Margaret Jarrett ²²¹

  General Notes:

The author's 5th Great-Grandmother

According to Mike Ellis' (http://wc.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?db=:1125371):

"{MARRIAGE: B.H. Fullers letter of 10/23/1957 says "Margaret Garrat" married John See on 23 Aug 1780. In B.H. Fullers "John See and Margaret Garred's Descendents", page 1, she gives their marriage date as 3 Sep 1780. Mrs. Georgianne Dunlap Arnold in a letter dated 3 Sep 1960 to B.H. Fuller says they were married 3 Sep 1780 then later she says 9 Sep 1780...(could be a typing error)!

HOW ONE STONE CUTTER CHANGED THE WHOLE FAMILY HISTORY. "Before David Garred died he selected a burial site on his farm. This was on a point high above the river bottoms of the Big Sandy River in Lawrence County, Kentucky, and immediately above his home. Here on this plot of ground he gave directions for the construction of a stone vault above the ground, the first one of stone in the Big Sandy Valley and probably in the State. After completion, it could be seen for about two miles up or down stream, and many steamboat captains used it as a landmark in the early steamboat days of Big Sandy River traffic. It was cut from native stone located in the bend of the river about one half mile down stream. The pieces of cut dressed stone were transported across a large creek and to the bottom of the point of the hill, and then up a steep precipice to the site overlooking the area. This undoubtedly was a difficult task, for the roof stones were cut in about four feet wide sections, with each section forming one piece from eaves to ridge of roof and across to the other eave. These blocks of stone were about five inches thick, and were all put together except the entrance facing the east. This entrance was accomplished by a large piece of Vermont marble, the size of which would permit the entrance of two caskets. This piece of marble was very difficult to secure. It had to be cut and engraved and shipped to Kentucky. A very slow, time consuming operation, by boat up the Mississippi from New Orleans, then by push boat up Big Sandy, and then by ox team. Here is where the name changed to GARRED. When the stone arrived, the engraver carved GARRED instead of JARRETT. It was then decided that the marble slab could not bere-engraved or corrected, and the delay in securing another would be so great, that it would be left GARRED. I have never found any papers where this DAVID GARRED ever spelled his name other than JARRETT. He recorded all of his children's names in the family Bible as JARRETT. His sons Ulysses and David W., signed their names as GARRED, and thus the beginning of this spelling of the name of the two families of JARRETTS in Kentucky. So now it is necessary to deal with the descendants of Ulysses Garred and David W. Garred with this spelling, and those of Old Virginia, before David W. Garred, as JARRETT. This name lends itself to many ways of spelling, and even the same men spelled it differently in their business transactions, even in the same document. So from all that I have read and know of the name, here and in the French history, I must conclude that it came from France, and agree with the book "[History of] Pioneer West Virginia" that the origin is French, and that the migration was to Pennsylvania, to Maryland, to Virginia, to West Va, and Ky." (Taken from the Garred genealogy published--written--by Doctor U.V. Garred of Whiting, Iowa---copyrighted 1957.)"

Margaret married John See, son of Frederick Michael See and Catherine Vanderpol, on 3 Sep 1780 in Kanawha Co., Virginia, USA.⁴⁵⁵ (John See was born on 10 Oct 1757,³⁹² died after 2 Jan 1837 in Decatur, Macon, Illinois, USA ³⁹³ and was buried in Lewisville Farm, Henry Co, Indiana, USA ⁴⁵⁶.)