• General Notes

  LUNENBURG COUSINS---LUNENBURG COUNTY, VIRGINIA - "The Old Free State"; From the book
  by Landon C. Bell, Ph.B., M.A., LL.B.
                        Page 381
  
                       YATES--RANDOLPH--COOKSEY
  
  In this genealogy no comprehensive treatment of the Randolph
  family will be attempted. Only the line of that family sufficient
  to show the Randolph strain which united with the Yates blood,
  will be set forth.
  William Randolph, of Yorkshire, England* (b. 1651, d. Apr.
  11, 1711), emigrated to Virginia about 1674, and settled at
  Turkey Island, in the James River. He is known as William
  Kandolph, of Turkey Island. He married Mary Isham, daughter
  of Henry and Catherine Isham, of Bermuda Hundred.+
  Edward Randolph, son of William Randolph of Turkey
  Island, married "a Miss Groves, an heiress in England,"++ and
  they had a daughter Elizabeth Randolph,+++ who married Reverend
  William Yates, of Gloucester County, Va.
  William[1] Yates (d. 1691), of Shockeley, Chester Co., England,
  and his wife, Katherine, had:
  
  Rev. Bartholomew[2] Yates (b. 1676, d. July 26, 1734), who
  married Sept. 14, 1704, Sarah Mickleburrough.
  
  They had:
  
  1. Catherine[3] Yates (b. June 24, 1706).
  2. Sarah[3] Yates (b. March 3, 1707).
  3. Bartholomew[3] Yates (b. Feb. 9, 1712).
  4. Reverend Robert[3] Yates (b. Jan. a, 1715), who married
      Mary Randolph, daughter of Edward Randolph, and sister
      of Elizabeth Randolph, who married Rev. William Yates.
  5. Frances[3] Yates (b. Nov. 15, 1718).
  6. Rev. William[3] Yates (b. Dec. 10, 1720), of Gloucester Co.,
     Va., who married Elizabeth Randolph, whose ancestry is
     shown above.
  
  Rev. William[3] Yates (b. Dec. 10, 1720), President of William
  and Mary College 1761-1764, as stated, married Elizabeth Ran-
  dolph. She survived him and after his death she married (2ndly)
  
  * _Bristol Parish_, 213.
  + The Isham lineage is well established back to 1424--Beveridge--
  John Marshall, I, 10. The Randolph lineage is well established back
  to 1550.--Id.
  ++ _Bristol Pavish_, 138.
  +++ Va. Hist. Mag. 7, 436.
  
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  Colonel Theodorick Bland, of the American Revolution, brother
  of Frances Bland, mother of John Randolph, of Koanoke.
  
  They had:
  1. Col. Wiiliam[4] Yates, of the American Revolution.
  2. Edward Randolph[4] Yates (under age in 1783), of Amelia
      County, Virginia, who married (M. B. in Mecklenburg Co.,
      Va., dated Sept. 20, 1783), Elizabeth Murray, daughter of
      John Murray of Mecklenburg County, Va. Edward Ran-
      dolph Yates, though of Amelia County, Va., when he mar-
      ried, seems to have owned land in Mecklienburg County,
      where his will is found of record.
      They had:
      John Murray[5] Yates, who once lived in Dinwiddie Co.,
        Va., and who acquired under his father's will the tract
        of land in Mecklenburg County, Va., known as "Mill
        Grove". He married Ann Bailey,--who at the time was
        a widow,--Mrs. Wood.
        They had:
        1. John Murray[6] Yates, Jr., who married a widow Bos-
           well and had:
           (1) Littleton[7] Yates,
           (2) John Murray[7] Yates.
        2. Edward Randolph[6] Yates, who emigrated to Califor-
           nia in 1849, married in that state (name of wife not
           known), and had nine chiltlren.
        3. William Moring[6] Yates, married Miss Cralle of Hali-
           fax County, Virginia, resided in that county, and had
           two daughters.
        4. Joseph A.[6] Yates (d. unmarried), of Lunenburg
           County, Va.
        5. Benjamin Lewis[6] Yates (b. 1827, dead), of Lunen-
           burg Co., Va., married Sophia M. Ralls, of Albemarle
           County, Va., and had:
           (1) John L.[7] Yates, Clerk of Lunenburg Co.
           (2) C. N.[7] Yates,
           (3) B. L.[7] Yates, Jr.
           (4) Anna[7] Yates, who married one Moore.
  
