Record Of The Hester Family


Generation 3


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Susannah Huckleberry [photo above] was a descendant of Lord Craven. She was affianced to the late Matthias Hester, who said to her after he had been scalped by the Indians: "As I have lost my scalp I will release you from your promise." She said: "I am not after the scalp, I want the man, and therefore do not wish to he released from the engagement." Eighteen months thereafter they were married and she bore him twelve noble children, one of which was a Methodist minister. Many of their grandsons and great grandsons are devoted aud successful ministers in the M. E. Church. A large number of their descendants are physicians, judges, lawyers, bankers, teachers, military and prominent men and women in Church and State.
She was one of the noble Methodist women of Southern Indiana in her day.
Children of Matthias and Susannah (Huckleberry) Hester, being the third generation were:

26. Rev. Geo. Knight, b. September 26, 1794; m. Benee Briggs, January 24, l820. She was b. near Glasgow, Scotland, December 12, 1789; d. September 9, 1878, a. 89. He d. September 2, 1874 a. 80.
27. Craven, P., b. May 17, 1796; m. Martha T. Leonard, August 25, 1819. She was b. August 28, 1799; d. June 19, 1877, a. 78. He d. February 15, 1874, a. 78.
28. William, d. in infancy.
29. Mary, b. 1798; m. Wm. L. Muir, May 12, 1816. She d. January 5, 1852, a. 54. He was b. January 12, 1792; d. March 5, 1862, a. 72. Had nine children.
30. Elizabeth, b. 1800; d. 1846, a. 46.
31. Effie Winlock, b. August 3, 1804; m. John Wesley Lee, August 24, 1824. He was b. February, 1797; d. february 15, 1846, a. 49. She d. November 18, 1885, a. 81; had nine children.
32. David went to New Orleans with a boat load of produce and received his pay in silver money. when on his way back in a boat on the Mississippi river, there was a false alarm of fire; he ran to his trunk, got his money and jumped overboard, with two sticks of wood; but the weight of his money sunk him to the bottom and he was drowned.
32a. He left one daughter, Catharine.
33. Sarah, b. September 11, 1807; m. John Combs, January, 1831. He was b. September 15, 1809; d. January 16, 1885, a. 76. She d. March 24, 1877; both d. at Charlestown, Indiana.
34. Rebecca, b. November 14, 1808; m. Lewis McCoy, May 24, 1831, at Charlestown, Indiana. He was b. January 31, 1806; d. at Franklin, Indiana, September 7, 1874, a. 68. She d. in Dallas, Texas, March 3, 1895, a. 89.
35. William Allen, b. February 29, 1810; d. August 2, 1890; m. Nancy Wier, August 12, 1840; left three sons.
36. Milton Paine Hester, b. June 4, 1813; m. Christine Copple, 1840. She d. May, 1855. Second m. to Martha Caroline Johnson, August 26, 1856. She d. October 15, 1884. He lives [in 1905, when this book was written] at Centralia, Illinois. Had twelve children.
37. Dr. Uriah A. V. Hester, youngest son of Matthias and Susannah Hester, was b. September, 1816; m. Ellen Hudson, January 23, 1850. She d. 1868. He m. for his second wife, Rachel Ann Fiscus, 1884. She was b. January 27, 1858; d. May 19, 1895. He d. September 20, 1893, a. 77. Had five children. One child by his first wife, name unknown.


No. 8

Henry Hester was the youngest son of John Lawrence Hester. He was born on May 24, 1781, in Fayette county, Pa. He died at Chillicothe, Ohio, in August, 1833, of cholera. He was married to Rebecca Roberts in 1802. She was born September 20, 1782; died September 2, 1833. They were married in Fayette county, Pa., and moved from Redstone, Fayette county, Pa., in 1804, to Twin Creek township, Ross county, Ohio. He was a wheelwright as well as a farmer and a very reliable and industrious man. He and his devoted wife were faithful members of the methodist Episcopal Church, ever willing to lend a helping hand to the poor and needy, and to do much for the cause of his Master.

Children of Henry and Rebecca (Roberts) Hester, being the third generation, were:

38. Zaccheus, b. December 15, 1803; m. Margaretta Hixon, 1826. She was b. July 19, 1808; d. September 24, 1878. He d. July 19, 1878, a. 75. Had nine children.
39. Henry, b. June 14, 1808; m. Rachel Ann Cowen, 1835. She was b. 1817; d. June 10, 1903, a. 86. He d. October 3, 1891, in Chillicothe, Ohio, a. 83. Had six children.
40. Charles Montgomery, b. June 4, 1810; m. Mary Christian. She was b. January, 1806; d. April 30, 1876, a. 70. He d. November 24, 1887, a. 77. Had four children.
41. Jackson, b. 1812.
42. Elander, b. 1813.
43. Rebecca, b. 1815; m. Jackson Huckleberry.
44. James Dickey, b. 1817; m. Rebecca Hixon.
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