DICKINSON, Katharine

Notes:

From Frederica Trapnell:

Mrs. Katie Tucker was an accomplished singer of folk songs – long before the popularity of the modern version of that form of music.  “Her chatty lecture-recitals on Afro-American folk songs are a most delightful supplement…and her material is exceedingly interesting from the musical point of view.  Her enthusiasm is contagious, her material is fascinating, and her comment is the most instructive sidelight on the significance of the Afro-American folk song heard in concert halls.”  (Eric Delamarter, Chicago Critic). Dr. John A. Lomax of Harvard University made recordings of her songs and told her that she had the best collection in America.  Mrs. Tucker died in 1957 and the Library of Congress now has her collection of songs

Katharine married TUCKER, Collingwood on 3 May 1893 in Chattanooga, Hamilton, TN USA. Collingwood was born in Keokuk, Lee, IA USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. TUCKER, Collingwood was born on 8 Jun 1894.
2. TUCKER, Katharine was born on 15 Apr 1901.

Laurence married TIDBALL, Nannie. Nannie (daughter of TIDBALL, A. Scott and MACKY, Catharine) was born in 1845 in “Hawthorne” near Winchester, Fairfax County, VA USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

A. married MACKY, Catharine on 14 Dec 1843. Catharine (daughter of MACKY, John and MCGUIRE, Rebecca Holmes) was born on 20 Oct 1822 in Winchester, Frederick County, VA, USA; died on 19 Aug 1849. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Cause of Death: Post childbirth complications

Notes:

From Frederica Trapnell:

The third daughter of John Macky and Rebecca McGuire was born on October 20, 1822, and was named Catharine. She, too, was listed as a communicant of Christ Church, Winchester, on October 15, 1842, and as living in the “Country.”  She, also, was subsequently marked “Removed.”

Notes:

From Frederica Trapnell research:

On December 14, 1843, two days after her first cousin Mary Mackey Baldwin married Joseph Tidball, Catharine Macky married A. Scott Tidball, nephew and namesake of her Aunt Millicent’s husband and a son of Thomas Allen Tidball and Susan Watkins Hill Tidball. (Thomas Allen Tidball was Clerk of the Frederick County Court for years.)

Other Events and Attributes:

• Military: Lieutenant in War of 1812
• Military: 1813 - 1814, Virginia, USA
• Possessions: 5 Sep 1818, Winchester, Frederick County, VA, USA

Notes:

Military:
He entered the service on the 29th of March, 1813, when he was 19 years old, and continued in active service until he resigned his commission a year later

Possessions:
On September 5, 1818, John Macky bought from John McDonald and wife Letitia, of Allegheny County, Maryland, for $200. a 50-acre parcel of land in Frederick County

Died:
A granddaughter wrote in January 1891 that her grandfather, John Macky, died in the “original Glen Gary house

Buried:
As of 1891: “Buried in Winchester in the garden (“Glen Gary”) of his mother and his remains are still there. “

John married MCGUIRE, Rebecca Holmes on 25 May 1815 in Winchster, Frederick, VA USA. Rebecca (daughter of MCGUIRE, Edward and HOLMES, Elizabeth) was born in 1798 in Frederick Co, VA; died on 4 Jul 1879 in Charles Town, WV; was buried in 1879 in Zion Church Yard, Charles Town, WV (Lot 81N). [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Arrival: Abt 1844, Charles Town, Jefferson, West Virginia, USA

Notes:

From Frederica Trapnell notes:

Her great-granddaughter, Mary Meade Ewart, said that she remembered one of the Riddles of Charles Town telling her that she and her sister as little girls like to go with their mother to call on Grandma Macky.  She had such a charming home and always had cookies to give them, – “evidently they were seen and not fed when they went other places.”   Mrs Tucker (another great-granddaughter) wrote that during the War (Civil), “Charlestown was overrun with the ‘damnyankees.’ My mother (Nannie Tidball) said that many a night they would bang on their doors and demand they get up and make pancakes. They would have to grease the whole top of the stove to make enough pancakes to satisfy them. Did you ever hear the tale that a bullet came crashing through the window and took the top off Grandma Macky’s cap?” No, and Mrs. Tucker died before she could relate it for inclusion here.

What the sources were of Rebecca Macky’s income is not known, but they could not have been great.  On February 10th, 1855, when she was fifty-seven, she first applied for a pension in consequence of her late husband’s service in the War of 1819, under the Act of Congress passed in September 1850, she deposing that her husband had not during his life time received any bounty lands nor had she.  On July 13, 1878, the Hon Andrew Hunter, aged 74, and N. S. White, 60 years of age, appeared before B. C. Washington, Clerk of the Circuit Court of Jefferson County, West Virginia, to apply for a pension for Mrs. Rebecca Holmes Macky under a Law of Congress passed in March 1878. N. S. White, her son-in-law, swore that of his personal knowledge Mrs. Macky applied for and obtained a Land Warrant for 160 acres of land under the 1850 Law and that she sold the land for a dollar an acre.  One of the papers in this latter claim ends with the statement, “She has been known by general reputation and by her intimate friends as the widow of said John Macky and is and has ever been a lady of the highest respectability.”  The file does not show what disposition was made of this claim.  She was eighty years old and died before its probable conclusion.

On the 15th of April, 1852, “...Rebecca H. Mackey of Charlestown, Jefferson County, Virginia, for motives of benevolence and in consideration of the long fidelity of servant Thomas, commonly called Thoms Hataway, have manumitted and set free from slavery,...my negroe man Thomas Hataway and I hereby give, grant and return unto said Thomas all my right, title and claim of, in and to his person, labor and services and of, in and to all the estate and property to which he may now have or may hereafter acquire.” (Jeff. Co. Deed Bkl, 32, p272).  

Birth:
Rebecca McGuire was born at “Grove Farm,” the home of her maternal grandfather, Joseph Holmes

Arrival:
Sometime in 1844, Rebecca Macky moved to Charles Town, West Virginia, following the marriage of her daughter Frederica whose husband, Nathan Smith White, was practicing law there.

Notes:

From Frederica Trapnell research:

Rebecca Holmes McGuire was a redheaded, seventeen year old Irish lass when she married John Macky.

Married:
They were married in Winchester, Frederick County, Virginia, by Dr. Alexander Balmain, “clergyman of the P. E. Church,” on the 25th of May, 1815, and that neither of them had been married before