Mary "Polly" Hopkins Cabell

Mary married John Breckinridge (Breckenridge), Senator/Atty Gen on 28 Jun 1785. John (son of Col/Capt Robert Breckenridge, Sheriff and Letita Preston, (Immigrant)) was born on 2 Dec 1760 in near, Staunton, Virginia; died on 14 Dec 1806 in Kentucky. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Letitia married Alfred William Grayson on 24 Oct 1804. Alfred was born on 16 Apr 1780 in Prince William Co, Virginia; died on 10 Oct 1810 in Kentucky. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Letitia married General Peter Buell Porter on 16 Oct 1818 in Princeton, New Jersey. Peter was born on 14 Aug 1773 in Salisbury, Lietchfield Co, Connecticut; died in Mar 1844 in Niagra Falls, New York; was buried in Oakwood Cem, Niagara Falls, Niagara Co, New York. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

JOSEPH CABELL BRECKINRIDGE [b. 1788, son of John] was a distinguished lawyer and politician, but died when only thirty-four years of age. He married Mary Clay Smith, and they had one son, John Cabell Breckinridge, (15 Jan 1821-17 May 1875), who became vice-president of the United States under Buchanan. John C. Breckinridge, was elected to the Kentucky state legislature in 1849, and he was opposed to the emancipationists, which put him in conflict with his three uncles.

Joseph Cabell Breckinridge was a roommate of James G. Birney at Princeton. Birney was the first Presidential candidate in 1844 of the forerunner of the Republican Anti-slavery Party, the origin of our present Republican Party.

Joseph married Mary Clay Smith on 11 May 1811. Mary (daughter of Rev./Pres of Princeton U Samuel Stanhope Smith and Ann Lacey Witherspoon, (immigrant)) was born on 31 Aug 1787 in Princeton, Mercer Co, New Jersey; died on 9 Oct 1864 in Baltimore Co, Maryland. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Mary married David Castleman in Jan 1811 in Fayette Co, Kentucky. David was born on 30 Oct 1786 in "Old Mansion," Woodford Co, Kentucky; died on 23 May 1852 in Fayette Co, Kentucky. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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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]

Robert married Virginia Hart in Apr 1847 in Kentucky, and was divorced in Sep 1856 in Kentucky. Virginia was born about 1800; died in 1859 in Kentucky. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Robert married Margaret Falkner-White on 5 Nov 1868 in Kentucky. Margaret was born about 1710 in of, Kentucky; died after 1871. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

William married Frances Caroline Prevost on 10 May 1824 in Fayette Co, Kentucky. Frances (daughter of John Bartow Prevost and Frances Anna Smith) was born on 24 Aug 1806 in New Orleans, St. Bernard Parish, Louisiana; died on 12 Nov 1870 in Cabells Dale, Cass Co, Missouri. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Military: Mexican War and Civil War

Notes:

Military:
lieutenant colonel in U. S. Army in the Mexican War; was a brigidier-general in the Confederate Army in the Civil War.

Caroline married Joseph J. Bullock on 31 Oct 1832 in Kentucky. Joseph was born on 23 Dec 1812 in Fayette Co, Kentucky; died on 09 Nov 1892 in Lexington Co, Kentucky. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Mary married Dr. Thomas Palmer Satterwhite about 1833. Thomas was born in 1795 in of, Kentucky; died in 1841 in Lexington Co, Kentucky. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

3rd cousin to my ancestor Cornelius Breckenridge. ss


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Vice President of US under President James Buchanan, 1857-1861, presiding over the Senate with impartiality despite his strong Southern sympathies. In 1860, he was the Southern Democrats' presidential nominee, running against Abraham Lincoln, and carried 11 states in the campaign. He was a lawyer, and fought in the Mexican War and served in the Kentucky legislature (1849-1850) and US House of Representatives (1851-1855) as a Democrat.

