Birth Record: "Joseph Bartholomew was born in the State of New Jersey, March 15, 1766." (James, 289.)

"Joseph Bartholomew was born in the state of New Jersey, March 15, 1766." (William, 312.)

(Joseph is Joanne's 4th Great-grandfather)

Moved from New Jersey to Pennsylvania: When he was two years old his father moved to Laurel Hill, Penn., where he soon after died." (William, 312.)

James said he was five when this move was made (see 1771 below).

(Christiana is Joanne's 4th Great-grandmother)

Note: James said his father was 5 when the family moved from New Jersey to Pennsylvania, whereas William said he was 2. But they both reported that his father moved to Pennsylvania, which eliminates the Daniel who died in Amwell Township, Hunterdon County, New Jersey in 1768.]

"A few years after the death of the father the mother married a man by the name of Smith who was very unkind to the Bartholomew children. Having been obliged to shift for himself from an early age, Joseph grew up to be a strong, self-reliant boy. As soon as he was able to carry a rifle he enlisted in the Revolutionary Army and assisted in driving back marauding Indians and breaking up Tory camps. He had very little opportunity to get an education, but he did acquire enough to become a good conveyancer [one who prepares deeds and other writings for transferring the title to property] and surveyor and did a great of that work at an early day as well as afterwards in Indiana and Illinois. After the close of the Revolutionary War he joined General Wayne's forces in his campaign against the north-west Indians." (William, 312.)

Joined General 'Mad' Anthony Wayne Forces: "After the Revolutionary War he joined General Wayne's forces in his campaign against the northwest Indians." (William, 312.)

Joseph's Second Wife: Elizabeth McNaught was born to George McNaught and Martha Wooden.

Note: James said his father married Christiana Peckinpaugh in 1788, and William said it was "about the year 1790."

He died unmarried in 1810 in Clark County, Indiana, aged 20 (Dan - pp. 16, 91).
James C. Bartholomew listed Joseph Jr. as the first born in this family, but gave no dates. The first child of Joseph that we have a birthdate for is Sarah, 26 September 1788. James also gave the year 1788 as the year Joseph married Elizabeth McNaught and moved to Kentucky. Obviously, there are problems with the dates James C. Bartholomew gave to George Pence in 1894. These discrepan-cies will probably be resolved in time. In the meantime, we have listed Joseph Jr. as the first child even though there is a problem with dates.
(See documentation on family group record of Joseph Bartholomew and Christiana Peckinpaugh.)

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Bear Creek, near Louisville, Jefferson County, Kentucky

She married Hugh Espy (subsequently Probate Judge of Clark County)12 Dec. 1805 in Charlestown, Clark County, Indiana. They had 10 children. She died 20 Jan. 1859 in Charlestown, Indiana when she was 70. (See her family group record.)

She married Thomas McNaught 9 Dec. 1810 in Charlestown, Indiana. They had 14 children. She died 26 Feb. 1865 (or 9 March 1864) in Owen County, Indiana when she was 73.
(See her family group record.)

John married Nancy McNaught (younger sister to his father's second wife) 22 Aug. 1815 in Charlestown, Indiana. They had 6 children. John died in 1827 of tuberculosis when he was aged about 34. Nancy then married John Weaver 27 Nov.1829 in Charlestown. They had a son the next year named Robert. John Weaver left her and she died the same year when she was about 45 as she was suing for divorce because of desertion. What became of her son Robert is not known (he should be found). General Joseph was given guardianship of the children, including Joseph, Joanne's 2nd Great-grandfather.

Joseph was the first one in General Joseph's family to join the LDS Church: he was baptized on 14 August 1841 in McLean County, Illinois, when he was 21 years of age. (General Joseph's daughter Martha was baptized 21 April 1842.) General Joseph raised his grandson since he was 7, had been deceased only 9 months when his grandson joined the Church. He married Polly Benson in Carthage, Hancock County, Illinois 10 December 1843 (Polly had been a member since 12 May 1832). Joseph and Polly had two children who died as infants in Warsaw, Hancock County, and then their third child, John, was born in Clarksville, McLean County, Illinois, where General Joseph died.
(See family group record.)

