Thomas Crawford McBride and Elizabeth Womack

172 (and 170). Thomas Crawford McBride  was born 1777 in Guilford Co, North Carolina, and died 29 Apr 1857 in Carlton, Oregon. He is a son of 344 James McBride [344] and Mary Crawford [345]. Thomas married 1796 in Tennessee,

173 (and 171). Elizabeth Womack. Elizabeth, often seen as Eliza Womack, was born 1780 in North Carolina, and died in 1806 (some say 1809) in Tennessee. She is a daughter of Jacob Womack [346].

This is a double line, two children are direct ancestors to Rita’s side of the family. Thomas could be numbered either 170 or 172; we use 172 as this line carries the McBride name furthest.

The McBride and Womack families both moved from North Carolina to Tennessee sometime after the Revolutionary War -- it is possible that they knew each other in Carolina. Thomas and Eliza were married the same year that Tennessee became a state.

Thomas was a first cousin to Andrew Jackson, and the family was mostly Democrat, but were anti-slavery. They were farmers, and Thomas eventually became a somewhat famous frontier preacher.

Thomas was originally a Baptist, and is a “messenger” (¿ I’m guessing that is some sort of minister or preacher?) in the Roaring River Baptist Church in Tennessee in 1801. He left the Baptist Church in 1810, and became a preacher of the Christian, or Disciples of Christ, church.

Elizabeth died probably in 1806, and Thomas married second, about 1808 in Tennessee, Nancy ___. (There is some disagreement on this, some sources saying that Elizabeth died 1809, and placing Margaret as a daughter of Elizabeth). It is possible that one of these events influenced Thomas in breaking away from the Baptist church.

He preached in White County, Tennessee for several years, then moved his family to Missouri about 1814. He was in St. Charles by 1816. He established one of the earliest churches in Missouri, near Franklin in Howard County in 1817. Originally named the Salt Creek Christian Church, it became in 1822 the Red Top Christian Church due to the color of the roof. Thomas was the first pastor, but he did not stay there long. He moved about Missouri, preaching and establishing new churches in Howard, Boone, Franklin and Jackson counties, until at least 1840.

His son James left for Oregon in 1846, and his wife Nancy died soon after. With all the other children moved out, Thomas decided to follow James to Oregon.

He made the journey with the Wright family. Although he was 70 years old, he rode 2000 miles on horseback in 41 days, sleeping on the ground at night with no tents, and arriving at Carlton Oregon in September 1847.

Thomas married a third time in Oregon, Margaret Ann Wright. He continued to preach and work his 300-acre farm in Oregon until he died in 1857.

Thomas and Elizabeth had five children:

172.1. Jacob McBride [86] (1798 TN - 1849 MO) and Peggy ___ are direct ancestors, separate page.

172.2. Charlotte McBride [85] (1800 TN - 1839 MO) and Samuel Caldwell are direct ancestors, separate page.

172.3. Dr. James McBride (1802 TN - 1875) had descendants and is expanded below.

172.4. Lavina McBride (1804 TN - 1860) had descendants and is expanded below.

172.5. Dr. Thomas C. McBride (1806 - 1849) had descendants and is expanded below.

Thomas and Nancy had one child (some sources place this child with Elizabeth):

172.6. Margaret McBride (1809 TN - 1871) had descendants and is expanded below.

172.3. Dr. James McBride was born 9 Feb 1802 in Tennessee (possibly White County, or some say near present-day Nashville), and died in 1875 in St. Helens, Oregon. He married 20 Jun 1830 in Missouri, Mahala Woods Miller.

James moved to Missouri with his family in 1814. He studied medicine at St. Louis, and became a physician about 1824. He was also an ordained preacher. They moved to Texas for a time in 1843, but soon returned to Missouri. They moved to Oregon by wagon train in 1846 with their nine children, and settled in Yamhill County. They arrived with no furniture and no money. They had only two wagons and several oxen, which they traded for land. Besides working as a physician, James worked as a farmer, was a circuit preacher over several counties, and was active in politics. He was appointed Superintendent of Public Instruction for the Oregon Territory in 1849, and was elected as a member of the Territory Council in Jun 1850.

