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James Gough, III

James Gough, III

Male 1748 - 1826  (78 years)

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  • Name James Gough  [1, 2, 3, 4] 
    Suffix III 
    Birth 15 Sep 1748  St. Mary's County, MD Find all individuals with events at this location  [3] 
    Gender Male 
    Death 27 Sep 1826  White Sulphur, Scott County, KY Find all individuals with events at this location  [5] 
    Burial St. Francis Cemetery, White Sulphur, Scott County, KY Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Patriarch & Matriarch
    Stephen Gough,   b. Abt 1630, County Gloucester England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Between 22 Oct 1700 and 2 Jan 1701, St. Bernards, Newtown Hundred, St Mary's Co., Md. Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 70 years)  (Great Grandfather) 
    Priscilla Heard,   b. Bef 1720, St. Mary's County, MD Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 1 Nov 1767, St. Mary's County, MD Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age > 47 years)  (Mother) 
    Person ID I3388  1665 GOUGH/GOFF (US-MD-STM/US-VA-LOU) I-Y6902-A
    Last Modified 20 Oct 2023 

    Father James Gough, II,   b. Bef 1690, St. Mary's County, Maryland Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Between 12 Jun 1764 and 19 Jun 1764, St. Mary's County, Maryland Find all individuals with events at this location (Age > 74 years) 
    Mother Priscilla Heard,   b. Bef 1720, St. Mary's County, MD Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 1 Nov 1767, St. Mary's County, MD Find all individuals with events at this location (Age > 47 years) 
    Marriage Bef 1735  St. Mary's County, MD Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Family ID F1832  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family 1 Susannah Tarleton,   b. 15 Sep 1748, St. Mary's County, MD Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 13 Jan 1795, White Sulphur, Scott County, KY Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 46 years) 
    Marriage Bef 1767  St. Mary's County, MD Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Children 
     1. John Baptist Gough,   b. 29 Jan 1767, St. Mary's County, Maryland Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 19 Feb 1839, White Sulphur, Scott County, KY Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 72 years)
    ▻ Mary Medley  m. Bef 1787;   Sarah A. Jenkins  m. Aft 16 Jun 1809

    ▻ Mary Medley  m. Bef 1787;   Sarah A. Jenkins  m. Aft 16 Jun 1809
     2. Anne Gough,   b. 1772, Maryland Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 30 Dec 1830, Rhodelia, Meade County, Kentucky Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 58 years)

     3. Cornelius Gough,   b. 1774, St. Mary's County, MD Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 10 Dec 1833 (Age 59 years)

     4. James Gough, IV,   b. 14 Feb 1775, St Mary's County, MD Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 24 May 1828 (Age 53 years)
    ▻ Rebecca Ann Davis  m. 17 May 1808

    ▻ Rebecca Ann Davis  m. 17 May 1808
     5. Elizabeth Gough,   b. 4 Mar 1781, St. Mary's County Maryland Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 23 Feb 1835, Ralls Co. MO. Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 53 years)
    ▻ James "Cincinnati" Leake  m. Aft 1796

    ▻ James "Cincinnati" Leake  m. Aft 1796
     6. Ignatius Gough,   b. 28 Mar 1784, St. Mary's County, MD Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 23 Mar 1825, Scott County, Kentucky Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 40 years)
    ▻ Susan Beaven  m. 1812

    ▻ Susan Beaven  m. 1812
     7. Mary Allouisa Gough,   b. 28 Nov 1784, St. Mary's County, MD Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 8 May 1842, Scott County, Kentucky Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 57 years)
    ▻ Bennett Greenwell  m. Abt 1810

    ▻ Bennett Greenwell  m. Abt 1810
     8. Julia Ann Gough,   b. 1785   d. 1 Feb 1863, Rhodelia, Meade County, Kentucky Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 78 years)
    ▻ Henry S. Greenwell;   George S. Hunter  m. Aft 1800;   Robert Hunter

    ▻ Henry S. Greenwell;   George S. Hunter  m. Aft 1800;   Robert Hunter
    Family ID F1833  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 20 Oct 2023 