John married Eliza Roxie Metcalf in the Endowment House on Temple Square in Salt Lake City, Utah on 11 October 1868. Of their eleven children, all born in Fayette, Sanpete County, Utah, Sarah Jane was their 4th, who was born on 8 September 1876.

Sarah is Joanne's Grandmother.

Sarah married Andrew B Christensen on 1 July 1896 in the Manti Temple in Sanpete County, Utah. Of the eight children of Sarah and Andrew, Edythe was their second and the first to live to adulthood.

Edythe is Joanne's Mother.

Edythe married Dr. Burtis France Robbins in the Salt Lake Temple on 12 January 1927. Edythe and Burtis had five children: Edythe Rae, Ellen Francine, Burtis France Jr., Sara Elaine, and Joanne.

Joanne has five children:
Carol
Catherine
Mary Louise
Robert
Brooklynn

Joanne is seventh from General Joseph Bartholomew:

(1) Joanne Robbins
(2) Edythe Christensen
(3) Sarah Jane Bartholomew
(4) John Bartholomew
(5) Joseph Bartholomew
(6) John Bartholomew
(7) General Joseph Bartholomew.

(See family group records.)

Bear Creek, Kentucky and Indian Troubles: "About the year 1795 he, with a small colony, floated down the Ohio river in barges and settled at the head of the falls of that river, on the Kentucky side on land on which the city of Louisville now stands. While there he passed through many adventures with marauding Indians, of whom quite a number paid the penalty of their daring with their lives. While there he acted as a government scout and spy watching the movements of the Indians. Somehow the Indians found this out and made daring efforts to take his life. Of this warfare with the Indians we give two or three instances that will illustrate the con-dition of life in the whole western country at that time."After they had cleared land for corn and potatoes and planting was over, they determined to have a grand bee hunt. Bartholomew was to be their leader, but when the time came he was too sick to go. The company proposed to wait, but the time was precious and they finally concluded to go without him. The next morning after the company started, the women went to feed the horses, but not a horse could be seen. They reported to the general that the horses were missing. Every horse in the colony was gone. He got up from his bed to look into the situation, and finding Indian tracks he knew that the horses had been stolen. To lose horses was ruin to the colony, so he made an effort to recover them.

Recovering Stolen Horses: "A twelve year boy, the son of a widow of the colony, was left behind by the bee hunters, Bartholomew asked that the boy go along with him in search of the horses, to which the widow gave her willing consent. The trail of the horses was easily found leading up the Ohio river. They followed the trail for fourteen miles and here lost all track of it as the horses had at this point gone into the stream. All seemed lost. Bartholomew thought if he could find a dry log he might float it across the river, which at this point is half a mile wide. Going up the river he came to some drift-wood and examining for a log suitable for his purpose he found a canoe and on getting it out it proved to be a good one. Finding a piece of board which served as a paddle, he came down to the boy, took him in and paddled across, landing just below the mouth of Fourteen Mile creek. After securing the canoe they found that the horses had ascended the bank just a little below the mouth of the creek. Soon Bartholomew and the boy were on the trail which went up the creek. They proceeded with great caution lest they might come onto the Indians unawares. Bartholomew had no fears for himself but for the boy. A very close watch was kept as they passed up and down the bluffs of the creek. Night began to come on and fears were entertained lest the Indians had made good their escape. Just as it began to get dusk, smoke was seen away up the creek, at a place called, 'Horse Shoe Bend.' Bartholomew, leaving the boy behind, went carefully through the undergrowth, getting into a ravine that led down to the Indians to a point where he was able to get quite near them without being seen. The Indians were in great glee, cooking their supper close to the bank of the creek; while the horses were hobbled out grazing near by. Going back to the boy he placed him in the ravine from whence he had seen the Indian camp, telling him to stay there while he went back a short distance across the creek and came up on the other side in order to get opposite the Indians. When there he would fire off his gun and yell as if there were several with him. 'The Indians,' he said then, 'will run towards you, when you must fire your gun off into the air and yell as if there were a great many of you.' Sure enough when Bartholomew fired off his gun the Indians ran toward the boy but the boy fired and yelled and the Indians very much terrified ran up the creek. (William, 312-313.)

The General's family continued to live on Bear Creek, near Louisville, Jefferson County, Kentucky.