Largely because of his opposition to slavery, James became one of the founders of the Republican Party in Oregon, and as a reward he was appointed by Abraham Lincoln as Minister to the Sandwich Islands (Hawaii) in 1863. His actions in Hawaii were partly responsible for the islands eventually becoming a U.S. territory. While in Hawaii he also met with a Russian naval officer, and it was James McBride who initially brought Alaska to the attention of Secretary of State Seward and urged him to buy it from Russia. James retired from Government service in 1867 and moved back to St. Helens, Oregon.

James and Mahala had fourteen children (first cousins to us):

172.3.1. Martha McBride was born 1831 in Missouri, and died 1882, probably in Oregon. She married 1851 in Oregon, Sebastian C. Adams, son of Sebastian Adams (1789 - 1847) and Eunice Harmon. Sebastian was born 25 Jul 1825 in Ohio, and died 5 Jan 1898 in Salem (Marion) Oregon. He was a minister, teacher, and Oregon State Senator (1868).

Martha and Sebastian had four children (second cousins to us):

172.3.1.1. John Quincy Adams was born 1860 in Oregon.

172.3.1.2. Louisa Adams was born sometime around 1860 in Oregon.

172.3.1.3. Loring K. Adams was born sometime around 1860 in Oregon.

172.3.1.4. Eunice Mahala (Emma) Adams was born sometime around 1860 in Oregon.

172.3.2. John Rogers McBride was born 22 Aug 1832 in Franklin Co, Missouri, and died 20 Jul 1904 in Spokane, Washington. He married Eunice Marie Adams, daughter of Sebastian Adams (1789 - 1847) and Eunice Harmon, and sister of Sebastian C. above. Eunice was born in 1830, and died in 1904.
John was 14 when the family moved to Oregon. His elementary education was in a one-room schoolhouse provided by his parents; about a dozen children, mostly McBride and Adams, were taught by William Adams, older brother of Sebastian and Eunice. John himself also taught, and became superintendent of schools in 1854. He studied law, and was admitted to the bar in 1855. He started getting involved in politics as a delegate to the State constitutional convention in 1857. He was elected to the Oregon State Senate in 1860, and to the U.S. Congress (Republican, Oregon) in 1863. In 1865 he was appointed by President Lincoln as the Chief Justice of the Idaho Territory, and in 1869 was appointed by President Grant as superintendent of the U.S. Assay Office in Boise. He later went back to his law practice, in Boise, Salt Lake City, and Spokane.

172.3.3. Alvira Josephine McBride was born about 1834 in Missouri. She married Benjamin D. Butler.

172.3.4. Louisa A. McBride was born in 1835 in Missouri, and died in 1924, probably in Oregon. She married her first cousin George L. Woods [172.6.1], son of Margaret McBride and Caleb Woods.

172.3.5. Lucinda L. McBride was born in 1836 in Missouri, and died in 1916. She married in 1855 in Oregon, Dr. Charles Green Caples. Charles was born 22 May 1832, and died in 1906. Lucinda was ten years old when her family moved to Oregon. Charles also came on the Oregon Trail as a boy. He went to California in the early 1850’s gold rush, earning enough money to pay for college. After Charles and Lucinda were married, Charles studied medicine in Portland and became a doctor. Lucinda became a midwife, and assisted her physician husband as a nurse. Their house in Portland is now a museum.

Lucinda and Charles had five children (second cousins to us):

172.3.5.1. Dr. Byron McBride Caples was born 1860 in Oregon, and died in 1944.

172.3.5.2. Margaret Alice Caples was born 1862 in Oregon, and died1947. She married Elijah Wharton. He was born 1855, and died 1931.

