Pridgen, William C. (b. ABT 1811, d. BET 1874 AND 1904)

Note: Tracking William C. PRIDGEN (father of Julia Ann Russell Pridgen LANE and grandfather of Lela Gertrue LANE) has been difficult. In trying to find William C. on census records, I found different spellings of the last name, but in comparing ages on the records, I feel it is the same man. It appears that he was married first to an Elizabeth (maiden name unknown). In the 1840 Census of Scott County, Mississippi, a W. C. PRIDGIN is listed as being between 20-30, with a male under 5, and a female between 20-30. In the 1850 Census of Scott County, Mississippi, a William C. PRIDGEON, age 39 is listed with his wife, Elizabeth, age 28, and six children ranging in age from 3 to 11. Williams's birthplace is listed as North Carolina, Elizabeth's as South Carolina, and all the children born in Mississippi.

Couldn't find him again until 1880, when he appears in Hinds County, Mississippi as W. C. PREDGAN. His wife is M. L. (maiden name unknown, but family accounts told us she was called Lanie). W. C. is 67, a farmer, born in North Carolina, his wife is 46 (note the difference in ages), born in Alabama. Their 3 children are Julia A., 15, a son, A. L. who is 10, and another
daughter, S. C. (Sarah Catherine, called Katie) 6 years old.

With the lack of an 1890 census, the family members don't appear until 1900, when Julia and Robert LANE appear with their own family.

These notes are merely speculation on my part, but they seem reasonable.

Note: John McIntosh, son of Alexander McIntosh and Eleanor James, is mentioned in the HISTORY OF THE OLD CHERAWS, by the Right Rev. Alexander Gregg. It is an account of the early settlers in the Cheraw District (later Darlington County) of South Carolina.

On page 89 of Gregg's book, two McIntosh brothers are mentioned:
"John, the elder of the two, settled about two miles below Long Bluff, on the west side of the river (Pedee)............Alexander, the younger brother, settled on the east side of the river, a few miles below Long Bluff, in the Welch Neck. He married Miss James, and had three children ----Catherine,John and Eleanor." In a footnote on the same page was the following information: "Catherine married and moved away at an early period. John married, and died prematurely, leaving two children----Alexander and Eleanor. The latter became the wife of Alexander Norwood, formerly of Darlington. Eleanor McIntosh married a Mr. Bembridge, who removed to Maryland."

With this scant information to go on, research,has been slow. However, cemetery records from the Welch Neck Cemetery in Society Hill, Darlington, South Carolina show a large plot devoted to the McIntosh family. A John McIntosh is listed as born 27 April 1769, Age 36 (no date of death given). John's Will was written April 20, 1804 and he died in May 1804 so the information on the tombstone comes close. In his Will, he names three children, John Mikell, Alexander James Mikell, and Eleanor. Although Gregg states that John "died prematurely, leaving two children---Alexander and Eleanor" another tombstone in the Welch Neck Cemetery lists a John Mikell McIntosh with the death date of November 1817, age 22 years. This leaves the possibility that the oldest son, John Mikell, died before Gregg gathered his information for his book.

John's wife, Sarah Mikell, is also buried in the same Cemetery with the information that she was born February 14, 1769 and died November 28,1828. According to early census records, it seemed that Alexander James Mikell, known as Alex J. or A. J., stayed with his mother until her death as he is not named as head of the household until the 1830 census (two years after her death).

Alex J.'s sister, Eleanor, and her husband, Alexander Norwood, sold the property they had inherited from the older brother and mother to Alex J. in 1831, probaby because they were leaving South Carolina. By the time, Alex J. married he had accumulated a considerable amount of property.

John's Will and the Deed of the property exchanged in 1832, are printed on pages 2 and 3 of the Notes relating to Alexander J. M. McIntosh.

Note: Alexander McIntosh, who achieved the rank of Brigadier General in the Revolutionary War,is first mentioned in a book written by the Right Rev. Alexander Gregg entitled HISTORY OF THE OLD CHERAWS, published in 1867. Gregg writes that after the defeat of the rebels at Culloden, Scotland, the King of England had the rebels transported to some of his Majesty's American Colonies.

In the DIRECTORY OF SCOTS BANISHED TO THE AMERICAN PLANTATIONS, 1650-1775, by David Dobson, on page 28 , Alexander McIntosh and John McIntosh are among those Jacobites captured at Preston. " Transported from Liverpool to South Carolina on the Wakefield, master Thomas Beck, April 1716". These two may be the brothers that Gregg names in his account, but he states that they first appeared in Cheraws District in 1756. Where they were before they came to Cheraws (later to be Darlington) is not known at this time.

On pages 88 and 89, Gregg writes "In the year 1756 John McIntosh obtained a grant for land on Black River. He probably came soon after to the neighborhood of the Welch Neck on the Pedee. John and Alexander, two brothers, were the first of this name. John, the elder of the two settled about two miles below Long Bluff, on the west side of the river. He married a Miss Mikell and had five sons---Alexander, John, Lochlin, William and James. John McIntosh died in 1774.

The name, in only two branches of the family, is now represented on the Pedee.

Alexander, the younger brother, setled on the east side of the river, a few miles below Long Bluff, in the Welch Neck. He married a Miss James, and had three children---Catherine, John, and Eleanor.

