OUR FAMILY TREE and Its Many Branches November 1988
OUR FAMILY TREE
and its many branches
november 1988 TABLE OF CONTENTS
Families: Brown 1 Markel 7 Parker 15 Blaine 42 Meyer 62 Segerstrom 90 McMurray 102 Sutfin 131 Kohlmeier 142 Beale - 151 Hite Family 167 Armstrong - Lyon 193 Mead - Bateson 212 Washington 226 Ord - Cresap families aft 256 Mead - Parker 289 index
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We speak of our forbears in old and worn cliches, As stalwart, silent men whose numbered days Were spent in ceaseless, unremitting toil Eking a living from New England soil. We think of them waiting for the call to arms, Fighting to save their families and farms; We picture the furrow where the dropped plough lies, The women watching them go with quiet eyes.
Is it because they died so many springs Ago that we forget the other things They did from day to day? They must have wept, Laughed, talked of the future. I think they kept Their dreams tended as gently as their corn, And planned great things for children yet unborn.
And as I watch the spring unfold each year, I think that they held beauty almost as dear As freedom. The battle won, they heeded her command, And planted dogwood in their promised land.
DOROTHY JOSLIN ©1976 Introduction
Our Family and its Many Branches is genealogy of an entire family, admittedly as yet incomplete. It is the genealogy of the various branches, also incomplete. In order to give focus as to who are members of the family it was necessary to establish who the ultimate legatees of the genealogy, as published in 1988, would be. Those legatees are the grandchildren of the preparer of this genealogy - Sarah Michael Townsend, Eliza Raye Sutfin and Michael Parker Sutfin. They are related to all the branches here included, though the relationship may be one by affinity (marriage) as well as consanguinity (blood). Immediate or direct lines in a genealogy are relatively simple. Starting with the ultimate subject the child we go to the parents (two in number) - the grandparents (four in number) - the great grandparents (eight in number) and progressively back through the generations. The geometric progression back, genealogically speaking, back to the 12th Century (1100-1200 a.d.) would count for 33,554, 432 ancestors. The total population of England did not exceed two million in the year 1100 a.d. Each forbearer at that period, and in the subseguent two or three centuries must be counted over and over. We have established charts for each family unit (father, mother, and children) and the same family unit may appear in more than one of the branches, thus, their chart number will depend upon which family grouping they appear. What is clear from a reading of this genealogy is that there are many gaps in the family units reported, and there is an absence entirely of certainly family lines that should be reported. The failure to report them as of this date is for the lack of information
- l - about them - not an unwillingness to include them in the genealogy. At the annual meeting of the Federation of Genealogical Societies held in August, 1988 in Boston, MA it was strongly urged that one does not wait until his genealogy is completed - for it never will be. New family lines will constantly be added, in an unending roll of history. As incomplete as this genealogy is we are publishing it with invitations for additions to it and invite attention to any errors, unintentionally, made.
C. E. Parker Genealogist-Lawyer
November 1, 1988.
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Chart I James Blaine 1, Agnes Blaine McMurray 2, Acheson 3 William Blaine McMurray 020-1 Amy Naoma Berlin McMurray 001-1. Henry Albert McMurray, b. Sep. 10, 1848, at Jeannette, Westmoreland Co., PA M- 001-2. Humphrey Ludwick McMurray, b. Feb. 15, 1850, at Jeannette, Westmoreland Co., PA d. 1921 M- Elizabeth W. Jenkins, Jun. 13, 1877, she d. Aug. 8, 1934. Resided at Ligonier, PA 001-3. Amy Naoma McMurray, b. Aug. 21, 1854, at Jeannette, PA d. Jan. 1, 192 6 M- William Edgar Steck Resided at Excelsior Springs, MO - No ch. 001-4. Margaret Arabella McMurray, b. Sep. 25, 1858, at Jeanette, Westmoreland Co., PA, d. Mar. 27, 1889, and is bur. at Floyd Cem., Sioux City, IA. M- James Tuffts
001-5. John Albert McMurray, b. Sep. 9, 1860, at Jeanette, PA M- 001-6. Mary Jane McMurray, b. Dec. 3, 1864, at Jeanette, Westmoreland Co., PA d. Jun. 30, 1955 at Orange, CA. md. Nov. 2, 1887 M - Ralph Waite Mead, b. Jan. 3, 1863, d. Mar. 15, 1937 at Santa Ana, CA. See Chart 11. 001-7. Bertram Clifford McMurray, b. Nov. 4, 1871, and d. Jul. 29, 1947 at Sawtelle, Veterans Hospital, Los Angeles, CA. M- Lillian Augusta Masters, Dec. 6, 1903, b. Apr. 8,
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1877, and d. Jun. 9, 1949. They are bur. in the Mead family plot at Fairhaven Cem., Santa Ana, CA. They resided for many years in Lancaster, CA. He was a soldier with Co. L, 7th Regt., CA National Guard, during the Spanish-American War, serving primarily at Alameda Co., CA awaiting transit to the Phillipine campaign. He was a resident of Lancaster, CA in later years - and postmaster there for a period of time. 001-8. William Z. B. McMurray, b. Aug. 19 1856, and d. Aug. 30, 1940 M- Charlotte (Lottie) Crawford, of Hampton, IA, on Sep. 20, 1883. b. Jul. 24, 1860, d. Jun. 16, 1944. 001-9. Sarah Louise McMurray, b. Jul. 10, 1866, d. Sep. 14, 1949 at Santa Ana, CA. A-18277, Orange Co., CA. Unmd. - lifetime school teacher in IA, Orange Co., and Los Angeles, CA 001-10. Thomas Oscar McMurray, b. Jul. 19, 18 69, d. Apr. 22, 1942 M- Lydia Barth at Sioux City, IA on Mar. 12, 1899. She was b. Aug. 22, 1881 d. Sep. 11, 1964. 001-11. Eleanor Elizabeth McMurray, b. Mar. 12, 1852, and d. Easter Sunday, Mar. 31, 1907 in Santa Ana, CA. M- James Brown, Mar. 31, 1886 at Waterloo, IA. He was b. Jun. 25, 1852. Marriage record filed in Book J, Page 96, Mar. 30, 1886, records of Black Hawk Co., IA. See Brown Branch of the Family Tree All the McMurray ch. were b. at the family farm near Jeanette, PA which was the site of the Battle of Bushy Run during the French and Indians Wars, 1763, with a British force commanded by Colonel Henry Bouguet. When the family moved to IA around 1875 the farm was sold to relatives, members of the Jacob Gongaware family.
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Chart IV Harold Ray Brown Ethel (Gerran) Brown Harold Ray Brown was a mortician by profession. He was an ambulance driver during World War I, and became associated with the Mottel Mortuary on Geary Street in San Francisco. In 1929 he formed a partnership with Sam Harrel of Huntington Beach to form a mortuary in Santa Ana, CA under the firm name of Harrell and Brown Mortuary. Mr. Harrell later sold his interest to Mr. Emil Wagner and 'the firm name became Brown and Wagner. Several years later Mr. Wagner sold his interest to a group of partners and the firm became the Brown Colonial Mortuary. * 004-1. Harold James Leroy Brown, b. Nov. 12, 1930, at Santa Ana, CA M - Joyce Ruth Markel, Oct. 11, 1958, b. Sep. 13, 1932 004-2. Lynette Brown, b. Mar. 25, 1934, at Los Angeles, CA, d. Feb. 20, 1986 M- Donald Maurice Norman, Jan. 28, 1961, b. Jul. 27, 1933 FOURTH GENERATION
Chart V Harold Leroy James Brown Joyce Ruth (Markel) Brown 005-1. Vincent Harold Brown, b., Mar. 21, 1960 M- 005-2. Gregory Thomas Brown, b. Jul. 12, 1961 M- Linda Hammond, Jun. 1987 at St. Joseph's Catholic Church, Santa Ana, CA. 005-3. Mark L. Brown, b. Oct.. 24, 1963 M- Carol Keelan, Oct. 24, 1987, at Huntington Beach,
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CA. 005-4. Gerran William Brown, b. Jan. 17, 1966 M- "~~
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november 1988 FIRST GENERATION Chart I Jules William Markel Ada Dillon 1
1 Jules William Markel and Ada Dillon were married Nov. 23, 1897 at St. Henry's Catholic Church, in New Orleans, Louisiana. He was b. Sep. 15, 1874. She was b. May 25, 1879. She received her education at St. Henry's Parochial School and this education extended through eight grades.
He was a building contractor in that city, moving his business later to Santa Ana, CA.. He d. Feb. 2, 1952. Jules William Markel received an education at MacSonough #44 grammar school. He was bp. and attended St. Stephen's Catholic Church in New Orleans. He worked with his father in job construction, and became an apprentice carpenter. He was an enthusiastic fisherman and hunter. At the time of his marriage in New Orleans he was a journeyman carpenter. Around 1900 he entered business for himself as a contractor, and operated his own mill, which manufactured sashes, doors, blinds, etc. At this time he was president of St. Stephen's St. Vincent de Paul Society. There was a scarlet fever epidemic in New Orleans and since he had the fever as a ch. of two he was immune to the illness. He went from home to home doing all possible to aid the sick. Thousands of people d. as a result of this epidemic. He was a director and later president of the New Orleans Contractors and Dealers Association. He was president of St. Stephen's Holy Name Society and a charter member of Knights of Columbus Council #714.
He was the general superintendent for the John 0. Chisolm Company in the construction of Camp Nicholas in New Orleans during World War I. From Camp Nicholas the Chisolm Company moved their operations to Camp McCellan in Anniston, Alabama. AFter the completion of that camp J. W. Markel was commissioned a Captain in the United States Army.
He was placed in charge of construction at Camp Hilton in Newport News, VA (a port of embarkation), while awaiting shipping orders. It was at Camp Hilton during the winter of 1917 that he became ill from the flu which developed into pneumonia and later tuberculosis. He was immediately relieved of duty and transferred to Fort Bayard in Silver City, NM. He was released from Fort Bayard after eleven months and assigned to Camp Johnson in Jacksonville, FL. While on a siding in Houston,TX, word was received of the signing of the Armistice on Nov. 11, 1918.
- 7 - After the war he was assigned the construction of Whipple Barracks in Prescott, AZ. Whipple was one of the largest tuberculosis hosptials in the USA at that time and became even a larger center for treatment of tuberculosis in later years. He then was assigned as Quartermaster to participate in post war construction at Fort Brown, Brownsville.TX. In Sep. of 1919, afdter only six months of duty at Fort Brown, he was transferred to Fort Huachuca, AZ, as quartermaster and having full charge of construction. On Nov. 13, 1920, at Fort Huachuca, Captain Markel was honorably discharged from the U. S. Army.
From Fort Huachuca he moved his family to Tucson, AZ. It was in Tucson where he re-entered the general contracting business. After a short stay in Tucson the family moved to Riverside, CA., and then to Santa Ana. He began his contracting business by building the Santa Ana Laundry in 1923. He then constructed several schools in the Compton area for the next three years. He traveled to Ventura, CA. to construct the Gas Company and the Cadi lac agency in 1927. He then built the Laguna Beach High School campus in 1928.
Following the earthquake of 1933, he completely remodeled the Orange Co. Court House. In 1937 he built the First Presbyterian Church in Santa Ana. In 1939 he built the new Brown Colonial Mortuary at the southwest corner of 17th and Sycamore in Santa Ana for Harold R. Brown, whose son, Roy Brown, later married his granddau., Joyce Markel. In 1946 and 1947 he constructed 31 coaxial cable stations for the Pacific Telephone Company stretching from Los Angeles to Blythe, CA.. He retired from his construction business in 1948.
As first secretary of the Orange Co. Planning Commission he was instrumental in the project to construct Santa Ana Boulevard from the Orange Co. Hospital to Main Street in Santa Ana (preceding the construction of the Santa Ana Freeway along the same route in later years). He served in that post from 1930 to 1948. He aided in uniting the Associated Farmers of Orange Co., and was president of the Orange Co. Builders Exchange (the original building for which was destroyed in the 1980s by fire near second and main streets, in Santa Ana); he was Commander of the American Legion Post No. 131 in Snta Ana, and Commander of the Jack Fisher Chapter of the Disabled American War Veterans; President of the Santa Ana Rotary Club, President of the Associated Chamber of commerce, and on the board of directors of the Imperial Highway Association. He was chairman of the Democratic Central Committee of Orange Co. for the first two terms of
- 8 - ch. : 001-1. Jules Ogden Markel, b. Aug. 18, 1898 M- Helena Lieberman, Dec. 21, 1898, md. Oct. 27, 1926 001-2. Ada Genevieve Markel, b. Dec. 6, 1903 M- Emil Hugo Wetzel, b. Mar. 2, 1897, md. Jun. 22, 1927 001-3. Catherine Markel, b. May 11, 1909 M- Ralph Donald Mitzel, Jan. 22, 1932 001-4. Walter Johnson Markel, b. Oct. 23, 1910 M- Bernadine Theresa Ashen, b. Jul. 29, 1913, md. Aug. 12, 1933 001-5. Albert Charles Markel, b. Jul. 14, 1913 M- Elizabeth Kathryn Ryherd, b. May 1, 1916, md. Oct. 4, 1937 001-6. Helen Louise Markel, b. Jul. 11, 1916 M- 1st - Robert Horn of San Gabriel, CA. , b. Feb. 19, 1913, md. 1935 M- 2nd - Byron MacNamara, 1961
001-7. Mary Marcella Markel, b. Jan. 31, 1922 M- Arthur Dinndorf
001-8. George Sidney Markel, b. Oct. 13, 1900, d. Jan. 4, 1935 M- Lillian Day
001-9. Lawrence R. Markel, b. Aug. 9, 1906, d. Apr. 13, 1908 001-10. Louis Dillon Markel, b. Jun. 9, 1919 M- Virginia Horning, b. Feb. 17, 1926, md. Jul. 2,
President Franklin Delano Roosevelt. He was instrumental in building the Knights of Columbus Hall on south Main Street in Santa Ana, and the building of St. Anne's Catholic Church in south Santa Ana. The Markel family records was compiled by Walter J. (Jack) Markel Jr., in Dec. 1964 with the assistance of Ada Dillon Markel, Jules Ogden Markel and Walter Johnson Markel.
- 9 - 1943 Chart II Jules Ogden Markel Helena (Lieberman) Markel 002-1. Jules Ogden Markel, Jr. b. Dec. 9, 1928 M- 002-2. Barbara Lee Markel Sister Mary Louis SJC 002-3. Louise Ann Markel, twn, b. Sep. 13, 1932 M- George Callens, b. Jan. 30, 1930, md. Oct. 22, 1955 002-4. Joyce Ruth Markel, twn, b. Sep. 13, 1932 M- Harold James Leroy Brown, Oct. 11, 1959, Nov. 12, 1930
THIRD GENERATION Chart III Harold Ray Brown 2 Ethel (Gerran) Brown 003-1. Harold James Leroy Brown, b. Nov. 12, 1930, at Santa Ana, CA. M - Joyce Ruth Markel, Oct. 11, 1958, b. Sep. 13, 1932 003-2. Lynnette Brown, b. Mar. 25, 1934, at Los Angeles, CA., d. Feb. 20, 1986
2 Harold Ray Brown was a mortician by profession. He was an ambulance driver during World War I, and became associated with the Mottel Mortuary on Geary Street in San Francisco. In 1929 he formed a partnership with Sam Harrel of Huntington Beach to form a mortuary in Santa Ana, CA. under the firm name of Harrell and Brown Mortuary. Mr. Harrell later sold his interest to Mr. Emil Wagner and the firm name became Brown and Wagner. Several years later Mr. Wagner sold his interest to a group of partners and the firm became the Brown Colonial Mortuary.
- 10 - M- Donald Maurice Norman, Jan. 28, 1961, b. Jul. 27, 1933 FOURTH GENERATION
Chart IV Harold Leroy James Brown Joyce Ruth (Markel) Brown 004-1. Vincent Harold Brown, b., Mar. 21, 1960 M- 004-2. Gregory Thomas Brown, b. Jul. 12, 1961 M- 004-3. Mark L. Brown, b. Oct. 24, 1963 M- 004-4. Gerran William Brown, b. Jan. 17, 1966 M-
Chart V Ada (Markel) Wetzel Emil Wetzel 005-1. Marilyn Wetzel, b. May 23, 1928 M- Robert Aug. Pestolessi, b. Aug. 26, 1928, md. Dec. 26, 1949 005-2. Robert Emile Wetzel, b. Sep. 21, 1930 M- Joanne Lee, b. Feb. 12,1932, md. Aug. 29, 1950 005-3. Thomas F. Wetzel, b. Jun. 22, 1934 M- Vera Sue Walker, b. Sep. 25, 1935, md. Oct. 2, 1954 005-4. Joan Wetzel, b. Jul. 2, 1932 M- John David Lewis II, b. Sep. 14, 1932, md. Jul. 19, 1952 005-5. Katherine Wetzel, b. Apr. 8, 1942 M- Donald Hughston Clift, b. Jun. 20, 1940, md. Dec. 26, 1959
- 11 - Chart VI Catherine (Markel) Mitzel Ralph Donald Mitzel , 006-1. Ralph Donald Mitzel, Jr., Nov. 26, 1936 M- Arlene Heiner, b. Sep. 28, 1939, md. Sep. 20, 1958 006-2. Ada Marie Mitzel, b. Feb. 18, 1939 M- Lowell Roberts, b. Sep. 6 , md. Aug. 22, 1958 Chart VII Walter Johnson Markel Bernadine (Theresa) Ashen 007-1. Connie Markel M- 007-2. Walter Johnson (Jack) Markel, b. Jan. 21, 1936 M- Barbara Ann Walter, b. Aug. 24, 1939, md. Aug. 29, 1959 007-3. Emma Jean Markel, b. Mar. 19, 1940 M- William Timothy Healey, b. Nov. 24, 1939, md. Oct. 14, 1961 Chart VIII Albert Markel Elizabeth Kathryn (Ryherd) Markel 008-1. Albert Charles Markel, Jr., b. Sep. 9, 1938 M- Mary Elizabeth Million, b. Mar. 7, 1943, md. Apr. 8, 1960
008-2. Margaret Mary Markel, b. May 25, 1941 M-
008-3. John Vernon Markel, b. May 18, 1944 M-
008-4. Thomas Joseph Markel, b. Mar. 28, 1946 M-
- 12 - 008-5. Robert Lynn Markel, b. Nov. 26, 1949 M- 008-6. Mary Elizabeth Markel, b. Sep. 3,, 1952 M- 008-7. Carol Ann Markel, b. Oct. 21, 1958 M- Chart IX Helen (Markel) Horn Robert Horn 009-1. Carolyn Horn, b. Mar. 15, 1937 M- Thomas Lovero 009-2. Ronald Horn, b. Apr. 28, 1941 M- 009-3. Mary Lee Horn, b. Feb. 3, 1943 M- Donald Boles 009-4. Norman Horn, b. Jun. 1, 1947 M- 009-5. James Horn, b. Dec. 1945 M- Chart X y Mary Marcella (Markel) Dinsdorf Arthur Dinsdorf 010-1. Mary Ann Dinsdorf, b. Jan. 20, 1944 M- 010-2. Laura Lee Dinsdorf, b. Mar. 8, 1947 M- 010-3. Halcyon Dinsdorf, b. Jun. 6, 1953 M- Chart XI George Sidney Markel
- 13 - Lillian (Day) Markel 011-1. Carol Jean Markel, b. Nov. 26, 1922 M- Robert Larcy Carothers, b. Apr. 22, 192 3, md. Februasry 20, ,0943 011-2. George Sidney Markel, Jr. b. Jul. 24, 1921 M- Betty Jane Chambers, b. Sep. 10, 1925, md. Sep. 18, 1943
011-3. William Warren Markel, b. Mar. 19, 1924 M- Martha Lou Clark
011-4. Constance Mary Markel, b. Jul. 26, 1934 M- Louis John Cooper, b. Oct. 6, 1929, md. Jun. 29, 1957
Chart XII George Sidney Markel Betty Jane (Chambers) Markel 012-1. Cheryl Ann Markel, b. Nov. 18, 1946 M- 012-2. Judith Leslie Markel, b. Jul. 21, 1948 M-
012-3. Melanie Denise Markel, b. Jan. 20, 1953 M- Chart XIII William Warren Markel 013-1. Lucinda Markel
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) Ubis Coat of arms, presentt/o to tbe parfecr Association bv tbc -Rev. tmilson THatcrs. cam; to btm from flPlss JEltjabetb ID. EJson, oauabtcr of tbc 1Rcv. Ibcocorc Eoson, wbosc wife was a ^a^3b'ct of Bishop Samuel parser of Soston...... Family gathering at the Parker Family House - NE corner of Main Street and Chapman in Orange, circa 1893 - House was headquarters building of Drum Barracks until Parkers moved it to Orange in 1873 - Joshua D. Parker and Martha G. Parker are at the center of the picture - surrounded by their family. Left to right: Mary Jane (McMurray) Mead; Dorothy Mead Parker (bottom); Mildred Mead (top); Loren J. Mead; Ralph Waite Mead; Amy Berlin McMurray; Amy Berlin Mead.
Picture taken in 1904 at Santa Ana, CA Joshua davis parker 1808 - 1895 Three Generations of Leadership 'Family' Tree Branches Out* First American Title Company of Nevada County in Northern California has merged with the Company under the First American banner. Kurt Mathews is continuing as manager. The Nevada County operation serves both Grass Valley in the foothills of the Sierra-Nevada mountains and Truckee, near the Nevada border. The firm opened Two abstract companies started in 1889 in Orange County, California, were merged in 1894 by October 1, 1977, through an under C.E. Parker (left) to form Orange County Title Company, forerunner of present-day First American Title Insurance Company. His son, Geo. A. Parker (center) first went to work for the company in writing agreement with First American. 1909, became president in 1943 and chairman of the board in 1963, serving until his death in Three title firms in Florida were June 1979. C.E. Parker's grandson, D.P. Kennedy (right), joined the firm in 1948 and has been acquired by the Company last fall. president since 1963. Formerly Associates Title Company of Brandon, Inc., Associates Title Company of Sarasota, Inc. and Associates Title Company of Tampa, Inc., they are now First American Title companies. These Under the Eagle's Wing offices serve Hillsborough and Sarasota Counties on the Gulf coast. First American also purchased Duval During its 90 years of service to prop nation's most extensive retirement com Title and Abstract Company in Jackson erty owners, First American has insured munities. ville, Fla. Duval Title is one of the largest thousands of properties across the nation. Others under the First American title companies in the Jacksonville area. The Company has covered virtually every banner include the impressive Phoenix type of real estate available. Civic Center in Arizona; ski slopes at Among the most notable of these Jackson Hole, Wyo., which served as the insured projects in the Reno-South Lake site of the 1970 World Cup Alpine events; Tahoe, Nev., area are the MGM Grand the entire village of world renowned Sun Hotel, Harrah's, the Sahara Hotel, the Valley, Idaho; the beautiful Panther Wagon Wheel, the Ernie Ford Ranch and Valley planned development in historic the Bing Crosby Ranch. Allamuchy, N.J. Also, Valley Forge Recently, The Title Guaranty Com Towers, condominium development in pany of Wyoming, Inc., acting as agent Pennsylvania; Lynnhaven Mall, $65 mil for First American, issued what is lion regional shopping center in Virginia apparently the largest title insurance Beach, Va.; the Maunakea and Kukui policy ever written by the Company. The Towers, 760-unit low-income residences policy, for just over $196 million, was in Hawaii. written last spring. It insured title to Appropriately, a First American policy lands involved in the 330-megawatt, covers the Minute Man National Historic Lynnhaven Mall, Virginia - $65 million policy coal-fired Wyodak Steam Electric Plant Park in Massachusetts and the Golden covers regional shopping center, state's largest. in northeast Wyoming. Spike National Monument at Promontory in Virginia Beach. In California, a First American policy Point, Utah. was chosen for Sea World and the San Diego Gas & Electric Company's huge Encina Power Plant in Carlsbad, with a $132 million policy. Another project enjoying "eagle protection" in San Diego County is the Wickes Building in central downtown San Diego, $20 million. Last June, the Sacramento, Calif., office closed a transaction involving 12 apartment buildings, $41 million. It is believed to be the largest single owners policy ever issued in the county. Several large retirement projects have been insured by the Company in River side, Calif. - the largest being Sun City, Valley Forge Towers, Pennsylvania — North MGM Grand Hotel, Nevada - Claiming tht located on a 14,000 acre site with approx complex building (foreground) of 750-unit world's largest casino, the hotel complex ii imately 5,000 homes. It is one of the condominium project, $12.5 million policy. Reno also includes a 33-acre lake. >-,:
martha gilliland parker 1818 - 1907 Funeral Notice
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At the home of her mother (Mrs, J. D. Parker), at West Orange, on Tuesday morning, September 2, 1902, Laura W. Conaway Wife ofB. N. Conaway AGED FIFTY-SIX YEARS
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Funeral Thursday, September 4th, at 10 o'clock a. m., at the M. E. Church, Orange, Friends invited. c. e. parker 1889 (1855-1930) (Blamir* Parker 1B53 - 1B03 Our Family Tree - Parker Branch
FIRST GENERATION Chart I William Parker -1 Elizabeth (Davis) Parker ch. : 001-1. William Parker, b. 1811, in Highland Co., OH M- Sarah Ann Closser, of Marion Co., IN, Jun. 12, 1834, b. 1817. 001-2. Rebecca Parker, b. Nov. 28, 1809, in Greenfield, OH, and d. Jun. 22, 1891 at La Porte Co., IN M- Nicholas Closser of Marion Co., IN, Mar. 14, 1833, by Rev. F.D. Daniels. He was b. in 1810. He was b. Jan. 12, 1812 in PA. 001-3. John A. Parker, b. Oct. 5, 1813, at Greenfield, OH, and d. Jul. 12, 1891, at Des Moines, IA. M- Sohia E. Weyer, dau. of Jacob Weyer, at Fulton Co., IL, Dec. 29, 1836. She was a sister of Anna Weyer.
1 He was b. circ. 1775 in PA. His wife was b. circa 1775 in PA. They were md. in Ross Co., OH, Aug. 2, 1803, by her father. Rev. William Davis.
In 1833 William Parker, and his wife, Elizabeth, moved to IN. In 1834 they were residing in Hendricks Co., IN, and later in Marion Co., IN. In 1836 he and his wife sold their residence in Marion Co., IN (Deed Book 5, Page 159, 1836). That year, William and Elizabeth Davis Parker moved to IL. On Mar. 13, 1837, they bought land north of Fairview, Fulton Co., IL. William d. between 1837 and 1840, survived by his wife, Elizabeth. She bought 3 parcels around Apr., 1840, in Farmington, IL. She may have later returned to OH. William Parker was a millright by profession.
- 15 - Our Family Tree - Parker Branch i 001-4. Branson Davis Parker, b. Apr. 1, 1819, at Greenfield, OH, and d. Apr. 6, 1857 in Porter Co., IN. M- Ann Foster, Feb. 3, 1843, in Fulton Co., IL
001-5. Sarah Parker, b. Mar. 29, 1804, in Greenfield, OH, and d. there Jan. 30, 1884. M- Josiah R. Hughey, Dec. 25, 1823, by W. Hughey, J.P., d. Nov. —. 1862 001-6. James R. Parker, b. in Greenfield, OH, and d. 1861 at Prairie City, IL. M- Anna Weyer, Sep. 25, 1828,dau. of Jacob Weyer, md. by Wm. Parker, J.P. 001-7. Joshua Davis Parker, b. Oct. 21, 1807, in Greenfield, OH, d. Mar. 14, 1895, at his home in Orange, CA ^ M-lst - Susannah (Nancy) White, Jan. 6, 1831, in Ross Co., OH, by Wlliam Johnson, a Justice of the Peace. 3 M- 2nd - Martha Ann Gilliand Pope, a wid., Nov. 18, 1837. She was b. Sep. 24, 1818, in KY, and d. Sep. 20, 1907 at Orange, CA. 4 {
2 Census records of 1,850 in IN list Joshua D. Parker as aged forty two years old, and clerk of Hendrick Co., living at house no. 519 in Clayton, Belleville Township. House No. 517 was occupied by a Micajah Gilleland, age 28, (b. 1822), a boot and shoe factor, b. in Kentucky. His wife was Belinda Hartsook. Their ch. were James D. Gilleland, age 3, Caroline J. Gilleland, age one year, both b. in IN. Rachel Gilleland, age 52, a native of North Carolina is living with this family. She is believed to be the mother of Micajah Gilleland and also Martha Gilleland Parker. Mary Belinda Parker was possibly named after he aunt, Belinda Hartsook Gilleland. Micajah Gilleland md. Belinda Hartsook on Mar. 23, 1843, as recorded in Book 2, Page 187 of the Marriage Records of Hendricks Co., IN. 3 They later moved to Hendricks Co., IN, where Nancy d. sometime before 1835. Joshua D. Parker and John J. McMullen were constables of Liberty Township, 1838, and Joshua D. Parker and G. W. Wills were constables in 1839. J. D. Parker was Sheriff, 1844, and Clerk, 1844, to 1851 of Hendricks Co., IN. 4 Her first marriage was to a man named Pope. This marriage took place in
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SECOND GENERATION Chart II William 1 Joshua Davis Parker Susannah [Nancy] (White) Parker 002-1. William Davis Parker, b. Oct. 18, 1831, in OH Unmd.. d. Jun. 8, 1855. 002-2. Samuel M. Parker, b. Apr. 15, 1833, in OH M- He d. Jun. 25, 1869, at Labette Co., Kansas Chart III Joshua Davis Parker Martha Ann Gilliand Pope Parker ch.: 003-1. Charles Edward Parker, b. Jul. 18, 1855, at Clayton, Hendricks Co., IN, and d. Jun. 6, 1930, at Santa Ana, CA. M- Alice Ainsworth, b. Sep. 5, 1859, at New Canaan, CT, md. Jun. 4, 1884 at the First Presbyterian Church, Orange, CA. She d. Feb. 22, 1943 at Santa Ana, CA.
Hendricks Co., IN. He was Sheriff of Hendricks Co., 1843, and Co. Clerk of Hendricks Co., 1844-1851. They had a farm near Clayton, IN from 1837, the year of their marriage, until 1861, when they moved to Terre Haute, IN. Than in 1871 they moved to a place near Gonzalez, Monterey Co., California, and in 1872, moved again to the Rodriquez Tract, in west Orange, near the intersection of the present day North Main Street and Chapman Avenue. Their residence in West Orange was the former headquarters building of Drum Barracks, which they purchased in 1873 and moved to west Orange. He d. Mar. 14, 1895 at Orange, California, and she d. Feb. 28, 1907 at Orange, California.
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003-2. Elizabeth Jane Parker, b. Dec. 18, 1839. M- Levi J. Lockhart, Aug. 18, 1857 He was a bro. of Thomas Jefferson Lockhart.
003-3. Sarah Ellen Parker, b. Nov. 7, 1941 ^ M- Lewis C. Humbert, Aug. 18, 1857 Residents of Pontiac, IL 003-4. Mary Belinda Parker, b. Dec. 11, 1843, d. Nov. 20, 1933. M- Thomas Jefferson Lockhart, May 19, 18 64, at Terre Haute, IN. He was b. at Belleville, IN Dec. 10, 1837 at Hendricks Co., IN, and d. in Los Angeles, CA on Oct. 27, 1928, in his hundredth yr. 5 003-5. Laura Willis Parker, b. Apr. 21, 1846. She d. at Orange CA, Sep. 2, 1902. M- Burges N. Conway, 6 003-6. Millard Fillmore Parker, b. Sep. 3, 1848, Clayton, IN, d. Orange, Los Angeles Co., Feb. 9, 1881 M- Jennie Hayward, b. Feb. 22, 1850, md. Dec. 12, 1875, in Orange CA, d. 1932 003-7. Emma Rosette Parker, b. Jan. 10, 1851, 1848, Clayton, IN, d. Dec. 3, 1868 Unmd. 003-8. Joshua (Joss) Everett Parker, b. Jul. 22, 1853, Clayton, IN, and d. Orange, CA, Mar. 27, 1940 M- Mary McDonald, b. Feb. 14, 1859, at Portage, WI 7 003-9. Lewis Parker, b. Jan. 20, 1860, at Clayton, IN, and d. Aug. 7, 1863
5 He was in the 7th IN Infantry from Aug. 16, 1861 to Jan. 31, 1862 when he was discharged because of disability. 6 bro. of a Santa Ana photographer, d.s.p.. 7 the dau. of Alexander McDonald, a native of Inverness, SCOT, and Mary Ann Crawford McDonald. She d. Jan. 27, 1947, at the age of 87 yrs in Orange, CA. A-15086
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003-10. Clarence Henry Parker, b. Oct. 2, 1857, Clayton, IN, d. Aug. 7, 1898 M- Ella May Lyon, b. 1865, and d. 1935.
In the 1860 census the Parkers are still living in Hendricks Co., IN but at a different house than they were listed in the 1850 census.
SECOND GENERATION Chart IV Charles Edward Parker Alice (Ainsworth) Parker ch.: 004-1. Gordon Ainsworth Parker, b. Jun. 15, 1885, Orange, Los Angeles, Co., CA, d. Aug. 3, 1891. ° unmd. d.y. d.v.p. 004-2. Allen Edward Parker, b. Jan. 28, 1888, at Santa Ana, CA, and d. Aug. 23, 1894. unmd.d.y. d.v.p. 004-3. Elsie May Parker, b. May 24, 1890, at Santa Ana, CA, d. May 17, 1987 at Santa Ana, CA. M- Louis Rex Kennedy, Jun. 15, 1915, d. Apr. 1, 1972
004-4. Bernard Davis Parker, b. Feb. 19, 1894, at Santa Ana, CA, and d. May 9, 1940, at Santa Ana, CA. M- Blanche Irene Forney, Sep. 7, 1928, at Santa Ana, CA. She later md. William Smith of Santa Ana. She d. in 1978.
004-5. George Ainsworth Parker, b. Nov. 17, 1897, at Santa Ana, CA, and d. Jun. 2, 1979, at Santa Ana, CA. M- Dorothy Mead, Jan. 31, 1923. She was b. Apr. 15, 1898, a Santa Ana, CA. They were md. Jan. 30, 1923, at
8 Gordon Ainsworth Parker d. from a fall from a tree at what became Irvine Park, CA, at the age of six.
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Santa Ana, CA. Chart V George Ainsworth Parker 9 Dorothy (Mead) Parker 011-4 ch.: 005-1. Charles Edward Parker, (Ted), b. Sep. 9, 1927, at Santa Ana, Orange Co., CA M- Marilyn Esther Meyer (Perrin), Jun. 23, 1956. She was b. Dec. 1, 1927 at Santa Ana, CA 10
9 George Ainsworth Parker attended Santa Ana schools, and the University of Southern CA Law School. He was a member of the Sigma Nu Phi legal fraternity. He and his wf. were both in the first class to graduate from Santa Ana College (later re-named Rancho Santiago Community College) in 1915. He was a pharmacist mate in the United States Navy during World War I, and was an American Legionnaire. For 42 yrs he served as Secretary of the Orange Co. Bar Association, 1927-1969. He received the Alumni Achievement Award from Santa Ana College in 1962. In addition to his duties as President and Chairman of the Board of Orange Co. Title Co., and First American Title Co. he held a number of directorships in various companies and associations. He had been on the board of the First National Bank of Santa Ana, the Citizens National Bank of Los Angeles, President of the Santa Ana and Fresno Land Co., Director of the Orange Co. Tax Service, Treasurer of First Federal Savings and Loan Association of Santa Ana, President of the Santa Ana Chamber of Commerce in 1939, a member of the Selective Service Board during World War II, chairman of the Civil Service Commission of Santa Ana in the late 1930s, and a member of the board of the CA Land Title Association, while also being active in the American Legion, Post No. 131, BPOE Elks Lodge No. 794, and the American Bar Association. In 1943 he was elected President of the Orange Co. Title Co., founded by his fat. in 1889, and held that post under the new name. First American Title Co.. In 1964 he became Chairman of the Board of the new holding Co., First American Financial Corp.. First American Title Co., a wholly owned subsidiary, in 1986, was the second largest title Co. in the United States. 10 dau. of Irving Meyer and Esther Segerstrom Meyer - Her mot. d. soon after her birth and she was raised by Kurt and Elizabeth Jackson Perrin of Laguna Beach, CA - see Perrin Genealogy.
- 20 - GEORGE PARKER 1942 dorothy parker at newport 1902 Smart Tea Honors A Charming Intimacy Engagement of ^ ,A& Prevails at Gay tJHP Popular Girl Vf ^-. Lunch eon Honoring ithe "betrothal of Jfiss Congenial indeed was the atmos Dorothy Mead and Geoigj^jaxlcej phere of a delightfully intimate lit-! which.Is arousing'the deep Inter tie luncheon with which Mrs.!
est of Lhosts of friends of /.the George Parker (Dorothy Mea1 d Par- young couple,'Miss Isabel Ander-j kffl) jukLUlllaj, UlBBlUlllea a group Bfmothers and daughters honoring son entertained a few close friends Miss Elsie Raitt, September bride- of Miss Mead yesterday afternoon to-be. at a pretty tea given at the An-; Mrs. Parker's own mother, Mrs. derson ^'iome,, *:501 ^Wellington! Ralph W. Mead, Miss Raitt and her street. v*' ft' .•',: ••'-.* ''••"')•,'"'." *.: j mother, Mrs. J. T. Raitt, Miss Ruth Miss Mead Was showered with Frothingham and her mother, Mrs. lovely J; gifts 'by -her Assembled Frances D. Frothingham and Miss friends who were received by Miss Mary Henderson completed the Anderson, the hostess, Miss Mead, little circle cf friends who found honoree and a group composed of their places at a charmingly array Mrs. J. N. ?Anderson, Mrs. AH. ed luncheon table at the Parker Theal, Miss Jessie 'Miller and home, 511 South Van Ness street. Miss Edith Plavan. : V-VH .•':' "^-' \ Among Mrs. Parker's prized pos sessions is a dinner service of In the dining room where Mrs. lively old-fashioned china whose Anderson presided at the tea table, decorations are in yellow and blue. Cyclemen ;in American 'Beauty This offered the dominant color shades, massed with ferns gave a' scheme of the affair and In the charming effect. JThe'- Misses center of the table one of the Wilma Plavan and Per s an a Demi-' bowls of the set was employed to ling assisted in serving. ... hold a brilliant mass of golden glow and blue azuratum. The col ors were repeated in the menu wherever possible. The final course offered dainty little bride's slipper ices. In ihe afternoon as music and conversation sped the pleasant hours, Mrs. Parker produced bits uf gay silks and satins from which fragrant sachets were fashioned,; the completed bits of daintiness | being presented to Miss Raitt forj, ite in her trousseau. Her hostess'' a.so presented the honor guest Dorothy Parker, 1917 with a hand-embroidered lineni] towel for her linen shelves. | A pleasant little climax to the J week's entertaining for Miss Raitt j came today when, with Mrs. Par-J Iser as "Lightning Conductor," aj party composed of Miss Raitt, Mrs.' Parker, Miss Frothingham and Miss' Henderson left for San Diego there j to enjoy a few days of sightseeing,1 and rest They plan to return toi this city at the end of the week. ; ! 1,he Happ5 1$St7'^8!fiK?Sy*!y Hearts S Gather to Do Honor r v v To Prospective Bride % 3« •» A-"-« ?7 -' m One of the £nuch entertained : Typically Chinese Is ... forides-to-he of 'the late winter Uniquely Planned %; jja I season/ijte' MIBS" "Dorothy v.Mead, Dinner Party 3 J}*'_ whose popularity Is 'attested by the RIENDS" of Mr. ! many charming courtesies extend and Mrs. George ed her by friends deeply Interested A. Parker o"?**?lll in her, recently announced engage SoUth Van Ness avenue, "had the ment to George Parker.' "&•*. ^f'S 'unique experience The most *eceht festivity "With of being enter-. the approaching marriage as Its tained recently at motif, was that, of Saturday after a typically Chin-, noon, when.Mrs. John Cannon, her ese dinner, given self a bride of Only a few months, by vthe 'young entertained at James' gold room. p e 0 p 1 e in ac Mrs. Cannon chose bridge as the cordance 1 with afternoon's diversion and greeted, instructions from Mrs her guests ^in 'an atmosphere fra-|* careful, grant from masses of pink and Parker's brother, Loren J. Mead of white sweet peas which smiled Whu, China. • ,\J'.. ;„• •.':,,..':;'/:- against the vivid background of Mr. Mead sent many of the In the gold room. . •> \ gredients for various dishes as well The tables were arranged around as some 72 Chinese bowls for their one center table bearing a huge proper serving. "While the hostess basket of the lovely blooms, and was preparing the dinner, accord when the tea hour arrived, each ing to explicit directions, she kept small table received its decoration her house closed, so the mingled of a basket similar in design but odors aided her In expending orien smaller, filled with sweet peas. tal welcome to her arriving guests. Ices in wedding bell form were The latter had a surprise of their served with dainty cakes and pas own, and appeared In correct^ Chin tries following 'the prize aWard ese attire but agreed that the sur made to Miss "Norma. rWIngood, prises offered by Mr. and ' Mrs. holding high score; 'Miss -Ruth Parker, exceeded theirs in point of Frothingham, second high, -and interest. •'--" •'».."*.•. Mrs. Farwell Hull, third. V. Upon arrival of the guests, they In the interval fallowing the were presented with steaming hot serving of refreshments the hos towels, and given opportunity for tess quietly left the room to re cleansing hands and faces. A pre appear as the strains of Lohengrin' liminary course of roasted water pealed forth 'with Mrs. Farwell melon seeds and tea was served at Hull at the piano. %l '• . :> small tables, ere all gathered about Mrs. Cannon was gowned in her one large table-for the main din own wedding gown and attended ner. * This featured salted and sugared nuts, smoked mackerel, by Mrs. Amelia Peckham and'Miss watermelon seeds and other tidbits, Carolyn Haughton as a bridal par including that national delicacy, ty. She carried a great wedding sliced old eggs, some of them per boquet still swather in its wrap haps 100 years old. "~,~ \% pings of green florist's paper. This •All manner of quaint Oriental I she presented to Miss Mead, who customs were introduced, some of unwrapped it to ;ffnd carnations them being most amazing to oc- and ferns hiding many beautiful dental diners. After bowls of rice gifts, showered upon Jier by her ,-ere passed, the dinner menu con- ( assembled friends. V * lnued with chicken and noodles, /Many of the guests present Were spinach with hard-boiled eggs,( members of a high school ixslub cauliflower, sea slugs with ^man- j called the "Merry Hearts," -which darin sauce, salad pickles and she- seems to he offering excellent;'tar ed pineapple, scrambled eggs and gets for Dan Cupid, as Will She bacon with mandarin sauce, and shown by the guest list, including the piece de resistance, a large fish , in addition to the honor guest, served with head, tails and «ns in Miss Mead and her -mother, ;Mrs. tact. Dessert was rice pudding Ralph Mead, the hostess, Mrs.^ohn passed with the can of dark molas- J Cannon, Mrs. ^Harold ,Tost, "Mrs.' ses which served as a sauce.../i^jM George . Faul, ^pr., Mrs. *Farweli, The return of the steaming tow Hull, Mrs. Floyd Knight Mrs^'Bam els, was welcomed, and Prepare^j Barker, "•yMrsT aDon Andrews, 3Wre. the guests for an evening of less Leon Dickey and Mrs.'",iAmelia oriental amusement, bridge TpUyeft Peckham, together with the Misses to the accompaniment of Chinese Ruth Frothingham, Mildred Mead, wine, tea and riqe cakes. Norma Wingood, Carolyn Haugh ton, Marjorie Ellis and Muriel Lee , •....'. £-;&?£$ .'-'.-'*".. . :.«- of Los Angeles, a house guest 'of the hostess. • y'-: " - Upper left: Osgood Hardy during World War I. Upper Right: Osgood Hardy with other graduate students of history at Yale University, circa 1914. Bottom: Osgood Paul Hardy and Amy Mead Hardy, presumably at their New York City residence, during World War I. I to r: Osgood Paul Hardy, Ethel Garren Brown, Lillian McMurray, George A. Parker, Phyllis McMurray, Howard (Abe) Robinson Schuman
Around the picnic table in the backyard of the George Parker house, 511 So. Van Ness Street, Santa Ana, circa 1935. I to r: Osgood Paul Hardy, holding Buck - Amy Mead Hardy - Ralph W. Mead - front row: C.E. (Ted) Parker, Phyllis McMurray, Helen McMurray Schuman, Dorothy Parker, Roy Brown, Ethel Garren Brown, behind Phyllis - Lillian Masters McMurray, Ralph Gordon McMurray, Hoarld Brown, Mary Jane Mead, Sarah McMurray, Bertram McMurray, Howard (Abe) Robinson Schuman, Mildred Mead
I to r: R.W. Mead, Mildred Mead, Mary Jane Mead, Harold Brown, Phyllis McMurray, Lillian McMurray, Sarah McMurray, Ralph Gordon McMurray (in back) Helen McMurray Schuman, Dorothy Mead, C.E. (Ted) Parker (shading eyes) Osgood Hardy, Amy Hardy, Bert McMurray, Howard (Abe) Robinson Schuman, George A. Parker, c. 1935.
I to r: R. W. Mead, Osgood Hardy, Amy Hardy, Mildred McMurray, Lillian McMurray, Duane McMurray, Mildred Mead (in back), Lydia McMurray, Helen Schuman, Harold Brown (in back), Sarah McMurray, Dorothy Parker (holding Ted Parker), Thomas McMurray (in back), Mary Jane McMurray, Ralph Gordon McMurray (in back) Bertram McMurray, Howard (Abe) Schuman. =a .' ITS ,1 /»/ . It/A ' .'••'
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Chart VI Charles Edward Parker 005-1 11 Marilyn Esther Meyer (Perrin) 12 006-1. Mary Elizabeth Parker, b. Nov. 9, 1957, at Santa Ana, CA 13 M- John Townsend (fourth md.), at Villa Park, CA, Feb. 26, 1982. b. Oct. 19, 1938 at Puxico, MO 14 006-2. Catherine Ann Parker, b. Apr. 24, 1959, at Santa Ana, CA M- Michael Raymond Sutfin, Aug. 1, 1981. b. Aug. 22, 1954 at Fountain Valley, CA. 006-3. Helen Frances Parker, b. Nov. 12, 1960, at Laguna Beach, CA 15 M-
006-4. George Edward Parker, b. Oct. 22, 1962, at
11 Charles E. Parker attended Santa Ana schools, the University of Southern CA, and received a J.D. Degree from Southwestern University Law School in 1957. He is a member of the CA, United States Supreme Court, and several federal district and appellate bars. He and his wf. wrote Orange Co., Indians to Industry, in 1963 - a synoptic history of Orange Co., CA. He is the author of several law review articles, and short articles on local history in CA. 12 Marilyn Esther Parker attended schools in Laguna Beach, CA, Santa Ana College, (receiving the highest award given to a student each yr, the Northcross Award in 1947), was an interational relations Maj. at the University of CA at Los Angeles, member of the Gamma Phi Beta sorority. She worked as a journalist for the South Coast News, served in public relations work for a time with the Laguna Beach Festival of Arts and pant of the Masters. 13 She is a graduate in history at CA State University at Fullerton in 1984. 14 John Townsend md. first: Irene O'Dell, md. Jan. 1957; second wf.: Sandra Thompson, md. Nov. 1962; md. Gilda , md. 1970-1975. 15 She is a graduate in Communications at CA State University at Fullerton, 1984.
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Santa Ana, CA 16 Chart VII Catherine Ann (Parker) Sutfin Michael Raymond Sutfin 007-1. Eliza Raye Sutfin, b. Nov. 3, 1983, at Orange, CA M- 007-2. Michael Parker Sutfin, b. Jan. 25, 1986 at Orange, CA M-
Chart VIII Mary (Parker) Townsend John McDonald Townsend 008-1. Sarah Michael Townsend, b. Oct. 25, 1982. M-
SECOND GENERATION % Chart IX Clarence Henry Parker Ella May (Lyon) Parker 009-1. Grace Parker, b. 1886, d. 1973 M- Herbert H. Soest, b. 1884, d. 1961 17 d.s.p..
009-2. Adelia G. Parker, b. 1887, d. Aug. 14, 1937, A- 6037
16 He is a graduate in electrical engineering at the University of CA at Irvine, 1985. 17 He was a member of the Masonic Order.
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M- Frederick Chamberlain Wilson, b. 1885, d. Mar. 14, 1967 A-78498 THIRD GENERATION
Chart X Adelia G. (Parker) Wilson Frederick Chamberlain Wilson 010-1. James Parker Wilson, b. Aug. 9, 1913, at Santa Ana, CA M- Dorothy Proctor - div. 010-2. Stanley Frederick Wilson, b. Jan. 13, 1917 M- Katherine Christine Burton, b. Dec. 25, 1922, Tulsa, OK. md. Mar. 20, 1948 Chart XI James Parker Wilson Dorothy (Proctor) Wilson 011-1. John Wilson, b. 1943 at Santiago, Chile, d. 1970 at Fresno, CA Unmd. Chart XII Stanley Frederick Wilson Katherine Christine (Burton) Wilson 012-1. Susan Lee Wilson, b. Aug. 31, 1951, at Inglewood, CA Chart XIII
Laurence Everett Burton Ruth Agnes Dapper
013-1. Katherine Christine Burton, b. Dec. 25, 1922 M- Stanley Frederick Wilson, Mar. 20, 1948, b. Jan. 13, 1917
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,— FIRST GENERATION Chart XIV Thomas Jefferson Lockhart, Sr. 18 MaMari y Polly Jessup 19 ch. 014-1. Abner Lockhart, b. Lockhart, b. Jun. 21, 1818 M- 014-2. Sarah Lockhart, b. Nov. 28, 1819 M- 014-3. William Lee Lockhart, b. Oct. 6, 1821 M- 014-4. Joel Lockhart, b. 1823 M- 014-5. Wilson Lockhart, b. Sep. 26, 1825 M- 014-6. Warren Lockhart, b. Jan. 16, 1828 M- 014-7. Levi J. Lockhart, b. Feb. 13, 1830 M- Elizabeth Jane Parker, Aug. 18, 1851, b. Dec. 18, 1839. 014-8. Jacob T. Lockhart, b. Feb. 13, 1832
18 Thomas Jefferson Lockhart Sr.., was b. at Grayson Co., North Carolina, or Patrick Co., Virginia, Mar. 22, 1793, and d. May 2, 1885, in Hendricks Co., IN. Mary (Polly) Jessup, was b. Raleigh Co., North Carolina, Jun. 22, 1796. 19 Mary (Polly) Jessup was his first wife. She was b. Jun. 22, 1796, at Raleigh Co., North Carolina, and d. Feb. 12, 1859 at Belleville, IN. After Polly Jessup Lockhart's death Thomas Jefferson Lockhart Sr., md. secondly, Rebecca Banta, who pre-deceased him. His third wife was Mary Caldwell, who survived him.
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M- 014-9. Caroline M. Lockhart, Jun. 22, 1834 M- 014-10. Thomas Jefferson Lockhart, b. Dec. 10, 1837, at Belleville, IN, and d. Oct. 27, 1928 at Los Angeles, CA, in his hundredth yr. 20 M- Mary Belinda Parker, May, 19, 1864 at Terre Haute, IN, b. at Clayton IN, Dec. 11, 1843, d. Nov. 20, 1933 in Los Angeles, CA Levi Lockhart and Thomas J. Lockhart, Jr., were members of the IN Colony that founded the City of Pasadena, CA in 1886. Chart XV Thomas Jefferson Lockhart Mary Belinda (Parker) Lockhart 015-1. Orion P. Lockhart, b. Terre Haute, IN, Aug. 3, 1865, d. Los Angeles, CA, Jan. 24, 1957 M- Jessie May Williamson, Jun. 25, 1895, b. May 31, 1870 at Moundsville, WV 015-2. Edwin H. Lockhart, b. Mar. 16, 1867 M- 015-3. Mary Adelia Lockhart, b. Jul. 7, 1880 M- Frank Williams 015-4. Louis L. Lockhart, b. Apr. 11, 1877 21 if,
20 He lived at Belleville, IN until the death of his mot. in 1859, then went to live with a sister in Brownsburg, where he lived until Aug. 16, 1861. On that day he entered the U.S. Army in the 7th IN Infantry. He was discharged from the Army on account of medical disability on Jan. 31, 1862. After regaining his health he went to Terre Haute, IN and engaged in selling flour, grains and feed in partnership with his bro., Levi.
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^Ohart XVI Orion P. Lockhart Jessie May (Williamson) Lockhart 016-1. Hugh Williamson Lockhart M- Helen Campbell Brown 016-2. Russell Lockhart M- Chart XVII Hugh Williamson Lockhart Helen Campbell (Brown) Lockhart 017-1. Diane Lockhart, b. Jun. 23, 1926, at Los Angeles, CA. M- Alfred Hermann Fritz, Jul. 23, 1956, at Palos Verdes, CA., b. Erfurt, Germany Apr. 23, 1925. Chart XVII Diane Lockhart Alfred Fritz 017-1. David Lockhart Fritz, b. Jul. 17, 1957, at Santa Monica, CA. M- 017-2. Bruce Alan Fritz, b. Jan. 9, 1959, at Santa Monica, CA. M- 017-3. Suzanne Fritz, b. Dec. 19, 1961 at Torrance, CA.
21 Louis Lockhart is in a picture standing by an automobile with a number of geese strung across it after a hunt, purportedly in Santiago Canyon - original at First American Title Co. History Department.
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M- Chart XVIII William 1, Joshua Davis 2, Charles Edward 3 Elsie May (Parker) Kennedy Louis Rex Kennedy 22 018-1. Donald Parker Kennedy, b. Oct. 16, 1918 at San Jacinto, Riverside Co.,CA 23 M- Dorothy Suppiger, Dec. 20, 1946 FIFTH GENERATION Chart XIX Donald Parker Kennedy Dorothy (Suppiger) Kennedy 019-1. Parker Steven Kennedy, b. Feb. 18, 1948 M- Sherrington Dunn, Aug. —, 197-
22 Louis Rex Kennedy at one time worked as an engineer with Charles Steinmetz at General Electric in Schenectedy, New York. He later purchased a farm in or near San Jacinto, California, about 1917. About 1920 he was employed as an engineer by the Huntington Beach Company in Huntington Beach, California, and a few years later he joined the Orange Co. Title Company, founded by his father-in-law, C. E. Parker, in 1889. 2 3 Donald Parker Kennedy. attended Santa Ana schools, Stanford University (he was freshman and senior class president during his years at Stanford, and active on the Stanford golf team). He attended the University of Southern California Law School, interrupting his legal studies for service in the United States Navy during World War II. Upon graduation in 1948, and becoming a member of the California State Bar, he was employed by the Orange Co. Title Company - becoming the President of the Company in 1964, upon the retirement of his uncle, George A. Parker, from that post. He later became President of the holding company. First American Financial Corporation. In 1983 he was President of the American Land Title Association, a trade association of title insurance companies in the United States.
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019-2. Elizabeth Ann Kennedy, b. May 1, 1950, at Santa Ana, CA M- Harold (Hal) Riney, Apr. 3, 1982 at Santa Ana, CA 24 019-3. Amy Kennedy, b. Jul. 13, 1964, at Santa Ana, CA M- SIXTH GENERATION Chart XX Parker Steven Kennedy Sherrington (Dunn) Kennedy 020-1. Donald Parker Kennedy II, b. Apr. 17, 1977 M- 020-2. Katherine Dunn Kennedy, b. Aug. 1979 M- Chart XXI Elizabeth Ann (Kennedy) Riney Hal Patrick Riney 021-1. Benjamin Kennedy Riney, b. Mar. 12, 1987. Chart XXII James R. Parker Anna Weyer 022-1. William W. Parker
24 He is as of the mid-1980s a prominent advertising agency owner in San Francisco, having originated the beer advertisements for Henry Weinhart Beer in the late 1970s, and the Bartles & Jaynes and Perrier advertisements for the E & J Gallo Company of Modesto, CA. His wife assisted in the casting for a number of these advertisements. In 1988 his agency was selected by General Motors Corporation to handle their advertising nationwide.