172.3.5.3. Millie Louise Caples was born 1865 in Oregon, and died in 1947.

172.3.5.4. Dell Montana Caples was born 1870 in Oregon, and died in 1968. She married George Hazen Shinn. He was born in 1868.

172.3.5.5. Fredrick Charles Caples was born 1872 in Oregon, and died in 1958.

172.3.6. Nancy E. McBride was born about 1837 in Missouri. Nancy married twice, the order is unknown. She married William B. Morse, who was born in 1828 and died in 1883. She also married, probably in Oregon, ___ Dolman. There are no children known from the Dolman marriage.

Nancy and William had one child that we know of, there may be others (second cousin to us):

172.3.6.1. Willis B. Morse was born probably sometime around 1860 in Oregon. He was a Doctor.

172.3.7. Mary Catherine McBride was born 1839 in Missouri, and died 1896, probably in Oregon. She married Francis Dillard Holman. Francis was born in 1831, and died in 1899.

172.3.8. Emily McBride was born 1841 in Missouri. She married probably in Oregon, D. J. Yeargin.

172.3.9. Judith W. McBride was born 1843 in Missouri or Texas. She married Charles Cooper.

172.3.10. Thomas Allen McBride was born 15 Nov 1847 in Yamhill Co, Oregon, and died Sep 9, 1930 in Oregon. He married 1875 in Oregon,Mary Merrill. Mary  was born 1854, and died 1925. Thomas studied law at McMinnville College (now Linfield), and was admitted to the bar in 1870. He worked as a lawyer from 1870 to 1882 in Oregon and Utah. He was the District Attorney for Clatsop County Oregon from 1882 to 1892. He was circuit court judge for Clatsop County from 1893 to 1909.
Thomas served on the Oregon Supreme Court from 1909 until his death in 1930. He was Chief Justice five times between 1913 and 1926.
Thomas and Mary had two children (second cousins to us):

172.3.10.1. George McBride was born sometime around 1880 in Oregon.

172.3.10.2. Mildred McBride was born sometime around 1880 in Oregon.

172.3.11. Dr. James H. McBride was born about 1848 in Oregon, and died in 1912, probably in Wisconsin. He married Ella Ackley. James was a specialist in nervous and mental diseases, and was superintendent of an insane asylum near Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

172.3.12. Susan E. McBride was born 1850 in Oregon. She married B. F. Giltner.

172.3.13. Ellen McBride was born 1852 in Oregon, and died in 1866, probably in Hawaii, age 14.

172.3.14. George Wycliffe McBride was born 13 Mar 1854 near Lafayette (Yamhill) Oregon, and died 18 Jun 1911 in Portland, Oregon. He married Laura W. Walter. George attended Christian College, Monmouth Oregon. He studied law and was admitted to the bar but never practiced, preferring to work as a merchant and businessman. He was elected to the Oregon State Congress in 1882, and was appointed Oregon Secretary of State, 1886-1895. George was elected to the U.S. Senate (Republican, Oregon) and served there from 1895 to 1901. He later worked as an agent for the Western Pacific Railroad in California.

172.4. Lavina McBride was born 15 Jun 1804 in Jackson Co, Tennessee, and died 9 Sep 1860 in Yamhill Co, Oregon. Lavina was 2 years old when her mother died, and 10 years old when she moved to Missouri with her family. She married first, 20 Jun 1820 in Boone Co, Missouri, Henry Clark Davis,  son of  Isaac Davis (~1760 VA -1834 MO) and Sarah (Sally) Clark (1768 NC -1835 MO). Henry was born Feb 1792 in North Carolina, and died 1852 in Gentry Co, Missouri. They were married by Lavina’s father in the Disciples of Christ Church.
Sometime after Henry died, Lavina went to Oregon where others in her family were already living.
She married second, 15 Jun 1857 in Yamhill Co, Oregon, Joel D. Chrisman, son of Gabriel E. Chrisman and Jane Cox. Joel was born 7 Nov 1795 in Lee Co, Virginia, and died 16 Aug 1875 in Oregon. He had previously been married to Mary Sproul, and had eight children from the first marriage. Lavina and Joel had no children.