Acquiring probably a good property by his marriage, he subsequently amassed a large fortune, and was prominently connected with the history of the Pedee in civil and military affairs. He was of handsome and commanding person, and possessed of a better education than was common in that day......He is said to have been the first of the early planters who brought the native African to this region."

Footnote on page 89 relating to the General's children: "Catherine married, and moved away at an early period. John married and died prematurely, leaving two children--Alexander and Eleanor. The latter became the wife of Alexander Norwood, formerly of Darlington. Eleanor McIntosh married a Mr. Bembridge, who removed to Maryland."

On page 346 of Gregg's History of Old Cheraws, the following: "On the 18th of November, the Pedee country and State at large sustained a heavy loss in the death of General Alexander McIntosh. (Footnote) This entry appears in the journal of Mr. Pugh:--Sunday, 19th Novr. preached Gen. McIntosh's funeral, at the Welch Neck on 2 Timothy, iv. 7,8.

In every relation of life, this patriotic and honored citizen had ever maintained the most exemplary character. A member of the Provincial Congress and one of the Committee of Observation for St. David's Parish; a representative successively, and the first senator elected, for St. David's; the President of St. David's Society from its organization, appointed first Major, then Lieut. Colonel in the Provincial service, afterwards Brigadier-General of Militia, and member of the Legislative Council, as first established--it was his happiness to fill every position to which he was called with fidelity and honor. Of superior mental endowments, and well-balanced character, commanding in person and possessed of an ample fortune, he was enabled to exert a degree of influence beyond most of his contemporaries in the service of his country, in which he was active and prominent from the commencement of the struggle for liberty. Nor, in the midst of so troublous a period did he forget the chief duty of man. In war, he meekly served the Prince of Peace, and died the death of the righteous."

The following account is from the BIOGRAPHICAL DIRECTORY OF THE SOUTH CAROLINA HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Volume III 1775-1790 by N. Louise Bailey and Elizabeth Ivey Cooper, page 458.
MCINTOSH, ALEXANDER (McKintosh, Mackintosh, M'Intosh) (d. 1780)

Alexander McIntosh, a planter, immigrated toSouth Carolina in the mid-1750's with his brother John (d. 1774). He settled near Long Bluff in |Cheraw District, established the plantation Lynwilg, and ultimately received through grants some 622 acres on the Pee Dee River. Married to Elizabeth James, he was the father of three children: Catherine, John, and Eleanor (married Peter Bambridge). Public service began for McIntosh during the Cherokee War (1759-1761) when he served as a militia captain. Trying to restore law and order in the back country, he participated in the Regulator movement in the late 1760s. At the beginning of the American Revolution, he was elected a major in the Second Regiment of Riflemen. By 1780, he held the rank of brigadier general. Politically active also, he represented St. David Parish in the House in the First (1775) and Second (1775-1776) Provincial Congresses and in the First (1776) and Second (1776-1778) General Assemblies. Early in 1777, McIntosh was elected to the Legislative Council and resigned from the House. Subsequently, he served St. David in the state Senate for the Third General Assembly (1779-1780). Other offices he held included justice of the peace for Craven County (1765) and for Cheraw District (1774); commissioner, to establish the parish of St. David (1768); commissioner of the high roads in St. David (1768); commissioner, to superintend the building of courthouses and jails in Cheraw Disttrict (1769); and committeeman, to execute the Continental Association (1775). In addition, he was a member of the Welsh Neck Baptist Church (1761) and president of St. David's Society (1778). Alexander McIntosh died 18 November 1780.

In SOUTH CAROLINA MARRIAGE RECORDS 1682-1799, compiled by Jane Revill, Sumter, South Carolina, the following notation:
MCINTOSH, Brig.General Alexander of Cheraw District - had three children, viz. John; Catherine who married Major Lachlan McIntosh of Georgia; and Eleanor who married Rev. Peter Bainbridge. (Recited, Marriage Records Vol. 1, page 609).








In SOUTH CAROLINA MARRIAGES 1688-1799 compiled by Brent Holcomb, the following notation on page 8: Bainbridge, Peter Rev. of Charleston & Ellenor his wife, late Eleanor McIntosh, youngest daughter of Alexander McIntosh, Brig. Gen., formerly of Dist., of Cheraw, 10 May 1787; Thomas Screven, trustee; E. H. Bay, Wit. Mar Set 1: 609-612

In the S. C. HISTORICAL AND GENEALOGICAL MAGAZINE, Vol.20, 1919, page 263: "Marriage and Death Notices From the Charleston Morning Post and Daily Advertiser".......Last evening, Mr. Peter Bainbridge, a preacher of the Baptist denomination, to Miss Eleanor M'Intosh, daughter of Gen. Alexander M'Intosh of Lynwilg, Peedee, deceased. (Wednesday, April 4, 1787.)

