Chloe Saunders

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"[Hendersonville, Tennesee] February the 17th, 1848 Dear Sir Agreeable to your request I now address you on the subject your letter, previous to receiving yours I received one from my niece in Virginia, Mrs W Campbell on the same subject but as my health was very delicate at that time as it is also at present, hers still remains unanswered, but as it is a subject in which I feel a deep interest I will give you all the information I can though that is but little as I was a mere child at the time of my Father's fighting in the Revolutionary war (or as I think he did after his imprisonment at Charleston) with the indians. I think after the death of my brother Henry he fought intensely against the Indians. The sketch I spoke to you about I have been unable to recover although I have used every exertion but think if there is one remaining my brother Samuels widow has it-she resides in Greenville, Muehlenburg Cty Kentucky: it would not be much trouble to you at least to write to her.-The death of my brother I have heard related differently from you as it seems from your letter I have always understood that he with Daniel Boones son and other families migrating to Kentucky were suprized in the night at their encampments and every soul massacreed except for one negro man called Adam belonging to my father who escaped by some means and hid himself in some driftwood on a crick close by he was 11 days getting to the settlements. I do not remember to have heard any thing of the Crabtree you speak of my father and Colonel Boone (Draper here inserts; really Capt. David Gass) who had remained behind for two or three days-I do not exactly remember which, came up to the encampment, and found all dead. It was supposed it was the Cherokees but which the evidence was I do not know. I think it very probable they had cattle as there were many families together. I do not know any of the names of the persons killed. My brother I suppose must have been nineteen or twenty as I think it was my father's intention to settle him in Kentucky. My Father's first wife's (my mother) name was Adams by whom he had thirteen children, eleven of whom were raised to be grown I am the youngest; lost my mother when but six months old and was raised by my oldest sister and third brother General Robert Russell who lived near Lexington, KY. Sometime after his return from the war I do not know how long he married his second wife, the widow of General Campbell, she was the sister of Patrick Henry by her he had several children but only two came to years of maturity. It may be well to mention that my step mothers, oldest child by General Campbell married Francis Preston of Virginia the father of the former Senator from South Carolina William C. Preston. I believe, sir, I have given you all the information I am possessed of and hope you will gain a little information. I was very young and have got all from hearing that I know. I am the only surviving child of my father and think I am about 73 years old with apurnances of regard I remain yours Chloe Saunders To Lyman C. Draper, Baltimore, Md." Extracted (by Judith Weeks Ancell on December 30, 1992) from the DRAPER MANUSCRIPT COLLECTION, State Historical Society of Wisconsin; Volumn 6C page 20-21: A letter to Lyman Draper;

CHLOE RUSSELL SAUNDERS. CHLOE RUSSELL, the youngest child of Gen. William and Tabitha Adams Russell, was born at their home on Clinch River, in 1776. Being only six months old at the time of her mother's death, she was in the especial charge of her elder sister Mary Henley. She was eight years old when her father's second marriage took place. On December 2d, 1792, six weeks preceding her father's death, she was united in marriage with Rev. Hubbard Saunders, one of the earliest preachers of the Methodist church. About 1798 they removed from Virginia to Sumner county, Tenn., where they lived and reared their large family of children. Mr. Saunders died in 1828. The following extract is taken from a letter of Dr. G. D. Blakey, to the Russellville Herald. He says: "I called to pay my respects to the widow of the late Rev. Hubbard Saunders, of Sumner county, Tenn., whose acquaintance I had the pleasure to make in the early spring of 1830. Her husband, who was one of the pioneer preachers of the Methodist church, had died two years before; not though, till, with the assistance of a few neighbors, he had built a fine large brick church, to take the place of the old wooden one called 'Turner's Spring.' At the dedication of this church in the spring of 1830, the pastor asked, ^What name shall we give this house?' To this question Parson Lindsay, an old local preacher replied, 'Turner's Spring.' After a brief pause, a young man, a comparative stranger, having but recently joined the church by letter, arose in his place and proposed the name to be 'Saunders' Chapel.' Parson Lindsay, in a few pointed remarks, urged the name of 'Turner's Spring,' the church so long having borne that name. The young man in reply said, he would not have the name of the spring changed, nor would he have a temple like this called a spring. He thought it due to the memory of that venerable man, through whose contributions and influence the house had been built, one too who had so long seemed as a lamp to the feet and a light to the pathway of this community, to perpetuate his memory by calling it 'Saunders' Chapel. The vote was taken, and the young man's motion was carried almost unanimously, and to this day it is called 'Saunders' Chapel. Mrs. Saunders was the daughter of Gen. William Russell, an officer of the Revolution; and at that time (1830) was far advanced in years, and was a noble specimen of a noble family; the mother of many worthy sons and daughters, all of whom, as far as I am advised, have reflected credit upon their ancestors. Since then a thriving little village, called Saundersville, has sprung up in their neighborhood, so their name is to be perpetuated in the name of a town, as well as a church." Mrs. Sunders died in 1850, aged seventy -four years. The graves of Mr. and Mrs. Saunders, and those of a large number of their descendants, can be found at their old homestead, where the family of their youngest son now resides. The large house is still standing, and upon the walls of the old parlor hang the portraits of the venerable grandparents. In describing them one of their great-granddaughters says, grandfather is a splenid looking old gentleman, and grandmother is lovely. She is dressed in black, with a white kerchief crossed on her breast; in her hand are her Bible and spectacles; and her quiet dignity and repose make her picture most attractive." They are held as precious relics by their descendants. William Russell and his descendants by Des Cognets, Anna Russell; 1884; Page 113-114 <https://archive.org/details/williamrussella00cogngoog/>

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