She married Patrick Hopkins 12 Nov. 1820 in Clarksville, Illinois. They had 5 children: 2 sons and 3 daughters. Mary died 29 Aug 1839 in Lexington Township, McLean County, Illinois, when she was about 43. Her husband then married 15 Nov 1847, near Pleasant Hill, Matilda Smith and had no children.
"Mary was a very kind lady and their marriage was a happy one" ("Old Settlers of M'Lean County, Illinois," pp. 677-680.)
(See family group record.)

"General Bartholomew erected the first brick farm house in Clark county, and according to the statement of Mr. Nugent, by reason of his very happy and jovial disposition and his love for young people, his home was the seat of constant gayety (sic) and hospital-ity. The general was an accomplished dancer and he took as much delight in that amusement as did the younger folks. His personal associations were of the highest and his social standing was the same." (James, 296.)

"One of Mr. Nugent's stories of General Bartholomew concerned the finishing of the large brick house which the general erected on his farm. The painter had taken pains in graining the front door, and having completed a very handsome job of it, the owner came up to enter it, and not aware that the paint was fresh, put his hand on it to push it open, leaving an imprint of his hand very markedly. The painter was greatly put out about it, and grumbled at having to do his work over, but the general good-naturedly told him that it made no difference and to let it alone as it was, and so it remained with the mark of his hand plainly visible for nearly forty years." (James, 298.)

What became of him? (See family group record.)

Marston married Mary Hopkins 15 May 1828 in Charlestown, Indiana. They had 6 children. He died 8 Jan. 1881 in Lodi, Wis-consin aged 74 (two months younger than his father).

He was a farmer, trapper, merchant, and fought in the Civil War, in which he was wounded.
(See family group record.)

She married Isaac Epler 23 March 1830 in Clarksville, Illinois. They had one child. She died 22 Jan. 1831, 10 months later in childbirth when she was 22. Her husband afterward married her younger sister Christiana.
(See family group record.)

She married Isaac Epler 16 Feb. 1832 in Clarksville, Illinois, the widower of her deceased sister Elizabeth. They had 8 children. She died 14 Sept. 1849 age 39.
(See family group record.)

Joseph was 45 years and Elizabeth was about 27. He had been widowed 1 year, 2 months and 20 days.

"The fruits of the second marriage were five children [may have been seven children - see 1817], viz: George McNaught; Nancy, married James Bradley in McLean county, Illinois; Angela, widow of William Merriam, living, 1894, in one of the Dakotas; James Currie, our host - named for one of the early sheriffs of Clark county, Indiana; and William Milton, then living at Pingree, North Dakota." (James, 198-299.)

"In the month of June, 1811, General Bartholomew was married to Elizabeth McNaught, by whom he had five children, three of whom are still living - Mrs. Nancy Bradley, at Pontiac, Illinois, aged eighty-four; Mrs. Angela Merryman, at Tacoma, Washington, aged eighty-two; and W. M. Bartholomew, at Pingree, North Dakota, aged seventy-seven, he being the youngest child of General Bartholomew and the writer of this sketch." (William, 316.)

Battle of Tippecanoe: James Currie Bartholomew's Account: "In the spring of 1811 General Bartholomew ... by reason of his marked traits for leadership and under the threatened antagonism of the Indians of Indiana territory, that he was selected by Governor William Henry Harrison as lieutenant colonel of the regiment of militia. Within a very few months, on September 12, 1811, we find his regiment with marching orders issued by the governor to rendezvous at Vincennes [Indiana], this campaign including the memorable battle with the Indians at Tippecanoe on Thursday morning, November 7, 1811. On September 14 we find Colonel Bartholomew with one hundred and twenty of the Clark county militia on the march and camped at the noted Half-Moon springs on the old French Lick road, four miles southeast of Paoli. On Wednesday, November 18, the troopers reached the territorial capital, Vincennes, reinforced enroute by the companies of Capt. Spier Spencer and that of Capt. Berry. Governor Harrison mustered the troops consisting of the Unites States regulars under Captain Boyd, the dragoons and the militia. The governor, as commanding general, issued his general orders appointing Major Joe H. Davis in command of the dragoons, and Colonel Bartholomew in command of the foot soldiers. On September 26 the American army, consisting of 910 men, is on the march and reaches old Terre Haute on October 2, where it is halted to build a fort, named for the governor, Fort Harrison. The fort was completed on October 28 and is garrisoned with a force when the main army, under orders, marched northeasterly toward Prophetstown, the town of Tecumtha and his half-blinded brother, the Prophet, Ells-kwa-ta-wa. This vicinity was reached on Wednesday afternoon, November 6, 1811, and at a small prairie Colonel Bartholomew's foot soldiers placed their knapsacks in the wagons, were formed in line of battle and thus marched toward the Indians' town for over two miles and before halting surrounded the town. The Indians met General Harrison and made a plea for peace, promising to give satisfaction the next morning. There was considerable trouble in this palaver with the Indians, as the Frenchman whom General Harrison had taken with him to act as interpreter, and who knew each of the chiefs personally refusing to attend the powow, being in fear of them, for as he termed it, that he 'would be roasted.'

