McJunkin

Hardy Phillips was born 1804 in South Carolina, son of Charles Phillips and Jemima Hardy of North Carolina. His wife Mary Elizabeth McJunkin was born 1809 in Union County, South Carolina as great-great-granddaughter of Robert McJunkin and Margaret Caldwell of Scotland and Ireland; the great-granddaughter of South Carolina State Representative Samuel McJunkin, born Ireland, and Anne Bogan, born Pennsylvania; the granddaughter of Revolutionary Veteran Daniel McJunkin and Jane Chesney whose brother was renowned Loyalist Alexander Chesney; and daughter of veteran William Chesney, born November 27, 1787, and Mary Bailey, 1787-1869. After both families had moved to the beautiful valley of the Hiwasee River and the Cherokees, Hardy and Mary Elizabeth met and were in East Tennessee in 1825. After births of their first two children, they, along with families of both sets of parents, moved again, through Cumberland Gap and into the area of Clay County which later became Owsley County, Kentucky. In the beautiful valley of White Oak Creek, surrounded by mountains, they purchased property and had ten more children.

In 1856 Hardy and Mary Elizabeth, needing larger amounts of arable land, moved along with all their children, children's spouses, McJunkin parents with daughter Nancy and spouse John Abner, a party of about 35, about 135 miles to Grant County's lovely ridges of Fork Lick Creek, where they purchased property on what is now Dark Region Road. By 1866, Hardy and Mary Elizabeth sold their property and moved a short distance into Pendleton County, with the four youngest children and the McJunkin parents. They were still close enough to Fork Lick to maintain their membership in the old Fork Lick Particular Baptist Church, whose record book gives their death dates as 1881 for Hardy and 1889 for Mary Elizabeth. Nancy McJunkin Abner had, after three children, died in 1859, and John Abner remarried. William Chesney McJunkin received his last War of 1812 pension payment at Morgan Station Pendleton County in December 1874.

The children of Hardy and Mary Elizabeth were:
1. Asa M., 1826-1906, married Margaret Pennington in Owsley County in 1845, owned many acres on Eagle and Rattlesnake Creeks after 1856, later joined the Union Army in 1862 and, about 1867, settled near Findlay, Illinois. They had ten children.

2. Elizabeth J. 1828-1890, was married in 1845 to Jacob Bowman, who followed his trade as a blacksmith in the village of Stonewall. Both of them were buried in the Abner Graveyard on Dark Region Road, where it was noted as a "Phillips" graveyard on the 1961 USGS map but has since been obliterated. They had six children.

3. Jemima, 1830, 1880, was married in 1850 in Owsley County to Harvey Anglin. They farmed near Rattlesnake Creek in Grant County until October 1861 when he joined the Union Army, was captured September 1863, and died in Andersonville prison August 18, 1864. Jemima, who brought her church membership from Rockspring Church, Owsley County, to the Williamstown Particular Baptist Church in 1856, was buried in their church graveyard December 9, 1880. They had two children, William A., born 1851 and Mary Elizabeth, born December 1, 1858. After William's marriage to his cousin Martha Phillips, daughter of Abraham Phillips and Elizabeth Anglin who lived near Hardscrabble, he and his wife went "back to the mountains" to be near their families in Rockcastle County. Mary Elizabeth Anglin married Thompson Barnes, son of C. W. Barnes and Gooley Conrad in 1873, lived the rest of her live near Williamstown and was buried in 1957 in Williamstown Cemetery with her husband and later, seven sons.

4. Austin, 1832-1861, was unmarried and probably buried in Abner Graveyard.

5. William, 1835-1906, married Mary Ann Pennington in 1859. They were buried in Abner Graveyard. They had seven children: James Hardy born 1859, who did not marry, Charles Marion born 1861 who married Almeda Jett, Asa born February 19, 1864 who married Nancy Ann Kendrick and had five children, William Harvey born April 17, 1876 who married Addie Martin in 1888 and had six children, John born January 14, 1870 who married Rhoda Bruce, Mary Elizabeth born December 21, 1875 who married Walter Martin January 12, 1892 and had nine children, and Margaret born April 27, 1878 who married William E. Marksbury July 23, 1896.

6. Charles, 1837-1912, married Lauretta Hazelwood in 1859. They lived in Missouri, Arkansas, and Idaho, where he died. They had ten children.

7. John, 1840-1863, joined the Confederate Army and died at Lookout Mountain, Tennessee.

8. Mary Permelia, 1841-1928, married Alexander Hanson in 1862 and was buried in Gum Lick Church Cemetery, Pendleton County. They had five children.

9. Martha Ann, born 1844, married Willis Florence in 1871 and, after living many years in Covington, was buried with her husband in Grassy Run Church Cemetery, in an unmarked grave, in the 1920s. They had five children.

10. Nancy Ann, 1846-1910, married Nancy McJunkin Abner's son, William Abner, in 1868 and was buried in Gum Lick Church Cemetery.

11. Clarissa (Clessy), 1848-1929, married William H. Courtney, her uncle John Abner's stepson in 1867. They later went to Miamisburg, Ohio whey they are buried.

12. James Hardy, 1852-1910, married in Grant County Nancy A. Brann and was buried in Falmouth, Kentucky. His relatives made statements for Barton Papers in Falmouth. They had eight children.

Charles and Jemima Hardy Phillips' descendants were traced before 1952 by W. M. Phillips in a Kentucky Historical Society microfilmed manuscript (My Father's People), which was typed on 112 pages by Doris Phillips Williamson of Sullivan, Illinois in 1985.

Many of the "truth loving, God fearing" Presbyterian McJunkins of South Carolina left Journals or Memoirs with family information stretching from Robert McJunkin, born 1684 in Port William Scotland through Ireland and Pennsylvania into hills of Scotch-Irish South Carolina. This knowledge was blended with other records to create a 187 page book (McJunkins: A Family of Memories) by Martha McJunkin Rhyne of South Carolina.

Researched by Betty Barnes
Williamstown, Kentucky
Used with the permission of Ms. Barnes

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