Too many Names on the A-Z Lists?

Now easily Search by Name!

Searching Tip – Use the least amount of words necessary, and choose the correct name from the results.
(e.g. “Jones,” not “T Jones,” “T. Jones,” “TS Jones,” “T.S. Jones,” “Ted Jones,” etc. – just “Jones.”)

A-Z Lists:

People

Places

Events

Categories

Glascock Family History

Linda (Carpenter) Peterson has written many stories about the families of her ancestors – Glascock Family, Scheloske Family, Nesbit Family and Carpenter Family. She has also written about the first graduation at Weiser Junior High School, and her time as a student at Sunnyside Grade School.

************************************************************************************************************************************

**************************************************************************************************************

********************************************************************************************

****************************************************

********************************

According to The Glascock’s Family Quarterly I have, dated July 1985, it tells about the shooting of John Byron Glascock in Weiser, Idaho. The article was contributed by Bonnie Bartlett. It appeared in the WEISER LEADER, Sept, 13, 1889. A brief description – the shooting occurred between the hours ten and eleven o’clock Saturday night on the corner of Commercial and First Street in front of the Palace Saloon in Weiser, Idaho. This appeared in the newspaper September 13, 1889.

There was a troop of the 2nd Cavalry in Route for Boise on their return from Payette Lakes, camped near Weiser on the island near the bridge over the Weiser River. A party of eight soldiers were standing in front of the Palace Saloon when a corporal of the cavalry troop named James Brink was shot through the neck- not fatally and the evidence before the Coroner’s Jury proved that the deed was done by a shot from a pistol in the hands of the deceased, John B, Glascock, who ran down commercial followed by some soldiers who fired at least fifteen or twenty shots. One of the bullets caused his death instantly by going through the heart region. They didn’t find his body until the next morning.

They sent for his wife Emma and their 13 year old son John (Jack) to identify his body. John and Emma (Ottman) Glascock had 4 children. The one was Margaret (Maude) G. Glascock born in 1879 in Weiser, Idaho. She married George Coleman on January 7, 1899. George Coleman born in 1865 and passed away in 1952. They had Raymond Earl Coleman born in 1905 and passed away in 2000. They also had a son named William, no information about him. Maude passed away in 1910 and is buried in Owyhee cemetery in Nyssa, Oregon. Emma and John’s second child was named John (Jack) Glascock. Born In 1880 in Weiser, Idaho. He married Cora Schwiezer on June 15, 1910 in Malheur County Oregon. They had a son named John and a daughter named Alice. Cora died February 1, 1965 in Phoenix, Arizona. She is buried in Arizona. Jack died Nov.30, 1973 in Phoenix, Arizona. He is buried in the Owyhee cemetery in Nyssa, Oregon. They had other children, I will write about them later. (13)

********************************

Mrs. Emma (Ottman) Glascock passed away in Weiser, Idaho on November 6,1898. The cause was a heart attack.

The lady was keeping house for Mr. Frank Hubbard and was caring for his children and also for own children. Her death occurred at his home. She had contacted a severe cold and immediately after serving to her children and to Frank’s Hubbard children on Sunday. She was severely ill, and one of the children went for Dr. Shirley, but when he arrived death had already occurred.

She was preceded in death by a sister Helena McKinney of Midvale, Idaho, a brother Frederick Ottman of Weiser, Idaho and her parents. According to George ( Pete) Oscar Glascock, granddaughter Bonnie Fields Barlett. John Byron and Emma (Ottman) Glascock had a homestead claim of 160 acres along the Weiser River in S.W. Washington County, Idaho.

After John Byron Glascocks death from the shooting of September 8, 1889, Emma sold 80 acres to Frank M. Hubbard, then on October 2,1895, she sold the other 80 acres to Mr. Thomas and Mary Kimborough.

********************************

Who ever heard of the Glasscocks “G is for George Washington’s Ball?”

