John Chapman Herndon Family
John
Chapman Herndon, son of Alvin and Susan, was born on September 15, 1809 in
Fauquier County, Virginia. He married Margaret Jane Clarke, daughter
of Joseph Clarke and
Harriet
Julian. Their marriage bond was recorded on October 10, 1839 in Franklin
County. John served Frankfort and Franklin County as Clerk in 1836,
County Attorney in 1839
and
was elected County Judge in 1851. He died of pneumonia in Franklin
County, Kentucky on March 25, 1856. His will is recorded in Franklin
County Will Book 3, page
11
on March
16, 1856. Margaret Clarke Herndon was born on October 13, 1817 in Franklin
County. She died on July 15, 1860 and was buried beside her husband John
C. Herndon
in section
M of the Frankfort Cemetery .
Children of John C. and Margaret Clarke Herndon
| John
Chapman Herndon, Jr.
was
born on September 23, 1841 in Franklin County, Kentucky. On December
17, 1862 in Mason County, Kentucky, he married Juliana Whitcroft Dimmitt. She was born in Lewisburg, Kentucky on June 29, 1847. In 1884, John served as Vice-President of Bradley & Gilbert Company, Louisville, Kentucky. Juliana died on March 22, 1910 and was buried in the family plot at the Frankfort Cemetery. On August 1, 1905 John died and was buried beside his wife and parents. |
| Margaret
J. "Maggie" Herndon
was
born in 1845 in Franklin County, Kentucky. She married Archibald Dixon,
Jr. of Henderson, Kentucky on December 14, 1864. Archibald, the second son of Archibald and Elizabeth Robertson Cabell Dixon, was born on March 4, 1844 in Henderson County, Kentucky. He attended Sayre Institute in Frankfort and later the University of Toronto. He graduated from Louisville Medical College in 1877 and moved to Henderson to start his practice. He and Maggie raised four children: Wynn, Archibald, Maggie and Julia. Dr. Dixon died in Henderson on June 9, 1924 and Maggie on November 18, 1932. |
| Joseph C.Herndon was born in 1848. |
| Annie
M. Herndon
was
born on September 26, 1850 in Franklin County and died there on November
11, 1929. She is buried in section M of
the Frankfort Cemetery. Annie was a member of the DAR #104813 |
| Felicia
Clarke Herndon
was
born on October 23, 1855 in Franklin County, Kentucky. On February
1, 1856, she married Rev. Epaphroditus Julian. He was called Paph by his family and friends. Felicia died on January 18, 1915 and Paph not until February 15, 1925. Both are buried in the Frankfort Cemetery. At some point the family had lived in Maderson, South Dakota for one year. Children Margaret and John Herndon Julian were sent to the University of South Dakota. There Margaret met and married William Edom Latin. Margaret and William are also buried in the Frankfort Cemetery. |
Sources:
Franklin
County, Kentucky Marriage Bonds,
1839
Franklin
County, Kentucky Will Book
2
Franklin
County, Kentucky Deaths -
1858
Letter
from Edwin P.
Morrow
History
of Kentucky - The Blue Grass State. Vol. 111 Illustrated, by S. J. Clarke
Publishing, 1928
History
of Henderson County, by Edmund L. Starling,
1887
Information submitted by: Bill Lattin
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