Lewis Robards
His mother was descended from First Families of Virginia types, his father had been a "militia lieutenant during the French and Indian War and...a member of Goochland County's Committee of Safety in 1775".
After the father died in Virginia in 1783, Lewis, several of his siblings, and his mother moved to Cane Run, Kentucky, in what is now Mercer County, where they owned several hundred acres that had been partially cleared.
Their father having died, they returned to Virginia, and after settling his estate came back to Kentucky, bringing with them their widowed mother and her family of children, and located in a log house on their lands.
In a few years, and as the Robards girls reached womanhood, the mother decided on a more capacious dwelling, and so a stone house was erected near a famous spring, better suited to the family's needs and tastes.
Captain George Robards went to Virginia and brought back as a bride Elizabeth Sampson, a lovely grand-daughter of the old Huguenot family, Dutois.
John Jouett, a Revolutionary soldier, who received from the Virginia legislature a sword for gallantry in battle and who was one of the state's first citizens.
Lewis was a bachelor of thirty, not much of a gallant, with a penchant for horses and hounds, a good shot, an expert hunter, and a valuable man in an Indian raid.
A short courtship followed and marriage transferred Rachel from the log cabin to the stone house as a member of the Robards family.
She was a sprightly talker, a graceful dancer, of a cheery dis position, and these qualities coupled with her fair face won the hearts of the entire household.
"[4] The Robards genealogy also states that Thomas Davis and Andrew Jackson's old partner John Overton were "distant relatives.
[7] Lewis Robards allegedly "frequented the slave quarters at night"—and as a recent Smithsonian article points out, these sexual encounters were enslaved women "almost certainly without their consent.
In the account of Little, "A year or so after the granting of his divorce Captain Robards married a lovely refined woman, whom he took to his Mercer county home.
A home on a farm of broad acres in the Blue Grass region of Kentucky in the first half of the nineteenth century was quite enough to realize all the aspirations of the home-loving heart.