G is for a cousin, married MAJOR GEORGE & CAPT. WM. Glascock, he leased land to JOHN GLASCOCK and made a state to visit COL. WM. GLASCOCK home. L is for Lafayette, a street named in his home town, Lagrange, France, after PETER GLASCOCK and Peter reciprocated in Paris, Virginia. A is for Abe Lincoln, fought in the Blackhawk War under 1st LT. GEORGE W. GLASCOCK and spoke to KIM & MATT GLASCOCK, the 1st Lincoln “Railsplitters” at the Charleston Debate. S is for Samuel Clemmens was a friend of STEPHEN GLASCOCK and wrote of Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn on Glascock’s Island near Hannibal, Missouri. S is For Samuel Pepy,s wrote in his famous diary of visiting his “cozin” CHARLES GLASCOCK. C is for Count Casimir Pulaski, was rescued by his friend CAPTAIN ( later General) THOMAS GLASCOCK at the Battle of Savannah. O is for O’Bannons, were neighbors and friends of many Fauquier Co. Va. GLASCOCKS, Presley O’Bannon was the marine “Hero of Tripoli”, who led the attack on the Barbary Pirates. C is for Colonel John S. Mosby, the Civil War “Gray Ghost” recuperated from wounds at the home of AQUILLA GLASCOCK. K is for King Carter, Virginia’s richest planter, acquired THOMAS GLASCOCK plantation. S is for Sam Houston, knew GEORGE W. GLASCOCK who fought at the “Siege of Bexar”(San Antonio) prior to the Alamo defeat and after whom Glasscock County, Texas was named. (14)

********************************

Although the records were destroyed by fire, it appears that Col. George Glascock and his family lived at “Indian Banks” after 1699. On April 13, 1726, Major George Glascock married Judith Ball, daughter of his neighbor Col. William Ball, and two years later his brother Capt. William Glascock married her cousin Esther Ball, daughter of Captain Richard Ball of St. Mary’s White Chapel. The girls were second cousins of George Washington through his mother, Mary Ball. Records of the time show the marriages of their prominent neighbors including Fauntleroys, Balls, Chichesters, Downmans, Tarpleys and others. In his history Bishop Meade names the Glasscock family as “among the prominent ones of Richmond County, Virginia, from 1692 to 1775” and a recent historian has written, “ The Glasscock family was prominent in Warwick and Richmond Counties, Virginia.” Here we have a family among the oldest in Virginia and of colonial as well as present prominence. The Glasscock family, is well worth such study as had been given to many New England families, and if the whole history could be disclosed it would be interesting and worthy. (14)

********************************

Thomas Glascock was born before 1671. He married Sarah Stone, daughter of William Stone. Thomas lived on Farnham Creek, the next creek up the Rappahannock about 3 miles north of “Indian Banks”. In 1715 he acted on a committee to take depositions in a property question. In 1718 and 1719 he was appointed surveyor of the highway from Capt. Tarpley’s house over the Morattico Hill to the main road. Then tragedy struck. On Nov. 5, 1723, Thomas made an assault on the body of William Forrester by stabbing him with a knife and killing him instantly.After the incident he fled from his home and apparently was never heard from again by his family.

According to what I found out, Thomas suffered from renal Kidney failure. His kidneys poisoned his body. He went insane killing Dr. William Forrester, who was treating him with a knife. His son Gregory, who was 23 at the time, accompanied him on his escape and was later arraigned by a Richmond County Court as an accessory after the murder. After hearing testimony of Gregory and his brother, John (age 24) and Thomas, Junior (age 18), the court found that “ the principal not being attained.

Gregory Glascock being examined said that on fifth of November about midnight he set off in a boat with his father Thomas Glascock from the their landing (on Farnham Creek) and the next morning his father put him on shore the other side of the river about 5 miles below Morattico Creek, and then he travelled to Gloucester town , and went over the Ferry to York town, and from thence went to Hampton Town and went over James River and landed at one Wilson’s , and from thence travelled through Norfolk town and went to a place called the Northwest Landing and then came back about two days before Christmas to the house of one Nehomiah Jones and from thence made the best of his way home.

The murder and the subsequent flight of Thomas ( perhaps eventually south to the Carolinas left his wife, Sarah, with six children on the Farnham Creek property. She probably maintained the family home for a time in the best way she could manage, but “King” Robert Carter took possession of Thomas real estate, slaves and other property which was forfeited to the government. The next generation of Glascock in Thomas line apparently had to start all over again on their own. They moved north from their old home in the Tidewater and established large families and many descendants in northern Virginia in the Piedmont area.

