HOLMES, Elizabeth

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• Also Known As: Betsy

Elizabeth married MCGUIRE, Edward on 10 Mar 1796 in Frederick Co, VA. Edward (son of MCGUIRE, Edward and WHEELER, Susannah) was born in Jul 1767 in Winchester, VA; died on 23 Nov 1827 in Woodville near Berryville, VA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• 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.

Rebecca married MACKY, John on 25 May 1815 in Winchster, Frederick, VA USA. John (son of MACKY, Dr Robert and SNICKERS, Catharine) was born on 25 May 1794 in Frederick Co., VA; died on 1 Apr 1825 in Winchester, Frederick County, VA, USA; was buried in Apr 1825 in Winchester, Frederick County, VA, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Milicent married TIDBALL, Alexander Scott about 1820. Alexander (son of TIDBALL, Joseph and SCOTT, Jane) was born on 19 Jan 1796; died on 3 Jan 1848 in Winchester, Frederick, VA, USA; was buried in Mount Hebron Cemetery, Winchester City, Winchester, VA, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Residence: Winchester, Frederick, VA, USA

Family/Spouse: MOSS, Ann Eliza. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Education: University of Pennsylvania Medical School
• Occupation: Physician, and later Planter

Notes:

From Encyclopedia of Virginia:

Dr. William David McGuire, son of Edward (2) and Elizabeth (Holmes) McGuire, was born February 23, 1810, at Winchester, Frederick county, Virginia. He graduated from the University of Pennsylvania Medical School as M. D. in 1830, and soon afterward began the practice of medicine at Winchester, Virginia, but after a few years gave up his profession and became a planter near Winchester. Before the civil war he was a Whig, but after the war a Democrat; served as presiding justice in the justice court of his county for some years. Died February 4, 1877, at or near Winchester, Virginia.
He married (first) Lucy Catherine Ware, in 1833, who had issue several children of whom only one daughter lived to maturity, to wit: Elizabeth Holmes, born in 1834 in Clarke county, Virginia. He married (second) Nancy Boyd Moss, daughter of Captain William and Gertrude (Holmes) Moss, February 16, 1841, in Fairfax county, Virginia. She was born December 4, 1818, at Aspen Hill, Fairfax county, Virginia; her mother, Gertrude (Holmes) Moss, was a daughter of Colonel Joseph Holmes, of Winchester, Virginia, and her father, Captain William Moss, was a son of Ann Minor by Captain John Moss, of Fairfax county, Virginia, who was an officer in the revolutionary war. Said last mentioned John Moss was a son of Thomas Moss, of Fairfax county, Virginia, who was the son of Thomas Moss, of Westmoreland county, Virginia, and the latter a descendant of Edward Moss, of York county, Virginia, whose father came to Virginia in 1625, from Staffordshire, England. Dr. William David McGuire and his wife had eleven children, ow whom only the following mentioned survived to maturity, namely: Margaretta Holmes, born January 12, 1844; Nannie Wilmer, born May 30, 1854; Evelyn Parker, born November 7, 1857; William Edward, of whom more hereafter.

Birth:
Dr. William David McGuire, son of Edward (2) and Elizabeth (Holmes) McGuire, was born February 23, 1810, at Winchester, Frederick county, Virginia.

William married WARE, Lucy Catherine in 1833. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

William married MOSS, Nancy Boyd on 16 Feb 1841 in Fairfax Co, VA, USA. Nancy (daughter of MOSS, Captain William and HOLMES, Gertrude) was born on 4 Dec 1818 in Aspen Hill, Fairfax, VA, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Frederica married WHITE, Nathan Smith on 11 Nov 1841 in Frederick Co, VA. Nathan (son of WHITE, Benjamin and CHISWELL, Rachel) was born on 6 Nov 1817 in Montgomery Co., MD; died on 4 Nov 1888 in Charles Town, WV; was buried on 12 Nov 1888 in Zion Church Yard, Charles Town, WV (Lot 81N). [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Died:
Elizabeth Holmes Meade died of a heart attack at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Hunter Richey, in Indianapolis, Indiana, on October 5, 1895, and was buried beside her husband in the graveyard of Meade Memorial Episcopal Church, White Post, Virginia.-

Family/Spouse: MEADE, John Nelson. John was born on 1 Oct 1821; died on 6 Jan 1880; was buried in 1880 in Meade Memorial Episcopal Church, White Post, Clarke, VA USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• 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.”

Catharine married TIDBALL, A. Scott on 14 Dec 1843. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

From Encyclopedia of Virginia:

Dr. Hunter Holmes McGuire, father of Mary Stuart (McGuire) McGuire, was born in 1835, son of Dr. Hugh Holmes McGuire, of Winchester, Virginia, and Ann Eliza (Moss) McGuire. He also was a physician and surgeon in Philadelphia, and was connected with the Jefferson Medical College prior to 1861. When the civil war began, he, together with other southern students, went South, and he enlisted as a private in the Confederate army. Was appointed surgeon in the Second Virginia Regiment, Confederate States Army, afterward surgeon of the "Stonewall Brigade," and then medical director of Ewell's and of Early's corps. After the war, he went to Richmond, Virginia, where he practiced his profession. Was professor of surgery in the Medical College of Virginia, and founder of St. Luke's Hospital, of Richmond, also of the University College of Medicine there. He was president of the Medical Society of Virginia, the Southern Surgical Society, and of the American Medical Association.
Dr. Hunter Holmes McGuire married Mary Stuart, daughter of Hon. Alexander H. H. Stuart, of Staunton, Virginia. They had children, namely: Stuart, of Richmond; Hugh Holmes; Mary Stuart, married Dr. William Edward McGuire; Frances Baldwin; Augusta Stuart, deceased; Giretta Holmes; Margaret.

