… Colonel Dugger, at any rate, justified his adoption into the first families
of Virginia by getting himself killed in a duel on account of an aspersive
remark 'passed' upon a visiting Northerner, a guest of his wife. Shortly after,
the three older sons emigrated to Tennessee, and are next heard of enlisting in
the War of 1812 from Sumner County in that State, and were present at the battle
of New Orleans. There was the traditional assurance that the American Daguerres
were collaterals of the distinguished French chemist, Louis Jacques Mande
Daguerre, inventor of the daguerreotype. The relationship, though without any
authentication, is borne out by a marked family resemblance. There was also a
traditional connection with the family of James K. Polk. A letter from Cousin
Bill – Captain William Dugger, son of Joseph Castlebury, second son of Jarrot –
the white-headed boy of the tribe at the time – relates: 'Just a few days before
the battle of Nashville, I was one of several officers who paid their respects
to Mrs. James K. Polk. As I was presented to her she said, 'That is the name of
my earliest young friend.' She asked me whose son I was. I told her I was the
grandson of Jarrot Dugger and Polly McAdams. She held my hand and said, 'Are you
the grandson of Polly McAdams! I loved her dearly!'
Of Jarrot, eldest son
of Pierre, who by the time he comes into the story was spelling his name Dugger,
there is, apart from the history of the family, not much to say. He married
Polly McAdams in Sumner County in 1811, and shortly afterward enlisted for the
War of 1812.
In 1818, on the admission of Illinois to statehood, the two
brothers, John and Wesley, with their families, moved to Madison County, and in
the 1820's Jarrot and Polly followed, settling in Carlinville in 1833. Jarrot
planted the first orchard and organized the first Sunday School. The frame house
which he built on the site of the earlier log cabin still stands, the fields
that he cleared and fenced still produce. In 1844 he was the proprietor of one
of the four or five stores about the square, and served acceptably for several
terms as County Commissioner. There were Duggers in the Black Hawk War, which
was not properly a war, but merely a concentrated incident of pioneer life in
communities in which a youth was counted a man as soon as he could shoot
straight and grow a beard. The roster of the third generation of Duggers serving
in the Civil War reads like the record in a family Bible. In 1852, Jarrot's son,
Samuel, established the first newspaper in the town, known as the 'Macoupin
Statesman.' There was a Dugger who helped to carry Abraham Lincoln to his grave
and one who served on the commission for his monument.
There was never
any doubt as to where the Duggers stood in the community which they helped to
build and populate. They were plain people, neither rich nor poor, devoid of
airs, loving the soil, good bargainers, the women rather outmatching the men in
that quality indispensable to pioneer society, known as mother-wit. While they
lived they were respected, and wherever they went – they tended to scatter
westward in the fourth generation – or whenever died, the local papers carried
long notices of their decease and lists of their achievements. It was not until
Mary's generation that they left off having their dead sent home to the acre
reserved for Jarrot's estate to be a family burying-ground. …
Contributed
by Helene Pockrus (and additions 2022 May 05 by Norma Hass), extracted from Earth Horizon, published in
1932, an autobiography of Mary Austin, Book One: The Saga of Polly McAdams,
pages 12-14.
The early Carlinville newspaper, The Macoupin
Statesman, was established by Samuel Dugger. He was the son of Jarrot Dugger and
Polly McAdams who came from Madison County to Carlinville in 1833. Jarrot
established the first orchard and the first Sunday School. In 1844, he was the
proprietor of one of the four or five stores about the square and served as
County Commissioner.
Contributed by Lee Waters.
A “First Family” of Macoupin County IL
JARRET6
DUGGER (LEONARD5, JOHN4, LYDIA3, DANIEL2, JOHN1) was born February 08, 1792 in
Sumner County, Tennessee to Leonard DUGGER (born 4 Nov 1773 in Sumner Co TN and
died Sep 1817 in Sumner Co TN) and Rhoda CASTLEBERRY (Leonard and Rhoda married
12 Jan 1792 in Sumner Co TN); Jarret died March 07, 1850 in Carlinville, Ill..
He married MARY (POLLY) MCADAMS August 25, 1811 in Sumner County, Tenn.,
daughter of WILLIAM MCADAMS and MARY HENDRICKS. Jarret's father Leonard DUGGER
married second 27 Nov 1800 in Sumner Co TN to Elizabeth TAYLOR.
Notes for
JARRET DUGGER:
Dugger Cemetery - S/W corner of the S/E 1/4 of the S/E 1/4 of
Section 20 of the Carlinville township, thence running north from said point of
the beginning 39 rods: running thence north 245 feet: thence east 393 feet:
thence 245 feet south: thence west 393 feet to the place of beginning,
containing one acre more or less. Jarrot Dugger orginal owner in the early
1830's. Source: Macoupin County Historical Museum
Source: Tombstone
Revelation in Macoupin County Ill. 1993, Macoupin County Historical Society
Dugger Family History-Sumner County, Tenn. Archives 1994
U.S.Census 1810-1819
Illinois Bible and Family Records, Vo. 1&2 1927
History of Madison County,
Illinois
Settled the A Zwilchenbart place in Madison County, Ill. 1828
erected an ox-mill
Moved to North Macoupin County, Ill.
Jarret
Dugger was a member of the Madison Assoc. who opposed the introduction of
slavery in Illinois.
