James Anglin (Born 1783 - Died 1860)
Rev. James Anglin, Kentucky pioneer and itinerant Baptist preacher,
was born in Virginia, in 1783. At an early age he began contemplating
matrimony and in 1804 was united in marriage to Jane Barrett, who was born
in 1786, in Tennessee. She was a sister of Jesse Barrett, fearless
Indian fighter and Tennessee hunter who was noted throughout the whole
countryside as a man possessing such great bodily strength as to enable
him to dispose of a full grown bear with no weapon other than his naked
fists. Jessie Barrett married July 11, 1814, in Clay County, Kentucky,
Sally Edwards.
The Anglins were among the first permanent white settlers in
Kentucky, having arrived in Clay County about the year 1800, following
the pioneer Daniel Boone. There they lived a hard and back-breaking
life, but they lived happily and they lived well. No more hospitable
place was to be found than their pioneer log cabin, and the latch string
was always out to the weary and hungry. Roving bands of hostile Indians
were still traversing the territory where they lived and temporary
protection had to be provided. Surrounded by such dangers and other
dangers common to frontier life, the men, all experienced woodsmen, could
always rely upon their own skill, experience and resourcefulness for
safety and a maintenance of their new-found wilderness home. By night
and by day, at the cabin or in the clearing, they were constantly on
guard with the trusty rifle ready for instant use. All timber within
rifle range of their cabin was cut down to deprive the prowling Indians
of shelter and temptation for a shot at some member of the family.
When James Anglin first arrived in Clay County he had to cut his
road through the wilderness to where he settled, and there he erected a
cabin and started out in life a poor pioneer, determined to make a home
and enduring the many privations and hardships of those early days. It
required hearts capable of sacrificing, and individual ruggedness to live
their lives. There were no roads, only paths that led through the
forest from one settler's cabin to another. Everybody road on horseback
and the men usually carried the women behind them upon the same horse.
Wild beasts in great numbers inhabited the wilderness and the early
settlers were kept ever on the alert, lest they fall prey a victim of
a marauding panther or mountain lion.
In 1856, his muscular frame never growing weary under toil and
exposure of pioneer life, James Anglin removed from Owsley County,
organized in 1843 from parts of Clay, Breathitt, and Estill Counties,
and settled farther west in the neighboring county of Rockcastle, where
he purchased land near the mouth of Roundstone Creek, and where the
latter years of his life were given over to agricultural pursuits, since
that, together with preaching, had long since been his favorite activity.
By profession, he was a traveling pastor for many churches, but he
supported his family by farming and by blacksmithing, never accepting
remuneration for his pastoral services, being of the faith of Primitive
Baptists whose religious belief impelled them to go out and preach the
gospel, taking neither money nor script.
James Anglin died July 18, 1860, at the age of 77 years. His wife
preceded him to the grave two years, having departed this life August 28,
1859. Both of these pioneers rest in eternal sleep in the Roundstone
Cemetery, in Rockcastle County, Kentucky. He was a man who possessed a
mind of high order; was noted for his excellent Christian and moral
character, which, in those days of pioneer rightness, was of the greatest
importance to mold the character of the early settlements, and for those
noble principles which made him so useful and beloved. At his death the
loss was mourned by all who knew him, and if his descendants will follow
his example and keep up the high moral standing of intelligence,
Christian character and usefulness, then his life and example and his
history will not have been in vain.
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James Anglin, and Jane Barrett, his wife, were the parents of
thirteen children, six of whom were sons and seven daughters, namely:
I. Nancy Anglin, born in 1806; married in Clay County, April 24,
1826, James McGuire, a son of Arch McGuire, an early Kentucky
pioneer.
II. Patsy Anglin, born in 1808; married August 4, 1828, in Clay
County, Lewis Sandlin, a son of Lewis Sandlin.
III. Stephen Anglin, born in Clay County, in 1810; died in Rockcastle
County about 1890. He was a blacksmith by occupation, and had
much mechanical talent and a very fine mastery of steel and its
manipulations. He made by hand some of the finest Kentucky
rifles of his time, many of which rifles he sold to the State of
Kentucky for use by the guards at the Frankfort Penitentiary.