There is some contradictory information appearing in the family Bible of Mr. and Mrs. James Newton Prather, Harrodsburg, Kentucky, published by J. B. Lippincott and Company, Philadelphia, 1859, now in possession of their daughter, Mrs. Freeman J. Hyde, Franklin, Tennessee.........Alexander McIntosh, born 1705, died Nov. 18, 1780. Eleanor James, wife of Alexander McIntosh, born Dec. 8, 1721, married May 3, 1737. Dr. Peter Bainbridge, cousin of Commodore Bainbridge, born Oct. 8, 1739, died 1802. Eleanor James McIntosh, wife of Dr. Peter Bainbridge, born Nov. 2, 1743, died 1793, married Jan., 1760.
This marriage account of Eleanor and Peter Bainbridge is 27 years earlier than the newspaper notice appearing in the Charleston Morning Post and Daily Advertiser quoted in the previous paragraph, which leads to some questions about the birth and marriage dates of the wife of the General as well as that of the daughter, Eleanor.

Note: You mention in your genealogy pages that the daughter of Gen Alexander McIntosh married a "Mr Bembridge".

Following is a Name correction and historical notes that may be of some use. I hope so.

Dick Vallandingham

Peter Bainbridge
The Christian Repository, 1856
By Hon. G. Robinson
Among those who might be considered the pioneer band of Baptist ministers in Kentucky, Dr. Peter Bainbridge was distinguished for grace, pathos, and solemnity. A biographical outline of a man so gifted, may be interesting to the age succeeding that in which he lived, and useful to the Church which he so long served and adorned. And, therefore, the author of this imperfect sketch, whilst regretting the want of material for drawing a full portrait, feels that a few traits and memorials will be an acceptable contribution to the reading, and especially the Christian public.

Our subject was born in June, 1761, near the Cotockton, Frederick, Maryland, on the road from Fredericktown to Hagerstown, and nearly equal distance from each place. He and Commodore William Bainbridge were of the same stock of Scotch descent, their fathers being brothers, born in New Jersey, and their grandfather an emigrant from Scotland. Without the advantage of a collegiate course, Dr. B. was well trained in the rudiments of a good scholastic education in his native State, and completed his preparation for the ministry, and also for the occasional practice of medicine, in Charleston, South Carolina, in the twenty-fourth year of his age, and was there baptized December 11th, 1784, by the Rev. Joseph Reese. In April, 1785, he married Eleanor James McIntosh, (the only daughter of Gen. Alexander McIntosh, of Pedee), and who was born December 3d, 1769, and was, at the time of her marriage, a school girl, boarding with the mother of David B. Williams, afterwards Governor of South Carolina. She was beautiful and rich, her father, an exceedingly wealthy planter born in Scotland, and commissioned a General in the American revolution, being then dead. Dr. Bainbridge, about a month after his marriage, was called to preach in Charleston, and was then ordained April 4th , 1790, by the Rev. Edmond Botsford, Joshua Palmer, Charles Cook, Joshua Lewis, and Henry Easterling -- Palmer examining, Easterling delivering the charge, and Botsford preaching the sermon from John, 21:17.

