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JAMES CHISM, KENTUCKY PIONEER
Submitted by Carolyn Chism
James Chism was born in the late part of 1787 in Virginia. He married Elizabeth Fletcher in November 06, 1810 in Clark County, Kentucky. I believe that Elizabeth was the daughter of John Fletcher. They had ten children, nine of who survived to adulthood.They were Lucinda who married William Mobley and later moved to Kansas, Sarah who married Rufus Combs and moved to Estill County Kentucky and then to Missouri, Mary Ann who married George Harlow and later Lewis Haggard.
William who married Frances Fitzpatrick and later took his family to Texas, Frances who married Stanley Baber, Elizabeth married Ambrose Hall, Lydia married John A. Eaton, Rachel married Pleasant Baber who died during the Civil War and then Thomas Adams, Julia Ann married Israel Wilcox. Elizabeth passed away about 1835/1836 and in 1837, James remarried to Frances Harlow, daughter of Thomas and Margaret “Peggy” Harlow. Frances claimed to also have had ten children with James but I have only found records for nine. The children of James and Frances were Minerva who married George W. Stokely, Emily, Benjamin F., Amanda, James M. who married Eliza Jane Wilcox, Barbary (male), Jefferson M., and Marcus. James and Frances lived their lives on Four Mile Creek in Clark County, Ky., near Ford.
James was a veteran of the War of 1812 with three enlistments. An interesting item in the Clark County newspaper stated that at age 92, James walked eight miles to Winchester to hear Evangelist Green Clay Smith. This occurred in October and he died the following February. James died February 22, 1879.
The descendants of James married into the Baber, Hampton, Haggard, Hall, Wilcox, Brown and Fitzpatrick families to name just a few. Almost all the old families in Clark County, Ky., are related to the Chism family in some way.
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