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Note: s the couple from whom we descend. It seems likely given the fact that people named Quissenberry/Quesinberry from Fauquier Co., VA show up in Barren Co., Kentucky when our Forresters lived there.
Sarah "Sally" is likely the daughter of either John and Elizabeth Quesinberry or James and Grace (Page) Quessinberry. John and James are probably sons of one Moses Quesinberry. Some members of the Quesinberry family left Fauquier Co., VA for Barren Co., KY in the late 1790s and early 1800s.
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The 1830 Census for Baren Co., KY shows:
D. H. Quennberry (Quisenberry), Page Quennberry, Solomon Quenneberry, Zaccheus Qushenberry (Quissenberry)
This name is sometimes spelled "Quesenberry" and a family that used that name came from Fauquier Co., VA and removed to KY, first to Perryville, Boyle Co. (in 1802) and then to near Glasgow, Barren Co., KY (in 1803). James and Grace (Page) Quesninberry had at least two sons: Page Quesinberry (b. 1780) who apparently kept contact back in Fauquier Co., Va as he married Elizabeth Smith there in 1806. James and Grace (Page) Quesinberry had another son, Zachariah Quesinberry (b. 1769) who also settled in Barren Co., KY. There was also a Zachariah/Zacheus Quesinberry (apparently the same) who married one Mary "Molly" Warder in Fauquier Co., VA in 1801, lived in Barren Co., KY, and then removed and died in Richmond, Ray Co., MO.
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The following is from the Appendix of "Genealogical Memoranda of the Quisenberry Family and Other Families" page 195; by A. C. (Anderson Chenault) Quisenberry, published in 1897:
Hiseville, KY, Jan. 23, 1888 Dear Sir:
I am just in receipt of yours of the 19th. I have written to my uncle Solomon Quesenberry, who is 80 years old, to get the best history of our family he can. ... My father is dead. Some of our family are in Richmond, Mo. ... My grandfather, Page Quesenberry, was born in Virginia. His brother, Zachariah Quesenberry, was a Methodist preacher. My grandfather moved from Virginia to Boyle county, KY., and lived at Perryville; and moved from Virginia to Boyle county, KY, and lived at Perryville; and moved from Perryville to Barren county in 1803.
Truly yours,
I. M. Quesenberry
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Parksville, Boyle Co., KY, Oct. 1 1888 Dear Sir:
Since writing to you last I have bought a place up here. ... Page Quesenberry was born in Fauquier or Culpeper county, Virginia, in 1780, and his fathers name was James, born in 1690, as my Uncle Solomon Quesenberry (now 81 years old) thinks, [Note,-- A palpable error; he was probable born about 1730, or later. -- A.C. Q.] My grandfather Page Quesenberry, moved from Virginia in company with his brother Zachariah, and they stopped at Perryville, KY, and lived there one year, and then moved to Barren county, 5 miles east of Glasgow. Zachariah Quesenberry was a Methodist preacher, and left Barren County in 1840, moving to Richmond Missouri. He was a preacher of considerable note, and had charge of the church in Richmond MO, from 1840, preaching every week, up to two weeks before his death, which occurred September 23, 1864, at the age of 95 years. He was born in 1769. ... He left a widowed daughter, Mrs. Bryant, in Richmond Mo., and a son, John P. Quesenberry, who is a merchant there, and has been for 48 years, and has never married. [NOTE: John P. was a Capt. in the C.S.A. and kept a diary of his time in service]
James Quesenberry was born in Virginia in 1690 (sic?), His two sons were born there-- Zachariah in 1769 and Page in 1780. Page had three sons. Joseph, Abel and Solomon. Joseph died young. Abel was born in 1815 and died in 1883, leaving one daughter, Mrs. Hanks,of Hart County, KY, and three sons--Y.M. Quesenberry, of Gordon City, Kansas; J.W. Quesenberry, of Hiseville, Ky, and myself. Solomon Quesenberry was born in 1806 and now lives near Glasgow, KY, and has one son J.W. Quesenberry, and four daughters living -- one single, Lucinda; and three married, Mrs. Kinnaird of Adair county; Mrs. Breeding, of El Paso, Texas and Mrs Wood of Hiseville KY. Zachariah had a daughter and two sons, Joseph and John. Joseph died young, in Richmond, MO, and John is a very prominent merchant there. The daughter, Mrs. Bryant, lives with her brother John ...
Respectfully,
I. M. Quesenberry
Note: While there is a record of this marriage, it is speculative that this i
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