Things I liked in The GLASCOCK book by Lawrence A. GLASSCO. The story of Thomas and Jane Juet Glasscock who migrated from England to Tidewater, Virginia by 1643 and established a clan which moved along the Tidewater, into the Piedmont.
The Glascock family did turn out to be”among the oldest in Virginia.” They were in America almost a century and a half before the Constitution was signed.
Lafayette named a street in his hometown,Lagrange, France, after PETER GLASCOCK and Peter reciprocated in Paris, Virginia.
Abe Lincoln, fought in the Blackhawk War under first LT. GEORGE W. GLASCOCK and spoke to KIM and MATT GLASSCOCK the first Lincoln “Railsplitters “ at the Charleston, Illinois debate.
Sam Houston knew GEORGE W. GLASSCOCK who fought at the “Siege of Bexar” San Antonio prior to the Alamo defeat and after whom Glascock, Texas was named.
Samuel Clemmens was a friend of STEPHEN GLASSCOCK and wrote of Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn on Glasscock Island near Hannibal, Missouri.
Stephen Glasscock is the son of Hezekiah and Sarah Stephens Glasscock who settled Ralls County seat at Hannibal, Missouri in 1822. Owned most of Hannibal, Missouri, including Glascock’s Island which Mark Twain made famous as “Jackson’s Island “ where Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn camped.
Stephen gave Hannibal its town park and most of the waterfront to be used for recreational purposes. Since the whole waterfront has now become commercial, some people argue that the land should revert to Stephen Glasscock Heirs. He had no children.
Thomas and Jane Juet Glasscock plantation was named “Indian .” The Tidewater home was built in 1699 on the Rappahannock where John Smith was in 1608.
Powhatan, the father of Pocahontas, who dr rdnuh did so much to help the Jamestown settlers. The tribe’s principal town was at the site of Glasscock’s plantation at “Indian Banks.” The tribe had about 300 Indians
The mansion at “Indian Banks” was constructed with bricks made by slaves from the clay dug from the river bank. It is still standing and habitable.
It remained a center of Glasscock activity for nabout a hundred and thirty years until 1822 when it was sold outside the Glasscock family.
George Washington was born on February 22,1732. About 30 miles from “Indian Banks.”
These pioneers were apparently of rugged stock.They are said to have been almost as tall as the giant oaks of their native state, not one of them but stood more than six feet in his stockings.
The family was noted for longevity several of them passing the 100th years of the nine children of which the treats their heights averaged six feet and one inch and their weight over two hundred pounds.
In the early 1830’s a branch of the Glasscock family dropped the “ck” from Glasscock and changing their name to Glassco.
The younger generations of the Glasscocks and GLASSCO inherited the pioneering spirit. Motivated by the same drives that had caused their ancestors to sail west from Europe in the 1640’s, and to move north to the “northern neck“ of Virginia in the 1660’s, northwest from Tidewater, Virginia to the Piedmont area in Virginia, in the 1741’s, west into Kentucky in 1801, and west again to the Illinois Prairie in 1828.
The descendants moved to new communities seeking new opportunities for advancement. Some went north to Wisconsin and Minnesota, some went south to Mississippi, and some went west to California. One even went to Alaska. And the rest settled in many of the intermediate states.
I have seen the states of Virginia, Georgia, Texas, Illinois, Missouri, West Virginia, South Dakota, Kentucky, Ohio, Mississippi, California, Idaho, Pennsylvania, North and South Carolina, New Jersey, Indiana, Tennessee, Wisconsin, Minnesota and Alaska. The countries of France, Tripoli, Mexico, England, Germany ,Ireland and Scotland.
We do not know exactly where ENOCH Glascock lived in Kentucky. But one of his sons, Kim, later wrote that he was born “in Hardin County, Kentucky, 3 miles from the birthplace of Abe Lincoln.”
Abe was born in a one room earthen floor log cabin on the Big South fork of Nolin’s Creek about two and half miles from Hodginville, Kentucky. This spot is called the Sinking Spring Farm and there is now a national park located there. In 1817 the Lincoln’s moved to Indiana. Those are the things that I liked in the Glasscock book by Lawrence A. Glassco. (16)
