Father: William
Croghan, who was born in Dublin, Ireland, in 1754.
William migrated to the
U.S. and entered the army in 1776 as Captain of Infantry, Virginia
Line. He took part in the battles of the Brandywine, Monmouth and
Germantown; and he was with the army that bitter winter at Valley
Forge.
In 1780 his regiment was
ordered south and he was made a prisoner at the surrender of Charleston.
He was present at Yorktown, when the last great battle of the war
was fought, though he could not share in the fighting, as he was on
parole.
He served time on the staff
of Baron Steuben, and he was one of the officers present at the Verplanck
Mansion on the Hudson in May of 1783, when the Society of the Cincinnati
was instituted.
Shortly after the war Croghan
joined the increasing drift of Virginians across the mountains into
the new land of Kentucky and found a home near the Falls of Ohio.
William Croghan later married
Lucy Clark and moved into their place, Locust Grove, Upper River Road,
Louisville. The house where George Croghan grew up and where his uncle
George Rodgers Clark died, still stands today (2001), and has a website:
http://www.locustgrove.org
Mother: Lucy Clark,
daughter of Virginia planters. Her folks first lived on the farm adjoining
that of Thomas Jefferson's family at Keswick, Va. Her father, John
Clark, received as his marriage portion 400 acres on the Rivanna River
under the shadow of the Blue Ridge Mountains. There he took his 16
yr. old bride and cousin Ann Rogers.Of their 6 sons the first two
were generals, the third a captain and the fourth and fifth were lieutenants
in the Revolution. The 6th was too young to even be a drummer boy.Ann
was evidently a remarkable woman and encouraged her sons to go out
into the west. When George Rogers Clark brought back stories of the
new settlement the family moved there and built a house in Louisville,
"Mulberry Hill." Lucy Clark, who later married William Croghan,
was about 9 yrs. old when the family left Virginia.
Brothers & Sisters:
Charles and Nicholas (twins)
Edward Croghan
William. Married, all descendants
female
Ann Heron. Married Thomas
Sidney Jesup. all descendants female
Elizabeth Croghan
George. Married Serena
Livingston, May 1816. No male descendants
Dr. John Croghan, the oldest,
on a trip to England, heard about the Mammoth Cave which he knew nothing
about and on returning home, to Louisville he bought it. In his will
he left it to his nine living nieces and nephews and it would not
be sold until the death of the last surviving heir. He wrote a book
about the cave: "Rambles in the MammothCave, During the Year
1844."
George and Serena Croghan's
children:
Charles Croghan - died
in infancy.
John Croghan - died in
infancy
William Croghan - died
in infancy
Marie Croghan - died in
infancy
Mary Angelica married the
Rev.Christopher Wyatt of Baltimore Md. They had 4 children. She died
in 1906.
St. George Croghan married
Cornelia Ridgeley and they had 4 children. He was killed in the Civil
War, on the Confederate side.
Serena Livingston Croghan
married Augustus F. Rodgers and together they had 8 children.
[From
notes by Watt P. Marchman; director, Hayes Presidential Center, 1946-1980.]