Lavina and first husband Henry had seven children (first cousins to us):

172.4.1. Thomas Crawford Davis was born 9 Oct 1821 in Boone Co, Missouri (Howard Co at the time of his birth), and died 6 Dec 1887 in Oregon (probably Yamhill Co). He married 29 Aug 1850 in Oregon, Nancy Ann Hines, the daughter of William Tolbert Hines (~1800 - 1847 ID) and Elizabeth Garetson Fulkerson (1806 VA - 1854 OR). Nancy was born 21 Sep 1830 in Cole Co, Missouri, and died 1891 in Yamhill Co, Oregon.
Thomas went to Oregon on the Oregon Trail in 1847. If the data we have seen is correct, he came without his parents, but probably was with his grandfather Thomas. Nancy came with her parents and sisters on the Oregon Trail. Her father died of spotted fever on the trip, on 7 Aug 1847 at Emigrant Crossing in Idaho Territory. Her oldest sister Margaret drove the wagon the rest of the way. Nancy’s sister Sarah marries Thomas’ brother Isaac.
Thomas went on the California Gold Rush of 1849, and earned enough money to buy a farm in Oregon.
Thomas and Nancy had four children (second cousins to us):

172.4.1.1. Sarah Elizabeth Davis was born 1 Sep 1851 in Oregon, and died 16 Mar 1891. She married first, John Prentice. John died about 1885. Sarah married second, in 1888, Robert Hanning.

172.4.1.2. Mary Margaret Davis was born 27 Apr 1853 in Oregon, and died 29 Oct 1918. She married in 1886, John Harris.

172.4.1.3. Elizabeth Jane Davis was born 17 Nov 1855 in Oregon, and died 23 May 1931. She married 24 Apr 1875 in Oregon, Charles Vaus Kuykendall. Charles was born in 1851, and died in 1926. His middle name is seen as Vaus, Vause or Vos. They had twelve children.

172.4.1.4. Isabel Hines Davis was born 15 Sep 1858 in Oregon, and died in 1930. She married Richard Baird. Richard was born in 1852, and died in 1940.

172.4.2. Sarah Ann Davis was born 7 Feb 1823 in Boone Co, Missouri (Howard Co at that time), and died 1844 in Texas. She married Elisha Bernard Bedwell. Elisha was born in 1819, and died in 1896.

Sarah and Elisha had one child (second cousin to us):

172.4.2.1. Henry Franklin Bedwell was born about 1842, probably in Texas. He married Elizabeth Ann Perkins. Some sources have him listed as Henry H. Bedwell. Henry was apparently sent back to live with his grandparents after his mother died. He is listed in the Missouri census of 1850 as living in the household of Henry and Lavina Davis.

172.4.3. Isaac Davis was born 12 Feb 1825 in Boone Co, Missouri (Howard Co at that time), and died in 1882, probably in Oregon. He married first, Margaret Ledgerwood. Margaret was born in 1831, and died Jun 1852. Isaac and Margaret began a move from Missouri to Oregon in 1852, but Margaret died somewhere in the Great Plains on the Oregon Trail. (Some members of the Caldwell family went at this same time, and we see some of them dying in June as well. There was a cholera outbreak during the trip.) Isaac continued on to Oregon with their daughter. Isaac married second, Sarah Catherine Hines, daughter of William and Elizabeth and the sister of Nancy (see 172.4.1. Thomas above). Sarah was born in 1839, and died in 1886. She was the widow of Hiram Buckingham (1822 PA - 1854 OR), and had one son. Isaac and Sarah are listed along with the two children in the 1860 census, living in Yamhill County. They had no children together that we know of.
Isaac and first wife Margaret had one child (second cousin to us):

172.4.3.1. Martha Davis was born 1850 in Missouri. She moved at age 2 to Oregon.

172.4.4. John Henry Davis was born 24 Dec 1826 in Missouri. He married 11 Aug 1850 in McMinnville, Oregon, Almira J. Crisp. Almira was born in 1832.