John, the eldest son of Thomas and Sarah Stone Glascock and Peter, their youngest son, moved northwest from their old home area in the Tidewater and established large families and many descendants in northern Virginia in the “ backwoods” in the foothills of Virginia’s Blue Ridge Mountains in Prince William Co.’s Piedmont area. It appears that their son Gregory remained in Richmond County.

John Glascock questioned about his father’s flight in 1724. He was granted April 10,1728, 633 acres “above the thoroughfare of Broad Run, at the foot of Mother Leathercoat Mountain”, in what after 1759 was Faquier Co. built “Rockburn” of four rooms and a cellar (which still remains.) He built a home north of Rectort up before they could be removed.

It was buried and rebuilt during the Civil War, but remained in the Glascock family into the 20th century. The cellar still remains as a wall in the garden of the present house and the old “Rockburn Cemetery “ remains.

John supplied beef for the army doing the Revolution War. (14)

“Indian Banks” the ancestral family Tidewater home was built in 1699 on the Rappahannock where John Smith was in 1608. It is older than most of the famous Virginia mansions and is still in good condition. The bricks for the house were made by the slaves on the plantation from the clay dug from the riverbank. According to a story the name Glasscock came from the Parish of Tamworth in Ireland, where it was originally spelled Glascote or Glascott. The name Glasscock began in England with one John Glascok in High Estre County, Essex in 1365 during the reign of Edward II . The history of the Irish and English families of Glascott, or Glascock, is told in extension in Burke’s “ Dictionary of the Landed Gentry of Great Britain and Ireland “. The Glasscock plantation was named “Indian Banks” because it was a part of the land where the Morraughtaownas Indians lived when white men first settled at Jamestown in 1607. These Indians were one of thirty or more tribes in the Algonquian nation ruled by Powhatan, the father of Pocahontas who did so much to help the Jamestown settlers in their first years of struggle and who so dramatically saved the life of John Smith. This tribe’s principle town was at the site Glasscock’s plantation at “Indian Banks”. The tribe consisted of about 300 Indians who spoke a variety of the Delaware Language. The house at “Indian Banks” remained a center of Glascock activity for about 130 years until 1822 when it was sold outside the Glascock family. (14)

********************************

On July 28,1652 Thomas was granted a patent for six hundred acres about 30 miles north of his Peankatanke land on Morattico Creek in Lancaster County of Virginia. Two hundred of these acres were received in exchange for the surrender of his first patent for the land on the Peankatanke. On January 9, 1662 Thomas received another patent for 280 additional acres adjoining the land he had at the head of the Morattico Creek for transporting 6 more persons. It seems most likely that he moved his family north during the early 1660’s. Thomas Glascock’s land in Lancaster County is on a narrow seaboard peninsula of Virginia called the “Northern Neck” which is bounded on the east by Chesapeake Bay, on the north by the Potomac River “River of Swans”, and on the south by the Rappahannock River. Only 15 or 20 miles wide, it runs inland between the great Rivers for about a hundred miles. Here the Glascock’s set about the task of building a home and clearing land for Tobacco. The typical Virginia dwelling of that day was a frame one and half story building, with brick underpinning and high chimneys at either end. Nails were so hard to get that settlers often burned their homes when moving in order to get nails to start a new house. After the house was built the forests had to be cleared. After the trees were cut the stumps had to be dug up and the soil broken up with hoes before the tobacco could be planted. Their son Gregory was in possession of the Morattico Creek land which had been granted to him in 1662. The story of Thomas and Jane Glasscock who migrated from England to Tidewater Virginia by 1643. The name “Glasscock “ certainly existed in Virginia long before the Revolution. Here we have a family name among the oldest in Virginia. They were in America almost a century and a half before the Constitution was signed. (14)

