Steven Giles Letcher

Virginia, Select Marriages, 1785-1940

• Name: Stephen Giles Letcher
• Spouse: Elizabeth Perkins
• Marriage: 20 Jan 1767 - Goochland County, Virginia

Virginia, Select Marriages, 1785-1940

* Name: Stephen Letcher

• Gender: Male
• Marriage Date: 22 Jan 1767
• Marriage Place: St James Northam Parish,Goochland,Virginia
• Spouse: Elizabeth Perkins
• FHL Film Number: 975.5 V2D

2 Stephen Giles son of Giles and Hannah Hughes Letcher married Miss Betsy Perkins They lived for some years in Virginia then migrated to Mercer County Kentucky near Harrodsburg the oldest town in the state After some years they moved to Garrard County Kentucky where many of their descendants still live They had twelve children Benjamin who married Margaret Robertson see above John not married born 1796 Stephen Giles Jr first wife Sally Davis second Mary Barbone Joseph not married Thomas married and had a family illiam born February 12 1794 three times married died July 16 1863 Archibald married Elizabeth Robertson see above Robert Perkins married first Mary Oden Epps and for second wife Charlotte Robertson see above no children Sarah Sally married Captain Abner Baker no children Captain Abner Baker married October 1769 Elizabeth Betsy daughter of William son of John and Judith Buford Polly married Mr Samuels had children Betsy Brown married David McKee large family Berthenia married Edward Cron ley four children a son Edward pg. 117 - A Genealogy of the Buford Family in America: 1903

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Five Letcher brothers came to Virginia and they were extremely large folk with handspans twice the size of ordinary folk. I only wonder how strong this legend was reinforced in her mind's eye based on her simple observation that some of my grandfather's brothers along with my g-grandfather, Dr. Francis Marion Letcher along with some of his brothers were at least 6'9"; .

Dr. Letcher's sister, Mary Elizabeth Letcher King who settled in Milam Co, Texas, was approximately 6'. (I might add here that two of Elizabeth's sons--her oldest and her youngest, Judge Harry Tom King and Dr. Kenneth A. King, Jr.--married two of my grandmother's sisters (Jephalona Hale and Annie Campbell Hale) in Jones Co, Texas, and that Julian Letcher (my grandfather) was their first cousin who married a third Hale sister, my grandmother, Henry Clay Hale, Jr. According to my father, this union directly resulted from Julian's trip to Texas from Alabama in order to visit his Letcher/King cousins and Letcher uncle in Anson and Abilene fairly soon after his termination of his 10-year first marriage (all this was certainly complicated by the fact that my grandmother was his second wife, while his first wife was his Howard first cousin--but that is not the exact point of my story here.)

The "five sons" interpretation appears to be accurate but based on the sons of Giles II and Hannah rather than being based on five independent Virginia Letcher brother-immigrants.

From the time of Giles II and Hannah, the Letcher family continued to marry Perkins and Hughes and Harding family members for at least 3-4 more generations. (Key family property was located next to Perkins and other Virginia settlers in Henrico, Isle of Wight, Albermarle, Goochland, and Charles City), (the Boseman, Perkins, Harding, Key, Talbot families again all intermarried and are also all early Virginia colonists)

Sources

OLD WAYNE: A Brit’s Memoir By Cletis R. Ellinghouse / https://books.google.com/books?id=UjyN1JPmuVYC&pg=PA113&lpg=PA113&d...

Who are the Parents of (Stephen) Giles Letcher born abt 1710 in N Ireland / http://www.genealogy.com/forum/surnames/topics/letcher/190/

http://www.hope.stewart.name/genealogy/wc01/wc01_062.html

The Douglas Register: Being a Detailed Record of Births, Marriages, and ... By William Douglas / https://books.google.com/books?id=U_xpc2k0N8kC&pg=PA237&lpg=PA237&d...

Transactions of the Kentucky State Medical Society ..., Volume 3 By Kentucky State Medical Society / https://books.google.com/books?id=39ECAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA280&lpg=PA280&d...

• Reference: MyHeritage Family Trees - SmartCopy: May 20 2017, 22:29:11 UTC
• Reference: Ancestry Genealogy - SmartCopy: Apr 17 2020, 4:12:07 UTC