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Isaac LaRUE, Jr.

Male 1753 - 1818  (64 years)


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  • Name Isaac LaRUE 
    Suffix Jr. 
    Birth 3 Nov 1753  Frederick [now Clarke] County, VA Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender Male 
    Death 9 Oct 1818  Bedford County, TN Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Notes 
    • (1) Mather, Otis M., Six Generations of Larues and Allied Families, Hodgenville, KY: 1921, pp. 100-102:

      ISAAC LARUE.

      Son of Isaac LaRue, Sr., and Phebe Carman LaRue. Was born about 1750. He was married in Virginia and was a housekeeper there before he came to Kentucky. In the letter to Mrs. Ellis, dated April 14, 1906, . . . , Mr. John J. LaRue . . . says: "Isaac, Jr. . . built a stone house at the head of the Marsh (Long Marsh, in Frederick County, Va.) which bears his name and the year when built. It is called Clearmont.'"

      It is believed that Isaac LaRue . . . was the first of the LaRues to become a permanent resident of the station on Nolynn. He must have located there some time before the month of July, 1784, for in that month he was appointed by the County Court of Jefferson County, at Louisville (then our County seat), as one of the viewers of a proposed road from Nolynn station. The orders with reference to this appointment are of interest as a part of the early history of the station, and they are therefore set out in full.

      On July 6, 1784, the County Court of Jefferson County entered the following order:

      "Ordered that Jacob Ashcroft, Phillip Phillips, Isaac Larew and Joseph Kapatriek (now written Kirkpatrick), or any three of them, do view the nearest and most convenient way from Nolin to the mouth of Beech Fork & Report, &c."

      The following order was made November 3, 1784:

      "The viewers of the Road from Nolin Station to the Mouth of Beech Fork having made report, the same is accordingly established."

      And on the same date (November 3, 1784), the Court further "Ordered, 'That Isaac Larue be appointed Surveyor of the road from the Mouth of the Beech Fork to Nolinn & that Capt. Phillips' Co., on the so. side of the Rolling Fork attend said Surveyor in his sd. office."

      This road, leading toward Louisville, was the first public road from Nolynn Station, unless, possibly, there was another earlier road leading toward the old settlement on Pottinger's Creek, which is now in Nelson County. . . . [T]he road toward Elizabethtown was not established until 1790, though there was doubtless a trail from the Severns Valley Station to the station on Nolynn as early as 1781. Until this part of the country was settled, and the people began to inclose their lands, public roads were not absolutely necessary. All this region was in the "Barrens." The timber had been burned by the Indians in order that they might find game. There is an old tradition that one could ride from the station on Nolynn to the Severns Valley Station without being able to find a "riding switch." . . .

      Isaac LaRue . . . built the first jail in Hardin County, for which service he was allowed twelve pounds and sixteen shillings by order of the County Court on October 8, 1794.

      After the fort was abandoned, Isaac LaRue . . . continued to reside in Hardin County - most of the time on the east fork of Nolynn, above the Hodgen mill - until about the year 1807. During the years from 1800 to 1804, he sold the lands on Salt River which had been conveyed to him by his father. . . . In June, 1806, he sold the tract where he lived, above Hodgen's mill, to John Ashcraft. Soon afterward he moved to southern Kentucky or Tennessee, where he died about the year 1820. The Christian name of his wife was Bethiah.

      DESCENDANTS OF ISAAC LARUE . . . AND BETHIAH LARUE, HIS WIFE (SIX CHILDREN). . . .

      [i] John LaRue. . . .

      [ii] Joseph LaRue. . . .

      [iii] Phebe LaRue. . . .

      [iv] Jabez LaRue. . . .

      [v] Squire LaRue. . . .

      [vi] Elizabeth LaRue. . . .
    Person ID I29454  Frost, Gilchrist and Related Families
    Last Modified 26 Mar 2024 

    Father Isaac LaRUE, Sr.,   b. 11 Jan 1712, Hunterdon [now Mercer] County, NJ Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 20 Mar 1795, Frederick [now Clarke] County, VA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 83 years) 
    Mother Phebe CARMAN,   b. 4 Mar 1725, Cape May County, NJ Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 25 Jan 1804, Frederick [now Clarke] County, VA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 78 years) 
    Marriage 6 Oct 1743  Hunterdon [now Mercer] County, NJ Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Family ID F12814  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Bethiah HARDIN,   b. 10 Feb 1767   d. 14 Feb 1827, Bedford County, TN Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 60 years) 
    Family ID F12820  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 26 Mar 2024