Breckinridge worked to prevent secession and civil war, but late in 1861 he fled to join the Confederacy. Made a general, he participated in several major battles, motsly in the West. He also administered a territorial command in western Virginia and on February 6, 1965, was named Confederate secretary of war. After the war he went abroad. Returning to Kentucky in 1868, he practiced law and was vice-president of a railroad company.

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Wikipedia:
John Cabell Breckinridge (January 16, 1821 - May 17, 1875) was an American lawyer and politician. He served as a U.S. Representative and U.S. Senator from Kentucky and was the 14th Vice President of the United States, to date the youngest vice president in U.S. history, inaugurated at age 36.

In the 1860 presidential election, he ran as one of two candidates of the fractured Democratic Party, representing Southern Democrats. Breckinridge came in third place in the popular vote, behind winner Abraham Lincoln, a Republican, and Stephen Douglas, a Northern Democrat, but finished second in the Electoral College vote.

Following the outbreak of the American Civil War, he served in the Confederate States Army as a general and commander of Confederate forces prior to the 1863 Siege of Port Hudson, Louisiana, and of the young Virginia Military Institute cadets, at the 1864 Battle of New Market in Lexington, Virginia. He also served as the fifth and final Confederate Secretary of War.

A member of the prominent Breckinridge family of Kentucky, Breckinridge was the grandson of John Breckinridge (1760?1806), who served as a Senator and Attorney General; the father of congressman and diplomat Clifton Rodes Breckinridge; and the great-grandfather of actor John Cabell "Bunny" Breckinridge

John married Mary Cyrene Burch about 1842. Mary was born about 1821; died after 1854. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

William married Lucretia H Clay on 17 Mar 1859. Lucretia was born about 1837; died after 1860. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Sophonisba married Major Theophilus Steele in 1858. Theophilus was born in Dec 1835 in Franklin Co, Kentucky; died on 23 Aug 1911 in Bellmore, New York. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Walter married Louise Ludlow on 21 Jul 1868. Louise was born about 1850; died after 1900. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

baptized April 1851

Notes:

Born November 22, 1846
Lexington, Kentucky
Died December 3, 1932
Wendover, Kentucky
Political party Democratic
Spouse(s) Katherine Carson Breckinridge
Children James Carson Breckinridge, Mary Breckinridge
Profession Politician, Banker, Cotton farmer

Clifton Rodes Breckinridge (November 22, 1846 ? December 3, 1932) was a Democratic alderman, congressman, diplomat, businessman and veteran of the Confederate Army and Navy. He was a member of the prominent Breckinridge family, the son of Vice President of the United States and Confederate General John C. Breckinridge and the great-grandson of U.S. Senator and Attorney General of the United States John Breckinridge.

Born near Lexington, Kentucky, the son of John Cabell and Mary Cyrene Burch Breckinridge, Breckinridge attended rural schools in his hometown as a child. At the outbreak of the Civil War, he entered the Confederate Army with his father and was later a midshipman in the Confederate Navy. After the war, he attended Washington College in Lexington, Virginia for three years where the school's president, the justly famous Confederate General Robert E. Lee, encouraged his desire for a career of public service. Afterwards, he joined his older brother in a cotton plantation near Pine Bluff, Arkansas and engaged in cotton planting and in the commission business for thirteen years. In 1876, Breckinridge married Katherine Carson, the daughter of a well-to-do Mississippi family, whom he would have four children with.

Breckinridge started his political career when he was elected an alderman in the Pine Bluff City Council. He was later elected a Democrat to the United States House of Representatives in 1882, taking seat in 1883. John G. Carlisle, the new Speaker of the House and friend of the Breckinridges, saw to it that the new congressman got a place on the Committee on Ways and Means and he was reelected in 1884 and 1886.