Shortly after his ordination, he removed to the place of his wife's birth on Big Pedee, where he unfortunately lost a large portion of her patrimonial estate. Anxious to retrieve and restore, he removed to Petersburg, Virginia, to practice medicine, leaving behind about one hundred slaves, secured in trust for his wife by an anti-nupital contract, and not one of whom was ever reclaimed or sought after since by him, or her, or any of their descendants. Not liking the prospects at Petersburg, he soon returned to his native home in Maryland, whence, in 1793, he removed to the wilds of Western New York, and settled on Lake Seneca, about five miles from Appleton and thirty miles from Geneva. Here he preached and practiced; and without any other resource in the wilderness, he and his family suffered much privation of social and domestic comforts. But, possessing ample means of happiness without external aids, his wife and himself, though poor and isolated, were contended and cheerful. She, a young heiress, reared in polished society on the lap of care and affluence, now so soon, in the bloom of young womanhood, doomed to destitution and exile, cheerfully adapted herself to the gloomy transition, performed all the household drudgery of the gloomy transition of the frontier, and by her rare graces of fortitude, benevolence, and piety, shed a cheering light around her, and seemed happy herself and a ministering angel of happiness to others; and he, so blessed with genius, so hopeful of usefulness, so favored by marriage, and so tantalized with gilded prospects, and crushed fortune, preached and prayed, and ministered to the souls and bodies of the new settlement "without money and without price," until the year 1797, when, concluding to try his destiny in the "dark and bloody land" of the West, he came to Kentucky and settled at Standford, whence, a year afterwards, he removed to Lancaster, in Garrard county, and built one of the first houses in that village, a log building, afterwards weather boarded, and in which he resided until 1813. About the same time, Gen. Benj. Letcher, Clerk of Garrard, built a frame house, and John Boyle, afterwards Chief Justice of Kentucky, a log cabin in Lancaster; these three contemporary houses were on the same street near each other, and constituted, when first erected, the chief improvements of the hamlet; and their first occupants, who were the principle inhabitants, became kind neighbors and devoted friends, themselves and their families constituting a most cordial and happy society of primeval simplicity and hospitality. The house of Dr. Bainbridge soon became, and, as long as his family occupied it, continued to be the center of social concourse for town and country; and the unaffected kindness and simple, but classic, grace which distinguished his wife as well as himself, made it exceedingly accessible and attractive. He resumed the practice of his profession, and continued also to preach whenever and wherever he could. But his practice in Garrard and several other counties soon became so constant and extensive as to leave him no time for pastoral service; and his unbounded hospitality, as well as philanthropy, devoted him to extraordinary labor in the practice of medicine. Still his occasional preaching did much good and obtained for him eminent celebrity for pulpit eloquence. He thus lived and toiled, making much and spending all he made, until the year 1807, when, for the purpose of providing additional means for a growing family, he bought and exported for New Orleans a large quantity of produce, for which he never received adequate returns, his agent having made improvident sales of it, chiefly at Natchez, on credit. The next year he was compelled to go to Natchez himself, to try the experiment of collection. Detained there, by delays and failures of debtors, he engaged, for some months, in a profitable practice of his profession, and occasionally preached and made other public addresses, whereby he soon obtained a local name above all competition. Duty to his family and conditions requiring his return, he did return to Lancaster in 1809. But, unable to collect his Southern debts, he had to apply all his property to the payment of his own domestic debts incurred in the purchase of produce; and, determining to remove to some better place, he never engaged again in general practice until he settled in Glasgow, Barren county, Ky., in the year 1813, where he preached and practiced with distinguished success for about twelve years. At Glasgow, as at Lancaster, as the cotemporary inhabitants would all testify, the sunlike hospitality and winning grace of his wife and himself, secured for them the confidence and love of all their neighbors, and crowded their humble dwelling with sympathizing and grateful friends. He preached and practiced with unremitting constancy, and she, skilled in medicine and disease, and unrivaled as a nurse, was seen watching, and cheering, and ministering comfort in every household invaded by want, disease, or bereavement. No hour was too late, no night too dark, no weather too wet or too cold, for the exercise of her active benevolence. Self-sacrificing and devoted to the happiness of others, she never failed to obey the summons of distress within her reach; and her beneficence was blessed by the gratitude and love of all who knew her. He, too, was a kind and tender nurse, and excelled in all the dexterity and grace of the best clynical [clinical] practice. But, after residing in Glasgow about twelve years, he found that he had accumulated nothing for declining life; and, therefore, hoping, from the experiments he had made some years before at Natchez, that he could, in a short time, make a comfortable competence in that quarter, he and his family left Glasgow in the autumn of the year 1825; and, after a toilsome voyage of nearly two months in a flatboat, they reached Natchez in the succeeding winter. Their exodus from Glasgow was hallowed by the tears and regrets of a large portion of the people of the town, of all ages and sizes, who followed them in solemn procession for some distance on their way. Finding, on their arrival at Natchez, that the country would suit them better than the town, they settled in cabins in Franklin county, about twenty-five miles East of the Mississippi river, where he preached with universal fervor and practiced laboriously until a few days before his death. On the last Sabbath preceding his death, he preached his last sermon with great power from a portion of the 6th verse of Jude -- "Unto the judgment of the great day" -- a most fitting subject for such a man, who was, ere the dawn of another Sabbath, to leave the earth for the trial of that momentous day. Two days after that sermon, in visiting a patient he was overtaken by a heavy rain. On his return home, pale, wet, and chilled, he said to his wife -- "I have caught my death." He exchanged his clothes, went to bed, and on Saturday evening, September 1st, 1826, was a corpse. On the 8th of December following, his forlorn and disconsolate wife, though until then in apparent health, died suddenly, and without a pang or a groan. By accident, they were interred in different counties, and no memorial marks the spots where, in a foreign land, their ashes rest. But, whatever may betide their mortal bodies, there is much reason to hope that their immortal spirits are now enjoying together the bliss of that heaven for which they toiled, and prayed, and suffered so long on earth.

Of their nine children, six only survived them; and, of these, three alone are now living -- Ruth W. Kean, of Midway, Ky.; Eleanor J. Robertson, of Lexington, Ky.; and Angelina Herd, of Texas, all members of the Christian Church, the first and last of the Baptist, and the second of the Presbyterian denomination.

In person, Dr. Bainbridge was almost faultless -- his height five feet nine inches, his weight about one hundred and fifty pounds, his form symmetrical, his face handsome, complexion fair, eyes grey, forehead Shakespearean, nose Ciceronian, mouth of model mould, and countenance beaming with benignity and mind, strongly resembling that of Patrick Henry. His manners were mild, affable, and gracious; his voice articulate, sonorous, and sweet; his port easy and graceful. The following letter and poetic fragment, procured from the daughter to whom they were addressed, are herein published as samples of his impromptu, epistolary, and poetic style. They were directed to Mrs. Kean, then residing in Georgia:

"Glasgow, Ky., April 16th, 1819.
"My Dear Ruthy -- Your letter by Mr. Twigg last fall, to your mother, she has delayed to answer, and when she will answer it is quite uncertain. With the advance of age, she seems to lose the disposition to letter-writing, although she can write a much better letter now than she could twenty years ago. I don’t know any better plan you can fall upon than to multiply your letters to her, which may provoke retaliation. I would have written to you oftener, but for the duties of my profession, connected with much indisposition. I am, at this time, forced into seclusion and retirement from the world, by a severe attack of the same kind which had nearly swept me off about twelve months ago. About two weeks past I was taken ill, have been confined to my bed six or sever days, but I am up and about the house, and with the blessing of heaven, shall, in a few days, be able to attend moderately to business again. My constitution has become very much impaired, and my health extremely precarious; everything about my tabernacle announces my departure from this world near at hand; and I do assure you, my dear child, I sometimes contemplate the end of my earthly existence with the most pleasing emotions and joyful anticipations of getting to a better world. Your mother enjoys much of the exercise and sweets of religion at this time, and lives in the comfortable hope of arriving at the upper Bethel and seeing her dear Redeemer without a glass between. My dear Ruthy, I want you to get religion -- an interest in the blessed Jesus. Lord! how can I bear the thought of your being left behind? O, that God would enlighten your mind, and pour his pardoning love into your soul, that we may all be, at last, so happy as to meet in a better world, never to part again!