(James' Account of the Battle of Tippecanoe Concluded) "That evening after the powow with the prophet - his brother Tecumtha was then on a missionary trip in the south to enlist the southern tribes into his confederacy, the American army selected a site for a camp about one mile north of the Indians' town. This was on an elevated tract of woodland between Burnett's creek on the west and a prairie on its east, General Harrison selecting Colonel Bartholomew as officer of the day, and on his suggestion, based upon his knowledge of the Indian, the troops slept on their arms. On Thursday morning, November 7, 1811, at four o'clock, Colonel Bartholomew is going the round of the sentries, a drizzling rain is falling and the darkness of the autumn morning is suddenly lightened by the glare of the fire from the rifles of the treacherous Indians who a few hours before had promised to give satisfaction at their peace powow. The fire from the Indian guns made it as light as day. Colonel Bartholomew assumed at once the command of the foot soldiers, but riding a very nervous horse found it difficult to handle him, and was greatly in fear of being thrown. His troops were armed with squirrel rifles [small caliber rifle], and as the Indians at the first had the advantage, it was here that through his tact he became master of the moment when he requested General Harrison to give him a company of regulars whose guns were equipped with bayonets. General Harrison at once gave orders for one of one of Captain Boyd's companies to follow Colonel Bartholomew, when a bayonet charge was made by these hardened regulars and the Indians were routed. 179 killed and wounded, 37 of his own company, including its captain and two lieutenants. John Tipton went home as captain of his company. Truly, it was a day of sacrifice when the lives of Owen, Spencer, Joe Davis, Warrick, and Judge White went out and an hundred others, but the red man was mastered in Indiana. The victorious army, after burying the illustrious dead, returned with wounded to Vincennes, reaching there November 24. When the militia was muster out, Colonel Bartholomew's wound gave him much trouble and he suffered throughout his entire after life from it." (James, 290-293.)

The General's family continued to live in Charlestown, Clark County, Indiana

The General's family continued to live in Charlestown, Clark County, Indiana

He married Susan Catherine Hefner 4 Dec. 1833 in Clarksville, Illinois. They had 10 children. He died 11 April 1885 in Lodi, Wisconsin when he was 73.

He was a justice of the peace and a surveyor.

(See family group record.)

More on Battle of Pigeon Roost: "Pigeon Roost Massacre," was in Scott County, Indiana on 3 September 1812, as an incident in the War of 1812. Delaware and Shawnee Indians were incited to revenge because a fawn of the Indians was stolen by white settlers by the name of Collins, who refused to give it back, and as a result the Indians went on the warpath, and also to collect a five dollar reward offered by the British for every scalp taken. In consequence, 23 men, women, and children were killed, mutilated and scalped. Colonel Joseph Bartholomew afterwards punished the Indians for this brutal attack. There is a photograph of the historic marker at the site of this incident.(Dan Bartholomew, 3:103-104.)