[edit] Clayton Affair
Breckinridge's political career came into great danger after the election of 1888. Arkansas Democrats were found guilty of voting fraud in the election for Arkansas's 2nd congressional district after it was discovered that in Conway County, Arkansas, four masked and armed white men stormed into a predominately black voting precinct and, at gunpoint, stole the ballot box that contained a large majority of votes for his Republican opponent, John M. Clayton, the brother of former Arkansas Governor and Senator Powell Clayton. Under these circumstances, Clayton contested the election and went to Plumerville, Arkansas to start an investigation on the matter. However, on the evening of January 29, 1889, an unknown assailant shot through the window to the room he was staying in at a local boardinghouse and killed him instantly. After a congressional investigation, the then late Clayton was declared the winner, thus unseating Breckinridge, however, owing to Clayton's death, the seat was declared vacant. Breckinridge was not found guilty in any wrong doing in the rigged election or in Clayton's assassination and was elected to fill the vacant seat in 1890.

[edit] Work in Congress
Breckinridge was reelected to the House of Representatives again in 1890 and 1892. He was one of the authors of legislation to repeal the Sherman Silver Purchase Act and adopted the Wilson-Gorman Tariff Act. He regained trust after the so called "Clayton Affair" and was greatly respected as a congressman. A featured article in Harper's Weekly described him as "one of the very first men in the House of Representatives." During the Panic of 1893-1894, Breckinridge staunchly supported President Grover Cleveland's defense of the gold standard. Arkansas farmers, most of whom supported free silver, refused to support the incumbent for reelection and Breckinridge lost the Democratic primary to John S. Little who went on to win the election.

[edit] Diplomat
[edit] Minister to Russia
Breckinridge resigned from the House of Representatives in 1894 before his final term ran out to accept President Cleveland's nomination of Minister to Russia which he served as until 1897. As Minister, he proved capable of sending reports on Russian aims back to Washington, D.C.. His warnings about the end friendly relations due to Russia's expansion into China did not effect any change in the United States' foreign policy due to the fact it's dominant theme remained to be isolationism. Because of this, Breckinridge largely dealt with routine problems of trade and immigration. He was less successful in handling the ceremonial and social aspects of diplomacy in Saint Petersburg for the expense of entertaining properly amidst the splendor of aristocratic Europe had been beyond his means. This was particularly true during the rich festivities that marked the coronation of Tsar Nicholas II and Empress Alexandra Fyodorovna in 1896. To his chagrin, at the coronation, Breckinridge had to wear ceremonial knee breeches required by protocol. By this, he feared his former constituents in Arkansas would never understand.

[edit] Dawes Commission
After William McKinley, a former colleague of his from the House Ways and Means Committee, took office as President in 1897, he replaced Breckinridge with Republican Ethan Allen Hitchcock and he returned to Pine Bluff, Arkansas. However, in 1900, McKinley appointed him to a position on the Dawes Commission to the Five Civilized Tribes in Indian Territory. Given the responsibility of distributing individual allotment of tribal land to the Cherokee, Breckinridge and other commissioners were charged with fraudulently acquiring Indian lands in 1903. An investigation handled by the Department of Justice cleared Breckinridge of illegal actions and he left the commission in 1905.

[edit] Later life and death
After resigning from the Dawes Commission, Breckinridge founded the Arkansas Valley Trust Company in Fort Smith, Arkansas which he served as president of until 1914. He was a delegate to the Arkansas Constitutional Convention from 1917 to 1918 where he convinced fellow delegates to approve a unicameral legislature, however the provision later rescinded. He was widowed in 1921 and lived in Fort Smith until 1925 when he moved to Wendover, Kentucky to live with his daughter, Mary Breckinridge, founder of the Frontier Nursing Service. He died in Wendover on December 3, 1932 at age eighty-six. He was interred at Lexington Cemetery among several members of his family including his wife and parents.

