Volume 12 , Issue 2

John Jacob & Mary Jane Vance Warwick Sketches

Shirley in Richmond, VA says, "We also have a copy of the portrait likenesses that the lady from California shared with you. My Mother remembered the original pen and ink drawings being given as a parting gift to.

"I believe a Mary Moore Hanna or maybe it was Carrie Moore Hanna. She was the Warwick descendant. Her husband was Rev. Hanna and was taking a church (Presbyterian?) out west (Arizona or New Mexico) and I guess this was a way of letting them take their heritage with them.

"Several copies were made and kept by descendants at that time, which is why I have my copy. I can find details if you are interested. A file cabinet is bulging.

"Lately, I have wondered if the portraits might really be of Andrew Sitlington Warwick and his wife. He was the grandson of Jacob. But the fact that they have been so long ago identified as Jacob and Mary make me wonder if that might really be true. I have often wondered what happened to the originals. It was very interesting to read what was written on the reverse, because my copy does not record all of that information. -- Shirley Morris Ricmond, Virgina."

Michele Hankins in Virginia says, "My husband and I are very interested in getting the Warwick family history correct. What was so strange is we recently went to NYC and had portraits done in Central Park and although the drawing of my son looks little to nothing like him, it looks EXACTLY like the portrait done of Jacob Warwick that I viewed online. There was a Hannah Gatewood that died during childbirth. She was married to John Woods Warwick. Her only child, Sally, lived and went on to have eight daughters and a son who grew up in the house we are restoring a clover Lick, WV. John and Hannah were the last with the name of Warwick to live in the house."

Shirley says, "I spent an afternoon at Clover Lick years ago, (BC as in before children). There was a neat house up on a hill that intrigued me because it was on such a hillside that they buried Mary Vance Warwick. Is that the house you are restoring? I am sure I can get a good copy of the pen and ink drawings and will send to you. John Woods Warwick is my 2 great grandfather and I am descended from him and his second wife, Caroline E. Craig. I named my daughter after her. She was from Huntersville. I knew about Sally Gatewood and have a friend from school who is related to her. I never knew that she died in childbirth."
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