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Hello Bette,
Thanks for the reply. Yes, I do realize that Mathew is in a few
books. Which one are you referring to? Baird's History of Clark County
has an article on James A. Clegg which mentions Mathew. CLEGGS of the
Upper Ohio Valley by Blaine Clegg is very informative. Of course the
information in Baird's History is occasionally only as good as what
interested relatives passed on to him. For instance: Mathew was
born in 1810 in VA.
Catharine (Anderson), Mathew's 1st wife died August 25, 1834.
They were married March 3, 1831 by Rezin Hammond. She is buried at Mt.
Moriah Cemetery in Henryville, IN (the small obelisk behind Mathew and
Martha's stone). Catharine was 21 years & 6 months when she died.
Mathew & Martha were married Feb. 26, 1836. Martha was born Dec. 9,
1818. Mathew & Martha died Feb. 5, 1892.
(I am not faulting Baird for the errors. He did a fantastic job with
the information he was given, and has been a tremendous help to many
individuals in their research).
Anyone researching the CLEGG family would also find the book by Blaine
Clegg a real help.
P.S. I have a few pictures of the Clegg ancestors, Mathew & Martha
Clegg; their son Richard and his wife Ruth (Mc Coskey); the old Clegg
School and Church at Henryville, Indiana; Richard Marion and Hester
Clegg. I also have some very good pictures of the family of Richard and
Ruth (Mc Coskey) Clegg, both in their younger and adult years. These
are scanned and I can
e-mail them to those interested.
Mary (Ruddell) Zollman
Bette Schiedler wrote:
>
> Hi, Has someone told you, there is a book out with Mathew
> mentioned in
> it? Bette
> At
> 04:05 PM 8/25/2003 -0400, you wrote:
> >Hello All,
> > Is anyone doing research on the above individual? MATHEW was born in
> >Indiana to RICHARD CLEGG and MARY B. (SIMPSON) CLEGG. He lived in
> >Henryville, Indiana, was a lawyer, fought in the Civil War, and an
> >ancestor of COL. HARLAND SANDERS.
> > Mary (Ruddell) Zollman
> >
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Hi Mary,
Yes I am doing research on Mathew Simpson Clegg he is 3rd great
grandfather. Mathew was a Soapbox Prohibitionist and loved to lecture on
the topic. He fought in the Civil War for the North. He enrolled at age
52 as First Lieutenant in Indianapolis by Governor Morton on 3 September
1862. He mustered into Company "M", 90th Calvary, 5th Division in
Indianapolis. He mustered out at Pulaski, Tennessee as a Captain on 30
June 1865.
During the war, Mathew was captured by the Rebels at Macon, Georgia and
spent six months in Libby Prison in Richmond, Virginia before being
exchanged.
Mathew's family moved to Utica, Indiana when he was 14. Later, Mathew
and Mary were founding members of the First Advent Church in Henryville.
Mathew and his wife Martha died on the same day in unrelated deaths.
Mathew was able to give each of his children a small farm or house and
lot in town when they were married. He sold a sawmill to B. F. Stewards
after the Civil War.
There was a long-standing feud between the Clegg's and the Patterson's.
At one time, Mathew was engaged in a dispute over the ownership of a farm
with a William Patterson (his nephew by marriage). He went to the farm
to take possession and was shot through the lung by a hidden assassin.
Patterson fled and his family soon followed to Missouri. Captain Clegg
lay for some time hovering between life and death, but finally recovered
and lived for a quarter of a century.
In the last paper mention was made of Captain Matthew Clegg and his son
Matthew (Polk) Clegg, who went into the Civil War as members of the Fifth
Indiana Cavalry, the last named perishing so miserable in Andersonville
prison. Such a patriot and patriarch as the elder Clegg deserves special
mention in these sketches. Matthew Clegg was born in Virginia, April 25,
1810, and came to Clark County, Indiana, in 1824. Early in life he
became a farmer, and up to the day of his death he was engaged in that
occupation, or interested in it. He was married to his second wife,
Martha Allen, January 28, 1836. Thirteen children were born to them, nine
of whom survive. Up to the time of death of Captain Clegg and wife,
sixty-nine grandchildren and ten great-grand children had been born,
nearly all of whom are alive yet. In 1862 he entered the army as a
Liutenant (sic) of Co. L, 5th Indiana Cavalry, and was mustered out in
1865. After the war he resumed farming, also engaging in the practice of
law. At one time he was elected by the Democratic party as Prosecutor of
the Clark and Floyd Circuit Court. Although he was not considered a
finished and educated lawyer, he made one of the most efficient and
effective Prosecutors the two counties ever had. In some respects his
life was eventful and deeply exciting. At one time he was engaged in a
dispute over the ownership of a farm with a William Patterson, his nephew
by marriage. He went to the farm to take possession, and was shot
through the left lung by a hidden assassin. Patterson fled and his family
soon followed, to Missouri. These facts directed suspicion to Patterson
as the guilty party. Mr. Clegg lay for some time hovering between life
and death, but finally recovered to live over a quarter of a century, and
considering this incident, with the trying exposure of the army, and his
inexpressible suffering at Andersonville, his vigor and tenacity of life
were almost unexampled. Mr. Clegg was a loyal, devoted friend, and once
engaged in a quarrel he punished his enemies severely. Himself and wife
were members of the Second Advent Church. He was zealous and liberal for
his favorite sect, and his influence has left a plant that will live many
years, if not all time. He was a hospitable, kind and Christian man, and
was a strong prohibitionist.
Mrs. Clegg was born near the present town of Henryville, then a howling
wilderness, December 10, 1818. She was a sister of Cass Allen and Mrs.
