation in his life time. “
(Wednesday, June 2, 1819 - Order Book A - May Term 1819 - Third day; (Crawford County Newsletter by Larry M. Burmeister) http://www.yatesville.net/histctr/img/ccg-0707-1.pdf)
THIS DAY came William McKee, Alexander Frakes and Jacob Rice (commissioners appointed by
this Court at their May Term last to convey a certain piece of land from the heirs of Isaac Edwards agree-
able to the terms and effect of a bond given by said Isaac Edwards, deceased, in his lifetime to John
Peckinpaugh, which is now here filed in the papers in the office.) personally into Court and acknowledged a Deed to John Peckenpaugh which is ordered to be here inserted on the records of the Court which and is in the words and figures following, to-wit: This Indenture made this twenty seventh day of September in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and nineteen, between William McKee, Alexander Frakes, and Jacob Rice —commissioners appointed by the Crawford Circuit Court at their May Term in the year eighteen hundred and nineteen for the purpose of conveying a certain tract of land from the heirs of Isaac Edwards to John Peckenpaugh agreeable to the tenor and effect of a bond (which is in the work and figures following, to-wit: “I oblige myself, my heirs, executors and administrators to convey into John Peckenpaugh twenty nine acres of land, it being a part of the frac-
tion whereon I now live, Section number thirty one and thirty two, township four south and range two east in the State of Indiana to the true performance of which I bind myself, my heirs as given from under my hand and seal this seventh day of January one thousand eight hundred and eighteen.
/s/ Isaac Edwards Sr.
Jonathan Rice
and pursuant to the act of the general assembly in case made and party of the one part and John Peckenpaugh of Crawford county and the State of Indiana of the other part witnesseth that the said William McKee, Alexander Frakes and Jacob Rice, commissioners acting under the authority aforesaid granted by the said Circuit Court and pursuant to the thirty third section of the Act of the General Assembly entitled “An Act Authorizing the Granting of Letters Testamentary and Letter of Administration for the Settlement of Intestate Estates And for Other Purposes” approved January the twenty ninth eighteen hundred and eighteen for and in consideration of the premises and the amount of the consideration paid the said Isaac Edwards, deceased, in his lifetime by the said John Peckenpaugh have granted bargained and sold and by these presents do grant bargain and sell into said John Peckenpaugh twenty nine acres of land agreeable to the bond, aforesaid and within the following bounds it appearing to the satisfaction of the said commissioners that the said twenty nine acres of land was surveyed by Daniel C. Land for the said Isaac Edwards previous to his death, to-wit:
Beginning on the Ohio River at the upper corner of fraction thirty one thence south eighty three and one
fourth degree west one hundred and twenty five poles to a stake in the original line of said fraction, thence south twenty degrees east sixty nine poles to the Ohio River, thence up the Ohio River and winding therewith to the beginning containing twenty nine acres be the same more or less, which twenty nine acres of land is situate lying and being in the County of Crawford and State of Indiana being fractional sections thirty one and part of fraction thirty two in township four South and range two East of the Jeffersonville District.
To have and to hold the said bargainer and sold to the said John Peckenpaugh, his heirs and assigns forever to his and their only proper use benefit and behalf forever and the said William McKee, Alexander Frakes, and Jacob Rice, commissioners as aforesaid, agreeable to the bond aforesaid pursuant to the power vested in them by the appointment aforesaid and according to the Act of Assembly aforesaid in
such case made and provided for and on behalf of the heirs and legal representatives of said Isaac Edwards, deceased, do hereby covenant and agree with the said John Peckenpaugh that the said premises hereby bargained and sold now are now and forever hereafter shall remain free and clear of claim from all rights, title or claim of Dower or other incumbrance whatsoever and that they, the said heirs and legal representatives of the said Isaac Edwards, deceased, shall warrant and defend the said bargained and sold premises with all the appurtenances, tentements belonging or in anywise appertaining unto the said John Peckenpaugh and his heirs and assigns forever from the claim of them or either of them or of any other person whatever claiming or to claim the same in by or through them — In Testimony whereof the said William McKee, Alexander Frakes and Jacob Rice, commissioners as aforesaid have hereto set their hands and seals.
/s/ William McKee (his mark)
/s/ Alexander Frakes
/s/ Jacob Rice
Done in the presence of William Thomasson.
Ordered that Court adjourn until tomorrow
morning 9 O’clock.