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10R Part IV/Tuesday,'April 26, 1988* -i_ ~-^T^~ —: • •. ff. BRUCE HOROVITZ / Marketing "'••' |Ui^ey A e wanted a name that didn't j Ej • to spend more than $100 million sound like a wine cooler. So '. '.annually to advertise its cars. Hthe ad agency chief sat ;;-W Right now, Riney's firm Is gain •down at his desk, thumbed through ing some auto advertising experl- the San Francisco telephone direc , r ence by creating ads for the Ster- tory, and stopped at a spot in the . Igpjlng. a ^British car imported by ^"section. V$ Austin Rover Cars.of North Ameri- I There it was. The first name that '• ca. The ads, whichjarely show the caught hts eyd Bartles. . car, mostly feature people discuss- w Hmmm. Something was still S ing the Sterling as a good Invest - missing. So the ad executive con- •• tinued flipping through the phone i Riney knows that winning Sat- book. This time, he stopped in the . urn will likely cost him the Sterling .."?' portion. And the finger of fate' •&*, account,, with annual billings of $20 stopped at the name Jameson. million. But if Saturn goes to "That just didn't sound quite right," < another agency, this could be a said Hal Riney, chairman of the very bad year for Riney. "We San Francisco ad firm Hal Riney & won't lose any money," he said, Partners, He wanted a slightly "but we won't make much either." niore unusual name. "So I changed If the agency walks away with the that to Jay mes." Saturn account, however, Riney's ' That is how two of the best-.* ,; firm would suddenly be a contend known names in today's advertis- ^ er in advertising's big leagues. iOg were born. That fortunate find » "Selecting Riney would probably was more than five years ago. Since '•; ybe the -smartest move GM could ;;then the business of running an ad ;.make,"said Jay Chiat, chairman of agency has become far more com :'Chiat/Day. "Not every one of his plex for Riney, who has not only ads is a winner, but every year I created some advertising legends, there are several of his campaigns but who seems to be fast becoming that make you stop and say, 'Gosh, I ope himself. . wish I'd done that.' Hal's always ' While the name Hal Riney prob-Q ^riving to do great work." ably doesn't ring a bell for some,.'. I But some former employees say Riney is hardly the" poft-spoken rwho hasn't seen at least one of the ' • 150 Bartles & J ay mes wine cooler fellow that he sounds like in his commercials he created for JS&J commercials/ Rather, they know Gallo Winery? And, his ads for; _ him as a demanding employer who clients such as Perrier and Security • constantly puts Workers on the pacific National, Bank h&yeJ also -• defensive. "He has an ego the Size ' been memorable. of the Transamerica pyta^sid,'' one P * A recent Perrier ad, for example, farmer employee staid. '• r ''•Rltwy ^rushej, off such'.com shows the countryside of France ments. iS'Sure/ilt•';taay.seem'UJie I with a man peacefully tending to.. have atfego probfewTmitTTlbst of tB his gaggle of geese. And a Security • inlhe creative business are actual Pacific Bank ad he made shows a Hal replace.the Gallo account ly plagued with insecurities," he. kid expecting to be- punished'when^^ said^Thething the drtVaTus On if .comes boj3#jfl§M?8 bad repoftlPBUrger King, and the Boston-based recently opened branch offices in that' fear'1'that we're really no ~ ttj/athertakes ad agency Hill, Holliday, Connors, New York and Los. Angeles. That damned good." : he attic and shows him a Cosmopulos, which j created those national growth, however, is what Riney has at least proven that lousy report card that, he once-; Wang commercials that are filled,- Riney says got him into hotwater •j he's good. Perhaps even among the broughthome, * with technical computer jargon.) >' with former client Gallo, which jlftbesti "As an American copywriter, Riney's decision to dump the\ disapproved of the agency'making Second ThoughU Rem»ln n "•" *('Hal has ho equal," said Andrew $70-million Gallo account still nags : bids for other large clients. Now, i Riney is also known for helping ,.' Berlin, who formerly worked for •; ! at him;'-'I continue to have second Riney wants to replace the lost ' Riney, and who is now a partner in to turn around the overall image of I thoughts about that," Riney said in} Gallo business with Saturn. And in ! Gallo: Despite its position as; the a,' rival San *Francisco ad firm, '•ah''Interview- last week. But he*;Mtne process, he hopes his firm can Goodbyi Berilii% Silverstein. "But j state'* biggest winery, Gallo's ad-' > insists that he has ho desire to get/:, v help put an end to what he calls the what he still had to prove Is that he vertising seemed to reinforce its .JMjrUie account back.Gallop a notorl-ii^'pathetitf', state of new car adver- can build a big, national agency." image as a producer of wines that
M- 022-2. Jacob Parker M- 022-3. Nathan Parker M- 022-4. Mary M. Parker M- 022-5. Rebecca J. Parker M- 022-6. Elizabeth A. Parker M- 022-7. Laura E. Parker M- Chart XXIII William Parker Sarah Ann Closser 023-1. Charlotte A. Parker, b. 1836 M-
023-2. Sophia Parker, b. 1838 M-
023-3. Christiana Parker, b. 1846 M- 023-4. William D. Parker, b. 1849 M-
THIRD GENERATION Chart XXIV Millard Fillmore Parker Jennie E. (Hayward) Parker
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ch. : 024—1. Mabel Parker, b. Jun. 8, 1877, d. Jan. 9, 1950 M- Mason M. Fishback, d. Jun. 7, 1941 He was the Principal of Orange Union High School 024—2. Myrtle Parker, b. Feb. 11, 1879, d. Apr. 23, 1940 bur in Parker fam. plot, Old Cem., Fairhaven Cem., Santa Ana, CA. M- Bert earner, Sr., Jul. 27, 1910, at Orange, CA, b. near Lompoc, CA Oct. 10, 1881, d. 194 3 - one time residents of Solvang and Pacific Grove, CA. Bur. at Parker Fam. plot, Old Cem., Fairhaven Cem. 024—3. Emma Parker, b. Jun. 5, 1880, d. Jul. 11, 1881, bur. in Parker Fam. plot at Old Cem., Fairhaven Cem. FOURTH GENERATION Chart XXV Myrtle (Parker) earner Bert Marion earner 025-1. Bert Marion earner, Jr., b. Sep. 16, 1912, and was a retired judge at Modesto, CA, d. Oct. 31, 1984 at Modesto, CA. Was a Municipal Judge in Stanislaus Co., CA. M - Bette Thorne, May 30, 1940 025-2. Frederic Parker earner, b. Jul. 10, 1914, Res. in Mono Co., CA M- 1st - Laura Mae Lewis, Santa Barbara, CA, div. (1946-47) M- 2nd - Madeleine Minturn Stevenson, San Rafael, CA, Jun. 24, 1950, div. 1955 M- 3rd - Elizabeth Cain, b. Jan. 22, 1924 FIFTH GENERATION Chart XXVI
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Bert Marion earner, Jr. #— Bette (Thome) earner 026-1. Bert Marion earner III, b. Sacramento, CA, Mar. 12, 1941 M- Toni Hatch, Aug. 22, 1964, Modesto, CA Resides at Belmont, CA 026-2. Sue Darnell earner, b. San Francisco, CA, Mar. 27, 1945 M- United States Navy Nurse, Oaknoll Hospital, Oakland, CA 1979-80.
FIFTH GENERATION Chart XXVII
Frederic Parker earner Madeleine Minturn Stevenson earner
027-1. Caroline earner, b. Jun. 12, 1952 M-
027-2. Constance earner, b. Sep. 24, 1954 M-
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Frederic Parker earner 25 Elizabeth (Cain) earner
028-3. Frederic earner, b. Oct. 31, 1961 M-
FOURTH GENERATION Chart XXIX
25 Frederick Carrier has served as Park Supervisor for Mono Co., and his wife, Elizabeth Cain earner served as a secretary in the Sheriff's Office of Mono Co..
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William 1 Joshua Davis 2 Millard Fillmore Parker T~ Mabel (Parker) Fishback Mason Fishback 029-1. Emma Fishback, b. Aug. 19, 1903, d. Jul. 11, 1921 Unmd. SECOND GENERATION Chart XXX Sarah (Parker) Hughey Josiah R. Hughey *6
03 0-1. William Parker Hughey, b. near Carr's Ford Dec. 14, 1824, d. Nov. 15, 1887, in Highland Co., OH M- Sarah A. Grim, dau. of Peter and Mary Walker Grim, Aug. 20, 184 6. Had five sons. md. by P. Nation, Elder Methodist Episcopal Church.
030-2. Alex J. Hughey M 030-3. Charles W. Hughey M- 030-4. Eliza A Hughey M- 030-5. James M . Hughey M-
030-6. John A. Hughey M-
26 Josiah R. Hughey was the son of Charles Hughey, who emigrated from Donegal, Ireland and d. in 1816, leaving a wid. and ten ch., among them Josiah R. Hughey.
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Chart XXXI William Parker Hughey Sarah Ann (Grim) Hughey
031-1. Charles N. Hughey M- 031-2. James M. Hughey M- 031-3. Nicy L. Hughey M- A. B. Butler of Highland Co., OH 031-4. John Hughey, b. Mar. 16, 1845 M- Ellen Winegar of Madison Township, OH, 1875 - three ch. including Frank N. Hughey 031-5. William Parker Hughey, Jr. M- SECOND GENERATION Chart XXXII William 1 Rebecca (Parker) Closser Nicholas Closser 032-1. Daniel P. Closser, b. 1834 M- 1st - Margaret A. .McCormick, d. May 2, 1886, dau. of Thomas and Theodocia McCormick M- 2nd - Susan Adell, dau. of Major Atkin of Crown Point, who Res. at Kingsbury, IN 032-2. Elizabeth Closser, b. 1836 M-
032-3. Jerome B. Closser, b. 1837 M-
032-4. Sylvanus M. Closser, b. 1841 M-
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032-5. Joseph A. Closser, b. 1844 M- 032-6. Emily R. Closser, b. 1846 M- Rebecca Closser was b. Jan. 12, 1812, and d. Jun. 22, 1891. Nicholas Closser was b. 1810, in Washington Co., PA Moved to Warren Co., OH at the age of 3, then to Butler Co., OH, until 1821, then to INpolis, IN, Jan. 8, 1823. They were md. Mar. 14, 1833.
THIRD GENERATION Chart XXXIII William 1 Rebecca (Parker) Closser 2 Daniel P. Closser Margaret (McCormick) Closser 033-1. Sarah P. Closser M- Edward Michael of La Porte, IN 033-2. Clarence Edwin Closser, drugist M- Alice Wilcox, dau. of W. W. Wilcox 033-3. Charles Lincoln Closser, a farmer, of La Porte, IN M- Susan Ladd 033-4. Hattie D. Closser M- 033-5. Clara Belle Closser, dif 033-6. William H. Closser M- Member of firm of Closser Bros. 033-7. Rose Abbie Closser M- Fred N. Schultz of Elkhart, IN 033-8. Louis F. Closser
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M- Lura D. Banks, dau. of William A. Banks
033-9. Maggie Closser, Res. at La Porte, IN M-
Chart XXXIV Harry C. Forney, b. Mar., 1867, native of MD M- Berdie Mynes, b. Mar. 1868, native of PA 27 ch.: 034-1. Arthur Roy Forney, b. Oct. 1891, in MD M- 034-2. Hattie L. Forney, b. Apr. 1894, in OH M- Charles Buchanan cRes. in Santa Ana, CA for many years No ch. 034-3. Blanche Irene Forney, b. 1900 in OH M- Bernard Davis Parker, Sep. 8, 1928 in Santa Ana, CA. 034-4. Ben O. Forney, b. May 1888, in MD M- 034-5. William 0. Forney, b. 1903 in OH 034-6. Jessie Forney, b. Mar. 1897, in OH M- 034-7. Susan Forney, b. Oct. 1899, dif
27 Margaret Mynes, mother of Berdie Mynes, a wid., was living with the family in 1910, at the time Youngstown, Columbiana Co., OH. She was b. Apr. 1827 in PA.
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Appendix - Parker Family
Joshua Davis Parker, b. Oct. 21, 1807, in Greenfield, OH, d. Mar. 14, 1895, at his home in Orange, CA M-lst - Susannah (Nancy) White, Jan. 6, 1831, in Ross Co., OH, by Wlliam Johnson, a Justice of the Peace. They later moved to Hendricks Co., IN, where Nancy d. sometime before 1835. Joshua D. Parker and John J. McMullen were constables of Liberty Township, 1838, and Joshua D. Parker and G. W. Wills were constables in 1839. J. D. Parker was Sheriff, 1844, and Clerk, 1844, to 1851 of Hendricks Co., IN. M- 2nd - Martha Ann Gilliand Pope, a wid., Nov. 18, 1837. She was b. Sep. 24, 1818, in KY, and d. Sep. 20, 1907 at Orange, CA. Her first marriage was to a man named Pope. This marriage took place in Hendricks Co., IN. He was Sheriff of Hendricks Co., 1843, and Co. Clerk of Hendricks Co., 1844-1851. They had a farm near Clayton, IN from 1837, the year of their marriage, until 1861, when they moved to Terre Haute, IN. Than in 1871 they moved to a place near Gonzalez, Monterey Co., CA, and in 1872, moved again to the Rodriquez Tract, in west Orange, near the intersection of the present day North Main Street and Chapman Avenue. Their residence in West Orange was the former headquarters building of Drum Barracks, which they purchased in 1873 and moved to west Orange. He d. Mar. 14, 1895 at Orange, CA, and she d. Feb. 28, 1907 at Orange, CA.
For a period of time, various members of the Parker family occupied the Rodriquez adobe, that was one of the cluster of adobes built by Jose Antonio Yorba II at the point on the Rancho Santiago de Santa Ana called Santa Ana Abajo. This adobe was used in earlier years as a stage stop for the Los Angeles to San Diego stages of the Coast Line Stage Company. Mr. Parker was the first person in Orange to bring in an artesian well on his land, and occasionally he apparently enjoyed hunting with his sons in the Santiago Canyon. He was eighty eight years old at the time of his death on Mar. 14, 1895. One of the things that visitors to the
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Parker home (the former Drum Barracks Headquarters) is the pet parrot of Martha JParker, whom she called Fred. Local youth played a practical joke one time by planting an egg in Fred's cage, which caused Martha Parker some consternation until the truth was revealed about the prank. Martha Parker's parents participated in the organization of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church in KY.
The Parker Family in CA In 1849 a son of Joshua Davis Parker, William Parker (son of Nancy Davis and Joshua) came to CA, locating at San Jose and developing a placer mine at Diamond Springs in El Dorado Co.. He also bought ranch land at San Jose. He returned to IN in 1870, and persuaded the family to come west. The primary reason for the change of location was the bad health of Martha Ann Parker. Her doctor had given her a year to live. She lived another thirty four years after coming to CA. The family came to San Jose first, later to Salinas, in Monterey Co., then Monterey and Carmel. During this period Millard Fillmore Parker and Charles Edward Parker, joined with two new acquaintances, J. Coleman Travis and George Mosbaugh, to have their picture taken at a Photo Studio in San Francisco before all of them came to southern CA to permanently settle, (a copy of this picture is in the First American Title Company History Department Photo Collection). At a site near present-day Gonzalez, CA, in Monterey Co., the Parkers purchased 4,000 head of sheep, which grazed on their Gonzalez ranch, which they leased, but did not own. In 1873 the Parkers, including the sons- in-law, which were Lockhart brothers, came to Orange and bought the 1253 acres of the Rodriquez ranch - allotted under the partition odf the Rancho Santiago de Santa Ana in 18 68 to Don Abel Stearns. They became interested in the orange industry, and started a nusrsery of navel orange trees. They obtained buds from the parent trees in Riverside, owned by Calvin Tibbets,
- 37 - Our Family Tree - Parker Branch at one dollar a bud. They sold their first trees to the Chaffee brothers of Ontario. To become acquainted with more people and build up a better trade the Parkers formed a baseball team, which played games from Santa Barbara to San Diego. Of the Parker sons, four of them Res. in Orange Co. and had their families there. Millard Fillmore Pawrker was a salesman for Captain William Thorton Glassell in selling town lots in the original community of Orange. He passed away with tuberculosis (consumption) in 1881 in Orange. Clarence Parker rode horseback in the early days from the town of Orange to the post office in Anaheim until the railroad finally arrived in Orange in 1875. Joshua Everett Parker was lured by the mines of Arizona, New Mexico and Texas. He was instrumental in plotting Santiago City in the Santiago Canyon, that became one of the many "paper cities" of the 19th Century in CA. He later purchased the land that the town of St. James had been plotted on near the later- Olive Heights settlement in northern Orange. Joshua E. Parker, in his mining activity, was at Tombstone, Santa Rita, and at Graterville in 1888. Desiring to locate a stamp mill in Mexico he took ten young men fron San Francisco to become familiar with the industry. He had taken courses while in Terre Haute, IN under Professor H. Gruenwalt, in history, geology, astronomy, and minerology. A distinguished fellow pupil in this school was Horace Bert, who later served as a civil engineer on James Hill's Norther Pacific Railroad, and later became president of the Union Pacific Railroad. Another classmate was Mr. William Kerkhoff, a pioneer with the Southern CA Edison Company.
In 1874 while hunting at the head of what is now Harding Canyon, Mr. Parker noticed some small metal nuggets. They were bright and heavy, and the size of walnuts. He sent ten pounds of the darkest nuggets to the Selby Smelting Company in San Francisco, from whom he had been buying shot and bullets. Selby reported it was a galena ore, and carried fifty two dollars in Silver. The company sent two men down to examine the ore. They covered all the country from Saddleback to
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Ladd's Canyon and discovered six well defined mines. The report of the Selby Company stated that the mineral belt was one mile wide by two miles long; was of the sulphate character; of no great deposit, and would require smelting. In conjunction with the Lockhart brothers-in-law the Parker family, by ownership of the original Rodriquez Tract, owned the land that was later occupied by the Anaheim Stadium in later years. Clarence Parker for a period owned the Brunswick Hotel in Santa Ana. He d. in 1898 of an attack of appendicitis, leading to peritonitus, which caused his death. Charles Edward Parker (also called C.E. or Ed - and mentioned frequently in Terry Stephenson's Shadows of Old Saddleback) was one of the workmen on the Chapman Water Canal in the early days of Orange, engaged in the nursery business with his other brothers, and later was in partnership with two brothers-in-law, the Harris brothers, as Parker Brothers and Harris, a real estate firm, in Orange. In 1886 the firm bought a flour mill in Santa Ana, on the southwest corner of Third and Sycamore streets, which operated for several years. They set up an electric generator there to run the mill, which after hours provided the first electric lighting for the city of Santa Ana. Initially, they supplied electric power to the Spurgeon Hall, a theater on the second floor of the original Spurgeon Building, in Santa Ana. Parker joined with several other Santa Ana businessmen in 1889 to form the Orange Co. Abstract Company, which in 1894 merged with the Santa Ana Abstract Company to form the Orange Co. Title Company. Today, the company is known as the First American Title Company, as of 1986 the second largest title company in the United Statess. C.E. Parker was the first president of the Orange Co. Title Company, from 1894, in which office he served until the time of his death in Jun., 1930.
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C. E. Parker as an avid sportsman and for a period of time was President of the Santiago Hunt Club; a member of the board of directors of several firms in Orange Co.; a member of the board of the Santa Ana Race Track (located near present-day Warner and Bristol in Santa Ana); President of the Santa Ana Chamber of Commerce. He maintained a home first on east Fourth Street in Santa Ana, (at the northeast corner of French and Fourth); than built a home at 100 North Main (later the site of Biggar;'s Furniture Store), where he lived until his death. Various references of Ed Parker in the early days of Orange note he led one of two teams in a spelling bee at the Orange School on May 1, 1875. His brother Clarence Parker was in the drug store business with C.B . Andrus in Orange, in the Davis Building, as noted Nov. 6, 1875. Ed Parker was listed as the librarian of the Orange Musicial Union on Nov. 13, 1875. Millard Fillmore Parker, another brother, had a mare stolen, as reported Nov. 20, 1875. Andrus & Parker installed a stove in their drug store, Nov. 27, 1875. On Dec. 25, 1875 they were reported as having put up more shelving. C. E. Parker was elected Gate Keeper of the Orange Grange for 187 6. - a big news item was: On Tuesday Andrus & Parker flung their new sign to the breeze - Jan. 8, 1876. Millford Fillmore Parker had an aunt, as agent for Captain William T. Glassell - now is the time to purchase town lots. Seventy three are offered for sale - Jan. 22, 1876. Clarence Parker was reported to be learning to compound prescriptionss rapidly under C.B. Andrus1 instruction - Feb. 12, 1876. Ed Parker was reported as piloting a mower (for agricultural fields) during this season - Apr. 29, 1876.
On Aug. 10, 1877 - it was reported - Last week Walter Weaver, C. E. Parker and C. H. Parker were up in Santiago Canyon. They went to its head and to the top of the highest peak due east of here. Being famished for want of water, and while dying to get through the dense brush, they encountered three bears. Being at close quarters they killed the trio and (illegible) but the country as so rugged that they abandoned everything
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and merely got back with one hide, after sleeping out over night without water, grub, coats or pleasure. Their mouths were dry and sore for several days afterwards. On Mar. 12, 1881 the Anaheim Gazette (source for much of the above material) reported - somewhat tardily, we publish the notice of the death of M.F. Parker of Orange. Years ago, Mr. Parker was one of our most esteemed correspondents and his writings for this paper only stopped when his failing health compelled him to take up a residence in the mountains. He was a young man of promise, and his death is regretted by a large circle of friends and relatives. \J&-:-. FIRST AMERICAN STORY
History is a way of life for a title company. Dusty old documents, dating from the days of Spanish ranchos, colonial estates and Mexican grants, mingle with mod ern microfilm, electronic indexing, computers and the like as the bases for title searches upon which our in surance policies depend. A title search, in effect, is a historical record of the ownership of a piece of property. The right of property ownership was guaranteed to Americans upon the birth of the nation in 1776. In the early days, a simple handshake or the pouring of a handful of dirt from the property being sold sealed the transaction. But the increasing com plexities of legal ownership and mounting disputes TJ~ e..^-' - - between property claimants led to title insurance, £ar/y Company Office -1902 initiated soon after the Civil War.
Real estate ownership insurance, or title insurance as it is generally known, is an insured statement of the con dition of "title," or ownership, of a particular piece of property. It is vital to the home owner, as it protects what is usually the greatest investment in his entire lifetime. In addition to matters obtained from public rec ords, his policy covers many potential hidden risks, such as forged or improperly signed documents, undisclosed heirs, errors of recording officials, fraud or duress in obtaining signatures and many others.
Thousands of homes throughout the nation have been protected by policies of title insurance issued by First American Title Insurance Company since its inception in 1889. The two title companies then serving newly- formed Orange County, California, were merged in 1894 as Orange County Title Company, forerunner of the present parent company. The First American name was adopted following an expansion program started in 1957 which has led to a nationwide network of offices and recognition of the firm as one of the country's leading title insurers. Along the way, we've been a part of the excitement and enterprise that has shaped the nation, a veritable partner in history in the making.
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Through the years since First American's birth in 1889, company officials and employees have played leading roles in the development of their communities. The founder, C. E. Parker, was born in Clayton, near Indian apolis, Indiana, the ninth of ten children. Lured to the west coast as a young man, he worked briefly as a sheepherder at San Jose, California, then headed to the promising southern section of the state. Shortly after his arrival in Orange County in 1872, he established a nursery business, providing the area with some of its first orange, walnut and other trees which later became so prevalent. Conservative by nature, he possessed a pro gressive spirit which led him to provide the city of Santa Ana with electricity for its first lighting system and furnish its first telephones. The establishment of the electrical system in downtown Santa Ana was an example of his business acumen. He was operating a grain mill at Third and Sycamore Streets. Rather than permit his steam plant to stand idle at night, he shrewdly suggested using it to power a street lighting system. The storekeepers "chipped in" each month to pay for the street lights, which covered several blocks in the business district. In 1892, Parker purchased stock in the Santa Ana Abstract Company and two years later was instrumental in consolidating it and the Orange County Abstract Company into Orange County Title Company, forerunner of the present First American operation. A leading local contractor, Chris McNeill, built the two-story frame home on North Main Street which Parker bought for $3,500 in 1901. It was still under construction when he looked at it, accompanied by his young son, George. The lad stumbled on the steps, leaving the imprint of his hand in wet plaster as he fell against the wall. The mark remained throughout the Parker family's occupancy of the home for over 40 years. In later years, George Parker became president and board chairman of the firm his father founded. The home contained a parlor, living room, dining room and kitchen on the first floor, four bedrooms, bath and screen-enclosed porch upstairsT The large corner lot extended from Main to the next street, Sycamore, and the family had a garden, barn and chicken house at the rear of their home. When Parker applied for a street address, the city clerk insisted that the number he wanted, 1100, could not be used, and assigned 1102 to the house. But Parker stubbornly posted 1100 on the house and the number remained until the dwelling was moved about 1942 to 1327 West Fourth Street to make way for a commercial development on Main Street.
109 of property without the protection of a policy of O. F. Brant, Los Angeles title company executives, title insurance. he was instrumental in consolidating the two exist The growth of Orange County Title Company ing firms as the Orange County Title Company. parallels that of the county. When the county of The early leaders of the county's first title firm Orange was carved out of Los Angeles County on played important roles in shaping the destiny of August 1, 1889, two title companies served the area: Orange County. The original seven members of the the Santa Ana Title Company and the Orange board of directors, according to minutes of the first County Abstract Company. The former was organ meeting September 28, 1894, were C. E. Parker, ized by E. W. Sargent, later president of a Los president; C. W. Humphreys, vice president; O. F. Angeles title firm. T. D. Huff, former Santa Ana Brant, W. S. Bartlett, a realtor and subdivider; banker and merchant, was president and George Thomas McKeever, Santa Ana insurance man; C. Taylor secretary. The latter was formed by a group W. Wilcox, and Clarence H. Parker, brother of C. E. of local citizens, with W. S. Bartlett as president and Parker and his partner in Parker Bros, and Harris Frederick Stephens as secretary. Feed and Granary. Evidence of their foresight is seen in the abstract Board members through the years have included ing of a complete record of all Los Angeles County D. M. Dorman; Frank Ey, member of a pioneer documents pertaining to the new political subdivi Anaheim family and one-time mayor of Santa Ana; sion, Orange County. A staff of six people worked John Cubbon, prominent land owner; A. J. Crook- six days a week for two years, transcribing by hand shank, son of M. M. Crookshank, founder of the the complete records. Many of these documents had old First National Bank of Santa Ana (now the First to be translated from the Spanish. Some are dated as Western Bank), and, more recently, R. C. Mize, far back as 1834 and in the aggregate they contain prominent Santa Ana attorney; Roy V. Shafer, much of the romance and tragedy of the early days. Lewis W. Douglas, Sr., of Phoenix, Ariz., former Their transcription was a tremendous task, but to ambassador to Great Britain. day—many years later—the company and the pro For many years, the business of the company perty owners of Orange County are still reaping was handled capably and efficiently by a staff of the benefits of their high standard of accuracy. three. Nonetheless the founders kept up to date. In 1892, C. E. Parker, a local businessman, pur The second typewriter (a Densmore) used in Santa chased stock in the Santa Ana Abstract Company Ana was purchased by the company; the first, a and two years later, with the aid of O. P. Clark and Remington, was owned by Arthur Johnson, county
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From the very earliest land grants by which huge ranchoM rosm wer e given by the King of Spain, with out the payment of a single centavo, the complete story of land titles in Orange County is told in the vast archives of the Orange County Title Company. Glimpses of the gallant and gracious mode of life in the early days of the county may be had by perusal of the volumes in which recorded documents affecting the title to property were laboriously copied by hand. Deeds stipulating payment of the purchase price of a piece of land with tallow at $1.20 per "arroba" and hides at $2.00 each often paint vivid word pictures of the county's pioneer past. Marriage "contracts," wills and other docu ments offer exciting insight into the sacrifices, hopes and efforts that went into the making of the county. And what a long way the county has come since the time when vast expanses of land changed hands through wagers of Mexican Dons upon the speed of a horse! Now few people would accept ownership ,„•••• •,••-.• - ' ....-•-
court reporter. It is interesting to note that this firm's facilities. In California, new structures have company's Certificates of Title were among the been built for First American's Riverside, San first in California to be written on a typewriter and, Diego, Kern, Santa Barbara, Santa Clara and San likewise, the company was a leader in the state in Luis Obispo offices. During the summer of 1965, the'use of carbon paper for making copies. the San Bernardino branch moved into its new Early day base searches often involved old Span four-story headquarters. The company's Arizona ish and Mexican land grants. Perplexing problems affiliate, Arizona Title_ Insurance and Trust Com sometimes arose from United States and state pat pany, observed its 72nd anniversary in 1964 by ents, tidal and overflowed lands, swamp and up occupying offices in the new 21-story Arizona Title lands, mean high tides and low tides. In 1924, the Building in Phoenix. company qualified to issue policies of title insur For the first time in its history, a public offering ance—one of the first in the state to use this method was made of the company's stock in December, of writing title evidence. 1964. The stock is traded on the over-the-counter During the firm's early history, the office was market, with approximately 2,000 stockholders housed in four different locations. The building throughout the United States holding shares. now occupied, at the corner of Fifth and Main Streets, was completed in 1931. Another step for This transition from an Orange County facility ward was taken in 1954, when the offices were to a multi-state operation has involved no change in completely remodeled and enlarged to offer more ownership or management. As in years past, the extensive services to a lengthening list of customers. company is a "home" organization, owned and man In keeping with development throughout the aged by Orange Countians. George A. Parker, who Southwest, the company in 1957 began an expansion early in 1963 was elected chairman of the board program that has widened the scope of its services after 22 years as president, is the son of the founder, to several other areas. To facilitate the issuance of C. E. Parker. His brother-in-law, L. Rex Kennedy, title insurance companies by all of the companies, a whose wife is the former Elsie Parker, is senior vice parent firm, First American Title Insurance & Trust president and the Kennedy's son, Donald Parker Company, was established in 1959 in newly-re Kennedy, is president. modeled quarters adjacent to Orange County Title The board of directors in 1965 included George Company.. A. Parker, L. R. Kennedy, D. P. Kennedy, W. F. By 1965, the company had extended its coverage Croddy, Frank Harrington and J. E. Liebig, all of to the states of Alaska, Arizona, California, Nevada Santa Ana; Lewis W. Douglas, Jr., George Potter, and Utah, and the U. S. Territory of Guam, through Jr., and Ralph Kohlmeier, all of Los Angeles; R. J. numerous branches, subsidiaries and affiliates. Munzer of Long Beach; Harold Pilskaln, Jr., of The expansion program also has included the Newport Beach; William G. Was of Phoenix; and erection of new, modern buildings for many of the Mark D. Eggertsen of Salt Lake City.
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In recent years there has been great interest in THE MEXICAN REPUBLIC FLAG —1825-1846 the historical flags which have flown over Orange For a time the Spanish-Californians lived under a County since the arrival of the first Spanish expedi government of their own after the fall of the Mex tion in 1769. There are ten flags of historical signi ican Republic Empire in 1822. They had no flag ficance that have flown over Orange County. until the Mexican Republic flag was flown at Mis The First American Title Insurance & Trust sion San Juan Capistrano in 1825 for the first time. Company has all ten of these flags flying over its building at Fifth and Main Streets in Santa Ana. A JOHN C. FREMONT'S FLAG — 1844-1847 plaque in the building gives a brief history of each flag. In this way citizens of Orange County may John C. Fremont, a graduate of West Point, organ have a better understanding of their local heritage. ized an expedition of topographical engineers in 1844 to map the Mississippi Valley for the United States Army. His orders were to stay east of the THE SPANISH EMPIRE FLAG —1542-1785 Colorado Rockies, but Fremont took it upon himself The first flag to appear in California was that of the to come to California in 1844. During the Mexican Spanish Empire, carried by Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo War of 1846-47 he pursued the last Mexican gover when his ship first touched the California coast in nor of California, Pio Pico, into Orange County 1542. This same flag was carried by Juan Gaspar de in the spring of 1846. Pico, with the help of his Portola on his first visit to Orange County, July brother-in-law, Juan Forster, resident of San Juan 22-29, 1769. Capistrano, escaped to Mexico. In defiance of inter national custom Fremont unfurled his flag above THE SPANISH NATIONAL ENSIGN —1785-1822 every camp at which he stopped. The Spanish National Ensign replaced the Empire THE AMERICAN FLAG —1846-47 flag in 1785. It was flown over all the Spanish colonies including Alta California, which was then The first American flag in California was flown at part of New Spain. This flag was flown overMission Mission San Juan Capistrano, Santa Ana Abajo, and San Juan Capistrano by the soldiers garrisoned there Rancho Los Coyotes by Commodore Robert Stock to protect the Mission and over Santa Ana Abajo ton and General Stephen W. Kearney on January 6, (now Olive), the only other settlement in Orange 7, and 8, 1847, as they and 600 American soldiers County during this period. and sailors traveled from San Diego to Los Angeles, ending California's participation in the Mexican War.
THE FLAG OF A PRIVATEER —1818 THE BEAR FLAG Flying the revolutionary flag of Argentina, Hippo- The Bear flag was adopted as the flag of the State lyte de Bouchard, a privateer, captured Monterey of California when it was admitted to the Union on on November 10, 1818. He then proceeded south September 9, 1850. Orange County was then a part and looted El Refugio Rancho in Santa Barbara of Los Angeles County. County. He and his men arrived by ship at San Juan Capistrano in mid-December, 1818. After enjoying THE AMERICAN FLAG — 1889 the Mission winecellar, Bouchard and his band de parted from California never to return. The American flag of 1889 is historical to Orange County as on August 1, 1889, Orange County was officially created by the Legislature. It was cut from THE MEXICAN EMPIRE FLAG —1822 a part of Los Angeles County known as the Santa The Mexican Empire flag was flown at Mission San Ana Valley. Juan Capistrano during the year 1822 when the THE AMERICAN FLAG soldiers there took an oath of allegiance to the new Mexican Empire and Emperor Augustin de Iturbide. The present American flag of fifty stars officially be The Spanish government in Mexico had been over came _tbx flag of the United States of America on thrown in 1821 but it was not until 1822 that the July 4, 1961, following the admission of the State Empire flag was flown in Alta California. of Hawaii. 89 c. e. parker 1889 (1855-1930) »•
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(£\nvmn garker 1B5H - 1090 dorothy & geo. parker high school class - 1915 santa ana high school 1915 The Part the U. S. S. Von Steuben Played in The Great War
Written by Logan E. Ruggles, U. S. Navy- Log and Notes by Owen W. Norton, U. S. Navy
FAMILY HISTORY LIBRARY 35 NORTH WEST TEMPLE SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH 84150 %SatiUim.mi
THE U. S. S. "VON STEUBEN" WITH THREE THOUSAND FIGHTING MEN ON BOARD SIX HUNDRED FEET IN LENGTH—DISPLACEMENT 15,000 TONS The Part the U. S. S. Von Steuben
TO THE MEMORY OF CAPTAIN STIRLING, U. S. N.
By Harry A. Dwyer
You boarded the ship at Norfolk Amidst a blinding rain, To relieve Commander Moses You gave Stirling as your name.
You came from the "President Lincoln/' You are of Torpedo Boat fame; But the way you steered the "Vonnie," Was as Stirling as your name.
Your first trip was to Cuba, With a shipload of Marines, And you never gave a single thought To enemy submarines.
You made six trips across with us, And each one was to France; There wasn't a place in all the world Where you wouldn't take a chance.
You have convoyed ships safely over, 'Cross the calm and treacherous sea, And through places that looked Like sure death to me.
You guided us safely in battle When we met enemy submarines; Torpedoes missed by a very few feet, But you didn't fear the fiends.
Your guns* crews were always ready, Especially when danger was near, The report of those five inch guns Was music to your ear.
Through rough seas and calm seas You were on the bridge day and night; Many thought their time had come But you always guided us right.
So, to you, Captain Stirling, Although you're not near, Your spirit is with us, As if you were here.
We send you the greetings Of the "Von Steuben's" crew; May good luck be with you always In whatever you do.
No matter where you may travel. Lands afar and glory anew. We'll never forget you. We, of the "Von Steuben's" crew.
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Johnson. George H. is. Roy A. ROSTER OF CREW-Continued John.on, Fred Mahon. Wilham F. ibengeiger, Josep,1h, A. Malchield. John J, Moore, William H. John.on. Howard M. P.rpart. Bernard F. Lavenderider,, Herbert C . Malcolm. George D. Moreben. Clarence O. Reuss, Walter C. John.on. John A. Parris. George H. Lawrence, Lester M. Maloney, Frederick Morgan, Byron E. Rice, Haven John.on. Louis H. Lay, Ernest R, Parris, Wil|,am B. Man.ki, Leo J. Morrow, Charles F. Richards, John F. John.on. Robert Layton. Henry M. Parsons. Harold C. Maritz, Otto J. Morrow, Patrick J. Richardson. Harold B. John.on, Roberl C. Leadbetter, Rubin R. Patmore. George F. Marks, Ben. Moss. Oliver S. Richardson, Jacob A. Jones, Albo! E. Le Birske. Anthony Pat.chke, William C. Marr. George P. Mowery, George H Richmond, Homer Jones, Benjamin 5. . LeFara, Joseph P»yne. Daniel L. Martin, George W. Mullen. John E. Riley. Frederick A. Jones. Gordon E Lee. Arthur R. Pazdcre. Frank J. Martin. John D. Mulroy, Thomas B. Rinard, R„y P. Jone.. William C. Lee. Lawrence R. Peabody. Irving F. Martin, Price H. Munkres. Clarence F. Riner. William McK Jones. John Leech, Edward J. Perrault. Louis A Mason. Charles H. Munson. Mordelle D. Ringginberg. Cullen E. Jones. Theodore Leeanitzer, Elmer L. P=ter., Tracy L. Maten. George J. Murphy, George M. Robertson. James W. Jones. Virgil Lennon. Raymond R. Petseh, Oscar E. Maynard, Carl C. Murphy, John Rodgers. George E. Jones. Will.am C. LLeonard, . George H. Petty, Anner N. McCafferty. Walter J. Murphy. John P. Roger., Ceorge H. Jordan. Ch.rle. C. U Phelp,, John R Leslie. Henry McCarty. Jo.eph F. Murphy. Lawrence R. Rodgers. John B. Jordan. Charl.. C. Jr. PMlip.. Jame. J. Lessley... Ermitt S. McCue. John H. Murphy, William T. Rogers. William A. Jordan. | , J. Phillips, Wendell W rvln . Abraham L. McCune, Elmer H. Murray. Anthony H. Rogerson. John C. Pieht, R,|ph N. Lewan . Lee McDanils. Willram T. Mu.,11. William E. Rosenkranz. Max Kacena. Rudolph Lew Pill.bury. William C. .. Samuel McDonald. Homer Myers, Herbert T. Ross, Earl F. Kane, John L. Lew Piotrowski. Vincent ', William J. McDonald, Victor T. Ross. Robert R. Kane, William J. P.«s. James Leworthy. Henry K. McHale. Martm T. Na.h, Jame. A. Rotlon. Jo.eph E Kauffman. John H. Lieleau. Al/red W. Planalp, Ru„ell S. Mclntyre, Watson T. Nash. Wylie A.. Jr. Rowe. Fred E. Kelleher, Daniel P. Lincoln. Ceors Pl.nalp, Ralph W I H. McKeachie. Raymond W. Nelson. Edgar Rowland. Willi. D. Kelley. Floyd S. Lind. Chas. A. Popp, Arthur E. McNamee, James J. Nelson. Louis Rowley. Michael P. Kelly. Claude Lindsey, R V. Powell, Lee R. ay McShane. Hugh R. Nerbovig, Walter B. Ruff. Lee H. Keltx. Alger B. Little. George A. Port.cie. Felip. Russell. Floyd McSwecny. Frank A. Newman. Palmer H. Kenegan, John J. Little. George R. Posley. |. J. Russell. Richard B. Mehaffey. Alexander Nicholson. Ted M. Kennedy, Ray A. Lockwood. Max. M. Premo. Henry W. Russell, Robert E. Mei.er. Charles R Nienaber. William Kennedy. Victor E. Loes.berg, Edw.n L Prenney. William J. Ryan, Vernon L. Meixner. Charles E. Norton, Owen W, Kerlik. Jam., j. Lombess, Albert D Primm, Ceorge Ryan, Thomas J. Melanson, Melven J. Norton, Thomas F. Ker.ton, Fred J. L°»S. John H Proctor. Harry C Melichar, Walter H. Kever. Andrew J. Long. John W. P"'cell. John W. Men.er. Lawrence W. Sackm.n, Ralph B. Kilgore. Almond C. Loot, Willi,„, R. O'Brien, Clarence D. Pratt. Moses P. Mercer, Clarence D. Saksa, George P. Kingsland, John C. Loomis, Acanatious O'Brien. Edward J. Lerge, Frank L. L Merrell, Harvey D. Sanders. Farmer H. Klumb, Edwin C. O'Brien. Thomas J. Quaile. Hobard W Lorman. Walter E. Meyer. William C. Saudis. Joseph Knowlton, Wyr.m E. Ochocke, John C. Quirk, Elmer J Lottner. William J. Michel. Leonard L. Oder. Faris C. Scheffler. Arthur E. Knudston, Maurice Q"irk. J.me, J. Lotz. Ulysses Mc Mickle. Claud D. Odgen. John Sanders, Ben C. Kecher. John Lovdale. Harry R. Mijares. Angel R. O'Grady. Thomas M. Sandoz, Ami P. Koontz. Edward W. Ram.dell, Clarence C. Lover, Floyd Miller. Arthur P. Olm.tead. Chester A. Saunders. George S. Kramer.ic. Louis A. Rathburn, Lyle P. Mills, James E Olson. Howard Scandrett, Vernon C Kremp, Andrew L. RaPP, Charles W Millen. Artie L. Olson. John W. Sch.ll. Joseph F. Kwlatkowski, John S. Maahs, Charles Miller. Charles O'Neil, Josiah J. R.y. Thom., H. Schaubcrt, Andrew Mabry, Roger. R. Moldin. Andrew L. Orr. Joseph J. Raymond. Anthony, Jr. Schaudig. Rudolph J. Labounty, Dais J. MacDon.ld, Jame. F. Moeglin, Frank A. Osborne. Frederick C. Read. Percy L. Schierbaum, Samuel C. Lamox. Thos. MacFarland. Chauncey Moffett, Russell D. Overlette. Edward Re.rdon. John F. Schendel. Otto E. Lancaster. Frederick M. Mack, William J. Moll.ck. Edward W. Owens. James R. Reber. Harry N. Schilling. Frederick Lang.eth, Marcus G. MacMurlrie. George T. Mongiven, John F. Reed. Eugene Mc Schlemeyer, Alvin E. Larkin. Franci. H. MacNab, Kenneth E. Reed. William H. Urkin. William E. Moore. George P. Painter. Harold Schmidmeister. Charles L. Madden, William E. Regal. John. Jr. Lar.on. George W. Moore, Harold A. Pann, Stanley D. Schmidt, Frederick J. Magley, Edward O. Reilly, Henry V. Larson, William J. Moore, John L. Park, John P. Schooley, Reyden D. Reit.r. John E. Maher, Gerald J. Moore, William Parker. Ceorge A. Schrock, Arthur L. Reztuccio. Dominich Parker. William Schroeder. Edward H Retherford. Harry Schultz, Harry [ed. note] Geo. A. Parker was never happy with the word "Library" in the name of the Foundation. As a Pharmacists Mate during WW I at Mare Island Naval Station he was assigned the duty of librarian - in six months he stated "only one book was checked out during that time." He complained to his chief and the next day was assigned to the spins/tr menengitis ward. The foundation is now named the Orange County Bar Foundation - which George Parker would have approved.
On pg. 5 it is noted that Geo. A. Parker enlisted in the U.S. Army • this should be corrected to read that he enlisted in the U. S. Navy. Also, he attended the University of Southern California Law School [U.C.L.A. Law School was not created until 1952] and received a Bachelor of Laws degree in 1922. [The bar examination was oral in 1922 - and only one question was asked of Geo. A. Parker - "what are the rights and liabilities of an inn keeper?"
Geo. A. Parker was elected Secretary of the Orange County Bar Association in 1927, succeeding Charles Swanner.
The members of the Parker family were duly appreciative of the courtesy extended by the Superior Court to Geo. A. Parker's family in 1979, and here thank the court for the memorial service in his honor.
C. E. (Ted) Parker Professor Emeritus Western State University Law School.
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26 1 JUDGE BANYARD: Good morning, Counsel, Ladies and Gentlemen:
This Court is in special session this morning in memory and honor of George A. Parker:
Before we turn to the business of the Court today, it is appropriate that we pause and' reflect on the long and dis tinguished career of one of Orange County's most outstanding, citizens and lawyers who died as a result of cancer on ,
June 2, at the age of 81.
Present this morning are the son, daughter-in-law, and three grandchildren and Ted Parker, where are you sitting?
MR. PARKER: Right here.
THE COURT: The Court recognizes and welcomes Professor C. E.
Parker, known to us as Ted, Ted's wife, iMarilyn, and three of
George's grandchildren,Cathy, Helen and George.
We are happy to have them with us this morning.
At this time the Court will recognize Mr. Arthur W.
Gray, President of the George A. Parker Law Foundation: Mr.
Gray, please.
MR. ARTHUR GRAY: Thank you, Your Honor, Members of the Parker
Family, Fellow Colleagues, Ladies and Gentlemen:
I first had the privilege of meeting George Parker about twenty-four years ago and I guess, for some members of the bar, my long-time friend, Leo Friis and others, that is a relatively short time.
When I started working for Leo he said to me, "Art, the first thing you ought to do is join the Orange County Bar 1 Association and get to know the other members of the Bar". 2 That was good advice and Leo took me to a meeting then at the 3 old Orange County Title Building upstairs in the meeting room 4 and there I met George Parker. 5 George was really the embodiment of the Orange County 6 Bar at that time. He collected the money for lunch, took the 7 minutes and for more than forty years we had the privilege of 8 hearing him read the minutes. 9 Some years later, after the Bar became more formally 10 organized, with its own office and its own staff, George and 11 a few other likeminded persons felt that it would be a•good 12 idea to" establish a non-profit, charitable foundation to 13 further the ideals of justice in this community and so there 14 was established the George A. Parker Law Library Foundation. 15 George started that foundation with a generous gift. 16 Now, the initial purpose of the foundation was to 17 develop a decent law library in this county and in those days 18 we had gone from the little library between Departments 1 and 19 2 in the old courthouse building down to the temporary build 20 ing on Broadway and finally to our new, beautiful library. 21 So George's purposes there have been more or less 22 fulfilled and then we talked to him and we said, "George -, I 23 think the foundation now can have wider purposes" and he 24 .consented, then, to dropping the name "library" out of the 25 •foundation'so it became known as the George A. Parker Law 26 -' Foundation. That is how it is known today. There are a lot of coincidences in life but one of them occurred on June 2, the day on which George passed away: George was in the upper floors of the Santa Ana-Tustin Community Hospital and at the same time that the leadership of the Orange County Bar Association was meeting downstairs in the meeting room. Almost at the exact moment of George's death, the George Parker Law Foundation was being discussed by the leadership. Quite a coincidence in a way, that at the time George passed away the leadership was determining to give new, :.-.vigor, new strength and new purpose to the Parker Foundation. Since that time, the Parker Foundation has undertaken a tremendous project in assuming responsibility for the legal education program, particularly in Orange County but ultimately throughout the state. The program now is in every classroom—not every classroom but nearly every classroom of this county, almost every school district has adopted the program, kindergarten through twelfth grade and it just seemed to me it was a tre mendous tribute to George that at the time he passed on the Foundation, which bears his name, should go forward with the legal education program so that the ideals of George can be passed on to future generations. The Good Book tells people they are to let their light shine so that people can know their good works; well, George's life did shine as a light to all of us and his good works 1 live on and I am very proud to be connected with the George
2 A. Parker Law Foundation, an organization which bears his
3 name and carries on his work as a living memorial.
4 Thank you.
5 JUDGE BANYARD: Thank you.
6 It is my pleasure now to introduce ik' distinguished,
7 senior lawyer who has practiced in this county for many years
8 and who is a recognized Orange County historian who has
9 written a number of books relative to the history of Orange
10 County and has one in the works now concerning the Orange
11 County Bar.
12 Mr. Leo J. Friis.
13 MR. FRIIS: May it please Your Honor, Members of the Parker
14 Family, Members of the Bencji and Bar of Orange County and
15 Friends:
16 We have gathered today not only in mourning but also in 17 gratitude; we mourn George Parker's death but we also are-;grafc lg ful for hi:S('.wonderful, life.
19 As I look back over more than fifty years of practice in
20 Orange County, I have grieved at the passing of fellow at-
21 torneys; I still remember men like Charlie Swanner, Stanley
22 Reinhaus, Fred Forgy, Horace Head, Bob Mize, Tom McFadden,
23 Franklin West and countless others.
24 It is a pleasure to recall my pleasant professional
25 relationships with all of these men.
26 I have always felt my friendship with George Parker has 1 been even more meaningful; through the years it has continued
2 to grow.
3 George was a native of Santa Ana^ being born on Novem
4 ber 17, 1897,- at the home—family home on Fourth and French
5 Streets. By the time he was twelve years old he was per
6 forming janitorial duties at the school and at the Orange County
7 Title Company of which his father, C. E. Parker, had founded.
8 He was a member of the first class to be graduated from
9 the Santa Ana College. After a year in Liberal Arts at U.S.C.
10 he enlisted in the U. S. Army and served until the end: of
11 World War I. He then entered U.C.L.A. Law and in 1922
X- was graduated with a degree of Doctor of Jurisprudence. • He 13 was admitted to the Bar the same year and thereupon commenced
14 working full time at the Orange County Title Company.
15 In 1923 he married Dorothy Mead, who survives him. \\J~*-
16 His son, Ted, arrived four years later.
17 The tribute I pay to the memory of George is not only
18 for his service to others, in a business capacity, but also
19 for his constant attention, assistance to others in matters of
20 public welfare.
21 George was elected Secretary of the Orange County Title
22 Company in 1926 and served as such until his elevation to the
23 presidency in 1943. ,
24 After twenty years in this position, he became Chair
25 man of the Board of First American Financial Corporation,
26 successor to the Orange County Title Company. 6 1 I recall it very vividly, the problems which confront ;,2 ed Title Companies in the depression years and during World 3 War II. -The Orange County Title Company was an important 4 mentor to me and to other lawyers during these difficult 5 times. 6 George was such a quiet fellow that it seems difficult 7 to comprehend his extensive contributions to outside affairs: 8 in addition to being a Director in several financial institu 9 tions, he came, he gave of his talents to the matters of pub 10 lic service. He served as President of the Santa Ana Chamber 11 of Commerce, as Chairman of the Santa Ana Civil Service 12 Commission, as member of the Board of California Land Title 13 Association. 14 Closest to his heaf"t was the Orange County Bar Associa 15 tion. Commencing in 1927 he served as its Secretary for 16 forty-two years. 17 In closing, on behalf of the Orange County Bench and 18 Bar, I extend our deepest sympathy to George's wife, Dorothy, 19 his son, Ted, his daughter-in-law, Marilyn, his sister, Mrs. 20 Rex Kennedy, his nephew, Don Kennedy and to his four grand 21 children, Helen, Mary, Cathy and George; these last named 22 being his pride and joy. 23 THE COURT: Thank you, Mr. Friis.
24 Ladies and Gentlemen, I have a very few remarks: 25 I was closely associated in Orange County Bar work with 26 George Parker for many years. 7
1 We have with us today, Judge Mark Soden, Past President
2 of the Orange County Bar Association, who really was the
3 active one in creating the Past Presidents' Club of the Orange
4 County Bar Association.
5 After George Parker's served forty-two years as Sec-.
6 ,retary of the Association, he was unanimously elected as an.
7 honorary member of the Past Presidents' Club and acted a^ its
8 Secretary until about a year ago when his last illness pre-
9 vented him from attending our meetings. 10 My latest contacts with George were at a local barber-
11 shop where I kept track of what he was doing and the state of
12 his health.
13 This year, 1979, it was my turn to preside at the Past
14 Presidents' Association and it was a sorrowful thing for me
15 to have to announce the two Santa Ana meetings, the first
16 one he was too ill to attend and the second one he had passed
17 away. jg I see a number of past presidents of the Bar Associa-
19 tion present this morning and all of them, of course, have
20 that deep appreciation of George's support when they are
21 serving in a difficult job like that.
22 Many of you lawyers wha-have .-served on the Executive Committee or other committees of Bar had frequent contacts 23 with him and realized the value of his services and his 24 help to the legal community in Orange County. 25 All the members of this bench join with Mr. Friis, 26 8 and Arthur in extending our sympathy to George's family. He was an inspiration to all of us and we share with them the loss of our friend and former colleague. > The proceedings of the 40 departments of the Superior Court will be held today in honor of George A. Parker. ('tirmricmtirtitiiiQ 190* | yj Anniversan vC *u."" ""iii?