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           (5) George M.[7] Yates,
           (6) Joseph M.[7] Yates,
           (7) Addie M.[7] Yates,
           (8) William A.[7] Yates,
           (9) L. E.[7] Yates.
        6. Louise Murray[6] Yates (d. unmarried).
        7. Ann Bailey[6] Yates, who married Henry Tucker, and
           had:
           (1) John Murray[7] Tucker jkilled in the Confederate
               service, in the Civil War).
           (2) Maria L.[7] Tucker, who married Dr. John A.
               Watson, of Mecklenburg County, Va.
           (3) Anne Bailey[7] Tucker (d. unmarried).
        8. Mary E.[6] Yates, who married (first), John H. Tis-
           dale, of Mecklenburg Co., Va., and had:
           (1) Richard E.[7] Tisdale,
           (2) Addie M.[7] Tisdale.
        9. Martha J.[6] Yates, who married (first) Dr. Leroy
           Murrell and (second), William Campbell, of Peters-
           burg, Va.
           Issue by first marriage:
           (1) Louisa Yates[7] Murrell,
           (2) Ellen[7] Murrell.
           Issue by second marriage:
           (1) William Lee[7] Campbell (d. circa 1923).
       10. Susan Dean[6] Yates, who married Daniel W. Tisdale,
           of Lunenburg County, Virginia, who died (in Notto-
           way County), and had:
           (1) J. A.[7] Tisdale,
           (2) Fannie M.[7] Tisdale,
           (3) Henrietta[7] Tisdale,
           (4) Ann Bailey[7] Tisdale,
           (5) Robert Lee[7] Tisdale.
  
  John L.[7] Yates, Clerk of Lunenburg County, Virginia, con-
  tinuously from 1878 to the present (1926), and still the incumbent
  of that office, married Mary Frances Cooksey, and had:
  1. Elliott[8] Yates (died young).
  
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  2. Mamie Murray[8] Yates, who married Dr. Edwin L. Kendig
      (State Senator), and had:
      (1) Edwin[9] Kendig, Jr.
  3. Helen[8] Yates, who married Dr. Dennis Kendig, and had:
      (1) Frances Yates[9] Kendig,
      (2) John Dennis[9] Kendig.
  
  The Cooksey ancestry of Mrs. John L. Yates (Mary Frances
  Cooksey), is shown below:
  
  Charles[1] Cooksey married Sarah Ann King, of Brunswick
  County, Virginia, and had:
  1. Miles Hamlyn[2] Cooksey, who moved to Kentucky, and mar-
      ried, (first) Martha Cheatham (of Virginia), and had
      issue. After her death he married (second), Ermine
      Hatchett, and had one child, a daughter.
  2. Tyree Wesley[2] Cooksey,
  3. Hartwell Parker[2] Cooksey,
  4. Charles[2] Cooksey,
  5. Leanna[2] Cooksey, who married (first) Crafton, (second),
      Farley.
  6. Prudence[2] Cooksey (who never married).
  7. Mary[2] Cooksey (who never married).
  
  Charles[2] Cooksey married Evelyn Adelaide Royal, daughter of
  Littleberry and Elizabeth (Winn) Royal (married in 1818), of
  Prince Edward County, Va.
  
  They had (ten children):
  
  1. Ann Theresa[3] Cooksey, who married Reps (?) Toone,
  2. Evalyn Adelade[3] Cooksey, who married Stokes (?) Toone,
  3. Fletcher[3] Cooksey (d. during the Civil War).
  4. George Hamlyn[3] Cooksey, of Kentucky, who married Ruth
      Smith, of Kentucky.
  5. Ella Eudoro[3] Cooksey,
  6. Pernetta Louis[3] Cooksey,
  7. Sallie Booker[3] Cooksey,
  8. Ida Parker[3] Cooksey, who married Phillip Hill, of Lunen-
      burg Co., who moved to Missouri.
  9. Waiter M.[3] Cooksey,
  10. Mary Frances[3] Cooksey, who married John L. Yates.
  
  

Details of Elizabeth's family with Reverend William Yates