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!A small genealogy is necessary to understand Temperance's forebares. This is
because her mother, Elizabeth, had Temperance and three other children,
Rebecca, Ann, and Jacob K. Straight, by Temperance's great uncle Jacob
Straight. Jacob Straight was the brother to Peter Straight which was the
father of Elizabeth. Therefore, Elizabeth's children's father, Jacob Straight,
was also their great uncle, and also, the uncle to Elizabeth Straight.
!The 1850 Census shows the following:
!Samuel Eddy (age) 52, Temperance (Straight) Eddy (age) 63. Therefore, if you
calculate the births of Temperance and Samuel from this Census, Samuel Eddy
would have been born in 1798 and Temperance would have had to be born sometime
in late 1786 because she was born before the Indian Massacre of 1786 (See the
account of the Indian Massacre in her mother's notes, and also, in her
step-father, William Kennedy's notes).
!According to the Kennedy History of the Indian Massacre it stated that Rebecca
was (age 9) and Temperance (was calculated to be age 7) when the Massacre took
place. Later in the Kennedy History it is stated that Ann's Tombstone gives
her date of death as 9 Aug 1834, and lists her age as 50 years old when Ann
died. Ann's calculated birth would have been 9 Aug 1784. Therefore, according
the the 1850 Census and Ann's Tombstone, at the time of the Indian Massacre,
Ann would have been about 2 years old and Temperance would have been a baby of
only a few months in the story.
!However, most histories state that it was Ann who was the baby.
Unfortunately, we only have the 1850 Census at this time bo determine
Temperance's birth. If she was 7 at the Indian Massacre, she would have had to
be born about 1779 which would have made her 70 in the 1850 census rather than
63 and this would have made her 18 years older than her husband Samuel rather
than 11 years older.
!1850 Census dated August 26:
!Calc. Birth Name age
!1798 Samuel Eddy 52 m
1786 Temperance Eddy 63 f
1828 James Eddy 22 m
1805 Elizabeth Straight 45 f
!General Index to Deeds - Monroe County, Ohio
!Index I
!June 11, 1842 Eddy, Samuel (wife Temperance) to Jefferson Straight R.4 T.2 S.27
acres 80 N 1/2 Ne 1/4 Vol. 4 Page 27.
!April 7, 1837 Eddy, Samuel from Jonathan Stiles R. 5 T.3 S. acres 143 SW
1/4 Vol. 8 Page 63.
!THE KENNEDY RECORD OF THE 1786 INDIAN MASSACRE:
!A dramatic even (the Indian attach) took place at Straight's Run in Oct. 1786.
!Straight's Run, located 1 mile north of present day Barrackville, W. Va., was
an indian path. The pioneers used these roads also, as primitive as they
ere....most generally larger than a game trail, but as the early settlements
grew up on these pathways they were the direct route of access. The indian's
were very familiar with this area and in winter and fall camped on the hill
over looking the Straight's Run valley. This camping area was called Fort Hill
because of its easy defense; it was used to process the game killed prior to
it's shipment to the indian's towns in the Ohio area. The indian's who died on
these hunting journeys were buried on Fort Hill.
!The indians had been pushed westward against their will, almost all treaties
had been broken and the Shawnee Nation was grouping for a great offensive
action against the whites. The tribes were massing in the Wabash River area
and many raiding parties had been sent to steal horses prior to the expected
battle. The Ohio Shawnee were led by Chief Blue Jacket; a white man from
Virginia named Marmaduke Van Sweringen who had joined the tribe when he was 15
years old. The indians were frantic, river travel was very hazardous and on
land raiding parties were frequent. The British at Detroit were helping arm
the indians by paying a bounty of 50 to 100 pounds sterling for white scalps in
prime condition.