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•* — ••—• i •-.-,-• -r n-i-iii-niviiimuRiL II fJ*a °.tr \f 190* | Orange Ojunty Historical Society Santa Ana. California Photo - Orange County Historical Society Collection ^cMt^f 7chu// Qw^QswsidfPcvil., Oalt{ Orange County Historical Society Santa Ana, California Photo - Orange County Historical Society Collection Orange County Hospital. (h&vyc (hwiftfy 7ftHfufal, Otta#.ff&, (X&fazmA., 17/7 • •lRf>»l<|R»BA,Rai»lf >l"1|fRRRRl|PI|>>i RI'll RjfRRll RRRARIB II ,|« „§,« IRRfR| RRRRSRB.R..RMRJ RJ.RRRI 1 SUKBBR aaiMii —iiiRBRiRiRn.ai Our Family Tree - Blaine Family Branch - Chart I James Blaine Isabella (Armstrong?) Blaine His second wf., by which he had one child, was Elizabeth Carskaddon, a wid.. He had one son by second md., James Scadden Blaine, who d.y.,d.v.p.. His second wf. was a dau. of George Carskaddon. Book E, p 330, Register of Wills, Court House, Carlisle, PA ch. : 001-1. Ephraim Blaine, b. May 26, 1741, in Donegal, IRE. d. Feb. 16, 1804 in PA. 1lst - Rebecca Galbraith, 1 He was Asst. Comm. Gen. and Conm. Gen. (Aug. 6, 1777 to Nov. 30, 1780) of the Revolutionary Army for the Northern District at the time of the encampment at Valley Forge and made heroic efforts to provide food and supplies for the destitute troops in the winter of 1778. Claim U-1215, filed by his wid. in 1849. He was commissioned Commissary General of Purchasessss, Feb. 19, 1778, a position he held over three yrs, including the cantonment at Valley Forge. He was appointed Commissary Sergeant, and during the Boquet Expedition to the west in 1763, was connected with the Second Prov. Regt. From 1771 to 1773 he served as sheriff of Cumberland Co. At the beginning of the Revolution he raised a battalion of associators, of which he was commissioned a Lt. Col., holding the position until his appointment by the Supreme Executive Council, as Co. Lt. of Cumberland Co., April 5, 1777. This office he resigned in Aug. 1777 when he entered the commissary Dept. He was a man of large fortune, and with the aid of friends, he made an advance of $600,000 for the use of the patriot army. It was at Ephraim Blaine's home in Carlisle during the Whiskey Rebellion in 1794 that - 42 - Our Family Tree - Blaine Family Branch - Jun. 26, 1765 2 M- 2nd - Sarah Postlewaite Duncan, a wid., Sep. 21, 1797, b. 1763. — 001-2. Alexander Blaine, b. 1735, d. prior to 1798 3 M- Amy Hoge, 1762, b. 1746, dau. of David Hoge 001-3. William Blaine, b. 1757, d. in winter of 1792- 93 M- Mary 001-4. Eleanor Blaine, b. 1750 at Carlisle, PA d. Apr. 3, 1795 M- Samuel Lyon, 1771, son of John Lyon and Mary (Armstrong) Lyon. He was b. in 1751, and d. in 1780. He was a Col. in the Patriotic Service, PA. 001-5. Mary Blaine, b. 1753, at Carlisle, PA M- Matthew Davidson 001-6. Isabella Blaine, b. 1755, at Carlisle, PA M- Ross Mitchell, May 9, 1780 001-7. Margaret Blaine, b. 1745 Unmd. 001-8. Agnes Blaine, b. May 7, 1751 at Carlisle, Cumberlan Co., PA M-lst - Albert Adams, Feb. 13, 1771. killed in battle during Revolutionary War, at the Battle of Crooked Billett, PA, May 1,1778 President George Washington stayed. His second wife was Sarah Elizabeth Duncan, widow of John Duncan, of Carlisle, and daughter of Col. Samuel Postlehwaite, and they had one son who dif. M- 2 She was b. 1747 in Donegal Twnshp, Lancaster Co., PA, and d. c. 1780 in Hiddleton Twnshp, Cumberland Co., PA. 3 Private with PA milita during Revolutionary War. Credited with being a clerk of accounts at Valley Forge during the fateful winter. - 43 - Our Family Tree - Blaine Family Branch - M-2nd - John McMurray, b. Jul. 14, 1754, md. Jun. 17, 1780, at Carlisle, PA, d. Mar., 1830 at Bushy Run, PA. He was a private during the Revolutionary War. Roll 104, Westmoreland Co., PA 4 Chart II Ephraim Blaine Rebecca (Galbraith) Blaine Ch. 002-1. Robert Blaine, b. Feb. 24, 1769 (1760), d. Jun. 1, 1805. b. Middlesex, (now Carlisle) bur. in Old Graveyard, Carlisle, PA M- Ann Susan Metzgar, b. 1771 or 1772, of McAllister's Town, now Hanover, d. Aug. 19, 1853. She was a dau. of George Metzgar, burtied at Old Graveyard, Carlisle, PA 002-2. James Blaine, b. March 18, 1766, d. Sep. 6, 1832 5 M- 1st - Jane Hoge, dau. of David Hoge, b. 1769, d. Apr. 15, 1793. d.s.p. - Jane Hoge was a sis. of Amy Hoge Blaine. M- 2nd - Margaret Lyon, Jan. 15 or 16, 1795, b. March 6, 1772, d. Aug. 27, 1853. 002-3. John Blaine, b. Jul. 11, 1770, d. at birth - a twn. 002-4. Isabel Blaine, b. Jul. 11, 1770, d. Aug. 28, 1770. 4 The Blaine farm and mill are on te Conodoquinet Creek - a mile from Carlisle, which he called Cave Middleton. 5 James Blaine was b. in Middleton Township, Cumberland Co., PA He d. in Washington Co., PA In 1791 he was an attache to the United States Embassy in Paris, France - and was the courier who brought the Jay Treaty back to the United States. In 1780 moved to western PA and in 1804 to Brownsville, he was a .justice of the peace there, he then moved to his farm in Sewickly, Allegheny Co., and later to a farm near Washington, PA where he d.. - 44 - Our Family Tree - Blaine Family Branch - 002-5. Rebecca Blaine, b. Aug. 3, 1767, d. March 11, 1769. 002-6. Elizabeth Blaine, b. Nov. 10, 1771, d. Nov. 21, 1771. 002-7. Mary Blaine M- Matthew Brown 002-8. Ephraim L. Blaine, b. 1787, d. 1863 M- Mary Adalaide Blish, b. 1787, d. 1863, md. 1811 Chart III James Blaine 6 Margaret (Lyon) Blaine ch. 003-1. Ephraim Lyon Blaine, b. Feb. 28, 1796, d. Jun. 28, 1850 M - Maria Gillespie, Oct. 25, 1820, b. May 22, 1801, d. May 5, 1871 Maria Gillespie was a dau. of Neal Gillespie, Jr. of 6 James Blaine was b. near Carlisle, PA. He d. in Brownsville, PA He was educated abroad and was for a time an attache of one of the American embassies and was made the bearer to this country of the celebrated Jay's Treaty. In Jan. 1799 he was appointed by Pres. John Adams, Capt. in the U.S. Infantry, which office he resigned Jun. 15, 1800, as his large business interests demanded his absolute atention. In 1802 he was appointed by Gov. Thomas McKean, Capt. of the first Troop of Light Horse attached to the first Brigade of the Militia of Cumberland and Franklin Counties; in the yr. 1804 he removed with his family from Carlisle and established himself in Sewickley, and afterwards in Brownsville, PA, in each of which places he had large real estate interests, and in the latter place he spent the remaining yrs of his life. His second wf., Margaret Lyon, was the dau. of his aunt and uncle, Eleanor Blaine Lyon and Samuel Lyon. - 45 - Our Family Tree - Blaine Family Branch - Pittsburgh, PA, and a sis. of Eleanor Gillespie whose hus. was Hugh Boyle of Lancaster, OH., See Thomas Ewing genealogy. ~"~~"••• 003-2. Margaret (Eleanor) Blaine, b. May 7, 1797, d. Jul. 10, 1797 003-3. George Blaine, b. Oct. 18, 1798, d. Oct. 30, 1798. 003-4. Margaret Jane Hoge Blaine, b. Feb. 13, 1800, d. Jan. 30, 1880. M - William Sample, Apr. 10, 1827, b. Sep. 23, 1786, d. Jan. 15, 1862. Founder of Washington, PA Reporter 003-5. Ellen Blaine, b. Feb. 2, 1802, d. Aug. 26, 1840 M- Hon. John Hoge Ewing, Nov. 2, 1820, b. Oct. 5, 1796, d. Jan. 15, 1862 John Hoge Ewing was a Congressman from the state of PA, son of William and Mary Conwell Ewing. 003-6. Robert Blaine, b. Oct. 18 (10), 1803, d. Jun. 1, 1805. 003-7. James Blaine, Jr., b. Feb. 5, 1805, d. 1848 M- Zoe DeVillimont 003-8. William H. Blaine, b. May 10, 1807, d. Apr. 26, 1840 M- bur. at Maysville Cemetery, Mason Co., KY 003-9. Samuel Lyon Blaine, b. Dec. 9, 1809, d. Sep. 13, 1883, b. Brownsville, PA M- Ann Coons, March 11, 184 0, b. March 19, 1819, d. May 8, 1899. res. at Louisville, KY. 003-10. Ann Lyon Blaine, b. Nov. 10, 1812, d. Jul. 3, 1891 M- Rev. James (Jacob) Dinsmore Mason, Nov. 15, 1842, b. Nov. 15, 1813, d. Jan. 8, 1890. - 46 - Our Family Tree - Blaine Family Branch - 003-11. Robert Blaine res. at Washington, D. C. Chart IV Robert Blaine Ann Susannah (Metzgar) Blaine 004-1. Rebecca Blaine M- Rev. Jeremiah Chamberland, D. D. 004-2. Ann Susannah Blaine M- Samuel Alexander 004-3. Ephraim Metzgar Blaine, b. 1796, d. March 13, 1835 M- Jane Morrison He was a medical doctor and a Capt. U.S. Army 004-4. Eleanor Blaine, b. 1798, d. Jan. 9, 1839 M- 1st - Dr. Levi Wheaton, b. Sep. 6, 1796, Richmond VA, d. Sep. 24, 1824 (1822)_ M- 2nd - John Hays, b. 1794, d. Apr. 29, 1854, md. March 9, 1831. 004-5. Mary Blaine M- Rev. Adam Gilchrist 004-6. James Blaine Unm. Chart V Ephraim Lyon Blaine Maria (Gillespie) Blaine 005-1. James Blaine, b. Oct. 1, 1821, d. Sep. 24, 1822 005-2. Neal Gillespie Blaine, b. Apr. 29, 1823 M- Rebecca N. Officer, Aug. 4, 1847, b. Aug. 5, 1826, d. Apr. 11, 1912. - 47 - Our Family Tree - Blaine Family Branch - 005-3. Mary Gillespie Blaine, b. 1825, d. March 29, 1844 005-4. Ephraim Lyon Blaine, Jr., b. 1827, d. Jul. 1850 005-5. James Gillespie Blaine, b. Jan. 31, 1830, d. Jan. 27, 1893 M- Harriet Bailey Stanwood, Jun. 30, 1850, b. Oct. 12, 1828, d. Jul. 15, 1903. 005-6, Eliza Blaine M- Robert C. Walker res. in the western United States. He was a major and paymaster in the United States Army. 005-7. Margaret Blaine M- 005-8. Robert Gillespie Blaine M- 005-9. John Ewing Blaine, b. Apr. 24, 1840, d. Apr. 21, 1887 M- Alice Fenton, Jan. 24, 1863, b. Oct. 24, 1842, d. May 10, 1894. John Ewing Blaine was appointed Capt. Quartermaster Department, United States Army, Jun. 16, 1868 - resigned May 1, 1870; appointed May 3, 1875, Major and Paymaster, United States Army. Chart VI James Gillespie Blaine 7 7 James Gillespie Blaine was b. in West Brownsville, PA, and d. in Washington, D.C. He was a grad. of Washington College, 1847; in 1854 he moved to Augusta, ME. He was a member of Congress, 1863-1867; Speaker of the House of Representatives, 1869-1875; United States Senator, 1876-1881; appointed Secretary of State by Pres. James Garfield; in 1884 he received the nomination for Pres. of the United States but was defeated by Grover Cleveland; appointed Secretary of State, 1889, by Pres. Benjamin Harrison; resigned in 1892. - 48 - Our Family Tree - Blaine Family Branch - Harriet (Stanwood) Blaine 006-1. Stanwood Blaine, b. 1851, d. 1854 006-2. Robert Walker Blaine, b. May 8, 1855 (1852) d. Jan. 15, 1890 006-3. William Emmons Blaine, b. Aug. 7, 1857, d. Jun. 18, 1892 (1895) M- Anita McCormick, Sep. 26, 1882, b. Jul. 4, 1866, d. Feb. 12, 1954 Anita McCormick was the dau. of Cyrus Hall McCormick, inventor of the McCormick reaper, and a sis. of Harold McCormick, who engaged in newspaper work in southern CA. . 006-4. Alice Stanwood Blaine, b. 1860, d. Feb. 2, 1890 M- Colonel Conner John Coppinger, Feb. 6, 1883 006-5. Harriet Stanwood Blaine, b. 1871 M- Truxton Beale, 1894, div. 1896 006-6. Margaret Isabella Blaine M- Walter Johannes Damrosch, May 1890, b. Breslau, Prussia, Jan. 30, 1862. 8 006-7. James Gillespie Blaine, Jr. M- Marie Nevins Chart VII 8 He was the son of Leopold Damrosch, a distinguished German musician. His mother was Helena von Heimburg Damrosch. Leopold Damrosch was b. Oct. 22, 1832, and d. Feb. 15, 1885, in Posen, GER. He became a res. of the United States in 1871. He reorganized and was director of the NY Symphony Orchestra, 1903 to 1927, and was musical counsel to the National Broadcasting Conmpany from 1928. Columbia Univ. conferred upon him the degree of doctor of music in 1914, and Princeton in 1929. He was the first conductor of the Carnegie Hall, the home of the NY Symphony Orchestra, 1891. He d. in 1950. - 49 - Life of James G. Blaine a The Plumed Knight" EDITOR, REPRESENTATIVE, SPEAKER, SENATOR, CABINET MINISTER, DIPLOMAT AND TRUE PATRIOT A Graphic Record of His Whole Illustrious Career, from the Cradle to the Grave PROFUSELY ILLUSTRATED BY WILLIS FLETCHER JOHNSON, A.M. Author of "Life of Sherman," "Stanley and His Adventures," "History of the Johnstown Flood," "Sitting Bull and the Indian War," " My Country, 'Tis of Thee," Etc., Etc. Copyright, A. R. Kellar, 1892 SOLD BY SUBSCRIPTION ONLY ATLANTIC PUBLISHING CO. 1893 BIRTHPLACE OF JAMES G. BLAINE. BURIAL PLACE OF BLAINE'S PARENTS. — BLAINE'S MANSION, AUGUSTA. Hjs i. C '--. f| 'm i fP '» WALTER DAMROSCH. BURIAL GROUND BLAINE FAMILY, AUGUSTA, ME. WALKER BLAINE. 5* EMMONS BLAINE. Our Family Tree - Blaine Family Branch - William Emmons Blaine Anita. (McCormick) Blaine 007-1. William Emmons Blaine, Jr., b. 1892, d. Oct. 16, 1941. M- Eleanor Gooding, b. 1893 Chart VIII James Gillespie Blaine Mary (Nevins) Blaine 008-1. James Gillespie Blaine, b. NY City, Jan. 10, 1888 M- 1st - Marion Dow, March 9, 1911 M- 2nd - Countess Irina Wornzow-Daschkow, Jun. 20, 1936 James Gillespie Blaine was active in life insurance and banking, and was Pres. of the ME Midland Trust Company of NY. As of 1968 he was retired in living in NY City.. Chart IX James Gillespie Blaine Marion (Dow) Blaine 009-1. Elizabeth Blaine, dec. 009-2. James Gillespie Blaine III, dec. M- 009-3. Richard Gillespie Blaine M- 009-4. Charles Gillespie Blaine, b. NY City, March 12, 1925 M- Gloria Beckwith Attorney at Law, partner in firm of Phillips, Lytle, Yorkey, Letchworth, Hitchcock & Blaine, Buffalo, NY Chart X William Emmons Blaine - 50 - Our Family Tree - Blaine Family Branch - Eleanor (Gooding) Blaine 010-1. Anne (Nancy) Blaine, b. 1918 M- Gilbert A. Harrison, 1951 He was head of Amvets following World War II, and later publisher of the New Republic Magazine, Washington, D.C. Chart XI Samuel Lyon Blaine Anna (Coons) Blaine 011-1. Ellen (Ella) Ewing Blaine, b. KY, Jan. 28, 1841, d. Oct. 6, 1898 M- James Lawrence Botsford, Jan. 27, 1864, b. Apr. 16, 1834, d. Oct. 6, 1898 9 011-2. Eliza Coons Blaine, b. Oct. 18, 1842, d. Aug. 12, 1897 M- John Claypool, Oct. 29, 1862, b. Jun. 5, 18 3 3 011-3. John Ewing Blaine, b. Feb. 6, 1845, d. Jun. 12, 1892 M- Nancy Chamberlain McGranaghan, Dec. 14, 1871, b. Feb. 4, 1850 011-4. Charles Coons Blaine M- Willie Aline Ruffner 011-5. Malnor Coons Blaine M- Mary Phister 011-6. William Hoge Blaine, b. Jul. 30, 1855 M- Fannie 0. White, Jul. 27, 1886 011-7. George James Blaine Unm. 9 DAR 3122, Vol. 4, Page 45. - 51 - 0817881-0 Our Family Tree - Blaine Family Branch - 011-8. Ephraim Robert Blaine, b. Nov. 23, 1858, d. Oct. 17, 1911 , M- Fanny Browning Owens, Jan. 9, 1884 011-9. Samuel Lyon Blaine, b. Aug. 27, 1862, d. Nov. 15, 1910 M- Chart XII Charles Coons Blaine Willie Aline (Ruffner) Blaine 012-1. Joel Ruffner Blaine, b. March 10, 1876, d. Aug. 1876 012-2. Samuel Lyon Blaine, b. Apr. 1, 1878, d. Oct. 16, 1878 012-3. Anna Coons Blaine, b. May 25, 1879 M- Lynwood S. Connell, Jun. 14, 1910 012-4. Mary Ruffner Blaine, b. Feb. 27, 1882 M- 012-5. Ephraim Robert Blaine, b. Jul. 2, 1883 M- Isabel Robertson, Jan. 6, 1910 012-6. Charles Augustaus Blaine, b. Aug. 2, 1885 M- Mary Ethel Robertson, Aug. 16, 1911 012-7. David Lewis Blaine, b. Jul. 31, 1887, d. Jun. 18, 1889 Chart XIII Ephraim Robert Blaine Isabel (Robertson) Blaine 013-1. Isabel Blaine, b. Feb. 4, 1912 M- Chart XIV - 52 - Our Family Tree - Blaine Family Branch - Malnor Coons Blaine 10 Hary (Phister) Blaine 014-1. Mary Phister Blaine, d. Novembr 28, 1896 M- Chart XV John Ewing Blaine 11 Nancy Chamberlain (McGranahan) Blaine 015-1. William McGranahan Blaine, b. Dec. 2, 1872, in Maysville, KY 015-2. John Ewing Blaine, b. Feb. 14, 1876, in Maysville, KY M- Margery Andrews Bassett, Feb. 7, 1906, in Avondale, 10 Malnor Coons Blaine stud, for the ministry and was pastor of several churches in TN and PA; Jun. 16, 1880 he was commission Post Chaplain in the U.S. Army; Nov. 28, 1896, with his dau. Mary, was burned to d. in a fire that destroyed his quarters in Fort Ringgold, TX. 11 John Ewing Blaine, of Avondale, Cincinnati, OH. was educated in Maysvile, KY; on Dec. 1863, he was appointed to the Quartermaster Department, Army of UV, and was present in his official capacity at the battles of Cloyd's Mountain, New River Bridge, Lexington, Lynchburg, Winchester, and Cumberland, MD, resigned from the Quartermaster Department and accepted an appointment as Assistant Assessor of Internal Revenue for the Sixth (afterwards Ninth) District of KY, which office he held until March, 1873, when he was appointed by Pres. Ulysses S. Grant and confirmed by the United States Senate, Collector of Internal Revenue for the Ninth District of KY; in May 1883, resigned this office to engage in the mercantile business in Peoria, IL; Apr., 1892, he disposed of the business in Peoria and accepted the offices of Director and Treasurer of the Globe Company, Cincinnati (afterward the Globe-Uernicke Company), to which he had been elected; later was elected Secretary-Treasurer; in Jun. 1910, he retired. In Jul. 1877 he was elected an Elder of the first Presbyterian Church of Maysville, KY. In Jan. 1895 was elected an Elder by the Avondale Presbyterian Church, Cincinnati. In Feb. 1907 he was elected Pres. of the OH Society, Sons of the American Revolution. - 53 - Our Family Tree - Blaine Family Branch - Cincinnatti, OH, b. Aug. 3, 1881, dau. of George Pomeroy Bassett and Eliza (Andrews) Bassett 015-3. Anna Coons Blaine, b. in Maysville, KY M- DAR 33936, Vol. 34, page 531 Chart XVI John Ewing Blaine Margery Andrews (Bassett) Blaine 016-1. John Ewing Blaine, III, b. Jan. 27, 1907, in Avondale, OH M- 016-2. George Pomeroy Blaine, b. March 23, 1911, in Avondale, OH M- Chart Chart XVII Neal Gillespie Blaine Rebecca (Officer) Blaine 017-1. Margaret Blaine M- William O. Wirt Chart XVIII Ephraim Metzgar Blaine Jane (Morrison) Blaine 018-1. William Irvine Blaine, b. 1828, d. 1898 M- Nancy Voshall, 1851, dau. of John and Ann Davies Voshall. Resided Pittsburgh, PA, b. 1835, d. 1915 Chart Chart XIX William Irvine Blaine Nancy (Voshall) Blaine 019-1. Harry Gordon Blaine, M.D., b. 1858, d. 1930 - 54 - Our Family Tree - Blaine Family Branch - M- Lucy Elsie Shanks, 1877, dau. of James Shanks and Sarah Jane Thompson Turner Shanks, b. 1858, d. 1920 Chart XX Harry Gordon Blaine Lucy Elsie (Shanks) Blaine 02 0-1. Earnest Grant Blaine, b. 1879 M- Anna Cox 020-2. Earl Hayes Blaine, b. 1879, d. 1897 M- 020-3. Harry Stanley Blaine, b. Jun. 27, 1880, near Attica, OH M- Mabel Andrews, dau. of Samuel P. Andrews, b. Jul. 18, 1886 020-4. William Gillespie Blaine, b. 1883, d. 1932 M- Chart XXI Harry Stanley Blaine Mabel Andrews Blaine 021-1. Gordon Andrews Blaine, b. Nov. 20, 1912 at Willard, OH M- Esther Hetrick, Feb. 12, 1937, dau. of Theodore Hetrick 021-2. Mary Elizabeth Blaine, b. Apr. 10, 1915, Toledo, OH M- Robert Bubel, Jun. 15, 1940, son of Adam Bubel 021-3. Robert Eugene Blaine, b. Feb. 9, 1919, Toledo, OH M- Chart XXII Gordon Andrews Blaine - 55 - Our Family Tree - Blaine Family Branch - Esther Hetrick Blaine 022-1. Carol Lee Blaine M- Chart XXIII William Blaine 12 Mary ( ) Blaine 13 023-1. Mary Polly Blaine, b. Sep. 30, 1773, d. Jan. 4, 1837 M- Samuel McCord, Apr. 19, 1798, b. Oct. 1770, d. Sep. 20, 1825 Resided Sherman valley, Perry co., PA 023-2. Alexander T. Blaine, b. 1776, d. Feb. 18, 1817 M- Rosanna Robinson 14 (McCord) Apr. 5, 1790, b. May 23, 1779, d. Nov. 1, 1830 023-3. William Blaine, b. 1779 M- 023-4. Ephraim Blaine, b. 1781 M- 023-5. James Armstrong Blaine, b. 1783 M- 023-6. Isabella Blaine M- William Anderson, Dec. 1, 1800 William Anderson was a judge in Cumberland co., PA 12 William Blaine lived on the Solomon Bower farm - he warranted on June 8, 1792 250 acres adjoining land of Samuel Lyon, Jr. and George Carskadden. he died during the winter of 1792-1793. 13 Joseph Blaine could be a son by this family - he married Catherine Armstrong. He was born January 10, 1790, married March 18, 1819. 14 Rosanna Robinson McCord was a daughter of William McCord and Sarah (Almes) McKinney. 56 - Our Family Tree - Blaine Family Branch - Chart XXIV Alexander T. Blaine Rosanna (Robinson) (McCord) Blaine 024-1. Margaret McCord Blaine, b. Jul. 12, 1798, d. Dec. 18, 1858 M- James Mills 024-2. Nancy B. Blaine, b. Jun. 21, 1800 M- William Crawford 024-3. Mary Blaine, b. 1802, d. Aug. 1865 M- Joseph Y. Moorhead 024-4. Ephraim William Blaine, b. 1804, d. Oct. 31, 1858 M- Eliza Smedley 024-5. William A. Blaine, b. 1807 M- Martha Hall 024-6. James Blaine, b. 1809 M- Lucinda Crary 024-7. Alexander W. Blaine, b. 1812, d. Jan. 10, 1878 M- Sarah Piatt 024-8. Isabel A. Blaine, b. 1814 M- Thomas Dickson 024-9. Joseph P. (F) Blaine, b. 1817, d. Jan. 1844 M- Adelia Freeman Chart XXV Alexander Blaine Amy (Hoge) Blaine 025-1. Elizabeth Blaine M- Rev. Francis Herron, Feb. 9, 1802 - 57 - Our Family Tree - Blaine Family Branch - 025-2. Mary Blaine M- Rev. Matthew Brown, D.D. 025-3. James Blaine M- 025-4. David Blaine M- Isabella Hill 025-5. Rebecca Blaine M- 025-6. Isabella Blaine, b. 1781, d. May 29, 1815 M- William Walker, Sep. 18, 1800, b. Feb. 12, 1784, d. Jan. 23, 1855 025-7. Ephraim Blaine M- 025-8. Alexander Blaine Jr. M- Lucinda Walton d. 1824 Chart XXVI David Blaine Isabella (Hill) Blaine 026-1. Robert Blaine M- 026-2. Ephraim Blaine M- Chart XXVII Robert Blaine 027-. John Blaine M- 027-2. David Blaine M- - 58 - Our Family Tree - Blaine Family Branch - 027-3. William Blaine M- Chart XXVIII Ephraim Blaine 15 Sarah Postlewaite (Duncan) Blaine 028-1. Eprhaim Blaine - d.y. by drowning Chart XXIX John Galbraith 029-1. James Galbraith, b. 1666. M- Rebecca Chambers 029-2. John Galbraith M- Left ch. but have no knowledge. Chart XXX James Galbraith 16 Rebecca (Chambers) Galbraith 030-1. John Gabraith, b. 1690 M- Janet 15 His second wife's first husband. Judge Duncan, was killed in a dual September 20, 1797, with a man named Lamberton. James Blaine, Ephraim's son, was one of Judge Duncan's seconds. Mrs. Sarah Duncan Blaine resided for many years on Walnut, west of 12th Street, Philadelphia, reaching the age of ninety years, and dying about 1850. 16 He emigrated to the United States about the year 1718, settling in Conestoga, afterwards Donegal twnshp, then Chester Co. He was one of the founders of the old Derry Church, and was a man of prominence. He d. Aug. 23, 1744, and is bur. in the old graveyard at Derry. his wf was the daughter of Arthur Chambers. - 59 - Our Family Tree - Blaine Family Branch - 030-2. Andrew Galbraith, b. 1692 M- , 030-3. James Galbraith, b. 1703 M- Elizabeth Bertram 030-4. Eleanor Galbraith M- Patrick McKinley, Feb. 27, 1735 030-5. Isabel Galbraith M- Alexander McMillan, Oct. 21, 1735 030-6. Rebecca Galbraith, d. 1748 M- Stewart. Chart XXXI John Galbraith 17 Janet 031-1. John Galbraith, b. c. 1714, d. 1768 M- Dorcas Smith He was a celebrated Indian trader. 031-2. Robert Galbraith, b. 1716 M- Rebecca 031-3. Elizabeth Galbraith M- 031-4. Margaret Galbraith M- 031-5. Rebecca Galbraith M- 17 He was born c. 1690, in Ireland, d. Oct. 1753, in Donegal Twpshp, Lancaster Co., PA. He was a miller by trade, and built a grist and saw mill in 1721, he walso kept an ordinary, was elected sheriff of the Co. of Lancaster in 1731. - 60 - 031-6. Eleanor Galbraith M- Chart XXXII Robert Galbraith Rebecca Galbraith 032-1. John Galbraith, b. 1739 M- Mary McCormick 032-2. Rebecca Galbraith, b. 1742 M- Ephraim Blaine - See Chart II above. - 61 - OUR FAMILY TREE and its many branches fWEfO ISANGITJf november 1988 Our Family Tree - Meyer Family Branch FIRST GENERATION Chart I John Henry Meyer 1 M-lst - Marie Cordes, b. and d. in GER M-2nd M-3rd - Anna Maria Luring Cleiver 2 (Cleiver - Klewer - Kluever) ch. : 001-1. Meta Margareta Meyer, b. Oct. 8, 1863, in Unterstedt, GER and d. at Bath, Mason Co., IL. Jan. 21, 1944, of diabetes and a stroke. M - Fred William Wiemer, Mar. 27, 1884, b. Jul. 1, 1853 in Prussia, GER, and d. Jan. 28, 1929. 001-2. Anna Gretchen Meyer, b. Feb. 13, 1861, at Unterstedt, GER and d. Oct. 29, 1945, at Forest City, Mason Co., IL. M- John Henry Wehmhoff, 1884, d. Jul. 13, 1923. No ch.. 001-3. Henry Dietrich Meyer, b. Aug. 26, 1866 and d. Feb. 2, 1953 at Santa Ana, CA M-lst - Mary Sarah Kohlmeier., Oct. 14, 1890 at Redondo 1 John Henry Meyer was b. Dec. 16, 1812 at Unterstedt, Hanover, GER, and d. Mar. 10, 1891, at Bishop, Mason co., IL, and is bur. at St. John's Lutheran Cem., Forest City, IL 61532. 2 Maria Luering K. Meyer died in 1878 in Germany. On March 25, 1881 John Henry Meyer, then a widower, brought his sons to the United States aboard the S. S. Oder to join the families of his daughters, already in Illinois. John Henry Meyer Sr. died in 1891 in Mason County, Illinois, at the age of 78. In Germany the family resided in the small village of Understedt, in the province of Hanover, near Rottenberg, Germany. - 62 - Our Family Tree - Meyer Family Branch Beach, CA, She was b. in Evansville, IN on Jun. 8, 1866 and was md. to Henry D. Meyer, Oct. 14, 1889. She d. in Santa Ana, CA on Oct. 22, 1917. M-2nd - Mildred Culver, 1923, d. 1948. No ch.. 001-4. John Henry Herman Meyer, Jr. b. at Understedt, GER Sep. 10, 1871, d. Apr. 18, 1949 3 d. at Orange, CA M- M- Katherine Kastendick, Oct. 26, 1902, at Los Angeles, CA b. Mar. 17, 1878, d. Feb. 7, 1928 001-5. Marie Meyer, by second wife, b. 1858. She d. in GER in 1888, during chb. M- M- William Gathmann, 1886, b. Nov. 27, 1854, d. Nov. 7, 1908. He was a butcher in GER. md. 188 6. 4 001-6. Frederick H. Meyer M- 001-7. John Frederick Meyer (child by first marriage) He was b. March 2, 1852, and d. Sep. 18, 1929. M- Dorothea Von Engel, May 25, 1882, b. Jun. 18, 1959, and d. Feb. 6, 1946. 5 SECOND GENERATION Chart II John Henry 1 Henry D. Meyer 001-3 Mary Sarah (Kohlmeier) Meyer 002-1. Irving Benjamin Meyer, b. Aug. 7, 1891, in 3 certificate of d. filed in Book 2450, page 258, Official Records of Orange co., CA, Feb. 10, 1953 4 His second md. was to Mary Schnedeke in MO in 1891. A dau. of this md was Mayme Gathman, who md. Samuel W. Knecht, had a son, Samuel Wesley Knecht II, who md. and had three children. William and Mary separated later and he returned to Mason Co., IL to live with his bro., Dietrhich, at whose home he d. He is bur. in St. John's Lutheran Cem., Topeka, II. 5 b. Scharme, GER, dtr of Herman Von Englen, d. Feb. 6, 1946, in Fulton Co., IL, bur. St. John's Cem., Bishop or Forest City Twp., Mason Co., IL. - 63 - The Meyer Family - Left to Right: Anna Meyer; J. Fred Meyer; Meta Meyer; John Henry Meyer taken in 11L inois. ; - „ --: *> r ''T't Our Family Tree - Meyer Family Branch Newport twnshp., Orange Co., CA, d. Nov. 8, 1973 in Costa Mesa, CA. A-9493. bur. Fairhaven Cem., J5_anta Ana, CA. * M- Esther Segerstrom, Dec. 31, 1918, b. Sep. 3. 1894, at St. Paul, MN, d. Jan. 22, 1928 at Santa Ana, CA. bur. Fairhaven Cem. Santa Ana, CA. a 002-2. Edna Ellen Louise Meyer, b. Jan. 18, 1894, in Newport twnshp., Orange Co., CA, d. Ventura Co. A-9493 M- Louis Butterfield, b. Nov. —, 1893, at San Juan Capistrano, CA 002-3. Victor Conrad Meyer, b. Aug. 23, 1896, in Newport twnshp., Orange Co., CA, d. Oct. 4, 1977, A- 9493. bur. Fairhaven Cem. Santa Ana, CA. M-lst - Florence Evelyn Erickson, b. 1905, d. 1945 bur. Fairhaven Cem. Santa Ana, CA. M-2nd - Myrtle Sophia (Merle) Peele, b. Jun. 27, 1909, and d. May 22, 1987 in Orange Co. CA. bur. Fairhaven Cem. Santa Ana, CA. 002-4. Florine Anna Meyer, b. Feb. 5, 1907, in Newport twnshp., Orange Co., CA, A-9493 M- Robert Mentzer SECOND GENERATION Chart III Marie (Meyer) Gathmann William Gathmann 003-1. William Herman Gathmann, b. Sep. 29, 1888 M- Emma A. Herman, Jan. 19, 1916, b. Feb. 28, 1895. d. Sep. 13, 1979. Her parents were Anton Herman ( ) and Marie (Hackman) Herman (1858-1908). He came to IL with his father in 1890 at the age of two and was raised by his aunt, Anna Wehmhoff, and her husband, who had no ch.. THIRD GENERATION Chart IV - 64 - Our Family Tree - Meyer Family Branch Esther (Segerstrom) Meyer 002-1 Irving Benjamin Meyer 028-9 *—- ch.: 004-1. Robert Irving Meyer, b. Oct. 2, 1919 M- Jane Maddock McAlray, b. Nov. 29, 1921 at Orilla, Ontario, CAN 004-2. Marilyn Meyer, b. Dec. 1, 1927, at Santa Ana, CA M- Charles Edward Parker, Jun. 23, 1956, b. Sep. 9, 1927, at Santa Ana, CA FOURTH GENERATION Chart V Robert Irving Meyer Jane Maddock (McAlray) Meyer ch. : 005-1. Mary Lynn Meyer, b. Dec. 9, 1952 M- Michael Mohrmann, Oct. 27, 1984 005-2. Donald Roy Meyer, b. Jun. 26, 1958 M- Michelle Vivienne Herring, Jun. 9, 1984, at San Jose, CA c THIRD GENERATION Chart VI Edna Anna Louise (Meyer) Butterfield Louis Butterfield ch. : 006-1. Norma Butterfield, b. Dec. 29, 1925 M-lst - Walter Maynard Simms, May 7, 1944, div. Oct. - 65 - Our Family Tree - Meyer Family Branch 19, 1975 M-2nd - Carl L. Shields, b. Jul. 13, 1923, at Leonard's Crossroad, FL, son of Robert Lee and Mattie Shields, md. first Florence Boak. 006-2. Roy Butterfield, b. Dec. 27, 1927 M- Marjorie Wylie, Jan. 17, 1948, b. Aug. 1, 1928. SECOND GENERATION Chart VII John Henry 1 Marie (Meyer) Gathmann William Frederick Gathmann 007-1. Willliam Herman Gathmann, b. Sep. 29, 1888, d. Oct. 17, 1969. M- Emma A. Hermann, Jan. 19, 1916, b. Feb. 28, 1895 d. sep. 13, 1979. Her parents were Anton Herman and Marie (Hackman) Herman (1858-1908). Chart VIII William H. Gathmann Emma (Herman) Gathmann 008-1. Ruth Gathmann, b. Oct. 18, 1916 M- Paul Hilst, Dec. 26, 1941. b. Feb. 17, 1914. 008-2. Barbara Fay Gathmann, b. Aug. 18, 1918 M- 1st - Raymond F. Markert, Jan. 25, 1941. b. Aug. 2, 1912, d. Aug. 9, 1979. M- 2nd - Richard Kokie, Feb. 25, 1984, b. c. 1910. 008-3. Wayne Gathmann, b. Sep. 7, 1921 M- Kathleen Sandman, Aug. 19, 1945. b. Sep. 6, 1926. Resid. in Detroit, MI. Chart IX Ruth (Gathmann) Hilst Paul Hilst - 66 - Our Family Tree - Meyer Family Branch .009-1. Ronald Paul Hilst, b. Nov. 23, 1944 M- Linda Loebach, b. Oct. 30, 1944. md. Jun. 17, 1967. 009-2. James Jay Hilst, b. May 9, 1948 M- Chart X Barbara Fay Gathmann Raymond Markert 010-1. Joyce Emma Markert, b. Jul. 30, 1942 M- James Robert Wegs, b. Apr. 23, 1937. md. Jun. 13, 1964. 010-2. Janice Fay Markert, b. Apr. 29, 1945 M- William Todd Johnson, b. Jan. 20, 1946. md. Aug. 12, 1967. 010-3. Lila Sue Markert, b. Jun. 25, 1947. M- Chart XI Wayne Gathmann Kathleen Sandman 011-1. Marcia Kay Gathmann, b. Jul. 29, 1949 M- 011-2. Patricia Sue Gathmann, b. Apr. 12, 1952 M- David Stuebe, Aug. 12, 1972, in Detroit, MI. 011-3. William Donald Gathmann, b. Mar. 12, 1954 M- Jean Marie Sleeman in Dearborn Heights, MI. 011-4. Linda Fay Gathmann, b. Apr. 1, 1958 M- Brant Engel, Sep. 22, 1979, in Detroit, MI. 011-5. Debra Ann Gathmann, b. Dec. 26, 1959 M- - 67 - Our Family Tree - Meyer Family Branch 011-6. Kara Lynn Gathmann, b. Dec. 16, 1966 M- -Chart XII r~- Meta Margareta Meyer Fred William Wiemer 012-1. John Henry Wiemer, b. Apr. 8, 1885, d. Jan. 22, 1954 M- Frieda Trimpe, b. Aug. 4, 1895, md. Feb. 5, 1913, d. Sep. 18, 1987. 012-2. Wilhelmina (Minnie) Fredereka Wiemer, b. May 25, 1887, d. Mar. 16, 1975. M- John Herman Kastendick, b. Mar. 14, 1880, d. Mar. 22, 1937. md. Oct. 12, 1910 012-3. Herman Fred Wiemer, b. Jul. 7, 1890, d. Jan. 29, 1975. M- Mattie Margareta Bartels, b. Jul. 24, 1891. md. Dec. 3, 1913. d. Apr. 18, 1976. No ch.. 012-4. Louis Christian Wiemer, b. Jul. 7, 1890, twn. of above, d. Apr. 29, 1922. M- Frieda Kleir, b. Apr. 14, 1894, md. Dec. 18, 1920. No ch.. After his d. she later remd. to a Chris Zuhburg. Louis d. of blood poisoning at a young age, from a scratch. r- Chart XIII John Wiemer Frieda Trimpe 013-1. Nelda Wiemer, b. Aug. 25, 1914, d. Jun. 4, 1923. unm. 013-2. Julius Wiemer, b. Apr. 17, 1917. M- Matilda Garlisch, b. Mar. 3, 1920. md. Feb. 1, 1946 Chart XIV - 68 - Our Family Tree - Meyer Family Branch Wilhelmina Fredereka Wiemer John Herman Kastendick 014-1. Lorene Anna Meta Kastendick, b. Mar. 19, 1911 M- Karl Frederick Henry Herman Fanter, b. Aug. 11, 1907, d. Apr. 17, 1963. md. Jun. 24, 1933. 014-2. Berna Katherina Kastendick, b. Jul. 6, 1913 M- Louis J. Fanter, b. Aug. 11, 1908. md. May 23, 1935 014-3. Vera Mattie Elizabeth Kastendick, b. Jul. 9, 1915 M- Adolph Henry Dietrich Nordhausen, b. Apr. 2, 1916. md. Oct. 26, 1941. No. ch. 014-4. Arnold Frederick Kastendick, b. Jul. 1, 1917. M- Edna Lucille Pulling, b. Apr. 21, 1919. md. Mar. 30, 1946. 014-5. Nina Matilda Kastendick, b. Oct. 19, 1919. M- Melvin Henry John Leiding, b. Oct. 22, 1917. md. Apr. 3, 1945. 014-6. Harold Henry Kastendick, b. Sep. 22, 1924 M- Edna Marie Prince, b. Mar. 28, 193 6, md. Sep. 23, 1956 014-7. Dorothy Ann Kastendick, b. Nov. 3, 192 6 M - Earl Thomas Rayburn, b. Jun. 10, 1921. md. Jun. 4, 1949. 014-8. Edna Louise Kastendick, b. Feb. 23, 1929 M- Eldon Franklin Hermann, b. Mar. 9, 1926. md. Jan. 1, 1949. Chart XV Julius Wiemer Matilda Garlisch 015-1. William Julius Wiemer, b. Nov. 18, 1954 M- Diane Krimmel, Oct. 25, 1986. - 69 - Our Family Tree - Meyer Family Branch 015-2. Linda Lou Wiemer, b. Dec. 14, 1956 M- Darling, one ch.: David. 015-3. Calvin Henry Wiemer, b. Jul. 16, 1960, d. Jul. 16, 1960 015-4. Karen Kay Wiemer, b. Oct. 8, 1962 M- Bruce Allen Harper Chart XVI Lorene Anna Meta Wiemer Karl Frederick Henry Herman Fanter 016-1. Carlene Ann Fanter, b. Jan. 12, 1934 M- Milford Duwayne Siltman, b. Sep. 18, 1933, md. Jun. 9, 1957 , 016-2. Kenneth Charles Fanter, b. Feb. 6, 1942 M- Janis Ann Engeln, b. Jul. 2, 1947, md. Nov. 7, 1965 Chart XVII Berna Kastendick Louis J. Fanter 017-1. Glenn Robert Fanter, b. Jan. 13, 1937 M- Barbara Ellen Hutson, b. May 3, 1939, md. Jan. 17, 1959 017-2. Jean Lois Fanter, b. Aug. 1, 1938 M- Richard A. Clink, b. Jun. 30, 1939, md. Dec. 22, 1962 017-3. Wayne Karl Fanter, b. Nov. 23, 1939 M- Patsy Ann Craig, Mar. 12, 1972. Res. at 872 S. Columbia, Springfield, 111. 62704 017-4. Wanda Mae Fanter, b. Oct. 18, 1941 M- 1st - Frederick R. Hesselberth, b. Dec. 23, 193 3, d. Mar. 24, 1966 M- 2nd - Leonard R. Beck, Jr. Aug. 15, 1987, b. 1945. - 70 - Our Family Tree - Meyer Family Branch 017-5. Marilyn Kay Fanter, b. Aug. 11, 1948 M- Don Eldon Blakeley, b. Nov. 25y~1939. Chart XVIII Arnold Frederick Kastendick Edna Lucille Pulling 018-1. Arlene Fay Kastendick, b. Jul. 27, 1952 M- Jerry Krell, 1983. 018-2. Jon Edward Kastendick, b. Aug. 11, 1955 M- Kathryn Mary Angst, Jun. 14, 1974, b. Mar. 13, 1957. 018-3. Mary Kay Kastendick, b. Nov. 29, 1956 M- Robert D. Davis Chart XIX Nina Matilda Kastendick Melvin George Leiding 019-1. Reba Melinda Leiding, b. Mar. 29, 1950 M- 019-2. Marvin George Leiding, b. Jul. 7, 1951 M- 019-3. Cheryl Louise Leiding, b. Feb. 28, 1955 M- Norman Raymond Korth, Jun. 11, 1983, b. Dec. 15, 1947. Chart XX Harold Henry Kastendick Edna Marie Prince 020-1. David John Kastendick, b. May 9, 1958 M- Debra Kay Jordan, May 25, 1985, b. Apr. 7, 1959. 020-2. Dennis John Kastendick, b. Feb. 1, 1963 M- - 71 - Our Family Tree - Meyer Family Branch Chart XXI Dorothy Ann Kastendick Earl Thomas Rayburn 021-1. Ronald Earl Rayburn, b. Oct. 21, 1950 M- Julia Arlene Westlake, Nov. 16, 1973, b. Mar. 31, 1955. 021-2. Dennis John Rayburn, b. Dec. 1, 1952 M- 021-3. Randy Floyce Rayburn, b. Jan. 3, 1958 M- Chart XXII Edna Louise Kastendick Eldon Franklin Hermann 022-1. Anna Kay Hermann, b. Jul. 19, 1952 M- 022-2. Mark Franklin Hermann, b. Oct. 18, 1956 M- Theresa Jeanette Standish, Jun. 25, 1983, b. Jun. 30, 1957. Chart XXIII John Henry Hermann Meyer 6 6 John Henry Meyer was born in Unterstedt, province of Hanover, Germany, on September 10, 1871. He was the sixth child, and third son of John Henry Meyer, Sr. In 1887 he came to Wilmington, California from Mason County, Illinois. He went to work for the Banning family there. In 1890 he went to work for his brother, Henry D. Meyer, who had a ranch at Redondo Beach. In 1892 John Henry Meyer went to work for another brother, Frederick, who was a tenant farmer on the Irvine Ranch near El Toro. In 1895 he started on a farm on the Palisades (now Corona del Mar). In 1898 he joined Henry D. Meyer to start a farm on the Banning Ranch at Fairview (now - 72 - Our Family Tree - Meyer Family Branch Katherine Kastendick 023-1. Helen Anna Marie Meyer, b. Aug. 5, 1903 unm. 023-2. John Henry Meyer, Jr., b. Mar. 10, 1905 M- 023-3. George William Meyer, b. Apr. 17, 1907, d. Mar. 31, 1987 at Santa Ana, CA. Unmd. 023-4. Carl Conrad Meyer, b. Nov. 23, 1918 M- 023-5. Leona Louise Meyer, b. Mar. 18, 1922 M- 1st - John Jamison, b. Oct. 1, 1918. md. Jan. 3, 1945. M- 2nd - John W. Talarsky, b. Dec. 11, 1915. md. Aug. 3, 1952. Chart XXIV William Wiemer Wilmenia Josmeyer 024-1. Fred William Wiemer M- Meta Margareta Meyer Chart XXV Leona Louise Meyer John W. Talarsky Costa Mesa). Later John Henry Meyer left the Banning farm to manage land on the Bixby ranch near Long Beach. Several years later he went north to Tulare County and in 1910 returned to Orange, and bought 17 acres of land in what later was designated the Dawn Tract, near the intersection of Dawn and Meyer avenues. Here he raised oranges and walnuts for several years. The site was later a major shopping mall called The City. - 73 - Our Family Tree - Meyer Family Branch 025-1. Diana Lee Talarsky, b. Aug^-7, 1954 M- Chart XXVI John Henry Frederick Meyer 7 Dorathea von Engel 026-1. Mary Anna Meyer, 8 b. May 29, 1883, d. Aug. 31, 1970. M- Herman William Osing, md. Apr. 27, 1910, b. Jun. 23, 1879, d. Oct. 13, 1943, md. Apr. 27, 1910 026-2. Fred W. Meyer, b. Nov. 23, 1888, d. Mar. 8, 1963 unm. 026-3. Margaret C. Meyer, (Maggie) b. Jun. 8, 1894, d. May 31, 1909. 7 John Henry Meyer, Jr., was b. in Understedt, province of Hanover, Germany, on Sep. 10, 1871. He was the sixth ch., and third son of John Henry Meyer, Sr. In 1887 he came to Wilmington, CA. from Mason Co., IL. He went to work for the Banning family there. In 1890 he went to work for his bro., Henry D. Meyer, who had a ranch at Redondo Beach. In 1892 John Henry Meyer went to work for another bro., Frederick, who was a tenant farmer on the Irvine Ranch near El Toro. In 1895 he started on a farm on the Palisades (now Corona del Mar). In 1898 he joined Henry D. Meyer to start a farm on the Banning Ranch at Fairview (now Costa Mesa). Later John Henry Meyer left the Banning farm to manage land on the Bixby ranch near Long Beach. Several years later he went north to Tulare Co. and in 1910 returned to Orange, and bought 17 acres of land in what later was designated the Dawn Tract, near the intersection of Dawn and Meyer avenues. Here he raised oranges and walnuts for several years. The site was later a major shopping mall called The City. 8 insists that J. Fred Meyer never lived in CA - yet John Henry Meyer apparently stated that he worked with his bro. on a ranch in CA in the 1890s. They were half-bros.. - 74 - Our Family Tree - Meyer Family Branch unm. 026-4. John Henry Meyer, b. Nov. 23, 1888,'d. Oct. 7, 1970. He was twn of Fred W. Meyer. M- Geneva Virginia Welker, b. Oct. 18, 1907. md. Nov. 1, 1927. They were later div.. 026-5. Frieda Meyer, b. Nov. 29, 1897, d. Feb. 12, 1955 M- Orley J. Welker, b. Oct. 15, 1902, md. Jun. 20, 1925 d. Aug. 7, 1974. 026-6. Henry Herman Meyer, b. Dec. 27, 1887, d. Mar. 23, 1954 M- Viola Faye Parmalee, md. Feb. 14, 1923, b. Jul. 17, 1897, d. Nov. 2, 1952 026-7. William Henry Meyer, b. Oct. 22, 1886, d. Jul. 2, 1966 bur. at Bellflower, CA. M- Lottie Smith, 1907. 026-8. Herman F. Meyer, b. Jul. 14, 1899, d. Jan. 8, 1978. M - Eula Hinrichs, Jul. 28, 1955, b.Apr. 27, 1918, d. Jan. 24, 1984. No ch.. Chart XXVII Mary Anna Meyer Herman William Osing 027-1. Lela Dorathea Osing, b. May 12, 1911 M- Glenn James Henry Strube, b. Dec. 11, 1912, md. Oct, 28, 1933, d. Aug. 7, 1974. Chart XXVIII Lela Dorathea Osing Glenn James Henry Strube - 75 - Our Family Tree - Meyer Family Branch 028-1. Mary Lee Strube, b. May 20, 1934 M- Duane W. Florschuetz, b. Jul. 30, 1933, md.- May 16, 1954 ' 028-2. Elaine Esther Strube, b. Nov. 19, 1935 M- Walter Hess, b. Jun. 12, 1935, md. Aug. 10, 1958 Res. at Anaheim, CA. He was a teacher in an Orange County, CA high school. 028-3. Norma Ann Strube, b. Oct. 4, 1939 M- Rue. 028-4. Robert Glenn Strube, b. Sep. 26, 1944 M- Patricia Van Cleave, b. Jul. 26, 1944, md. Sep. 3, 1966 028-5. Daniel Mark Strube, b. Jul. 21, 1957 M- Chart XXIX John Henry Meyer Geneva Virginia (Welker) Meyer 029-1. Virginia Meyer, b. Feb. 20, 1928 M- Max Loneland, b. Apr. 21, 1924, md. Jun. 23, 1948 029-2. Marilyn Meyer, b. Oct. 21, 1930 M- Clinton Waller, Jr., b. Nov. 3, 1929, md. Oct. 11, 1948 029-3. Harriet Meyer, b. Oct. 17, 1935 M- Richard Baldwin, b. Aug. 21, 1933, md. Sep. 25, 1954 029-4. Joyce Meyer, b. Feb. 27, 1938 M- Harry Gibson, Jr., b. Jun. 4, 1932, md. Sep. 15, 1956 029-5. Donna Meyer, b. Aug. 3, 1941 M-lst - Joe Argenian, md. Mar. 16, 1957 M-2nd - Donald Chapman, Nov. 30, 1963. 029-6. Bonnie Meyer, b. Aug. 8, 1945 - 76 - Our Family Tree - Meyer Family Branch M- James Anderson, b. Jun. 4, 1945, md. Apr. 17, 1964 Chart XXX Frieda Meyer Orley J. Welker 030-1. Orley J. Welker, Jr., b. Dec. 2, 1927 M- Verla Atwater, b. Jan. 17, 1930, md. May 26, 1950 Chart XXXI Henry Herman Meyer Viola Faye (Parmalee) Meyer 031-1. Charles Henry Meyer, b. Jun 4, 1931, d. Dec. 9, 1980. M- Mary Lou Dillon, Sep 5, 1952, b. Apr. 19, 1933. 031-2. Helen May Meyer, b. Jan 15, 1939 M - Clyde Finnie, b. Sep. 24, 1939, md. May 5, 1961. Res. at 212 S, 2 , El Cajon, Space 53, CA. 031-3. Betty Meyer M - Wayne Hasty Res at 751 W. Channel Islands Blvd., #1, Oxnard, CA 93030. Chart XXXII Charles Henry Meyer Mary Lou (Dillon) Meyer 032-1. Stephanie Sue Meyer, b. Aug. 18, 1953 M- 032-2. Diana Jean Meyer, b. Sep. 25, 1955 M - McArtok 032-3. Julia Lynn Meyer, b. Aug. 27, 1962 M- 032-4. Jacqueline Faye Meyer, b. Dec. 2, 1964 - 77 - Our Family Tree - Meyer Family Branch M- Chart XXXIII William Henry Meyer Lottie (Smith) Meyer 033-1. Robert Meyer, b. Long Beach, CA. M- 033-2. Charles Meyer, b. Long Beach, CA. M- 033-3. Donald Meyer, b. Long Beach, CA. M- 033-4. Dorothy Meyer, b. Bellflower, CA. M- 033-5. Helen Meyer M- McQuire, of Bellflower, CA. Appendix - Meyer Family Excerpts from Newspaper Accounts of the Meyer Family members in Illinois... The Mason County Democrat Havana, IL Friday, Jun. 6, 193 0: (front page or Page 1, column 2) "Former rsidents visit here with relatives" "On Saturday Mr. and Mrs. H. D. Meyer of Santa Ana, CA, arrived in Havana and will enjoy several weeks in this vicinity visiting relatives.They have been gone from here forty-three (43) yrs. and when Mr. Meyer was in - 78 - Our Family Tree - Meyer Family Branch the office he said he had taken the Democrat all of those yrs.." ,— (same issue, front page or page 1, column 3) "Arrived here from CA" "Monday evening George Meyer and Manley Knight of Orange, CA, arrived here. George Meyer will spend several months here, visiting relatives and today Manley Knight left for Grand Rapids, MI, where he will visit during their stay." (copied from micro-film of Mason County Democrat files.) Happily md. At the home of the bride's parents, Mr. and Mrs. (Meta Meyer) Fred Wiemer of Sherman Twpshp on Wednesday afternoon of this week occurred the happy marriage of their dtr, Wilhelmina to John Kastendick, well known citizens of this community. The wedding was performed by Rev. Carl Heidtman of Topeka, pastor of the Lutheran Church in the presence of a large gathering of invited relatives and friends. Among those present from a distance were Mr. and Mrs. Henry Meyer and dtr Florine of Santa Ana, CA, Mrs. Frank Holzgrafe and William of Chicago. Others of the guests were Mr. and Mrs. Henry Kastendick, Mr. and Mrs. Christ Wiemer, Mr. and Mrs. Fred Wehmhoff, Mr. and Mrs. Fred Meyer, Mr. and Mrs. Morris Pfieiffer, Mr. and Mrs. Rabenkoenig, Mr. and Mrs. Henry Koester, Mr. and Mrs. Heidtman and family, George, Henry, Adelaide and Lewis Kastendick, John, Fred, Frieda, and Herman Meyer, Frank Lane, Ada Rubenkoenig, Anna and Henry Pfeiffer. Many beautify and valuable presents were received. The young people will live in this city until next spring when they will move upon a farm. John H. Wiemer - 79 Our Family Tree - Meyer Family Branch John H. Wiemer of Topeka, d. at 11:30 a.m., Friday, Jan. 22, 1934, in the Graham Hospital, Canton, IL. Mr. Wiemer was b. in Easton, Apr. 8, 1885, a son of Fred and Meta Meyer Wiemer. He is survived by his wife, the former Frieda Trimpe; one son, Julius, of Forest City, a bro., Herman, of Havana; a sis. Mrs. Minnie Kastendick of Havana. Funeral services were held at 2 p.m., Monday, Jan. 23, at St. John's Lutheran Church near Bishop. Rev. Robert Jordan officiated and burial was in laural hill Cem., Havana, with Hurley Funeral Services in charge. Pallbearers were Henry Pfeiffer, Gustaf Pelster, Chas. Lascelles, Edward Hermann, Henry Kastendick and Wm. Gathmann. Copied from "Mason County Democrat" clipping Charles H. Meyer Charles H. Meyer, 49, of Stuart, FL, formerly of Havana, d. Tuesday night, Dec. 9 (1980) after plunging 40 feet into a smokestack at the FL Power and Light Co. plant in Indiantown, FL Meyer, who was a specialist with United Engineers in setting up power plants as found in the smokestack at 2.40 a.m. Wed., Dec. 10, after he failed to check out at the end of the 11:30 p.m. shift. Searchers found his truck near the stack and located his body inside, face down in two inches of water. Officials said he d. of massive internal injuries. Meyer was b. Jun. 4, 1931, in Havana, a son of Henry and Fay Parmalee Meyer, he md. Mary Lou Dillon, who survives. Also surviving are four dtrs, Stephanie Meyer McArtok of Iowa City, Iowa, Deanna Meyer of Coraville, - 80 - Our Family Tree - Meyer Family Branch Iowa, and Julia and Jacqulin Meyer, both of Stuart; two grandch. and two sis., Helen Finney and Betty Hastings, both of Santa Barbara, CA Services were held Mon. afternoon, Dec. 15, (1980) in Hurley Funeral Home. Bruial was in Laurel Hill Cem. (near Havana.) Note - Fancher genealogy shows Diana Jean Meyer md. to McArtok, and lists sis. Betty and Helen both residing in Santa Barbara in 1980. Herman Henry Meyer Herman Henry Meyer, of R. R. Ashland, formerly of R.R. Chandlerville d. Sunday evening at the Memorial Medical Center in Springfield. He was 78 yrs. old and a veteran of WW Two. He was b. in Mason County, Jul. 14, 1899, a son of Dorothy Von Engel and Fred Meyer, he md. Eula Masten Hinrich at Petersburg Jul. 28, 1955. She survives with a step-dtr, Mrs. Loretta Eden of OR, 111., three step sons, Robert Hinrich, Havana; Russell Hinrich of Petersburg; James Hinrich of VT. Four bros. and three sis. preceded him in d.. Services were held Wed. at the St. Paul's Lutheran Church in Havana. Rev. John H. Biederwieden officiated. Burial was in the Laurel Hill Cem. at Havana. The Lintner-Buchanan Funeral Service was in Charge. (Date of d.: Jan. 8, 1978) Elizabeth M. Kastendick Mrs. Elizabeth M. Kastendick, 83, of Rt. 2, Mason City, d. at 7:20 p.m. Thursday, Sep. 13, 1979, in Abraham Lincoln Memorial Hospital, Lincoln. Funeral services will be conducted at 2 p.m. Mon. in St. John's Lutheran Church, rural Topeka. Rev. Arthur - 81 - Our Family Tree - Meyer Family Branch Square will officiate. Interment will be in Laurel Hill Cem., Havana...