"There is a considerable stir of religion in Glasgow at this time. Congregations are very crowded, and a great many mourning sinners, at every meeting, come up to be prayed for, God has done great things for many already, and I hope he has blessings in store for many more. I wish you were among us to enjoy the pleasing seasons of gospel grace.

"I received your verses on "Absent Friends." I am much pleased with them, and return you my thanks for the agreeable present.

"I have just composed some verse which are enclosed. They have flowed from the affectionate feelings of a father's heart. I wish you to read them with attention, and consider them as a tribute of my warmest regard for your happiness and immortal glory. I hope this best and most important subject may be impressed on the mind of Mr. Kean. Give my love to your dear children, and very particularly to my dear little Mary. Your mother and the children join in the most cordial affection to you all.

"I am, with much love, your affectionate father,

"PETER BAINBRIDGE."



"My daughter dear, though far away,
Receive a father's tender lay,
And while you tread this earthly sod,
Seek Christ, the Lord, and peace with God.

"This portion fair, my daughter dear,
Will do you good when death is near;
'Twill make you happy when you die,
To god and Christ ‘twill bring you nigh.

"Though now you roam in distant clime,
Mark well the gospel’s holy line,
'Twill guide you to your journey’s end,
And Christ, the Lord, will be your friend.

"Oh! do make Heaven your only care,
And seek the Lord by humble prayer,
Sit down, my dear, and count the cost,
Lest your immortal soul be lost.

"Oh! Fly to Christ -- to Jesus fly,
And on his dying rely.
Oh! venture now your soul to God;
Oh! Venture on redeeming blood.

"This blood can cleanse from foulest stain,
Revive the dead and raise the slain;
Can joy, and love, and peace impart,
And fill with hope the mourner’s heart.

"Now let a parent’s feeling love
Invite your mind to look above,
Above the fading joys of time,
For joys sublimed in glory’s clime.

"When nature fails, and life doth end,
The Lord himself will be your friend.
Then, done with sorrow, sin and pain,
With Christ, the Lord, you’ll ever reign."

These unstudied effusions from a sick bed reflect the heart and soul of a good and great man.

But his tongue was better than his pen; he spoke much more impressively than he wrote. He was charmingly colloquial, and in the pulpit he was peculiarly grave, smooth, and attractive; his action dignified and impressive; his voice full and sweet, but never vehement; his attitude graceful and modest; and his diction admirably condensed and expressive. But his speaking face uttered more than his mellifluous voice. He was a natural orator, of rare mould, and, had fortune allowed him to dedicate his life to preaching, his eloquence would have been scarcely ever equaled in power and fame. His sermons, well prepared by analysis, and by notes of the anatomy of his subject, were generally pregnant with practical truths, and always comprehensive and concise. He had wonderful power in prayer; his manner was awfully solemn, and he rarely occupied more than two minutes in presenting a full staple of massive gold, which many of the modern and more artistic school of divines, but too often consume thirty minutes in spinning out and weaving into airy tissues of cobweb.

As might be expected, he also solemnized the matrimonial rite with a brevity and grace peculiarly befitting and acceptable. And, consequently, no preacher of his day was called oftener or farther to perform that service. And this suggests an amusing and rather interesting anecdote: Jeremiah Vardeman, when he married, was poor, illiterate, and profligate. Dr. Bainbridge rode twelve miles to the Crab Orchard, and tied the Gordian knot, without receiving or expecting to receive any fee. Some time afterwards, the young bride, feeling that something ought to be paid for a service so eventful, went to Lancaster and proposed to Mrs. Bainbridge to let her make compensation in spinning. This magnanimous offer was, of course, delicately declined, and, consequently, nothing was ever paid to the minister for Vardeman’s nuptials. There is a moral in this tale. This tradition illustrates the encouraging truth that, under American institutions, patent talents, however obscured by poverty, or cloven down by sensual passions, may still be hopeful of soaring above the clouds and blessing mankind with their renovating radiance. Under the preaching and tutelage of Dr. Bainbridge, this same Jeremiah Vardeman became, not only a Christian, but a powerful and successful field preacher and celebrated evangelist. And the ludicrous incident past mentioned, is placed here because it is creditable to him, and may be useful to others.

