I. K-DEIDAMIA LARUE HODGEN.

Daughter of Jacob LaRue (I.) and Mary Frost LaRue. Born April 24, 1785. Died, 1859. Her husband was John Hodgen (VI. E). Family moved to Illinois, and later to Iowa. See list of children under John Hodgen (VI. E).

I. L-MORGAN J. LARUE.

Son of Jacob LaRue (I.) and Jane Morgan LaRue. Was born November 26, 1806, on the farm of his father in Hardin (later LaRue) County, Kentucky. Died at his home on Nolynn, below Glendale, Hardin County, December 26, 1883, of an illness contracted from exposure while attending the funeral of his brother, Jesse V. LaRue (I. N), who died just ten days previously.

Morgan J. LaRue (I. L) married first, Sept. 9, 1824, Maria Castleman (1806-1867), a daughter of James Castleman (17751840), who came from Frederick Co, Va., about the year 1800. She was a sister of Lewis Castleman, who married Sarah LaRue (I. M) and a half-sister of Mary Castleman, who married Josiah LaRue (I. H c). Second marriage, November 8, 1868, to Ellen H. Eller, of Missouri, who died December 15, 1906.

The greater part of the life of Morgan J. LaRue, after his marriage, was spent on a farm below the village of Glendale, but for a few years just after his second marriage he lived in Missouri, near Mexico. He was a pioneer preacher of the Christian Church (Disciples), usually ministering to four churches at one time, preaching one Sunday a month for each church. Among the early converts under his ministry was J. B. Briney, who has long been one of the leading preachers of the Christian Church in Kentucky.

The body of Morgan J. LaRue (I. L) rests in the burying ground at the old "Stone Church," in Hardin County.

CHILDREN OF MORGAN J. (I. L) AND MARIA CASTLEMAN LARUE (TWELVE).

I. La-Nancy LaRue (1826-1908): Married John F. Cox, February 12, 1856. Lived in Hardin County, Ky. Five children. Numerous descendants.

I. L b-Jacob Castleman LaRue: Born 1828. Died about 1890. Married Rhoda Perry. Left several children (in Missouri). I. L c-Sarah Elizabeth LaRue: Born 1830. Died

Married Willard P. Greer, August 30, 1848. Left several children (in Missouri).

I. L d-James M. LaRue: Born 1832. Was killed in the early days of the Civil War, while in the service as a soldier in the Confederate Army. Married Nannie Brown, July 15, 1858. Left two daughters

I. Le John S. LaRue: Born 1833. Died March, 1912. Mar

ried Maggie Williams in September, 1869. Lived near Henderson, Ky. Left six children.

I. L f―Thomas C. LaRue: Born September 26, 1834. Died March 17, 1921, at his home in Henderson, Ky. Married three times first to Harriett E. Miller, November 11, 1862 (six children); second to Miss White (no children); third to Fannie L. Black, June 12, 1895 (four living children).

I. L g-Delia LaRue: Born August 24, 1836. Living, in 1921, in Indianapolis, Indiana. Married three times-first to Dr. John M. Goodwin, October 5, 1858 (two sons); second to James Hayden (two sons); third to Rev. W. L. Hayden (now dead). I. L h-Ann B. LaRue: Born September 26, 1838. Died

in Missouri. Married Thomas B. Walker, December 11, 1855. Left several children.

I. Li-Missouri A. LaRue: Born January 4, 1841. Living, in 1921, near Elizabethtown, Ky. Married Charles L. Miller, May 11, 1863. Has several children.

I. Lk-Martha Ellen LaRue: Born 1842. Living, in 1920, near Paris, Tennessee. Married Milburn Shobe, of Warren County, Ky. March 15, 1866. Children.

I. L 1-Frances C. LaRue: Born 1844.

Died

in Florida. Married John H. Hays, of Warren County, Ky., October 31, 1867. Had four children.

I. L m-Jesse William LaRue: Born November 4, 1847. Living (1921). Married Luta Higginson. Two children living (1921).

CHILDREN OF MORGAN J. (I. L) AND ELLEN H. ELLER LARUE (Two).

I. L n-Minnie LaRue: Born September 4, 1869. Living, in 1921, in Audrian County, Missouri-post-office, Auxvasse, Mo. Married Thomas A. Boyd. Has four children.

I. Lo-Morgan E. LaRue: Born August 31, 1871. Died in Missouri, August, 1900.

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For information as to the children of Morgan J. LaRue (I. L), the writer is indebted largely to Mrs. Delia LaRue Hayden (I. L g).

Sarah Jane, daughter of Jacob LaRue (I.) and Jane Morgan LaRue, was born October 9, 1808, on her father's farm, five miles north of the present site of Hodgenville, and died at the same place, February 22, 1904. She was married September 4, 1823, by John Hodgen (VI. E) to Lewis Castleman (B. 1800, D. 1842). Lived nearly all her life on the farm on which she was born. In early life lived a few years in the lower part of Hardin County on the farm in which she was given a one-third interest by her father's will, where two or three of her older children were born.

Sarah LaRue Castleman (I. M) was given a fair education in the schools of the community in which she lived and continued to be a student and great reader throughout her long life. All her sons were preachers, as well as farmers. She was buried in the family burying ground on the farm on which she died. Her husband died of yellow fever at Natchitoches, Louisiana.

CHILDREN OF SARAH LARUE (I. M) AND LEWIS CASTLEMAN

(EIGHT).

I. M a-Jane Castleman: Born November 7, 1824. Died August 12, 1888. Married John Petty, 1872. No children.

I. M b-James Castleman: Born October 25, 1826. Died May 20, 1890. Lived in Wise County, Texas. Married. Twelve children. Numerous descendants in the West.

I. M c-Sarah Castleman: Born September 17, 1828. Died January 23, 1916. Married William H. Nicholas, August 30, 1849. Six children. Numerous descendants.

I. M d-Nancy Castleman: Born July 31, 1830. Died February 22, 1865. Married, first, George R. West (1830-1855), December 21, 1852 (one son and one daughter of this marriage); second marriage, September 18, 1859, to Joseph Walters (two daughters of this marriage). Numerous descendants.

I. Me-Jesse L. Castleman: Born September 11, 1834. Died February 8, 1916. Married three times-first to Frances Nicholas, December 22, 1857 (three children); second marriage to Elizabeth Peak (two daughters); third marriage to Margaret Peak (no children). Numerous descendants. I. M f-Stephen Morgan Castleman: Born July 24, 1836. Died July 23, 1900. Married, October 5, 1881, Mary LaRue, daughter of James Doane LaRue (II. B c). She is living (1921) at Hodgenville. One daughter.

House in LaRue County, Kentucky, built by Jacob LaRue (I.) in 1800, and group at reunion on the ninetieth anniversary of the birth of Sarah LaRue Castleman (I. M), October 9, 1898. She is in the center of the group, sitting between two of her daughters (I. M c and I. M g). More than half the persons shown in picture are descendants of Sarah LaRue Castleman (I. M).