U.S. Data Repository http://www.us-data.org/ -- USGenNet Inc. -- Please read the U.S. Data Repository Copyright Statement on the following page: --------------------------------------------------------------------- The McCrum Family of Preston County --------------------------------------------------------------------- A History of Preston County West Virginia Biographical Department, Supplied by J. R. Cole Kingwood, W. Va., The Journal Publishing Company, 1914 by H. S. Whetsell Pages 589-596 THE McCRUM FAMILY. (pgs 589- LINEAGE OF THE McCRUMS OF PRESTON COUNTY. The grandfather of Summers McCrum. Sr., came to Mifflintown, Pa., from Ireland (Belfast) some time previous to the marriage of his son Robert (father to Summers, Sr.) to Anna Dailey, daughter of Jesse Dailey, born December 7, 1760, and his wife, Mary Turner, born April 2, 1775, said Jesse Dailey being a son of Hugh, born 1711, and Eleanor O'Brien Dailey, born 1724. They left Belfast also, probably in the year 1760, though we have no means of knowing how long they remained at the Isle of Wight, where Hugh Dailey died. Eleanor Dailey came to Fairfax county, Va., where her youngest son, Jesse, must have been born shortly after her arrival. She had at least one other child, John. They left Ireland on account of either political or religious troubles, probably the latter, the family being Protestant. Jesse Dailey, father of Anna Dailey McCrum, was a Revolutionary soldier. The mother of Robert and grandmother of Summers McCrum, Sr., was a Miss Campbell of Scotland, a descendant of the clan of that name. There were three other sons besides Robert: William, who settled near Lexington, Va., John, and Michael. One perhaps settled in Ohio, the other in Pennsylvania. Robert lived and died at Beverly, Va., now West Virginia. He was born August 8, 1791, his wife, Anna, November 3, 1794. He married Anna Dailey at Leesburg, Va., March 14 or 15, 1816, and died at Beverly, Va., December 24, 1835. His wife married a second time a Mr. Taggart, and died at Centreville, Tyler county, W. Va., January 6, 1877, at the age of eighty-three. They had seven children, as follows: (1) Cornelia Ann, born January 6, 1817, married Adam Trainor, removed to Louisiana, Missouri, and died there leaving a family. (2) Mary Louisa, born January 25, 1819, married William Jenks, removed to Savannah, Ill., and died leaving one child, Alonzo Jenks. (3) Caroline Matilda Thayer, born January 25, 1821, and died in infancy. (4) Robert James William, born March 21, 1823, married Miss Lydia Wagner of West Union (now Aurora, W. Va.), removed to Louisiana, Missouri, and died leaving a large family. (5) Serena Hanks, born March 1, 1825, married James Taggart, who died in Tyler county, W. Va., 1862, leaving her with several children. She died February 28, 1909; was married to Mr. Taggart in 1844. (6) Summers West McCrum, the youngest son of Robert and Anna McCrum, a sketch of whose life has already been given, as has also before been stated, was born January 19, 1827, was married three times, and died February 10, 1905, at Aurora. (7) Adaline Ellen, last child of Robert and Anna McCrum. was born July 3, 1829, and died in infancy, at Beverly. The first wife of Summers McCrum, Sr., was Eliza Nicklin, daughter of Dr. Samuel Nicklin and Martha Thomas, and granddaughter of Dr. John Nicklin and Elizabeth Hough, the latter being a lineal descendant of John Clows, Richard Hough, Philip Taylor, Thomas Janney and Valentine Hollingsworth, Quakers of Penn's Colony. William Biles, another Quaker in some way connected with the family, though I do not think in the direct line of ancestry, was prominent in the colony as officer and preacher among the first settlers, as he appears to have taken up lands under Governor Andreas prior to Penn's grant. Valentine Hollingsworth was born about 1630 in Cheshire, England, and married Catherine Cornish, daughter of Henry Cornish, high sheriff of London. He was a member of the Society of Friends, and with his family came over with William Penn in 1682, and settled in New Castle county, now Delaware, and filled many prominent positions. He was member of the Assembly in 1683, 1687, 1688, 1695 and 1700; also judge of the different courts, superintendent of the Newark monthly meetings from 1686 to 1710, and they were generally held at his house. He was buried near his residence, on the east side of the Brandywine, in the Friends' burying ground, which he donated. The coat of arms of the family are on the old hall and church of the ancient home of the family in England. Thomas Janney, son of Thomas and Elizabeth Worthington Janney, was born at Styall, parish of Wilmshire, McCheslfield Hundred, county Cheshire, England, in 1633, baptized January 11, 1634, and came to America March 29, 1683, in "The Endeavor" of London. He was a minister in the Society of Friends and had suffered imprisonments and fines in England on account of his belief. He was related by blood and marriage to the leading families of Penn's Colony and was Penn's intimate friend, as was shown by the letters written by Penn — many of which have been published. In writing back to America to James Harrison from Worminghurst, in 1684, the next day after his arrival, Penn sends love to seven friends, including Thomas Janney and William Yardley (Janney's brother-in-law), mentioning Janney on one or two other occasions — in one of which he says: "Much love to J. Sincock, Thomas Janney, William Yardley, and thyself especially. Glad that three such honest friends, whom I love in my heart, are in that station of service as yours, being the provincial judges. I know also that you are men of good understanding and friends to me, and my honest interest; but I could have wished you an easier and better