    Family 2 Ann Nancy Lynch,   b. 1768, St. Mary's County, MD Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 7 Jan 1814, Scott Co, KY Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 46 years) 
    Marriage 14 Jan 1797  St. Mary's County, MD Find all individuals with events at this location  [1] 
    Children 
     1. Robert Gough
     2. James Henry Gough,   b. Abt 1800   d. Aft 2 Oct 1864 (Age > 64 years)
    ▻ Unknown  m. 13 Apr 1833

    ▻ Unknown  m. 13 Apr 1833
     3. Elizabeth Ann Gough,   b. 28 Jan 1804, Kentucky Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 1 May 1848, Georgetown, Scott County, Kentucky Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 44 years)

     4. Joseph D. Gough,   b. Between 1810 and 1820   d. Bef 1850 (Age < 39 years)
    ▻ Anne Savilla Jenkins  m. 7 Jun 1836

    ▻ Anne Savilla Jenkins  m. 7 Jun 1836
    Family ID F1834  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 20 Oct 2023 

  • Notes 
    • St. Francis Cemetery, White Sulphur, Scott County, KY

      60 James Gough 1748 Sept. 27, 1826

      GOUGH
      Back in the days when lay trustees did mental battle for the position of "running the church," James Gough (1748-1826) and Jeremiah Tarlton (1755-1826) would have probably been the leading contenders. Both were wealthy men with important family connections. James Gough was related to at least one-third of the members of the St. Francis/St. Pius parish, and Jeremiah Tarlton was the richest.7

      Father Badin, an early guest in the home of James Gough, was frequently at odds with that eccentric parishioner who must have added considerable drama to the Elkhorn frontier country. The date of Gough's coming to Kentucky from St. Mary's County is uncertain. He is listed as one of the founders of the parish. Goad mentions a 1796 migration which involved John, son of Nancy Lynch Price who married Gough on January 14, 1797. In early 1797 Gough carried forty-five dollars to Baltimore to pay the expense of a clergyman to come to serve the parish.48

      James Gough's first wife was a sister to Eleanor Medley, the wife of Jeremiah Tarlton. She was Susanna Gough (1746-July 1795), buried beside Gough. The two men with their proclivity to contention at one time were so at odds with each other that their conflict was the subject of ecclesiastical correspondence.49

      The Gough name is important to Kentucky agriculture, as it was a Marylander named Gough and a Virginian named Miller who imported the first improved English cattle into the Shenandoah Valley. Both strains were in Kentucky by 1787; and in 1790 they were bred to Matthew Patton's Mars strain. Until 1817, says Thomas D. Clark, all improved Kentucky cattle came from the Gough-Miller-Patton stock. After the War of 1812, imported English purebreds were mixed with this stock, resulting in the famous Kentucky Shorthorn.50

      Of James Gough, Sr., John Price, his stepson, recalled, "He was an excellent man and a Catholic, while my mother was an Episcopalian. He tried to raise me up in his religion, and my mother, in hers, and between the two, be damned if they didn't make me nothing."51 Nancy Gough's first husband was Robert Price; her daughter Nancy married James, son of Jeremiah and Eleanor Medley Tarlton. Nancy had a brother named Barton Lynch.

      James Gough's extensive family included John Baptist Gough (1775-1839) who married Sarah Jenkins Clarvo, widow of Henry Clarvo; James Gough, Jr. (1775-1828), whose wife was Rebecca Ann, who married John Manning circa 1793; Ignatius Gough (1785-1825) who left infant heirs who were looked after by Henry McAtee and Richard B. Jackson; Alluisa Gough, who became the second wife of Bennet Greenwell; Robert Gough, executor of the estates of James Gough, Sr., and James Gough, Jr.; Juliana Gough who married Robert Hunter first and Henry Greenwell second; James H. Gough (born ca. 1800) who married Cordelia C. Jenkins before 1834, she being a daughter of Thomas C. and Elizabeth Tarlton Jenkins; Elizabeth Ann Gough (1804-1848) who married George W. Tarlton, born in 1809 to the Jeremiah Tarltons; Cornelius Gough; and possibly others. (Father Badin wrote Bishop Carroll on September 12, 1809 that John Manning was a son-in-law of James Gough, they along with John B. Gough being "malcontents.")