The General's family continued to live in Charlestown, Clark County, Indiana

William's Account of the Delaware Indian Battles: "About two years after the battle of Tippecanoe, Lieut. Zachariah Taylor (elected president in 1848) was besieged by the Indians at Fort Harrison, on the Wabash river. The Indians tried to starve Taylor out, and a draft of men was made to go to his aid. The son of the General Bartholomew was one of the men drafted. The wound of the General was still very troublesome, so much so that he was unable to do any farm work, he therefore put his son at the farm work and took his place among the drafted men. The friends of the General demurred strongly to this, saying it was beneath a man who had been a general to shoulder the musket as a private soldier, but he told them that he was unable to do farm work but could fight Indians, and he reported at the state capitol, Vincennes, with his rifle on his shoulder. It was necessary to move immediately to the relief of Taylor. General Gibson, the commandant, was very sick and could not lead the army, so he sent his major ordering Private Bartholomew to appear at his tent. He came, presented arms in the regular manner, was at once invited into General Gibson's tent and the army was placed in the care of Bartholomew, who immediately put it in marching order (General Gibson being carried along in a sling between two horses). (Continued on next page)
Attitude about Indians: "One of the questions asked James Bartholomew was how his father regarded the treatment of the whites toward the Indians in the encroachment upon their lands. His reply was: 'Father thought the Indians had been harshly treated by the whites,' and then added with apparent pride, 'But he killed as many of them as any other man.' James Bartholomew also mentioned that his father, who had met Tecumtha, regarded this Indian chief as the greatest diplomat he ever knew." (James, 294-296.)

William's Account of the Delaware Indian Battles Concluded:
"So promptly was the army put in motion and expeditiously carried to Taylor's relief under the guidance of Brigadier-General Bartholomew that the president promoted him to be Major-General. As soon as the Indians learned that General Bartholomew was in command of the approaching army they retreated, knowing well the character of the man they had to deal with." (William, 315-316.)

The General's family continued to live in Charlestown, Clark County, Indiana

The General's family continued to live in Charlestown, Clark County, Indiana

She married William Merriman 16 Nov. 1840 in McLean County, Illinois. They had 7 children. She died 28 April 1900 (the first of General Joseph's children to live to the 20th Century), aged 84.
(See family group record.)
Mother Catherine died (Probate: 19 July 1816 - Clark County)

[The records of the Masonic Order may give details of his birth and parentage.]

Interviewed by George Pence: James was interviewed by George Pence on the life of his father in the summer of 1894, which was published in Indiana Magazine of History (Vol. XIV, December 1918, No. 4, pp. 278-303). This is the main source of General Joseph's biography. At that time James was "quite aged and feeble and totally blind." James stated "that General John S. Simonson, late of Clark county, Indiana, had prepared a sketch at one time of the father, but for some reason or another it had never been pub-lished." (See George Wells Bartholomew, pg. 474.)
George Pence observed, in respect to General Joseph Bartholomew, that "the times found the man; the man shaped the times. It is ours to save to memory the fame and story that we and posterity may go to school to them" (James, 288-289).
(See family group record.)

Public Service: "... In 1820 [General Joseph] was one of the presidential electors of the State, which cast its vote for James Monroe. While a member of the Lower House, on January 11, 1820, a bill was passed to appoint commissioners to select a site for the permanent capital of the State, the federal government having donated four sections of its land for such purpose [four square miles]. In this act General Bartholomew was named as one of the ten commissioners. The others named were Gen. John Tipton, George Hunt, John Connor, John Gilliland, Stephen Ludlow, Jesse B. Durham, Frederick Rapp, William Prince and Thomas Emerson. To John Tipton, the methodical man, we are again indebted for a written account of the trip northward through this portion of the trail, which later, in 1823, was surveyed by Tipton under the act creating a State road for forty-nine feet in width from Mauck's Ferry on the Ohio river, northward through Corydon, Salem, Brownstown, to the newly made capital, Indianapolis. Tipton relates that on May 17, 1820, he, with Connor and Governor Jennings, with Tipton's black boy, Bill, met General Bartholomew at Colonel Jesse B. Durham's at Vallonia, and with General John Carr and Captain Dueson, of Charlestown, they made the trip together, northward, along the trail mentioned above. The commissioners viewed several proposed sites, but before the end were divided only between the site at Waverly Bluffs, now in Morgan county, and one which was selected. General Bartholomew and four others, including Tipton, voted for the site which was selected, and which the following year was given the name of Indianapolis. General Bartholomew used the spade to make the mound showing the location of the middle corner of the four donated sections, and, as James Bartholomew informed us, often claimed 'to have dug the first dirt for the State capital.' This same year, 1820, he was elected to the State Senate from Clark county, and at the 1820-21 session of the legislature a bill was introduced to erect a new county out of Jackson and Delaware counties. This was the first proposal to form a county from the "New Purchase,' as the territory, which embraces nearly the whole of central Indiana, had by an act of the legislature been divided into two counties, making the Second Principal meridian as the dividing line. The western portion was called Wabash and the eastern Delaware county. In the former term of the legislature it was enacted that the permanent north line of Jackson county, when the New Purchase was opened for settlement, should be the line one and one-half miles south of Axalia in Bartholomew county.