— *— Friends may call at Limback Funeral Home, Mason City, from 7 until 9 p.m. Sunday and at the church on Mon. from 11 a.m. until time of services. Memorials may be made to St. John's Lutheran Church, of which she was a member. She was b. Oct. 10, 1895, in Mason County, a dtr of Lyman and Magdalene Leinweber Ingersoll. She md. George F. Kastendick at Peoria and he preceded her in d. on Jul. 24, 1968. Surviving are a nephew, Lloyd Ingersoll of Mason City; two nieces, Mrs. Lorraine McCloskey of Fort Myers, FL and Mrs. Lois Watson of Miami, FL, and a bro. Carl Ingersoll, address unknown. In addition to her husband, Mrs. Kastendick was preceded in d. by a dtr, two bros. and a niece. Herman William Osing Herman William Osing, son of the late John Osing and his wife, Sophia, nee Brandt, was b. Jun. 23, 1879 near Bath, IL, and fell asleep in Jesus at Proctor Hospital in Peoria on Oct. 14, 1943 at 8:35 A.M. He reached the age of 64 yrs., 3 months and 21 days. In early infancy Mr. Osing was baptized in the Lutheran faith, he renewed his baptismal covenant by the rite of confirmation on March 18, 1894 the Rev. Gotlieb Traub, pastor of St. John's Lutheran Church near Bath officiating. On Apr. 27, 1910 he was md. to Mary Meyer (dtr of J. Fred Meyer/Dorothea Von Engel) who survives her husband. This marriage the Lord blessed with one child, Mrs. Glenn Strube, who also survives her father. His departure is mourned also by three grandch.; Mary Lee, Elaine and Norma Strube; by one sis., Mrs. Katherine - 82 - Our Family Tree - Meyer Family Branch Harfst, all of Topeka. Mr. Osing~was an active, faithful member of St. John's Lutheran church near Bishop for many yrs., serving the congregation as trustee and as treasurer for a number of yrs.. Services were conducted in his memory at St. John's Lutheran Church, near Bishop, on Sat., Oct. 16, (1943) with Rev. A. A. Mueller officiating. Casket bearers were, Harmon Bartels, John Harfst, Fred Reich, Louis Pfeiffer, August Frese, and Herman Strube. Louis Christian Wiemer The entire community was shocked on Sat. morning when the news came that Louis Wiemer, prominent young farmer, had passed away during the night. Few knew that he was ill, and those that had heard of his being indisposed did not realize that he was seriously ill. He had injured his hand, just a mere scratch, but it became infected and blood poisoning was the cause of his untimely d.. Louis Christian Wiemer was b. on the 7 of Jul., 1890. He was the son of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Wiemer, prominent farm folk of this community. He was confirmed in the Lutheran Church on the 12th of Apr., 1903. On the 18th day of Dec. 1920, he was united in bonds of holy matrimony with Frieda Elizabeth Kleir. He passed away from this vale of tears into the rest prepared for the people of God on the 29th of Apr.. Surviving him are his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Fred Wiemer of Havana; one sis., Minnie, the wife of John - 83 - Our Family Tree - Meyer Family Branch Kastendick; two bros., John and Herman of Easton. The -funeral services were held at the home also at St. John's Lutheran Church near Bishop, on Mon., conducted by the Rev. F. W. Hein, and assisted by the Rev. H. Frey of Havana. Erich Hein and a ladies quartet from the Allen's Grove Lutheran Church sang for the services, Internment was in the Laurel Hill Cem. at Havana. That Mr. Wiemer was a young man of great prominence was attested, not only by the large attendance at the funeral services, but also by the profusion of flowers. This was the largest funeral ever conducted from this church. Copied from "Mason County Democrat" Fred W. Wiemer Fred Wiemer was b. Jul. 1, 1853 in the kingdom of Prussias, GER. He was baptized in infancy. He immigrated to America Apr. 30, 1868, settling in Mason County, IL, living near Topeka, until 1921 when he moved to Havana. He was confirmed in the Lutheran faith March 28, 1869 by the Rev. A. Recker. March 27, 1884, he was united in mawrriage with Margareta Meyer by the Rev. F. Possin. This union was blessed with four ch., one of whom, Louis Wiemer, d. Apr. 29, 1922. Mr. Wiemer was in fairly good health and passed away after an illness of only one day. Last Sunday morning he came to church as usual, but took sick during services, left the church and walked home. His condition was not considered serious, but on Mon. afternoon he passed away at the age of 75 yrs., 6 months, 27 days. He leaves to mourn his departure, his bereaved wife, three ch., viz., John Wiemer of Topeka, IL; Herman Wiemer of Easton; and Mrs. Minnie Kastendick of Bath; - 84 - Our Family Tree - Meyer Family Branch also eight grandch. and one aged sis., Mrs. Morris Pfeiffer; besides many other relatives and friends. Funeral services were held on Wed. afternoon from St. Paul's Lutheran Church, conducted by the Rev. H. Frey. Internment in Laurel Hill Cem., Havana, IL. Copied from "Mason County Democrat" Mrs. Meta Margareta (Meyer) Wiemer It has pleased Almighty God to grant a blessed end to the late Mrs. Meta Margareta Wiemer, Friday evening, Jan. 21, at the agbe of 80 yrs., 3 months and 13 days. She was b. Oct. 8, 1863, at Understedt, Hanover, GER, as a dtr of Johann Heinrich Meyer and Anna Marie Cleiver. She was baptized in early infancy in the Lutheran Church of her native town, schooled in the sacred doctrines of the Christian faith as taught, and confessed in the Lutheran Church, and in the rite of Confirmation, Apr. 18, 1878, made a public confession of her faith, renewed her Baptismal vow, and was received into communicant membership of the Lutheran Church of which she remained a faithful member until her end. She came to America with her sis., Anna, in the year 1881. On March 27, 1884, she was united in marriage to Fred W. Wiemer, Pastor Johann Heinrich Possin performing the ceremony, which took place at Bishop, IL. Four ch. were b. to their union, namely, John of Topeka, Minnie of Bath, Herman of Havana, and Luis who preceded his parents in d. Apr. 29, 1922. The husband and father of the family passed into eternal rest Jan. 28, 1929. The Wiemers lived on a farm near Bishop and retired to Havana in the spring of 1921. They were members of St. John's Lutheran Church at Bishop and of St. Paul's Lutheran Church, Havana, during the time of their domicile in that city. Mrs. Wiemer was an active member of the Lutheran Ladies* Aid Societies of both congregations. Her active life came to an end Oct. 28, 1941 when she suffered a paralytic stroke. On Jun. 2, 1942, she was taken to the home of her father, Mrs. - 85 - Our Family Tree - Meyer Family Branch Minnie Kastendick, where she was tenderly cared for until her Lord called-her. The passing of Mrs. Wiemer is mourned by her ch. and their families which include nine grandch. and six great grandch.; by one sis., Mrs. Anna Wehmhoff of Havana; also by two bros., Henry D. Meyer of Santa Ana, CA, and John H. Meyer of Orange, CA A host of other relatives and likewise hold her in loving remembrance. A sis., Mrs. Marie Gathmann, and a bro., Fred Meyer, preceded her in d. . Funeral services were held Jan. 24, 1944, at the Pfetzing Funeral Home and in St. Paul's Lutheran Church, Havana, conducted by Rev. J.F.W. Horstmann. The text of the sermon was Rev. 14:13. Mrs Walter Glick and Miss Mabel Pfeiffer sang "Heaven Is My Home" and "Asleep in Jesus". Mrs. Henry Emme serve at the organ. The casket bearers were Herman Bartels, August Frese, Henry Bruns, August Dierker, George Leiding and Adolph Osing. The floral offerings were cared for by Mesdames George Leiding, Adolph Osling, Orley Welker, Wm. Gathmann, and Glenn Strube, and Misses Alma Pfeiffer, Frieda Busch, Nina, Dorothy, and Edna Kastendick. Internment was made in Laurel Hill Cem. with the Pfetzing Funeral Service in charge. Copied from "Mason County Democrat" Mrs. Anna Gretchen (Meyer) Wehmhoff It has pleased Almighty God to call to rest Mrs. Anna Gretchen Wehmhoff, who d. at the home of her nephew, Wm. Gathmann, near Forest City, Mon., Oct. 29, at the age of 84 yrs., 8 months and 16 days. She was b. Feb. 13, 1851, at Understedt, Hanover, GER as the dtr of Johann Heinrich Meyer and Anna Marie Cleiver. She was baptized on March 5 of the same year. In 1875 she confessed her Christian faith in the rite of confirmation in the Lutheran Church at Anhausen, GER. - 86 - Our Family Tree - Meyer Family Branch She remained a faithful member of the Lutheran Church until her end. ___ She came to America with her sis., Meta, in the year 1881. In 1884 she md. to John Henry Wehmhoff at Bishop, IL, Reverend Possin performing the ceremony. Her hus. passed into eternal rest Jul. 13, 1923. The Wehmhoffs lived on a farm near Bishop and retired to Havana in the spring of 1916. They were members of St. John's Lutheran Church at Bishop and of St. Paul's Lutheran Church, Havana, during the time of their domicile in that city. She was a member of the Ladies Aid Societies of both congregations. When she became seriously ill in Aug., she was taken to the home of her nephew, Wm. Gathmann, where she was cared for until her Lord called her. The passing of Mrs. Wehmhoff is mourned by her nephew, Wm. Gathmann, who she raised from childhood, and his family; and two bros., Henry D. Meyer of Santa Ana, CA, and John H. Meyer of Orange, CA. A host of other relatives and friends likewise hold her in loving remembrance. Two sis., Mrs. Marie Gathmann and Mrs. Meta Wiemer, and a bro., Fred Meyer, preceded her in d.. Copied from "Mason County Democrat" Following is from an essay in high school by Leona Meyer (Mrs. Leona Telarsky of Portland, OR) "My father attended public schools of IL and remained at home until 1887, when, at the age of sixteen he came to CA." "He first located at Wilmington, where he found employment of the large Banning Ranch. In 1890 he went to work for his bro., Henry, who owned a ranch at Redondo, remained there for 2 yrs., and then, in the fall of 1892, he came to orange County and went to work for his bro., Fred, on the Irvine Ranch, where he remained for 3 yrs.." - 87 - Our Family Tree and its Branches - 146-4. Hattie D. Closser M- 146-5. Clara Belle Closser, d.y. 146-6. William H. Closser r—. M- Member of firm of Closser Bros. 146-7. Rose Abbie Closser M- Fred N. Schultz of Elkhart, IN 146-8. Louis F. Closser M- Lura D. Banks, dau. of William A. Banks 146-9. Maggie Closser, res. at La Porte, IN M- SECOND GENERATION Chart 148 William 1 Joshua Davis Parker Susannah [Nancy] (White) Parker 148-1. William Davis Parker, b. Oct. 18, 1831, in OH Unmd. d. June 8, 1855. 148-2. Samuel M. Parker, b. Apr. 15, 1833, in OH M- u He d. June 25, 1869, at Labette co., KS Chart 149 Carl Conrad Friederick Kohlmeier came from Minden, Germany as a young man to join family members in IN. There he learned the new language, English. He farmed, and raised a family of eight Ch.. His wf was Louise Anna Leuhring.(Luring). In the late 1880's, he brought his large family to CA. In Los Angeles, three more Ch. were b.. Conrad owned and operated a mill, and bought and sold real estate. He was enterperising, hard-working. The early family home was at 11th and Myrtle Streets (now Wall) in Los Angeles. Later the family moved to a home on Raymond Avenue, in Pasadena, and developed a ranch near Poway. daughs. and sons participated actively in the family business. In 1910 he purchased Mountain View, which became the family residence. So many of the stories about the family center about this handsome home. Conrad Kohlmeier had a younger bro. who also came to the United States, but continued to reside in IN. Conrad Kohlmeier d. on June 20, 1918, and within a month, the youngest son, Carl, d. Jul. 5, 1918 in France, where he was a pilot in the World War I American air arm. Conrad Kohlmeier's wf was Louisa Anna Luhring, b. Mar. 31, 1845, and d. in Los Angeles. Conrad was b. Nov. 1, 1838, in Minden, Germany, and d. in Los Angeles, - 88 - Our Family Tree - Meyer Family Branch had collected was a note that Dad entered the U.S. in 1882, and was naturalized in—J.898. Kastendick information: "~~" Henry Kastendick (my mother's father) was b. near Schwarme, which is near Bremen, GER and came to the U.S. in 1873. Anna Von Engel (sis. of Dorothea Von Engel) who md. Henry Kastendick was b. at Martfeld, GER, Feb. 16, 1852. - 89 - OUR FAMILY TREE and its many branches &mmm mm MANO^ november 1988 Our Family Tree - Segerstrom Family Branch FIRST GENERATION Chart I Eric Francel Segerstrom Anna Maria Starfelt ch. 001-1. Gustav Adolph Segerstrom M- Anna Carlotta Andersdotter G. Bario FIRST GENERATION Chart II Anders AxeIson Anna Anderson ch. 002-1. Anna Carlotta Andersdotter G. Bario M- Gustav Adolph Segerstrom SECOND.GENERATION Chart III Gustav Adolph Segerstrom 001-1 Anna Carlotta (Andersdotter G. Bario) Segerstrom 003-1. Charles John Segerstrom, b. June 29, 1856, in Nashulta, SWE M- Britta M. Kristin Olsson, b. Mar. 6, 1858, in Nashulta, SWE 027-1 003-2. Henry Segerstrom, b. 1858, in Nashulta, SWE, d. Los Angeles,CA, 1912. Had a painting business in Los - 90 - Our Family Tree - Segerstrom Family Branch Angeles. 003-3. Anton Segerstrom, d. in Los Angeles, 1913 003-4. bro. - Res. in Chicago (possibly named Eric.) FIRST GENERATION Chart IV Anders' Olsson Anna Marie Varv 004-1. Britta M. Kristin Olsson b. Mar. 6, 1858 at Nashulta, SWE, d. Jan. 29, 1944, at family home, Willow Springs Farm, in Orange County, CA, now part of Costa Mesa, CA. The farm house still standing as of 1988 on Fairview Rd, Costa Mesa. M- Charles John Segerstrom 003-1, b. June 29, 1856, at Nashula, SWE, d. March 6, 192 8, at Willow Spring Farm, now part of Costa Mesa, CA. THIRD GENERATION Chart V Charles John Segerstrom (003-1) was b., ca. , 1854, in Nashulta, SWE. He md. Bertha (Britta) M. Kristin Olsson, b. Mar. 6, 1858, in the same vil.. On Apr. 25th, 1882. 1 1 The fam. sailed from Gothenberg and arrived in NY on May 20, 1882, on the S. S. Farnocia. The fam. proceeded first to Chicago, IL, then to Prentice, WI, and then to St. Paul, MN, where Mr. Segerstrom was employed by the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul RR for thirteen yrs. On the 8th day of Dec, 1897, Charles John Segerstrom obtained in the District Court, Second Judicial District, State of MN, Co. of Ramsey, a decree in which he was admitted as a citizen of the United States of America, and a certificate and decree was issued to him, that attached to said certificate. In 1898, because of Britta Segerstrom's poor health, the fam. moved first to Orange and Olive, Orange Co., CA, renting a tract of land in - 91 - britta segerstrom 1858 - 1944 18101 Charter Road • Villa Park, CA 92667 • (714) 637-8146 jg> * < marilyn harold grandma britta parker segerstrom segerstrom 1.to r: Ruth Ann Segerstrom, Marilyn Meyer, Harold Segerstrom, Henry Segerstrom, Robert Meyer, circa 1930 at the Perrin residence. Myrtle Street, Laguna Beach, CA. \\v'mjfjj.i" * lijj, .Ii "tHA^x-y^" . .. . . ^ri^nn—w|Ut*_ ...:.. Richard Buff um &V- From Bean Fields, a Visionary Mall . The other day V^erner Escher Bean, by the world-renowned ander Calder, Charles O. Perry, phoned me and invited me to meet ' sculptor Isamu Noguchi, in Henry's Jean Dubuffet, Henry Moore, i him for lunch and to walk around acre-and-a-half sculpture garden Claire Falkenstein and many oth > irdfflj^TmTvHe said he wanted to ','^"*loth!ngbutofplleofboulde^s:••, ~ ers, and he's still buying, particu- s ^^gtewhat hoboes. 'HenrTv JSaH1 Personally. I like it, although tft/tm , larly paintings. I've been careful to |S 'gqrsLrom, had in mind for South | forced, to admit that small lima control my exuberance when I get ; •C Km Plaza and the Town Center, i \ beans * seem to have awfully big near any Of his works of art ; f ' P . v here, ;pf course, they're building f spirits. I think the sculpture says The other day's walk with Wer t ie new Performing Arts Center. something important about Henry •;; Werner and I have done quite a ner , ... well,l it wasn't really a Segerstrom's spirit It's symbolic of '-'"'. walk this time. We met for lunch at I b t of walking around on Seger- . his large thinking and planning. He I e rom's land since we met 18 years John Pohl's Bistro, one of 36 res cultivated his family's lima bean c' taurants on Henry's old bean field, ', a [o. We were careful to keep out of - * fields; and lrn966 made them grow' and we talked so long there wasn't B I enry's lima bean ! fields. There • ' a massivejretaliand culturai,cetjr time for a walk. Besides, Henry's • v ere lots of them around in 1968, dream is so expansive it • was too ; I a id we didn't care to get dusty feet.' 1 t The.prestigious Urban Land In- ' much for our city shoes.' ' '"''••'. 91 I first met Werner when I was >" stitute tnbw recognizes Henry's e iting a hot dog. and watching the "Do you realize," Werner said, South Coast development and the "that the expansion of South Coast • t ids riding the merry-go-round, j .Rockefeller Center's transforma- II enry had just put it in the year Plaza alone will increase its present ition»pf 22 vacant acres owned by size of 1.8 million square feet of Wk afore in the'mall's then only Columbia University in mid-town I t jurtyard. I adored carrousels. The !( building area to nearly 2.9 million - Manhattan into stores, theaters and j' square feet. Broadway arid Robin • j y of the kiddies whirling around ; gardens as'' the nation's two most | ,'< i their horses, and the mothers son's are coming in, plus 110 new j successful developments because mall shops. Look, South Coast f issing about, fearful their little each has created a sense of special (arlings would tumble on their Plaza alone had $440 million In place where people want to be. sales last year. The projection is < ars, deeply amused me. I've never Werner,/'Henry's director of (igested hot dogs better in my life. that by the end of 1987 sales will ^-community relations, and ('walked., total $735 million, exceeding that of I ^""WeTher Introduced himself. He **-—.—i ••••• i—i——rbp—— • ' :• " • \: • .:.• - *. Our Family Tree - Segerstrom Family Branch Charles John Segerstrom 003-1 Britta (Bertha C. Olsson) Segerstrom 004-1 ch.: 007-1. Emma Christine Segerstrom, b. Sep. 5, 1878, at Nashulta, SWE, d. Mar. 3, 1955 Unmd. A school teacher by profession, having grad. from State Normal School, Los Angeles, now the site of Los Angeles City College, Los Angeles, CA. 007-2. Charles Homer (Carl Hjalmar) Segerstrom, b. Jan. 1, 188 0, at Nashulta, SWE, d. Aug. 21, 1946, at Sonora, CA 2 M- Carrie Elizabeth Inch, Aug. 16, 1905 b. Mar. 28, 1883, d. Oct. 30, 1946 at Sonora, Calif, md. Aug. 16, 1905 at Sonora, CA. 007-3. Eric John (Eric Johan) Segerstrom, b. Aug. 2, 1881, at Nashulta, SWE, d. Mar. 13, 1950, at Sonora, CA M - Pearl Needham, May 28, 1914 007-4. Anna Sophia Segerstrom, b. Nov. 11, 1883, at Prentice, WI, and d. May 14, 1965 in Orange Co., CA the former town of St. James. Two yrs later, in 1900, they moved to the old Newport District, where they leased land, and eventually built a farm house. Later, the fam. began purchasing land and formed a fam. partnership, C. J. Segerstrom & Sons, with the fat. and several of his sons as partners. The farming was primarily of lima beans. When C. J. Segerstrom d. in 1928 his wf. succeeded him in the fam. partnership, until her death. Charles John Segerstrom d. Mar. 6, 1928 on his farm. Probate Case No. A-537, Co. of Orange, State of CA. On Jan. 29, 1944 Britta Segerstrom d. at the fam. farm in Orange Co., CA. Probate Case No. A-19909. 2 He was a grad. of the Univ. of Southern California School of Law, 1907, an attorney, and active in many businesses in California throughout his lifetime. He at one time owned the Sonora Inn, Sonora, CA, and the Canterbury Hotel on Post Street, in San Francisco CA. In 1938 he provided the golden spike that marked the completion of the San Francisco Bay Bridge. - 92 - Our Family Tree - Segerstrom Family Branch Unmd. 007^5. Ida Marie Segerstrom, b. Jul. 3, 1886, St. Paul, MN, and d. Oct. 25, 1942, in Orange Co. CA. Unmd. - nurse by profession 007-6. William Oscar Segerstrom, b. May 12, 1888, at St. Paul, MN, and d. Jan. 4, 1954, in Orange Co., CA Unmd. 007-7. Clara Elizabeth Segerstrom, b. Feb. 8, 1890, at St. Paul MN, and d. in 1912 on the fam. farm Unmd. 007-8. Anton Henry Segerstrom, b. Oct. 29, 1891 at St. Paul, MN, and d. Sep. 30, 1963, at Santa Ana, CA M- Ruth Thomas (Nellie Ruth) of Indianapolis, IN 007-9. Esther Louise Segerstrom, b. Sep. 3, 1894, at St. Paul, MN, and d. Jan. 22, 1928, at Santa Ana, CA M - Irving Benjamin Meyer, Dec. 31, 1918, b. Aug. 7, 1891, in Newport Twp, Orange Co., CA, d. Nov. 8, 1973. 002-1 007-10. Fred Adolph Segerstrom, b. Feb. 11, 1897, at St. Paul, MN, and d. Sep. 22, 1955 in Orange Co., CA. Unmd. 007-11. Harold Theodore Segerstrom, b. Jan. 22, 1900, at Orange, CA, and d. Mar. 13, 1978, at Santa Ana, CA. Affdvt 22777-40 M- Veronica Phyllis Merrick, Sep. 25, 1925, b. Jun. 1, 1901 at Santa Paula, CA, d. at Santa Ana, CA 1982. Affdvt 22777-40 She was a native of Santa Paula, CA Chart 29 Charles Homer Segerstrom 028-2 Carrie Elizabeth (Inch) Segerstrom 029-1. Charles Homer Segerstrom, Jr., b. Nov. 11, - 93 - Our Family Tree - Segerstrom Family Branch 1910, at Sonora, CA. He d. Mar. 28, 1979. M- 1st - Marjorie Bernice Blankenship, Aug. 31, 1940. She-was b. 1917. div., 1958. d.s.p. M- 2nd - Elizabeth Pasqual, 1959 or 1960. div. d.s.p. M- 3rd - Ruth Margit Bengtsson, Oct. 16, 1963. She was b. Oct. 29, 1911. d.s.p.. 029-2. Richard John Segerstrom, b. Aug. 22, 1917, d. M- Jean Rassenfoss, Sep. 21, 1940. She was b. Aug. 21, 1919. 029-3. Donald Inch Segerstrom, 3 b. Sep. 29, 1919, d. Aug. 30, 1973. M- Mary Etta Farrell, Oct. 10, 1942. 029-4. William Frederic Segerstrom, b. May 29, 1922 d. 1988 at Santa Cruz, CA. M- Jane Glasson, Dec. 15, 1945. She d. Oct. 20, 1981. 029-5. Martha Eloise Segerstrom, b. Oct. 18, 1914, and d. Oct. 13, 1977 M-lst - Edward Cornelius Cronwall, Jun. 7, 1939. b. Oct. 24, c. 1912, d. in 1962. M-2nd - Robert Johnson, Mar. 29, 1973. THIRD GENERATION Chart 30 Eric John Segerstrom 028-3 Pearl (Needham) Segerstrom 030-1. Marjorie Segerstrom, b. Jun. 11, 1917, Sonora, CA M- William Coffill, Jan. 25, 1948, b. 1908 at Sonora, CA, grad. of Univ. of CA at Berkeley, and Hastings Law 3 He took an active interest in California history, and took an instrumental role in the restoration of Columbia, CA and Bodie, NV. Along with Aubrey Neasham, a park historian at Columbia, CA, he established the Western Heritage Corporation which was instrumental in the restoration and development of Old Town Sacramento. - 94 - Our Family Tree - Segerstrom Family Branch School, San Francisco, CA, 1938. 030-2. Helen"Christine Segerstrom, b. Oct. 25, 1920, at Sonora, CA M- William Dietrich Nietfeld, Aug. 22, 1943, b. Nov. 21, 1920 at Grand Island, NE. THIRD GENERATION Chart 31 Anton Henry Segerstrom 028-8 Ruth (Thomas) Segerstrom 031-1. Ruth Ann Segerstrom M- Eugene Hayworth Moriarty 031-2. Henry Thomas Segerstrom, b. Apr. 5, 1922, at Santa Ana, CA M-lst - Yvonne (de C. Perry) Segerstrom M-2nd - Renee Troyes THIRD GENERATION Chart 32 Harold Theodore Segerstrom 028-11 Veronica Phyllis (Merrick) Segerstrom 032-1. Harold Theodore Segerstrom, Jr., b. Mar. 30, 1928 at Santa Ana, CA M- Jeanette Franck FOURTH GENERATION Chart 33 Marjorie (Segerstrom) Coffill 03 0-1 William Coffill ch. : - 95 - Our Family Tree - Segerstrom Family Branch 033-1. William J. Coffill, b. Jan. 12, 1949, at Sonora, CA, grad. of Occidental Col., Los Angeles, CA, 'and McGeorge Coll. of Law, Sacramento, CA, 1976. M- 033-2. Eric John Coffill, b. Jan. 31, 1951, at Sonora, CA M- FOURTH GENERATION Chart 34 Donald Inch Segerstrom 029-3 Mary Etta (Farrell) Segerstrom 034-1. James Segerstrom, b. Feb. 21, 1946 M-lst - Susan Mitchell, div. M-2nd - Shiree Hansen, Mar. 20, 1982 034-2. Ann Segerstrom, b. Oct. 6, 1948 M- 034-3. Donald Inch Segerstrom, b. Jun. 4, 1951 M- Sharon Suchowski, Jun. 9, 1979 034-4. David Segerstrom, b. Nov. 16, 1953 M- Bonnie M. McGrath, Jun. 9, 1979 034-5. Steven Segerstrom, b. Aug. 21, 1956 M- Sarah Rogers, Aug. 29, 1978 FOURTH GENERATION Chart 35 Helen Christine (Segerstrom) Nietfeld 030-2 William Dietrich Nietfeld ch. : 035-1. Erica Nietfeld, b. Jan. 9, 1947, at San Francisco CA M- Royce Allen Kelley, May 12, 1983, at Berkeley, CA - 96 - Our Family Tree - Segerstrom Family Branch 035-2. William Parke Nietfeld, b. Mar. 19, 1951, at San Francisco, CA * M- Mary Margaret Leonard, Sep. 11, 1971, at La Jolla, CA. FOURTH GENERATION Chart 36 Martha Eloise (Segerstrom) Cronwall 029-5 Edward Cornelius Cronwall ch.: 036-1. Nancy Cronwall, b. Jun. 12, 1949, adopted. M- Kenneth 03 6-2. Brian Cronwall, b. Nov. 7, 1949, adopted. M- FOURTH GENERATION Chart 37 William Frederic Segerstrom 4 4 He was active in business in Sonora, CA most of his life. He grad. from Sonora H.S. and was a student at Stanford Univ. when WW II broke out. He enlisted in the Navy, took basic training at Treasure Island, took advanced electronic studies at M.I.T. and Oklahoma A & M Univ. and headed for the Pacific. As a cheif radio technician working under the commander in cheif of the Pacific Fleet, he worked on the installation team that built the Navy's major radio stations on Okinawa, the Marshall Islands, and the Marianas. He returned to Stanford Univ. after the war and grad. in 1947. He then returned to Sonora where he became business manager of the Union Democrat, then edited by his brother, Don Segerstrom. Upon the retirement of his uncle Eric, he took over the family insurance agency at 42 south Washington Street, and ran the business until he sold it in 1970. - 97 - Hr 0l?n?tt,atttt,n0tt,flatitdi marg rtta, ban jr. aegerHtrnms '\ Our Family Tree - Segerstrom Family Branch Jane (Glasson) Segerstrom ch.: 037-1. Sara Jane Segerstrom, b. Jul. 23, 1947 M-Martin McDonnell, Oct. 20, 1979 937-2. Gail Christine Segerstrom, b. Apr. 21, 1949 M- Res. in Brooklyn, NY. 037-3. William Clark Segerstrom, b. Sep. 6, 1951 M- Julie McCluskey, May 23, 1981, at Mission San Diego, San Diego, Calif 037-4. Charles Frederick Segerstrom, b. Dec. 6, 1956 M- Kate Powell, Mar. 24, 1978, Laguna Beach, CA Res. Lodi, CA FOURTH GENERATION Chart 38 He then developed the Ocean Ridge subdivision and airport on the Mendocino Coast, flying- back and forth in his own plane. An avid flyer, he was a member of the Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association and the Tuolumne County Aeronautical Association. From 1973 until his death he managed the Segerstrom family holdings. These included a tungsten mine at Winnemuca, NV, which was sold to the General Electric Corp., in 1979. In 1985, he joined his son Clark's real estate firm, where he worked until his death. William Segerstrom served 10 years on the board of trustees of the Sonora Elementary School and was instrumental in the establishment of the school on Greenley Road. He also initiated the successful "Save the Dome" campaign on behalf of the Sonora Elementary's old campus. He was active in the Mother Lode Stanford Club and President of the Columbia College Foundation at the time of his death. He was active in the American Field Service, and served as a senior warden of the vestry of St. James Episcopal Church, Sonora. He also was a member of E Clampus Vitus, Matuca Chapter, the Masonic Lodge, the Elks Lodge and the Lions Club. - 98 - Our Family Tree - Segerstrom Family Branch Richard John Segerstrom 029-2 Jean Rassenfoss Segerstrom ch. : 038-1. John Segerstrom, b. Oct. 9, 1942 M- Barbara Nelson, Dec. 26, 1964, b. Dec. 22, 1941, 038-2. Kris Segerstrom, twn., b. Apr. 9, 1945 M- Joan Miller, Sep. 6, 1975 038-3. Karl Segerstrom, twn., b. Apr. 9, 1945 M- Celesta Throndsen, div., b. Sep. 18, 1945. FOURTH GENERATION Chart 39 Harold Theodore Segerstrom, Jr. 032-1 Jeanette (Franck) Segerstrom ch. : 039-1. Susan Jeanette Segerstrom M- Steven Perry 039-2. Theodore Walter Segerstrom M- Denee 039-3. Sally Segerstrom, b. Mar. 3, 1961 M- 039-4. Sandra Phyllis Segerstrom M- John Daniels FOURTH GENERATION Chart 40 Ruth Ann (Segerstrom) Moriarty 031-1 Eugene Hayworth Moriarty - 99 - Our Family Tree - Segerstrom Family Branch ch. : 040-1. Richard Anton Moriarty M- 040-2. Jeanne Ruth Moriarty M- 040-3. Donald Eugene Moriarty M- FOURTH GENERATION Chart IX Henry Thomas Segerstrom Yvonne (de C. Perry) Segerstrom ch. : 009-1. Andrea de C. Segerstrom M- David Grant 009-2. Toren Henry Segerstrom M- 009-3. Anton David Segerstrom M- FIFTH GENERATION Chart XI John Segerstrom Barbara (Nelson) Segerstrom ch. : 010-1. Suzanne Carrie Segerstrom, b. Aug. 24, 1967 M- 010-2. Eric Charles Segerstrom, b. Nov. 8, 1971 M- - 100 - Our Family Tree - Segerstrom Family Branch FIFTH GENERATION Chart XII Steven Segerstrom Sarah (Rogers) Segerstrom ch.: 012-1. Peter Segerstrom, b. Dec. 24, 1978 M- 012-2. Olivia Ann Louise Segerstrom, b. Nov. 24, 1984 M- FIFTH GENERATION Chart XIII Sara Jane ,lSally,, (Segerstrom) McDonnell Martin McDonnell ch. : 013-1. Andrew McDonnell, b. Oct. 7, 1980 013-2. William Thomas McDonnell, b. Jan. 30, 1985 M- •' 013-3. Zoe McDonnell M- FIFTH GENERATION XIV Charles Segerstrom Katherine (Powell) Segerstrom ch. : 014-1. Owen Segerstrom, b. Jul. 29, 1983 014-2. Samuel Segerstrom, b. Jan. 1988 at Sonora, CA. - 101 - ifcP«^fe^ HitiliHfe HH^^nlw fj^ffflf^rsMa ^L^TA^K^^H ••ill Top: Esther Segerstrom and fellow workers at Tustin dried fruit processing plant. Bottom: Esther Segerstrom and friends on Main Street, Tustin, circa 1915. Top: Marilyn Meyer (Perrin) Parker, 1953, embarking for duty with Special Services of the U.S. Army, Schweinfurt, Germany. Bottom: Marilyn Parker, Special Services, with troop train in Germany, circa 1955. Charles H. Segerstrom, on right, watches the placing of the gold spike he contributed to the dedication of the Golden Gate Bridge. Fifty years Later his son, Bill Segerstrom, contributed a new gold spike at a rededication, and the old gold spike was removed. On April 28, 1937. two weeks after the paving was completed. Joseph Strauss led a group of dignitaries out to center span, where buckerup Edward Murphy and riveter Ed Stanley would drive a ceremonial gold rivet. Unfortunately, there was no forge on the Bridge at the time, and Stanley tried to drive the rivet cold. He drove so long and hard that he eventually dissolved the rust into flakes, embarrassing himself and aborting the festivities. The hole was later filled with a conventional rivet, and a gold one was unceremoniously driven into another part of the span. Causing traffic jams on Highway 101 to the north and in the city of San Francisco to the soulh, autos lined up three abreast at the Waldo, Presidio and Marina approaches. At precisely 12 o'clock noon, President Franklin D. Roosevelt punched a telegraph key in the White House. In an instant, a small electrical impulse shot 3,000 miles signalling that the Bridge was open The news was relayed quickly and backdropped by sirens, whistles, horns, bells and cheering. The cars came streaming across. I Royal couple mix business with pleasure By Laura Saari $13 million in land and cash to the Register build the Performing Arts Center. Waiting at the door for the COSTA MESA—They were not royals, Segerstrom mused about people accustomed to being kept bis Swedish ancestors, who ar waiting. rived in Orange County 90 years But this was the first official ago and prospered as lima bean visit of a reigning monarch to Or farmers. ange County — a history-making "I think if my father and grand moment — and that meant 130 of father could have stood here on the county's top business leaders this land we acquired, and some and their spouses would just have body said, 'If you can imagine < to bide their time Wednesday af- anything here in the next 100 ., ternoon while King Carl XVI Gus years, what would you imag 13 taf and Queen Silvia of Sweden ine?' " Segerstrom said, "I think took in an extra ride at Disney they could imagine the high build land. ings. I think perhaps they could "Pirates of the Caribbean" and imagine the Performing Arts "It's a Small World," the official Center. But to imagine that the ly scheduled amusement park king and queen of Sweden would rides, were not enough for the be standing on this soil?" king. He wanted to see "Star Ruth Segerstrom, Henry's Tours." mother and the matriarch of the cr. The extra turn on the thriller family, said the family spent ride made the royal couple nearly hours preparing for the visit. an hour late for their luncheon "Henry has worked so hard on I with the business leaders at the it," she said. "They were here for Center Club. five hours Saturday just going 3 ID The Disneyland tour and lun over the place cards." | cheon were the last stops of the Roger Johnson, chairman of o the board of Western Digital royal couple's 17-day tour of the CD United States, which began at the Corp., said his grandfather, a tree Wilmington, Del., settlement farmer, came to the United States where Swedes first settled 350 from Sweden at age IS at the turn years ago. The royal couple came of the century. to Orange County at the invitation Johnson was preparing himself of Henry Segerstrom, managing to sit beside the queen at lunch. partner of C.J. Segerstrom & Sons Affecting a Swedish accent, he and the chairman of the board of joked that he could hear the voice the Orange County Performing of his grandparents: "Don't spill Arts Center. anything, Ro-ger, for God's sake Segerstrom met the king and don't speeeel any-thing." queen in 1983, when he and his Guests were ushered to their ta wife, Renee, visited the quarries bles to wait for the royal couple to of Sweden in search of the Napo arrive. They stood as the king, leon Swedish red granite used on dressed in a neatly tailored dark the facade and interior accents at gray suit, and the queen, wearing the Performing Arts Center. The Segerstrom family donated about Please see ROYALTY/11 ROYALTY: Swedes visit OC FROM 1 a silk green floral print dress with foreign trade, in a discussion about matching parrot-green shoes, trade opportunities between Swe swept into the room. den and Orange County. There was a champagne toast to The king and queen toured the "Skoal," spoken fa unison across Performing Arts Center With the the room. Henry Segerstrom Segerstrom family. dubbed Orange County business When Henry Segerstrom intro leaders the new "Vikings, explor duced about two dozen members of ing the frontiers of space and sci his family, who waited in a long ence." He presented the king and reception line on stage, the king queen with a miniature replica of joked: "Is anyone else hiding back the granite grand portal of the Per there?" forming Arts Center. Renee Segerstrom said the Guests dined on a menu selected queen remarked how much she'd to represent California: a salad of like to have the Swedish ballet per Monterey artichokes and Salinas form at the arts center. Valley lettuce, California petrole Their visit complete, the royal sole, a lemon tart with a macada- couple and their entourage sped off mia nut crust, macadamia nut cof to catch a plane for home. fee and a 1985 Thomas Fogarty Waving goodbye, Renee Seger Chardonnay. strom sighed and smiled. After lunch, about 20 members of "It was a fantasy," she said, the business community joined "just a fantasy. Now what is there Anita Gradin, Swedish minister for going to be to look forward to?" SWEDISH RHAKSODY The saga of four generations of Segerstroms— immigrants, laborers, farmers, developers, movers and shakers, friends of royalty, patrons of the arts. W&?tiZr*^£mtMi By LESLIE BERKMAN Last April, the king and queen of Sweden came to Orange County to see Disneyland and t'isit the grandchildren and greatgrandchildren of a Swedish immigrant family that made good. So good, in fact, that the clan was introduced to King Carl XVI Gustaf and Queen Silvia in a performing arts center with a main hall named for the family. And the royal visitors were the descendants' lunch guests at a private dining cluh in a commercial, industrial and office complex in Costa Mesa on land upon which the family once grew lima beans. Today the Segerstroms—the family on friend ly terms with Swedish royalty—find their name linked as patrons of the internationally re nowned sculptors whose works decorate the grounds around the six high-rise office build ings of Costa Mesa's Town Center. The Segerstroms developed those high-rises, including the 21-story, granite Center Tower— Orange County's tallest and probably most prestigious office building. And they are the creators and owners of South Coast Plaza, one of the most profitable and fashionable retail centers in Southern California. Hut glamour and affluence hate come to the family only in the last few decades. Clockwise from left, C.f. and Bertha Seger strom; transporting beans; Segerstrom family portrait with Bertha and C.f. surrounded by their 11 children-, family gathers at Christmas, 1925, with young Henry Segerstrom at front center; later family reunion with Henr)', Har old fr. and Ruth Ann in front; Henry today. PHOTOGRAPHS: SEGERSTROM FAMILY COLLECTION. DON KELSEN CELEBRATE) OCTOBER 16, 1988 SWEDISH RHAPSODY Continued strom family moved to Orange, where C. E. 1'arker, an attorney and husband During the Depression, the Seger they leased 20 acres to grow apricots. of Esther's daughter Marilyn, says that stroms succeeded in holding onto their Orange County's population at the time the feud was settled without a trial when farmland despite plunging bean prices. was only 15,000. the Segerstroms who had remained at However, the family had no option Then one day, while out in his wagon, tached to the Costa Mesa ranch agreed but to sell a third of rheir land in 1958 C.J. Segerstrom saw what lie wanted— to distribute $932,500 to his wire Mari when the two bachelor sons of C.J. and land flat enough and rich enough to lyn, her brother Robert Meyer and the Bertha —William and Fred—died, and grow just about anything. It was located heirs of Charles and Eric. the family had to pay estate taxes. in an unincorporated area that now is The Segerstrom family's transition part of Costa Mesa but then was called THE BUSINESS OF KEEPING a farm from farmer to developer/landlord be Greenville. going and growing, however, united the gan after World War II as a result of By then, the .Segerstroms' 1 lth and Segerstrom bachelor sons and Anton's Orange County's military buildup and last child, Harold, had been born. In all, and Harold's families. For years the men the emergence in the family business of there were five daughters and six sons. not only would work together in the Henry Segerstrom, who even in his The two eldest sons, Charles and Eric, fields but also would gather with their childhood had shown signs of leader stayed with their uncle in Los Angeles wives and children at the Costa Mesa ship. and later moved north to Sonora, where farmhouse on Sundays and holidays. Segerstrom recalls that after serving they made their marks in banking and "For 50 years, there was no business in the war—where his right arm was the title insurance business. Charles, a activity but farming," recalls Henry Se severely injured by artillery fire—and lawyer, struck it rich in gold and lung gerstrom, Anton's son, who is the driv obtaining a master's degree in business sten mining. When he died in August, ing force behind today's C.J. Seger administration from Stanford Universi 1946, businesses in Sonor3 closed for strom & Sons. Henry Segerstrom, 65, ty, he decided to return to the family two hours to show their respect. shares the title and responsibilities of farm out of admiration for his father and The rest of the family leased and later managing partner in the family business Uncle Harold, who then were running bought 40 acres of fertile land in what is with his 60-year old cousin Hal and his the operation. now Costa Mesa, where they raised alfal 90 year old mother Ruth. Until the family built a separate head fa to feed cows and established a dairy. The Segerstroms remained in the quarters in 1962, Segerstrom says, all In time they bought a second dairy dairy business until 1942, when a short family business affairs were conducted where South Coast Plaza now stands and age of workers caused by World War II at the ranch house, which continued to increased their farm holdings to 2,500 contributed to the family's decision to served as a residence until the last of the acres. In 1915, they built the two-story sell out. "My father and uncles didn't 11 children of C.J. and Bertha—Henry's farmhouse that still stands on Fairview believe in milking machines" because Aunt Ann—died about 14 years ago. Road next to the Segerstrom business they were convinced that the newfan "We did all of the management in the offices constructed in 1962. gled contraptions would harm a cow's ranch house, and we didn't have a full- A family partnership was formed by udders, Henry Segerstrom says. time secretary," Segerstrom says. "We all the male Segerstroms living on the Hal Segerstrom remembers it a little would type the letters ourselves and do Orange County farm, including C.J. and differently. He said that although less the income taxes." his sons--Anton, Harold, Fred and Wil injurious milking machines had been liam. The latter two lived on the farm invented, the family did not want to BUT TIMES WERE changing. Seger and remained bachelors. Anton and make the considerable investment re strom says that on the day in 1963 that Harold raised families in Santa Ana and quired to modernize. his father Anton died, the local newspa commuted daily to the farm. But by then, the Segerstroms' lima pers reported that the 1 millionth citi While the men worked in the fields, bean fields—cultivated since 1916— zen had been born in Orange County. the housework and cooking were han were thriving. From 1948 to 1956, the Not only was the cojnty's population dled by Bertha and the four daughters family would be the nation's largest in exploding, but plans to build the San who never married: Christine, Ida, Clara dependent producer of lima beans. Diego Freeway through Orange County and Ann. Henry Segerstrom remembers that his promised to accelerate that growth and Segerstrom descendants describe the father and uncles were among the first bring economic benefits to property first generation of immigrants as "ex farmers in the county to convert from owners in its path. The Segerstroms, led traordinarily close"—so close, they say, horses and mules to tractors, and that by Henry, lobbied hard to get state high that Christine, the eldest child and a they led local efforts to build drainage way planners to butid the freeway schoolteacher, rejected a marriage pro systems for fields plagued by repeated through their property and, as an entice posal so she could continue helping her flooding of the Santa Ana River. ment, offered to donate rhe right of way. mother care for her siblings. One of the family's key business strat As another boon to tlv.'ir future devel However, circumstances and time dis egies, he says, was to gradually expand opments, the family also formed a last persed some of the family. Esther, the its acreage by buying parcels that were ing alliance with the city of Costa Mesa. only daughter to marry, died in child considered top quality for growing When the family made known its inten birth, and her two children were raised beans. tion to build a giant shopping center, away from the ranch. In 1964, after the "I was brought up on the motto you both Santa Ana and Costa Mesa vied to deaths of Anton and Ann, a legal dispute buy and don't sell," says Segerstrom, annex the Segerstroms' unincorporated over inheritance erupted between Har who to this day tries to retain ownership land. old and the heirs of Anton on one side of most of the land and buildings that Costa Mesa prevailed hecause it was and the heirs of Esther, Charles and Erie are part of his family's industrial, com willing to give the Segerstroms more, on the other. mercial and office developments. and in 1959, annexed / Continued 32 CELEBRATE! OCTOBER 16, 1988 j^^^^t f my grandfather saw his family hav- ^^H [ ing lunch with the king and queen if I I of Sweden, he would have been I awed by the whole thing. It is sort I of like a movie—something that I could only happen in a script," says I Ruth Ann Moriarty, granddaughter I of Charles John (C.J.) Segerstrom, ^^^^\vho In 1882 emigrated to the Unit Moriarty, the history buff of the family, says that when C. J., his wife Bertha and their three eldest children arrived at Castle Garden, N.Y., after a stormy 14-day ocean voyage, they did not bear the Segerstrom name. Charles, born the son of Gustav Adolph Segerstrom, registered with the immigration authorities as Gustafson, the name that also was recorded on the boat passenger list, Moriarty says. (A common prac tice in Sweden at the time was for a son to add "son" to his father's first name to make a last name, hence, Gustafson.) Sometime after their arrival, she says, the family changed its name back to Segerstrom. However, her brother Henry Segerstrom con tends that the family's name never was Gustaf son, pointing to an early family history and affidavit by his grandmother that referred to his grandfather as C.J. Segerstrom. For 16 years, the young Segerstrom family lived in the Midwest, moving from Chicago to Prentice, Wis., to St. Paul, Minn., where C.J. was a railroad worker. Life was hard. In later years, the eldest Seger strom son, Charles, reminisced about how rain would drip through the roof of the .Segerstrom house and how on one Fourth of July his father gave up his last dime to buy fireworks. Another son, Eric, would often tell his children about how, as a 3 year-old in Wisconsin, his fingers would bleed from pulling prairie grass that would be burned for heat. In 1898, lured by reports from C. J.'s younger brother Henry, a bachelor living in Los Angeles, about greater opportunities and a more pleas ant climate in the West, the Seger-/Continued SWEDISH SWEDISH Continued Continued I SWEDISH members, some key Segerstrom em more than 1138.5 million to build and Continued ployees and a few financial institutions endow the 3,000-seat performing arts and outsiders participate. estate consultant's study commissioned center thai opened in 1986. The Seger SWEDISH Ray Watson, vice chairman of the Ir by the Segerstroms predicted that if the strom family donated the five acres on vine Co. and a former partner with the Continued family started right away, they could which the center was built and an addi Segerstroms in a high tech business property that includes present-day within five years cover all of their prop tional 16 million in cash to the project. park, called C.J. Segerstrom & Sons South Coast Plaza. Henry Segerstrom erty with successful office projects— And Segerstrom personally selected "one of the most fascinating companies says that the family was concerned provided that they stuck to low-rise the sculptures in Town Center, includ in the (development) business." about "how we could retain ownership structures. But if the Segerstroms want ing a 10-foot boulder sculpture by Isa- of our property under the burden of ed to build high-rises, the report said, it mu Noguchi that is called "The Spirit of He described the company as "a municipal taxes." As a solution, he says, might take 15 years before the market the Lima Bean" in recognition of the bunch of individual operations held to Costa Mesa officials agreed to postpone could absorb the space. Segerstroms' farming origins. gether by family unity and common levying taxes for municipal services on "There was a temptation to take the ownership of land and also by the per Segerstrom land until after it was devel early dollar," says Bill Lund, who con sonality of Henry on the real estate side ALTHOUGH HENRY SEGERSTROM oped. In turn, the Segerstroms agreed to ducted the study. "But of all the men .... Henry is the man who conceives is the most visible family member, he let the city use water from the family's I've known in development, Henry Se of a project and then brings the team and his kin stress that C.J. Segerstrom & wells. gerstrom has one of the best long-term together." Sons remains a family enterprise in Robert Wilson, who was Costa Mesa's perspectives." Segerstrom decided to which numerous family members play David Grant, 38, who has worked for mayor at the time, says he knew the city wait while companies that had moved to active roles. All important policy deci j C. J. Segerstrom A Sons for more than 10 had made a good deal after he shook Orange County in the '60s and early '70s sions are made in concert by the three I years, says that the older family mem hands with the Segerstroms. "1 could were rapidly expanding, creating a need managing partners, whose signatures bers give their children "a lot of lati just see pots of gold everywhere." In for increased support services from are required on all leases. tude" and let them learn on the job. short order, he says, taxes derived from bankers, accountants, lawyers and other After a white, he says, it is easy to antici Henrys cousin Hal, who still has a the Segerstroms' South Coast Plaza professionals who were the tenants Se pate what the family would think of a shopping mall helped the city of Costa gerstrom wanted in his high-rises. yen for farming, also runs the family's remaining 180 acres of agricultural land particular business proposal. Mesa finance construction of a civic He was receptive when, in the spring None of the younger Segerstroms ad center and a golf course. sandwiched between industrial, com of 1977, officials of the Prudential Insur mercial and residential developments mitted to being pressured into joining That was just the beginning. In 1986 ance Co. of America, one of the nation's in Costa Mesa and Santa Ana. And Hen the family business. "If you asked me South Coast Plaza generated 15 million largest investors in office buildings, ry's mother Ruth still comes to work six years ago if I would be here. I would In sales tax revenue for Costa Mesa, paid a courtesy call on the Segerstrom daily—a routine that recently was tern have said no." Anton says. But having according to city officials. (The 1987 family to explore the possibility of a porarily interrupted when she broke a graduated with a master's degree in figure was not available.) Last year the joint office building venture. hip. In addition, Eugene Moriarty, Hen business from the University of Oregon, mall, with 2.7 million square feet of When the Segerstroms' first office y's brother in law, manages family- he decided to accept his father's invita retail space, reaped more sales than any tower was completed and the second jwned office buildings in downtown tion. other shopping mall in Southern Cali two started in late 1979, the county's ianta Ana. Says Jack Matthess, general manager fornia—$613 million. Moreover, the office vacancy rate was low, demand was A fourth generation of Segerstroms of South Coast Plaza: "If something hap mall has been designated a major na high and a potential major competitor, -all in their 20s and 30s—has joined pened to Henry, there would be no tional tourist attraction by the Travel the Irvine Co.'s Newport Center, was he family business in varying capaci- problem. He has two sons who fit the Industry Assn. of America. hamstrung by an anti-growth movement ies. Henry's eldest son Toren is devel groove." But when the covered mall opened in in Newport Beach. ping Harbor Gateway, a high tech 1967, it was not obvious that it would be One "tenant'' the Segerstroms say Toren Segerstrom says he believes omplex in Costa Mesa, as well as apart that Orange County has benefited from a success. Retailers had to be convinced they did not solicit is today perhaps lents in Santa Ana; another son Anton the long-term commitment of families that a regional shopping mall could sur Town Center's biggest drawing card- ? operations manager at Crystal Court, such as his that take pride in the devel vive in an area surrounded by bean the Orange County Performing Arts nd son-in-law David Grant is now opments attached to their name. fields and two-lane roads. At the time, Center. Elaine M. Redfield, who was Derations manager at South Coast Pla- the San Diego Freeway was no more president of the group searching for a Many matters vital to the community a. than a line on a planning map. site for the center, says she approached and the family, such as whether to pro On the other branch of the family To persuade May Co. and Sears to Henry Segerstrom because the Seger vide a site for the performing arts cen ree, Hal's son Ted and daughter Sandra anchor the first phase of the mall's de strom family earlier had donated a site ter, he says, were initially discussed in work in the company's real estate man velopment, the family sold each firm for the smaller South Coast Repertory the parlorofthefarmhou.se—along with agement department. Another daugh the land on which to build for $1. theater. more mundane matters such as the lat ter, Sally, was her father's secretary until Segerstrom says the family saw a need est news about Hal's new boat or the Ruth Ann Moriarty, Henry's sister, she left the job recently to have a baby. to hustle with the plans because other birth weight of a great-grandchild. says that Orange County was virtually Unlike most large businesses, the Se developers were planning competitive In that parlor decorated with over devoid of cultural opportunities when gerstrom enterprise has no president or regional centers—Fashion Island in stuffed couches, tables and lamps from she and her brother were growing up. chairman. According to family mem Newport Beach and Huntington Center a bygone era, Segerstrom family mem Moreover, she says, while their mother bers, the younger Segerstroms are as in Huntington Beach. "We realized we bers who are involved in the business Ruth encouraged education, she "want signed particular projects on which to had to hurry or be left behind." ed us always to take solids like math and routinely gather each weekday after a exercise their entrepreneurial skills— family lunch "to decide where the fami Similarly, it was a competitive desire science." She says their mother consid md for which they are held accountable to stand out from the burgeoning local ered an and music to be "frivolous." ly's destiny is going," Toren Segerstrom oy the senior managing partners. says. retail crowd, Segerstrom says, that moti Nonetheless, Henry Segerstrom today vated the family to develop a higher is considered a major patron of the arts Under the umbrella family partner fashion profile at South Coast Plaza, in Orange County. He steered the coun ship are a myriad of other project part Berkman is a Times busine. starting with the decision to bring in ty's biggest and most successful arts I nerships in which family/ Continued Bullock's in 1973, followed by I. Mag campaign—raising to date / Continued nin, Nordstrom and Saks Fifth Avenue. John Nordstrom, co-chairman of the board of Nordstrom, says / Continued rfamL vu ^owtawedt , brother John D. Rockefeller, ran believed richest member, over 90% with new concept: simple, punchy^ Standard Oil of New York (now American Securities Corp., big articles for "people's press," big Mobil} until Trust busted 1911. stake Ametek, Inc. (his daughter change from purple prose in papers Controlled as much as 12.5% of Elizabeth Rosenwald Varet now of the era. Sold family farm, bor- \ Trust, plus extensive RR, utility serves on board). Fortune estimated rowed heavily, started Detroit (eve stocks. Mamed two of his sons to at $300 million or more. ning) News 1873. Successful formu- ". daughters of James Stiilman, head— la applied elsewhere. Bitter split of National City Bank of N.Y. (now with halt-brother E.W. (see above) Citibank]. Daughters married into dcnnitxe* early 1900s. Built into Evening McAlpin, Dodge fortunes. Family News Association, run by succes still owns energy stocks, land in Portland, Ore. Palm Springs. 