He was united in marriage January 6. 1834, in Clay County, with
Jane Allen, a daughter of John Allen, and to this union were
born the following children, viz:
A. Emiline Anglin, born in Clay County in 1835; died in Owsley
County, August 1, 1852, aged 17 years.
B. Esther Anglin, born in 1836, in Clay County; married July 2,
1853, Robert Baker.
C. Joel Anglin, born in Clay County, in 1838, died in
Rockcastle County.
D. John A. Anglin, born in Clay County, in 1842; died in
Rockcastle County, where he was the owner of considerable
land. He was a farmer, and a lawyer by profession, and
served for one term as High Sherriff of Rockcastle County.
IV. Rebecca Anglin, born in 1812; married February 8, 1834, in Clay
County, William Sandlin.
V. John Anglin, born October 6, 1813, in Clay County, Kentucky. He
married January 23, 1835, in Clay County, Clarissa Phillips, who
was born in eastern Tennessee, in 1818, and was eight years of
age when she arrived with her parents, Charles Phillips, and
Jemima Hardy, his wife, in Clay County. John Anglin and
Clarissa (Phillips) Anglin were the parents of the following
named children:
A. Mahulda Anglin, born February 25, 1836, in Clay County;
married January 2, 1855, in Owsley County, John Marcum.
B. James Anglin, born April 9, 1838, in Clay County, died
November 22, 1904, in Rockcastle County. He was a veteran
of the Civil War, having served with the Federal forces, a
sergeant in Company G, Fourth Regiment, Kentucky Volunteer
Mounted Infantry. His wife was Martha Polly Langford, and
to this union were born:
1. Stephen Anglin, born 1866;
2. Elizabeth Anglin, born 1867;
3. John W. Anglin, born 1869;
4. Mason Anglin, born 1871;
5. Benjamin Anglin, born 1873;
6. Moses Anglin, born 1875;
7. Robert Anglin, born 1877.
C. Catherine Jemima Anglin, daughter of John and Clarissa
(Phillips) Anglin, was born September 19, 1840, in Clay
County. She married, first, in December, 1858, in Jackson
County, Squire Samuel Cooper and moved to Missouri. Upon
his death she married, in 1868, a second time Henry Long, a
War veteran, and removed to Iowa.
D. Mason Anglin, born March 7, 1843, in Clay County; died
July 3, 1934, at the home of his daughter Nancy (Anglin)
Lutes, at Berea Kentucky. He was a veteran of the Civil
War, having served with the Federal forces as a private in
Company G, 4th Regiment Kentucky Volunteer Mounted Infantry.
He married Rebecca Langford, and they had issue:
1. James Anglin,
2. Nancy J. Anglin,
3. Moses Anglin,
4. Sally Anglin.
The following information was found in a family Bible which had
belonged to Sallie Anglin Hall (Sarah Anglin mentioned below):
Rebecca Anglin was born April 22, 1842 and died May 22, 1915.
Her children were:
1. James Dillon Anglin, born February 4, 1872, died
September 15, 1893.
2. Nancy Jane Anglin, born January 1, 1874, died
January 1, 1935.
3. Moses Anglin, born September 26, 1875.
4. Sarah Anglin, born May 24, 1881.
Note that "Sally" becomes "Sarah" . Her signature has been found on
later documents with, yet, a third derivative being "Sallie".
Catherine Jemima Anglin (referred to above) was listed in the Bible
births as Jemma Anglin.
E. Elizabeth Anglin, born June 18, 1845, in Owsley County. She
married William Bowles.
F. Nancy Heelan Anglin, born March 20, 1848, in Owsley County;
married March 31, 1865, David McCollum who died in 1888.
They had issue:
1. Daniel Boone McCollum, born February 3, 1867;
2. Mary Margaret McCollum, born June 24, 1871;
3. James McCollum, born August 9, 1874;
4. Luther Brawner McCollum, born June 29, 1877;
5. Bleving McCollum, born May 8, 1880;
6. Sarah Elizabeth McCollum, born February 5, 1883;
7. Susan Jane McCollum, born February 15, 1885; died
August 26, 1915. She married George Allen.