Delaware county. In the former term of the legislature it was enacted that the permanent north line of Jackson county, when the New Purchase was opened for settlement, should be the line dividing townships 7 and 8 north. This line is an east and west line and one-half miles south of Axalia in Bartholomew county. As the proposed new county would take of a three mile strip from Jackson county, there was developed a strong fight against the bill by the Jackson county representative, General Carr. Tipton, a member from Harrison county, was leading the fight for the lines of the new county as proposed and in the end won out. It was Tipton's motion that the new erected county was to be called for his old commander and leader in all of the campaigns in which they had both engaged, seeking the vanquishment of the red man in Indiana, General Bartholomew. It was the last days of the term, January 21, 1821, that the bill had passed both the House and the Senate and the act was at once signed by Governor Jonathan Jennings, on that date. Generals Tipton and Bartholomew were of opposing political parties - Tipton being a Democrat, but this did not induce a lack of respect for each other." (James, 296-298.)

The General's family continued to live in Charlestown, Clark County, Indiana

He was a druggist, and married Frances Mary Goddard 2 Jan. 1842 in Lexington, Illinois. They had 7 children. He died 18 March 1903 in Pingree, North Dakota, aged 81, and the last of the General's children to die. William had his father's Bible. This needs to be found.

(See family group record.)

[Senator Tipton succeeded in reducing the amount General Joseph had to pay as one of the securities in Dr. Hay's default and bankruptcy.]

Religious Affiliation of General Joseph: "General Bartholomew was not a member of any church, but was a constant attendant of the Presbyterian. Mr. Nugent related that he was one of the most moral men he ever knew, and that he could not brook a vulgar or profane word from any one" (James, 302).

Masonic Apron of General Bartholomew: "The writer [Pence] has the pleasure to own the Masonic apron and sash which General Bartholomew wore. These have been loaned to St. John's Lodge, No. 20, F. & A. M., at Columbus, and having been placed in a frame how hang on her walls. These were presented to the writer at the request of James Bartholomew at his death in 1895" (James, 302).

Personal Appearance and Portraits: "General Bartholomew was not large of stature, but was described as weighing about one hundred and forty pounds, about five feet eight inches in height, his form as straight as an arrow and of a very dark complexion. At the time of his death his hair was white as snow, although as shown in the two oil portraits now in the possession of the board of county commissioners of Bartholomew county the hair is as black as the crow's wing. These portraits were painted in 1826, and one of them, the family picture, was in the reception room at the time of our visit. The son [James] told us that it was painted in Louisville and its old mahogany frame but adds to its ancient appearance. It was at the suggestion of the writer [Pence] that a loving son, who desired to add honor to the father, should make a gift of the family picture to the authorities of the county which had been named for him. It was the last official act in 1895 of the writer, who was retiring from the term of office of county auditor, to record the matter of the gift of James Bartholomew (whose death occurred a few weeks before) of this picture as the 'property of the board of county commissioners of Bartholomew county, Indiana, forever.' The first portrait of General Bartholomew was procured as a gift, through the writer, by the widow of Judge New, the mother of J. Thompson New, of Clay township, in 1880. This picture was resurrected through the publication in George E. Finney's news-paper at Columbus, The Columbian, of some correspondence concerning the hunt for a picture of General Bartholomew. This picture, an unfinished one, had been in the possession of the News for over half a century and had been painted by James New, a young art student, who died in the late twenties [1920's]. The work was said to have been done in Salem, Indiana, and it is unquestionably a replica of the family portrait" (James,301-302).