4 sur sion of heirs, sold to Gannett for Greenwich; conservative, decen viving sons of Polish immigrant $71*7 million 1985. Booth Newspa tralized management, some run by Samuel Schnitzer, who with Harry pers sold 1976 for $300 million Andrew Rockefeller, 58, William's Wolf built Alaska Junk Co. early (34% family stake). More than 50 great-grandson. Some 75 heirs 1900s, Oregon Steel Mills 1941. share in fortune over $350 million. Scripps relatives now share fortune Sons expanded, prospered in scrap- estimated at least $750 million. dealing post-WWIl. Family bought out Wolfs after feud 1958. Son Leonard, 62, heads Schnitzer Group 9Ue (with Manuel, 79; Gilbert, 70): steel NYC. Jerusalem-bom David (d. products, scrap, shipping. Brother Orange County, Calif. Charles John 1986) cofounded Rose Associates Harold, 64, quit business 1950. Segerstrom came to U.S. from Swe with brother Samuel [d. early Controls vast real estate Portland, den 1882, arrived Orange County 1960s) in Bronx 1920s, later shifted Seattle, San Francisco, Denver, etc. 1898 with wife, 11 kids. Started to Manhattan. David built into one through Harsh Investment Corp. farming on 40 leased acres, gradual of NYC's oldest, biggest apartment Believed richest family in Oregon; ly built up land holdings with four builders, now run by Sam's sons charitable. Very private. Wealth ex youngest sons, two of whom never Frederick, Daniel, Elihu fall Yalies). ceeds $300 million. married. C.J. died 1928. By 1950s Own, manage reported 15,000 apts. C.J. Segerstrom fit. Sons was na NYC, Boston, Washington, D.C; tion's leading grower large lima also prime office properties NYC, beans. Third generation, now led by Boston. Fred is the builder, Dan the Jc»/,/a (£.WJ Henry, 64, and Harold Jr., 59, urged long-range planner, Eh the manag Origin: Cincinnati. Descendants of diversification into real estate post- er. Next generation now coming to populist Edward Wyllis Scripps, WWU: industrial space, then shop fore: Fred's son Jonathan leading who started Cleveland Press 1878, ping centers, offices. Henry: "You $250 million redevelopment in built into nation's once-largest either grow or you die. This is what downtown Brooklyn. Brothers dog newspaper chain. Family history of nature tells us." South Coast Plaza gedly deny substantial equity, feuds: E.W. split with half-brother (1967) now biggest U.S. mall, annu claiming foreign investors (includ James (see below), who formed own al sales near $600 million. Donated ing British noble families! and firm. After E.W.'s death 1926, 3 land, led drive to build Orange many management jobs for institu sons split papers, expanded, rear County Performing Arts Center, tions,- Dan: "We're working furi ranged for their offspring: Robert's opened 1986. Henry, mother Nellie ously to become big enough to jus 6 children (1 deceased] inherited Ruth, 89, cousin Harold, are part tify inclusion. In the meantime, majority stake in Scripps Howard ners in firm with equity well over we're just folks." NYC real estate media conglomerate (now 21 dai $400 million. sources say otherwise. Net worth lies, 80% stock in Scripps Howard believed far over $350 million. Broadcasting, 390,000 cable sub scribers); John willed 7-daily chain John P. Scripps Newspapers to chil JLUertn& n dren, merged with Scripps Howard zfukW.n&ua/d 1986; James E- passed Pioneer Dayton, Ohio. Heirs of brothers Newspapers to son James G. (d. John Q. and William C. Sherman, Philadelphia area,- NYC et al. Julius 1986) and Scripps League to son cofounders of Standard Register Co. Rosenwald |d. 1932), mail-order Edward W., 78. Some 40 members Business forms, machines manu pioneer, gained control Sears, Roe of succeeding generation share for facturer incorporated 1912. Wiped buck after founders sold out fAlvah tune, much in trust, worth at least out by 1913 Dayton flood, moved Roebuck, 1895; Richard 5ears, $2 billion. across town. Hit big with 1935 1908). Built into largest merchan registrator platen, revolutionary dise retailer in world. Family said method of "pinieeding" continuous to hold much well-hidden stock business forms through typing ma plus other investments. Insider: chines; co. now leading maker of "The Rockefellers made their mis yJCrt'/tM business forms, data systems, takes public, the Rosenwalds reveal Detroit area, La folia, Calif, et al. forms handling equipment. John nothing." Son Lessing (d. 1979), for Descendants of James Edmund mer chairman, assembled major art left 9 children; 2 still with co.: Scripps (1835-1906), English immi collection. Son William, 84, today James, 64, single, joined board grant who arrived in Illinois 1844 1944,- William, 67, married, 5 chil- FORBES 400/OCTOBER 26, 1987 Some major U.S. fortunes have already been so divided among heirs that no individual . among them qualifies for The Forbes Four Hundred, yet the families either show enough cohesion or are widely enough thought of as families of great wealth to merit consideration as entities.. Those examined in our research follow. The listing is extensive but not intended to be as complete as our listing of the richest individuals in America. Think of most as die significant echoes of persons who would have been members of The Forbes Four Hundred list if it had been compiled in earlier decades. FORBES 400/OCTOBER 26, 1987 OUR FAMILY TREE and its many branches UtaUHlSXAf MAMf november 1988 Our Family Tree - McMurray Branch FIRST GENERATION Chart I John McMurray 1 Agnes (Blaine) McMurray There ch. were: 001-1. Joseph McMurray, b. Jan. 29, 1781. He was 1 b. in Edinburgh, SCOT, Jul. 14, 1754, emigrated to America about 1774, and settled in PA. The PA Archive shows him to be a soldier in the Revolutionary War, being a member of Capt. John Doyle's Co., 6th PA Regt., commanded by Col. Josiah Harmer. His name appeared on a Co. muster roll for the month of Oct., 1778. On Jun. 17, 1780, he md. Agnes Blaine Adams,(018- 8) the dau. of James and Isabella Blaine and wid. of Albert Adams, who was killed in actual battle in the Revolutionary War, May 1, 1778 at Crooked Billet, PA. Agnes Blaine Adams was the mot. of three ch. by Albert Adams. After the Revolutionary War, John and Agnes Blaine McMurray lived in Toboyne Twp, Cumberland Co., PA, after which they migrated about 1800, to western PA, settling in Hemfield, now Penn Twp, Westmoreland Co., PA. The land on which this fam. lived was known as the "Battlefields" where the battle of Bushy Run was fought in 1763, between the Indians and forces of Colonl Henry Bouquet of the British Army. The land was later sold to Jacob Gongaware and John L. Wanamaker. The farm was located about a mile east of Harrison City, near Jeannette, PA Today it is the Bushy Run State Historical Battlefield Park. John McMurray d., ca., 1830, and Agnes Blaine, his wf. d. at an unknown date. John McMurray served as a private in Capt. John Doyle's Co., 6th PA Regt., commanded by Col. Josiah Harmer. His name appeared on a Co. muster roll for the month of Oct., 1778, which shows him on duty and that he enlisted to serve three yrs. His name appears on the pay roll Sep. 9, 1778 in the PA Archives, 5th Series, Vol. 3, p 13. His will was probated Mar. 13, 1830. He was wounded at the Battle of Brandywine. See PA Archives, Series 3, Vol. 20, pp 494 and 760, and also Vol. 23, p 713. - 102 - Our Family Tree - McMurray Branch living in Fayette Co., OH in 1838. M- 001-2. Alexander Blaine McMurray, b. Apr. 9, 1782, d. Oct. 5, 1867. M- Eleanor Simpson, b. 1781, d. May 6, 1854, in Madison Co., OH. They were md. Dec. 17, 1807. She was a sis. of John Simpson, the fat. of Hannah Simpson, and grandfat. of Ulysis Simpson Grant, the Civil War Gen.. 001-3. Isabella McMurray, b. Feb. 24, 1787. M- 001-4. Eleanor McMurray, b. Feb. 24, 1787, twn. of above. Unmd. 001-5. Acheson McMurray, b. Jul. 14, 1789, d. Nov. 20, 1869. M- Elizbeth Lytzenbigler, b. Aug. 26, 1799, dau. of Daniel Lytzenbigler - see Chart 20 001-6. Ross Mitchell McMurray, b. May 17, 1792 M- Chart II James Blaine Isabella (Armstrong?) Blaine His second wf., by which he had one child, was Elizabeth Carskaddon, a wid.. He had one son by second md., James Scadden Blaine, who d.y.,d.v.p.. His second wf. was a dau. of George Carskaddon. Book E, p 330, Register of Wills, Court House, Carlisle, PA ch. : 002-1. Ephraim Blaine, b. May 26, 1741, in Donegal, IRE. d. Feb. 16, 1804 in PA. 2 - 103 - Our Family Tree - McMurray Branch M- 1st - Rebecca Galbraith, Jun. 26, 1765 M- 2nd - Sarah Postlewaite Duncan, a wid., Sep. 21, 1797, b. 1763. 002-2. Alexander Blaine, b. 1735, d. prior to 1798 3 M- Amy Hoge, 1762, b. 1746, dau. of David Hoge 002-3. William Blaine, b. 1757, d. in winter of 1792- 93 M- Mary 002-4. Eleanor Blaine, b. 1750 at Carlisle, PA d. Apr. 3, 1795 M- Samuel Lyon, 1771, son of John Lyon and Mary (Armstrong) Lyon. He was b. in 1751, and d. in 1780. He was a Col. in the Patriotic Service, PA. 002-5. Mary Blaine, b. 1753, at Carlisle, PA M- Matthew Davidson 002-6. Isabella Blaine, b. 1755, at Carlisle, PA M- Ross Mitchell, May 9, 1780 002-7. Margaret Blaine, b. 1745 Unmd. 002-8. Agnes Blaine, b. May 7, 1751 at Carlisle, Cumberlan Co., PA M-lst - Albert Adams, Feb. 13, 1771. killed in battle during Revolutionary War, at the Battle of Crooked 2 He was Asst. Comm. Gen. and Comm. Gen. (Aug. 6, 1777 to Nov. 30, 1780) of the Revolutionary Army for the Northern District at the time of the encampment at Valley Forge and made heroic efforts to provide food and supplies for the destitute troops in the winter of 1778. Claim W-1215, filed by his wid. in 1849. 3 Private with PA milita during Revolutionary War. Credited with being a clerk of accounts at Valley Forge during the fateful winter. - 104 - Our Family Tree - McMurray Branch Billett, PA, May 1,1778 M-2nd - John McMurray, b. Jul. 14, 1754, md. Jun. 17, 1780, at Carlisle, PA, d. Mar., 1830 at Bushy Run, PA. He was a private during the Revolutionary War. Roll 104, Westmoreland Co., PA 4 SECOND GENERATION Chart III Agnes (Blaine) Adams 002-8 Albert Adams 6 4 The Blaine farm and mill are on te Conodoquinet Creek - a mile from Carlisle, which he called Cave Middleton. 5 Agnes Blaine Adams second marriage see Chart 17 above From Publications of the Genealogical Society of PA, Vol. X, pp 83 and 84 6 At the orphans court of Cumberland Co. held Sep. 10, 1790, before Jonathan Hoge and Samuel Laird Esquires, Judges, was read the petition of Ephraim Blaine uncle and next friend of James Adams, Robert Adams and Ephraim Adams minor ch. of Albert Adams late Qtrmstr. in the seventh Bat. of Militia of Cumberland Co., setting forth that said Albert Adams, Qtrmstr., was slain in actual service in an engement with the enemy at Crooked Billet in Bucks Co., PA on the first day of May, 1778, leaving Agnes his wid. and three sons, James, Robert and Ephraim. The youngest was b. some short time before his fat.'s death and still remains a weak and sickly child, unable to provide for himself, and that the wid. of the said Albert Adams deceased, is md. since his decease. The Petitioner therefore prayed the court that the pension allowed by act of assembly of the Commonwealth might be granted to the said minor ch.. Agnes the wid. remained the wid. of Albert Adams upwards of one yr after his decease and md. one McMurray. James Adams the eldest son was b. 8th day of Dec. 1771, Robert the second son was b. the 23rd day of Dec, 1775. Ephraim, the youngest son was b. the 29th day of Apr., 1777. Records Department, State Archives, Harrisburg, PA (Contributed by Mrs. Harry Rogers) - 105 - Our Family Tree - McMurray Branch 003-1. James Adams, b. Dec. 8, 1776 M- 003-2. Robert Adams, b. Dec. 23, 1775 M- 003-3. Ephraim Blaine Adams, b. Apr. 29, 1777 M- THIRD GENERATION Chart IV James Blaine 1 Agnes Blaine McMurray 2 Acheson McMurray 017-5 7 Elizabeth Lytzenbigler ch. : 004-1. William Blaine McMurray, b. Oct. 25, 1825, d. Feb. 2, 1897 at Waterloo, IA. M- Amy Naoma Berlin, Nov. 18, 1847. She was b. Apr. 10, 1830, and d. Jul. 7, 1915 at Santa Ana, CA. 004-2. Margaret McMurray, b. Jul. 5, 1833, d. 1895 Recorded in The PA Archives, Series V, Vol. 4, p 518. 7 Acheson McMurray was b. Jul. 14, 1789, his fat.'s birthday, came with his parents to Westmoreland Co., PA around 1800, settling on the Bushy Run farm. He d. Nov. 20, 1869, and is bur. in Denmark Manor Cemetery, Harrison City, PA. He was a farmer and landowner at Bushy Run, near Harrison City, PA. On Aug. 12, 1821 he was commissioned First Lt. of the Fifth Cav. and on May 5, 1823 was made Capt. of the Sixteenth Regt., First Brigade, composed of Militia of Fayette and Westmoreland Counties. Capt. McMurray was md. to Elizabeth Lytzenbigler b. Aug. 26, 1799. He was an elder in the Harrison City Presbyterian Church. - 106 - Our Family Tree - McMurray Branch M- Harvey Lynch, b. 1832, d. 1897. Both are bur. in Jeannette Cemetery, Westmoreland Co., PA'' '.- 004-3. Ephraim McMurray, b. Jan. 14, 1821, at Jeannette, PA. He d. May 2, 1896. M- Elizabeth Hull, May 14, 1848, b. Sep. 30, 1832, d. Apr. 31, 1898. 004-4. Joseph Ross McMurray, b. Dec. 24, 1822, at Jeannette, PA,. M- 004-5. Susanna Dewis McMurray, b. Oct. 1, 1827 M- Samuel Jones She d. in a train wreck in PA from burns received, d.s.p.. 004-6. Agnes Blaine McMurray, b. Feb. 9, 1831, d. 1907 Unmd. 004-7. James Albert McMurray, b. Sep. 13, 1838 Unmd. 8 004-8. John McMurray, b. May 1, 1840, d. May 5, 1920 M-lst - Sophia Shearer, Apr. 4, 1866, b. Oct. 8, 1842, d. Apr. 8, 1869. M-2nd - Martha Jane Shearer, Jul. 20, 1877, sis. of his first wf., b. Dec. 12, 1849, d. Jun. 1, 1897. 004-9. Ellen Blaine McMurray, b. Jul. 11, 1836, Jan. 14, 1903. M- John Caldwell, b. Mar. 2, 1833, d. Apr. 4, 1912. 9 8 He was in the Civil War, and never returned from the service. He apparently stayed in the service and was purportedly killed by Indians, and officially declared dead in 1885. 9 Both McMurrays are bur. at New Alexander Cemetery, near Latrobe, PA. She was b. at the Bushy Run farm near Harrison City, PA. - 107 - 3*^~ "•' '•—.• '' . •' V «> * ^ *% A .'[ ,$ Lilly McMurray & Gordon 1907 T^k^fcu,^ K^.J- • 'j i/urttt ^—».XJ iS**. \ Our Family Tree - McMurray Branch Chart V James Blaine 1, Agnes Blaine McMurray 2, Acheson 3 William Blaine McMurray 004-1 Amy Naoma Berlin McMurray 005-1. Henry Albert McMurray, b. Sep. 10, 1848, at Jeannette, Westmoreland Co., PA M- 005-2. Humphrey Ludwick McMurray, b. Feb. 15, 1850, at Jeannette, Westmoreland Co., PA d. 1921 M- Elizabeth W. Jenkins, Jun. 13, 1877, she d. Aug. 8, 1934. Res. at Ligonier, PA 005-3. Amy Naoma McMurray, b. Aug. 21, 1854, at Jeannette, PA d. Jan. 1, 192 6 M- Wlliam Edgar Steck Res. at Excelsior Springs, MO - d.s.p. 005-4. Margaret Arabella McMurray, b. Sep. 25, 1858, at Jeanette, Westmoreland Co., PA, d. Mar. 27, 1889, and is bur. at Floyd Cemetery, Sioux City, IA. M- James Tuffts 005-5. John Albert McMurray, b. Sep. 9, 1860, at Jeanette, PA M- 005-6. Mary Jane McMurray, b. Dec. 3, 1864, at Jeanette, Westmoreland Co., PA d. Jun. 30, 1955 at Orange, CA. md. Nov. 2, 1887 M - Ralph Waite Mead, b. Jan. 3, 1863, d. Mar. 15, 1937 at Santa Ana, CA. See Chart 11. 005-7. Bertram Clifford McMurray, b. Nov. 4, 1871, and d. Jul. 29, 1947 at Sawtelle, Veterans Hospital, Los Angeles, CA. M- Lillian Augusta Masters, Dec. 6, 1903, b. Apr. 8, 1877, and d. Jun. 9, 1949. 3-° - 108 Our Family Tree - McMurray Branch 005-8. William Z. B. McMurray, b. Aug. ±9- 1856, and d. Aug. 30, 1940 M- Charlotte (Lottie) Crawford, of Hamton, IA, on Sep. 20, 1883. b. Jul. 24, I860, d. Jun. 16, 1944. 005-9. Sarah Louise McMurray, b. Jul. 10, 1866, d. Sep. 14, 1949 at Santa Ana, CA. A-18277, Orange Co., CA. Unmd. - lifetime school teacher in IA, Orange Co., and Los Angeles, CA 005-10. Thomas Oscar McMurray, b. Jul. 19, 1869 M- Lydia Barth at Sioux City, IA on Mar. 12, 1899. She was b. Aug. 22, 1881. He d. Apr. 22, 1942 and she d. Sep. 11, 1964. 005-11. Eleanor Elizabeth McMurray, b. Mar. 12, 1852, and d. Easter Sunday, Mar. 31, 1907 in Santa Ana, CA. M- James Brown, Mar. 31, 1886 at Waterloo, IA. He was b. Jun. 25, 1852. 11 All the McMurray ch. were b. at the fam. farm near Jeanette, PA which was the site of the Battle of Bushy Run during the French and Indians Wars, 1763, with a British force commanded by Col. Henry Bouquet. When the fam. moved to IA around 1875 the farm was sold to relatives, members of the Jacob Gongaware fam.. ^ SECOND GENERATION Chart VI 10 They are bur. in the Mead fam. plot at Fairhaven Cemetery, Santa Ana, CA. They resided for many yrs in Lancaster, CA. He was a soldier with Co. L, 7th Regt., CA National Guard, during the Spanish-American War, serving primarily at Alameda Co., CA awaiting transit to the Phillipine campaign. He was a resident of Lancaster, CA in later yrs - and postmaster there for a period of time. 11 Marriage record filed in Book J, p 96, Mar. 30, 1886, records of Black Hawk Co., IA. - 109 - I to r: Osgood Paul Hardy, holding Buck - Amy Mead Hardy - Ralph W. Mead - front row: C.E. (Ted) Parker, Phyllis McMurray, Helen McMurray Schuman, Dorothy Parker, Roy Brown, Ethel Garren Brown, behind Phyllis - Lillian Masters McMurray, Ralph Gordon McMurray, Hoarld Brown, Mary Jane Mead, Sarah McMurray, Bertram McMurray, Howard (Abe) Robinson Schuman, Mildred Mead I to r: R.W. Mead, Mildred Mead, Mary Jane Mead, Harold Brown, Phyllis McMurray, Lillian McMurray, Sarah McMurray, Ralph Gordon McMurray (in back) Helen McMurray Schuman, Dorothy Mead, C.E. (Ted) Parker (shading eyes) Osgood Hardy, Amy Hardy, Bert McMurray, Howard (Abe) Robinson Schuman, George A. Parker, c. 1935. I to r: R. W. Mead, Osgood V-^f-^S^^.Cj", Hardy, Amy Hardy, Mildred McMurray, Lillian McMurray, Duane McMurray, Mildred Mead (in back), Lydia McMurray, Helen Schuman, Harold Brown (in back), Sarah McMurray, Dorothy Parker (holding Ted Parker), Thomas McMurray (in back), Mary Jane McMurray, Ralph Gordon McMurray (in back) Bertram McMurray, Howard (Abe) Schuman. I to r: Osgood Paul Hardy, Ethel Garren Brown, Lillian McMurray, George A. Parker, Phyllis McMurray, Howard (Abe) Robinson Schuman Around the picnic table in the backyard of the George Parker house, 511 So. Van Ness Street, Santa Ana, circa 1935. Upper left: Osgood Hardy during World War I. Upper Right: Osgood Hardy with other graduate students of history at Yale University, circa 1914. Bottom: Osgood Paul Hardy and Amy Mead Hardy, presumably at their New York City residence, during World War I. -•••"' <--'->--.-<•- —Yjttr^S^J^__ " • ":..r j. Right: Dorothy Mead in front of the Mead residence on East Chestnut Street, Santa Ana, circa 1916. Left - Dorothy Mead with friend. A Charming Intimacy Smart ^$£$9$i£j^ m,, Engagement of ffiffifjfA Prevails at Gay . jfi Popular Girl I "»** Luncheon %*^^ Honoring ^he "^betrothal of Miss Congenial indeed was the atmos-1 Dorothy Mead anil heorga Parker phere of a delightfully intimate lit- which .^s arousing 'the deep inter tle luncheon with which Mrs.; est of hosts of friends of the George Parker (Dorothy Mead Par- young couple, ;Misa Isabel Ander-1 kST.i ji6.sUJiiia.ji, yuienaiheSTBecUT a gioup Sfmothers and daughters honoring son entertained a few close friends Miss Elsie Raitt, September bride- of Miss' Mead yesterday afternoon to-be. at a pretty tea given at the An-; Mrs. Parker's own mother, Mrs. dersbn ' Some.'': 601 ^Wellington. Ralph W. Mead, Miss Raitt and her street. '*•' S.', ••',-.- • • '. | mother, Mrs. J. T. Raitt, Miss Ruth Miss Mead was showered with Frothingham and her mother, Mrs. lovely .".:jifts r>jay ?her assembled Frances D. Frothingham and Miss friends who were received by Miss Mary Henderson completed the Anderson, the hostess, Miss Mead, little circle of friends who found honoree and a group composed of their places at a charmingly array- Mrs. J. N./Anderson, Mrs. A. :H. I ed luncheon table at the Parker Theal, Miss Jessie 'Miller and home, 511 South Van Ness street. 1 Miss Edith Plavan. '•-.•*•-. • ..'.' ~7-^f\ Among Mrs. Parker's prized pos sessions is a dinner service of In the diniiig room where Mrs.; lovely old-fashioned china whose Anderson presided at the tea table, decorations are in yellow and blue Cyclemen. ;in American -Beauty This Offered the dominant color shades, massed with ferns.gave a scheme of the affair and in the charming effect. / The'-Misses center of the table one of the Wilma Plavan and Persana Deim-j bowls of the set was employed to ling assisted in serving. ' .v-j*! hold a brilliant mass of golden glow and blue azuratum. The col ors were repeated in the menu "vvherever possible. The final course offered dainty little bride's slipper ices. In the afternoon as music and; conversation sped the pleasant' hours, Mrs. Parker produced bitsf of gay silks and satins from which!; fragrant sachets were fashioned,!; the completed bits of daintiness.! being presented to Miss Raitt forj, we in her trousseau. Her hostess I aJso presented the honor guest ' Dorothy Parker, 1917 with a hand-embroidered linen;! towel for her linen shelves. | A pleasant little climax to the J week's entertaining for Miss Raitt] came today when, with Mrs. Par-i ker as "Lightning Conductor," a| party composed of Miss Raitt, Mrs.' Parker, Miss Frothingham and Missf Henderson left for San Diego there! to enjoy a few days of sightseeing,1 and rest They plan to return to' this city at the end of the week. "The Happy Hearts" Gather to Do, nohor fM To Prospective! BrirJe'?• - \.-5*< •'•••<• 7^-aJ-*3 "•• ' Typically Chinese Is One of the \Jnucn ^entertained Uniquely Planned »U \ (brides-to-be of "the .late Vjwinter Dinnerparty ,'.;•£J^V ' season JJs' Miss\: Dorothy ^Mead, whose 'popularity Is attested by the RIENDS of Mr. many charming courtesies extend and Mrs. George ed her by friends deeply interested? A. Parker 3r™311 tiouin Van Ness in her recently announced engage avenue, 'had the ment to George Parker. -yia.:W,\ [unique experience The most recent festivity iwith of being enter-, the approaching marriage as its tained recently at motif, was that of Saturday after a typically Chin noon, when Mrs. John Cannon, her ese dinner, given self a bride of Only a few months, by "the 'young entertained at James' gold room. people In ac Mrs. Cannon chose bridge as the cordance -with afternoon's diversion and greeted careful, instructions from Mrs. her guests ^in an atmosphere fra Parker's brother, Loren J. Mead of grant from masses of pink and "Whu. China. . .•;•,..:>..,,..., .-;'j -,...>>. white sweet peas which smiled Mr. Mead sent many of the in against the vivid background of gredients for various dishes as well the gold room. f-isl'i* as some 72 Chinese bowls for their The tables were arranged around proper serving. "While the hostess one center table hearing a huge was preparing the dinner, accord ing to explicit directions, she kept basket of the lovely blooms, and her house closed, so the mingled when the tea hour arrived, "*ach odors aided her In expending orien small table received its decoraUon tal welcome to her arriving guests. of a basket similar in design but The latter had a surprise of their smaller, filled with sweet peas. own, and appeared in correct^ Chin Ices in wedding bell form were ese attire but agreed that the sur served with dainty cakes and pas prises offered by Mr. and ' Mrs. tries following 'the prize award Parker, exceeded theirs In point of made to Miss Norn^a Wingood, interest. holding high score; Miss Ruth Frothingham, second high, - and Upon arrival of the guests, they Mrs. Farwell Hull, third. were presented with steaming hot In the interval following the towels, and given opportunity for serving of refreshments the hos cleansing hands and faces. A pre tess quietly left the room to re liminary course of roasted water appear as the strains of Lohengrin | melon seeds and tea was served at pealed forth with Mrs. Farwell small tables, ere all gathered about Hull at the piano. .. : > one large table- for the main din Mrs. Cannon was gowned in her ner. J This featured salted and own wedding idwn and attended sugared nuts, smoked - mackerel, by Mrs. Amelia Peckham and "Miss watermelon seeds and other tidbits. Carolyn Haughton as a bridal par Including that national delicacy, ty. She carried a great wedding sliced old eggs, some of them per- 1 boquet still swather in its wrap haps 100 years old. .''~„,;..SV'?~-' •;• pings of green florist's paper. This •All manner of quaint Oriental I she presented to Miss Mead, who customs were Introduced, some of unwrapped it to ifin d carnations them being most amazing" to oc- and ferns hiding many beautiful dental diners^ After bowls of rice gifts, showered upon #her by her] /ere passed, the dinner menu con assembled friends. ';. v - M^,v tinued with chicken and ..noodles, , Many of the guests present were spinach with hard-boiled eggs', cauliflower, sea slugs with ^man members of a high school t club called the "Merry Hearts," -whJchJ darin sauce, salad pickles and slic- , seems to be offering excellent'tar- ed pineapple, scrambled eggs and e bacon, with mandarin sauce, and | gets for Dan Cupid, as will b the piece de resistance, a large fish i shown by the guest list, including, ; served with head, tails and fins in- j in addition to the honor guest, tact. Dessert" was rice pudding! Miss Mead and her mother, "Mrs. | passed with the can of dark molas- J Ralph Mead, the hostess, Mrs. John ses which served as a sauce. ""•• ;'•*-; \ Cannon, Mrs. Harold Yost, [Mrs. The return of the steamhig tow- J George Paul, Jr., £Mrs. "*FarweU] els, was .welcomed, and prepared! HuH, Mrs. Floyd Knight Mrs^lSam1 l 1 the guests for an evening of less ( Barker, ''-Mrs. i-|>on Andrews, ; 'Mrs. oriental amusement, bridge played1 Leon Dickey and Mrs. "lAmelia to the accompaniment of Chinese Peckham, together with the Misses wine, tea and rice cakes. Sa . Ruth Frothingham, Mildred Mead, Norma Wingood, Carolyn Haugh- ton, Marjorie Ellis and Muriel Lee i •—.. .vii5.t ..aiJStettfo. «— of Los Angeles, a house guest *o£ the' hostess. "• ' "'?'&%'>. C."%£ isM&4 '• £i' ^M>&z^*«S-?&^®M8 Loren J. Mead and a friend, circa 1915, Chestnut Street, Santa Ana, CA Amy Mead Hardy and Osgood Paul Hardy at their home near Occidental College, c. 1950. ralph mead & masonic lodge bros Our Family Tree - McMurray Branch Daniel Lytsenbigler (Lytzenberger) Susannah (Whitehead) Lytsenbigler 006-1. Ester Lytzenbigler, b. Dec. 6, 1797 M- 006-2. Elizabeth Lytzenbigler, b. Aug. 26, 1799 M- Acheson McMurray, b. Jul. 14, 1789, and d. Nov. 20, 1869, and is bur. in Denmark Manor Cemetery, Harrison City, PA. 006-3. Catherine Lytzenbigler M- 006-4. Louis Lytzenbigler M- 006-5. David Lytzenbigler M- 006-6. Sarah Lytzenbigler, b. Apr. 8, 1801 M- FIRST GENERATION Chart VII Horner Brown Ann J. Marshall Horner Brown was b. in IRE in Jun., 1820. 12 ch. : 12 came as an infant with his parents to Hemingford, Quebec, CAM. In 1846 he md. Ann J. Marshall, b. in Clinton Co., NY, in Aug., 1821. They resided at Hemingford, CAN before coming to IA via Ogle Co., IL, in 1856. She d. Apr. 21, 1890. He d. in 1902. He was a naturalized citizen. - 110 - Our Family Tree - McMurray Branch 007-1. Thomas Brown M- 007-2. George Brown, of Nora Springs, IA M- 007-3. Elizabeth Brown M- 007-4. Robert Brown, b. May, 1857 in IA M- 007-5. John Brown, of Primghar, IA M- 007-6. Mary A. Brown, b. 1850 in NY, d. 1915 in IA. M- McPhayden 007-7. William Brown, of Wesley, IA M- 007-8. Dr. Fletcher E. Brown, M.D. of Primghar, IA, b. 1863 in IA, d. 1921 M- Alma ( ) Brown, d. 1945 in Black Hawk Co., IA 13 007-9. Delia Brown, d.y.,d.v.p. 007-10. James Brown, b. Jun. 25, 1852 in CAN, d. Dec. 8, 1896 at Primghar, IA. 14 M- Eleanor Elizabeth McMurray, b. Mar. 17, 1855, at Jeannette, PA. md. Mar. 31, 1886. 15 13 They are bur. at Westview Cemetery, Big Creek Twp, block 7, lot 54. 14 He resided in Black Hawk Co. until 1893 when he moved to Primghar, in O'Brien Co., IA. 15 She d. Easter Sunday, Mar. 31, 1907 (her wedding anniversary) in Santa Ana, CA. Her hus. and two infant ch. are bur. at Westview Cemetery, Big Creek Twp, in Block 5, Lot 28, Washburn, IA. She is bur. in the Mead - Ill - Our Family Tree - McMurray Branch ~— SECOND GENERATION Chart VIII James Brown Eleanor (McMurray) Brown 008-1. dau., d.y.,d.v.p. in IA 008-2. ch., d.y.,d.v.p. in IA 008-3. Ila Brown, b. Jul. 3, 1893, d. Apr. 14, 1919 in the flu epidemic in Orange Co., CA M- Luigi Daneri of San Juan Capistrano d.s.p. 008-4. Harold Ray Brown, b. May 20, 1895 at Primghar, O'Brien Co., IA, d. Jun. 15, 1947, at Orange, CA A- 15036 M- Ethel Gerran, b. San Francisco, CA, 1929, in San Francisco, CA, b. 1900 in San Francisco, CA, d. Apr. 8, 1974 - A-80015. THIRD GENERATION Chart IX Harold Ray Brown 16 Ethel (Gerran) Brown fam. plot at Fairhaven Cemetery, Santa Ana, CA. 16 Harold Ray Brown was a mortician by profession. He was an ambulance driver during World War I, and became associated with the Mottel Mortuary on Geary Street in San Francisco. In 1929 he formed a partnership with Sam Harrel of Huntington Beach to form a mortuary in Santa Ana, CA under the firm name of Harrell and Brown Mortuary. Mr. Harrell later sold his interest to Mr. Emil Wagner and the firm name became Brown and Wagner. Several yrs later Mr. Wagner sold his interest to a group of partners and the firm became the Brown Colonial Mortuary. - 112 - Our Family Tree - McMurray Branch ch. 009-1. Harold James Leroy Brown, b. Nov. 12, 1930, at Santa Ana, CA M - Joyce Ruth Markel, Oct. 11, 1958, b. Sep. 13, 1932 009-2. Lynette Brown, b. Mar. 25, 1934, at Los Angeles, CA, d. Feb. 20, 1987 M- Donald Maurice Norman, Jan. 28, 1961, b. Jul. 27, 1933 FOURTH GENERATION Chart X Harold Leroy James Brown Joyce Ruth (Markel) Brown 010-1. Vincent Harold Brown, b., Mar. 21, 1960 M- 010-2. Gregory Thomas Brown, b. Jul. 12, 1961 M- 010-3. Mark L. Brown, b. Oct. 24, 1963 M- 010-4. Gerran William Brown, b. Jan. 17, 1966 M- FOURTH GENERATION Chart Chart XI John 1, Acheson 2, William Blaine 3 Bertram Clifford McMurray Lilian Augusta (Masters) McMurray 011-1. Ralph Gordon McMurray, b. Mar. — , 1907 M- Phyllis Young, d. Oct. 1982 011-2. Helen Barbara McMurray, b. Nov. 28, 1909, d. - 113 - Our Family Tree - McMurray Branch Jan. 6, 1983 at Lancaster, CA M- Howard Robinson Schuman (Abe), native of Memphis, TN FOURTH GENERATION Chart XII John 1, Acheson 2, William Blaine 3 Thomas Oscar McMurray 17 Lydia (Barth) McMurray 012-1. Duane Barth McMurray, b. May 19, 1906 M- Mildred Sophie Ness, Sep. 12, 1931. She was b. Apr, 17 Thomas Oscar McMurray had worked in the cookie and cracker manufacturing business his entire life. He was working for the National Biscuit Co. when he met and md. Lydia Barth in Sioux City, IA in 1899. His early training had made him a master baker. His Co. transferred him around the country ironing out their troubles in the manufacturing process. The travelling master baker and his wf., Lydia, moved about considerably to Dallas, Galveston and Nashville, TN, where their only child, a son, Duane Barth McMurray, was b.. Then they moved to Oklahoma City and Omaha, NE where they experienced the Easter Sunday tornado of 1913. A very old friend of Thomas McMurray in Sioux City, Roxie Johnson, got in touch with him at about this time and invited him to come to Sioux City and manage and operate his new cracker and cookie Co., the Johnson Biscuit Co.. It weas at the Johnson Biscuit Co. that he stayed the remainder of his life, passing away in 1942. He was active in the trade association of cracker manufacturers, and became a Dean Emeritus of this organization, and was elected their president one yr. His wf., Lydia Barth, continued to live in the fam. home until her death in 1964. Duane McMurray worked for an uncle, Walter Hunt after graduation from high school in Sioux City. In 1926 he went to work for Swift & Co., meat packers, in Sioux City in the Sales Department where he worked in various capacities until his retirment in 1969 when the Sioux City plant closed. He had been employed with the Co. 43 yrs. - 114 - Our Family Tree - McMurray Branch 24, 1907. FIFTH GENERATION Chart XIII Duane Barth McMurray Mildred Sophie (Ness) McMurray 013-1. Susan Jane McMurray, b. Nov. 30, 1939 M- Albert Allen Anderson, Aug. 27, 1960. He was b. Jan. 29, 1937. They are now div.. She is now with a university in the Boston area. SIXTH GENERATION Chart XIV • Susan Jane McMurray Albert Allen Anderson 014-1. Allen Barth Anderson, b. Dec. 29, 1967 M- FOURTH GENERATION Chart XV William Z.B. McMurray Charlotte [Lottie] (Crawford) McMurray 015-1. William Berlin McMurray, b. Mar. 27, 1886. d, Jun. 17, 1972. M- Ethyle Bartholow, Nov. 23, 192 0. She was b. Feb, 28, 1888, and d. Dec. 16, 1981. 015-2. Maude Hester McMurray, b. Nov. 13, 1891 M- Charles Bright, 1913, div., 1932 015-3. Norma Louise McMurray, b. Apr. 11, 1902 18 - 115 - 18101 Charter Road • Villa Park, CA 9'" ^ Tom and Lydia McMurray Bmm mb Mxlbrtb MtMWM&f 18101 Charter Road • Villa Park, CA 92667 • (714) 637-8146 torn and lydia susan m. anderson barth allan anderson Our Family Tree - McMurray Branch M-lst - Robert E. Hird, Mar. 8, 1927, at Freeport, IL. He was b. Dec. 13, 1897. M-2nd - Robert Beckle FIFTH GENERATION Chart Chart XVI Norma Louise (McMurray) Hird Robert E. Hird 016-1. Norma Jean Hird, b. Mar. 4, 1930 M- Robert Myers, Feb. 29, 1948. SIXTH GENERATION Chart XVII Norma Jean (Hird) Myers Robert Myers 017-1. Marcia Dee Myers, b. Aug. 18, 1948 M- Aug., 7, 1966 017-2. Debra Jean Myers, b. Aug. 5, 1951 M- Richard J. McDermott, Dec. 26, 1970 017-3. Joan Marie Myers, b. Apr. 9, 1956 M- 017-4. Nancy Ann Myers, b. Sep. 11, 1959 M- FIFTH GENERATION Chart XVIII 18 She was killed in an auto accident on Aug. 10, 1983, and bur. at St. Peter's United Church of Christ Cemetery, just norwest of Ackley, IA. - 116 - Our Family Tree - McMurray Branch William Berlin McMurray Ethyle Bartholow McMurray 018-1. Mary Louise McMurray M- 1st- Dan McNabb, Dec. 31, 1946, div. M- 2nd- C. Gordon Christensen, Oct. 30, 1956. He was b. Aug. 10, 1927. 018-2. William Bartholow McMurray, b. Jan. 8, 1926 M- Mary Alice House, Aug. 25, 1949 SIXTH GENERATION Chart XIX William Barthlow McMurray Mary Alice House McMurray 019-1. Susan Mary McMurray, b. Mar. 9, 1957 M- John Martin Remington, Aug. 7, 1981 FIFTH GENERATION Chart XX John 1 Acheson 2 William Blaine 3 Bertram Clifford 4 Helen Barbara (McMurray) Schuman Howard Robinson (Abe) Schuman. b. c. 1910, Memphis, TN. 020-1. Trudy Schuman, b. Apr. 4, 1943, at Lancaster, CA M- Philip Cunningham, b. Sep. 7, 1941 at Wyandotte, MI 020-2. Gary Howard Robinson Schuman, b. Oct. 21, 1938, Lancaster, PA M- Linda Rae Ward, b. Dec. 14, 1941, at Lancaster, PA Chart XXI Trudy Schuman Philip Cunningham - 117 - Our Family Tree - McMurray Branch 021-1. Tracy Cunningham, b. May 19, 1963 M- 021-2. Christian Cunningham, b. Sep. 20, 1966 M- Chart XXII Gary Schuman Linda (Ward) Schuman 022-1. Wendy Schuman, b. Feb. 4, 1968 M- 022-2. Heidi Schuman, b. Feb. 22, 1970 M- Chart XXIII Alexander Blaine McMurray 19 Eleanor (Simpson) McMurray 023-1. John Ross McMurray, b. Sep. 29, 1809 M- Mary Furror, Sep. 27, 1856 19 Alexander McMuray lived in Westmoreland Co., PA unitl 1826 when he migrated to OH and located in Highland Co., OH, where the fam. lived for two yrs after which they moved to Ross Co., OH, and in Jan., 183 0 they moved to Madison Co., OH, and located in Deer Creek Twp. See History of Westmoreland Co., PA, by John W. Boucher, 1906, Vol. 1, p 561. IN 1800 a log school house was erected a mile north of New Salem, Salem Twp, Westmoreland Co., PA, close to the Freeport Road. The teacher for several yrs was Alexander McMurray. - 118 - Our Family Tree - McMurray Branch 023-2. Eliza Simpson McMurray, b. Oct. 11, 18IT" M- Thomas Turpin, Nov. 26, 1835 023-3. Rebecca McMurray, b. Jun. 7, 1815, d. Apr. 11, 1881 M- James Stockton Hume, Oct. 5, 1845, b. 1817, d. 1894 023-4. Nancy Isabeslle McMurray, b. Jan. 17, 1817 M- William Westerville, Dec. 14, 1837 rA. 4Sep-h I8T1 uJeij-t-ev-ve IT choroKee C°- K-> 023-5. Alexander Blaine McMurray, b. Aug. 30, 1820, d. Feb. 3, 1906 M- Mary Houser, Jan. 4, 1854, b. Oct. 16, 1838. 023-6. James Adams McMurray, b. Aug. 23, 1823 Unmd. 023-7. Eleanor Ann McMurray, b. Jan. 24, 182 6 M- George Vestal, Dec. 4, 1853 023-8. Sarah Adams McMurray, b. Apr. 1, 1828 M- Denmnis Murphy, Oct. 26, 1853 Chart XXIV Ephraim McMurray 20 20 Ephraim McMurray, oldest son of Acheson and Elizabeth (Lytzenbigler) McMurray was b. near Harrison City, Westmoreland Co., PA, on the fam. farm at Bushy Run, Jan. 14, 1821. When a young man Eprhaim McMurray migrated to Jefferson Co., PA, and settled near what later was Reynoldsville. He dropped the "Mc" from the fam. name and was known by tbe name Murray, and his ch. and their families used the name of Murray after that time. - 119 - Our Family Tree - McMurray Branch Elizabeth (Hull) McMurray ch. 024-1. Amelia A. McMurray, b. Jun. 9, 1849 M-lst - Hall M-2nd - Harry Bell 024-2. Mariah M. McMurray, b. Aug. 4, 1851, d. Mar. 26, 1920 M- George Z. Bliss, he d. Jun. 8, 1916. d.s.p.. 024-3. Ablason W. McMurray, b. Mar. 23, 1854, d. Mar. 10, 1915. Unmd. 024-4. Hartentia McMurray, b. Jul. 14, 1856. d. May 1874 M- Charles Murray 024-5. Chaplin H. McMurray, b. Sep. 12, 1858, killed Oct. 26, 1923. M- Emma Beck, b. Sep. 12, 1868, d. Oct. 1943 d.s.p. 024-6. David R. McMurray, b. Nov. 10, 1861, d. Mar. 22, 1941 M- Mollie Yost, b. Jul. 4, 1868, d. May 8, 1936 024-7. Archibald C. McMurray, b. Mar. 12, 1864, d. May 21, 1922 - a twn. Unmd. 024-8. John R, McMurray, b. Mar. 12, 1864, d. Aug. 15, 1938 - a twn. - Unmd. Ephraim McMurray was md. May 4, 18 48 to Elizabeth Hull who was b. Sep. 30, 1832, and d. Apr. 31, 1898. Ephraim McMurray d. May 2, 1896. Both are bur. at Reynoldsville, PA. - 120 - Our Family Tree - McMurray Branch 024-9. Mary Jane McMurray, b. Feb. 28, 18 67, d. Sep. 5, 1943 M- George Ross Colwell, Dec. 25, 1887, b. Jun. 24, 1865, d. Jun. 24, 1940 024-10. Sarah Emma McMurray, b. Jun. 1869, d.y.,d.v.p. 024-11. Katharine McMurray, b. Apr. 12, 1874, d.y.,d.v.p. 024-12. Richard Ephraim McMurray, b. Dec. 17, 1879 M- Emma Bliss, Jun. 8, 1910. Chart XXV Amelia A. (McMurray) Hall Hall 025-1. Mabel J. Hall, b. Jun. 21, 1869 M- Chart XXVI Amelia A. (McMurray) Bell Harry Bell 02 6-1. Harry Bell M 026-2. Frederick Bell M- 026-3. Millie Bell M- 02 6-4. Ivor Bell M- 026-5. Annie Bell M- 026-6. Daisy Bell M- - 121 - Our Family Tree - McMurray Branch Chart XXVII Anna Hartentia (McMurray) Murray Charles Murray 027-1. Anna Hartentia Murray, b. Apr. 6, 1874 M- Charles Weir Chart XXVIII David R. McMurray Mollie (Yost) McMurray 028-1. Lee McMurray M- 028-2. Campbell McMurray M- 028-3. Elizabeth McMurray M- 028-4. Matthew McMurray M- 028-5. Clarence McMurray M- 028-6. Philip McMurray M- Chart XXIX Thomas Oscar McMurray Lydia (Barth) McMurray 029-1. Duane Barth McMurray, b. May 19, 1906 M- Mildred Sophie Ness, Sep. 12, 1931. She was b. Apr. 24, 1907. Chart 3 0 - 122 - Our Family Tree - McMurray Branch Duane Barth McMurray Mildred-Sophie (Ness) McMurray 030-1. Susan Jane McMurray, b. Nov. 30, 1939 M- Albert Allen Anderson, Aug. 27, 1960. He was b. Jan. 29, 1937. div.. Chart XXXI Susan Jane (McMurray) Anderson Albert Allen Anderson 031-1. Allen Barth Anderson, b. Dec. 29, 19 67. Chart XXXII William Z. B. McMurray Charlotte [Lottie] (Crawford) McMurray 032-1. William Berlin McMurray, b. Mar. 27, 1886. d. Jun. 17, 1972. M- Ethyl Bartholow, Nov. 23, 1920. She was b. Feb. 28, 1888, and d. Dec. 16, 1981. 032-2. Maude Hester McMurray, b. Nov. 13, 1891 M- Charles Bright, 1913. div., 1932. 032-3. Norma Louise McMurray, b. Apr. 11, 1902 M- Robert E. Hird, Mar. 8, 1927, at Freeport, IL. He was b. Dec. 13, 1897. M- 2nd - Robert Beckle Chart XXXIII Norma Louise (McMurray) Hird Robert E. Hird 033-1. Norma Jean Hird, b. Mar. 4, 1930. 21 21 Norma Louise Hird was killed in an auto accident Aug. 10, 1983 and bur. at St. Peters United Church of Christ Cemetery, just northwest of - 123 - Our Family Tree - McMurray Branch M- Robert Myers, Feb. 29, 1948. Chart XXXIV Norma Jean (Hird) Myers Robert Myers 034-1. Marcia Dee Myers, b. Aug. 18, 1948 M- Aug. 7, 1966 034-2. Debra Jean Myers, b. Aug. 5, 1951 M- Richard J. McDermott, Dec. 26, 1970 034-3. Joan Marie Myers, b. Apr. 9, 1956 M- 034-4. Nancy Ann Myers, b. Sep. 11, 1959 M- Chart XXXV William Berlin McMurray Ethyle (Bartholow) McMurray 035-1. Mary Louise McMurray M- 1st - Dan McNabb, Dec. 31, 1946. div.. M- 2nd - C. Gordon Christensen, Oct. 30, 1956. He was b. Aug. 10, 1927. 035-2. William Bartholow McMurray, b. Jan. 8, 1926 M- Mary Alice House, Aug. 25, 1949. Chart XXXVI William Bartholow McMurray Mary Alice (House) McMurray 036-1. Susan Mary McMurray, b. Mar. 9, 1957. M- John Martin Remington, Aug. 7, 1981. Ackley, IA. - 124 - Our Family Tree - McMurray Branch Chart XXXVII *— Jacob Berlin Susan (Bierley) Berlin Jacob Berlin, b. Mar. 8, 1774, d. Nov. 12, 1846. M- 1st - Eva Carbaugh (unverified) M- 2nd - Susan Bierley, b. May 18, 1768, and d. Oct, 16, 1835. M- 3rd - Polly Easttep. d.s.p. by the third md.. 22 The ch. of Jacob Berlin and Susan Bierley Berlin were: 037-1. Abraham Berlin M- Geiger 23 037-2. Daniel Berlin M- Moved to Carroll Co., OH 037-3. Jacob Berlin M- Saloma Zimmerman 24 037-4. John Berlin M- Anna Baughman 25 037-5. Michael Berlin, b. Feb. 8, 1805, d. Aug. 1885 M-lst Susan Everhart, 1827 M-2nd Julia Martin 26 22 All are bur. in the church yard of the Old Manor Church, Westmoreland Co., PA. Jacob Berlin was a native of the Palatine, GER. 23 They lived near Greensburg, PA but later moved to Carroll Co., OH then moved to IN. 24 Moved to a farm near Upper Sandusky, OH, Wyandotte Co., later moved to Hardin Co. - had eight ch. 25 Resided near Adamsburg, Westmoreland Co., PA. After death of fat. he continued to reside on Berlin homestead, d.s.p.. 26 He was a weaver by occupation at Hagerstown, MD - 125 - Our Family Tree - McMurray Branch 037-6. Sarah Berlin M- Paul Everhart 037-7. Susan Berlin M- John Everhart 27 037-8. Amy Berlin M- Col. Paul Brinker 28 037-9. Eliza Jane Berlin, b. Feb. 17, 1800, at Gettysburg, PA, and d. in 1883 M-lst - Pinkerton M-2nd - Charles Wooster M-3rd - John George Voight, b. Nov. 19, 1800 29 037-10. Elias Berlin, b. Feb. 17, 1800 in Fairfield Twp, Westmoreland Co., PA d. Mar. 2, 1895 in his ninety fifth yr 30 SECOND GENERATION Chart XXXVIII Jacob 1 Michael Berlin Susan (Everhart) Berlin 038-1. Amy Naoma Berlin, b. Apr. 10, 1830, d. Jul. 7, 1915 at Santa Ana, CA 31 2 7 The Everharts were bro. of Susan Everhart who md. Michael Berlin. They both moved to Mercer Co., PA 28 He was a prosperous farmer. They had a number of ch. 29 His fat. was of Iwinbaugh, Brockenheim, Wurtemburg, Kingdom of GER 30 was a son by Eva Carbaugh, the first wf., and a twn. of Eliza Jane Berlin above. 31 bur. in Fairhaven Cemetery in Mead fam. plot. - 126 - Our Family Tree - McMurray Branch M- William Blaine McMurray, Nov. 18, 1847, b. Oct. 25, 1825, at the McMurray fam;."farm 32 038-2. Josiah Berlin, b. c. 1832 M- Mary Kepple 038- -3 Mary Ann Berlin M - Everhart 002- -4 Paul Berlin, b. Jun. 27, 1836 - a twn. M- 038- -5 M- Henry Berlin, b. Jun. 27, 1836, a twn. 038-6. Jachaeus Berlin, b. Aug., 1838, d. same month as his mot., Susan Everhart Berlin, who d. at childb.. Chart XXXIX Michael Berlin Julia Ann (Martin) Berlin 039-7. Hiram Reuben Berlin, b. Nov. 20, 1840 - was in Civil War M- 039-8. Francis Marion Berlin, b. Jan. 21, 1842, d. in 1905, was in Civil War M- Amy Naoma Berlin was only eight yrs old at the death of her mot.. She went to live with her Aunt Amy, wf. of Col. Paul Brinker - where she resided until her marriage to William Blaine McMurray, Nov. 18, 1847, at the age of 17 yrs. She and her hus. resided on the Bushy Run Farm, his birthptace, for a period of yrs, near Jeannette, and just east of Harrison City, Westmoreland Co., PA The house was destroyed in a fire during the 1960's, but the red barn of the McMurrays still stands today. 32 (now Bushy Run State Park) near Jeanette PA, and d. Feb. 2, 1897 at Waterloo, IA. - 127 - Our Family Tree - McMurray Branch 039-9. Sophia Margaret Berlin, b. Sep. 28, 1843 M- 039-10. Martin Luther Berlin, b. Dec. 31, 1845 - was in Civil War M- 039-11. Abraham Silas Berlin, b. Jan. 29, 1845 M- 039-12. Elizabeth Ann Berlin, b. Feb. 7, 1850 M- 039-13. Catherine Jane Berlin, b. May 2, 1851 M- 039-14. Amanda Maria Berlin, b. Jun. 27, 1853 M- 039-15. Henrietta Berlin, b. Sep. 18, 1855 M- 039-16. Matthew Irwin Berlin, b. Oct. 31, 1858 M- 039-17. Emma Rachel Berlin, b. Apr. 1, 1860 M- 039-18. Alpheus Brinker Berlin, b. Jul. 17, 1862 M- 039-19. Sedgwick Berlin, b. Mar. 1865, twn. M- 039-20. Sarah Berlin, b. Mar. 1865, twn. M BUSHY RUN BATTLEFIELD SITE The British troops had made camp for the night on the banks of a cool shaded stream. They had scarcely formed their camp when they were fired on by a small party of Indians, who, however, were soon drive away. Ft. Pitt - 128 - Our Family Tree - McMurray Branch was yet about twenty five miles distant, and though the weakened and overburdened army Marched as rapidly as possible, yet they did not reach the fort until the morning of the 10th of Aug.. Bouquet and his forces had sped on their westward March, particularly from Bedford to Ligonier, which left the army impaired, when it is remembered that it took four days to make the last segment of the journey from Bushy Run to Pittsburgh. All the way the soldiers were annoyed by attacking parties of Indians, but these were minor matters to an army which had survived such a March and a battle. For more than a Cent., tradition marked the place of this battle as the present hill or rounded knoll on the farm of John L. Wanamaker, about a mile east of Harrison City. Then came Bouquet's letters, which have been set on the record, and confirm the tradition and marked out the spot so accurately that any one reading them could determine the location of the battlefield. His letter, written after the first day's battle, is headed "Camp at Edge Hill." Now, the norhern side of the Wanamaker hill is very precipitous - so much so that, notwithstanding the erosion, even to this day, it is almost inaccessible from that side. This prompted him to name the field "Edge Hill." Farther on his letter he says - I intended to have halted at Bushy Run, a mile beyond this camp - In the same letter he says: The advance guard was attacked by Indians, and that the light infantry companies went forward at once to protect them, and that the infantry in their charge were able to dislodge the savages from the heights. This was, of course, at the place reached by the advance guard when fired on, and was on the hill now belonging to Jonas Gongaware, it being higher than the ground farther east, and therefore designated by Col. Bouquet as the heights. Then Bouquet says that they discovered that the Indians had attacked the convey left in our rear; this obliged us to March back to protect it. The action then became Gen., though we were attacked on every side. He had to save the convoy with supplies because the goal was to reach the fort where the holdouts were starving. In the second letter he says - we took post last night on the hill where our convey halted when the front was first attacked, a commodious piece of ground just spacious enough for our purpose. There we encircled a while and covered our wounded with flour bags. At this point they fought from the time the convoy was attacked until darkness came. So that nearly all of the battle of the first day, and all of that of the second, was fought around the convoy, for he says farther on that tied to our convoy we could - 129 - Our Family Tree - McMurray Branch not lose sight of it without exposing it and our wounded to fall prey to the savages, who pressed upon us on every side. " ' Now in the strategy which he adopted there is still another tie line, as a surveyor would call it, which marks the Wanamaker hill at the main point of battle. When he concealed the companies, apparenlty in retreat, he placed them on a part of the hill which the enemy could not observe. This must have been near a depression on the road on which they retreated. When they retreated, they of course retreated towards the east. Now, just east of the Wanamaker hill is a small ravine near which, at the foot of the hill, he undoubtedly placed the companies. Farther on he says that the savages who had not been attacked were kept in awe by the remains of our troops posted on the brow of the hill for that purpose. After the battle was over he says the four companies took possession of the hill in our front, that is the Gongaware hill or "heights" and then moved on to Bushy Run. There is no section except the Wanamaker hill on the road leading from Jeannette to Harrison City, and about a mile east, of the latter place, that will at all fit the Bouquet description. - 130 - OUR FAMILY TREE and its many branches »MX3« SBAffOtf november 1988 Our Family Tree - the Sutfin Branch Chart I Arthur Sutfin (Sutphin) 1 Eliza Lanning Ch. : 001-1. James Lionel Sutfin, b. c. Aug. 10, 1832 at Yates Co., NY. d. Sep. 6, 1867. Bur. Stark Station Cemetery, Rutland Twp, Kane Co. IL. M- Mary Matilda Rowe, c. 1854, Kane Co. IL. b. 1835 in PA., d. Mar. 14, 1926, Los Angeles, CA. Bur. Sawtelle National Cemetery Soldiers Home, Los Angeles, CA. 001-2. Martha Sutfin M- 001-3. Mary Sutfin M- Walter Bennet 001-4. Retta Sutfin M- 001-5. Isaac Sutfin M- 001-6. James Sutfin M- 001-7. Hanna Sutfin. d. OH. M- John Lanning, at Sussxex Co. NJ. 1 Arthur Sutfin was b. Mar. 29, 1793, PA and d. Apr. 30, 1856 at Kane Co. IL. He married Eliza Lanning. The family name is apparently derived from the city of Zutphin, The Netherlands, and the early family name would be Van Zutphin. - 131 - Our Family Tree - the Sutfin Branch Chart II - , John L. Rowe 2 Hanna A. Rowe ch.: 002-1. Mary Matilda Rowe, b. 1835, d. Mar. 14, 1926, Los Angeles CA. Bur. Sawtelle National Cemetery Soldiers Home, Los Angeles, CA. M- 1st- James Lionel Sutfin, b. Aug. 10, 183 4 Yates Co. NY. M- 2nd - Gilbert L. Bowe, 1870. 