G. Margaret Anglin, born June 14, 1853, in Owsley County,
married John Carr, at Clover Bottom, in Jackson County,
Kentucky, in 1873.
H. John Newton Anglin, born May 14, 1858. He married Ellen
Garrett.
Upon the death of his first wife, Clarissa Phillips, John Anglin
married, second, a Miss Parsons, and to this union were born two
children, namely:
A. Thomas Anglin,
B. Frankie Jane Anglin.
John Anglin was a cooper by occupation, and all the wooden
pails, tubs, and barrels in general use in his neighborhood were
the work of his handicraft. He died in Rockcastle County, after
1880, and was buried by the side of his first wife in an old
graveyard on the Polk VanWinkle farm, near the Old State Road,
about two miles north of the present village of Three Links. In
the passing of John Anglin the community lost a venerable and
lovable Christian gentleman, one who had the respect and
devotion of everyone with whom he came in contact during the
many years of genuine service to his fellowman. A very large
crowd was present at the burial services, a testimonial to the
goodness of John Anglin.
VI. Polly Anglin, born in 1815,; married September 6, 1834, in Clay
County, Perry McCollum.
VII. Elizabeth Anglin, born October 23, 1817, in Clay County; died on
July 27, 1911, in Rockcastle County, in the 94th year of her
birth. She was joined in the Holy bonds of wedlock April 23,
1834, in Clay County, to Abraham Phillips, third son of Charles
and Jemima (Hardy) Phillips, natives of North Carolina. Eleven
children were born of her marriage to Abraham Phillips, namely:
A. Harvey Phillips, born in 1836, died in infancy.
B. Joel Woodson Phillips, born February 8, 1837, in Clay County,
died March 22, 1922, in Shelby County. He married, first, in
Rockcastle County, at Disputanta, February 15, 1864, Sally
Jane Roberts. After her death, in 1872, he married, second,
Sarah Elizabeth Ballinger, who died November 24, 1918. He
early espoused the Union cause, and on the first day of March,
1862, enlisted in the service of the United States, a private
in Company G, 4th Kentucky Volunteer Mounted Infantry, and
was mustered into service to Date March 1, 1862, at Concord
Church, Tennessee for three years. Was honorably discharged
March 1, 1864, and immediately reenlisted as a veteran
volunteer, same organization, at Camp Nelson, Kentucky for
another three years, was mustered out and honorably discharged
on June 12, 1865, at the close of the War, at Louisville, a
corporal. He saw active service all through the long war,
until November 5, 1864, when he was captured at the battle of
Shoals Creek Bridge, Alabama, and incarcerated in a
Confederate State Military prison, where he remained a
prisoner of war until March, 1865, when he was ordered
released on parole, after being transported to a parole camp
on the Big Black River, in the rear of Vicksburg, Mississippi,
where he embarked on the ill-fated steamer Sultana, bound for
Cairo, Illinois. At Vicksburg, the steamer, one of the
largest and finest on the lower Mississippi, registering about
1,700 tons, remained a little more than one day, repairing her
boilers, and receiving onboard 1,965 Union soldiers and 35
officers just released from the rebel prisons of Cahaba,
Alabama, Macon and Andersonville, Georgia. There were also
two companies of infantry under arms, which, together with the
steamer's crew and a number of passengers made a grand total
of 2,300 souls on board, besides a number of mules and horses,
a cargo of freight, including about 100 hogsheads of sugar.
Loaded to five times its capacity, the Sultana left Vicksburg
on April 24, 1865, a few days after the assassination of
President Lincoln, and proceeded on her up trip to Saint Louis
arriving at Memphis, Tennessee, early in the evening of
April 26th, and at midnight set sail from Memphis for Cairo,
Illinois. So far, all was quiet and peaceful; many of the
soldiers on board, after their long, unwilling fast in rebel
prison pens, were dreaming, no doubt, of home and the good
things in store for them there, but alas! those beautiful
visions were soon disipated by a terrific explosion, for,
about two o'clock in the morning of April 27th, 1865, as the
palatial steamer was passing through a group of islands, about
eight miles up the river from Memphis, the Sultana had burst
one of her boilers and almost immediately caught fire, burning
in a few hours to the waters edge, and ushering into eternity
nearly 2,000 souls, the greatest marine disaster in recorded
history. Out of more than 2,300 on board, only 600 were
rescued, and about 200 of those rescued died soon after the
accident from burns, scalds and injuries received as a result
of the disaster. Joel Woodson Phillips bore the distinction
of being one of the 400 survivors of the Sultana disaster.
