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From: "jlaros mail account" <>
Subject: The McKnights and Cummings
Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2002 08:47:36 -0600

I found this on Charlie's
Cummin(g)s,Comyn's/Families
Archives for 1997
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~chascum/1997/1997.html

From an article from "Historic Families of Kentucky
The McKnights and Cummings.

Anne, the oldest daughter of Judge William Logan and Priscilla Wallace, was
born in Kentucky, and , in the dawn of her womanhood, became the wife of
Virgil McKnight. The family of that name came from Ireland to Pennsylvania,
and thence to the Valley of Virginia; but it was of Scottish origin, and of
the Presbyterian faith. Among the soldiers of the French and Indian wars
whose names are preserved in the colonial records, was Daniel McNight, as
the name was erroneously spelled by the recording clerk. He was of the same
family as, and not improbably the immediate ancestor of, Virgil McKnight,
the able and widely known president of the Bank of Kentucky. George
McKnight was an ensign in Colonel Byrd's regiment of Royal Virginians in
1755. Andrew McKnight, the father of Virgil was born in Rockbridge County,
Va, in 1773. One of Andrew Mc Knight's brothers moved to Ohio, and left
issue of his own and other names in that state. One of Andrew's sisters
married an uncle of Dr. John Clark Young, the eloquent pulpit orator and
learned president of Centre College - these Youngs also lived in Ohio.
Another of Andrew McKnight's sisters married a Shields, but of them the
writer has no knowledge beyond the fact stated. Andrew McKnight, himself,
married ELIZABETH CUMMINGS, who was born in Rockbridge Co, Va in 1771; she
belonged to one of the most noted, and intellectual, and worthy of the
Scotch-Irish families of the Valley. She was the daughter of John Cummings
and Esther Reid. One of the brothers of Elizabeth, Samuel Cummings, married
Sarah Paxton; and one of her sisters, Esther, married Lyle Paxton, brother
of Sarah. It would be interesting to follow the Cummings family in its
numerous other intermarriages with the Paxtons, with the McClungs, Lyles and
Alexanders, all of the faith of John Knox; their posterity contributed many
superior men to the ranks of the liberal professions, especially to the
ministry. It would be foreign to the object of this book to dwell upon
their high social position, which does not always indicate a vigorous breed.
The cultivation that distinguished them, their own recognized
intellectuality, would render useless a vain attempt to trace a connection
between them and the ancient Comyns who were Lords of Badenoch in Scotland,
and from whom the more modern name of Cummins is derived.

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