002-2. Charles H. Rowe, b. Mar. 27, 1837. M- 002-3. Anna Eliza (or Analiza) Rowe, b. Feb. 27, 1838. M- 002-4. Christopher R. Rowe, b. Mar. 1, 1841. M- 002-5. Daniel H. Rowe, b. Aug. 30, 1843. M- 002-6. Hubert Rowe, b. Jan. 18, 1845. M- 002-7. Hannah Rowe, b. Dec. 18, 1847. M- 002-8. Carrie E. (Eunice) Rowe, b. May 3, 1849. M- 2 He was b. Jan. 16, 1814 at Trafalgar Toronto, Canada, d. Jun. 17, 1865, at Kane Co., IL. Bur. Stark Station Cemetery, Rutland Twp, Kane Co. IL. M- Hannah A. --- , Aug. 8 or 12, 1831, b. Aug. 12, 1815, Susquehanna Co. PA., d. 1907, at Kane Co. IL. Bur. Stark Station Cemetery, Rutland Twp, Kane Co. II. - 132 - Our Family Tree - the Sutfin Branch 002-9. Louisa C. Rowe , M- 002-10. Harrison Rowe, b. Sep. 23, 1852. M- 002-11. Eugene Rowe, b. Jan. 8, 1854, d. Apr. 23, 1868. d.y. Chart 97 Chart III James Lionel Sutfin Mary Matilda Rowe ch. : 003-1. Willis Arthur Sutfin, b. Aug. 27, 1859, at Pringree Grove, Kane Co., IL, d. Apr. 25, 1937 at Marysville, CA. 3 M- Elizabeth (Lizzie) Jane Hamom, Apr. 9, 1890, at East Bear River Township in Yuba Co., CA.. b. Jul. 27, 1870, d. Sep. 23, 1964 at Marysville, CA. 4 003-2. Josephine Sutfin, b. Sep. 1855, Pringree Grove, Kane Co., IL., d. May, 1876 Boyne Falls, MI. M- A. D. Carpenter 003-3. John Lionel Sutfin, b. Sep. 22, 1857, Pringree Grove, Kane Co. IL., d. Jan. 30, 1934. 3 Willis Arthur Sutfin, with 49 other Yuba and Sutter County young men, is also a world champion. He took part in the shoot of May 19, 1895, in which fifty men of old Company C of this city, commanded by the late Adjutant General Edwin A. Forbes, defeated a like number of men from Company B, Second Infantry Regiment, of San Francisco, on the Marysville range. The score was San Francisco, 1907, Marysville, 1982. 4 At their wedding T. J. Ostrom as the bed man and Miss Mamie Emeline Hamon was the bridesmaid. The marriage service was performed by Rev. Mr. Batchelor of Wheatland. (Sutfin family bible.) - 133 - Our Family Tree - the Sutfin Branch M- 1st - Mary Campbell, Nov. 16, 1881. M- 2nd - Bertha Hawalleck, Feb. 26, 1926. 003-4. Roland A. (or E) Sutfin, b. Apr. 1, 1863, Pringree Grove, Kane Co. IL., d. Apr. 28, 1880, at Moorehead, MN. Bur. Lot 12 4 Prairie Home Cemetery, Moorehead, MN. Chart IV William Pascoe 5 Mary Cady 6 ch. : 04-1. Mary Cordelia Pascoe, b. Oct. 1, 1848,in Cornwall, England, and d. Sep. 6, 1927, at San Jose, CA. M- John Henry Hamon, Feb. 7, 1867. He was b. Aug. 16, 18 3 2 on the Isle of Jersey, England and d. Nov. 30, 1923 at San Jose, CA. . Both are buried at the Santa Clara County Cemetery Mausoleum, San Jose, CA. Chart V Mary Cordelia (Pascoe) Hammon John Henry Hammon ch. : 005-1. Lizzie Jane Hammon, b. Jul. 27, 1870, in Yuba Co., CA., and d. Sep. 23, 1964 at Marysville, CA. M- Willis Arthur Sutfin, Apr. 4, 1890, b. Aug. 27, 1859, at Kane Co., IL, and d. Apr. 25, 1937 at Marysville, CA.. 5 He was b. Jul. 9, 1817 at Cornwall, England. He married Mary Caddy who was b. in Cornwall, England, Dec. 3, 1816. They emigrated to the United States and settled in IL. He died Jul. 1884. 6 She died Apr. 1897. - 134 - Our Family Tree - the Sutfin Branch 005-2. Mamie Emeline Hamon, b. Aug. 11, 1868, Wheatland, Yuba Co., CA, d. Nov. 22, 1951 M- Major Thomas Jefferson Ostrom 005-3. John Henry Hamon, b. Apr. 1873, Wheatland, Yuba Co., CA., d. Jan. 26, 1967. M- Lilliam Lee Moore, Nov. 24, 1901. 005-4. Annie Eliza Hamon, b. Apr. 18, 1876, at Wheatland, Yuba Co., CA., d. Jan. 8, 1971. M- John Strother Ostrom, Nov. 19, 1900. 005-5. Ella May Hamon, b. Nov. 5, 1878, Wheatland, Yuba Co., CA., d. Apr. 1971. M- , Richardson. 005-6. Cora Mable Hamon, b. Jul. 13, 1882, at Wheatland, Yuba Co., CA. M- 005-7. Edith Irene Hamon, b. Dec. 16, 1886, at Wheatland, Yuba Co., CA. M- Wright Brown Source: Frances E. (Sutfin) Douma, 5413 Valhalla Drive, Carmichael, CA 95608. Clyde Raymond Sutfin, 3227 Palmer Street, Sacramento, CA 95815. Chart VI Willis Arthur Sutfin Elizabeth (Lizzie) Jane (Hamon) Sutfin ch.: 006-1. Clyde Raymond Sutfin, b. Apr. 14, 1897, at Yuba Co., CA. M- Wilhelmina Mary Moore, Aug. 22, 1926, b. Feb. 28, 1902, Santa Margarita, San Luis Obispo Co., CA. d. May 18, 1986 at Sacramento, CA. Daughter of William Moore and Sarah Fineghan (Mills) Moore. 006-2. John Willis Sutfin, b. Feb. 19, 1891, at - 135 - Our Family Tree - the Sutfin Branch Marysville, Yuba Co., CA, d. Jan. 16, 1984. M- Iva E. Welch, Aug. 28, 1921. , 006-3. Hazel Mary Sutfin, b. Sep. 15, 1892, at Marysville, Yuba Co., CA., d. Apr. 26, 1982. M- John M. Rice, Apr. 24, 1924. 006-4. Flossie Irene Sutfin, Nov. 9, 1893, at Marysville, Yuba Co., CA., d. May 1, 1895 d.y. 006-5. Harold Arthur Sutfin, b. Oct. 21, 1895, at Marysville, Yuba Co., CA., d. Jun. 22, 1951. M- Agnes McGowan, Dec. 1, 1920. 006-6. Joseph Henry Sutfin, b. Jan. 6, 1902, at Marysville, Yuba Co., CA. M- Alice E. Dam, Jun. 16, 1928. 006-7. Avis Elizabeth Sutfin, b. Aug. 8, 1904, at Marysville, Yuba Co., CA., d. Sep. 22, 1981. M- Harold J. Branston, Oct. 1, 1928. 006-8. Mary Charlotte Sutfin, b. Aug. 14, 1906, at Marysville, Yuba Co., CA. M- George E. Silva, Jul. 26, 1926. 006-9. Charles Eugene Sutfin, b. Jan. 31, 1909, Marysville, Yuba Co., CA. M- Edna Jean Hursh, Jun. 12, 1934. Chart VII Clyde Raymond Sutfin Wilhelmina Mary (Moore) Sutfin 007-1. Roland Raymond Sutfin, b. Sep. 25, 1928, San Jose, Santa Clara Co., CA. M- 1st - Barbare Jean Beede, Aug. 18, 1950, b. Oct. 11, 193 0, dau. of Daniel Leonard Beede and Genevieve Ruby Wilson - divorced She married second - George Valdez, divorced M- 2nd - Gail Patricia Stevens, Feb. 6, 1966. - 136 - Our Family Tree - the Sutfin Branch 007-2. Frances Elizabeth Sutfin, b. Sep. 21, 1931, at San Jose, Santa Clara Co., CA. M- Daryl Wayne Douma, Jul. 12, 1953. 007-3. Willa Jane Sutfin, b. Jul. 3, 1935, at Marysville, Yuba Co., CA. M- William Louis Doppelmayr, Dec. 18, 1954. Chart 102 Chart VIII Roland Raymond Sutfin Barbara Jean (Beede) Sutfin 008-1. Michael Raymond Sutfin, b. Aug. 22, 1954 at Orange, CA. M- Catherine Ann Parker, Aug. 1, 1982 at Santa Ana, CA.. She was b. Apr. 24, 1959 at Santa Ana, CA.. 008-2. Michell Arthur Sutfin, b. Dec. 21, 1956, at Orange CA. M- Vicki Lynn Baker, Aug. 21, 1978. 008-3. Linda Mitchell Sutfin, b. Jan. 14, 1959, at Carmel, Monterey Co., CA. M- Frank Munoz, Mar. 25, 1983. 008-4. Shelley Jean Sutfin, b. Mar. 16, 1951, at Sacramento, CA. M- 1st - M- 2nd - Donald Timmons, Jun. 11, 1983. 008-5. Steven Raymond Sutfin, Jan. 29, 1968, at Orange CA. M- ELEVENTH GENERATION Chart IX - 137 - Our Family Tree - the Sutfin Branch John 1, John 2, Ebenezer 3, Caleb 4, Titus 5, Titus 6, Andrew 7, Joseph Hobby 8, Ralph Waite 9, Dorothy (Mead) Tarker 10 Charles Edward Parker 012-1 Marilyn Esther Meyer (Perrin) 009-1. Mary Elizabeth Parker, b. Nov. 9, 1957, at Santa Ana, CA. M- John Townsend (fourth marriage), at Villa Park, CA., Feb. 26, 1982. b. Oct. 19, 1938 at Puxico, Missouri She is a grad. in history at CA. State University at Fullerton in 1984. 009-2. Catherine Ann Parker, b. Apr. 24, 1959, at Santa Ana, CA. M- Michael Raymond Sutfin, Aug. 1, 1981. b. Aug. 22, 1954 at Fountain Valley, CA.. 009-3. Helen Frances Parker, b. Nov. 12, 1960, at Laguna Beach, CA. M- She is a grad. in Communications at CA. State University at Fullerton, 1984. 009-4. George Edward Parker, b. Oct. 22, 1962, at Santa Ana, CA. M- He is a grad. in electrical engineering at the University of CA. at Irvine, 1985. Chart X Catherine Ann (Parker) Sutfin Michael Raymond Sutfin 010-1. Eliza Raye Sutfin, b. Nov. 3, 1983, at Orange, CA. M- 010-2. Michael Parker Sutfin, b. Jan. 25, 1986 at Orange, CA. M- - 138 - Our Family Tree - the Sutfin Branch Chart XI David Leonard Beede ' Genevieve Ruby (Wilson) Beede ch.: 011-1. Barbara Jean Beede, b. Oct. 11, 1930. M- Roland Raymond Sutfin, Aug. 18, 1950, b. Sep. 25, 1928, at San Jose, Santa Clara Co. CA. First wife. Chart XII John McRoberts Jane (Tayler) McRoberts 012-1. William McRoberts, b. 1790, Ballygowan, Co. Antrim, Northern Ireland, d. May 9, 1854. M- Nancy Crawford, b. 1793, Ballygowan, Co. Antrim, Northern Ireland, d. May 18, 1854. Chart XIII Matthew Crawford 8 Jenny (Blair) Crawford 9 013-1. Nancy Crawford, b. 1793, Ballygowan, Co. Antrim, Northern Ireland, d. May 18, 1854. M- William McRoberts, b. 1790, Ballygowan, Co. Antrim, Northern Ireland, d. May 9, 1854. Chart XIV William McRoberts Nancy (Crawford) McRoberts 014-1. Liza Elizabeth McRoberts, b. 1828, Ballygowan, 7 He died Jul. 20, 1975. 8 He was b. 1769, d. May, 1814. 9 She was b. 1760, d. 1845, both were b. in Northern Ireland. - 139 - Our Family Tree - the Sutfin Branch Co. Antrim, Northern Ireland, d. Ballygown, Northern Ireland. M- Nathaniel Moore, a native of Yorkshire, England. Chart XV William Harbison 10 015-1. Sarah Harbison, b. 1841, Ballykeel Farm, Co. Down, Northern Ireland, d. Sep. 29, 1924 at Alameda, Alameda Co., CA M- Henry Mills, b. Aug. 4, 1840, at Ardaraah, Newry, Co. Down, Northern Ireland, md. Dec. 16, 1862 at Newry, Northern Ireland, d. Aug. 6, 1899, at Sacramento, CA. Chart XVI Sarah (Harbison) Mills Henry Mills 016-1. Sarah Finneghan Mills, b. Sep. 25, 1866, at Rathirland, Co. Down, Northern Ireland, d. Mar. 9, 1943, at Atascadero, San Luis Obispo Co., CA. M- William Moore, Nov. 1, 1888, b. Apr. 24, 1864, Ballygowan, Co. Down, Northern Ireland, d. Aug. 2, 1948, at Atascadero, San Luis Obispo Co., CA. Chart XVII Sarah Finneghan (Mills) Moore William Moore -1-1 017-1. Wilhelmina Mary Moore, b. Feb. 28, 1902, at 10 b. in Ireland. 11 Moore-Mi lls-McRoberts-Harbison-Crawford family lines by records, Dist. Ballynure Lame C.5098BK1, Salt Lake City, UT, District Newre, Northern Ireland, family records of Harriet Steele, 29 Churchill Road, Lome, Co. Antrim, Northern Ireland. Harriet Steele and Wilhelmina Moore both had William McRoberts as a great-grandfather. - 140 - Our Family Tree - the Sutfin Branch Santa Margarita, San Luis Obispo Co., CA., d. May 18, 1986 at Sacramento, CA M- Clyde Raymond Sutfin, Aug. 22, 1926, b. Apr. 14, 1897, at Yuba Co., CA. (see above). - 141 - OUR FAMILY TREE and its many branches mm&MM MAMI november 1988 Our Family Tree - Kohlmeier Branch of the Family - firm Parker, Milliken and Kohlmeier 001-10. Louise Kohlmeier M- Sloan Flack, b. Sep. 11, 1890 Carl Kohlmeier and Sloan Flack were classmates at Stanford Univ., CA. 001-2. Mary Kohlmeier, b. in Evansville, IN, Jun. 8, 1866, and d. in Santa Ana, CA, Oct. 22, 1917. M - Henry Diedrich Meyer, b. Aug. 26, 1866, and d. Feb. 22, 1953 at Santa Ana, CA - see Meyer genealogy 001-7. William Samuel Kohlmeier M- Grace Johnson, sis. of Paul Johnson, below 001-3. Emma Kohlmeier M- Nuffer 001-5. Susan Kohlmeier M- Helm 001-8. Helen Kohlmeier unm. 001-9. Ivy Kohlmeier M- Paul Johnson, bro. of Grace Johnson - had one adopted dau. 001-6. Laura Kohlmeier Unmd. 001-11. Benjamin Kohlmeier M- FIRST GENERATION Chart II John Aaron Nagel Marie Christina Nagel 002-1. Marie Christena Charlotte Nagel, b. Mar. 14, - 143 - Our Family Tree - Kohlmeier Branch of the Family - 1816, at Minden, GER, and d. Dec. 20, 1894 at AlBright, IN.. ,— M- Carl Ludwig Kohlmeier, b. Nov. 10, 1807, d. Feb. 9, 1882. He was b. at Vennebeck, Minden, GER. Johan Aaron Nagel was a body-guard to Napoleon Bonaparte in his Younger yrs. Chart III Frederich Hasselbrink 2 Maria Dorothea Kruse ch.: 003-1. Wilhelmina Hasselbrink. b. Aug. 14, 1826, at Otterhagen, Amt Neustadt, GER. She was eleven yrs old when the fam. arrived in NY from GER on the brig Bremen on Oct. 4, 1837. M- Diedrich Luhring. He was b. Apr. 21, 1815, and d.. May 14, 1906. He lived in Johnson twnshp., Gibson co., IN, and later after 1878, in Mackey, IN. Chart IV Carl Ludwig Kohlmeier Marie Christine Charlotte (Nagel) Kohlmeier ch.: 004-1. Carl Friederick Conrad Kohlmeier, b. Nov. 1, 1838, and d. Jun. 20, 1918, in Los Angeles co., CA. He was b. in Minden, GER. M- Louisa Anna Leuhring (Luring), b. Mar. 31, 1845, d. in Los Angeles, CA. 004-2. Louis Kohlmeier, b. 1836, Minden, Vennebeck, 2 Frederick Hasselbring was born in 1795, at Amt Neustadt, Germany, and died in 1862 in Tabor, Indiana. Maria Dorothea Kruse was born 1790 at Amt Neustadt, Germany and died in 1850 in Tabor, Indiana. - 144 - Our Family Tree - Kohlmeier Branch of the Family - GER. M- Henrietta Grosman, May 1, JL873. He d. Jul. 15, 1917. 004-3. Christine Wilhelmina Caroline Kohlmeier. b. Sep. 9, 1841. d. Nov. 13, 1930. M- Frederick Meyer, Sep. 12, 1862. 004-4. Charles M. Kohlmeier. b. 1844, Minden, GER. d. Nov. 14, 1907. M- Wilhelmina (Minnie) Luhring 004-5. Wilhelmina (Mena) Kohlmeier, b. May 23, 1847, Minden, GER. d. Feb. 2, 1933. M- 1st - Frederick Smith (Schmitt), Sep. 27, 1867 M- 2nd - Joseph (Joshua) Frudenberg, Jan. 6, 1876. 004-6. Frederick Wilhelm Christian Ludwig Kohlmeier, b. May 16, 1850, d. Apr. 12, 1921 M- Susan Catherine Luhring, May 13, 1875 004-7. Caroline (Carrie) Wilhelmina Kohlmeier. b. Nov. 10, 1853. M- William Luhring, Feb. 10, 1874. 004-8. Marie (Mary) Wilhelmina Charlotte Kohlmeier. b. Jan. 13, 1857. M- ^ , md. Mar. 13, 1878. 004-9. Julius Kohlmeier, b. Mar. 20, 1861, Vanderburgh co., IN. d. Mar. 4, 1949. M- Annie C. Kramer, May 16, 1882, Gibson co. , IN He d. at Elberfield, IN Chart V Mary (Kohlmeier) Meyer Henry Diedrich Meyer 005-1. Irving Benjamin Meyer, b. Aug. 7, 1891, in Newport twnshp., Orange co., CA, Nov. 8, 1973. A-9493 M- Esther Segerstrom, Dec. 31, 1918 b. Sep. 3, 1894, at St. Paul, MN, and d. Jan. 22, 1928, at Santa Ana, CA. - 145 - Our Family Tree - Kohlmeier Branch of the Family - 005-2. Edna Ellen Louise Meyer, b. Jan. 18, 1894, in Newport twnshp., Orange co., CA, d. Ventura co. A-9493 M- Louis Butterfield, b. Nov. —, 1893, at San Juan Capistrano, CA 005-3. Victor Conrad Meyer, b. Aug. 23, 1896, in Newport twnshp., Orange co., CA, d. Oct. 4, 1977, A- 9493 M-lst - Florence Evelyn Erickson, b. 1905, d. 1945 M-2nd - Myrtle (Merle) Sophia Peele, b. Jun. 27, 1909, d. May 22, 1987. 005-4. Florine Anna Meyer, b. Feb. 5, 1907, in Newport twnshp., Orange co., CA, A-9493 M- Robert Mentzer Chart VI Esther (Segerstrom) Meyer 002-1 Irving Benjamin Meyer 028-9 ch. : 006-1. Robert Irving Meyer, b. Oct. 2, 1919 M- Jane Maddock McAlray, b. Nov. 29, 1921 at Orilla, Ontario, CAN 006-2. Marilyn Meyer, b. Dec. 1, 1927, at Santa Ana, CA 3 3 Marilyn Meyer Parker, by reason of the death of her mother within two months of her birth was raised by the Kurt Perrin family of Laguna Beach from infancy. She was not adopted but changed her name legally to Perrin at the time she became employed by the Department of the Army in Europe in 1953 for convenience of the record and her passport. See Segerstrom and Perrin genealogies. Marilyn Meyer Parker was an a grad. of Santa Ana College [later renamed Rancho Santiago College] Santa Ana, CA 1947, receiving the Eleanor Northcross Distinguished Student Award. She had been Editor of the college newspaper. El Don, which received the Columbia School of Journalism Award - 146 - Our Family Tree - Kohlmeier Branch of the Family - M- Charles Edward Parker, Jun. 23, 1956, b. Sep. 9, 1927, at Santa Ana, CA 4 Chart VI Marilyn (Meyer) [Perrin] Parker Charles Edward Parker 006-1. Mary Elizabeth Parker, b. Nov. 9, 1957, Santa Ana, CA. 5 M- John McDonald Townsend, Feb. 26, 1982, at Villa Park, CA, b. Oct. 19, 1938, at Puxico, MO. 6 006-2. Catherine Anne Parker, b. Apr. 24, 1959, Santa Ana, CA. 7 M- Michael Raymond Sutfin, Aug. 1, 1981, b. Aug. 22, 1954, at Fountain Valley, CA. during her term as editor. She attended the University of California at Los Angeles, 1947-1949, and grad. with a B.A. degree in International Relations. She was a member of the Gamma Phi Beta Sorority while attending U.C.L.A. From 1947 to 1950 she served on the editorial staff of the South Coast News, Laguna Beach, CA, doing a number of feature articles. She served one year as a librarian for the Festival of Arts. In 1950 she was employed by the Bank of America, Newport Beach, serving there until she became a Special Services representative of the Department of the Army in 1954, serving at Conn Barracks, Schweinfurt, GER, and later at Wertheim, GER. until 1957 when she returned to the United States to be married. 4 For biography see Parker Family line. 5 She is a grad. of Villa Park H.S., class of 1975, and a Grad. of California State University at Fullerton, 1981, majoring in History. She has served in various capacities as a travel agent in Orange County. 6 John Townsend md. first: Irene 0'Dell, md. Jan. 1957; second wf.: Sandra Thompson, md. Nov. 1962; md. Gilda , md. 1970-1975. 7 She is a grad. of Villa Park H.S. CA, class of 1977, and has attained distinction as a wedding photographer in Orange County, CA during the 1980s. - 147 - Our Family Tree - Kohlmeier Branch of the Family - 006-3. Helen Frances Parker, b. Nov. 12, 1960, at Laguna Beach, CA. 8 Unmd. 006-4. George Edward Parker, b. Oct. 22, 1962, at Santa Ana, CA. 9 N- Chart VII Mary (Parker) Townsend John McDonald Townsend 007-1. Sarah Michael Townsend, b. Oct. 25, 1982. M- Chart VIII Catherine Ann (Parker) Sutfin Michael Raymond Sutfin 008-1. Eliza Raye Sutfin, b. Nov. 3, 1983, at Orange, CA M- 008-2. Michael Parker Sutfin, b. Jan. 25, 1986 at Orange, CA M- Collateral Relatives Chart IX 8 She is a grad. of Villa Park H.S. CA, Class of 1978. She is a graduate in Communications at CA State University at Fullerton, 1984. She has served as a "21" dealer at Harrah's Casino, South Lake Tahoe, NV. 9 Grad. of Villa Park H.S., CA, 1980, Grad. B.S. Univ. of CA at Irvine, 1985, employed 1985-1988 with Silicon Systems, Inc., Irvine, CA as a Processing Electronic Engineer. - 148 - Our Family Tree - Kohlmeier Branch of the Family - Martin Kohlmeier May (Parker) Kohlmeier 009-1. Ralph Kohlmeier, b. Jun. 9, 1900 at Los Angeles, CA, d. Jun. 2, 1976. M- Phyllis Baumgardner Resided at Palos Verdes, CA. Partner of the Law firm of Millikin, Parker and Kohlmeier. 009-2. Bayley Kohlmeier, b. May 4, 1905, at Monrovia, CA M- Blanche Irwin Resided Belmont, CA. He was an attorney with offices at 1617 Belburn Avenue, Belmont, CA. Chart X Louise (Kohlmeier) Flack Sloan Flack 010-1. Christine Flack M- William Shirley Chart XI Frederick Wilhelm Christian Ludwig Kohlmeier Susan Catherine (Luhring) Kohlmeier 10 011-1. Irvin Kohlmeier M- 011-2. Elmer Kohlmeier M- 011-3. Clarence Kohlmeier M- 10 Nine other chyldren. The Fred Kohlmeier's spent their lives in farming a plot of land just outside of Mackey, Gibson County, Indiana. 149 - Our Family Tree - Kohlmeier Branch of the Family - Chart XII "~~- William Samuel Kohlmeier Grace (Johnson) Kohlmeier 012-1. Ruth Kohlmeier M- William Van Wyck c Chart XIV Frederick Wilhelm Christian Ludwig Kohlmeier Susan Catherine (Luhring) Kohlmeier 014-1. Irvin Kohlmeier M- 014-2. Elmer Kohlmeier M- 014-3. Clarence Kohlmeier M- Nine other ch.. The Fred Kohlmeier's spent their lives in farming a plot of land just outside of Mackey, Gibson Co., IN. Chart XV William Samuel Kohlmeier Grace (Johnson) Kohlmeier 015-1. Ruth Kohlmeier M- William Van Wyck - 150 - OUR FAMILY TREE and its many branches Irak Jfotmtltj november 1988 Our Family Tree - The Beale Family Branch THE BEALE FAMILY The first Beale in America, Thomas Beale, was b. 1619, (1621 • see VA Mag. V. p. 26.) and as a Royalist he came to the United States from Maidstone, Co. Kent, England in 1640. (Folio 10, Vol. XXIII, Wm. & Mary Qtrly Ser. t). He was commander of Fort York, 1652, Justice of the Peace of York Co. in 1652. He settled in York Co., VA on a 2000 acre farm on Back Creek, VA. He was a councilman art James City in 1665. He md. Alice , wid. of Reade, at time of md. to Thomas Beale. VA Mag. Vol. 23, folio 10. This is where he d. in 1688. In 1646 he applied for 250 acres of land in York Co., and was appointed a member of the Council in 1662. W & M (III) (I) 65-67. Hening, Vol. 2, p. 320. In Bruton Parish church, Williamsburg, where he was a warden, is a pew which has a plate designating it as Thomas Beale's pew, member of the Council, 1662, vestryman, 1684. King Charles II acknowledged him in a letter to Governor Berkeley of VA, dated Sep. 30, 1688. (See 17 W(l) 184, 23 W(l) 10.) Chart I Thomas Beale Alice Reade Beale 001-1. Ruth Beale, b. c. 1644, York Co., d. 1698 M- Capt. John Tiplady, d. 1669 VA Mag. Vol. 37, p. 163. 001-2. Beale M- Godwyn, 1702 They had a son, Peter Godwyn, York Co. Deeds and Wills, Folio 276, VA Mag. Vol. XXXI. 001-3. Elizabeth Beale, d. Dec. 21, 1705 M- Isaac Powell, d. Dec. 16, 1705 001-4. Beale M- Francis Reade 001-5. Capt Thomas Beale II, 1 b. 1647, d. 1679. - 151 - Our Family Tree - The Beale Family Branch M- Anne Gooch, 2 Feb. 27, 1672, in York Co.. She M-2d. William Colston. VA Mag. Vol. 34, p. 188. Chart II Thomas Beale II Ann Gooch Beale 002-1. Anne Beale, b. Aug. 10, 1672 M- George Hamilton (?) 002-2. Hannah Beale, b. 1674, d. 1744 M- Col. William Ball, 1700, b. 1676, d. March 1744- 1 This Thomas Beale established Chestnut Hill, three miles north of Warsaw, Virginia, in Richmond Co., Virginia and preceded his father in death, passing away in 1679. Thomas Beale, Jr., married Ann Gooch, daughter of Major William Gooch. William Gooch owned Temple Farm near Yorktown, Virginia, which continued in the possession of members of the family for many years. This is the farm which General Geoerge Washington used in 1781 to draw up the Articles of Capitulation which Lord Cornwallis signed to end the American Revolution. 2 granddaughter of William Gooch of Suffolk, England who had 1. a. Col. William Gooch II, emigrated to Virginia, c. 1650, settled in York Co. on the plantation called Temple Farm near Yorktown. He was born in 1626, died Oct. 29, 1655. Member of the Council, Justice of the Peace, York Co., 1652, House of Burgesses, Nov. 1652-1654. A mile or so south of Yorktown is the old Temple Farm, the old Temple Church was there. The church was destroyed during the Battle of Yorktown. (Tyler's Q. 4/448). M- Eleanor-Bowles. She married second Warner Lewis. 1 b. Governor William Gooch M- Governor William Gooch 1. Anne Gooch M- Capt. Thorns Beale II M- 2nd - William Colston (W & M (1) 85, W & M (II) 15). - 152 - Our Family Tree - The Beale Family Branch 1745. Hayden, pg. 55-61. 002-3. Thomas Beale III, b. Jan. 29, 1675, d. Feb. 14, 1729 3 M- Elizabeth Colston Taverner, b. Mar. 25, 1681, d. Mar. 21, 1729, dtr. of Capt. John Taverner Chart III Thomas Beale III Elizabeth Colston (Taverner) Beale ch. 003-1. Thomas Beale IV, b. 1708, d. Oct. 9, 1732 M- Sarah McCarthy, April 27, 1728. 4 003-2. Elizabeth Beale, b. 1709 M- Landon Carter (3d wf.) 003-3. Capt. William Beale, b. Aug. 1710, of Richmond Co., VA. M- Ann Harwar, Apr. 29, 1729, of Richmond Co., VA Inherited Chestnut Hill 003-4. Taverner Beale, b. 1713, d. 1756 M- Frances Madison, 1741 5 003-5. Charles Beale, b. 1721 M- Mary Fauntleroy, b. Feb. 28, 1725. She md. second Isaac William Giberne. 3 Resided at Chestnut Hill, Va. Mag. Vol. 10, p. 317, page 30 Beale Genealogy, Vol. 39, p. 170 W & M V. 3(1) 132 Va. Mag. V. 32, p. 53. 4 Her brother Dennis McCarthy, married Sarah Ball, daughter of Colonel William Ball (1676-1745) 5 daughter of Ambrose Madison and Frances (Taylor) Madison, a sister of James Madison, Sr., and aunt of James Madison Jr., Fourth President of the United States. She married second Jacob Hite, Dec. 15, 1756. She and her second husband were killed by Indians while passing through Florida in 1776 emigrating to Louisiana. 153 - Our Family Tree - The Beale Family Branch 003-6. Richard Beale, b. Dec. 19, 19, 1223, d. 1771 M- Hannah Wilson ' ' M- 2nd - Elizabeth Madison Willis, sister of Col. James Madison Sr., and Frances Madison, See Madison genealogy. 003-7. Reuben Beale, b. Dec. 19, 1725, d. at Chestnut Hill, Nov. 2, 1802, VA Mag. Vol. 30. p. 72. M- Frances Robinson, Mar. 9, 1749. 003-8. Ann Beale, b. 1721 M- 003-9. John Beale, b. 1723 M- 003-10. Elinor Beale M- 003-11. Nancy Beale M- Chart IV Taverner Beale Frances (Madison) Beale 004-1. Charles Beale, b. 1735 M- 004-2. Frances Madison Beale, b. 1737 M- Thomas Hite. 6 004-3. Elizabeth Beale, b. 1739 M- George Harrison, 1772, b. 1737. 6 He was a step son of Frances Madison Beale (above) by her second marriage to Jacob Hite, and a son of Jacob Hite, by his first marriage to Catherine o'Bannon. - 154 - Our Family Tree - The Beale Family Branch 004-4. Ann Beale, b. 1754 M- Cuthbert Harrison, 1772,—b. 1737 004-5. Tavener Beale, b. 1742, d. Clifton Forge, 1810 M- Elizabeth Hite, Dec. 22, 1763. 7 Chart V Jacob Hite Catherine O'Bannon 005-1. Thomas Hite M- Frances Madison Beale, dtr. of Frances Madison Beale and Taverner Beale, b. 1737 005-2. Elizabeth Hite M- Taverner Beale, b. 1732, d. 1810, son of Frances Madison Beale and Taverner Beale. Chart VI Jacob Hite Frances Madison (Beale) Hite 006-1. Frances Madison Hite M- Thomas Carver Willis Thomas Carver Willis was a member of the Washington family of VA. Chart VII Taverner Beale Elizabeth (Hite) Beale 007-1. John Beale, d. Oct. 21, 1809 M- 1st - Margaret (Peggy) Skillern, 1788, dtr. of George Skillern of Revolutionary War fame. M- 2nd - Rhoda Triggs, 1805, dtr. of Abraham Triggs. 7 daughter of Jacob Hite by Catherine 0' Bannon and sister of Thomas Hite (above). Taverner Beale was an officer during the American Revolution. - 155 - Our Family Tree - The Beale Family Branch He was a member of the House of Delegates, 1793. 007-2. Thomas Beale, b. 1742 M- Celeste Grandpierre, nat. of NC. 007-3. Catherine Beale, b. Sep. 25, 1765, d. Feb. 22, 1856 M- Capt. John Jordan, Apr. 28, 1789 007-4. Charles Beale, b. Feb. 17, 1771, d. July 10, 1842 M- 1st - Elizabeth Skillern, b. 1780 M- 2nd - Anna Kyle Moved to MO 007-5. Mary Beale, b. 1762 M-lst - Major Peter Higgins M- 2nd - Dr. Jacob Williamson, of New Market, VA 007-6. James Madison Hite Beale, b. Feb. 17, 1786, d. Aug. 2, 1866 M- Mary Casey Steenbergen, Oct. 3, 1807 He was a member of the United States Congress, 18 33-35. 007-7. Elizabeth Beale M- 1st- M- 2nd - William Steenbergen Chart VIII John Beale Margaret (Skillern) Beale 008-1. George Beale M- 1st - Betty Lewis, dtr. of John Lewis of Salem. They moved to Huntsville, AL. M- 2nd - Elizabeth Bowie Lane Bowie, b. Aug. 10, 1780 008-2. Robert Beale, d. 1833 M- Mary Vance Poage 008-3. Eliza Ann Beale M- Thomas Lewis of Pt. Pleasant, West VA - 156 - Our Family Tree - The Beale Family Branch 008-4. Major John W. Beale, b. 1798 M- Anne Marie Hereford", b. 1798 008-5. Madison Beale, d.s.p. Chart IX George Beale Betty (Lewis) Beale 009-1. Robert Beale, b. 1790 M- 009-2. George Beale, b. 1792, d. 1835 M- Emily Truxtun. 8 Chart X George Beale Elizabeth Bowie Lane (Bowie) Beale 010-1. Elizabeth Ann Beale, b. 1818 M- Commodore David Dixon Porter, United States Navy, Chart XI George Beale y Emily Truxtun 8 daughter of Commodore Thomas Truxtun, captain of the U.S.S. Constellation, and as such a commodore for a period. George Beale was appointed pursuer. United States Navy, July 24, 1813. He was at the Battle of Lake Champlain, 1814, and was awarded the Congressional Medal for valor in this action. 9 As was his wife's half brother, Edward Fitzgerald Beale, Commodore Porter was associated with the United States Army Camel Corps history. He was a superintendant of the United States Naval Academy, Annapolis, Md. He also was an admiral in the United States Navy during the Civil War, and instrumental in the southern blockade. - 157 - Our Family Tree - The Beale Family Branch 011-1. Mary Elizabeth Beale, b. 1820 M- William Read, b. 1820^ d. 1884. 10 011-2. Edward Fitzgerald Beale, b. 1822, d. 1911 M- Mary Edwards Chart XII Edward Fitzgerald Beale •L1 10 His grandfather, John Read, was a signer of the Declaration of Independence and the first United States Senator from Delaware. 11 A biography of Edward Fitzgerald Beale, by Stephen Bonsai, - A Pioneer in the Path of Empire, 1822-1903, discloses - That in 1852 General Beale was made superintendent of Indian Affairs for California and Nevada. He at once initiated a policy of fair dealing with the Indians. He established the government reservation at Tejon (now referred to as Fort Tejon). He gained fame with Kit Carson by seeking aid from San Diego after the Battle of San Pasqual in 1846. He was the first to carry California gold to the east, after its discovery in 1848. He explored mountain passes, surveyed routes, and built roads over them, and in 1861 he was appointed Surveyor General of Californi and Nevada. He conceived and supported the creation of the United States Army Camel Corps. The Beale Memorial Library was given to the city of Bakersfield by Mrs. Mary E. Beale, in memory of her husband, the general. It was damaged and torn down after the 1952 earthquake. Tejon (badger) pass was first penetrated by Gov. Pedro Fages, 1772. Fages called it Buena Vista (beautiful view). The Spaniards called it La Canada de las Uvas (the canyon of the grapes (Grapevine of today) (SRL 283). Fages expedition included Fr. Jose Maria Zalvidea. General Beale erected an adobe building for an Indian office at Tejon on the site of his later rancho Arroyo del Paso, which became later his Tejon Ranch, passing into corporate hands in later years. Most of the older buildings disappeared during the Tehachapi earthquake of 1952. The Sebastian Indian Reservation was located on Tejon (SRL 133). The Rancho Tejon consisted of several combined ranchos. Beale purchased Rancho el Tejon in 1865 from John Temple and Ignacio del Valle. Temple had - 158 - Our Family Tree - The Beale Family Branch Mary (Edwards) Beale 012-1. Truxtun Beale *"~ M- 1st- Harriet Stanwood Blaine, 1893. 12 M- 2nd - Marie Oge, Apr. 23, 1903. 13 012-2. Mary Beale M- George Bahkemeteff 14 succeeded to the interest of Jose Antonio Aguirre, who with Del Valle received the grant in Nov. 1843. Rancho de los Alamos y Agua Caliente was purchased in 1865 by Beale from Agustin Olvera, Cristobal Aguilar and James Gibbens, successors to the original grantees (1843 and 1846), with Francisco Lopez, Luis Jordan and Vicente Botello. The Rancho Castaic was granted in 1843 to Jose Maria Covarrubias, Secretary to Governor Pio Pico. Beale in 1866 bought Fort Tejon itself from Col. Robert S. Baker, the later second husband of Arcadia Bandini Stearns. Rancho de la Liebre was Beale's first acquisition in 1855, this rancho having been granted to Jose Maria Flores in 1846. Together all these lands formed the one great Tejon Ranch at the south end of Kern Co., California. Over these lands today pass the Feather River Canal, bringing water from northern California to the southland. The famous Tehachapi loop of the Southern Pacific Railroad is located on the Tejon Ranch. (SRL 508). Fort Tejon was established in 1854 as the United States Army's First Dragoon headquarters, to protect the Indians from extermination and to deter horse stealing by them. In 1858 the fort became a station of the Butterfield Overland Mail route - and was abandoned as a fort on September 11, 1864. It was located on Rancho Castac or Castaic. 12 daughter of James G. Blaine, the Republican Presidential candidate in 1884, and Secretary of State under James Garfield and Benjamin Harrison. Truxtun Beale and Harriet Blaine Beale were divorced in 1896. 13 a native of California, and a later resident of New York. In the 1960's, as an active preservationist, she deeded the Beale home in Washington D.C. to the National Trust for Historic Preservation and it later served as the Trust headquarters, facing Lafayette Park, on Jackson Place, near the White House, and known historically as the Decatur-Beale home. 14 He was secretary of the Russian Legation in Greece at the time of their marriage, and later was the last Imperial Russian Ambassador to the United States, 1911-1917. - 159 - Our Family Tree - The Beale Family Branch 012-3. Emily Beale M- John Roll McLean 15 15 John Roll McLean was the publisher of the Cincinnati Enquirer and the Washington Post. A BRIEF HISTORY OF THE WASHINGTON POST 1877. The Washington Post was first published on Thursday, Dec. 6, 1877. Four pages for 3 cents, circulation 10,000 printed at a small plant at 914 Pennsylvania Ave., N.W. Further up the muddy, unpaved avenue, Rutherford B. hayes presided over the White House and the nation. From its first issue, the Post was hard-hitting, impudent, outspoken an readable. In spite of the fact that Washington was notorious as a graveyard for newspapers (10 other dailies were in current, if shortlived, publication in the capital), the newcomer was an immediate success. It's founder and publisher was Stilson Hutchins, an experienced newspaperman who earlier had founded and sold the St. Louis Times, he was an ardent Democrat and though his Washington Post was often partisan, it was not a party mouthpiece. Hutchins said of its success: "It has been independent and a newspaper. No man has been able to say that he owned it except the owner..." 1878. A year after its first appearance, the thriving newspaper had upped its daily circulation to 11,875 - at a time when the population of Washington D.C, was only 178,000. From its first issue the newspaper was an outspoken critic of the local, national and world scene. The Post boldly campaigned for civic improvements (some citizens called it "muckracking"), and ran exposes on crime conditions. The paper grew and prospered as the city prospered. A daring innovation in 1878 was the hiring of a woman staff reporter, Calista Halsey. She and her male colleagues covered the city by foot and bicycle. 1880. - 160 - Our Family Tree - The Beale Family Branch Four months after The Post began publication it had to move a larger quarters at 339 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W. In 1880, another move: to a plant that Hutchins built at 10th and D Streets. Although most of the type continued to be set by hand, it was there that Hutchins installed some of the newfangled typesetting machines. In 1888 he purchased The Post's only morning rival, the Daily Republican. 1889 In 1889, Hutchins sold The Washington Post to two partners: Frank Hatton, a Republican and a former Cabinet member, and Beriah Wilkins, a former Democratic Congressman. Thus, The Washington Post continued its non partisan philosophy. It was the genial Hatton whose pleasant notion, one summer day, was to set the world happily jogging to The Washington March. He persuaded young John Philip Sousa, then leader of the United States Marine Corps Band, to write a "special piece." It was to be played at a ceremony on the grounds of the Smithsonian Institution to honor the winners of a Washington Post essay contest for school children. The Washington Post March was first played on June 15, 1889. It became a world-wide dance hit - as a military two step - and is still the most enduring of musicial commercials for the modern Washington Post. 1893 Hatton and Wilkins moved The Post in 1893 to 1335 E Street, N.W.., alongside the National Theatre. It remained there until 1950. 1905. In 1905, after the deaths of Hatton and Wilkins, the newspaper was purchased by John Roll McLean, owner of the Cincinnati Enquirer. Under McLean's son, Edward, The Post lost sight of some of the precepts of a free press and suffered the consequences of partisanship. 1933. By 1933, circulation was down from 76,000 to 54,000. On June 1, 1933, a public auction was held on the steps of the E Street building and The - 161 - Our Family Tree - The Beale Family Branch Chart XIII Washington Post was sold. Eugene Meyer bought it for $825,000. He was 57, a California-born banker with a distinguished career in finance and government service. During his life, he held an appointive job under every President from Woodrow Wilson to Dwight Eisenhower. Instead of retiring, Mr. Meyer bought The Washington Post, explaining that he felt he could make himself "useful at a critical time." 1943. Under Mr. Meyer's direction the newspaper began its comeback. In ten years. Post circulation trebled. The Washington Post reclaimed its position as one of the top newspapers of the nation. Today, it is widely judged to be one of the great newspapers of the world. 1946. In 1946, President Truman appointed Eugene Meyer the first president of the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development. Mr. Meyer as succeeded as publisher of The Washington Post by Philip L. Graham, his son- in-law, then assistant publisher. Graham became President of The Washington Post Company after Eugene Meyer's death in 1959. Philip Graham was a young lawyer from South Dakota who served as law clerk to Supreme Court Justice Stanley Reed and Felix Frankfurter. He married Eugene Meyer's daughter, Katherine, in 1940. Graham quit a government administration job to enlist in the Army Air Force as a private in 1942. He came out a major in intelligence. 1950 To accomodate his growing newspaper, Graham built the 1515 L Street, N.W., building still occupied by The Washington Post and installed new presses, and other modern equipment. After only 15 years, this plant already is too small. A new Post building is being planned for a nearby site. 1954 - 162 - Our Family Tree - The Beale Family Branch Emily (Beale) McLean John Roll McLean 013-1. Edward Beale McLean M- Evelyn Walsh, b. Aug.. 1, 1886, Denver, CO. 16 In 1954, The Washington Post purchased the Washington Times-Herald, the only other morning newspaper in the capital. Retaining the best qualities and most popular features on each, the combined newspapers held on to the readership of both. Circulation of The Washington Post-Times Herald jumped to 380,000. Philip Graham added considerably to the holdings of The Washington Post Company: Radio and TV station WTOP in Washington; WJXT-TV in Jacksonville, Florida, Newsweek magazine. Art News, Portfolio. Later were added a 49% share in Bowaters Mersey Paper Co., Ltd., of Nova Scotia, and an interest in the Robinson Terminal Warehouse Corp. of Alexandria Va. (to which much of The Post's newsprint is transport by sea and river from the north.) 1962 Since 1962, The Washington Post and Los Angeles Times have jointly operated a fast-growing news service. 1963. After Philip Graham's death in 1963, his widow succeeded him as President of The Washington Post Company. As a daughter of Eugene Meyer, Katherine Graham had always participated in the newspaper's affairs. A graduatge of the University of Chicago, she served a newspaper apprenticeship first on the San Francisco News, and then in the circulation and editorial departments of The Washington Post until 1945. She is the mother of four children, a daughter and three sons. She has actively presided over the affairs of the company into the 1980's, and it was under her leadership, and Editorship of Benjamin Bradlee that the Post began its investigation of the Watergate case that was instrumental to bringing about the government investigation in the Nixon Administration. 16 daughter of Thomas Walsh and Carrie Bell Reed Walsh. Thomas Walsh was born Clonmell, Ireland. The McLean's wre married July 22, 1908. She was the - 163 - Our Family Tree - The Beale Family Branch Chart XIV Washington McLean Mary McLean 014-1. John Roll McLean M- Emily Beale, dtr. of Truxtun Beale. 014-2. Margaret McLean M-lst Hazen M-2nd George Dewey, Admiral, United States Navy. Chart XV Edward Beale McLean Evelyn (Walsh) McLean 015-1. Vinson Walsh McLean, b. Dec. 19, 1909, was killed by an automobile while he slipped away from his parents estate unnoticed. 17 owner of the Friendship House on Wisconsin Avenue, Washington D.C, that gave the name Friendship Heights to that area, and now is part of McLean Gardens. Edward Beale McLean succeeded his father in his publishing enterprises. Thomas Walsh was prominent in the investigation of the Teapot Dome Scandal in the early 1920s that led to a cloud over the Warren G. Harding administration, and was a leading opponent of U.S. involvement in World War II that led to President Roosevelt's early use of a private secret intelligence organization, in which Vincent Astor (of the Room) was a leading participant. McLean provided the fortune that allowed his wife, Evelyn Walsh McLean to become owner and possessor of the fabulous Hope Diamond. The Hope Diamond was purchased by him in 1911 for the sum of $300,000. The Beale family later sold the diamond to the leading diamond merchant, Harry Winston, who in time donated it to the Smithsonian Institution's fine gem collection, where it is now on display. Possession of the diamond was considered to have dire consequences for the possessor. 17 The "vodoo" associated with the Hope diamond was believed by many to - 164 - Our Family Tree - The Beale Family Branch 015-2. John (Jock) Roll McLean II, b. Jan. 31, 1916 at Washington*!}. C. M- Mrs. Elizabeth (Brooke) Reeves of NY, at Durant, OK. 015-3. Edward (Ned) Beale McLean, Jr., b. 1918 M- 1st - Anne Carroll Meem II, dtr. of Washington Barker and Harry Grant Meem, div. 1947 after five yrs of md. M- 2nd - Manuela Hudson (Molly) Vanderbilt, who was first wf. of millionaire turfman Alfred Gwynn Vanderbilt. 015-4. Evelyn Walsh McLean, b. 1921, d. 1947 M- Robert R. McReynolds, United States Senator, nat. of NC. She was his fifth wf.. She was a columnist for the Washington Post, and instrumental in convicting Gaston Means. Chart XVI Frances Madison (Beale) Hite Colonel Thomas Hite 016-1. James Hite, b. 1775, M- Judith Wood Baker 016-2. Frances Madison Hite, b. 1773 M- Thomas Carver Willis, 1798, b. Oct. 4, 1773. Chart XVII James Hite Judith Wood (Baker) Hite 017-1. Juliet Wood Hite, b. 1802, d. 1878 M- Major Thomas Briscoe, 1819, b. 1793, son of Eleanor Magruder and Dr. John Briscoe, of Jefferson Co. VA be a factor in this tragedy. He was named after a deceased brother of his mother. - 165 - Our Family Tree - The Beale Family Branch Chart XVIII Francis Madison (Hite) Willis Thomas Carver Willis 018-1. Thomas Hite Willis, b. 1790 M- Elizabeth Ryland 018-2. Elizabeth Willis, b. 1792 M- Brown 018-3. Eleanor A. M. Willis, b. 1794 unmd. 018-4. Frances Beale Willis, b. 1796 M- William Willis 018-5. Mildred Willis, b. 1798 M- Thomas Timberlake Chart XIX Thomas Hite Willis Elizabeth (Ryland) Willis 019-1. Patty Willis, b. 1812 M- Lockland 019-2. Fanny Willis, b. 1814 M- Mims 019-3. Peachy Willis, b. 1816 M- Shunk 019-4. Nathaniel Willis, b. 1818 M- Jennie Washington 019-5. Emma Willis, b. 1820 M- Bushrod Washington 019-6. Robert Willis, b. 1822 M- - 166 - Our Family Tree - The Beale Family Branch Chart XX HITE FAMILY Baron Hans Jost Hite (also spelled Heydt) was the first of this family to emigrate to the United States. He came from Alsace to Kingston, NY, in 1710 with the great Palatine emigration to the new world. From Kingston the Hite family moved to Germantown, Pennsylvania, and then to Hopewell in VA. Jost Hite and his partner, Robert McKay, received a grant of 100,000 acres on condition that one hundred families would settle the land within two yrs. During 1732 the Hites, their eight ch., and sixteen other families, settled in the Shenandoah Valley. Lord Fairfax, a pioneer in VA, challenged the right to the land and litigation followed. The legal battle was not resolved until 1786 when title was confirmed in the heirs of Baron Jost Hite. Baron Hans Jost Hite, and his wf., Anna Maria du Bois, a Hugenot from Weires had eight ch.. In the Rhine Valley, at the town of Elberfeld, there were and are still two leading families - one, Von der Heydt, the other Baron or Richter Capelle. Baron Jost Hite fled to Holland as a refugee where he md. in 1710 to Anna Maria du Bois. She d. at Long Meadows in 1738, below Strasbourg, VA. Having sold his ancestral estates and fled, he brought with him 16 families in his own ships "Friendship" and "Bryant the Swift" at his own expense, (origin of names by Frederick Pott). The Hites resided in the Winchester area until the 1770s. Then Jacob, unhappy because the seat of the new Berkeley Co. had not been located on his land, moved to SC. In the 1780s, Col. Abraham Hite, aging and weary from exposure, imprisonment and financial sacrifice during the Revolutionary War (he and James Wood of Winchester had stood as surety for the Eighth Regt. of Valley Men, VA Line), sold his holdings near the present Moorfield, WV. Colonel Isaac Hite and his wf., Eleanor Eltinge, dtr. of Cornelius and Rebecca (Van Meter) Eltinge, sold their slaves, horses and household - 167 - Our Family Tree - The Beale Family Branch possessions, and moved to Jefferson Co., Kentucky to join their sons Isaac and Abraham Jr. The Paul Froman family (Elizabeth Hite) is also thought to have been in Kentucky by this time. They had first gone to Pittsburgh, purchased land, sold it at a profit, and proceeded on to Kentucky, following their sons, Jacob and John Paul Froman, Jr. About 1766 Jacob and John Bowman, sons of George and Mary Hite Bowman,-set out by horseback to explore regions farther afield. After having decided where to settle they moved their families to the spots they had chosen. John's choice was in the area which became Roanoke Co., VA, and Jacob continued on to the present Laurens Co., SC. Jacob's presence in SC no doubt influenced his uncle, Jacob Hite, in his move there after his failure to determine the location of the Berkeley Co. seat on his property near the future Leetown, WV. Actually, John Bowman did not stay long in the Roanoke Valley, for in 1776-77 he raised two companies of men which he led into KY. In 1779 he moved his family to the new Co. of Lincoln, KY, where he d. five yrs later. grandsons of the old baron Jost Hite, bearing the name Hite, apparently had preceded their Bowman cousins westward. In July, 1773, Abraham Hite, Jr., known as Abram, accompanied by James Harrod and James Sandusky, descended the OH River in pirogues or large canoes to the Falls (Louisville, KY.) The following May these same men, with the addition of Jacob Sandusky and 3 6 others, again descended the OH, camping at the mouth of Deer Creek, a site now occupied by Cincinnatti. They continued to the mouth of the KY River, and up to what has become Mercer Co., and there they erected a number of cabins and labeled the new area Harrodstown, later called Oldtown, and still later by its present, familiar, name of Harrodsburg. In June 1773, surveyors Capt. Thomas Bullitt and Hancock Taylor, with two companies of men, also descended the OH River and reached the mouth of Limestone Creek, present site of Maysville. Bullitt and - 168 - Our Family Tree - The Beale Family Branch his group traveled to the Falls of the OH by July 8. They remained there form some time while surveying the area. Each night they found- it necessary to retire for safety to a shoal above the nearby Corn Island. In Aug. they laid out the town of Louisville on part of the plat of the present city. In Captain Bullitt's party was Capt. Isaac Hite, brother of Abram, both of them sons of Col. Abraham Hite of near Moorefield on the South Branch of the Potomac in the present Hardin Co., WV. Isaac Hite was only 20 at the time, Abram was 18 yrs of age. Indian hostility was a danger to be considered, for in July 1774, while surveying not far from the mouth of the KY River, Hancock Taylor was fatally wounded by an Indian rifle ball. All the surveyors were then under the direction of Col. William Preston, surveyor for Fincastle Co., VA, which included all of KY as it is identified today. Iaac Hite accompanied a surveying expedition over approximately the same area in 1774, this time under the leadership of Col. John Floyd. The grandsons of Jost Hite, who had taken most active parts in the opening of KY to settlement, were on an expedition in 1774 to finally secure the territory from the Indians, which lead to the treaty signed at Camp Charlotte, preliminary to the decision council held at Fort Pitt the next spring. Often called the first battle of the American Revolution, the battle of Point Pleasant resolved into the two principal forces of the yrs to come - American expansion and national awareness. Col. John Bowman, the Hite grandson who had settled in Roanoke in 1766, and later moved to KY, had already become the first military commander and military governor of the Co., which was to become the State of KY. In 1779 Col. Abraham Bowman with 30 families from the Shenandoah Valley moved to KY, settling in Fayette Co. in 1781. The route of travel from the Cedar Creek neighborhood to KY in those days offered a choice. To go via the Valley of VA and the Cumberland Gap, the distance (450-500 miles) was about the same as the - 169 - Our Family Tree - The Beale Family Branch route to Pittsburgh and down the OH by flatboat. Either way presented difficulties, but feed for-the stock was easier to *obtain on the overland route than when making the journey by river. A penchant for action seems a pervading characteristic, yet the Shenandoah Valley remains the traditional home, even to those of the family branches whose roots sank early into KY's dark and bloody ground. THE WILLIAMS FAMILY Chart XXI Anthony Williams Mary Peere Williams 021-1. Peere Williams, b. 1622 M- Joanna Oyles, Feb. 3, 1661 Chart XXII Peere Wiliams Joanna Oyles Williams 022-1. Peere Williams, b. 1664, d. 1736. 18 022-2. James Williams, b. 1675 19 M- Anna Johnson, 1720 022-3. John Williams 18 was a distinguished barrister and law reporter of London, England. The Peere Williams Reports are casebooks still to be found in prominent law libraries. 