work." Thomas Janney died while on a visit to England, on the 12th of March, 1696, and was buried on the 15th in the Friends' burying ground at Moberly, in Cheshire, England, where his parents, daughter and other relatives had previously been buried. He had been a minister forty-two years and was sixty-three at the time of his death. He was married September 24, 1660. Philip Taylor was also a Friend and a member of Penn's colony. He lived at Tacony, Philadelphia county, but at his death his children sold his land and most of them removed to Bucks county. Pa. John Clows of Gosworth, Cheshire. England, and Margery, his wife, with their three children, Margery, Rebecca and William, and three servants, came to America in "The Endeavor" of London, July 29, 1683. They had been preceded by three of their children — John, Jr., Joseph and Sarah — who came in "The Friends' Adventure," July 28, 1682. He was a member of the Assembly, 1683 and 1684. He died July 4, 1687, and his wife Margery died February 2, 1698. Richard Hough of McChesfield, Cheshire county, England, came to America in "The Endeavor" of London, July 29, 1683. He was a member of Penn's colony and member of the Assembly, 1684, 1688, 1690, 1697 and 1700, and again elected in 1703 and 1704. He was a member of the Provincial Council 1693 and 1700, took an active part in all public affairs, and was one of Penn's closest friends. He was drowned in the Delaware River on his way to Philadelphia, March 26, 1705. When Logan wrote the news of his death Penn wrote in reply: "London, 7 mo., 14, 1705. I lament the death of honest Richard Hough. Such men must needs be wanted, where selfishness and forgetfulness of God's mercies so abound." The first marriage on the records of Falls Meetings is that of Richard Hough and Margery Clows. Line of descent of Eliza Nicklin from the Qaukers of Penn's colony: John Clows married Margery __________; 2nd, Margery Clows married Richard Hough; (1) John Hough married Elizabeth Taylor; (2) John Hough married Sarah Janney; (3) John Hough married Lydia Hollingsworth. Elizabeth Hough married Dr. John Nicklin. Dr. Samuel Nicklin, born August 12, 1799, died March 1, 1870, married Martha Thomas, who was born April 8, 1799, and died at the home of her daughter, at Aurora, West Virginia, July 10, 1882. Eliza Nicklin, daughter of Dr. Samuel Nicklin and Martha Thomas, his wife, married Summers MdCrum, Sr., May 15, 1851, in Tyler county, Virginia, died at Aurora, August 14, 1881. She was the mother of Page R., Lloyd L. and Alvin A. McCrum, and also of Mrs. Lillie M. Trotter of Washington, D. C. The second wife of Summers McCrum, Sr., was Hattie T. Moore, born in Portland, Maine. Her father was a sea captain and was drowned while on a voyage, while she was an infant, the youngest of three children. On the death of her mother, soon after her father's death, she was adopted by a family by the name of Hale, of Massachusetts. Her first husband was a Mr. Barker, who was taken ill and died in hospital during the Civil War, soon after their marriage. She afterward married Mr. Hartnell of Colebrook, N. H., and after his death married Summers McCrum, Sr. She died August 26, 1893, after long suffering, having been a helpless invalid for several years. She left no children. The third wife of Summers McCrum, Sr., was Mary Dailey (Brown) McCrum, his cousin, and a descendant, like himself, from Hugh and Eleanor Dailey of Belfast, Ireland. She was a daughter of Hugh Dailey (son of Jesse Dailey of Leesburg, Va.) and his wife Edith Butcher Dailey, and through her mother was a lineal descendant of John Hart, the Signer of the Declaration of Independence, having had six other ancestors who assisted in establishing American Independence: (1) Edward Hart, son of John the Signer; (2) Moses Stout, Edward's father- in-law, both of New Jersey; and (3) Jesse Dailey, (4) John Humphreys, (5) Thomas Drake, and (6) Samuel Butcher of Va., and beside this the fathers of John Hart and Samuel Butcher fought in the Colonial wars, both being officers. Her first husband was Bernard L. Brown of Beverly, Randolph county, who came to Beverly in the early forties of the 19th century. His ancestors came to Virginia as early as 1621, and held important offices in the colony. They came from England, Wales and France. The Brown family removed from Hanover county, Virginia to Albemarle county as early as 1747, and entered lands on which a good many of their descendants still live. Bernard L. Brown and his wife Mary Dailey Brown were the parents of Mrs. Page R. McCrum, also Mrs. Archibald Earl of Fort Worth, Texas; Mrs. S. N. Bosworth of Beverly, West Virginia; Charles Bernard Brown of Clinton, Iowa; Mrs. E. A. Williamson, Cordova, Illinois, as well as Oscar L. Brown, Clarence Hugh Dailey Brown and Mrs. Alice Porter, the last three being dead. Bernard L. Brown died at Beverly, February 10, 1868, at the age of fifty-two; she May 18, 1907, at the age of eighty- two — two years after Mr. McCrum's death. Since writing the above I have chanced to find in the family Bible, where Mr. McCrum has himself written, dates as follows: "Moved from Beverly, Randolph county, to Cheat River (near Holly Meadows — near Parsons, W. Va.) in 1838 or 1839. Moved from Cheat River, Randolph county, Va., to West Union, Doddridge county, Va., May, 1845; from there to Centreville, Tyler county, October, 1845, and I came to German Settlement, Va., now Aurora, Preston county, W. Va., in June, 1846." --------------------------------------------------------------------- If you've reached this file through a SEARCH, you can access other biographies for Preston County, WV by going to the following URL: http://www.us-data.org/wv/preston/bios.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------