Whitesell-Somers Family Web Project - Person Sheet
Whitesell-Somers Family Web Project - Person Sheet
Obituary Online notes for Thomas MADREN
The following is from The Heritage of Caswell County, North Carolina, Jeannine D. Whitlow, Editor (1985) at 118 (Article #63 "James Amos Boone" by Mary B. Simmons):
James Amos Boone's maternal great grandfather, Thomas Madren, came from Madrid, Scotland in the late 1700s. He married Betty Weymouth, who was the daughter of Ship Captain Thomas Weymouth. They lived near Elizabeth City, N.C. in Pasquotank County. He was a cabinet maker by trade and a competent wrestler, having learned to defend himself in the war of 1812.
In 1819, this family of two boys and three girls started to Missouri, to take up homestead, by the way of High Rock in Rockingham County. In late November a sudden snowstorm caused them to stop at the Herbin farm near the county lines of Caswell, Alamance, and Rockingham. It snowed three feet and before that melted, more fell. As a result, they stayed with the Herbins and gave up the trip to Missouri. Thus, the Madren family began to populate Caswell and Alamance Counties.
Thomas and Betty Madren's son, Amos, was born October 7, 1812. He married Ellen Hicks, the daughter of Luke and Betty McFarland Hicks. They had four sons and one daughter. 336
James Amos Boone's maternal great grandfather, Thomas Madren, came from Madrid, Scotland in the late 1700s. He married Betty Weymouth, who was the daughter of Ship Captain Thomas Weymouth. They lived near Elizabeth City, N.C. in Pasquotank County. He was a cabinet maker by trade and a competent wrestler, having learned to defend himself in the war of 1812.
In 1819, this family of two boys and three girls started to Missouri, to take up homestead, by the way of High Rock in Rockingham County. In late November a sudden snowstorm caused them to stop at the Herbin farm near the county lines of Caswell, Alamance, and Rockingham. It snowed three feet and before that melted, more fell. As a result, they stayed with the Herbins and gave up the trip to Missouri. Thus, the Madren family began to populate Caswell and Alamance Counties.
Thomas and Betty Madren's son, Amos, was born October 7, 1812. He married Ellen Hicks, the daughter of Luke and Betty McFarland Hicks. They had four sons and one daughter. 336