19 He came to Virginia, 1718, and resided in Spottsylvania Co., and had an estate on the Rappahannock River, adjoining the town of Fredericksburg, he died between May 30 and Aug. 5, 1735. His wife was the daughter of Col. Richard and Jael Johnson. She married second, Samuel Wharton, 1737. - 170 - Our Family Tree - The Beale Family Branch M- Dixon 022-4. Otho Williams M- James, John and Otho Williams all emigrated together in the year 1718. They landed at the mouth of the Rapphannock River. They ascended the river and when they reached the Falls, where Fredericksburg is now, they separated. Otho went to NC, John and James md. in VA. Chart XXIII Hans Jost Hite Anna Marias Dubois Hite 023-1. Col. John Hite M- Resided at Springdale, VA 023-2. Jacob Hite M-lst - Catherine O'Bannon M-2nd - Frances Madison Beale. 023-3. Col. Isaac Hite, b. May 12, 1723, and d, 20 i. 18, 1795. v M- Eleanor Eltinge, April 12, 1745. 023-4. Abraham Hite M- Resided in Hampshire Co., VA 023-5. Joseph Hite, d. in 1757 M- Resided in the north end of Frederick Co., VA 023-6. Mary Hite 20 Resided at Long Meadows. He was a vestryman of the Frederick Parish and was one of the first justices of the new commonwealth of Virginia. - 171 - Our Family Tree - The Beale Family Branch M- George Bowman 21 023-7. Magadalene Hite M- Jacob Chrisman Resided at Chrisman's Spring 023-8. Elizabeth Hite M- Paul Froman 22 Chart XXIV Col. Isaac Hite Eleanor (Eltinge) Hite 024-1. Major Isaac Hite, b. Feb. 7, 1758, d. Nov. 24, 1836. 23 M- Eleanor (Nelly) Madison, Jan. 2, 1783, b. Feb. 14, 1760, d. Nov. 24, 1802. 24 M- 2nd - Anne Tunstall Maury, Dec. 1, 1803, b. Sep. 14, 1782, d. Jan. 6, 1851. 024-2. Eleanor Hite, b. Oct. 27, 1750, d. Oct. 24, 1781 M- John Williams, 1770. 25 024-3. Sarah Hite, b. Oct. 19, 1760 21 Resided on the north branch of the Sherando River (actually Cedar Creek) near where it enters the north fork of the Shenandoah. 22 Resided on a large tract of land on the north side of Cedar Creek, not far west of Winter Hill. 23 Major Isaac Hite resided at Belle Grove, near Middletown, Virginia, he was married to his first wife on Jan 2, 1783. He was one of the first members of Phi Betta Kappa and its first secretary, 1777, an aide de camp to General Muhlenburg at the siege of Yorktown. 24 She was a daughter of James Madison and Eleanor Conway Madison, and a sister of James Madison, Jr., Fourth President of the United States. 25 grandson of Peere Williams I, Sergeant at Law and barrister, London England, and a son of William Williams, who with two brothers, John (settled in South Carolina) and Otho (settled in Maryland) emigrated to the United States. - 172 - Our Family Tree - The Beale Family Branch M- General Jonathan Clark. 26 024-4. Mary Hite, b. Aug.. 25, 1748, d. Jan. 2, 1779 M- Dr. John McDonald 024-5. Anna Hite, b. Jan. 8, 1746, d. Aug.. 9, 1816 - a twn M- James Buchanan of Falmouth VA, no ch.. 024-6. Isaac Hite, b. Jan. 8, 1746, d. 1758 - a twn. Chart XXV Mary (Hite) Bowman George Bowman 025-1. Elizabeth Bowman M- Isaac Ruddell Founded Ruddell's Station in KY. 025-2. Capt. Isaac Bowman M- 025-3. Jacob Bowman M- 025-4. John Bowman M- 26 brother of General George Rogers Clark and William Clark of the Lewis and Clark Expedition. Residents of Lynchburg, Virgnia. He was a member of the Virginia House of Burgesses. General Jonathan Clark was one of ten children of John and Ann Rogers Clark, on land adjoining the Peter Jefferson plantation at Shadwell. Five of the six children became officers during the American Revolution, the youngest, William, one his fame in the Lewis & Clark Expedition. Jonathan was a member of the Virginia Assembly. His brother, George Rogers Clark settled in a log cabin across from Louisville, Kentucky, in his later years. - 173 - Our Family Tree - The Beale Family Branch First_military governor of VA Co. that became KY - part of Orange Co., VA, at one time. 025-5. Joseph Bowman d. Vincennes, IN, Aug.. 20, 1779. 025-6. Christian Bowman M- 025-7. Col. Abraham Bowman M- Chart XXVI Col. Abraham Bowman 026-1. Abraham Bowman, Jr., b. 1755 M- Pioneer explorer into KY, OH, 1773. A co-founder of Louisville, KY, 1773. 026-2. Capt. Isaac Bowman, b. 1753 M- co-founder of Louisville, KY, 1773. 02 6-3. George Bowman M- Youngest son Chart XVII Magdalena Hite Chrisman Jacob Chrisman 027-1. Henry Chrisman M- Chart XXVIII James Williams Ann Johnson Williams - 174 - Our Family Tree - The Beale Family Branch 028-1. John Williams M- Mary Pendleton - no ch.. She was the dtr. of Nathaniel Pendleton. They resided in Culpeper Co., VA 028-2. William Williams, b. c. 1722, d. 1778 M- Lucy Clayton, dtr. of Major Philip Clayton of Catalpa, Culpeper, VA. Chart XVIX William Williams Lucy Clayton Williams 029-1. John Williams M- Eleanor Hite, dtr. of Col. Isaac Hite. He was a major in the Revolutionary War. 029-2. James Williams, Capt., Revolutionary War, Major General, VA Troop, 1812 M- Eleanor Green 029-3. Philip Williams M- Crouton (Coulson) 029-4. William C. Williams M- Burnell 029-5. Mary Williams M- John Stevens, son of General Stevens, no ch.. 029-6. Lucy Williams M- William Green 029-7. Susannah Williams Unmd.. 029-8. Isabella Williams Unmd.. Chart XXX John Williams - 175 - Our Family Tree - The Beale Family Branch Eleanor (Hite) Williams 030-1. Isaac Hite Williams M- Lucy Slaughter, dtr. of Capt. Philip Slaughter 030-2. John G. Williams M- 030-3. Ellen Williams M- Chart XXXI Isaac Hite Williams Lucy (Slaughter) Williams 031-1. Ann Ophelia Williams, b. 1800, d. Aug.. 5, 1879 M- Rev. George Alexander Smith of Alexandria, VA, Feb. 4, 1825. 27 031-2. Margaret P. French Williams, b.m 1804, d. 1873 M- John Mercer Patton, 1823. 28 031-3. Eleanor Williams M- Dr. Hite of Amherst Co., VA 031-4. Isaac Hite Williams Unmd. 031-5. Eliza Williams Unmd. 27 He was an Episcopal Minister and Editor of the Southern Churchman. He was a graduate of the Theological Seminary of Virginia. 28 attorney, Richmond, Virginia. Member of the Congress for eight years, 1830-1838, Member of the Virginia Council of State as Senior Councillor, he was an acknowledged leader of the bar of the State of Virginia and was instrumental in formulating the Virginia 1849 Constitution. - 176 - Our Family Tree - The Beale Family Branch 031-6. John James Williams M- ' 031-7. Lucy Anne Williams M- 031-8. Ellen Williams, dif. Chart XXXII Ann Ophelia (Williams) Smith George Archibald Smith 032-1. Capt. Isaac Williams Smith, 29 C.S.A., Engineeering Corps, living in OR in later yrs. He was b. 1826, and d. 1896. Unmd.. 032-2. George Hugh Smith, 30 Col., C.S.A.,b. 1834. executive officer to Col. George Smith Patton I, his cousin, 22nd VA Infantry, later commanding the 62nd Regt., VA Infantry, C.S.A. M- Susan Thornton (Glassell) Patton, 1870, in Los Angeles, CA, the wid. of his cousin, Col. George Smith Patton. 032-3. Capt. Henry Martyn Smith, C.S.A., d. 1892 29 He was a Graduate of Virgnia Military Institute, 1847; distinguished engineer, and surveyed portions of the Southern Pacific, Northern Pacific and Canadian Pacific Railrod. He constructed the Willamette Canal; improved the water fronts of Tacoma and San Francisco and gave Portland, Oregon an unexcelled water supply. 30 George Hugh Smith studied law in the offices of his brother-in-law, Andrew Glassell of Glassell & Chapman. As a lawyer he became a judge of the District Court of Appeals in Los Angeles. Eventually he became a partner of the law firm, under the name Glassell, Chapman & Smith. After Glassell and Chapman retired from practice in the late 1880s he formed a partnership with his step-son, George Smith Patton II, under the firm name of Smith & Patton. - 177 - Our Family Tree - The Beale Family Branch M- Adeline Woodward He was a Capt. C.S.A., and Judge, Los Angeles Co., CA. 032-4. Eliza Williams Smith, b. 1829, d. 1909. M- Corse of Alexandria, VA 032-5. Mary Watson Smith, b. 1827, d. Jan. 21, 1900 M- Rev. Robert Dunbar Brooke, of the Protestant Episcopal Church, Oct. 1852, b. 1824, d. Jun. 24, 1898. 032-6. Eleanor Eltinge Smith, d. 1871 Unmd. 032-7. Isabelle Keightley Smith Unmd. Chart XXXIII Philip Williams (Crouton) (Coulson) 03 3-1. Lucy Williams M- 033-2. Philip Williams M- 033-3. Sarah Wiliams M- Col. Travis Twyman, no ch.. 03 3-4. James Williams M- 033-5. Samuel C. Williams M- 033-6. Mary Williams M- 033-7. Ellen Williams M- - 178 - Our Family Tree - The Beale Family Branch Chart XXXIV Mary Watson (Smith) Brooke Rev. Robert Dunbar Brooke 034-1. Olivia Dunbar Brooke, b. May 23, 1853 M- 1st - Malcolm MacLean M- 2nd - Everett Triplett 034-2. George Smith Brooke, b. Feb. 12, 1855 M- Julia I. Hill, Nov. 8, 1882, b. Jun 5, 1858. 034-3. Robert Dunbar Brooke, dif. 034-4. Edmund Howard Brooke, b. Jun. 23, 1859 Unmd. 034-5. Henry Williams Brooke, b. Apr. 13, 1861, d. Dec. 1902. M- Dora Allen. 034-6. Lucy Douglas Brooke, b. May 5, 1863 M- George L. Little 034-7. Agnes Gray Brooke, b. Aug.. 30, 1865 M- John Anderson Hurd, Oct. 2, 1895 034-8. Alexander Beall Brooke, b. 1867 Unmd. Chart XXXV George Smith Brooke Julia (Hill) Brooke 035-1. Robert Dunbar Brooke, b. Apr. 30, 1884 M- 035-2. Rebecca Brooke, b. Mar. 19, 1886 M- 035-3. Philip Slaughter Brooke, b. Aug.. 3, 1889 M- - 179 - Our Family Tree - The Beale Family Branch 035-4. Julia Eltinge Brooke, b. May 28, 1891 M- * " - 035-5. Mary Watson Brooke, b. Nov. 2, 1895 M- 035-6. George magruder Brooke, b. Mar. 20, 1897 M- Chart XXXVI Margaret P. French Williams Patton John Mercer Patton 03 6-1. George Smith Patton I M- Susan Thornton Glassell, 1st hus. He was killed at the Battle of Winchester, 1864. 036-2. Robert Williams Patton Unmd. 036-3. Isaac Williams Patton M- 036-4. William Tazewell Patton M- 036-5. Eliza Patton M- 03 6-6. James French Patton M- 036-7. Hugh Mercer Patton M- 036-8. William Mercer Patton M- 036-9. John Mercer Patton M- - 180 - Our Family Tree - The Beale Family Branch Chart XXXVII George Smith Patton Susan Thornton Glassell Patton 037-1. George Smith Patton II 31 M- Ruth Wilson, Dec. 10, 1884. 32 037-2. Eleanor Thornton Patton M- Thomas R. Brown, attorney, Los Angeles, CA. 037-3. John Mercer Patton, dif. 037-4. Andrew Glassell Patton M- He was a civil engineer in OR. Chart XXXVIII George Smith Patton II Ruth (Wilson) Patton 31 He changed his name from George Hugh Patton to George Smith Patton, to honor both his father and his step-father, George Smith. He later practiced law with his stepfather and uncle in Los Angeles, coming to that city in 1877. He also was a candidate for the office of the United States Senate from California in 1916, but lost to Governor Hiram Johnson. He was a prominent member of the legal profession, b. in Charleston VA, (now WV) Seps. 30, 1856. He was educated at the VA Military Institue, at Lexington, VA, returning to Los Angeless in 1877. He was admitted to the bar in 1879. He joined the law firm of his uncle, Andrew Glassell, under the firm name of Glassell, Chapman & Smith. He served as distrinct attorney of Los Angeles Co. in 1884. He was a vestryman of the Protestant Episcopal Church of Our Savior, San Gabriel, for thirty five years, and his name is on the membership roll of the California Club, Los Angeles. 32 daughter of Benjamin Davis Wilson of California historical fame. Mt. Wilson near Pasadena is named after him. His residence was Lake Vineyard, now part of San Marino, California on a site now occupied by the Huntington Library. - 181 - Our Family Tree - The Beale Family Branch 038-1. George Smith Patton, III, b. Nov. 11, 1885, d. December 6, 1945 in GER as a result of a freak automobile accident. 33 038-2. Ann Patton, b. 1887, d. 1971 Unmd. 34 Chart XXIX Susan Thornton (Glassell) Patton Smith George Hugh Smith 039-1. Anne Ophelia Smith, b. 1871, d. 1951 35 M- Hancock Banning, b. 1865, and d. 1925. 33 He was a graduate of the U.S. Military Academy, 1909. Was an aide to General John Pershing during the Mexican Campaign of 1916. M- Beatrice Banning Ayer, 1910. She was the daughter of Frederick and Ellen (Banning) Ayer. He was the president of the American Woolen Company. Mrs. Ayer was a cousin of the Bannings of Wilmington, California, and Beatrice Banning and George Patton spent their summers at the Banning homes on Catalina Island, as children. He was General in command of the Seventh and Third Armies during World War II - known as the famed "Blood and Guts" Patton, immortalized in an Oscar winning movie in which George C. Scott played the part of Patton. 34 Resided in Patton home. Oak Knoll, in San Marino, near the Huntington Library. She had a budding romance with General John J. Pershing during his Mexican campaign of 1916, but after he was appointed Commander of the American Expeditionary Forces nothing further came of the relationship. It may be that Ann Patton never married as a result of this failed romance. Pershing was a widower, his wife having died in 1915 in a fire in their residence in the Presidio at San Francisco, California. Mary P. Scully, member of the Yorba family of Don Benito Wilson's first wife, Ramona, was the governess or duena to the Patton children in their formative years. A frequent visitor to the Patton household during these years was the Grey Ghost of the Confederacy, Col. John Singleton Moseby, and another guest was Charles Nordhoff, the father of the author of the immortal classic. Mutiny on the Bounty. Nordhoff Sr., wrote travel literature for the Southern Pacific Railroad. The town of Nordhoff was named after him by the railroad, but its name was later changed to Ojai. 35 She was the founder of the Assistance League of Southern California. - 182 - at I Grandfather Wilson, circa i860 Grandmother Patton, circa 1872 Grandfather Patton circa i860 Father and mother, circa 1884 Aunt Nannie V George S. Patton, Jr., 1892 The family home, Lake Vineyard, 1898 Father and son, 1901 Cadet George S. Patton, Jr., VMI, 1903 West Point drawing class, 1907. Cadet Patton is at left, foreground Nita, 1905 CHASING VILLA 323 ARIZONA , I Culberson ^lgLa»^L.i -•3.™/!' Area of Punitive Expedition, 1916 , , Railroads 0. 50 100 200 !T_t*. 1 ..i==j_.E..-. :-- — =a- • Beatrice Patton and her father, wedding day, 1910 Cadet Patton, Adjutant, 1909 Cadet Patton, West Point graduation, June 1909 \\ ... - *v •-•"-* ' -* i " ; ;.;./ • ant Colonel Patton in France, July 191$ Lieutenant The Patton family, 1929. Major and Mrs. Patton, daus 'liters Beatrice and Ruth Ellen, and son George IV Father of the bride, daughter Beatrice's wedding, 1934 * I Commanding Officer, 5th Cavalry, Fort Clark, Texas, 1938 Fort Myer Horse Show, benefit for infantile paralysis fund. January 1939. Left to right: Colonel Patton, commanding officer, Fort Myer, President Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Colonel Edwin M. Watson, White House Military Aide X ,v •%, Our Family Tree - The Beale Family Branch 039-2. Ettinge Hugh Smith, b. 1876, d. Las Angeles CA Jan. 2, 1887, at the age of eleven yrs. Chart XL Phinneas P. Banning Rebecca Sanford Banning 040-1. John Griffen Banning, b. 1856, d. 1859. 040-2. Bessie Banning, b. 1865, d. 1866. dif. 040-3. Joseph Lancaster Brent Banning, b. 1861, d. 1920. He was named after a prominent Los Angeles attorney of the 19th Century. He stud, law in the offices of Glassell & Smith. M- Katherine Banning. 040-4. Hancock Banning, b. 1865, d. 1925 M- Anne Ophelia Smith, b. 1871, d. 1951, dtr. of Susan Thornton Glassell Smith and George Smith, above. 040-5. Capt. William Banning, b. 1856, d. 1946 Unmd. He is the Uncle Billy - he operated the stage line on Catalina Island when the Banning family owned the island. 040-6. Fanny A. Banning, b. 1854, d. 1857. dif. 040-7. Vincent Edgar Griffith Banning, b. 1868, d. 1868. dif. 040-8. child, dif. Chart XXXX Phinneas Banning - The first Banning emigrated from England to America prior to 1740, and settled at Dover, DL. His ch. was 040-1. John Banning, b. 1740, d. 1791. - 183 - Our Family Tree - The Beale Family Branch M- Mrs. Elizabeth Alford Casitus, 1756. Chart XXXXI John Banning 36 Elizabeth Alford Casitus Banning 041-1. Sarah Banning M- Henry Moore Ridgly - He was a United States Senator. 041-2. John Alford Banning, b. 1790, d. 1851 M- Elizabeth Lawber, b. 1794, d. 1861. They had eleven ch. Chart XXXXII John Alford Banning Elizabeth (Lawber) Banning 042-1. William Lawber Banning, b. 1814, d. 1893. M- Mary Alicia Sweeney, b. 1826, d. 1910. 042-2. Frances (Fanny) Banning M- Henry J. Horn 042-3. Phinneas P. Banning, b. 1830, Wilmington, DL, d. 1885, Wilmington, CA. He was the 9th of 11th ch. M- 1st - Rebecca Sanford, Nov. 16, 1854, b. 1837, d. in a ship disaster in San Pedro Harbor, Jan. 7, 1868. M- 2nd - Mary Hollister, 1870. She was the dtr of Col. John Hollister of San Luis Obispo, CA. b. 1846, d. 1919. Chart XXXXIII William Lawber Banning Mary Alicia (Sweeney) Banning 36 He cast Delaware's electoral vote for George Washington, p. 92, Vol. XXII, No. 1, Americana Illustrated. - 184 - Our Family Tree - The Beale Family Branch 043-1. William Lawber Banning M- Eva Resided in Los Angeles area. 043-2. Mary Alice Banning Unmd. Resided in Los Angeles area. 043-3. Katherine Stewart Banning M- Joseph Lancaster Brent Banning, son of Phinneas P. Banning - they were cousins. Resided in Los Angeles area. He practicted law with the firm of Chapman, Glassell & Smith. 043-4. Ellen Barrows Banning M- Frederick Ayer He was a wealthy industrialist in Boston, MA, having pioneered in the shoe manufacturing tools and machines business. 043-5. Frederick Donlevy Banning M- 043-6. Evans Banning M- s 043-7. William L. Banning, dif. Chart XXXXIV Ellen Barrows Banning Ayer Frederick Ayer 044-1. Beatrice Banning Ayer M- General George Smith Patton III 044-2. Katherine Banning M- 044-3. Frederick Ayer, Jr. He became a priest. - 185 - Our Family Tree - The Beale Family Branch Chart XXXXV William Lawber Banning Eva ( ) Banning 045-1. Evageline Banning, b. 1893 M- 045-2. Beatrice Banning, b. 1895 M- Theodore Braun 045-3. William Lawber Banning III, b. 1897, d. 1951 M- Florinda Steffer Chart XXXXVI William Lawber Banning III Florence (Steffer) Banning 046-1. William Lawber Banning IV M- Chart XXXXVII William Lawber Banning IV 047-1. William Lawber Banning V. M- Chart XXXXVIII Joseph Lancaster Brent Banning Katherine Stewart Banning 048-1. Joseph Lancaster Brent Banning, Jr., b. 1890, d. 1969. M- Alice Morse 048-2. Katherine Banning, b. 1891, d. 1967 M- Francis Porter Graves 048-3. William Phinneas Banning, b. 1899 M- 1st- Evangeline Victoria Grier - 186 - Our Family Tree - The Beale Family Branch M- 2nd - Janet Kerby de la Chesnaye Post Chappell Chart XXXXIX Phinneas P. Banning Rebecca Sanford Banning 049-1. John Griffin Banning, b. 1856, dif. 049-2. William Banning, b. 1858 Unmd. He is the Capt. Billy Banning that operated the stage line on Catalina Island for a number of years. 049-3. Joseph Lancaster Brent Banning, b. 1861 M- Katherine Banning, dtr of her William Lawber Banning - they were cousins. 049-4. Hancock Banning M- Anne Ophelia Smith, dau. of Susan Glassell Patton Smith and George Smith. 049-5. Vincent Griffin Banning, b. Jan. 7, 1868, d. May, 1868. Chart L Phinneas P. Banning Mary Hollister Banning 050-1. Mary Hollister Banning, b. 1871, d. 1956. M- Wilt W. Norris No. ch. 050-2. Lucy Tichenor Banning, b. 1876, d. c. 1929 M- 1st - Lewis Bradbury, 1896, bro. of Bradbury Building namesake, div. No ch. M- 2nd - Nace Eustace Greenleaf, 1912, div. No. ch. 050-3. Ellen Banning, b. 1874, d. 1975, dif. Chart LI - 187 - Our Family Tree - The Beale Family Branch Hancock Banning Anne Ophelia Smith Banning *— 051-1. Hancock Banning, Jr., b. 1892 M- Florence Johnston 051-2. Eleanor Anne Banning, b. 1893, d. 1940 M- John Cobb MacFarland 051-3. George Hugh Banning, b. 1895 M- 1st - Gladys Armstrong M- 2nd - Helen Shoff (Barnes) M- 3rd - Ruth Lockett (Ramsey) Chart LII Hancock Banning Jr. Florence Johnston Banning 052-1. Hancock Banning III M- Julis Sheldon McCook 052-2. Robert Johnston Banning 37 M- Joan Spain Bridge 052-3. Elizabeth Banning M- Charles Burton Ames, Jr. Chart LIII Eleanor Anne Banning John Cobb MacFarland 053-1. Anne MacFarland M- 053-2. Marion MacFarland M- 37 He served on the board of trustees and as president of the California Historical Society. - 188 - Our Family Tree - The Beale Family Branch 053-3. Don MacFarland (adopted) M- Chart LIV George Hugh Banning Gladys Armstrong Banning 054-1. Douglas Banning Unmd. Chart LV George Hugh Banning Helen (Shoff) Banning 055-1. Marianne Banning M- John Adey Chart LVI Joseph Lancaster Brent Banning Jr. Alice (Morse) Banning 056-1. Nancy Morse Banning M- Richard William Call 056-2. Katherine Alice. Morse Banning M- Daniel Sisk Chart LVII Katherine Banning Graves Francis Porter Graves 057-1. Francis Graves M- 057-2. Jane Graves M- 057-3. Selwin Graves - 189 - Our Family Tree - The Beale Family Branch M- Chart LVIII William Phinneas Banning Evangeline Victoria Grier Banning 058-1. Evangeline Victoria Banning M- Richard Harding 058-2. William Phinneas Banning M- Suzanne Boushey Chart LIX Nancy Morse (Banning) Call Dr. Richard William Call 38 059-1. Leslie Banning Call M- 059-2. Katherine Fleming Call M- 059-3. Nancy Morse Call M- Chart LX Asa Vickrey Call 39 Margaret (Fleming) Call 060-1. Dr. Richard William Call 38 He is the son of the late Asa Call, former president of Pacific Mutual Insurance Company. 39 He was b. Los Angeles, CA, Oct. 28, 1892, s. of Joseph H. and L'Dora Call. Hew married May 23, 1917. Admitted to the CA bar, 1914, Pres. of Pacific Mutual Life Insurance Co. from 1942, a trustee and Vice President of the Univ. of So. Calif. Resided at 10451 Bellagio Road, Bel Air, Los Angeles, CA. 190 - Our Family Tree - The Beale Family Branch M- Nancy Morse Banning 060-2. Harry Asa Call M- 060-3. Thomas Fleming Call M- Jeanne Holton 060-4. Edward Fleming Call M- Nancy Helen Thompson Chart LXI Robert Johnston Banning Joan Spain (Bridge) Banning 061-1. Robert Johnston Banning M- 061-2. Winthrop Hancock Banning M- Chart LXII Hancock Banning III Julia Sheldon (McCook) Banning 062-1. John Phinneas Banning M- 062-2. Julia Sheldon Banning M- 062-3. Joseph Dixon Banning M- 062-4. Edmund Tudor Banning M- 062-5. Ellen Lewers Banning M- Chart LXIII - 191 - Chart LXIII William Lawber Banning Mary Alicia (Sweeney) Banning 063-1. William Lawber Banning, Jr, - 192 - Our Family Tree - Armstrong - Lyon Branch Chart I John Lyon -1- Margaret (Armstrong) Lyon ch.: 001-1. William Lyon, emigrated to PA in 1750, and d. in 1809 at Carlisle, PA M- Alice Armstrong, a cousin 001-2. James Lyon M- 001-3. John Lyon, b. in Ireland, d. 1820 in Butler Co., PA M - Mary Harris, dtr. of Capt. Thomas Harris 001-4. Mary Lyon M- Benjamin Lyon 001-5. Samuel Lyon M- Eleanor Blaine, dtr. of Col. Ephraim Blaine John Lyon was a Col. of the 4th Bat., Cumberland Militia during the Revolutionary War 001-6. Frances Lyon M- William Graham 1 John Lyon was an emigrant from Eniskillen, Co. Fermanagh, Province of Ulster, Ireland, to PA in 1763. He was not the first of his family to come to America. His son William Lyon preceded him in 1750, and with his uncle, John Armstrong, laid out the Town of Carlisle, PA. John Lyon had md. Margaret Armstrong, a sister of Col. John Armstrong. She d. in 1792, and is buried at Tuscarora. John Lyon had settled in Cumberland Co., PA it what was later Milford Township, two miles west of Mifflintown, Juanita Co.. He d. in 1780, and is buried at the Presbyterian Church yard of Tuscarora. - 193 - Our Family Tree - Armstrong - Lyon Branch 001-7. Margaret Alice Lyon M- Thomas Anderson 001-8. Agnes Lyon Unmd. Chart II John Lyon Mary (Harris) Lyon 002-1. Thomas Harris Lyon M- 002-2. John Lyon M- Ann Harper 002-3. James Lyon M- 002-4. Margaret Lyon M- 002-5. Mary Lyon M- 002-6. Catherine Lyon M- 002-7. Nancy Lyon M- Chart III John Lyon Ann (Harper) Lyon 003-1. Gordon Lyon M- 003-2. Harris Lyon M- - 194 - Our Family Tree - Armstrong - Lyon Branch 003-3. George W. Lyon M- 003-4. Harper Lyon M- 003-5. John Lyon M- 003-6. Catherine Lyon M- 003-7. Mary Lyon M- 003-8. Joseph Lyon M- 003-9. Thomas Wilson Lyon M- Chart IV John Armstrong 2 Rebecca (Lyon() Armstrong 004-1. John Armstrong, 3 b. Carlisle, PA, Nov. 25, 2 John Armstrong (Gen.). He was one of the patriots of pre-Revolutionary War America. He was b. Oct. 13, 1717 in Enniskillen, Ireland, the son of James Armstrong of Brookboro, Co. Fermanaugh, Ireland, and his wife Rebecca Lyon. Armstrong emigrated to PA in 1748. He was called the hero of Kittanning. He was a Major Gen. in command of a Brigade during the Revolutionary War, and was a member of the Continental Congress, 1778-1780, and 1787-88. He d. at Carlisle, PA Mar. 9, 1795, and is buried in the Old Carlisle Cemetery. 3 He was Aide de Camp under General Hugh Mercer and Horatio Gates during the Revolutionary War. He was the author of the Newburgh Letters threatening army action if Congress refused to pay arrears in soldiers' salaries in 1783. He later became Secretary of State and Adjutant Gen. of PA. He was a delegate to the Continental Congress in 1787 and a member of - 195 - Our Family Tree - Armstrong - Lyon Branch 1758, and attended Princeton University, 1775. M-- Alida Livingston, 1780. 004- 2. James Armstrong, physician and congressman, b. Carlisle, PA, Aug. 29, 1748. 4 M- Mary Stevenson, dtr. of George Stevenson, d. May 27, 1813. Chart V James Armstrong, M.D. Mary (Stevenson) Armstrong 005-1. John Wilkins Armstrong, M.D., b. at Carlisle, PA, Jan. 17, 1798, d. at Princeton, NJ, Feb. 19, 1870. M- Mary Shell, d. at Carlisle, PA, 1855, at the age of 42 years. Chart VI John Wilkins Armstrong Mary (Shell) Armstrong the United States Senate from NY, 1800-1804. He was the United States Minister to France 1804-1810, he was brigade commander in NY City in 1812, and Secretary of War, 1813-1814, in the administration of James Madison, and held at fault for the burning of the Capitol and the White House in Washington in 1814, at which time he retired from politics. His wife was the sister of Chancellor Robert Livingston of NY, and he d. at Red Hook, NY, Apr. 1, 1843, and his buried at Rhinebeck, NY Cemetery. 4 He attended the Philadelphia Academy, and College of NJ (Princeton), and stud, medicine under Dr. John Morgan in Philadelphia. He graduated from the University of PA in 1769. He began the practice of medicine at Winchester, VA, and was a medical officer during the Revolutionary War. He later stud, medicine in London, England, 1785-88, and returned to Carlisle in 1788, then moved to Mifflin Co., PA, where he practiced for the next twelve years. He was a Federalist member of the United States Congress, 1793-1795, and an associate judge of the Cumberland Co. Court, 1808-1828. He d. at Carlisle, PA, May 6, 1828, and is buried in the old Carlisle Cemetery. - 196 - Our Family Tree - Armstrong - Lyon Branch 006-1. Mary Armstrong, b. at Beliefonte, PA, Oct. 20, 1828, d. at Harrisburgh, PA, Jan. 30, 1898 M- Christian Bowers Herman Chart VII Charles Robert Sherman 5 Charles Robert Sherman Mary (Hoyt) Sherman 007-1. William Tecumseh Sherman, b. Feb. 8, 182 0, at Lancaster, OH, and d. Feb. 14, 1891 at NY. M- Ellen Boyle Ewing, May 1, 1850 at Blair House, Washington, D.C, where his father in law, Thomas Ewing, was serving as the first Secretary of the Interior in the Administration of President Zachary Taylor. 007-2. Charles T. Sherman, a lawyer, b. in Lancaster, OH M- 007-3. John Sherman, b. May 10, 1823, at Lancaster, OH, and d. Oct. 22, 1900, at Washington, D.C. M- Cecilia Stewart, Aug. 30, 1848, dtr. of Judge Stewart, Mansfield, OH John Sherman served many years as the United States Senator from Ohio, and was the author of the Sherman Anti-Trust Act. The Livingston Family of NY The Manor of Livingston, as established in favor of Robert Livingston by Governor Dongan, in 1686, comprised over 12 0,000 acres, "commencing about five 5 Came from CT to OH in 1810. He was a lawyer and judge, and d. suddenly in 1829, while on circuit court duty, leaving a wife and eleven ch. in Lancaster OH. He was a descendant of Edmund Sherman who emigrated from England to MA Colony in 1634. - 197 - Our Family Tree - Armstrong - Lyon Branch miles south of the city of Hudson, running 12 miles on the Hudson River, extending back to the line of MA, and widening as it receded from the river, so as to embrance not far from 20 miles on the boundary of the latter colony. The Livingston family is traced to Rev. Alexander Livingston, minister of Monybrook in Stirlingshire, who married Barbara Livingston of Kilsyth and had a son Rev. William, minister of Lanark in 1614. The son of Rev. William was Rev. John Livingston, who was b. at Monybrook, Jun. 21, 1603. He was settled at Ancram in Teviotdale but d. in Holland Aug. 9, 1672. By his wife, Mary Fleming, he had a son, Robert, b. Dec. 13, 1651, who came to NY in 1676, and apparently settled in Albany. He purchased of the Indians the lands afterward constituting the Manor Livingston, and by his will he also established or set off the Manor of Clermont, containing about 13,000 acres. This Robert Livingston was deeply involved in the political struggles of his time, and at one time his estate was declared confiscated. He soon after retrieved his position, was a member of the Assembly, and from 1718 to 1725 was Speaker thereof. He md. in 1683, Alida, dtr. of Philip Pieterse van Schuyler, widow of Rev. Nicholas van Rensselaer of Albany, and d. 1728. His son Philip Livingston inherited the state of Livingston, md. Catherine Van Brugh, and had Robert, who md. 1st, Mary Tong, and 2d, Mrs. Gertrude Schuyler. Robert Livingston, who d. Nov. 27, 1790, left by his first wife, a son Peter R. Livingston, who was b. May 8, 1737, and md. , Margaret, Jun. 6, 1758, dtr. of James Livingston. Their oldest son Robert-Tong Livingston, b. Apr. 4 17 59, md. Margaret, dtr. of John Livingston, who left only a dtr., Mary, wife of Alexander Crofts. Philip, son of Robert, was at the capture of Port Royal. His son Philip, b. at Albany in 1716, was one - 198 - Our Family Tree - Armstrong - Lyon Branch of the Signers of the Declaration of Independence. Brockholst Livingston was a Judge of the Supreme Court of the United States. Robert RT Livingston of Clermont was Chancellor of NY, and in 1801 was Minister to Freance. William Livingston, son of Philip, second proprietor of the Manor, having removed to NJ, was chosen Governor of that province in 1776, which office he held until his death in 1790. Philip, b. 1716, was the father of Chancellor Robert Livingston. Chancellor Livingston is best remembered for his role in swearing in George Washington as first President of the United States in NY City in 1789. A dtr. of Philip and sister of Chancelor Livingston, Alida Livingston, md. Gen. John Armstrong, Jr., of Carlisle, PA. Their dtr., Margaret Rebecca Armstrong, md. William Backhouse Astor, the son of John Jacob Astor I, founder of the Astor family of NY and Great Britain. Gen. John Armstrong's mother, Rebecca Lyon Armstrong, was a sister of Samuel Lyon who md. Eleanor Blaine, a sister of Ephraim Blaine, Commissary Gen. of the United States Army during the Revolutionary War, and the great grandfather of James Gillespie Blaine, Presidential Candidate in 1884. John Jay, b. NY, Dec. 12, 1745, d. Beford, Westchester Co., NY, May 17, 1729. His mother was a daughter of Jacobus Van Cortlandt. He entered King's College at 14, graduated in 1764. He formed a partnership with Robert R. Livingston, afterward Chancellor of the state and secretary of foreign affairs. He md. in 1774 a dtr. of the famous Whig and Revolutionary Governor of NJ, William Livingston, son of Philip Livingston I. In 1777 in NY Jay was appointed Chief Justice of that state, and Robert R. Livingston was appointed Chancellor. In 1779 he was elected President of the Continental Congress. In Oct. 1779, he resigned to accept the post of Minister to Spain. He negotiated the Jay Treaty between Great Britain and the United States. He was appointed by Congress Secretary of Foreign Affairs, he was active in supporting the new U.S. Constitution through writings in the Federalist papers. He was governor of NY and - 199 - Our Family Tree - Armstrong - Lyon Branch was appointed by President Washington as the first Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court, a post which he resigned in 1795. John Jacob Astor, b. Waldorf, Baden, near Heidelburg, Jul. 17, 1763, d. Mar. 29, 1848. He came to America in 1783, where his elder brother had settled and invested his savings in the fur trade. In 1784 he went with a cargo of furs to London; sold them. He bought furs in Canada, sold them directly to England, since it allowed trade only with the mother country. In 1794 Jay's Treaty removed the embargo. Sir Alexander MacKenzie, after crossing the continent far north in 1793, had suggested establishing a line of trading posts from ocean to ocean, with terminal, coast and island stations, to draw all except the Russian fur trade into one channel. Lewis and Clark's transcontinental expedition in 1804 proved its practicability on American soil, and Mr. Astor evolved the plan of distributing such posts along the MO and Columbia Rivers, with a central station at the mouth of the latter, where all the pelts from the interior and those gathered by coasting vessels were to be collected and taken by a yearly ship to Canton, loading in return with Chinese goods. He established the settlement named Astoria - on the breaking out of the War of 1812 the English seized it. It reverted to the United States by the Treaty of Ghent - but the trading project was dropped. His chief investment was the one which has founded the family greatness on a rock. Foreseeing the immense growth of NY City, he bought large tracts of Manhattan Island far beyond the city limits, taught his son to invest his accumulations in the same way, and established the system of handling them. He had his son William, and formed the American Fur Co., chiefly managed by the great expert; but a few years later he retired from business altogether - he then worked on plans for a public library suggested by Washington Irving - afterward the Astor Library - for which he left $400,000 in his will. He left two sons - William Backhouse Astor and John Jacob Astor Jr., and three - 200 - Our Family Tree - Armstrong - Lyon Branch dtrs. William Backhouse Astor was eldest son of John Jacob Astor. He was b. in NY City, Sep. 19, 1792, and d. Nov. 24,1875. At 16 he was sent to Heidelburg University, and at 18 went to Gottingen. He returned to NY in 1815 and became his father's partner. The first firm was John Jacob Astor & Son until 1827, when it was dissolved to form the American Fur Co.. He received a half million legacy from his uncle, Henry. He spent the latter part of his life conserving his investments - becoming known as the landlord of NY. He built nearly a thousand houses on his uptown lots. John Jacob Astor III was b. in NY Jun. 10, 1822, and d. Feb. 22, 1890. He was educated at Columbia University and at Gottingen - he then took the full course at the Harvard Law School and practiced law for a year - solely to qualify himself for assisting in the management of the vast Astor estate. In the Civil War served on McClellan's staff, with the rank of Col. He attended the reunions of the Loyal Legion with zeal. His only son was William Waldorf Astor. His wife was Charlotte Augusta Gibbs, who was active in assisting him in his charitable work. Waldorf Astor was b. in NY, May 19, 1879. He was the son of William Waldorf Astor. He succeeded to the the title in 1919 on the death of his father for whom it was created under King George V in 1917. He was educated at Eton and at New College, Oxford, taking his degree in history. He represented Plymouth in Parliament, 1910-1919, was parliamentary secretary to the prime minister in 1918,to the ministry of health, 1918-21, and was a British delegate to the League of Nations Assembly in 1931. In 1906, he md. Nancy Witcher Langhorne Shaw,member of Parliament from Plymouth since 1919, upon her husband's accession to the House of Lords. She was b. in Greenwood, VA, May 19, 1879. She was md. to Robert Gould Shaw in 1897 but obtained a divorce in 1903. She was the first woman to sit in Parliament. Her husband d. in 1952. She retired in 1945 and d. in 1964. Her husband and she were the - 201 - Our Family Tree - Armstrong - Lyon Branch leaders of the Cliveden Set in the 1940's. William Waldorf Astor, b7~NY, Mar. 31, 1848, d. 1919. he became a member of the Bar in 1875. He was a member of the legislature of the State of NY, 1878-81, and was United States Minister to Italy 1882-85. In 1890 he transferred his residence to England and in 1899 became a naturalized British subject. In 1892 and 1893 he bought the Pall Mall Gazette and later The Observer, which he bequeathed to his son, Major, later Viscount Astor. On Jan. 1, 1916, he was offered and accepted a peerage of the United Kingdom under the title of Baron Astor of Hever Castle in the Co. of Kent. Hever Castle is well known as having been the residence of Anne Boleyn and the place at which her courtship by Henry VIII was carried on. It was purchased with the surrounding estate by Mr. Astor in 1903. On Jun. 3, 1917 Baron Astor was elevated to the rank of Viscount. Chart VIII John Jacob Astor Sarah (Todd) Astor 008-1. Magdalen Astor, b. 1788, d. 1832 M- 1st - Adrian Bentzon M- 2nd - John Bristed 008-2. Sarah Astor, d. 1790 Unmd. 008-3. John Jacob Astor II, b. 1791, d. 1869 M- 008-4. William Backhouse Astor, b. 1791, d. 1875 M- Margaret Rebecca Armstrong, dtr. of Gen. John Armstrong Jr. (Secretary of War during the War of 1812). 008-5. Dorothea Astor, b. 1795, d. 1853 M- Walter Langdon - 202 - Our Family Tree - Armstrong - Lyon Branch 008-6. Henry Astor, b. 1797, d. 1799 008-7. Eliza Astor, b. 1801, d. 1838 M- Count Vincent von Rumpff 008-8. Son - b. and d. in 1802. Chart IX Magdalen (Astor) Bentzon Adrian Bentzon 009-1. John Jacob Astor Bentzon, d.y. 009-2. Sarah Bentzon, d.y. Chart X Magdalen (Astor) Bentzon Bristed John Bristed 010-1. Charles Astor Bristed M- 1st - Laura Brevoort M- 2nd - Grace A. Sedgwick Chart XI William Backhouse Astor Margaret Rebecca (Armstrong) Astor 011-1. Emily Astor, b. 1819, d. 1841 M- Sam Ward, Jr. 011-2. John Jacob Astor III, b. 1822, d. 1890 M- Charlotte Augusta Gibbs 011-3. Laura Astor, b. 1824, d. 1902 M- Franklin H. Delano - see Delano and Fitch families 011-4. Mary Alida Astor, b. 1826, d. 1881 M- John Carey 011-5. William Backhouse Astor, Jr., b. 1830, d. 1892 - 203 - Our Family Tree - Armstrong - Lyon Branch M- Caroline Webster Schermerhorn She was the famous Mrs. Astor of "Mrs. Astor and her horse" 011-6. Henry Astor, b. 1830, d. 1918 M- Malvina Dinehart 011-7. Sarah Astor, d. 1832. Chart XII Dorothea (Astor) Langdon Walter Langdon 012-1. Sarah Shelburne Langdon M- Baron Robert Boreel 012-2. John Langdon M- 012-3. Eliza Langdon M- Matthew Wilks 012-4. Louisa Dorothea Langdon M- Oliver DeLancey Kane 012-5. Walter Langdon M- Catherine Livingston 012-6. Woodbury Langdon M- Helen Colford Jones 012-7. Cecilia Langdon M- Jean de Nottbeck 012-8. Eugene Langdon M- Harriet Lowndes Chart XIII Emily (Astor) Ward Sam Ward Jr. - 204 - Our Family Tree - Armstrong - Lyon Branch 013-1. Margaret Astor Ward, b. 1838, d. 1875 M- John -Winthrop Chanler <-— Chart XIV Margaret Astor (Ward) Chanler John Winthrop Chanler 014-1. John Armstrong Chanler M- Amelie Rives 014-2. Winthrop Astor Chanler M- Margaret Terry 014-3. Elizabeth Ward Chanler M- John Chapman 014-4. William Astor Chanler M- Minnie Ashley 014-5. Liewis Sturveysant Chanler M- Julia Olin 014-6. Margaret Livingston Chanler M- Richard Aldrich 014-7. Robert Winthrop Chanler M- Lina Cavalieri 014-8. Alida Beekman Chanler M- Christopher Temple Emmet 014-9. Marion Ward Chanler M- 014-10. son - d.y. 014-11. son - d.y. Chart XV John Jacob Astor III Charlotte Augusta (Gibbes) Astor - 205 - Our Family Tree - Armstrong - Lyon Branch 015-1. William Waldorf Astor, firstr Viscount, b. 1848, d. 1919 M- Mary Dahlgreen Paul Chart XVI Mary Alida (Astor) Carey John Carey 016-1. Margaret Louisa Carey M- 1st - Alphonse de Steurs M- 2nd -William Elliott Zborowski 016-2. Arthur Astor Carey M- Agnes Whiteside 016-3. Henry Carey M— Chart XVII William Backhouse Astor Jr. Caroline Webster (Schermerhorn) Astor 017-1. Emily Astor, b. 1854, d. 1881 M- James J. Van Alen 017-2. Helen Schermerhorn Astor, b. 1855, d. 1893 M- James Roosevelt Roosevelt He was an older half-brother of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, President of the United States 017-3. Charlotte Augusta Astor, b. 1858, d. 1910 M-lst - James Coleman Drayton M-2nd - George Ogilvy Haig 017-4. Caroline Schermerhorn Astor, b. 1861, d. 1948 M- Marshall Orme Wilson 017-5. John Jacob Astor IV, b. 1864, d. 1912 M- 1st - Ava Lowie Willing M- 2nd - Madeleine Talmadge Force - 206 - Our Family Tree - Armstrong - Lyon Branch Chart XVIII William Waldorf Astor Mary Dahlgreen (Paul) Astor 018-1. Waldorf Astor, Second Viscount, b. 1879, d. 1951 M- Nancy Witcher Langhorne Shaw, a native of VA - see biographical sketch above 018-2. Pauline Astor, b. 1880 M- Capt. H. H. Spender-Clay 018-3. John Rudolph Astor, d.y., 1881. 018-4. John Jacob Astor IV, Baron Astor of Hever, b. 1886 M- Lady Violet Elliott Mercer-Nairne 018-5. Gwendolyn Enid Astor, b. 1889, d. 1902 Unmd. Chart XIX John Jacob Astor IV Ava Lowie (Willing) Astor 019-1. William Vincent Astor, b. 1891, d. 1950 M- 1st - Helen Dinsmore Huntington M- 2nd - Mary Benedict Cushing M- 3rd - Mary Brooke Russell Marshall 019-2. Ava Alice Muriel Astor M-lst - Prince Serge Obolensky M-2nd - Raimund von Hofmannsthal M-3rd - Philip Harding M-4th - David Pleydell-Bouverie Chart XX John Jacob Astor IV Madeleine Talmadge (Force) Astor - 207 - Our Family Tree - Armstrong - Lyon Branch 020-1. John Jacob Astor VI, b. 1912 M- 1st - Ellen Tuck French M- 2nd - Gertrude Gretsch M- 3rd - Dolores Fullman Chart XXI Ava Alice Muriel (Astor) Obolensky Prince Serge Obolensky 021-1. Ivan Obolensky M- 021-2. Sylvia Obolensky M- Chart XXII Ava Alice Muriel (Astor) von Hofmannsthal Raimund von Hofmannsthal 022-1. Romana von Hofmannsthal M- Chart XXIII Avan Alice Muriel (Astor) Harding Philip Harding 023-1. Emily Harding M- Chart XXIV John Jacob Astor VI Ellen Tuck (French) Astor 024-1. William Backhouse Astor, b. 1915 M- Charlotte Fisk Chart XXV - 208 - Our Family Tree - Armstrong - Lyon Branch John Jacob Astor VI Gertrude (Gretsch) Astor 025-1. Mary Jaqueline Astor M- Chart XXVI William Backhouse Astor Charlotte (Fisk) Astor 026-1. Caroline Fisk Astor M- Chart XXVII Pauline (Astor) Spender-Clay Capt. H. H. Spender-Clay 027-1. Phyllis Mary Spender-Clay M- Sir Philip Bouverie Bowyer-Nichols 027-2. Rachel Pauline Spender-Clay M- The Hon. David Bowes-Lyon Chart XXVIII John Jacob Astor V Lady Violet Elliott (Mercer-Nairne) Astor 028-1. Gavin Astor, b. 1918 M- Lady Irene Haig 028-2. Hugh Waldorf Astor, b. 1910 M- Emily Lucy Kinloch 028-3. John Astor, b. 1923 M- Diana Drummond Chart XXIX Gavin Astor Lady Irene (Haig) Astor - 209 - Our Family Tree - Armstrong - Lyon Branch 029-1. John Jacob Astor VIII, b. 1946 M- 029-2. Bridget Mary Astor M- 029-3. Elizabeth Louise Astor M- 029-4. Sarah Violet Astor M- 029-5. Philip Douglas Paul Astor M- Chart XXX Waldorf Astor Nancy Witcher Langhorne (Shaw) Astor 030-1. William Waldorf Astor, Third Viscount, b. 1917 M- 1st - Sarah Katherine Elinore Norton (later Mrs. Sarah Baring, dtr. of the 8th Baron Grantley) M- 2nd - Philippa Hunloke M- 3rd - Bronwen Pugh 030-2. Nancy Phyllis Louise Astor,m b. 1909 M- Lord Willoughby de Eresby, Earl of Ancaster 030-3. Francis David Langhorne Astor, b. 1912 M- 1st - Melanie Hauser M- 2nd - Bridget Aphra Wreford 030-4. Michael Langhorne Astor, b. 1916 M- 1st - Barbara Mary Colonsay McNeil M- 2nd - Patricia David Pendora Clifford Jones 030-5. John Jacob Astor VII, b. 1918 M- Ana Inez Carcano For a period of time the Astor family was the owner and publisher of the London Times. - 210 - Our Family Tree - Armstrong - Lyon Branch Chart XXXI William Waldorf Astor Philippa (Hunloke) Astor 031-1. Emily Astor Chart XXXII William Waldorf Astor Bronwen (Pugh) Astor 032-1. Janet Elizabeth Astor M- 032-2. Pauline Marian Astor M- - 211 - Our Family Tree - the Mead - Bateson Branch THIRD GENERATION Chart I John 1 John 2 Jonathan Mead Martha (Finch) Mead 001-1. Jonathan Mead, b. 1689 in Greenwich, CT He was a blacksmith, and d. at Nine Partners, NY M- Sarah Husted, 1726 001-2. Sarah Mead, b. Oct. 11, 1691 M- Jonathan Waterbury, Jan. 21, 1714 001-3. Martha Mead, b. Dec. 11, 1693 M- Stephen Holmes 001-4. James Mead, b. March 11, 1696, d. March 3, 1727 M- Susannah Husted, Jan. 25, 1720 001-5. Isaac Mead, b. Nov. 8, 1698 M- 001-6. Timothy Mead, b. Apr. 22, 1701 M- 1st - Martha Weeks, Feb. 28, 1723 M- 2nd - Sarah Bouton Resided at Manchester, VT - founder of VT Meads - they were the first colonists to settle in VT, around present-day, Rutland 001-7. Mary Mead, b. May 22, 1704 M- Benjamin Waterbury, Jan. 12, 1727 001-8. Hezekiah Mead, b. Aug. 30, 1705 M- 001-9. Rachel Mead, b. Nov. 22, 1708 - 212 - Our Family Tree - the Mead - Bateson Branch M- 001-10. Elnathan Mead M- Timothy Mead went from CT to Nine Partnrs, Dutchess Co., NY, and there to VT. FOURTH GENERATION Chart II John 1 John 2 Jonathan 3 Timothy Mead Martha (Weeks) Mead 002-1. Timothy Mead, b. Jan. 7, 1724, d. 1800 M- Phoebe Palmer He was settled in Manchester and Bennington, VT. Timothy was gored by an ox and d. the following year from the effect of these injuries. 002-2. Martha Mead, b. Sep. 6, 1726 M- Stephen Holmes 002-3. Jonathan Mead, b. 1727, d. Feb. 10, 1804 M- Sarah Guernsey, 1758, b. 1736, d. May 11, 1800 002-4. Zebulon Mead, b. Oct. 5, 1727, d. Jan. 26, 1797. M-lst - Anna Thompson M-2nd - Mercy Cary, b. 1731, d. May 10, 1823 Had eleven ch. Zebulon Mead, resident of Nine Partners, Dutchess Co., NY, was a Second Lieutenant with Captain Peter Vanderburgh's Company of Foot, Dutchess Co.; was a first Lieutenant in same company from Jul. 11 to 31, 1755; served in Aug. and Sep., 1755, in same company, in Col. William Cockroff's Regiment Chart III Timothy Mead - 213 - Our Family Tree - the Mead - Bateson Branch Sarah (Bouton) Mead 003-1. Col. James Mead, b. Sep. 6, 1730, d. Jan. 17, 1805 M- Mercy Holmes, Aug. 1752, b. Apr. 7, 1731, d. May 10, 1823 003-2. Stephen Mead, b. Jan. 23, 1734 M- Polly White 003-3. Ezra Mead, b. Oct. 9, 1737 M- Tryphena Burton, b. Aug., 1744 Col. James Mead was a colonel of the 3rd Regiment, VT Militia. He was b. in Horseneck, CT and d. in Rutland, VT. Timothy Mead branch settled around Rutland, Otter Creek, West Rutland (now Mead's Mill) Centre, Rutland and Sutherland Falls, Pittsford, VT. Chart IV John 1 John 2 Jonathan 3 Timothy 4 Ezra Mead Tryphena (Burton) Mead 004-1. Silas Mead,'b. May 6, 1762, d. 1843 M- 1st - Hilda L. Kinney (Huldah Kinne) b. 1768 M- 2nd - Sally Mead, widow of Peter Mead 004-2. Ezra Mead, b. Aug. 9, 1766, d. Dec. 1856 M- Hannah Sampson, d. Sep. 1846 004-3. Isaac Mead, b. Dec. 20, 1760 M- Settled in Lockport, NY 004-4. Lydia Mead, b. Jun. 20, 1763 M- 004-5. Rufus Mead, b. Oct. 15, 1764, d. Nov. 26, 1824 M- Betsy Rockwell, March 8, 1792, b. Oct. 14, 1768 d. Oct. 14, 1848 - 214 - Our Family Tree - the Mead - Bateson Branch 004-6. Tryphena Mead, b. Oct. 10, 1767 M- Joel Smith 004-7. Solomon Mead, b. Jan. 30, 1769 M- Polly Thrall 004-8. Michael Mead, b. Jul. 4, 1770 M- 004-9. Lydia Mead, b. Jan. 12, 1772 M- Robert Seaver 004-10. Mary Mead, b. Oct. 13, 1773 M- Eliphas Thrall 004-11. Josiah Mead, b. Apr. 13, 1775 M- Eusebia Humphrey 004-12. Dorcas Mead, b. Dec. 16, 1777 M- Joseph Chapman 004-13. Peter Mead, b. March 27, 1779 M- Sally Kinney 004-14. Cynthia Mead, b. Sep. 4, 1780 M- Samuel Smith of Pittsford Chart V John 1 John 2 Jonathan 3 Timothy 4 Ezra 5 Josiah Mead Eusebia (Humphrey) Mead 005-1. Josiah Mead M- 1st - Eliza Clark M- 2nd - Lucy Bicknell 005-2. Ashbel Mead M- Catherine Bicknell Had several ch. 005-3. Humphrey Mead - 215 - Our Family Tree - the Mead - Bateson Branch M- Bicknell Had several ch. 005-4. Hiram Mead M- Mary A. Young 005-5. Giles F. Mead M- Martha Adeline Ramsey, b. 1844, d. Jul. 1927 Superintendant of Schools at Medina, OH 005-6. Gardiner Mead M- 005-7. Lucius L. Mead M - Ann E. Bicknell 005-8. Lorinda Mead M- Ezra Church 005-9. Eusebia Mead M- Hiram Livingston 005-10. Orilla Mead M - Hiram Livingston Chart VI John 1 John 2 Jonathan 3 Timothy 4 Ezra 5 Josiah 6 Giles F. Mead Martha Adeline (Ramsey) Mead 00 6-1. Edward Sherwood Mead, b. Medina, OH, Jan. 25, 1874, d. Aug. 21, 1956 M- Emily Fogg, dau. of Leland James Fogg, a Chicago merchant, Jun. 1, 1900, at Philadelphia PA. She d. in 1950 of a stroke Chart VII Edward Sherwood Mead Emily (Fogg) Mead Professor of Finance at the Wharton School of - 216 - Our Family Tree - the Mead - Bateson Branch Economics, Ph.d at DePauw University, stud, at the University of Chicago where he met Emily Fogg. Resided for a period at Holicong, PA, later at Doylestown, PA ch.: 007-1. Margaret Mead, b. Dec. 16, 1901, at Philadelphia, PA M- 1st - Luther Sheeleigh Cressman, b. 1897 of Doylestown, PA, married Sep. 3, 1923, divorced Jul. 25, 1928. He remarried Dorothy Cecilia Loch. M- 2nd - Reo Franklin Fortune, b. March 27, 1903 at Coromandel, New Zealand, married Oct. 192 8, divorced Jul. 26, 1935. M- 3rd - Gregory Bateson, March 13, 1936 in Singapore, Malaysia. Divorced Oct. 23, 1950. He married Betty Sumner in 1951. She attended DePauw University briefly, than Wittenberg College, OH. before transferring to Barnard College, NY, where she was a grad.. A classmate at Barnard College was former Congresswoman Helen Gahagan Douglas, later the wf. of motion picture actor Melvyn Douglas. Another classmate was former Congresswoman Millicent Fenwick. She d. Nov. 15, 1978. 007-2. Richard Ramsey Mead, b. 1903 M- 1st - Helene M- 2nd - Jessica , sister of first wf. He was a professor in the School of Business at University of Southern CA.. d.s.p., but had several step-ch.. He d. of pancreatic cancer in Nov., 1975 007-3. Elizabeth Mead, (Liza) b. 1909 M- William Steig, Jan. 2, 1936, b. Nov. 14, 1907 in NY City, son of Joseph and Laura (Ebel) Steig - divorced. M- 2nd Kari Homestead, 1950, divorced, 1963. M-3rd Stephanie Healey, Dec. 12, 1964, divorced Dec, 1966. M-4th - Jeanne Duron, 1969. He is a cartoonist, and has many cartoons in issues of the NY magazine under the penname Steig. Resides Kent, CT. Elizabeth Mead Steig taught art in NY City public schools and then at Lesley College in Boston. She had - 217 - Our Family Tree - the Mead - Bateson Branch two ch.. ~CT07-4. Priscilla Mead, (Pam) b. 1911, committed suicide, Nov. 30, 1959 in NY city M- Leo Calvin Rosten, March 30, 1935, divorced 1959 Leo Rosten later married Gertrude Zimmerman, Jan. 5, 1960 He Was b. Lodz, Poland, Apr. 11, 1908. son of Samuel C. and Ida (Freundlich) Rosten. 