Eliza Wilson "Lila" Steele

Other Events and Attributes:

• Census: 1910, Manhattan, New York, New York

Notes:

Census:
1910 Manhattan Ward 22, New York, New York
Ralph Shropshire 49 Georgia Georgia Georgia
Sopho Shropshire (Steele) 40 wife NY KY KY
Ralph Shropshire Jr. 7 son NY GA NY
Mary S Shropshire 5 1905 NY GA NY
Sheoph Steele 74 1836 KY KY KY widowed father-in-law

Theophilus married Sophonisba Preston "Puss" Breckenridge in 1858. Sophonisba (daughter of Dr. Robert Jefferson Breckenridge and Anna Sophonisba Preston) was born on 26 Aug 1839 in Baltimore Co, Maryland; died on 14 Nov 1880 in New York, or Kentucky. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Robert Jefferson Breckinridge (March 8, 1800 ? December 27, 1871) was a politician and Presbyterian minister. He was a member of the Breckinridge family of Kentucky, the son of Senator John Breckinridge.

A restless youth, Breckinridge was suspended from Princeton University for fighting, and following his graduation from Union College in 1819, was prone to engage in a lifestyle of partying and revelry. Nevertheless, he was admitted to the bar in 1824 and elected to the Kentucky General Assembly in 1825. A serious illness and the death of a child in 1829 prompted him to turn to religion, and he became an ordained minister in 1832.

Breckinridge accepted the call to pastor the Second[a] Presbyterian Church of Baltimore, Maryland in 1832. While at the church, he became involved in a number of theological debates. During the Old School-New School controversy within the Presbyterian Church in the 1830s, Breckinridge became a hard-line member of the Old School faction, and played an influential role in the ejection of several churches in 1837. He was rewarded for his stances by being elected moderator of the Presbyterian Church's General Assembly in 1841.

After a brief stint as president of Jefferson College in Pennsylvania, Breckinridge returned to Kentucky, where he pastored the First Presbyterian church of Lexington, Kentucky and was appointed superintendent of public education by Governor William Owsley. The changes he effected in this office brought a tenfold increase in public school attendance and led to him being called the father of the public school system in Kentucky.[1] He left his post as superintendent after six years to become a professor at Danville Theological Seminary in Danville, Kentucky.

As the sectional conflict leading up to the Civil War escalated, Breckinridge was put in the unusual position of being a slaveholder who opposed slavery. His support of Abraham Lincoln for president in the election of 1860 put him at odds with his nephew, John C. Breckinridge. The tragic scenario of brother against brother literally played out in Breckinridge's family, with two of his sons joining each side during the war. Following the war, Breckinridge retired to his home in Danville, where he died on December 27, 1871.

Robert Breckinridge was born March 8, 1800 at Cabell's Dale near Lexington, Kentucky. He was the third son born to John and Mary Hopkins (Cabell) Breckinridge. Senator Breckinridge died in 1806, leaving his wife to tend the family's large plantations. Robert soon earned a reputation of misbehaving. In one instance, he and his brother John had a physical altercation because Robert put salt in a blind cousin's coffee; in another, his mother gave him a "tremendous whipping" for beating an old slave.[2]

(Wikipedia)

Robert married Anna Sophonisba Preston on 11 Mar 1823 in Abingdon, Washington Co, Virginia. Anna (daughter of General Francis Smith Preston and Sarah Buchanan Campbell) was born on 09 Apr 1803 in "Salt Works," Washington Co, Virginia; died on 20 Dec 1844 in Baltimore, Maryland; was buried in Lexington Cem, Lexington, Fayette Co, Kentucky. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

She was the dau. of Gen. Francis Smith Preston and Sarah Buchanan Campbell.
"Sophy" married Dr. Robert Jefferson Breckinridge in Abingdon, VA on 11 Mar 1823. They had eleven children. In 1844 just three short months after giving birth to her last child (Charles Henry Breckinridge), Sophy died from a "terrible infection". She was 44 years old, when she left her husband and eight young children behind. Cherished and loved by all of her family.
Her grave marker lies at the base of a memorial she shares with her husband in the Lexington Cemetery, in the Breckinridge family plot.
(findagrave)

Notes:

On March 11, 1823, Breckinridge married his cousin, Ann Sophonisba Preston at the bride's home in Abingdon, Virginia; the couple had eleven children. Ann's political heritage rivaled that of her husband. A grandniece of Patrick Henry, she was also a sister to Senator William Campbell Preston and a sister-in-law to South Carolina governor Wade Hampton III, and Virginia governors John B. Floyd and James McDowell.

Other Events and Attributes:

• Other-Begin: 18 Feb 1784, Mercer Co, Kentucky; McAfee namesake
• Residence: 1792, Cabell Dale, Iron Works Pike, Lexington, Kentucky

Notes:

Spelled his name "Breckinridge"

US public official, born near Staunton, Virginia. Entered William and Mary College in 1778; elected Member of the House of Delegates, 1780 at age 19, until 1785; admitted to the Bar, 1785; elected to the Third Congress 1793; moved to Kentucky, 1793; appointed Attorney General of the new State, 1795, holding that office until 1798; Member of the Legislature, 1798-1801; United States Senator, 1801-1805; United States Attorney General, 1805-1806, Jefferson's administration. He died while in office. Breckenridge County, Kentucky was named after him. His grandson John Cabell Breckinridge became Vice-President under President Buchanan.