Clifton married Katherine Carson on 22 Nov 1876 in Memphis, Shelby Co, Tennessee. Katherine (daughter of James Green Carson, M.D. and Catherine Waller) was born in 1853 in Carroll Parish, Louisiana; died on 02 Nov 1921 in Wendover, Leslie Co, Kentucky. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Census: 1850, San Rafael, Marin Co, California
• Residence: Between 1874 and 1878, San Francisco, California
• Residence: Between 1888 and 1890, Merced, California

Notes:

Census:
1880 San Rafael, Marin Co, California
John W. Breckenridge 29 Kentucky Kentucky Kentucky lawyer
Louise T. Breckenridge 21 California Kentucky Kentucky
Lloyd T. Breckenridge 2
John C. Breckenridge 10m
Mary Shovelin 25 servant Pennsylvania Ireland Ireland




Died:
Hon. John W. Breckinridge died very suddenly at his home in Merced about midnight, May 9th. He was in his usual health and spirits up to nine o'clock that night, at which time he was seized with cramp colic, and although all available remedies were used he died within a couple of hours.

Mr. Breckinridge was one of the most talented men in California gifted with all that goes to make up a brilliant lawyer and gentleman. Although still a young man, he had climbed high in his profession and was known in many cities and towns of California as a lawyer of unquestioned ability and of unquestioned integrity in business matters. For fifteen years he made his home in California, and most of that time has been spent in Merced, of which county he was District Attorney; and also represented this district in the Assembly.

He was the son of John C. Breckinridge who was Vice-President under Buchanan. Very many friends will feel regret over the sudden death of this talented man.

~ The Mariposa Gazette, 14 May 1892

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John married Louise Tevis about 1877 in California. Louise (daughter of Pres of Wells Fargo Bank Lloyd Tevis) was born in 1858 in California; died after 1910 in of, Paris, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Theophilus married Elizabeth Catherine "Bessie" Cram in 1898. Elizabeth was born on 23 Apr 1876 in Yreka, Shasta Co, California; died in 1960 in Los Angeles Co, California. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Died:
Roosevelt Hospital

Sophronisba married Capt. Ralph Freeman Shropshire before 1900 in New York. Ralph (son of Spencer A. Shropshire and Ann Moore) was born in 1861 in Ringgold, Catoosa Co, Georgia; died on 29 Jan 1918 in New York; was buried on 30 Jan 1918 in Myrtle Hill Cem, Rome, Floyd Co, Georgia. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Died:
"SUICIDE DUE TO DESPONDENCY.

Lloyd Tevis Breckinridge Kills Himself as a Result of Long Illness.

Lloyd Tevis Breckinridge, grandson on the paternal side of the late Vice-President Breckinridge, and grandson on the maternal side of the late Lloyd Tevis, president of the Wells-Fargo Express Company, committed suicide at the family home in San Francisco, where he lived with his grandmother and uncle, Dr. Harry Tevis. A rubber tube leading from the gas jet to the bed where the body was found told the story of his death. Despondency, due to a nervous trouble from which the young man had suffered for years, led to the suicide. He had just passed his twenty-third birthday. He was the son of the eldest daughter of the late Lloyd Tevis, now Mrs. Frederick W. Sharon. His mother is in Paris with her daughter, Miss Florence Breckinridge. The shock to Mrs. Lloyd Tevis, following so closely the death of her son, Hugh Tevis, in Japan, was almost more that she could bear, and her condition verges on nervous prostration."

Published in the Chicago Eagle newspaper; Chicago, Illinois
August 3, 1901; Page Eight.
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John married Adelaide Murphy about 1901 in California. Adelaide was born about 1880; died after 1920 in of, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Preston married Jean McAllister Herbert about 1934. Jean was born on 27 Oct 1914 in San Antonio, Bexar Co, Texas; died on 28 Dec 1967 in San Mateo Co, California. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Other-Begin: 4 Dec 1919, London, England; passport to France

Notes:

Wikipedia:
John Cabell "Bunny" Breckinridge (August 6, 1903 ? November 5, 1996) was an American actor and drag queen, best known for his role as "The Ruler" in Ed Wood's film Plan 9 from Outer Space, his only film appearance.

