Agatha Elsberry

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<p>[g675.ftw]</p><p><p></p></p><p><p>THE HERITAGE OF YADKIN COUNTY, published by The Yadkin County Historical Society, Yadkinville, NC 27055 1981.</p><p><p>Agatha Wright was born about 1759/60, probably at the home of her widowed</p><p><p>Grandmother Honour Williams in Prince William County, VA. In 1759 that part</p><p><p>of Prince William County was formed into the new county of Fauquier. Agatha Wright came with her parents to Surry County (now Yadkin) in 1774. She was married in 1775 in Surry County, to Isaac Elsberry of Buck Shoals Township. He was born about 1751 Cecil County, Maryland. He was the son of</p><p><p>John Elsberry whose tract of land joined a tract that John Wright had claimed</p><p><p>in 1773. The Wright family was of the Baptist faith and the Elsberrys were</p><p><p>Methodists. When Isaac was 48 years of age, shortly after Sept. 26, 1803, with his wife , Agatha and their large family, they crossed the Blue Ridge Mountains to Ashe County,then over the Appalachians to the vicinity of Winchester, Clarke County, KY. Clarke County borders on Fayette County where so many of the Wrights and Rileys had gone previously. Agatha's sister, Frances had married Gerrard Riley; sister Sarah had married Ninian Riley, Jr.; Isaac's sister Sarah had married, Aug. 12, 1797, to John, another of the Riley brothers. Ninian Riley, Sr. and wife , Elizabeth were among those who left Surry and took the trail to KY. It was necessary for Agatha to part from her home of 26 years, her aging and widowed mother, some of her sisters and brothers, the grave of her father and the land she knew so well, to follow her husband and family. About 1805/6 Agatha and Isaac moved from KY to Clermont County, Ohio and settled on the East Fork of the Little Miama River. Isaac died there in 1813. His will is dated April 12, 1813, and proved Sept. 11, 1813. After her husbands death, Agatha moved to Xenio, Ohio, where she spent the remainder of her life in the home of her son, the Honorable Williams</p><p><p>Elsberry, lawyer, judge and legislator. She died about 1845/6 at the age of</p><p>85 years.</p>