John Posey

1774 - 1851  (77 years)

• Name	John Posey  [1, 2]
  Birth	19 Sep 1774	Virginia   [2, 3]
  Gender	Male
  Death	25 Nov 1851	Henderson County, Kentucky   [2]
  Person ID	I53954	First tree
  Last Modified	17 Nov 2020

  
  

  Father	General Thomas Posey,   b. 9 Jul 1750, Fairfax County, Virginia d. 19 Mar 1818, Shawneetown, Illinois (Age 67 years)
  Mother	Martha Mathews,   b. 1754, Augusta County, Virginia d. 7 Sep 1778 (Age 24 years)
  Marriage	30 Nov 1772  [2]
  Family ID	F19361	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Lucy Frances Thornton,   b. WFT Est 1762-1787   d. WFT Est 1824-1877 (Age 90 years)
  Marriage	1798  [2]
  Children	1. Mary Harrison Posey,   b. 22 Jan 1799   d. WFT Est 1800-1893 (Age 93 years)   2. Thomas Lloyd Posey,   b. 16 Feb 1801, Rockbridge County, Virginia d. 27 Dec 1836, Walnut Springs, Henderson County, Kentucky (Age 35 years)   3. George Anna Posey,   b. 5 Sep 1803   d. WFT Est 1804-1897 (Age 93 years)   4. John Francis Posey,   b. 25 Oct 1805   d. WFT Est 1806-1895 (Age 89 years)   5. William Thornton Posey,   b. 1 Feb 1808   d. Feb 1860 (Age 52 years)   6. Reuben Mountfort Posey,   b. 17 Feb 1810   d. WFT Est 1811-1900 (Age 89 years)   7. Martha Anne Thompson Posey,   b. 13 Feb 1815   d. WFT Est 1847-1909 (Age 93 years)   8. Alexander Hamilton Posey,   b. 14 Jun 1817   d. 15 Apr 1860, Henderson County, Kentucky (Age 42 years)   9. Addison Thornton Posey,   b. 17 Oct 1819, Henderson County, Kentucky d. 14 Dec 1887, Henderson County, Kentucky (Age 68 years)   10. Lloyd Posey,   b. 23 Nov 1822   d. WFT Est 1823-1912 (Age 89 years)
  Family ID	F19498	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	24 Jan 2013

  
  

• Notes

  John Posey was born 19 September 1774, in Virginia, and died 25 November 1851, in Henderson County, Kentucky. He married in 1798, his stepsister, Lucy Frances THORNTON, daughter of Major George THORNTON and Mary ALEXANDER. They had eleven children. From an Obituary found in the Posey Family Bible: "...After the death of his mother, Captain John Posey was taken into the family of his maternal grandmother and resided there until the return of his father from the army. He was then sent to the best teachers in Virginia..... He obtained from President Washington a commission in the Light Horse, and immediately joined the army under General Wayne. He fought gallantly atthe battle of the Rapids, was at the Treaty of Greenville..... After the peace .. he returned to Virginia and married Miss Lucy F. Thornton, the step-daughter of his father with whom he settled on a beautiful farm near Lexington, Virginia. He was the oldest Elder of the Presbyterian Church in Henderson at the time of his death."

  
  

• Sources

  [S3716] McVea, Eleanor Lobdell, Ancestors and Descendants of Dr. Sears Cabell & Althaea Spalding Cabell, (Provo, Utah, 1977). [S719] MyFamily.com, Inc., World Family Tree Vol. 175, Ed. 1, (Release date: April-2005 Customer pedigree.). [S1931] Montgomery, Anne D., Mathews Family, (1968).