      There were two Ignatius Goughs active in the congregation: one, the son of James Gough, Sr., and the other a veteran of the Revolutionary War and possibly a brother of James Gough, Sr. It was this latter Ignatius Gough who provided a farm for the Sisters of Charity of Nazareth St. Catherine's Academy. James Gough, Sr. and Ignatius Gough signed the 1806 petition for a pastor; and James, Cornelius, and Ignatius Gough contributed toward the Dominican college.
      James Gough, Sr.'s, lands initially lay within the much disputed land grants of Terrell and Hawkins and John C. Owings, which those parties had acquired from Hugh and William Alexander and John Smith. This land lay south of Ironworks Pike and west of the Midway-Versailles Pike. In 1825 he deeded 171 acres of this to John B. Gough and another tract lying north of Ironworks and extending east and north of the parish farm to Anderson Harper. IN 1836 his other lands were deeded to Robert and Ann Thomason (seventy acres), Barnaby Worland (twenty acres), and John Branham (seventy acres).
      John Baptist Gough's will was probated in July 1839. Notes were help on Benedict and James R. Gough, Buford Craig, James Combs, John Thomason, and William N. Thomason. George Allgaier and James R. Gough were the executors.54
      The last of the Goughs bearing the name who in the St. Francis/St. Pius cemetery were James, James, Jr., in 1828, and John Baptist Gough, 1839.

      B. L. Gough, who died in 1876, was of the tailor - merchant trade. His estate sale in Will Book R takes up fifteen and one-third pages with proceeds of only $682.87.

      Sr. Vickie Cravens at Mt. St. Joseph's. The information she has stems around James H. Gough m. Susanna Medley, son Ignatius bapt. St.. Francis in Georgetown KY, d. 1825 m. Susan Beavins, children were James Henry b. 1831 (m. Cordelia Cecelia Jenkins), George, Harriett A., Susan Rebecca, Wm. M. Susan (Beavins) remarried Henry McAtee in Scott County KY, after Ignatius died. (I think she died in 1848). They moved to Monroe County, MO. Susanna Medley Jenkins' (probably meant Cordelia Cecelia Jenkins see note below) parents were Thomas Courtney Jenkins & Elizabeth (?) and also moved to Monroe County MO.

      I wonder now if she meant to write: "Cordelia Cecelia Jenkins' parents were Thomas Courtney Jenkins & Elizabeth (?) and also moved to Monroe County MO." Yes!!!!

      Since, I did find another tree that said she was the daughter of Thomas Jenkins:

      Gough, Cordelia Cecelia Daugh. of Thomas & ( ) Jenkins of Scott Co., Ky. 1st wife of James Henry Gough - 8 children D. Oct. 2, 1864 Age 51 yrs. 4 mos. 24 days

      Linda Reno wrote:

      > Mike,
      >
      Thomas Courtney Jenkins married Elizabeth Tarlton, daughter of Jeremiah Tarlton and Eleanor Medley (how ironic) of St. Mary's County.
      >
      1. ELIZABETH4 TARLTON (JEREMIAH3, JAMES2, TARLTON1) was born June 25, 1785 in St. Mary's Co., MD, and died November 09, 1862 in Georgetown, KY. She married THOMAS COURTNEY JENKINS Abt. 1809 in KY. He was born 1775 in St. Mary's Co., MD, and died February 22, 1832 in Georgetown, KY.
      >
      Children of Jeremiah Tarlton and his wife, Eleanor Medley Tarlton. This source gives her first name as Elizabeth, her dob, their estimated marriage year; and date of death and location. Children: Henry; Austin; Sebastian; Eleanora; Cordelia C.; Bede (male); Ann Savilla; Matilda; Thomas; Elizabeth; and Theodore. (Fenwick Collection, St. Mary's Co. Historical Society).
      >
      Cornelius who died 1833 was a brother of John Baptist Gough (1767-1839). Both were sons of James Gough & Susanna Medley.

