Individual Details
Isaac Calvert Chenoweth
(6 Jul 1788 - 23 Jul 1858)
Isaac married his 1st cousin once removed, Sarah Elizabeth 'Sally' Fairleigh, and settled in Hardin Co. This relationship was on the Van Meter side, his mother’s family. Sally was a granddaughter of Mary’s sister, Rebecca Van Meter. Rebecca married Edward Rawlings and their daughter Letitia Rawlings married Andrew Fairleigh. Sally was their daughter. There are several of these interfamily ties between the Chenoweths of William and the Van Meters of Mary.
Isaac and his sister Lettia Van Meter Chenoweth who married William Hardin Hawkins were the only of William’s family to remain in Kentucky. Today both these lines have many descendants that still live in the Bluegrass State, accounting for a continuous presence there of nearly 230 years. Isaac and Sally had ten children, eight daughters and two sons. Though both sons lived to maturity, neither married and both died as young men, so that Isaac’s progeny is carried down through his eight daughters. At the time that Isaac wrote his will in 1845, 7 of his daughters were married and of age. He names them all. A careful reading indicates that two of these daughters, Rebecca Burdine and Letitia McNeil, were deceased with surviving children. Both Rebecca’s daughters are specifically mentioned in the will. The three underage children, called infants even though they were all teenagers at the time were Isaac Calvert, Jr, Miles B., and Cinderella. Isaac did mention that two of these were sons in the will, but their names were not included. Cinderella would be the only of these 3 to marry and become entitled By Jon Egge (Cottage Lake, Woodinville, WA) (Descendant of Dr Henry S.5 Chenoweth of Chillicothe, OH) James Francis4, Thomas3, John2, John1)Page 19 to receive a share of Isaac’s estate. Of interest is that the only two children mentioned in Cora Hiatt’s work were these two sons who died without issue and the eight married daughters were omitted.
The will is very convoluted in reading. In essence, Isaac wanted any of his married heirs to receive an equal share of his estate upon the death of his widow, but there is a complex accounting in the will for all prior advancements that Isaac apparently made to each of his daughters. In all, Isaac’s daughters would bear forth 42 grandchildren for him. Today we have twenty known marriages for these. Isaac’s and Sally’s descendant family add a rich mosaic of Kentucky families to the Chenoweth genealogy.
Events
Families
Spouse | Sarah Elizabeth "Sally" Fairleigh (1792 - 1860) |
Child | Mariah Jane Chenoweth (1810 - 1860) |
Child | Rebecca 'Sarah Ann' Chenoweth (1812 - 1834) |
Child | Melvina Chenoweth (1814 - 1891) |
Child | Mary Jane Chenoweth (1816 - 1871) |
Child | Letitia Chenoweth (1818 - ) |
Child | Hester 'Hetty' Chenoweth (1820 - 1852) |
Child | Ruth F. 'Ruthie' Chenoweth (1823 - 1898) |
Child | Isaac Calvert Chenoweth Jr. (1825 - ) |
Child | Miles B. Chenoweth (1831 - 1859) |
Child | Cinderella Chenoweth (1832 - ) |
Father | Major William Chenoweth (1760 - 1828) |
Mother | Mary M. "Polly" Van Meter (1757 - 1832) |
Sibling | William Chenoweth Jr. (1782 - 1805) |
Sibling | Jacob Van Meter Chenoweth (1784 - 1851) |
Sibling | Abraham Chenoweth (1785 - 1861) |
Sibling | Miles Hart Chenoweth (1791 - 1845) |
Sibling | Hardin Thomas Chenoweth (1793 - 1844) |
Sibling | Letitia Van Meter "Letty" Chenoweth (1796 - 1875) |
Sibling | Ruth C. Chenoweth (1798 - 1868) |
Sibling | James Hackley Chenoweth (1801 - 1882) |
Sibling | Arthur Chenoweth ( - 1810) |
Notes
Marriage
Chenaweth, Isaac and Fairley, Sally June 8, 18091st once removed Van Meter cousin marriage
Census (family)
395, 395 Isaac Chenowith 61 M, Farmer, 2500, KYSarah " 57 F, KY
Cinderella " 18 F, KY
Isaac " 25 M, KY
Miles " 20 M, KY
Ruth Kennedy 27 F, KY
John McNeill 8 M, KY
Francis " 10 F, KY
Mary Burdine 20 F, KY
Sarah " 17 F, KY
John Kennedy 4 M, KY
Zachariah T. " 3 M, KY
Mary J. " 1 F, KY
Endnotes
1. Chenoweth Family Site from Colonial times to present day, Descendants of John Chenoweth & Mary Calvert, Jon D. Egge online [http://chenowethsite.com/], accessed 9/2006.
2. McClure, Daniel E. Jr., Two Centuries in Elizabethtown and Hardin County, Kentucky. Including Biographical Sketches of Some of Their Prominent Citizens of Past and Present Times. (Elizabethtown: KY. The Hardin County Historical Society, Inc. 1979.), p. 148.
3. Kentucky Marriage Records - from the register of the Kentucky Historical Society with an Index by Eleanor Antoniak. - Hardin County, KY, Marriages, 1792-1825. Copied from the original records in the office of the County Court Clerk by Miss Hattie M. Scott and Miss Nina Visscher. - Nelson County Marriage Records. Compiled by W. J. Dalmazzo Deputy Co. Clerk of Nelson County. -Nelson County Marriage Records. Compiled by W.J. Dalmazzo, Deputy Co. Clerk of Nelson County. List of marriages taken from the old marriages register in the Nelson County clerks's office, beginning in the year 1785 and including the year 1815, (Baltimore. Genealogical publishing Co., Inc. 1983).
4. U.S. Census images. Heritage Quest Online. Subscription database through the Sonoma County Public Library. (ProQuest LLC, 2009.), 1850 > KENTUCKY > HARDIN > 1-DIST Series: M432 Roll: 203 Page: 332.
5. McClure, Daniel E. Jr., Two Centuries in Elizabethtown and Hardin County, Kentucky. Including Biographical Sketches of Some of Their Prominent Citizens of Past and Present Times. (Elizabethtown: KY. The Hardin County Historical Society, Inc. 1979.), p. 148.