Full of labor and vicissitude, the life of Dr. Bainbridge, though not illustrious, is, in many respects, instructive. Although an immersionist, he neither practiced nor believed that immersion is essential to the Christian character, nor that the typical and initiative rite is, in every form, regeneration. And while he preferred his own denomination and was essentially a Baptist, he was neither bigoted, dogmatic, nor intolerant. He was remarkable for Christian charity and love, and, consequently, tolerance. There was nothing exclusive or dictatorial in his faith, or his practice. Nor did he suffer form to affect substance, ceremony to control the heart, nor usage to change principle. What religion he had was vital and vitalizing, cheerful and gentle, rational, personal, and benevolent. Hence, believing that music and dancing, under prudent restraints, are not inconsistent with purity of heart and elevation of mind, but promotive of them as useful exercises for improving a virtuous taste, promoting health and cheerfulness, and imparting facility and grace off manner. He allowed his daughters, sometimes, to go to dancing parties, and to dance! And but few fathers and mothers ever raised a more prudent, beautiful, and admirable family of daughters than those who graced the household of Doctor and Mrs. Bainbridge.

The influence of such a man's example, must ever, and did in his day, tend to promote Christian love, harmonize sectarian discords, and thus advance the cause of regenerating religion. And, looking at him, all in all, as physician, preacher, husband, father, and citizen, his memory should be cherished as that of a public benefactor, and his name should be inscribed on the altars of the Church which he so long and so usefully served and illustrated.

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A History of Kentucky Baptists From 1769 to 1885, Including More Than
800 Biographical Sketches, J. H. Spencer, Manuscript Revised and
[From The Christian Repository, August 1856, pp. 92-100. jrd]

Corrected by Mrs. Burilla B. Spencer, In Two Volumes. Printed For the
Author. 1886. Republished By Church History Research & Archives 1976
Lafayette, Tennessee. Vol. 2, pp 115-116 [Lincoln County]

PETER BAINBRIDGE was a preacher in the Green River Association as early
as 1813. He was a man of superior gifts and attainments, but for his
fickleness and thoughtless manner of living, might have been eminently
useful. He was born in Frederick county, Md., June, 1761. He finished
his education at Charleston, S.C., where he was baptized by Joseph
Reese, Dec. 11, 1784. He was ordained at Charleston, by Edmond
Botsford, Joshua Palmer, Charles Cook, Joshua Lewis, and Henry
Easterling, April 4, 1790, and was settled over the church on Muddy
creek, in Orange district, the same year. He soon afterwards moved to
Petersburg, Va., and established himself in the practice of medicine, to
which profession he had been bred. From Petersburg, he moved to
Maryland, and thence, in 1793, to western New York. He remained here,
preaching and practicing medicine, till 1797. He then moved to Kentucky,
settling first at Stanford, but moving, the next year, to Lancaster, in
Garrard county. Touching his ministerial character, Elkhorn Association
saw fit to enter on her minutes of 1798, the following item:
"Agreed to caution the churches of a certain John Duncan, who h
sustained the character of a Baptist preacher, but is not in union with
us or any of our churches; and that he is a man not of a fair religious
character. Also, there is a certain Peter Bainbridge in the same
situation." In 1800, Tates Creek Association rebuked Peter Bainbridge,
who had been excluded from another church. Mr. Bainbridge appears not
to have attained a good standing, as a preacher, while he remained in
the northern part of the State. In 1813, he moved to the Green river
country, and settled in Glasgow. Here he was well received, and was
popular, both as a preacher and a physician. He remained here about
twelve years. In 1825, he moved to Franklin county, Mississippi, where
he preached and practiced medicine one year. He died, after a brief
illness, Sept. 1, 1826.
Dr. Bainbridge appers to have been a man of large generosity, true
benevolence, and purity of morals. His faults were, a want of firmness,
negilgence in business, and a fondness for worldly amusements.

Bainbridge Reese Botsford Palmer Cook Lewis Easterling Duncan
=
Frederick-MD SC NY VA Garrard-KY Glasgow-Barren-KY Franklin-MS

Cause: cerebral hemorrage
Source:

Note: [Strahan Family Reunion .FTW]

WW-1 Registrants of Pearl River, Ms. 1917-1918
Strahan, Joseph Turner 22 Mar 1891 W Hillsdale Ms.

Note: Alexander James Mikell McIntosh was one of three children born to John McIntosh and Sarah Mikell. He is named in the Will of his father written on April 20, 1804 in the presence of Oliver Haws, William McIntosh and Lachlan McIntosh, naming his mother, Sarah, as executrix. Content of the Will is on a separate page. He is also named in a Deed tracing his line of inheritance back to the Revolutionary War Brigadier General Alexander McIntosh. Content of the Deed, executed November 2, 1831, is on a separate page.

Alex J., as he was often referred to in written accounts, was a youngster of four when his father passed away. His older brother, John, died when Alex J. was about 17. From early census records it appears that Alex J. was still in the household with his mother as a young man of 19 or 20. In the 1830 census of Darlington, South Carolina (formerly Cheraws District), Alex J. is head of his own household, but not yet married.

In 1832, according to Welsh Neck Baptist Church records, Alex J. McIntosh was baptized and accepted as a member of the Church in Darlington. His sweetheart, Ann Eliza Dossey, was the oldest daughter of a Baptist minister, William Dossey, and she had been baptized and accepted into the Church two years earlier. Wedding records have not been found for this couple, but it seems reasonable that after Alex J. joined the church, Ann's father bestowed his blessings on the couple and joined them in matrimony.