C. Polly Ann Phillips, born in Clay County, in 1838, died in
Garrard County, January 3, 1865. She married Rev. John Dixon
Miracle, an itinerant Primitive Baptist preacher, who
afterwards died at Fairview, Missouri, on February 12, 1908.
D. William Hardy Phillips, born in Clay County, July 24, 1840;
died May 3, 1916, in Jefferson County, near Louisville. He
was 20 years of age when he enlisted with the Federal forces,
June 13, 1861, in Rockcastle County, for three years, a
private in Company G, 4th Kentucky Volunteer Mounted
Infantry; was mustered out at the close of the war with a
detachment and honorably discharged June 24, 1865, at Camp
Chase, Ohio, a corporal. While at home on a short furlough
during the Civil War he was united in Marriage February 15,
1864, with Margaret Roberts, daughter of William Roberts, an
event which took place at Disputanta, in Rockcastle County.
A double wedding was solemized, for at the same time Joel
Woodson Phillips, likewise at home on a furlough, took unto
himself a bride in the person of Sally Jane Roberts, a sister
of the above Margaret. William Hardy Phillips reared a
family of 16 children.
E. John Calvin Phillips, born May 16, 1842, in Clay County;
departed this earthly life April 18, 1913, at Three Links, in
Rockcastle County. At the age of 19, he enrolled on July 15,
1861, as a private in Company G. 4th Kentucky Volunteer
Mounted Infantry, and was mustered into the service of the
Federal government to serve three years. At the battle of
Chickamagua, Georgia, he miraculously escaped death, when an
ounce ball, fired from the enemy lines, passed through his
cheeks, knocking out eight of his teeth, and almost severing
his tongue. Recuperation followed, and he was subsequently
transferred to Company H. 16th veteran reserve corps, mustered
out and honorably discharged October 10, 1864, at Harrisburg,
Penn. He married on July 28, 1865, Louvisa Griffin, who was
born May 9, 1848, a daughter of William Griffin, and to this
matrimonial union nine children were born.
F. Charles Phillips, born in Owsley County, November 24, 1844,
died August 24, 1917, in Jackson County, where his remains
were laid to rest in the Pine Grove Church cemetery. At the
age of 17, near the outbreak of the Civil War, he joined the
Federal forces and enrolled November 10, 1861, to serve three
years, a private in Company G. 4th Kentucky Volunteer Mounted
Infantry; was honorably discharged December 31, 1863, and
forthwith reenlisted for an additional three years, same
organization, at Chattanooga, Tennessee, and was mustered out
and honorably discharged, a private, August 17, 1865, at Macon,
Georgia, where his regiment was in pursuit of the fugitive
President of the Confederacy, Jefferson Davis. He married two
times; first, Pauline Rose. After her decease, he married her
sister Josephine Rose. The offspring of this union consisted
of four children.
G. James Phillips, born in Owsley County, May 19, 1846; died in
Rockcastle County, August 25, 1929, in the 83 year of his age.
During the Civil War he served as a teamster in the
Quartermaster's Department, being reported by Capt. L. C.
Novle, and succeeding Quartermasters at Camp Nelson, Kentucky,
April 5, 1863, and was discharged March 1, 1865. He married
September 7, 1869, in Rockcastle County, Emily Moore, and unto
this union seven children were born.
H. Frankie Jane Phillips, born in Owsley County, June 16, 1852,
died October 31, 1933, at Louisville, in the 82nd year of
her age.
She married Rev. Zachary Taylor Purvis, whom she survived
many years. They were the parents of seventeen children.