Family/Spouse: STUART, Mary. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Education: Berryville Academy, Berryville High School, followed by study of medicine at University of Virginia, graduating in 1886 as MD
• Occupation: Civil Engineer for Pennsylvania Railroad Co, and later MD

Notes:

From Encyclopedia of Virginia:

Dr. William Edward McGuire, son of William David and Nancy Boyd (Moss) McGuire, was born March, 1860, at Norwood, near Berryville, in Clarke county, Virginia. He attended the Berryville Academy, and the Berryville High School, after which he studied medicine at the University of Virginia, and graduated therefrom as M. D. in 1886; however, prior to that time, he had spent three years as a civil engineer in the employ of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company. After his graduation in medicine he began practice in Richmond, Virginia, where he has continued as a physician and surgeon since that time. He was at one time president of the Richmond Academy of Medicine at Richmond, Virginia; from 1894 to 1911, professor of gynecology in the University College of Medicine at Richmond, Virginia; professor of clinical medicine in the same institution from 1911 to 1913, and thereafter professor of clinical medicine in the Medical College of Virginia, at Richmond, Virginia. He is a member of the Virginia State Medical Society, the Southern Medical and Surgical Society, and of the American Medical Association. In politics he is a Democrat, and member of the Protestant Episcopal church, also of the Westmoreland Club, of Richmond, and of the Country Club of Virginia.
Dr. McGuire married Mary Stuart McGuire, daughter of Dr. Hunter Holmes and Mary (Stuart) McGuire, October 9, 1894, at Richmond, Virginia. She was born 3, 1872, in Richmond, Virginia, and had a son, Hunter Holmes, born October 22, 1895, in Richmond, Virginia, was educated at the McGuire University School, at Richmond, Virginia, the Episcopal High School, near Alexandria, Virginia, and the University of Virginia.

William married MCGUIRE, Mary Stuart on 9 Oct 1894 in Richmond, VA, USA. Mary (daughter of MCGUIRE, Dr. Hunter Holmes and STUART, Mary) was born in 1872 in Richmond, VA, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Obituary: From The Morning News, Wilmington, DE Mrs. Rebecca H. Trapnell Mrs. Rebecca H. Trapnell, 85 years old. widow of Joseph Trapnell, of Charlestown. West Virginia, died in that town on Sunday, according to news received here yesterday. Mrs. Trapnell was the mother of the Rev. Richard W. Trapnell, now cf Norfolk, Va. Mr. Trapnell was rector of St. Andrew's P. E. Church, in this city, and was well known here, leaving for Norfolk last year. Mrs. Trapnell was a daughter' Of Nathan S. White, a member of the Charlestown bar. for many years. Surviving are two daughters, Mrs. H. F. Kloman, wife of the Rev. H. F. Kloman, rector of the Episcopal Church at Cumberland, Md., and Miss Rebecca R. Trapnell, of Charlestown, and four sons, William Trapnell, superintendent of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, Western; Captain Thomas T. Trapnell, U. S. A.; the Rev. Richard W. Trapnell, Norfolk, Va., and J. M. Trapnell, of Charlestown. Funeral services will be held in Zion Episcopal Church this afternoon.
• Residence: 1910, Charles Town, Jefferson, West Virginia

Rebecca married TRAPNELL, Joseph III on 20 Nov 1866 in Charlestown, WV. Joseph (son of TRAPNELL, Reverend Joseph and WATKINS, Emily Green) was born on 1 Sep 1842 in Annapolis, MD; died on 16 Mar 1912 in Charlestown, WV; was buried in 1912 in Zion Church Yard, Charles Town, WV (Lot 32). [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: FLETCHER. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Education: Thomas Allen Tidball graduated in 1871 from the Virginia Theological Seminary and in 1878 received an honorary Doctor of Divinity degree from William and Mary College
• Occupation: He was rector of a Philadelphia church, either St. Luke’s or the Church of the Epiphany or possibly both

Family/Spouse: BROWN, Josephine. Josephine was born on 7 Jun 1847 in Accomac, Accomack County, VA USA; died on 12 Feb 1903; was buried in 1903 in Mount Custis, VA USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: DICKINSON, Col Laurence. Laurence died in 1923. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Mary married MCGUIRE, William Edward on 9 Oct 1894 in Richmond, VA, USA. William (son of MCGUIRE, Dr. William David and MOSS, Nancy Boyd) was born in Mar 1860 in Norwood, Clarke, VA, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Residence: Richmond, VA, USA

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• Education: McGuire University School, Richmond VA, and Episcopal High School, near Alexandria, VA, and the University of Virginia