172.4.5. Mary Davis was born sometime around 1825 in Missouri.

172.4.6. Isabel Davis was born sometime around 1825 in Missouri.

172.4.7. Jennie Davis was born sometime around 1825 in Missouri.

172.5. Dr. Thomas C. McBride was born 1806 in Tennessee, and died 1849 in Oregon. He married in 1835 in Missouri, Martha Ann Brink. Martha was born in 1818, and died in 1895.
Thomas’ mother died when he was a baby, and he was about 9 years old when he moved to Missouri with his father, stepmother and siblings. He became a preacher and a physician. Thomas, Martha and five children made the trip to Oregon by wagon train along the Oregon Trail in 1847, along with Thomas’ father. Thomas only lived for two years in Oregon. He was returning home one night from visiting a patient, and had to cross the Willamette River near Oregon City. He fell off the ferry, and he drowned along with his horse.
Thomas and Martha had six children (first cousins to us):

172.5.1. Elizabeth McBride was born 1835 in Missouri. She married Thomas Bounds.  He was born in 1824, and died in 1901.

172.5.2. Henry C. McBride was born 1836 in Missouri.

172.5.3. Lavina McBride was born 1838 in Missouri, and died in 1918.  She married 5 Sep 1852 in Polk Co, Oregon, Preston W. Lovelady. Preston was born in 1828 in White Co, Tennessee, and died 1879 in Oregon.
Lavina and Preston had five children (second cousins to us):

172.5.3.1. Nancy Octavia Lovelady was born 1861 in Oregon. She married Ephraim Badger.

172.5.3.2. Stella Lovelady was born sometime around 1860 in Oregon.

172.5.3.3. James T. Lovelady was born sometime around 1860 in Oregon.

172.5.3.4. Oscar Lovelady was born sometime around 1860 in Oregon.

172.5.3.5. Mary Ann Lovelady was born sometime around 1860 in Oregon.

172.5.4. Nancy Jane McBride was born 1843 in Missouri, and died in 1870. She married John Armstrong Bounds. John was born in 1836, and died in 1915.

172.5.5. Mary McBride was born 1845 in Missouri. She married William Brookside.

172.5.6. Thomas McBride was born 1848 in Oregon. He married Charity Arizona Rose. Charity was born in 1860.

172.6. Margaret McBride was born in 1809 in Tennessee, and died in 1871 in Oregon. She married 11 Jan 1829 in Howard Co, Missouri, Caleb Woods. Caleb was born in 1806 in Kentucky, and died in 1896 in Oregon. They moved to Oregon in 1847, along with their two children, Margaret’s father, and several other relatives.

Margaret and Caleb had four sons and a daughter, but we know only two (first cousins to us):

172.6.1. George Lemuel Woods was born 30 Jul 1832 in Boone Co, Missouri, and died 1 Jan 1890 in Portland, Oregon. He married his first cousin Louisa A. McBride [172.3.4], daughter of James McBride and Mahala Miller. George was a carpenter and a farmer. He went on the California Gold Rush from 1852 to 1853. He made enough money from gold to go to law school, and was admitted to the bar in 1858. He then went into politics. George was elected Governor of Oregon (Republican) 1866-1870, and was appointed Governor of the Utah Territory 1871-1875.

172.6.2. James Caleb Woods was born 1838 in Missouri, and died 1912, probably in Oregon. He married Charlotte L. Caples.

More information on Thomas C. McBride can be found at ncbible.org
More information on Dr. James McBride can be found at ncbible.org
More information on John Rogers McBride can be found at bioguide.congress.gov

Compiled by Bill Stupak. Last update: Aug 2010