!One such raiding party descended on the Straight's Run settlers on Oct. 6th,
1786. While most of the men were out hunting, or helping a neighbor, (Glenn
Lough says the men were clearing land at Asa Hall's at Bellview) the settlers
staying at the Straight's Run cabins were Jacob and Elizabeth Straight and
children Nicholas Woods at Jacob Straight's cabin. In a cabin near the
property line, where Elizabeth (Straight) Dragoo and her children, she was a
sister to Jacob Strait. As the time's dictated, when most of the men were away
the early settlers would gather in their cabins as a refuge against danger.
!Mrs. Dragoo had taken her children to the garden to pick fodder beans. (These
were planted after the corn grew.) So Mrs (Elizabeth Straight) Dragoo was in
the corn field, with her children William and a baby, when the indians captured
them.
!When she did not return, Jacob Straight and Nicholas Woods came to the garden
to investigate her prolonged absence. Upon approaching the garden they were
fired upon and Nicholas Woods fell, dying instantly.
!Elizabeth (Straight, Jacob's wife), who out of curiosity, had followed the ment
to the crest of a small rise which sheltered the cabin from the wind, fled for
her life when she heard the shots. Upon reaching the cabin, she picked up her
small daughter Ann and raced southward toward the creek. The other girls,
Rebecca (age 9) and Temperance (age 7ca) tried to keep up, with their mother,
as she raced along the woodland trail. One girl fell in a brier patch and was
undetected, while the other hid under some fallen trees.
!Elizabeth had run 3/10 of a mile with the child in her arms when she came to
the rocky ledge area of the creek. Exhausted, she scrambled under a shelving
rock ledge below the path.
!In a few very short minutes, Jacob came running down the same path. He had
been behind them about 150 yds, and was trying to lead the indians away from
where he thought his family was hiding. The indians caught him a short
distance past the spot where Elizabeth layed and concealed with her baby (The
Straight account says she stuffed a hankerchief or rag into its mouth to keep
her from crying). It is said that Elizabeth heard him bargain for his life
when he was overtaken, and heard the tommahawk blow that killed him. I'm sure
she gave the returning hunters her account of the massacre.
!"John Dragoo (by the account given by Jaj. Harding to the Pittsburg Gazette Aug
to Dec 1786) had escaped himself, being in a field pulling beans and hearing
screams of the children; his wife was killed, also Jacob Shoyler's (Straight)
family was killed or taken, not any escaped.....Mr. Dragoo who saw the savages
thinks there were about 15"
!Monument:
!INDIAN MASSACRE
!Here nicholas Wood and Jacob Straight were killed and Mrs. Elizabeth Dragoo
captured during Indian raid in 1786. Mrs. Straight and daughter made their
excape from the Indians by hiding under sheltering rocks near by.
!TEMPERANCE STRAIGHT:
!The history written by James E. Kennedy gives no dates pretaining to Temperance
and her husband James Mayfield. Most of the early Mayfields had settled near
the Cheat River and moved toward the Dellslow-Sabraton area, James may have
been some of these people. (There is an early Mayfield cemetery in Sabration.)
!The records for Monongalia County have little information; the burning of the
courthouse records in 1797 may account for this.
!James Mayfield is living in the Hagans area in the 1830's and appears at the
estate sale of William Kennedy in 1834. He buys one Clevis for 50 cts; 2 old
chairs for 64 cts and 4 head of hogs for the sum of $2.41.
!It has been mentioned in other accounts that they moved to the Whetzel County
area with Jasper Straight in the 1820's. I believe they moved Later. Land
records for Whetzel County show a parcel of 150 acres sold by Isaac Hog on 19
July 1856 to a James Mayfield, but I believe this is most likely a son because
of the date of the deed.
!On June 13, 1834, James Mayfield, Temperance's first husband bought One Clevis
for .50 cents, Four head hoges 2.41 and Two old chairs at William
Kennedy's Estate Sale at William's death. We also see Samuel Eddy,
Temperance's second husband at the same sale. Samuel bought One pair of Horse
geers for .95 cents and one pitchfork for .28 cents. (See William Kennedy Jr.'s
notes for -compleat Bill Sale.)
!It is very obvious that all of these people knew each other.