********************************

A 1940 newspaper account of “Indian Banks” states that near it “in different directions, are “Epping Forest, Wakefield, Strartford and Sabina Hall.” Surely the Balls, Washington’s, Lees, and Carters were frequent visitors there. About 4 and half miles southeast of “Indian Banks” stands “Epping Forest “. The house was built in 1680 and was the home in which Mary Ball, the mother of George Washington, was born. About 30 miles from “ Indian Banks” between Pope’s and Bridges Creek in Westmoreland County, George Washington was born on February 22, 1732. The 1000 acre plantation was later named “Wakefield”. George Washington may very well have been acquainted with the Glascocks, the main contacts between the Washington and Glascock families probably occurred primarily during the generations of George’s parents, grandparents and great grandparents and their plantation neighbors of the first four generations of Glascock’s. George’s father, grandfather and great grandfather are all buried in the family plot at “Wakefield” about 30 miles from “Indian Banks”. (15)

********************************

John Glascock built a home north of Rectortown he called “Rockburn“ because he had to build fires on the great rocks to break them up before they could be removed. The home was buried and rebuilt during the Civil War, but remained in the Glascock family into the 20th century. The cellar still remains as a wall in the garden of the present house and the old “Rockburn Cemetery “ remains .

John supplied beef for the army in the revolutionary War.

John Glascock brother Peter by 1741 had left Virginia’s Tidewater and moved northwest to the “ backwoods” to join John.

Peter continued to live in this region for 20 more years or so and John lived there until his death in 1784. They were “ backwood men” and a part of the hardy frontier settlers who played such a large part in the later winning of America’s West.

How much of an active part the Glasscocks of backwoods Virginia had in the forays between the settlers and the Indians we do not know, but living as they did at the edge of civilization in the foothills they must surely have had many an interesting experience in those troublesome days of the French and Indian War.

A neighbor of Peter Glascock was John Marshall, who became Chief Justice of the Supreme Court in 1801. In the 1780’s Peter Glascock was sued by John Marshall for 2 pounds , and Marshall collected. (15)

********************************

My great, great, great grandfather: Jesse Glascock was born in 1783 at Fauquier Co. Virginia and passed away on August 10, 1825 in Virginia. He married Nancy Green on December 3, 1804 in Lakeland, Fauquier, Virginia.

Nancy Green Glascock was born on January 13, 1785 in Fauquier, Virginia and passed away on January 25, 1850 at Tuscaloosa, Tuscaloosa County, Alabama. They had the children

First child – Lyda Glascock born March 13, 1807 in Fauquier, Va. she married Thomas Lewis on April 20, 1825 in Fauquier, Virginia no date when she passed away

Second – Alexander Glascock born September 5, 1808 in Fauquier, Virginia no date when he passed away.

Third – Alexandria Glascock born September 5, 1808 no date when she passed away

Fourth child – My great, great grandfather Spencer Glascock, born on January 6, 1810 in Virginia, USA and died on December 6, 1872 in Yolo County, California. He married Sarah Ann Glascock on May 13, 1833 in Ralls Missouri

Fifth – Hannah Glascock born on September 20, 1813 no date when she died.

Sixth – Mary Ann Glascock born on February 28, 1815 in Fauquier, Virginia, and passed away in 1885 in Ringgold County, Iowa. She married Hezekiah Duncan Shacklett on January 23, 1834 in Upperville, Fauquier County, Virginia

Seventh – Eleven Glascock born January 6, 1817 no date when he passed away.

Eighth child – John Glascock born March 15, 1817 in Upperville, Fauquier County, Virginia. He passed away on January 22, 1897 in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. He married Annie Irving McGehee on August 4, 1844 in Calhoun, Alabama.

Ninth – Margaret Elizabeth Glascock born January 22 1820 in Upperville, Fauquier County, Virginia. She passed away on January 1, 1894 in Loudoun, Virginia. She married Norval Silcott on March 28, 1836 in Upperville, Fauquier County, Virginia

Tenth – James Glascock born on May 21, 1821 and passed away on May 22, 1822 in Upperville, Fauquier County, Virginia.

Eleventh – Nancy Glascock born August 16, 1822 in Upperville, Fauquier County, Virginia. No date when she passed away. (16)

From Linda (Carpenter) Peterson

Continued on Page 2 (of 2)

[ Page 1 | 2 ]

************************************************************************************************************************************

**************************************************************************************************************

********************************************************************************************

****************************************************

********************************

If you have questions about this page, want to start or join a discussion about it, or add new information, please visit our Facebook Group, “Weiser Area Memories.”

Also See Linda (Carpenter) Peterson
Also See Weiser Area Pioneers
Also See Categories