I. Mason Leander Phillips, born in Owsley County, January 16,
1854. He married August 12, 1860, in Franklin County,
Kentucky, Nancy Catherine O'Nan, daughter of William O'Nan,
and to this union were born six children, viz:
1. Alice Phillips,
2. William Mason Phillips,
3. James Dudley Phillips,
4. Hattie Bell Phillips,
5. Howard Phillips,
6. Prentice Phillips.
Mason Leander Phillips is the only surviving member of eleven
children of Abraham Phillips and Elizabeth Anglin, his wife.
J. Martha Clarissa Phillips, born August 10, 1857, in Owsley
County; died March 25, 1916, at Jett Station, in Franklin
County, Kentucky. She married December 10, 1875, in Grant
County, William A. Anglin, a son of Harvy Anglin and Jemima
Phillips, his wife. William A. Anglin was born July 16, 1851,
in Owsley County; died April 22, 1902, in Rockcastle County.
Six children were the offspring of his marriage with Martha
Clarissa Phillips.
K. Sarah Isabelle Phillips, youngest child of Abraham and
Elizabeth (Anglin) Phillips, was born in December, 1859, in
Jackson County, and died December 10, 1861, in Rockcastle
County, aged two years.
Abraham Phillips, too old to serve in the Civil War, answered the
call to duty and contributed substantially to the Union cause by
sending five sons who helped to swell the ranks of the volunteer
force. He died after fifty four years of wedded life with
Elizabeth Anglin on the 29th of October, 1888, and his remains
were laid to rest in the family burying grounds on the farm of
John Calivn Phillips, on the west side of the Old State Road, at
Three Links, Rockcastle County, Kentucky.
VIII. Jane Anglin, daughter of James and Jane (Barret) Anglin, was
born in 1819; Married May 28, 1838, in Clay County, James Smith,
a son of John Smith.
IX. Margaret Anglin, born in 1822, married January 12, 1842, in Clay
County, Charles Smith, a son of Isham Smith. Issue:
A. Speed Smith, born June 9, 1854,
B. LaFayette Smith, born in Jackson County at McKee, May 8, 1858.
X. Isaac Anglin, born in Clay County, in 1824, married in 1846,
Martha Simpson, who was born in 1823.
XI. Martin Anglin, born in Clay County, in 1827; married June 19,
1848, in Laurel County, Kentucky, Deborah Simpson, who was born
in 1829, and they had issue:
A. Isaac Anglin, born 1849;
B. Jane Anglin, born 1851, died March 17, 1854;
C. Sarah Anglin, born 1858;
D. Stephen Anglin, born 1859;
E. John C. Anglin, born 1864;
F. Martha Anglin, born 1871.
XII. Harvey Anglin, farmer by occupation, was born June 10, 1829, in
Clay County. He married September 19, 1850, in Owsley County,
Jemima Phillips, a daughter of Hardy Phillips, and three years
later removed to Grant County, continuing there agricultural
activities until the beginning of the Civil War, when he enlisted
with the Federal forces as a private in Company B, 18th Regiment
Kentucky volunteer Infantry. At the battle of Chickamagua,
Georgia, on September 23, 1863, he was captured and taken
prisoner to a Confederate States military prison, where he died
of exposure and starvation, August 18, 1864. His wife, Jemima
Phillips, wo was born in Clay County, August 22, 1830, died of a
broken heart on the 8th day of December, 1880, and was buried in
the Old Church Cemetery, at Williamstown, Kentucky. She was
survived by two children, namely:
A. William A. Anglin, born July 16, 1851. died April 22, 1902,
in Rockcastle County;
B. Mary Elizabeth Anglin, who was born in Grant County, Kentucky
on December 1, 1858. She still survives, and resides near
Williamstown. She was united in marriage July 31, 1873, with
Thompson Barnes, who died April 6, 1906 as a result of a
fatal accident, caused by the buggy in which he was riding
being run over by a locomotive, when he attempted to cross
the railroad tracks to his home, three miles north of
Williamstown, Kentucky. His widow, Mary Elizabeth Anglin,
was left with the care of seven children, all of whom are
now living.
XIII. Henry Anglin, youngest son of the Rev. James Anglin and his wife
Jane Barrett, was born in Clay County, in 1831. About the time
he attained to his majority he removed to Windfall, Tipton
County, Indiana, from whence he departed and was never heard of
again, by any of his relatives.
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