The 1840 Census of Darlington, South Carolina lists Alex J. McIntosh as head of the household with one male under the age of 5, one male between 5 and 10, a male between 20 and 30, one between 30 and 40 (Alex J.), two females under 5, two between 20 and 30, and thirty-one slaves.

On December 4, 1841, Alex J. petitioned the House of Representatives of the State of South Carolina because he was late paying his taxes. Copy of the Petition on a separate page.

On the 21st of August, 1850, the Marengo County, Alabama Census lists the family of A. J. McIntosh as follows:
A. J. McIntosh, 49, farmer, Real Estate value, $1900
Ann McIntosh,36
John M. McIntosh,16
Sarah E. McIntosh, 14
William A. McIntosh, 12
Mary E. McIntosh, 10
Margaret L. McIntosh, 5
Ann E. McIntosh, 3
All in the family were born in South Carolina with the exception of little Ann, who was born in Alabama.

Alexander James Mikell McIntosh died May 24, 1853 and is buried in Shiloh Cemetery, Marengo County, Alabama. The tallest tombstone in the Cemetery has the following inscription below a carving of what appears to be a willow tree; In. MEMORY OF A. J. McINTOSH, WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE MAY 24, 1853 AGED 53 YEARS.

On August 23, 1973, an article in The Demopolis (Alabama) Times with the title PIONEERS OF MARENGO County, subtitled "Dossey descendent was early grocer, merchant in Shiloh" relates interesting facts about the Reverend William Dossey's family. The following excerpt, relating to the family of Alex J. McIntosh and Ann Eliza Dossey, is from that article:.

The fifth daughter of Reverend and Mrs. Dossey was Ann Eliza who married A. J. McIntosh. Ann Eliza was born about 1814 in South Carolina. She and Mr. McIntosh were married in South Carolina about 1832. A.J. and Ann Eliza McIntosh continued to make their home in South Carolina until 1846 when they moved to Alabama settling near her father's family in Shiloh. During the settlement of Reverend Dossey's estate, Mrs. McIntosh stated that her father had given her a house and land in 1839 in South Carolina. This property was valued at $500 in 1849. She also stated that her father had given her a small piece of land in Marengo County, Alabama, worth $50.
A. J. McIntosh died on May 24, 1853, and is buried at Shiloh. A. J. and Ann Eliza Dossey McIntosh were the parents of six children. (John, the oldest was born) about 1834. In 1860 he was single, a trader and living with the Robert G. Lloyd family. Sarah E. McIntosh was born about 1836 also in South Carolina. She married January 29, 1856, James W. Ford. He was a grocer and merchant at Shiloh. They were parents of two known children -- E.M. and Willie.
Another son of A. J. and Ann Eliza McIntosh was William A. who was born about 1838. In 1860 he was single, a farmer and living with the James W. Ford family. Mary E. was born about 1840 and Margaret L. born about 1845. Both of these daughters were also born in South Carolina.
Ann E. McIntosh was born after her family moved to Alabama. She was born February 28, 1848, and died December 6, 1924. She is buried at Magnolia. On April 4, 1865, Mrs. Ann McIntosh sent a note to the probate judge of Marengo County giving her consent for her daughter, Annie, under age of 16 to marry Kennon Agee. The license was issued April 6, 1865. Kennon Agee was born January 6, 1844 at Magnolia and died December 12, 1920. He is buried in the Magnolia Cemetery.
He enlisted as a private on November 11,1861, at Fort Gaines, Alabama, in the Witherspoon Guards, Company C, 21 Alabama Regiment and continued in service of the Confederate States Army until paroled at Meridian, Mississippi, on May 11, 1865. Among the children of Kennon and Annie McIntosh Agee were William W. born in 1869 and died in 1934. He married Martha ______. Kennon Eugene Agee, another son was born in 1874 and died in 1957. He married Dovie Smith who was the daughter of John A. and Ella Kimbrough Smith.
End of excerpt from The Demopolis Times, August 23, 1973




PROCEEDINGS UPON JOHN McINTOSH junr WILL

STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA
DARLINGTON DISTRICT

In the name of God Amen I John McIntosh Junr being weak of body but in perfect mind and memory and knowing that it is appointed for all men once to die doth make this my last will and Testament and doth give and bequeath my Estate in the manner and form following. Viz. first my will and desire is that all my just debts be paid ###############2nd I give and desire that my beloved wife Sarah McIntosh have the use of one third part of my Real Estate during her natural life and after the death of my Said wife Sarah it is my will and desire that such part of my Real Estate as She may have had the use of be Equally divided Between my two sons John Mikell McIntosh and Alexander James Mikell McIntosh Share and Share alike and that part of my Personal Estate which she may have had in her possession to be Equally divided between my three children John Mikell McIntosh, Alexander James Mikell McIntosh and Eleanor James McIntosh Share and Share alike #### 3rd I give and bequeath to my two sons John Mikell McIntosh and Alexander James Mikell McIntosh and their heirs forever all the Real Estate that I may have in my possession or any that I may have a Right unto to be Equally divided between them Share and Share alike#########4th I give and bequeath unto my three children John Mikell McIntosh, Alexander James Mikell McIntosh and Elenor James McIntosh and their heirs for Ever all my Personal Estate to be equally divided between them Share and Share alike ######Lastly I do hereby constitute and appoint my Friend Alexander McIntosh to be my Executor and my beloved wife Sarah McIntosh to be my Executrix to this my last will and Testament. I doth hereby acknowledge this to be my last will and testament and doth hereunto Set my hand and Seal this twentieth day of April in the year of our Lord one thousand Eight hundred & four ##########