      Bill Korstick

      Yes, James Gough married a 2nd time after his wife Susanna Medley Gough died in 1795. Apparently he went back to Maryland and married Ann Nancy Lynch Price. Ann Nancy Lynch married Robert Price. They had a son, John Price, born 25 Mar 1787 in St Marys Co, MD. Robert Price died. Ann Nancy then married James Gough 14 Jan 1797 in St Marys Co MD. James & Ann Nancy may have had a daughter, Elizabeth born 1801 but I am not positive this lady is from these two. I have an in a 1957 St Marys County Historical Society paper. He talks about his mother, step-father James Gough, and others- quite interesting.

      Bill Korstick

      Hi Jim,

      Susanna Medley, daughter of Thomas Medley and Mary Fenwick, married James Gough III, son of James Gough, Jr. and Priscilla Heard, in St. Mary's Co. prior to 1774. A brief report follows.

      Linda Reno

      Descendants of James Gough III

      Generation No. 1

      1. JAMES4 GOUGH III (JAMES3, JAMES2, STEPHEN1) was born September 15, 1748 in St. Mary's Co., MD, and died September 27, 1826 in Scott Co., KY. He married (1) SUSANNA MEDLEY Bef. 1774 in St. Mary's Co., MD, daughter of THOMAS MEDLEY and MARY FENWICK. She was born Bef. 1759 in St. Mary's Co., MD, and died January 13, 1795 in Scott Co., KY. He married (2) ANN "NANCY" LYNCH January 14, 1797 in St. Mary's Co., MD, daughter of LYNCH and ISABEL PEMBROKE. She was born 1768 in St. Mary's Co., MD, and died January 07, 1814 in Scott Co., KY.

      Children of JAMES GOUGH and SUSANNA MEDLEY are:

      i. CORNELIUS5 GOUGH, b. 1774, St. Mary's Co., MD; d. December 10, 1833, Rhodelia, Meade Co., KY.

      ii. JAMES GOUGH IV, b. February 14, 1775, St. Mary's Co., MD; d. May 24, 1828, Scott Co., KY; m. REBECCA ANN DAVIS, Aft. 1795; b. Aft. 1775.

      iii. ELIZABETH GOUGH, b. March 04, 1781, St. Mary's Co., MD; d. February 23, 1835, Ralls Co., MO; m. JAMES LEAKE, Aft. 1796; b. Bef. 1775; d. Aft. 1795, KY.

      iv. IGNATIUS GOUGH, b. 1784, St. Mary's Co., MD; d. May 23, 1825, Scott Co., KY; m. SUSAN BEAVEN, Aft. 1804, KY; b. Bef. 1784.

      v. MARY ALOYSIA GOUGH, b. November 28, 1784, St. Mary's Co., MD; d. Aft. 1799; m. BENNET GREENWELL, Aft. 1799; b. December 07, 1761, St. Mary's Co., MD; d. Aft. 1833, Scott Co., KY.

      vi. JULIANNA GOUGH, b. 1785, St. Mary's Co., MD; d. Aft. 1800, Rhodelia, Scott Co., KY; m. GEORGE S. HUNTER, Aft. 1800, KY; b. Bef. 1785; d. Aft. 1800, Rhodelia, Scott Co., KY.

      Children of JAMES GOUGH and ANN LYNCH are:

      vii. JAMES H.5 GOUGH, b. 1800.

      viii. ELIZABETH ANN GOUGH, b. 1804; d. May 01, 1848, Georgetown, KY; m. GEORGE W. TARLTON, Aft. 1829; b. February 1809, KY; d. Georgetown, KY.

  • Sources 
    1. [S5053] Korstick, Bill.

    2. [S5619] The Centenary Of Catholicity in Kentucky, 89.

    3. [S5551] St. Mary's County, Maryland, Colonial Period Tenants and Owners of "Beaverdam Manor" and Surroundin.

    4. [S5407] Reno, Linda.

    5. [S5536] St. Fancis/St. Pius, That Troublesome Parish.