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MARYLAND'S CHARLES TOWN, 1742 AND BEYOND, A PICTURAL TOUR OF ITS HISTORY by GERARD "ROD" WITTSTADT, JR, ESQUIRE

Part 4: Thoughts

Gerard William Wittstadt, Jr., Esquire (c)2024

Chapter 15: The William Graham Family

THE WILLIAM GRAHAM FAMILY OF CHARLESTOWN, CECIL COUNTY, MARYLAND

William Graham

born: 1754 in Chester County, PA

died: 11/15/1812

First married: Sarah Oldham

                     b.

                     d.

                4 children

                1. Casandra Graham (Jenkins)

                                b. 9/13/1777

                                d. 9/23/1832

                2.  Samuel Graham

                                b. 5/12/1779

                                d.

                3.  Zachariah Butcher Graham    

                                b. 7/1/1781

                                d. 1854

                                married: Rebecca Lewis on 4/29/1806 (parents were Thomas & Catherine Lewis nee Cunningham

                                                                b. 5/5/1814                         sister Mary Ann married William E. G. Graham)

                                                                d. 1848

                                                11 children

                                                                1.  Barratt or Bazal Graham

                                                                2.  George Washington Graham

                                                                3.  A. Lewis Graham

                                                                                b. 6/18/1807

                                                                                d. 10/19/1832

                                                                4.  William Graham                                         

                                                                5.  Sarah Graham

                                                                                b. 1822

                                                                                d.

                                                                6.  Mary Ann Graham

                                                                                b. 1819

                                                                                d.

                                                                7.  Alfred Zachariah Graham

                                                                                b. 1828

                                                                                d. 4/20/1893

                                                                8.  Evaline Graham

                                                                                b. 2/19/1820

                                                                9.  John Black Graham

                                                                                b. 9/5/1822

                                                                                d. 12/7/1912

                                                                                First Married: Elizabeth Cooper on June 25, 1845

                                                                                                                b.

                                                                                                                d. 11/4/1846

                                                                                1 Child: John Cooper Graham

                                                                                                                b. 4/3/1845

                                                                                                                d. 4/2/1931

                                                                                                                Never married no children.

                                                                                Second Wife: Caroline M. Richardson on March 4, 1850

                                                                                                                b. 8/29/1829

                                                                                                                d. 10/3/1920

                                                                                3 Children:

                                                                                                1. Rebecca Graham

                                                                                                                b. 5/6/1851

                                                                                                                d. 9/20/1852

                                                                                                2. Elizabeth Helen Graham

                                                                                                                b. 11/19/1853

                                                                                                                d.  11/9/1941

                                                                                                                Married: George Sylvester Mattingley on

                                                                                                                10/20/1881     b. 12/12/1850

                                                                                                                                         d. 1/28/1925

                                                                                                      3 Children:

                                                                                                                1. John B. Graham Mattingley

                                                                                                                                b. 7/26/1882

                                                                                                                                d. 4/7/1885

                                                                                                                2.  George Bernard Mattingley

                                                                                                                                b. 7/23/1884

                                                                                                                                d. 7/11/1969

                                                                                                                        Married: Virginia Marie Woods on 5/7/1906

                                                                                                                                b. 3/19/1884

                                                                                                                                d. 12/23/1921

                                                                                                                                3 Children:

                                                                                                                                    1. George B. Mattingley

                                                                                                                                                b. 2/10/1907

                                                                                                                                                d. 2/19/1907

                                                                                                                                    2. Marie Marrian Mattingley

                                                                                                                                                b. 4/17/1908

                                                                                                                                                d.

                                                                                                                                                Married: Samuel Symms 8/19/1937

                                                                                                                                                    No children Divorced

                                                                                                                                    3. Bernard Woods Mattingley

                                                                                                                                                b. 1/10/1910

                                                                                                                                                d. 10/18/1994

                                                                                                                                                Married: Alice Tyler Gray 8/7/1936

                                                                                                                                                                b. 4/10/1910

                                                                                                                                                                d. 3/21/1988

                                                                                                                                                   1 child: B. Woods Mattingley

                                                                                                                                                                b. 6/26/1939

                                                                                                                3. William Marrian Mattingley

                                                                                                                                b. 11/30/1887

                                                                                                                                d.  6/13/1931

                                                                                                                                Never married no children

                                                                                                3. William Henry Graham

                                                                                                                b. 1/25/1856

                                                                                                                d. 8/11/1903

                                                                                                                Married: Annie Faulk on 11/23/1887

                                                                                                                                b.

                                                                                                                                d. 5/24/1934

                                                               

                                                                10. Francis D. Lafayette Graham

                                                                                b. 1829

                                                                                d. 3/21/1912

                                                                     Married: Elizabeth A. Rutter on 7/27/1852

                                                                                b. 1839

                                                                                d. 12/2/1915

                                                                         12 Children

                                                                                1. Rolandus Graham

                                                                                                b. 9/16/1852

                                                                                                d.

                                                                                2. Arnolphus Graham

                                                                                                b. 9/16/1852

                                                                                                d.

                                                                                3. Unnamed child

                                                                                                b. 4/13/1854

                                                                                                d. 7/21/1854

                                                                                4. Mary E. Graham

                                                                                                b. 5/21/1855

                                                                                                d.