John McIntosh Seal
Signed Sealed and Acknowledged
In the Presence of us
Oliver Haws
William McIntosh
Lachlan McIntosh





Personally appeared before me Alexander McIntosh & Sarah McIntosh and was duly qualified as Executor and Executrix to the above will of John McIntosh the deceased.
May 7, 1804 William Zimmerman
Ord. D. D.

Sarah McIntosh Executrix and Alexander McIntosh Executor

State of South Carolina
Darlington District
Personally appeared before me William McIntosh and Oliver Haws who being duly sworn made the oath that they were present and did see John McIntosh Junr Sign Seal and Acknowledge the within Instrument of writing to be his last will and Testament and that he the Said McIntosh was in perfect mind and memory and that they did see Lachlan McIntosh Inscribe his name as a witness in presence of the Testator together with themselves.

William McIntosh
Oliver Haws

Sworn before me this 7th May 1804
William Zimmerman, Ord. D.D.




DARLINGTON DISTRICT, SOUTH CAROLINA DEED BOOK L

A. M Norwood and wife to A. J. McIntosh (Deed)
State of South Carolina
Darlington District

Know all men that we Alexander M. Norwood and Eleanor J. M. Norwood wife of the said Alexander M. Norwood of the District and State aforesaid for and in consideration of the sum of one hundred and twenty dollars to us paid by Alexander J. McIntosh of the District and State aforesaid (the receipt whereof is hereby acknowledged) have granted, bargained, sold and released and by these presents do grant, bargain, sell and release unto the said Alexander J . McIntosh all that piece or parcel land situating and being in the district and state aforesaid containing seven acres more or less being one third of one half of a tract of land conveyed by John McIntosh Junr to John McIntosh Senr and which descended to us as one of the heirs at law of John Michael (Mikell) the son of John McIntosh Senr. Land is bounded on the north by lands of David Gregg and Elias Gregg known as the Dixon Landing, east by the public roads leading to Darlington Court House, west by lands of the Estate of David R. Williams and south by Alexander J. McIntosh's land and hath such shape, form, buttings and bounds as by referenceto a platt hereunto annexed will more fully appear. Also one other tract of land situate lying and being in the district and state aforesaid containing forty three acres more or less, being one third of a tractof land containing one hundred and twenty acres conveyed by William Aowze to Alexander McIntosh Senr and by Alexander McIntosh Senr to John Michael (Mikell) McIntosh and from John Michael (Mikell) McIntosh descended to Sarah McIntosh, Alexander M. Norwood and wife Eleanor J. Norwood and Alexander J. McIntosh his heirs at law and is bounded on the north by lands of John r. Witherspoon, east by lands of the Estate of David R. Williams, west by lands of David Gregg and Elias Gregg and south by Alexander J. McIntosh's land and hath such form, shape, buttings and bounds as by reference to a platt hereunto annexed will more fully appear. Together with all and singular to the rights, members hinditaments and appurtenances to the said premises belonging or in any wise incident or appertaining. To have and to hold all and singular the premises before mentioned unto the said Alesander J. McIntosh, his heirs and asigns forever.
And we do hereby bind ourselves, our heirs, executors and administrators to warrant and forever defend all and singular the premises unto the said Alexander J. McIntosh his heirs and asigns against ourselves and our heirs and against all persons whomsoever lawfully claiming or to claim the same or any part thereof.
Witness our hands and seals this second day of November in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty one and in the year of the sovereignity and independence of the United States of America the fifty sixth.
Signed, sealed and delivered in presence of
James A. McIntosh A. M. Norwood Seal
A. G. Van Wagener E.J.A. Norwood Seal
South Carolina
Darlington District

Note: Came to USA at age of 4

Cause: timber cutting accident
Source:

Cause: moving Vehicle

Note: Mary Elizabeth(Bessie) died in a wreck. She was riding her three wheeled bicycle on the Jackson Landing Rd. in late afternoon and a lady in a van hit her. She breathed for a little while but never regained concousness. She was pronounced dead at North Shore Hospital in Slidell La.

Before her demise, she ahd been treated for an amyloid tumor in her lyrinx &
skin cancers. Many had been removed. I also suspect that she had cancer in her right lung though not let the doctor run any tests. The x-rays showed a probable site in the right lung. Bessie also suffered from fits of anger, and extended periods of crying. I feel she probably had years of exteme depression. But at that time there was no treatment for a poor person.

She was 86 when she died. and was still doing housework for people five days a week and staying with a woman at night for $5.00 a night. This woman was 15 years younger than Bessie yet felt safer having Bessie with her. Bessie stood on her own two feet and covered all the ground she walked on.


Compiled by:
Helen Marie Howard Smith