I41597: Edward Pendleton COOKE M.D.Dr. (ABT 1870

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"The youngest brother Henry Scarsbrook Langhorne (1790-1854) would surpass them all. Although he was first seated on some of the Cumberland County lands that he had inherited through his mother, he quickly resolved to move to Lynchburg with his brother Maurice. In 1816 Henry S. Langhorne married Frances Callaway Steptoe, the highly sought after daughter of Hon. James Steptoe and Frances Callaway of "Federal Hill". Here begins a series of interesting family connections that beautifully illustrate the "web of kinship" that existed between Virginia's ruling families. Frances Callaway was an older sister of Catherine Callaway, wife of Henry Langhorne's brother William. Hon. James Steptoe was the eldest son of Westmoreland County planter Col. James Steptoe of "Nominy Hall" and his second wife Elizabeth Eskridge of "Sandy Point" (a daughter of Col. George Eskridge, the guardian of Mary Ball Washington). Hon. James Steptoe had two sisters, Elizabeth Steptoe who married Col. Philip Ludwell Lee of "Stratford", and Anne Steptoe who married Samuel Washington and became the mother of George Steptoe Washington who in turn married Lucy Payne, the sister of First Lady Dolly Payne Madison. Hon. James Steptoe also had two half sisters who were his mother's daughters by her first husband William Aylett. The first sister, Mary Aylett, married Thomas Ludwell Lee, and the second, Anne Aylett, became the first wife of Richard Henry Lee of "Chantilly".

The powerful connections of the Steptoe and Callaway families ensured that the Langhornes, although newcomers from the Tidewater, were met with constant success in the Virginia Piedmont. As the planting of tobacco was no longer as profitable as it had once been, Henry S. Langhorne erected in Lynchburg, the second largest milling firm in Virginia. He never abandoned planting though, and continued to buy numerous plantations in Bedford, Campbell and Amherst Counties. In 1845, he retired and relocated to "Cloverdale", the 3,500-acre Botetourt County plantation he had just purchased from his niece's husband George Plater Tayloe of "Buena Vista"."

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2 Sarah MARSHAM b: abt 1672 d: aft 1731 + James HADDOCK b: bet 1620-1675 d: bet 16 Sep 1726-2 May 1731 + Basil WARING b: abt 1650 d: bef 1720; + William BARTON b: 27 Feb 1667/68 in Charles Co, MD Married: abt 1692 in MD

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Blount Blewitt Wactor b. November 01, 1822.

My Southern Family

Dr. Edward Pendleton COOKE M.D.

ABT 1870 - ____

ID Number: I41597

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John Pate HAYNES

1798 - 1826

ID Number: I47852

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John JONES

18 Mar 1775 - 13 Jun 1833

ID Number: I99152

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Henry Scarsbrook LANGHORNE

1790 - 1854

ID Number: I62002

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Sarah MARSHAM

ABT 1665 - 1739

ID Number: I95831

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Cody Allen MERRILL

Patricia Ann RUCKER

Blount Blewitt WACTOR

1 Nov 1822 - ____

ID Number: I80293

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