Henry Green & James Glenn
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“Isaac had migrated to America from Wales, and his wife, Rachel, was a native of Kentucky, born at Shrader’s Station, 8 miles from Louisviklem in 1784 (in the heyday of Daniel Boone!). Isaac Edwards died of Yellow Fever at Natchez, Mississippi, on a return river trip from New Orleans in 1818.”
(from the Peckinpaughs, Pickenpaughs, Beckenbaughs,... by Edwin T & Althea Peckenpaugh Brace, 1984; p.456)
(note: it was Isaac’s father, David Edwards along with his brother, Isaac, who migrated from Wales. This Isaac Edwards, son of David, was born in VA.)
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“The first record of the Common Pleas Court of the county is as follows : "House of James Barker," December 7, 1818. This being the day for holding court for the county of Crawford, at the house of James Barker, pursuant to an act of the General Assembly passed at the first session of the Second General Assembly, entitled an act to attach the county of Crawford to the second circuit court, met; present, the Hon. Henry Green and James Glenn, Associate Judges. Jonathan Rice, Administrator of Isaac Edwards, returned into court an inventory and ordered it to be filed. “
(from Biographical and Historical Souvenir for the counties of Clark, Crawford, Harrison, Floyd, Jefferson, Jennings, Scott and Washington, Indiana; compiled and Published by John M Gresham & Co. ; Chicago 1889)
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ISAAC EDWARDS ESTATE
On a calculation of the list of sales of the estate of Isaac Edwards, deceased, held by the court that Jonathan Rice, administrator of said estate be charged with the amount of thirteen hundred and fifty four dollars and twelve and a half cents.
(Probate Court, February 2nd, 1820, Crawford County at the courthouse in Mount Sterling, There being no court Henry Green James Glenn; (Crawford County Newsletter by Larry M. Burmeister) transcribed in the Jan 2011 issue of Yatesville Newsletter)
ISAAC EDWARDS ESTATE
This day Jonathan Rice, administrator of the Estate of Isaac Edwards, deceased, file in open court the following list of vouchers, to-wit:
No.1 To John McClary for $62.22
No 2. To Nancy Ballard $50.00
No 3. John Hendrickson and
Joel Webb $200.00
No. 4 Valentine Bower $70.00
No. 5 Joseph Bybee $190.00
No. 6 Valentine Bower $190.00
No. 7 David Edwards $15.75
No. 8 Benjamin Shaver $50.00
No. 9 Thomas Davis $22.29
No.10 Benjamin Shaver $14.00
No.11 John McPherson $35.00
No.12 Joseph Noble $40.00
No.13 Jacob Rice $60.00
No.14 L.B. & J. Murray $24.81
Interest on foregoing $37.14
Receipts:
No. 1 John McVey $5.00
No. 2 John Peckinpaugh $6.25
No. 3 Thos. Bair $1.00
No. 4 Elizabeth Tucker $10.00
No. 5 D. Weathers $2.10
No. 6 Jacob Davis $1.00
No. 7 Nicholas Koonze $18.00
Total $804.17
amounting to $804.17 which leaves the said administrator being heretofore charged with the sum of thirteen hundred fifty four dollars ($1,354.00) twelve cents and forth dollars ($40.00) amounting in the whole the thirteen hundred ninety four dollars twelve cents and being credited by the foregoing amount of eight hundred and four dollars and seventeen cents; Leaving a balance of five hundred eighty nine dollars and ninety five cents (589.95)
(Probate court September 18th, 1820, Crawford Co, Fredonia, Associate Judges James Glenn and Michael Real; (Crawford County Newsletter by Larry M. Burmeister) transcribed in the Jan 2011 issue of Yatesville newsletter)
ESTATE OF ISAAC EDWARDS
This day on a settlement with Jonathan Rice, administrator of the Estate of Isaac Edwards, deceased, and it appearing that he was charged with a balance due the state of five hundred eighty nine dollars and ninety five cents, produced the following vouchers, to-wit:
No. 1 Martin H Tucker for $2.00
No. 2 Samuel Morrow $1.72
No.3 J.H.R. Hart $4.00
No. 4 Will P. Thomasson $8.00
No.5 Henry Warfield $7.39
No.6 Thos. Roberts for
M.H. Tucker $1.65
No.7 James Riddle $2.00
No. 8 Cuthbert Harrison $6.37
No.9 Jonathan Rice $8.31
No.11 Samuel E Goodridge $7.50
Total $452.83
which being allowed by the court, leaves a balance due the estate of one hundred thirty seven dollars twelve cents.