Other-Begin:
General Robert Breckinridge McAfee
Birth: Feb. 18, 1784
Mercer County
Kentucky, USA
Death: Mar. 12, 1849
Mercer County
Kentucky, USA

Son of Robert and Anne (McCoun) McAfee, married Mary "Polly" Cardwell, October 14, 1807, Mercer County, Kentucky.
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"I was the eighth child of my mother and a second son by the name of Robert, a brother of the same name having died only twelve days previous, viz., on the 6th day of February 1784, and my father despaired of having any more sons was anxious for a man, it was immediately bestowed on me with the addition of the letter 'B' for his friend, John Breckinridge, afterward a celebrated lawyer in Kentucky and at his death in 1806 attorney General of the United States under President Jefferson."

The Life and Times of Robert B. McAfee and His Family and Connections.
Written by Himself.

John married Mary "Polly" Hopkins Cabell on 28 Jun 1785. Mary (daughter of Joseph Cabell and Mary Hopkins) was born on 22 Feb 1769 in Virginia; died on 26 Mar 1858 in Fayette Co, Kentucky. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

US Army Brigadier General, US Congressman. Born in Botetourt, Virginia, he was a successful lawyer in practice when he was elected a member of the State Senate of Virginia in 1783. In 1793, he was elected as a Republican to the Third Congress, reelected to the Fourth Congress, serving until 1797, when he declined to be a candidate for re-nomination. Resuming the practice of law, he was elected a member of the Virginia State House of Delegates, serving (1812-14). With the advent the War of 1812, he was commissioned a Colonel in the Virginia Volunteers and was later promoted a US Army Brigadier General. After the war, he served in the Virginia State Senate, (1816-20). He died at age 70 in Columbia, South Carolina. (bio by: John "J-Cat" Griffith)
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Francis married Sarah Buchanan Campbell on 10 Jan 1793 in Washington, Virginia. Sarah (daughter of General William Campbell and Elizabeth Henry) was born on 21 Apr 1778 in Virginia; died on 23 Jul 1846 in Virginia; was buried in Aspenvale Cem, Seven Mile Ford, Smyth Co, Virginia. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

daughter of General William Campbell and Elizabeth Henry Campbell.
Sarah was the wife of General Francis Preston
Francis was the 2nd son of COL William PRESTON of Smithfield (VA).
She had at least 6 daughters & 4 sons.

She inherited (at least) 13,056 acres as described in the book -
Virginia Soldiers of 1776 in Washington County, VA circa Mar & Apr 1834 -
pages 1071 thru 1073, and as recorded in Book 3, page 330.

The two large blocks of property came from GEN William CAMPBELL.
The one property he received from his father, Charles CAMPBELL, who
helped map out and explore the large land grant. He received property
near the Buffalo Lick (aka Salt Lick) which passed to his wife, Elizabeth (HENRY) CAMPBELL.

General William CAMPBELL & Elizabeth (HENRY) had at least two children, with the son the expected heir. When General CAMPBELL died, the VA legislature voted a large grant to his son. I thought the son was named William CAMPBELL ("Jr"), but the following book makes it sound like his name might have been George William CAMPBELL.

Sarah's brother died young, so the property the VA government had earmarked to him wound up going to Sarah. I believe this is the property talked about in the following book link. It amounts to at least 13,056 acres on Warrant No 7591 issued 11 Apr 1834 to George William Campbell's heir, namely, Sarah B. Preston, wife of Thomas Preston. Recorded in Book 3, page 330 (of Washington County, Virginia) records.

The land granted by VA was apparently for William CAMPBELL's service from June 1775 to the close of the war (circa 1783) and/or the death of the General, possibly Dec 1783.

The resolutions were signed 14 Apr 1834.
There is a reference to the Dec 1783.

http://books.google.com/books?ei=GXoOTaL1OYSs8Aay7Ym2Dg&ct=
result&id=GHErAQAAIAAJ&dq=Sarah+Preston+%22William+
Campbell%22+Richmond+OR+Fire&q=Sarah+Preston#search_anchor



According to this source,
http://books.google.com/books?id=E2DWAAAAMAAJ&q=Sarah+B.+Campbell+Richmond+Fire+
Preston&dq=Sarah+B.+Campbell+Richmond+Fire+Preston&hl
=en&ei=A4EOTYikBcqr8AaF6InyDQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct
=result&resnum=3&ved=0CDEQ6AEwAg

Sarah Buchanan (CAMPBELL) PRESTON had ten children: 6 daughters & 4 sons. It appears to go on to list them.


Memoranda of the Preston Family - by Orlando BROWN pg 17?
Children:
1) William Campbell PRESTON, distinguished lawyer and Senator in Congress from SC, m1) Miss COULTER of that State (SC), after her death, m2) Miss DAVIS (of SC). His only child, Sally Campbell PRESTON, unmarried.
2) Eliza PRESTON mar. Gen Edward CARRINGTON of Halifax, VA. They had children (minors as of the book?)
3) Susan PRESTON mar. cousin James M'DOWELL and they have nine children.
3.1 -- 3.9
4) Sarah PRESTON mar. cousin John B. BLOYD - no children (as of this book)
5) Sophonisba PRESTON mar. Rev Robert J. BRECKINRIDGE
and they had 6 children: Mary, Sally, Robert, Maria, William, and Sophonisba.
6) Maria PRESTON, (deceased as of the Preston Family papers), mar. John M. PRESTON of Abingdon, formerly of Kentucky. They had 2 sons, minors.
7) Charles PRESTON mar. Miss BEALL and has left no children.
8) John S. PRESTON mar. Miss HAMPTON, dau. of Gen Wade HAMPTON of SC
with 5 children, minors (as of history of Preston Family.
9) Thomas L. PRESTON mar. Wade HAMPTON Jr., grandson of Gen Wade HAMPTON. Together, they had one son, a minor. (as of the Preston Family papers.)
(findagrave)