!Temperance, the other girl connected with the Indian Massacre married James
Mayfield:James and Temperance moved to Whetzel County, West Virginia. their
son married Elizabeth Thorn, widow of Archbald Thorn. She was a daughter of
George Wilson. (cousins).
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!Straight Genealogy:
!Temperance b. abt 1780 m. James Mayfield - no record found. They supposedly
relocated to Whetzel Co. (See W. VA. Heritage Encycl Suppl Vol I, "Hardesty" p.
198 - Tyler Co. refers to a Samuel Mayfield MO b. 1834 in Monongalia Co and son
of James & Permelia (Straight) Mayfield. It gives the year 1855 as the year
James Mayfield and his family settled in Whetzel Co. This may be a different
Mayfield.)
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!April 1, 1993
!Dear Mrs. Vines,
1I was given your address by David Kennedy of Fairmont, WV. I, also, have
corresponded with Mary Virginia Sprouse of Clarksburg, WV.
!By way of introduction -
!my great great great grandparents
Samuel and Temperance (Straight) Eddy
!great great grandparents
George W. and Tabitha ( ) Eddy
!great grandparents
Benjamin Franklin and Amy M. (VanDorn) Eddy
!grandparents
Job E. and Minnie Jane (Eddy) Jones
!parents
James and Amy Belle (Jones) Maxwell
!me
Jean L. (Maxwell) (Turner) Dent
my husband - Edward H. Dent
!In David Kennedy's material he indicates that Temperance Straight married James
Mayfield. Our family has no knowledge of this marriage. I corresponded with
David about the source of this information but he just states it as fact. I
find only the record of James and Parmelia (Straight) Mayfield. I don't know
to which Straight family she belonged, but I'm sure she was closely related.
She had daughters, Temperance and Ann, and a son, Samuel. In the 1840 census,
they were listed next to the Jacob K. Straight family whose wife was Permelia
(Shuman). I wonder if there is a connection between the Permelias.
!Temperance Straight was married to Samuel Eddy by 1820 (we believe ca 1818) in
Monongalia Co. Our g-g-grandfather, George W. Eddy, was born there in May
1824. At the estate sale of William Kennedy in 1834, Samuel Eddy and James
Mayfield were both in attendance. By 1836, Samuel and Temperance were living
in Monroe Co. OH. Temperance died after the 1850 census and before 1855 when
the family moved to Iowa. She is buried in the West Union Church Cemetery in
Monroe Co. OH near Antioch. I am enclosing a copy of George W. Eddy's second
marriage record. Not that he listed his mother as Temperancy Kennedy. She has
a son, Jefferson Straight, and possibly two daughters (?) before she was
married. We looked at Jefferson's death record in Monroe Co. OH and his parent
is listed as Tempie Straight. He was born in 1806. In 1850, an Elizabeth
Straight, age 45, was living with Samuel and Temperance, possibly a daughter of
Temperance (?). I'm wondering about Permelia, also - no documentation on
either of them.
!I wrote to the Wetzel Co. Genealogical Society and received information about
James Mayfield's grave. (see enclosed)
!We have found no record of Jacob Straight having a brother, Peter. We don't
know the source of this information. We have copies of DAR charts for Riter
Nicholas Straight and Effie Wilson which show that Elizabeth, wife of Jacob
Straight, Jr. was a Dragoo. This agrees with information from Mary Virginia
Sprouse.
!We don't know the parentage of Samuel Eddy. We feel sure that Gawen Eddy was
his grandfather but don't know which of Gawen's sons was Samuel's father.
!My sister, Lea Maupin, and I have been working on our family history for about
three years and have become completely addicted to it. A year and a half ago,
we made a trip to WV and visited Fairmont and Morgantown. We drove down
Straight's Run. That was quite and experience for us. We hope to get back to
that area some day.
!We would appreciate very much if you could share any additional information or
correct any misinformation we may have. I am enclosing material that may make
my letter a little clearer.
!Sincerely,
!Jean
!Mrs. Jean L. Dent
303 South Johnson Drive
Odessa, MO 64067
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