Biography of Judith Markham

Taken from old clippings dealing with Kentucky family history, newspaper unknown. These clippings are about 100 years old (1997). Reprinted in Kentucky Explorer, Volume 10, Number 5 - October, 1995. p. 95. Henry County.

JUDITH MARKHAM My grandmother was a Markham, niece of Vincent Markham of Powhattan County, Va., and of Bernard who lived in Dinwiddie County. Her father was a Revolutionary soldier, who sickened and died in Yorktown during the siege. Her mother, who was a Wathen, took small pox, from a sick soldier whom she entertained, as he was returning home from Yorktown, and died, leaving three children, a son and two daughters. Her uncle Bernard took my grandmother, who was then ten years old. Her brother, when grown, went to Alabama, her sister married a Robinson, and lived in Chesterfield County, near Petersburg. Her uncle, Bernard had two sons, Jack and George, and two daughters, one of whom married Linnaeus Bowling; Judith the younger married Norburn Cook, and went to Henry County, Ky. to live. Her uncle, Vincent Markham, lived and died in Powhattan County, Va., leaving one child, Betsy, who married a Lewis, and was left a widow with two sons, Joseph and Vincent, and daughters, Mary and Sarah. Vincent and Bernard Markham had sisters, one of whom married a Patterson, and moved to Giles Co., Tenn. She had two sons, James and Bernard, and a daughter named Kitty.

The above transcript was copied from email to MARKHAM-L@rootsweb.com from Diane Korten, korten@ne.uswest.net, 6 May 1998, Subject: Another Markham Family.