More About JARRET DUGGER:
Fact 1: 1812, War of
1812, Summer County, Tenn. Cavalry
Fact 2: Duggers were "Middle Class"
Fact 3: 1830, Settled in Carlinville, Ill.,owned a store
Fact 4: Duggers were
in the Black Hawk War
Fact 5: 1845, Served as County Commissioner
Fact 6:
Battle of New Orleans
Fact 7: Organized first Methodist Sunday school
Fact
8: Planted first Orchard
Fact 9: Estate in Carlinville has family burial
ground
Fact 10: Dugger Cemetery -
Fact 11: 1817, Moved to Madison County,
Ill.
Fact 12: 1834, Moved to Macoupin County, Ill.
Fact 13: Member of the
Madison Association to oppose the introduction of slavery in Ill. Cause of
Death: Plurisy
Notes for MARY (POLLY) MCADAMS: Source: Tombstone
Revelations in Macupin County, Ill. 1993, Macoupin County Historical Society
Committee p. 74 Illinois Bible and Family Records, Vo. 1&2 1927
More
About MARY (POLLY) MCADAMS:
Fact 1: 1833, Settled in Carlinville, Ill. Fact
2: Buried in Dugger Cemetery, Carlinville, Ill.
Marriage Notes for JARRET
DUGGER and MARY MCADAMS:
Source: Illinois Bible and Family Records, vol. 1&2,
1927 Marriage Records of Tennessee
Children of JARRET DUGGER and MARY
MCADAMS are:
i. ELIZABETH7 DUGGER, b. November 14, 1812; d. April 21,
1846; m. NICHOLAS DECK, June 07, 1832.
*Notes for ELIZABETH DUGGER:
Source: Illinois Bible and Family Records, vol. 1&2 1927
*Marriage Notes
for ELIZABETH DUGGER and NICHOLAS DECK:
Source: Illinois Bible and Family
Records, vol. 1&2, 1927
ii. JOSEPH CASTLEBURY DUGGER, b. March 21, 1814,
Sumner Co. Tenn; d. 1866, Carlinville, Illinois.
iii. LEONARD WESLEY
DUGGER, b. September 12, 1815; d. January 18, 1882, Macoupin County, Ill.
iv. WILLIAM FERGUSON DUGGER, b. April 04, 1817; d. March 06, 1847.
v.
RHODA ANN DUGGER, b. April 20, 1819; d. November 28, 1865; m. ALEXANDER (TENESS)
LEWIS, November 03, 1836.
*Notes for RHODA ANN DUGGER:
Source:
Illinois Bible and Family Records, vol. 1&2, 1927
*Marriage Notes for
RHODA DUGGER and ALEXANDER LEWIS:
Source: Illinois Bible and Family Records,
vol. 1&2, 1927
vi. HANNAH DUGGER, b. March 01, 1821, Kentucky; d. January
04, 1853.
vii. SALLY DUGGER, b. January 08, 1823; d. August 17, 1825.
*Notes for SALLY DUGGER:
Source: Illinois Bible and Family Records, vol.
1&2, 1927
viii. SUSANNAH DUGGER, b. August 17, 1824; d. February 06,
1894; m. ABRAHAM C. WOODS, April 15, 1847.
*Notes for SUSANNAH DUGGER:
Source: Illinois Bible & Family Records, vo. 1&2, 1927
*Marriage Notes
for SUSANNAH DUGGER and ABRAHAM WOODS:
Source: Illinois Bible and Family
Records, vol. 1&2, 1927
ix. JEFFERSON LEWIS DUGGER, b. September 01,
1826; d. July 16, 1863, Macoupin County, Ill.; m. MARY E. GILL, 1854.
*Notes for JEFFERSON LEWIS DUGGER:
Source: Tombstone Revelations in Macoupin
County, Ill. Book IV, 1993 p.74 Macoupin County Historical Society Committee
Illinois Bible and Family Records, vol. 1&2, 1927
*More About JEFFERSON
LEWIS DUGGER:
Fact 1: Buried in Dugger Cemetery, Carlinville Cemetery Fact 2:
Asst. Adj. General, Carlinville, Ill. Fact 3: Civil War Soldier
*Marriage
Notes for JEFFERSON DUGGER and MARY GILL:
Source: Illinois Bible and Family
Records, vol 1&2, 1927
x. MALINDA DUGGER, b. December 14, 1828; d.
November 16, 1831.
*Notes for MALINDA DUGGER:
Source: Illinois Bible
and Family Records, vol. 1&2, 1927
xi. JOHN HOGAN DUGGER, b. September
27, 1831; d. December 15, 1907; m. SARAH M. NEIL, May 25, 1854.
*Notes
for JOHN HOGAN DUGGER:
Source: Illinois Bible and Family Records vol. 1&2,
1927
*Marriage Notes for JOHN DUGGER and SARAH NEIL:
Source: Illinois
Bible and Family Records, vol. 1&2, 1927
xii. SAMUEL BASTION DUGGER, b.
May 04, 1834; d. October 19, 1903, Carlinville, Ill - Macoupin County; m.
CATHERINE MILLER O'DELL, November 20, 1853.
*Notes for SAMUEL BASTION
DUGGER:
Source: Tombstone Revelation in Macoupin County Ill. Book IV,
Macoupin County Historiacl Society Committee,1993 p. 24 Illinois Bible and
FamilyRecords, vol. 1&2, 1927
*More About SAMUEL BASTION DUGGER:
Fact
1: 1852, established 1st newspaper "Macoupin Statesman" Fact 2: Buried in
Carlinville City Cemetery
*More About CATHERINE MILLER O'DELL:
Fact 1:
Buried in Dugger Cemetery, Carlinville, Ill.
Contributed by Lee Waters.
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