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- Samanta Jane Vawter was born February 6, 1841, in Jefferson County, Indiana, and died August 29, 1844, at Fithian, Illinois. On November 10, 1857, she married Levi Marion Hedges at Pine Grove, Rowan County, Kentucky, and died January 28, 1907, at Topeka, Kansas. Levi Marion Hedges was the fifth of eleven children of William Riblan Hedges and Malinda Russell (Cassity) Hedges. During the Civil War, Levi was a sergeant in the Tenth Kentucky Cavalry. In 1862, while Levi and his brother Peter Thompson, were away at war, Confederate guerillas came and asked Pascal Vawter whether he did not have two sons-i-law and a son in the Union Army. He admitted he had. The guerillas then asked Pascal to take the oath of allegiance to the Southern Confederacy, and when he refused, they threatened him with drawn swords, but did not actually harm him. Pascal’s daughter, Samanta Jane and Mary Ann, were living with their father while their husbands were away at war, and it was now thought best that they all move away from Kentucky. Rascal and his wife and daughter Samantha Jane moved to Manchester, Ohio, and Mary An moved to a second cousin’s at Rexford, Indiana, with her small son Thaddeus. William Riblan Hedges may have gone there also, as Samantha Jane added a postscript to a letter he wrote to Mary Ann in 1863.
The Mavity Family, page 23-24
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- Eliza Mavity was born in Montgomery County, Kentucky, May 7, 1813, and died in Medaryville, Indiana, August 11, 1904. She was married to Pascal Vawter April 1, 1834, and the license was issued in Jefferson County Indiana. Pascal was born January 6, 1813, and died January 26, 1899. He was the oldest of ten children of Beverly Vawter and Elizabeth (Crawford) Vawter. Beverly was the son of Philemon Vawter who was born October 16, 1762 in Culpepper County, Virginia, and died April 15, 1814, at Madison, Indiana, and Anne Vawter, born November 11, 1758, in Culpepper County, Virginia, and died July 21, 1845, near North Vernon, Indiana. They were married about 1799, probably in Culpepper County, Virginia. Anne’s father was Beverly Vawter, a brother of David Vawter, Philemon’s father – in short, Philemon and Anne were first cousins. David Vawter, Philemon’s father, was born in 1720, and died before March 24, 1785, the date of the administration of his estate. His wife, Mary (Rucker) Vawter, died after 1778. Beverly Vawter, father of Pascal, was born September 28, 1789, in what is now eastern Tennessee, and died April 1, 1872, in Jefferson County, Indiana. He was married on March 5, 1792, in Garrard County, Kentucky, and died January 29, 1866, in Jefferson County, Indiana. Elizabeth Crawford’s father was James Crawford, who was born in 1758, near the James River in Augusta County, Virginia. He died in 1836, probably near Madison, Indiana, and is buried in Hebron Cemetery, Jefferson County, Indiana, where his grave is marked with a government marker. He was married About 1783 to Rebecca Anderson. James Crawford fought in the Revolution from Botetourt County, Virginia, under Captain William Culbert and Colonel Patrick Lekhart. He moved from Augusta County, Virginia, to Garrard County, Kentucky, among the first settlers and from there to Jefferson County, Indiana, in March, 1811. David Vawter, a great grandfather of Pascal Vawter, served as a private in Captain John Camp’s Company in the First Virginia Regiment, commanded by Colonel George Gibson. He enlisted March 1, 1777, to serve three years, and his name appears on the company muster roll for February, 1778. A statement from Virginia Magazine of History and Biography for 1893-94 says: “A Muster Roll of Captain Ambrose Madison’s Company of foot in the Regiment of Volunteer Guards at Barracks in Albemarle County where Francis Taylor Esq. Is Commander to June 1779: Privates: David Vawter, enlisted January 17, 1779, Discharged June 1, 1779.
Children of Eliza Mavity and Pascal Vawter: C-65. Mary, C-66. John Beverly, C-67. Samantha Jan, C-68. Aureana Lee, C-69. Ailsee Eliza, C-70. Dothan, C-71. Publius Charles, C-72. James Mavity.
The Mavity Family, page 7-8.
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