(Probate court, Oct 24th, 1822, Crawford Co, Fredonia Court house, (Crawford County Newsletter by Larry M. Burmeister) transcribed in the Feb 2011 issue of Yatesville newsletter)
ESTATE OF ISAAC EDWARDS
This day on a settlement with Jonathan Rice, administrator of the Estate of Isaac Edwards, deceased, and it appearing that he was charged with the sum of one hundred thirty seven dollars, twelve cents, being the allowance due the estate, produced the following vouchers, to-wit: (no names) Amount totaled $105.54. Which leaves a balance due the estate of $31.57.
(Probate Court (no date given), Crawford Co, Fredonia, (Crawford County Newsletter by Larry M. Burmeister) transcribed in the March 2011 issue of Yatesville newsletter)
ESTATE OF ISAAC EDWARDS
At this time came Jonathan Rice, administrator of the Estate of Isaac Edwards, deceased, and it appearing to the satisfaction of the court that there has been a mistake of $112.22, reference being had to a settlement had with said Rice on the 18th day of Sept, 1820, will more fully appear, and also a mistake in the charge against said administrator of $137.39 which added to a settlement had with said administrator on the 20th day of October, 1823, where there is a balance due said estate f $31. 57 makes the sum f $168.97; It is Therefore considered by the court now here that said administrator be charged with the sum of $168.97 and at the same time said administrator produced a list of two vouchers totaling $56.50 add to this the above sum of $112.22 and the mistake against said administrator now totals $168.72 which taken from the charge as above leaves a balance due the estate of 24 cents, to which add the sum of two dollars and fifty cents, a charge against said administrator at this time will make the sum of $2.74 due the estate.
ESTATE OF ISAAC EDWARDS
And now at this time came Jonathan Rice administrator of the Estate of Isaac Edwards, deceased, and it appearing to the satisfaction of this court that said administrator is charged with the sum of $2.74 as per settlement had with said administrator at this time produced four vouchers totalling $7.92 which leaves a balance due the said administrator of $ 5.17.
(Probate Court January 4th, 1830, Crawford Co, Fredonia, Judge David Stewart,(Crawford County Newsletter by Larry M. Burmeister) transcribed in the May 2011 issue of the Yatesville newsletter)
MINOR HEIRS OF ISAAC EDWARDS Sr.
And now at this time on advice given to this court, John Peckinpaugh is appointed Guardian of Abraham Edwards, John Edwards, Nicholas Edwards, Isaac Edwards, minor heirs of Isaac Edwards, deceased, on his entering into bond with David Griggs as his security in the Sum of fourteen hundred dollars conditioned as the law directs.
ESTATE OF ISAAC EDWARDS Sr.
Comes Jonathan Rice who is the administrator of the Estate of Isaac Edwards, deceased as well as John Peckinpaugh, who is the Guardian of Abraham Edwards, John Edwards, Nicholas Edwards and Isaac Edwards, Jr., minor heirs of Isaac Edwards Sr., deceased, and on a settlement between said administrator and guardian in open court said administrator is finally discharged from the said trust.
(Probate Court, September 8th, 1831, Crawford Co, held in the Court house in the Town of Fredonia, present the Honorable David Stewart, Probate Judge; (Crawford County Newsletter by Larry M. Burmeister) transcribed in the June 2011 Yatesville newsletter)
MINOR HEIRS OF ISAAC EDWARDS SR.
On application, It is Ordered that Abraham Edwards be appointed Guardian of John Edwards, NIcholas Edwards and Isaac Edwards, minor heirs of Isaac Edwards, deceased, on his entering into bond conditioned as the law directs with John Peckinpaugh as his security in the sum of fourteen hundred dollars, which is done. And it is further Ordered that the said Abraham Edwards as Guardian as aforesaid, apply to John Peckinpaugh, the former Guardian of said minors, and receive from him the amount of said estate paid in the hands of said former guardian.
(Probate Court may 21st, 1832, (Crawford County Newsletter by Larry M. Burmeister) transcribed in the Yatesville news letter, July 2011)
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1815 Apr 15 - Isaac Edwards purchased 2 parcels of land in Crawford Co. for cash. Acreage wasn't recorded. Accession Nr:
CV-0024-114
Document Type:
Credit Volume Patent
State:
Indiana
Issue Date:
3/15/1815
Meridian: 2nd PM; Twp: 004S - Range: 002E; Section: 31; County: Crawford
Meridian: 2nd PM; Twp: 004S - Range: 002E; Section: 32; County Crawford
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Bio of son Nicholas gives small pox as the cause of Isaac Edward’s death.
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