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After the British army moved from this encampment, Gen. Forney commanded a company and placed themselves on the eastern bank of the river, endeavoring to oppose their crossing, and remained there until the light troops, under Col. Hall, effected a passage at Cowan's Ford. The militia being repulsed, and Gen. Davidson killed, he fled to Adam Torrence's, hotly pursued by Tarleton's troop of cavalry.
"So," I argued to myself, "it has come to this, that Forney and Cameron, lifelong enemies, have made friends and are going to rob the Government one clerk of the House, the other Secretary of War and I, a mutual choice, am to be the confidential middle man." I still had a home in Tennessee and I rose from my bed, resolved to go there. I did not keep the proposed appointment for next day.
Gen. Peter Forney Major Abram Forney Remarks Genealogy of the Forney Family. Rev. Humphrey Hunter Dr. William McLean Major William Chronicle Captain Samuel Martin Captain Samuel Caldwell Captain John Mattocks William Rankin General John Moore Elisha Withers.
He served as a Representative to Congress from 1815 to 1818, and as a Senator from Lincoln county to the State Legislature from 1823 to 1826. In 1834, he moved to Lowndes county, Ala., where he died in October, 1847, in the sixty-fourth year of his age. He had seven children: 1. Eloise Forney married Gen. Jones Withers, of Mobile, Ala. Mariah Forney married Judge Moore, of Alabama,
I said I had come as near my exit a time or two before, though always in fair fight; and thereupon was whelmed in an avalanche of questions such as only simple-hearted folk know how to ask. When I had sufficiently accounted for myself, Captain Forney he was the limber-backed young fellow I had ridden behind gripped my hand and gave me a hearty welcome and congratulation.
The courtesy of Colonel Forney, then Clerk of the House, arranged for my admission to the building during the ceremonies of the next day; and that of Douglas Wallach, of the Star, furnished me a seat in the reporters' gallery of the Senate for that evening when the last session of the expiring Congress was to be held and a last effort made for putting through those 'compromise resolutions' which it was then believed might 'save the Union, but which we now know to have been as useless, even if they could have been passed, as so much whistling against the wind.
There is no sacrifice on earth that I would not make to preserve it." While Douglas was in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, he received a dispatch from his friend, Forney, announcing that the Republicans had carried Pennsylvania in the October State election. Similar intelligence came from Indiana. The outcome in November was thus clearly foreshadowed.
His tombstone, in a private cemetery on the old homestead property, bears this inscription: "Sacred to the memory of Jacob Forney, born Nov. 6th, 1754, died Nov. 7th, 1840, aged eighty-six years and one day." He had eleven children: 1. Thomas J. Forney married S.C. Harris, of Montgomery county. Isaac Newton Forney, married M.L. Corpening, of Burke county.
Sam Bowles the first newspaper politician of his day, with none of the handicaps carried by Raymond and Forney a man keen of insight and foresight, fertile of resources, and not afraid stood foremost among them. Next came Horace White.
Bob Forney and some distinguished gentlemen of the road, had paid us a visit, with the result that the express company lost about forty thousand dollars and their messenger his life. The country became too warm for them and they fled.
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