Phineas Taylor, of Union Township. She was an industrious, quiet, modest
woman, a true Christian and a faithful, loyal wife. She left her
impression on the generation that survives, and during all the struggles
of her husband was a true ally and counsellor (sic).
It was a singular coincidence that both these old people died the same
day, February 6, 1892. During the severe weather of January preceding,
while Mr. Clegg was at a well in his yard, watering a horse, he slipped
on the ice, falling on his breast from which injuries death indirectly
resulted. He was about his house for two or three days afterward, then
took to his bed with pneumonia, never again to leave it. He died about 7
A.M. Mrs. Clegg, who was taken with the same disease about ten days
previously, steadily advanced toward dissolution until about 12 oclock
the same day, when she entered into everlasting rest without having been
informed that her life partner had just preceded her five hours. Both
these venerable patriarchs were conscious to the last. In their death
two landmarks of the early days of the century were removed. Such was
the life of this couple who dwelt together in love, peace and unity for
56 years, United in life, undivided in death, is a privilege rarely
accorded to man and wife. Both were full of years and ripe for the
reaper.
In Monroe township, and particularly Henryville, where they lived so many
years, the memory of the late Capt. and Mrs. Matthew Clegg will be long
cherished. They died February 6th, and the absence of the portly and
familiar figure of Mr. Clegg from the village streets upon which it was
his habit to stroll at any hour of the day, is much commented upon by
elderly citizens who miss his cordial greetings and kindly smile of
recognition. They fully realize that in his death an old landmark has
been removed. In his later years Mr. Clegg was a strong Prohibitionist.
His last race for office, that of Prosecuting Attorney of the Circuit
Court was made on that platform. He had the courage of his convictions
on temperance, and boldly maintained them though fully aware his defeat
was certain. People listened patiently and interestedly to his remarks
and admitted the justness of his views, but in almost every instance they
voted with the older political parties. If Mr. Clegg had a hobby it was
that of temperance, and in his public utterances, though intending
perhaps to discuss a theme entirely different from his favorite one, it
was rare indeed if he did not before closing drift into the very one he
had endeavored to avoid. He had the most utter contempt for those
engaged in the liquor traffic seeming to regard them as the devils
emmissaries (sic). Mr. Clegg delivered the Decoration Day address at Mt.
Zion, May 30, 1886. He stood in the shadow of the old church, since torn
down, and opened with a glowing eulogy to the memory of those brave boys
in blue who had fought, bled and died that the Union might be preserved.
He continued in this strain for some time, citing many incidents of his
army life, but apparently ere himself or his hearers were aware of it he
had drifted into the temperance arena and was hurling thunderbolts of the
most withering and stinging anathema at the cohorts of King Alcohol.
Several of his hearers laughingly called it a cavalry charge into the
ranks of the great fore to the human race, for Mr. Clegg was an officer
of the 5th Indiana Cavalry, though objecting in civil life to being
addressed by his military title. Others declared that tribute to the
fallen soldiery the most fearful arraignment of the saloon keeping
element they had ever heard. It was enough to make a bar-keepers hair
curl to listen to it. Shortly before Mr. Cleggs death, the Record
reporter met him on a Henryville street. It was their last meeting. The
old gentleman seemed in a thoughtful mood, even despondent. He was
waiting the opening of a magistrates court, a trial having been set for
a hearing in which he was to represent the plaintiff. The attorney for
defendant had arrived by an early train and forthwith began screwing his
courage up to the point argumentative by so many visits to the saloon
that he had a large and unweildy jag of liquor concealed within his
paunch. Now said Clegg, of all things detestable theres nothing worse
then to contend in a county court with a drunken lawyer on the opposing
side, and with that fellow getting drunker every minute, how well manage
to get through with this side, and with this case without running it into
a farce, heaven only knows. As he extended his hand at parting, he said
Young man, if I could write like you can, Id quit reporting these
village dog fights and write a novel or a series of novels. The result
of the trial was that the drunken lawyer lost his case. Mr. Cleggs last
appearance in court was in a case venued from ????, and tried before
Squire Weir at Memphis, December 30, 1891 being that of Pennington v.
Kelly. A few days later he fell on the ice at a well in his yard while
watering his horse. From this resulted pneumonia, which his iron
constitution enabled him to battle with nearly four weeks before he
yielded.
Alan Lee
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Hello All,
Is anyone doing research on the above individual? MATHEW was born in
Indiana to RICHARD CLEGG and MARY B. (SIMPSON) CLEGG. He lived in
Henryville, Indiana, was a lawyer, fought in the Civil War, and an
ancestor of COL. HARLAND SANDERS.
Mary (Ruddell) Zollman
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Hi
Our gr grandmother was Louisa Clegg born 1867 in victoria australia, parents on birth certificate - Henry Clegg and Jane Clegg (formerly Flegg / nee Giblett). Although Louisa was raised using Flegg as her surname.
Fran
Hello, I am seeking any infomation about HELENE MARR CLEGG, wife of ABRAHAM ROWE CLEGG. They had a daughter KATHERINE CLEGG. Helene was born c. 1881, daughter of ALFRED AUGUSTUS CAINE. She was divorced from Abraham to marry my grandfather JOHN ARTHUR WATKINS in 1911 in Liverpool. She was described as being American. She sailed many times between USA and Liverpool, sometimes on Lusitania. Her address given in USA was Main Street, Pittsburgh. Any help at all, I have no idea where any of these people came from, I can see no sign of them on IGI or census for UK or USA,
thanks Lynda Liverpool.