Six generations of LaRues and allied families : containing sketch of Isaac LaRue, senior, who died in Frederick County, Virginia, in 1795, and some account of his American ancestors and three generations of his descendants and families who were connected by intermarriage, among others, Carman, Hodgen, Helm, Buzan, Rust, McDonald, Castleman, Walters, Alexander, Medley, McMahon, Vertrees, Keith, Wintersmith, Clay, Neill, Grantham, Vanmeter and Enlow; copies of six old wills and other old documents; various incidents connected with the settlement of the Nolynn Valley in Kentucky; also a chapter o
Six generations of LaRues and allied families : containing sketch of Isaac LaRue, senior, who died in Frederick County, Virginia, in 1795, and some account of his American ancestors and three generations of his descendants and families who were connected by intermarriage, among others, Carman, Hodgen, Helm, Buzan, Rust, McDonald, Castleman, Walters, Alexander, Medley, McMahon, Vertrees, Keith, Wintersmith, Clay, Neill, Grantham, Vanmeter and Enlow; copies of six old wills and other old documents; various incidents connected with the settlement of the Nolynn Valley in Kentucky; also a chapter on the La Rue family and the child Abraham Lincoln . to 1840. Died at the home of his son, HughM. LaRue (I. F a 2), at Sacramento, California, while on avisit, July 4, 1884. Children of Jacob H. LaRue (I. F a) From First Marriage (Three). I. F a 1—William LaRue: Born December 27, 1827. Died1829. I. F a 2—Hugh McElroy LaRue : Born August 12, 1830. DiedDecember 6, 1906. Married, in 1858, Miss E. M. Lizenby(B. July 4, 1836. D. Jan. 6, 1919). Hugh M. LaRue movedwith his father to Lewis County, Missouri, in 1839. In 1849he joined the Sublette-Conduit expedition across the plains 51 SIX GENERATIONS to California; located first in Amador County in the lastnamed State; within a few years he became extensivelyengaged in agriculture and horticulture in the SacramentoValley. He had a prominent part in the development ofCalifornia; was Sheriff of his county in 1873-4; member ofthe second Constitutional Convention of California, in 1879;in 1883 and 1884 was member of the California Assembly,and was Speaker of the House; was Railroad Commissioner. The late Hugh McElrov LaRue (I. F a 2), of Sacramento, Cali-fornia (Photograph, 1899). from 1891 to 1895, and on various occasions was promin-ently mentioned as candidate for Governor on the Demo-cratic ticket. When he died a Sacramento paper said ofhim: Hugh M. LaRue was one of the last of the old 52 I. F—WILLIAM LARUE magnificent race of the
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