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his second wife, Catherine (Whiting) Davies. of Bedford county. Children: i. Nicholas Clayton, born February 27, 1769; married F.li/-a!)cth. daughter of David Craw- ford. 2. Arthur Landon, born October 16, 1770; married a Miss Pryor, of Gloucester county. \'irginia. 3. Catherine Eliza, born November 19, 1772; married. 1793. Francis Thornton Meriwether. 4. .'^amuel Boyle, born December 22. 1774; married, June 6, [802. Flizabeth McCullock: died 1829. 5. Fditha. Ixirn April 17. 1777; married Rev. C'harles Clay. 6. llenrianne, see forward. 7. Tamerlain Whiting, born November 11, 1782; married jane Smith Payne.

Henrianne Davies, daughter of Henry Landon and Anne (Clayton) Davies. was born January ly. 1780. died March 18,, 1843. She married. February 24, 1803, Dr. John Jordan Cabell, l)orn November 30. 1772. son of Colonel John and Paulina (Jordan) Ca- bell, and grandson of Dr. William (founder of Cabell familv in A^irginia) and Elizabeth (Burks) Cabell. They lived in Charlotte county, Lynchburg, Bedford and Kanawha counties. Dr. Cabell graduated in medicine in Philadelphia. He established himself as a physician and lived mostly in Lynchburg. A'irginia. but had a country residence on his farm in Bedford where most of his children w'ere born. He was a man of remarkable energy, and during his active career fol- lowed diverse pursuits. While practicing medicine with much success, he also man- aged his extensive landed estates, and for a number of years owned a store in Lvnch- burg. He was also successively the pro- prietor of more than one political paper and occasionally w^rote for each. He purchased an extensive tract of valuable land, with salt wells, on the Kanawha river above Charles- ton, and later in life established himself there permanently, carrying on wdth great energy and ])erseverance an extensive salt manufactory. He was one of the first in \^irginia to become a convert to Sweden- borgianism. becoming a member of the New Jerusalem Church some time prior to 1819. He died in Kanawha countv. \'irginia. .Au- gust 7. 1834.

Children: i. Mary Elizabeth, born March Ti, 1804, died April 13, 1822. unmarried. 2. Catherine Ann, born June 14, 1805. died in infancy. 3. John Flenry. born November 20. 1806. died in infancy. 4. Judith Scott. born September 3. 1808. died 1835: married.


l->l)ruary 5. 1829. Richard K. Cralle. 5. Frederick Augustus, born May 18, 1810, died in infancy. 6. Sarah Winston, born July 30. 1812, died October 21. 1843; mar- ried. Alarch 16. 1830, Henry Childs Ward. 7. Frances Whiting, born September i, 1815, died August 16. 1838; married, November i, 1832, Thomas R. I-'riend. 8. Paulina J. H., born April 5, 1818, died May, 1835. 9. John Emanuel Swedenborg, born July 23, i?sr9, died in infancy. 10. Henrianne, born Au- gust 2. 1822. died May 31, 1890; married .Samuel Henry Early (see Early).

John Farmer Winn, M. D. Tlie Winn family, represented in the present genera- tion by Dr. John Farmer Winn, a success- ful medical practitioner of Richmond, A^ir- ginia. is of Welsh origin, and the excellent characteristics of that race have been trans- mitted in large degree to the descendants, who have been active and prominent in the dififerent vocations in which they engaged.

The ancestry is traced to various families of prominence and renown, the Cole family bearing a coat-of-arms. ("3ne line is traced to Adam Cary. who married Amy, daugh- ter of Sir William Trew^ett. His son, Sir John Carye. was chief baron of the ex- chequer in the time of Henry IV. His son, William Cary. born 1500, was lord mayor of Bristol. His son, Richard Cary, born 1525. married Anne . His son, Colo- nel Miles Cary. married Ann Taylor. His daughter, Anne, married William Bassett. son of Captain William and Bridget (Cary) 15assett ; (I^aptain William Bassett was a son of Colonel \\Mlliam and Joanna ( Burwell) liassett ; Joanna ( lUirwell) luissett was the daughter of Hon. Lewis and Abigail (Smith) Burwell. granddaughter of Major Lewis and Lucy (Higginson) Burwell. great-granddaughter of Edward and Doro- thy ( Bedell) Burw^ell. and great-great- granddaughter of Edward Burwell and Wil- liam Bedell, the latter named l:)eing a de- scendant of John Bedell, born 1485. Eliza- beth Bassett, daughter of William and Eliz- abeth (Churchill) Bassett. married Benja- min Harrison, and of this union was Presi- dent William Henry Harrison. .Abigail (Smith ) Ikirwell was a daughter of .Anthony and Martha ( Ilacon) Smith, the latter named a daughter of Hon. Nathaniel and Anne (Bassett) Bacon, granddaughter of Rev. Tames Bacon, and great-sfranddauehter of