In the 1940s, male-to-female sex change operations were becoming more widely available in Europe, and Breckinridge expressed many times his desire to undergo the procedure. With the nationwide attention given to Christine Jorgensen's sex change in 1952, Breckinridge became more determined than ever to become a woman. In 1954, he announced plans to travel to Denmark and undergo the operation so he could marry his male secretary.[1] Though Breckinridge was by this time a grandfather, his granddaughter supported him in his efforts. Shortly thereafter, a San Francisco judge scuttled his Denmark trip by ordering him into court for failing to make good on an earlier agreement to pay $8,500 a year to support his elderly, blind mother in England. He then made arrangements with a sex-change surgeon in Mexico, but got into a terrible car accident en route. He gave up his pursuit of the matter afterwards.

In 1955, he was arrested in a San Francisco waterfront bar and charged with "vagrancy" and jailed, though the charges were later dropped because of his family and wealth.

In 1959, shortly after Plan 9 From Outer Space's disappointing release, Breckinridge was convicted on ten counts of "sex perversion" for taking two underage boys on an excursion to Las Vegas. He was committed to the Atascadero State Hospital for the Criminally Insane, and released the following year. Upon his release, he returned to his San Francisco home, a Spanish style bungalow adorned with gold framed photographs of the many celebrities he met and befriended, including Princess Margaret, Noël Coward, J. Edgar Hoover, Elvis Presley, and Ed Sullivan. Breckinridge frequently opened his home to members of the growing hippie movement, who were enthralled not only by his stories of his flamboyant youth, but also his favorable opinions on free love and his encyclopedic knowledge of both gay history and the lives of closeted Hollywood stars.

In 1994, Breckinridge was surprised to find himself portrayed as a character in a major motion picture, played by Bill Murray in Tim Burton's 1994 biopic Ed Wood. His advanced years and failing health, however, prevented him from participating in any of the publicity surrounding the film.

Breckinridge maintained homes on each coast - one in New Jersey and one in San Francisco - until his death in 1996 at age 93, in a Monterey hospital. He was quoted in his obituary as saying, "I was a little bit wild when I was young, darling, but I lived my life grandly."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bunny_Breckinridge


Other-Begin:
Emergency Passport Application:
now residing in France for the purpose of Residence; legal domicile in San Francisco, permanent residence being London, left USA on 1916, arriving England on 1916 for the purpose of education.

Died:
Name: John Cabell Breckinridge
Social Security #: 555548551
Gender: Male
Birth Date: 6 Aug 1903
Birth Place: Other Country
Death Date: 5 Nov 1996
Death Place: Monterey
Mother's Maiden Name: Murphy

OBITUARY -- John `Bunny' Breckinridge

John ``Bunny'' Breckinridge, an eccentric and troubled San Francisco millionaire who entertained grandly, served time in jail for vagrancy and was sued by his mother for lack of support, died Tuesday, November 5th, 1996 of heart failure in a Monterey nursing home. He was 94.

Mr. Breckinridge, the great grandson of U.S. vice president John Breckinridge and of Wells Fargo Bank founder Lloyd Tevis, was born in Paris. He spent time at Eton College and Oxford University in England and at the Atascadero State Hospital for the criminally insane.

He was known for his flamboyant lifestyle, outrageous comments and penchant for perfume and costume jewelry. He performed in Shakespearean plays in England before coming to San Francisco in the late 1920s.

He married the daughter of a French countess in 1927. The couple was divorced in 1929.

``I was a little bit wild when I was young, darling, but I lived my life grandly,'' he said.

In 1954, Mr. Breckinridge announced plans to travel to Denmark and undergo a sex-change operation. That same year, a San Francisco judge ordered him to make good on an earlier agreement and pay $8,500 a year to support his elderly, blind mother in England.

The following year, he was arrested in a waterfront bar, charged with vagrancy and jailed. The charges were later dropped.

In 1959, he was convicted on 10 counts of sex perversion for taking to Las Vegas two young boys who had been left in his care. He was committed to Atascadero and released the following year.

He is survived by his daughter, Solange Prasad, of Oregon.

A memorial service will be held on November 21 at 1 p.m. at the Little Chapel By-the-Sea, 65 Asilomar Ave., Pacific Grove.

Family/Spouse: (living) Beaty. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]