                                                                                                Married: C. W. Bruce

                                                                                5. John B. Graham

                                                                                                b. 1/15/1857

                                                                                                d. dead by 1870

                                                                                6. Estella Graham

                                                                                                b. 10/13/1859

                                                                                                d. dead by 1870

                                                                                7. Francis D. Lafayette Graham

                                                                                                b. 5/5/1861

                                                                                                d. 10/29/1888

                                                                                8. John Ulyses Graham

                                                                                                b. 10/12/1863

                                                                                                d.

                                                                                                Married Nora J. Kendall

                                                                                                1 Child: Cecil Graham

                                                                                9. Jonathan James Graham

                                                                                                b. 10/22/1865

                                                                                                d. 1/2/1927

                                                                                                Married: Sarah May Howell

                                                                                                                b. 8/14/1871

                                                                                                                d/ 6/22/1948

                                                                                                 4 Children

                                                                                                    1. Horace Disston Graham

                                                                                                                b. 1/22/1893

                                                                                                                d. 3/4/1981

                                                                                                                Married: Elsie Norman

                                                                                                                                b. 1/30/

                                                                                                                                d. 12/15/1985

                                                                                                                  1 Child: Virginia Graham b. 1918

                                                                                                   2. Augustus Howell Graham

                                                                                                                b. 8/31/1895

                                                                                                                d. 5/17/1984

                                                                                                                Married: 8/31/1918

                                                                                                   3. Rebecca E. Graham (a/k/a Reba)

                                                                                                                b. 2/13/1898

                                                                                                                d. 5/26/1979

                                                                                                                Married: Wilmer Wesley Murphy

                                                                                                  4. Francis D. Lafayette Graham

                                                                                                                b. 10/20/1909

                                                                                                                d. 6/13/1994

                                                                                                                Never married no children

                                                                                10. Elliott B. Graham

                                                                                                b. 11/9/1867

                                                                                                d. 4/30/1926

                                                                                11. Rebecca M. Graham

                                                                                                b. 6/7/1870

                                                                                                d.

                                                                                12. Charles B. Graham

                                                                                                b. 1/29/1878

                                                                                                d. 2/27/1969

                                                                                                Married: Ada Kendall

                                                                11.  Charles Carroll Graham

                                                                                b. 6/30/1826

                                                                                d. 1/10/1907

                                                                       Married Anna E. Derr on 10/8/1851

                                                                                b. 8/17/1834

                                                                                d. 10/6/1884

                                                                         8 Children

                                                                                1. Issac N. Graham

                                                                                                b. c. 1852

                                                                                                d.

                                                                                2. Susannah Graham     

                                                                                                b. c. 1854

                                                                                                d.

                                                                                                Married Henry Fredericks 12/21/1881

                                                                                3. Ira A. Graham

                                                                                                b. c. 1857

                                                                                                d.

                                                                                                Married: Lillie Deamon 4/20/1883

                                                                                4. Charles H. Graham

                                                                                                b. 1/31/1864

                                                                                                d. 1/1/1875

                                                                                5. Cora V. Graham

                                                                                                b. c. 1864

                                                                                                d.

                                                                                                Married Edward W. Rose5/7/1882

                                                                                                                b. 1860

                                                                                6. Carrie Graham

                                                                                                b. c. 1866

                                                                                                d.

                                                                                                Married: Harry W. Cooling  9/14/1884

                                                                                7. Annie Graham

                                                                                                b. c. 1868

                                                                                                d.

                                                                                8. Bertha Graham

                                                                                                b. c. 1871

                4. Sarah Graham (Severson)      

                                b. 12/15/1789

                                d. 1/3/1832

Second Wife: Lydia Brown (parents were Rebecca (b. 1745 d. 9/25/1809) & Jesse Brown (b. 1744 d. 9/18/1823)

                                b.                            (After death of her husband, William Graham she married Robert Lowry)

                                d.

                7 children

                1. Margaret Graham

                                b. 8/30/1794

                                d.

                2. Hannah Graham

                                b. 11/17/1796

                                d.

                3. William E. G. Graham

                                b. 1/26/1799

                                d. 4/30/1847

                                married Mary Ann Lewis on 9/8/1831

                                                                b. 1814

                                6 children:   Lewis Thomas Graham b. 11/25/1833 d. 5/27/1833

                                                      George Washington Graham b. 8/31/1834 d. 5/8/1840

                                                      Archer Thomas Graham b. 10/16/1837 d. 10/18/1837

                                                      Ellis Charles Graham b. 11/29/1839

                                                      John R. Graham b. 7/30/1842 d. 11/12/1873

                                                      Mary R. Graham b. 12/4/1846

                4. Rachel Graham

                                b. 6/26/1801

                                d. 5/27/1827

                5. Mary Ann Graham (married a Mr. Richardson, possibly Jacob)

                                b. 3/23/1804

                                d. 11/24/1887

                                1 known child: Catherine E. Richardson d. 5/23/1862 aged 8 yrs., 3 mos., 5 days.

                6. Ellis C. Graham

                                b. 5/16/1807

                                d.

                                Married: Eliza Gordon on 6/21/1829

                7. Rebecca Graham (Diffenderfer)

                                b. 12/30/1809

                                d. 9/8/1832

                               

© 2005 Compiled by: Darlene McCall, Charlestown, Maryland

                                                Warren Graham, Alexandria, Virginia

                                                Gerard Wm. Wittstadt, Jr., Elkton, Maryland

                                                B. Woods Mattingley, San Jose, California