007-5. Katherine Mead, b. 1906, d. in infancy, at the age of nine months. Chart VIII Margaret (Mead) Bateson Gregory Bateson 008-1. Mary Catherine Bateson, b. Dec. 8, 1939, NY City, NY. At birth she was referred to as the first member of the Spock Generation, as Dr. Spock was her pediatrician. M- J. Barkev Kassarjian, Jun. 4, 1960 Mary Bateson is the Dean of Faculty at Amherst College, Amherst, MA Chart IX Mary Catherine Bateson Kassarjian J. Barkev Kassajarian 009-1. Sevanne Margaret Kassarjian (Vanni), b. 1969 M- - 218 - THE AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY CENTRAL PARK WEST AT 79TH STREET, NEW YORK, NEW YORK 10024 August 13, 1963 Mr. Ted Parker 2051 Shelterwood Santa Ana, California 92705 Dear Mr. Parker: I am delighted to know that you have verified this genealogical line. I was brought up on the belief that we were descended from the Connecticut Meads. After my father died, and an article was being prepared for the National Encyclopedia of American Biography, I asked a genealogist friend •m to work on the actural links and she reported she was unable to find them. But I thought my great grandfather's name was James, not Josiah. Perhaps this the reason my genealogist failed to find the link. However I had no documentation of this. Here are some additions to your report on the eighth and ninth generation: Priscella Mead Rosten - deceased 1950, my brother Richard Ramsay Mead has had no children, and my daughter, Mary Catherine Bateson is now married to Barkev Kassarjian. Sincerely yours, . Margaret Mead \ dictated, signed in absence MM: vc ~> Mead and Gregory Bateson, three years her junior. They had fallen in love in New Guinea in 1933. had a rendezvous in Ireland the following summer, and were married in 1936 in Singapore, just before beginning their field work in Bali. LIBRARY OF CONGRESS GREGORY BATESON Lawrence K. Frank's friendship with Margaret Mead began at a conference, in 1934. They never stopped conferring (19) (here at Cloverly, in New Hampshire). Near the house they shared in Greenwich Village, lived Allen and Sara Ullman (16) (photo graphed in Paris in 1937). The Ullmans named Mead secular godmother to their daughter Martha, pictured in 1947, at age nine, horseback riding with Jane Belo (18). Belo's interest in Bali first kindled Mead's. The English writer Geoffrey Gorer (17) became so close a friend that Mead referred to him, to her godchildren, as "Uncle Geoffrey." Her fellow Ash Can Cats surrounding their celebrated friend, just returned from Bali, as she knitted for her expected baby (20). Mead - Kaiser Family Branch Chart I William Mead Martha (Davis) Mead 001-1. Joseph Mead, b. 1630 in England, d. in Ct, May 3, 1690. 1 M- Mary Brown, Dec. 4, 1654, of Stamford, CT. 001-2. Martha Mead, b. 1632 in England. M- John Richardson, of West Arden Farms, Fordham, part of NYC. Had three daughters. 001-3. John Mead, b. 1634, in England. Res in CT in his youth, and for a period during the Dutch period in Long Island, NY, ret. to CT in 1667 when the Duke of York received a charter to New Amsterdam (NYC) and envvirons. He res. at Horse Neck (Greenwich), d. Feb. 5, 1699. M- Hannah Potter of Stamford. Chart II Joseph Mead Mary (Brown) Mead 002-1. Zachariah Mead M- 002-2. Joseph Mead, b. c. 1657, d. 1714 M- Sarah Reynolds 002-3. Daniel Mead M- 002-4. Elisha Mead, b. 1661, d. 1727 M- 1683 1 He was the ancestor of the Norwalk, Ridgfield, and North Fairfield Co. CT Meads. - 219 - Mead - Kaiser Family Branch M- 002-5. Richard Mead M- 002-6. Mary Mead M- Chart III Joseph Mead Sarah (Reynolds) Mead 003-1. Sarah Mead, b. Nov. 3, 1695, d. May 1774 M- Benjamin Stebbing, of Ridgefield, b. 1691, d. Sep. 6, 1780. 003-2. Joseph Mead, b. May 3, 1698. M 003-3. Theophilus Mead, of Norwalk, CT, b. Jul. 3, 1700, d. 1760 M- Abigail Westcott 003-4. Jeremiah Mead, of Norwalk, CT, b. Aug. 6, 1702, d. 1742 M- Hannah St. John, d. Jul. 1746. 003-5. Zachariah "Mead of Fairfield, CT, b. Mar. 11, 1704, d. 1761 M- Sarah , d. 1771. d.s.p. 003-6. Nehemiah Mead, of Norwalk, CT, b. Jan. 20, 1706, d. 1784 M- Mehetable —. 003-7. Israel Mead, of Greenwich, CT, b. Mar. 14, 1708, removed to Ridgefield, CT. M- Chart IV Elisha Mead - 220 - Mead - Kaiser Family Branch 004-1. Joshua Mead, b. 1684 M~_ 004-2. Moses Mead, b. 1686, d. Sep. 1747 M- 004-3. Elisha Mead, b. 1688 M- 004-4. Daniel Mead, b. 1690 M- 004-5. Ezekiel Mead, b. 1692 M- 004-6. Joseph Mead, b. 1694 M- 004-7. Justus Mead, b. 1696 M- 1723 Chart V Justus Mead 005-1. Justus Mead, b. Dec. 13, 1724 ,d. May 3, 1812 M- Chart VI Justus Mead 006-1. Gilbert Mead, b. 1761, resided at Dutchess Co., NY M- 006-2. Nancy Mead, b. 1764 M- Thompson, moved to Orange Co. NY 006-3. Nathaniel Mead, b. 1766, settled at Lyons, NY M- 006-4. Daniel Mead, b. 1768 - 221 - Mead - Kaiser Family Branch M- 006-5. Justus Mead, b. 1770 # M- «—..'- 006-6. Joseph Mead, b. Apr. 9, 1772, d. Jun. 9, 1849 M- 1st - Mary Gager, Jun. 26, 1796, b. Mar. 11, 1776, d. Feb. 18, 1810 M- 2nd - Anna Sleight, Nov. 28, 1812, b. Dec. 28, 1770, d. Apr. 10, 1856, of Dutchess Co. NY 006-2. Leviney Mead M- Smith 006-7. Mary Mead M- Bishop 006-8. Eunice Mead M- Correy 006-9. Martha Mead M- Haines 006-10 . Daniel Mead, b. 1768 M- Chart VII Justus Mead 007-1. Gilbert Mead M- Chart VIII Gilbert Mead 008-1. Daniel Mead M- Lucinda Davis Chart IX Daniel Mead Lucinda (Davis) Mead - 222 - Mead - Kaiser Family Branch 009-1. Elwood Mead, b. Jan. 16, 1858, at Patriot, IN, d. Jan. 26, 1936 at Washington, D.C. 2 M- 1st - Florence S. Chase, Dec. 20, 1882, dtr. of Hiram W. Chase, d. 1897 - they were md. at Lafayette, IN M- 2nd - Mary Lewis, Sep. 28, 1905, dtr. of Joseph 0. Lewis, of Scranton, PA Chart X Elwood Mead Florence S. (Chase) Mead 010-1. Lucy Florence Mead M- Morrill Watson Marston 010-2. Arthur Elwood Mead M- Chart XI Elwood Mead Mary (Lewis) Mead 010-1. Catherine Mead M- 010-2. Dorothy Susan Mead M- Edgar Fosburgh Kaiser, b. Spokane, WA, Jul. 29, 1908. 3 2 Elwood Mead was an engineer for the United States Department of Interior, and an expert on the building of dams in the United States. He was instrumental in the preparation and implementation of plans for the building of Hoover Dam on the CO River in the 1920s and early 1930s. Because of his contribution to this dam Lake Mead, Nevada was named after him. 3 He was the son of Henry J. Kaiser and Bessie (Fosburgh) Kaiser, who was a major contractor in the building of Hoover Dam. Edgar Kaiser was a foreman for the Co. in the building of the dam, and worked with Elwood Mead, who became his father in law. Henry J. Kaiser later developed the Kaiser and Fraser automobiles - which were not successful as part of - 223 - Mead - Kaiser Family Branch Chart XI Henry J. Kaiser 4 Bessie Hannah (Fosburgh) Kaiser Henry J. Kaiser was b. May 9, 1882 at Canojaharie, NY, the son of Frank and Mary (Yopps) Kaiser. He md. Bessie Hannah Fosburgh, Apr. 8, 1907. .ch.: 011-1. Edgar Fosburgh Kaiser, Jul. 29, 1908, d. in 1981 American automotive history. He developed the Kaiser Steel Mill at Fontana, CA. He later went to the Oahu, Hawaii where he developed the Hawaiian Village complex on Waikiki Beach. Kaiser was instrumental in the development of the Kaiser-Permanente Hospital System in the western United States. 4 Kaiser Industries was formed in 1956 to bind together the diverse business empire of Henry J. Kaiser. The companies built ships, autos, dishwashers, and even kitchen sinks. They engineered or constructed steel plants, bridges, roads, and dams. They mined and refined coal, iron ore, magnesium, and other minerals. "More than any other individual person, industrialist Henry J. Kaiser was responsible for the wartime boom in the West," University of New Mexico history professor Gerald D. Nash wrote in his 1973 book, "The American West in the 20th Century." He d. in 1967, at the age of eighty five yrs. Kaiser gave up a successful photography business in 1906 and moved to the Pacific Northwest at the age of twenty four yrs.. There he went to work for a hardware Co.. In 1913 he established the Henry J. Kaiser Co., and in 1923 he built his first permanent sand and gravel plant. He became part of the Six Companies consortium that won the several government contracts to build dams, including Hoover, Bonneville, and Grand Coulee. The cement Co., begun in 1939, was a extension of his construction Co.. Within a year. Kaiser expanded into shipbuilding for the government. And after ships came steel, aerospace, aluminum, cars, applicances and electronics. Health care was a side line. The Kaiser shipyards, seven in number, were instrumental in producing the Liberty Ships during World War II. - 224 - Mead - Kaiser Family Branch M- Dorothy Susan Mead, dtr. of Elwood Mead 5 011-2. Henry J. Kaiser, Jr. M- Chart XII Dorothy Susan (Mead) Kaiser Edgar Fosburgh Kaiser 012-1. Carolyn Kaiser M- 012-2. Becky Kaiser M- 012-3. Gretchen Kaiser M- 012-4. Henry Mead Kaiser 012-5. Kim John Kaiser M- 012-6. Edgar Fosburgh Kaiser, Jr., b. Portland OR, Jul. 5, 1942 6 M- 5 He was Chairman of the Housing Partnership, Washington, D.C. during the 1970s, as well as the chief executive officer of Kaiser Industries, and instrumental in the formation of Kaiser-Permanente Hospitals. While serving as a construction superintendent under his father Henry J. Kaiser, the general contractor for the building of Boulder Dam, he became well acquainted with Elwood Mead, the Engineer of the Dept. of Interior in charge of the project, and his daughter, Dorothy Susan Mead, whom he married. 6 He grad. Stanford U. 1965, M.B.A. at Harvard U. 1967, with AID, Vietnam, 1967-68, White House Fellow, 1968, spl. asst to Sec. of Interior, 1969, manager corp. planning and dev. Kaiser Resources, Ltd. in Vancouver, CAN since 1970. Active in business and civic affairs while residing at Vancouver, CAN. 1500 West Georgia Street, Vancouver, BC V6G 2Z8 CAN - 225 - Washington Family and Related Branches Washington Family Chart I Lawrence Washington Margaret (Butler) Washington 001-1. Robert Washington, b. c. 1589, eldest son and heir, d.s.p. 1610 001-2. Sir John Washington of Thrapston, d. May 18, 1688. 1 M- 1st - Mary Curtis, d. Jan. 1, 1624 or 25, and bur. at Islip Ch. 2 M- 2nd - Dorothy Pargiter, d. Oct. 15, 1678. 3 001-3. Sir William Washington of Packington, b. c. 1594, bur. Jun. 22, 1643, St. Martin's in the Field, Middlesex M- Anne Villiers 4 He was knighted at Newmarket, Feb. 21, 1622 or 23. He and other members of his family often visited Althorpe, the home of the Spencers. He is burie2 d in the Parish Ch. of St. James at Thrapston. She was the sister of Philip Curtis of Islip, Northamptonshire. She was md. at St. Leonard's Shoreditch, London, Jun. 14, 1621. Her father was Philip Curtis, the elder, and his wf, Catherine of Islip. This village is across the river Nene from Thrapston. She was the eldest daughter of William Pargiter, of Greatworth, by Abigail, youngest daughter of Sir Francias Willoughby, and a sister to Margaret, wf of Robert Lord Spencer, of Althorpe. She had a dtr by a previous md., Mrs. Penelope Thornton. She is bur at Fordham in the Co. of Cambridge. - 226 - Washington Family and Related Branches 001-4. Lawrence Washington 5 M- Amphillus Twigden ° 001-5. Thomas Washington, b. c. 1605, d. in Spain while a page to Prince Charles (later King Charles II) 1623. Unmd. Chart II Lawrence Washington Amphillus (Twigden) Washington 002-1. John Washington, b. in Eng. 1632 or 1633, and emg. to VA c. 1659. He was b. at Warton Co. Lancaster, Eng. He settled at Bridge's Creek, VA, and d. Jan. 1677. M- 1st - Anne Pope, dtr of Nathaniel Pope of Pope's Creek, VA. M- 2nd - Anne Brett M- 3rd - Ann Gerrard M- 4th - Frances Gerrard Speke Peyton Appleton 7 002-2. Lawrence Washington, bap. at Tring, Co. She was the dtr of Sir George Villiers, and half sister of George Villiers, the Duke of Buckingham, and a member of King Charles II court. He had as a partner, Thomas Roberts, a royalist, of Braxted, Parva, Essex. He was b. at Sulgrave Manor, 1602, entered Brasenose College, Oxford in 1619. he remained at Oxford fourteen consecutive years. He was appointed to the office of lector, the principal educational office at Brasenose College. This office he held until 1631, when he became one of the proctors of Oxford. He had a Bachelor of Divinity degree conferred at Brasenose College, 1633 or 1634. The commonwealth ousted him from his rectory in 1643, because he was a royalist. He was later given the rectory of Braxted, Jan. 21, 1652. She was the dtr of John Twigden, of Middle Clayden, and was a wid. of one Rhodes at the time of her md. to Lawrence Washington c. 1631 or 1632. Sh7 e was bur. at Tring Hertfordshire, Jan. 16, 1654 or 1655. She was a sister of his third wf. - 227 - Washington Family and Related Branches Hertfordshire, Jun. 18, 1635, and emg. to VA. M- Mary Jones. 002-3. Elizabeth Washington, bap. at Tring, Aug. 17, 1736 M- Rumball 002-4. Margaret Washington M- George Talbott, of St. Giles, in the Fields, London, Feb. 27, 1662-63. 002-5. Martha Washington M- Samuel Hayward, Stafford Co., VA. He was the clerk of that Co. 002-6. William Washington, bap. at Tring, Co. Hertfordshire, Oct. 14, 1641. Chart III John Washington Ann (Pope') Washington 003-1. Lawrence Washington, b. 1659, d. Feb. 1697. M- Mildred Reade Warner, 1690 8 003-2. John Washington, of Westmoreland and Stafford Cos., b. 1661, d. Oct. 22, 1748. M- Anne Wycliffe, sister of Henry Wycliffe. 003-3. Ann Washington, b. c. 1662, d. 1698. M- Major Francis Wright, before 1680. d. bef. Feb. 22 (23) 1697. Chart IV Lawrence Washington Mildred Reade (Warner) Washington dtr of Mildred (Reade) Warner and Col. Augustine Warner, Jr., and grndtr of George Reade and Elizabeth (Marteau) Reade. - 228 - Washington Family and Related Branches 004-1. Augustine Washington, b. 1694, d. Apr. 12, 1743. 9 M- 1st - Jane Butler, Apr. 20, 1715, dtr. of Major Caleb Butler. She d. Nov. 2, 1728. M- 2nd - Mary Ball, Mar. 6, 1731, dtr. of Col. Joseph Ball of Epping Forest. She d. Aug. 25, 1789, having seen her son become the first President of the United States. She had a tense relationship with her famous son as she felt he should be more attentive to her. 004-2. John Washington, b. Nov. 12, 1692. M- Catherine Whiting, dtr. of Henry Whiting. 004-3. Mildred Washington, b. 1696, d. Sep. 5, 1747. 10 M- 1st - Lewis M- 2nd - Roger Gregory, d. 173 0. M- 3rd - Henry Willis, Jan. 23, 1733, d. 1741. 12- g Purchased Little Hunting Creek Plantation for £ 180 from his sister in 1726. Moved his family from Wakefield, VA to Little Hunting Creek in 1735, extending the house that later became the home of Pres. George Washington, as Mount Vernon. Mount Vernon was badly damaged by fire in 1738 or 1739 and the family then moved to Ferry Farm, near Fredericksburg, VA. She was b. 1698 at Pope's Creek, VA. She and her two brothers went to ENG with their wid. mother c. 1700 where they received an education. The mother remarried, and on her death they returned to VA under the custody of an uncle. She inherited Little Hunting Creek Plantation from her father, and sold it in 1726 or 1727 to her brother, Augustine Washington, who left it to his son, Lawrence Washington, on his death in 1743. After her second husband's death she married Henry Willis, the founder of Fredericksburg, VA and settled in that community. In 1732 she was godmother and sponsor to George Washington, her brother's son. The baptismal record was destroyed during the Civil War when a Union Officer gave the book to his young child to make paper dolls. He founded Fredericksburg, VA in 1727. His home was on a hill called Willis Hill, later re-named Marye's Hill which is today the campus of Mary Washington College, a branch of the University of VA. in Fredericksburg. He md. 1st - Anne Alexander, dau. of David Alexander and Anne Morgan Alexander - 229 - Washington Family and Related Branches Chart V Augustine Washington Jane (Butler) Washington 005-1. Lawrence Washington 12 M- Anne Fairfax Chart VI Augustine Washington Mary (Ball) Washington 006-1. George Washington, b. Feb. 22, 1731 at Pope's Creek, VA. He d. Dec. 14, 1799 at Mount Vernon, VA. He and his wf are bur. in the crypt near the manor house. M- Martha Dandridge Custis, a wid., Jan. 6, 1759, at her Plantation, called the White House on the Panmuckey River in Tidewater VA. d.s.p. The White House Plantation was destroyed during the Civil War. She d. 18 02 at Mount Vernon, VA. 13 (wid. of John Smith of Purton), md. Nov. 2, 1714, and 2nd Mildred Howell Brown. Sparks, Washington Vol. I, p. 550, 6 W (1) 208. Francis Willis was the first of the family to emg. to Va, was born in the parish of Fowles ale St. Algate, Oxford, England. NEG&H. Soc. Register XI, p. 257. He was the clerk of Charles River Co. (now York), later magistrate, 1648. He returned to and d. in England. 12 He inherited Little Hunting Creek Plantation on the death of his father, and renamed it Mount Vernon, in honor of Admiral Edward Vernon, under whom he served in the Cartagena Campaign in 1740. Admiral Vernon won fame in the British Navy by introducing the custom of having a daily ration of grog. When he d. he willed the plantation to his wife Anne Fairfax, for life, and the remainder to his half-brother George Washington if she survived without lineal heirs. In 1759 on his md. to Martha Dandridge Custis George Washington purchased her life est., and he became the sole owner of Mount Vernon. Anne Fairfax subsequently md. George Lee, a cousin of the VA Lees. 13 She was the daughter of John Dandridge, and the wid. of Daniel Parke - 230 - Washington Family and Related Branches 006-2. Elizabeth (Betty) Washington, b. Jun. 20, 1733 M- Fielding Lewis, May, 1750, d. Oct. 19, 1781. 14 Res. of Kenmore, Fredericksburg, VA. 006-3. John Augustine Washington, b. Jan. 13, 1736 M- Hannah Bushrod 006-4. Samuel Washington, of Harewood, WV, b. Nov. 16, 1734, md five times M-lst - Jane Champe, dtr of Col. John Champe of Lambs Creek, King George Co., d. 1758, d.s.p. M-2nd - Mildred Thornton, dtr of John Thornton of Caroline Co. She d. 1763. M- 3rd - Anne Steptoe M- 4th - Lucy Chapman, dtr. of Nathaniel Chapman. M- 5th - Susannah Perrin. M- Mildred Thornton 006-5. Charles Washington, b. May 2, 1738. 15 M- Mildred Thornton, dtr. of Col. Francis Thornton and Frances Gregory Thornton of Fall Hill, Nov. 3, 1736, b. 1716, d. after 1749. 16 006-6. Mildred Washington, b. Jun. 21, 1739, d. Oct. 23, 1740. dif. Chart VII Custis. By Custis she had two ch., John Parke Custis, who d. in 1781 at the time of the Yorktown Campaign while an officer in Washington's Army, and Patty, who was epileptic and dif d.s.p. He served the Revolutionary Army by maintaining a munitions works in Fredericksburg, VA. Washington provided him with Hessian Prisoners of War of King George Ill's Army who were craftsmen in housebuilding, and the estate at Kenmore represents much of their craftsmanship today. He maintained a tavern in Fredericksburg, VA which still stands in tha1 >t community. Frances Gregory Thornton was a daughter of Mildred Washington Gregory by her second husband, Roger Gregory. 4 W (1) 158. - 231 - Washington Family and Related Branches John Washington Anne (Wycliffe) Washington 007-1. Lawrence Washington M- 007-2. Nathaniel Washington M- Mary Dade, grnddtr of Major John Dade, Speaker of the House of Burgesses 007-3. John Washington M- 007-4. Henry Washington, high Sheriff of Stafford Co M- Mary Bailey, granddtr of Caleb Butler. Chart VIII John Augustine Washington Hannah (Bushrod) Washington 008-1. Bushrod Washington, b. Jun. 15, 1762, d. Nov. 26, 1829. 17 M- Anne Blackburn 008-2. Jane Washington M- William Augustine Washington, her cousin. 008-3. Elizabeth Washington M- Alexander Dandridge, General, Revolutionary War. Chart IX 17 He was b. in Westmoreland Co., VA. He grad. from William and Mary College, Williamsburg, VA in 1778, being an original member of the Phi Beta Kappa Society. He served in the House of Delegates of VA which ratified the U.S. Constitution. In 1798 he was appointed an Assoc. Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court by Pres. John Adams. He was George Washington's literary executor and supervised the preparation of John Marshall's Life of Washington, 5 vols, 1804-1807, and on Martha Washington's death in 1702 he inherited Mount Vernon. He did in Philadelphia, PA. - 232 - Washington Family and Related Branches Samuel Washington Mildred (Thornton) Washington 009-1. Thornton Washington, b. 1760, d. 1787 M-lst - Mildred Berry, Dec. 26, 1779, gggrd. of John Washington and Mary, dtr. of Col. Robert Townshend. M- 2nd - Frances Townshend. 18 009-2. Harriot Washington M- Andrew Parks 009-3. Lawrence Washington M- 009-4. George Steptoe Washington M- Lucy Payne. -19 009-5. Ferdinand Washington. M- Chart X John Washington Catherine (Whiting) Washington 010-1. Warner Washington, b. Sep. 22, 1722 M-lst - Elizabeth Macon, dtr. of Col. William Macon M-2nd - Hannah Fairfax, May 10, 1764, dtr. of William Fairfax, and sister of Bryan Fairfax, 8th Lord Fairfax. 010-2. Catherine Washington, b. Feb. 11, 1724 18 See 23 Va. 97. 19 This was her first husband. She was a sister of Dolley Payne Madison, and they tived at Harewood, Charlestown, WV. This was the estate on which James Madison and Dolley Payne were md. and had their honeymoon. Lucy Payne, as a wid. later md. Judge Thomas Todd, which was the first marriage performed at the new White House (called the President's Mansion at the time) in Washington, D.C. Judge Todd was an Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court. - 233 - Washington Family and Related Branches M- Col. Fielding Lewis 20 010-3. Henry Washington, b. Sep. 1728 M- 1st Anne Thacker, Jan. 9, 1749, dtr of William Thacker M- 2nd - Charlotte , Mar. 3, 1760. Chart XI Col. Francis Thornton Frances (Gregory) Thornton ^-L 011-1. Mildred Thornton M- Charles Washington, 1757, brother of President George Washington. 011-2. Col. William Thornton 22 M- Martha (Mary) Stuart, dtr. of John Stuart. 23 011-3. Col. John Thornton M- Jane Washington 011-4. Col. Francis Thornton M- Ann Thompson 011-5. Mary Thornton M- William Champe 011-6. Francis Thornton M- Ann Thompson, 17 59 011-7. Mary Elizabeth Thornton 20 This was his first wf. His second wf and widow was Betty Washington Kenmore. 21 She was the dtr of Mildred Washington Gregory, by her second husband, Roger Gregory. Mildred Washington Gregory inherited Little Hunting Creek Plantation where Frances Gregory spent her childhood. 2 2 His dtr, Mildred, md Samuel Washington, brother of Pres. George Washington. 23 27 Va. 75. - 234 - Washington Family and Related Branches M- 1st - Thomas Meriwether M- 2nd - John Lewis Chart XII Col. William Thornton Martha (Stuart) Thornton 012-1. William Thornton M- Eleanor Thompson, dtr of Philip Rootes Thompson. 24 Chart XIII William Thornton Eleanor (Thompson) Thornton 013-1. Susan Thompson Thornton, Feb. 1, 1825. M- Andrew Glassell II, b. May 15, 1793, he d. in Los Angeles CA in 1873. Chart XIV Suan Thompson (Thornton) Glassell Andrew Glassell II 014-1. Andrew Glassell III, b. Sep. 30, 1827, he d. Jan. 27, 1901 at his home in Los Angeles. 25 24 ^^ See Chart XXVI below. 25 In 1835 his family moved to Livingston, AL, where soon after his mother d. While growing up in Livingston he became acquainted with Alfred Beck Chapman, whose father, William Smith Chapman, had been a lawyer but had d. Feb. 6, 1836. Alfred B. Chapman was the grandson of Robert Hett Chapman, the second President of the Univ. of NC. Chapman received an appointment to West Point, grad. in 1854 in a glass of 29 cadets, being ranked 29th academically. In 1848 Andrew Glassell grad. from the Univ. of AL. He studied under Judge John Campbell of AL, an Assoc. Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, and was admitted to the bar of AL in 1853. The same year he came to CA, and was - 235 - Washington Family and Related Branches M-lst - Lucy Toland, dtr of Hugh Haugar Toland, founder of the Univ. of CA Medical School. She d. in 1879. M-2nd - Susan Virginia Micou Ring. She d. in 1897. 014-2. William Thorton Glassell, b. at Fleetwood, Jan. 15, 1831, d. in Los Angeles Co., 1876. 26 admitted to the CA bar, becoming an Assistant United States Attorney at San Francisco. He held that position for about three years, in which time he spent litigating a large number of land cases before the United States Lands Claims Commission. He then engaged in the private practice of law until the Civil War commenced in 1861. He withdrew from practice after being required to take a loyalty oath to the Union. While temporarily retired from practice he undertook the manufacture of barrel staves in Santa Cruz County. He had a steam sawmill and employed a large force of men. When the war ended he returned to practice of law, but in Los Angeles. Upon his arrival in Los Angeles on Nov. 27, 1865 he became re-acquainted with Alfred Beck Chapman, who had left the Army in 1859 and studied law under his father-in-law, Jonathan Scott. The two men formed a law partnership, Glassell & Chapman, which handled a number of real property matters in Los Angeles Co. George Hugh Smith, who md. Glassell's sister joined the firm in 1869, and it became known as Glassell, Chapman & Smith. A. B. Chapman retired in 1880 to attend to his rancho in the San Gabriel Valley. The Los Angeles County Bar Association was organized on Dec. 3, 1878. The main purpose of the association was to establish a law library for the county. The first officers were elected Dec. 10, 1878. Andrew Glassell was elected the first President. Volney E. Howard and J.R. McConnell were elected Vice Presidents; A. W. Hutton, Secretary, and Jackson A. Graves, Treasurer. Mr. Glassell retired from the practice of law in 1883 to manage his growing and prosperous estate, and he was instrumental in the development of the Glassell Park subdivision in central Los Angeles, where he had his residence. His first residence was at Third and Main Streets, in Los Angeles, but he sold it to the Roman Catholic Church, which built St. Vibiana's Catholic Cathedral on the site. For a period his sister and her family resided with Glassell at this location before they, too, became permanently settled in Los Angeles. He was a grad. of the U.S. Naval Acad, at Annapolis and entered the Navy 1848. He was serving in the China Squad aboard the U.S.S. Hartford at - 236 - Washington Family and Related Branches Unmd. 014-3. Susan Thornton Glassell, b. Mar. 2, 1835, d. Los Angeles, CA. Nov. 16, 1883. 27 M- 1st - George Smith Patton I, Sep. 8, 1855. 28 M- 2nd - George Hugh Smith 014-4. Ellen Elizabeth Glassell, b. Nov. 25, 1825, dif. 014-5. Philip Rootes Glassell, b. May 25, 1829, dif. 014-6. John Henry Hobart Glassell, b. Oct. 25, 1833, d. AL. 1853 of yellow fever. Chart XV Robert Glassell 29 the time the Civil War commenced. The Squad, was ordered home and the officers and crew required to take a loyalty oath. Glassell refused to take the oath and was made a prisoner, being dismissed front the Navy on Dec. 6, 1861. He was exchanged for captured Union Prisoners, and became Capt. in the Confederate States Navy, commanding an armored ship, "The David". In a battle in Charleston Harbor "The David" was sunk and he was again in a Union prison, having been caputred Oct. 5, 1863 - where he contracted tuberculosis, from which he eventually d. He accompanied his father, Andrew Glassell II, who was totally blind at the time, and his sister, Susan Thornton Glassell to CA on the Butterfield Stage in 1867. He was employed by his older brother Andrew Glassell as a real estate agent in the development of the community of Orange, Los Angeles Co., CA. See Patton genealogy under the Beale Family Branch. 2 8 Patton was a son of John Mercer Patton prominent VA attorney, and the grandson of Ann Gordon Mercer who md. Robert Patton. His great grandparents were General Hugh and Isabella Mercer. Hugh Mercer was trained in medicine and pharmacy and maintained a pharmacy in Fredericksburg, VA. He became one of General George Washington's combat generals and was killed at the battle of Princeton, NJ on Mar. 20, 1776. 29 He lived in Rucan, Dumfries, Scotland, in the Torthorwald parish. - 237 - Washington Family and Related Branches Mary (Kelton) Glassell 015-1. Andrew Glassell I 30 M- Elizabeth Taylor, Oct. 21, 1776, b. Sep. 22, 1755, d. Jul. 24, 1828. 31 015-2. John Glassell 32 M- Helen Buchan, Nov. 18, 1780, b. c. 1750. 015-3. Robert Glassell, bap. Feb. 15, 1741, at Rucan, Scotland. M- Janet Glassell, a cousin. Chart XVI John Glassell Helen (Buchan) Glassell 016-1. Joanna Glassell, b. 1796, d. Jan. 22, 1828. M- John Campbell, Apr. 17, 1820. 33 Torthorwald was the castle of the Douglass family in Scotland. His parents were John Glassell and Mary (Coalter) Glassell. 30 He was b. Oct. 8, 1738, and emg. with his brother John, to VA about 1756, settling in or near Fredericksburg, VA. d. in VA Jul. 4, 1827. 3 1 She was the dtr of Erasmus Taylor, son of James and Martha (Thompson) Taylor of Culpeper Co., VA. Erasmus Taylor was a brother of Zachary Taylor, the grandfather of Pres. Zachary Taylor. 32 b. Nov. 26, 1736, in Rucan, Dumfries, Scotland, in the Torthorwald parish, he emg. to VA c. 1756, and maintained a public tobacco warehouse in Fredericksburg, VA. His house still stands in Fredericksburg as one of the historical houses in the district, adjacent to a wharf on the Rappahannock River, almost directly across from Ferry Farm, the boyhood home of George Washington. Because of sympathies for the crown John Glassell returned to Scotland at the outbreak of the Revolutionary War, and settled in Long Niddry, near Edinburgh. His wf was the dtr of an early school teacher in Fredericksburg, VA. d. at his estate Long Niddry in East Lothian, Apr. 15, 1806. 33 He was b. Inverary Castle, Co. Argyll, Dec. 21, 1777, d. Apr. 26, 1847. Joanna Glassell was his second wf. Had ch. only by the second md. He was the 7th Duke of Argyll, of Invernary Castle. - 238 - Washington Family and Related Branches Chart XVII Joanna (Glassell) Campbell John Campbell 017-1. Sir George John Douglass Campbell, b. Apr. 30, 1823. 34 M- Lady Elizabeth Georgiana Granville, Jul. 31, 1844. 017-2. John Henry Campbell, b. Jan. 11, 1821, d. May 1837. Unmd. 017-3. Emma Augusta Campbell M- Rt. Hon. Sir John McNeill, G.C.B. Aug. 26, 1870 Chart XVIII Sir George John Douglass Campbell Lady Elizabeth Georgiana (Granville) Campbell 018-1. John George Edward Douglas Sutherland Campbell, b. Aug. 6, 1845. 35 34 He was the 8th Duke of Argyll. Lord Rector of the Univ. of Glasgow. Hereditary Master of the Queen's Household in Scotland. 35 Designated the Marquis of Lome, who became the hereditary master of the household of the monarchs of England in Scotland. He became the 9th Duke of Argyll, and was chosen by Her Majesty Queen Victoria to marry her daughter. Her Royal Highness Princess Louise Alberta. There were no children by this marriage. After the marriage the Marquis of Lome became the Governor General of Canada by appointment of the Queen. Because of the popularity of the Governor General and the Princess the province of Alberta, Canada, and Lake Louise, in that province, were named in her honor. After his death the title passed to a nephew, Nial Diarmond Campbell. The complex and intricate Royal Genealogy is too well known for incorporation here. As Marquis of Lome he was appointed to be in charge of the wedding at Windsor Castle of the Duke of York, later King George V, and Princess Mary - 239 - Washington Family and Related Branches M- H.R.H. The Princess Louise Alberta, 4th dtr of her Imperial Majesty, Queen Victoria, b. Mar. 18, 1848. 018-2. Archibald Campbell, b. Dec. 18, 1846 M- Jane Sevilla Callender, Jan. 12, 1869. 018-3. Walter Campbell, b. Jul. 30, 1848 M- Olivia Milns, Apr. 14, 1878 018-4. George Campbell, b. Dec. 25, 1850 M- 018-5. Colin Campbell, b. Mar. 9, 1853 M- 018-6. Edith Campbell M- Earl Percy, Dec. 23, 1868, b. May 29, 1846, eldest son of the Duke of Northumberland 018-7. Elizabeth Campbell M- 018-8. Victoria Campbell M- 018-9. Evelyn Campbell M- 018-10. Frances Campbell M- 018-11. Mary Campbell M- 018-12. Constance Harriet Campbell M- Chart XIX of Teck, later Queen Mary. - 240 - Washington Family and Related Branches Daniel Parke Custis Martha (Dandridge) Custis 019-1. John Parke Custis M- Eleanor Calvert, of Baltimore, MD. 019-2. Martha (Patsy) Custis Und. d. of epilepsy. Chart XX John Parke Custis Eleanor (Calvert) Custis 02 0-1. George Washington Parke Custis 36 M- Mary Lee Fitzhugh 020-2. Eleanor (Nelly) Custis M- Lawrence Lewis, son of Fielding and Betty Washington Lewis. Chart XXI George Washington Parke Custis Mary Lee (Fitzhugh) Custis 021-1. Mary Ann Randolph Custis M- Robert Edward Lee, 1831. Chart XXII 3 6 He was the grandson of Martha Dandridge Custis and the adopted son of George Washington. He and his sister, Eleanor (Nellie) Custis Lewis are in a famous painting of the Washington family at the National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. He inherited Arlington Plantation from his adopted father, George Washington, and built the later named Lee Mansion on the premises. The mansion built in 1802 of stuccoed brick on the 1100 acre estate was said to be modeled after the temple of Theseus in Athens. The house stands on the brow of the hill looking over the Potomac River toward Washington. - 241 - Washington Family and Related Branches George Reade Elizabeth (Marteau) Reade 022-1. Thomas Reade M- Lucy Gwynn 022-2. Mildred Reade M- Col. Augustine Warner, Jr. 37 Chart XXIII Thomas Reade Lucy (Gwynn) Reade 023-1. Mildred Reade Major Philip Rootes Chart XXIV Mildred (Reade) Rootes Major Philip Rootes 024-1. Elizabeth Rootes Rev. John Thompson 38 Chart XXV Elizabeth (Rootes) Thompson Rev. John Thompson 37 He was Speaker of the Virginia House of Burgesses and a member of the Council at Williamsburg, VA for a period. He resided at Warner's Hall in Westmoreland Co., VA. 38 2d wf. He was a minister of St. Marks Parish in Orange Co., VA, for many years. His first wf was Anne Butler Brayne, 1742 the wid. of Gov. Alexander Spotswood, (d. 1740) who organized the Knights of the Golden Horse Shoe in 1716 to explore the Blue Ridge Mountains for western expansion. It was Spotswood who was instrumental in establishing the iron minig colony at Germanna in Spottsylvania Co., VA, and Spottsylvania Co. VA was named in his honor, with its county seat being Fredericksburg, the hometown of President George Washington. - 242 - Washington Family and Related Branches 025-1. Philip Rootes Thompson M- 1st - Davenport M- 2nd - Sally Slaughter Chart XXVI Philip Rootes Thompson Sally (Slaughter) Thompson 02 6-1. Eleanor Thompson M- William Thornton 39 02 6-2. Judge Robert Augustine Thompson M- Mary Ann Smith Slaughter Chart XXVII Mildred (Reade) Warner Col. Augustine Warner, Jr. 027-1. Elizabeth Warner M- John Lewis Chart XXIX Elizabeth (Warner) Lewis John Lewis 029-1. John Lewis M- Frances Fielding 029-2. Col. Robert Lewis M- Jane Meriwether 029-3. Fielding Lewis M- 029-4. George Lewis 39 Their daughter Susan Thompson Thornton md. Andrew Glassell II. - 243 - Washington Family and Related Branches M- 029-5. Lawrence Lewis M- 029-6. daughter M- Charles Carter 029-7. Robert Lewis M- 029-8. Howell Lewis Chart XXX John Lewis Frances (Fielding) Lewis 030-1. Fielding Lewis M-lst - Catherine Washington, dtr. of John Washington and Catherine (Whiting) Washington. M- 2nd - Elizabeth (Betty) Washington, sister of President George Washington. Chart XXXI Fielding Lewis Elizabeth [Betty] (Washington) Lewis 031-1. Lawrence Lewis, b. Apr. 4, 1767 M- Mary Ann Eleanor (Nelly) Custis, Feb. 22, 1799 40 031-2. Fielding Lewis, b. Feb. 14, 1751, d. Jul. 5, 1803 at Fairfax, VA. M- Ann Alexander, 1769 (1771) 031-3. Augustine Lewis, d. ag. 4 yrs, b. 1752, d. 40 grnddhtr of Martha Dandridge Custis Washington and adopted dtr of George Washington. The Lewis-Custis Mansion near Alexandria VA is a property of the National Trust for Historic Preservation. - 244 - Washington Family and Related Branches 1756. 031-4. Warner Lewis, d. at age 8 mos, b. Jun. 24, 1755, d. 1756. 031-5. Major George Washington Fielding Lewis, b. Mar. 14. 1757, d. at Marmion, 1821. M- Catherine Dangerfield, dtr. of William Daingerfield. Capt. of Col. George Baylor's Regt. 1776-1783 He was an aide and private secretary to President George Washington. 031-6. Mary Lewis, dif., b. Apr. 22, 1759, d. Dec. 25, 1759. 031-7. Charles Lewis, dif. b. Oct. 3, 1860. unmd. 031-8. Samuel Lewis, d. at ag. 13 mos, b. May 14, 1763, d. Sep. 3, 1764. 031-9. Betty Lewis, b. Feb. 23, 1765, d. Aug. 9, 1830 M- Charles Carter, May 7, 1781, b. 1765, d. 1829 031-10. Robert Lewis, b. Jun. 25, 1769, d. 1829 M- Judith Carter Browne. He was an aide and private secretary to President George Washington. 031-11. Howell Lewis, of Kanawha, WV, b. Dec. 12, 1771, d. Dec. 26, 1822 M- Ellen Hackby Pollard of Richmond, VA., Sep. 26, 1795. Chart XXXII Col. Robert Lewis Jane (Meriwether) Lewis 41 41 Her father was Nicholas Meriwether, her brother was a Thomas Meriwether, who md an Elizabeth Thornton. - 245 - Washington Family and Related Branches 03 2-1. William Lewis M- Lucy Meriwether Chart XXXIII William Lewis 42 Lucy (Meriwether) Lewis 033-1. Meriwether Lewis, b. Aug. 18, 1774, d. Oct. 11, 1809. 43 4 2 He had his plantation Locust Hill on Ivy creek near present day Charlottesville, VA. After his death circa 1782 his widow, Lucy, md. John Marks and moved with him and her ch. to GA, settling on the Broad River. When Meriwether Lewis was 13, in 1787, he returned to VA and received an educ. under Rev. Matthew Maury in Albermarle Co. Later he became acquainted with the squire of Monticello when he returned from France to serve in George Washington's first cabinet. By her second md., Lucy Meriwether Lewis Marks had two ch., John Marks and Mary Marks. William Lewis had seven ch. 4 3 He enlisted in the militia raised in Meriwether Co. to join in suppressing the Whiskey Rebellion in 1794. He enlisted in the regular Army while at Pittsburgh and received a commission. He went on an expedition to OH under General Anthony Wayne which ended the war in the Northwest Territory. He learned the language and customs of the Indians while at Fort Pickering (near present day Memphis) in 1797. After Thomas Jefferson was elected President he offered him the post of private secretary with retnetion of his military rank. Lewis accepted, took a leave of absence, and proceeded to Washington. He resided at the White House and was in charge of the housekeeping there. He sat in on the many dinners Jefferson had with political associates. He read Jefferson's State of the Union message before Congress, Dec. 8, 1801, a tradition that prevailed until the time of Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Lewis propounded a project he and Jefferson had discussed in 1792 when Lewis was 28 and Jefferson was Washington's Secretary of state. This led to the Lewis and Clark Expedition. While at St. Louis preparing for the expedition he received word of the Lousiana Purchase. Upon his return from the expedition he resigned from the Army in Nov. 1806. Jefferson appointed him Governor of the LA Territory, with the seat - 246 - Washington Family and Related Branches Unmd. Chart XXXIV James Taylor 44 Martha (Thompson) Taylor 034-1. Zachary Taylor M- Sarah Strother 034-2. Erasmus Taylor M- Jane Moore 034-3. Frances Taylor M- Ambrose Madison 4^ Chart XXXV Zachary Taylor Sarah (Strother) Taylor 035-1. Zachary Taylor 46 M- Margaret Machall Smith of government at St. Louis. While he was later Governor of the LA Territory and was apparently killed on Oct. 17, 1809, sixty miles south of Nashville, TN, in Lewis Co., which was named for him. He was murdered by his French servant, apparently, while staying at an ordinary (inn) in TN while enroute between St. Louis and Washington D.C. on official business. 44 ^^ Came from Carlisle ENG to VA. 45 See Beale - Madison branch. 46 He was the 12th President of the United States. He commanded forces of the United States Army during the Mexican War. He d. in office and was succeeded by Millard Fillmore, his vice president in 1850. During his term the Department of Interior was established, absorbing many functions previously performed by the Department of the Treasury dealing with western land matters. The first Secretary of the Interior was Thomas Ewing, noted otherwise in this genealogy. - 247 - Washington Family and Related Branches Chart XXXVI Zachary Taylor Margaret (Smith) Taylor 03 6-1. Sarah Knox Taylor M- Jefferson Davis, b. Christian Co. KY Jun. 3, 1808, and d. New Orleans, LA Dec. 6, 1889. 47 Chart XXXVII Alexander Spotswood Ann Butler (Brayne) Spotswood 48 037-1. Ann Catherine Spotswood M- Bernard Moore 037-2. John Spotswood M- Mary Dandridge 037-3. Dorothea Spotswood M- Capt. Nathaniel West Dandridge 49 Chart XXXVIII Ann Catherine (Spotswood) Moore 47 He was later President of the Confederate States of America. She d. during their honeymoon in MS, having no ch. He remarried Varina Howell, dtr of a well known MS planter. He was a United States Congressman, Secretary of War in Franklin Pierce's cabinet, at which time he promoted the United States Army Camel Corps, and subsequently President of the Confederacy. 48 She was one of the four daus. and co-heirs of Richard Brayne, late of St. Mary's Parish, City of Westminster, London, and Ann, his wf. The other sisters were Ann Brayne who md Dr. George French of Fredericksburg, VA, Diane Brayne, late of St. Margaret's Parish, Westminster, dec. as of Feb. 15, 1776, Dorothea Brayne, who married Elliott Benger. Ann Brayne, wf of Richard Brayne was dau. and heiress of James Begnold, Sheriff, Co. Surry, and Ann, his wf. 49 William Dandridge, his father, was a brother of John Dandridge, the father of Martha Dandridge Custis Washington. - 248 Washington Family and Related Branches Bernard Moore 038-1. Ann Butler Moore M- Charles Carter of Shirley Chart XXXIX Ann Butler (Moore) Carter Charles Carter 039-1. Ann Hill Carter M- General Henry Lee 50 Chart XL Ann Hill (Carter) Lee Henry Lee 04 0-1. Robert Edward Lee 51 50 This is the well-known Light Horse Harry Lee of Revolutionary War Cavalry fame. He gave the eulogy at the funeral of George Washington Alexandria, VA in 1799 - in which he stated the classic lines: "...first in war, first in peace, first in the hearts of his countrymen. " He died on the plantation of General Nathaniel Green in South Carolina. Green had sponsored a pioneer inventor, Eli Whitney to manufacture a device which became known as the Cotton Gin, and which was instrumental in the pre-Civil War economy of the south. The same Eli Whitney developed standardized parts for the rifle which was instrumental in fighting that war. 51 Lee FamilThe yLe e family line is considered as follows: 1. Charlemagne 2. Louis I, le Debonnaire 3. Louis of Germany 4. Car 1oman 5. Arnulf 6. Edith 7. Henry I the Fowler 8. Hedwig 9. Hugh Capet - 249 - Washington Family and Related Branches M- Mary Anne Randolph Custis, dtr. of George Washington Parke Custis. See Chart XX above. 10. Robert II the Pious 11. Henry I, King of France M- Anne of Russia 12. Hugh Magnus 13. Isobel Vermandois M- Robert de Bellomont 14. Robert de Bellomont 15. Robert de Bellomont 16. Margaret de Beaumont M- Saier de Quincey 17. Hawise de Quincey M- Hugh de Vere 18. Isabel de Vere M- Sir John de Courtenay 19. Sir Hugh de Courtenay M- Eleanor Despenser, sister of Hugh Despenser 20. Eleanor de Courtenay M- Sir Henry de Grey 21. Sir Richard de Grey, born 1281 M- Joan Fitz Payn 22. John de Grey M- Eleanor 23. Jane de Grey of Codnor M- 1st - Sir William de Harcourt M- 2nd - Sir Ralph de Ferrers 24. Sir Richard de Harcourt M- Joan Shareski11 25. Elizabeth de Harcourt M- Sir Thomas de Astley - son of Thomas Astley and Elizabeth Beauchamp of Regis of Nordley Shropshire 26. Margaret de Astley M- Roger de Lee (alias Robert de Lee) son of John de Lee of Roden and Stanton, inherited Coton and Nordley Regis, 1376 27. John de Lee, born 1398, resided at Coton 1405 M- Joacosa, daughter of Sir John Packington 28. John Lee, born c. 1430, of Nordley Regis, Salop, living 1478 M- Elizabeth, daughter of Thomas Corbon of Bromrich, County Stafford. - 250 - Washington Family and Related Branches Chart XLI John Spotswood Mary (Dandridge) Spotswood 041-1. Alexander Dandridge, General, Revolutionary War. M- Elizabeth Washington, dtr. of John Augustine Washington. Chart XLII Dorothea Spotswood Capt. Nathaniel West Dandridge 042-1. Dorothea Spotswood M- Patrick Henry ^2 Chart XLIII Robert Glassell Janet Glassell 043-1. Mary Glassell M- Moved to Canada 043-2. John Glassell, dif in Fredericksburg, VA. 043-3. Marian Glassell M- 043-4. Janet Glassell M- 043-5. Margaret Glassell M- 52 Second wf. He was the great orator - "Give me Liberty, or Give me Death..." - 251 - Washington Family and Related Branches 043-6. Ellen Glassell M- 043-7. Andrew Glassell, dif. 043-8. Robert Glassell, dif, Mobile AL. 043-9. William Glassell M- Lived in Carbelly, Scotland. Chart XLIV Archibald Campbell Jane Sevilla (Callender) Campbell 044-1. Niall Diarmid Campbell, b. Feb. 16, 1872 53 M- 044-2. Elspeth Angela Campbell, b. Nov. 2, 1873 M- Chart XLV Edith Campbell Percy Earl Percy 045-1. Henry Algernon George Percy, Lord Warkworth, b. Jan. 21, 1871 M- 045-2. Joselyn Percy, b. Jan. 26, 1872 M- 045-3. Louisa Elizabeth Percy M- 045-4. Edith Eleanor Percy M- 53 Inherited the title of Duke of Argyll on the d. of the 9th Duke. - 252 - Washington Family and Related Branches 045-5. dtr, b. Aug. 30, 1873. Id- Chart XLVI John Buchan 54 Margaret (Menzies) Buchan 55 046-1. George Buchan, bap. Nov. 16, 1682, d. Mar. 5, 1760. M- Hay, of Balbethan, Aberdeen Chart XLVII George Buchan (Hay) Buchan 047-1. John Buchan of Lethan, d. Nov. 21, 1792. 56 M- 1st - Elizabeth Hepburn of Smeaton M- 2nd - Anne Brown, d. Feb. 26, 1790 Chart XLVIII John Buchan Elizabeth (Smeaton) Buchan 048-1. Helen Buchan M- John Glassell of Long Niddry, Nov. 18, 1780. See Chart XV above. Chart XLIX Andrew Glassell Elizabeth (Taylor) Glassell 049-1. Mildred Glassell, b. Jun. 21, 1778 54 He was a younger son of house of Auchmacoy, Co. Aberdeen. 55 md. Jun. 7, 1679. 56 He was a pioneer schoolteacher in Fredericksburg, VA. - 253 - Washington Family and Related Branches M- Reuben Smith, Dec. 3, 1796. 049-2. John Glassell, b. Oct. 29, 1780, d. Sep. 30, 1850 M- 1st - Louisa Richard Brown, Sep. 11, 1806 M- 2nd - Margaret Christian Scott Lee, Jun. 27, 1821 M- 3rd - Sarah Scott Ashton, Nov. 20, 1845 049-3. Mary Kelton Glassell, b. May 4, 1783, d. Jun. 6, 1818 M- Michael Wallace 049-4. Helen Buchan Glassell, b. Jul. 28, 1785, d. Oct. 16, 1853. M- Daniel Grinnan, Nov. 20, 1815 049-5. Jane Moore Glassell, b. Nov. 17, 1787, d. Apr. 23, 1812. M- Benjamin Cave 049-6. James McMillan Glassell, b. Jan. 1, 1790, d. Nov. 3, 1838 M- Eudora Swartout, 1810, of NYC 049-7. Andrew Glassell, b. May 15, 1793, d. 1873 in Los Angeles, CA. 57 M- Susan Thompson Thornton, Feb. 1, 182 5, b. Jul. 6. 1804, d. Oct. 18, 1836 in Eutaw Co., AL. 049-8. William Erasmus Glassell, b. May 17, 1797, at Torthorwald, VA d. Aug. 26, 1885 at Meadow Grove, Fauguer Co. VA, near Marshall. M- 1st - Margaret Ann Somerville, Feb. 4, 1819, b. Dec. 6. 1800, d. Mar. 9, 1832, dtr of James and Mary (Atwell) Somerville. 57 He was b. Torthorwald, VA, and was educ. at Winchester. He inherited Torthorwald, which he sold, and bought Richland, Culpepper Co. VA. This he sold to his brother, William, and bought Fleet plantation. He moved to an estate near Livingston Alabama, Eutaw Co. c. 1835, and moved with his family to CA in 1866 or 1867. - 254 - Washington Family and Related Branches M -2nd - Harriet Scott, Oct. 19, 1833, dtr of Alexander and Frances (Whiting) Scott. 049-9. Robert Alexander Glassell M- Chart L Andrew Glassell 58 Lucy (Toland) Glassell 050-1. Susan Glassell M- Henry Milner Mitchell of Richmond, VA. 050-2. Mary Toland (Minnie) Glassell M- Harrington Brown of Washington D.C. 050-3. Hugh Hauger Glassell 59 M- 050-4. Andrew Glassell, d. 1879. Und. 050-5. William Thornton Glassell M- 050-6. Alfred Leigh Glassell M- 050-7. Philip Hubert Glassell, b. Jan. 9, 1867, bap. at Plaza Church, Los Angeles, deceased in 1914. 58 From page 187, Illustrated History of Los Angeles County - Andrew Glassell entered Un. of Alabama in 1844, and grad. in 1848. He was admitted to the CA bar in 1853. Practiced in San Francisco until 1861. George Hugh Smith joined the partnership on Jan. 1, 1870. In 1855 he md Lucy Toland, dtr of Dr. Hugh Hauger Toland, founder of what became the Un. of CA Medical School in San Francisco. They had nine children. 59 He was a Civil Engineer with the Northern Pacific Railroad and performed services in both railroad and aqueduct engineering in the northwest United States. - 255 - Washington Family and Related Branches 050-8. Lucien T. Glassell M- 050-9. Louise Glassell M- Dr. James de Barth Shorb, Jr. M.D. 60 Chart LI Andrew Glassell 61 Virginia (Micou) Ring Glassell 62 051-1. William Micou Glassell. M- Chart LII Judge Robert Augustine Thompson Mary Ann Smith (Slaughter) Thompson 052-1. Mary Mercer Thompson. M- Major General Edward Otho Cresap Ord, Oct. 14, 1854, 6 0 His mother was Maria Jesus Wilson Shorb and his father was James deBarth Shorb, a nat. of MD, and early pioneer to Los Angeles. Maria Jesus Wilson was the dtr of Benjamin Davis Wilson of Lake Vineyard, and his first wife, Ramona Yorba, dtr. of Bernardo Yorba, and granddaughter of Jose Antonio Yorba I. Through this genealogical tie it can be said that George George Patton, a descendant by the second marriage of Benjamin Davis Wilson, to Margaret Hereford (see Patton Family Branch) was related to the Washington family of Revolutionary War fame and to the first settlers to CA in 1769. 6 *i He d. at his residence, 352 Buena Vista Street, Los Angeles, on Jan. 28, 1901. He retired from the practice of law in 1883. Alfred Beck Chapman, a boyhood friend from AL, was his partner in law. Andrew Glassell had studied law in the office of Samuel W. Inge. He was acquainted with John A. Campbell, of AL, an Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court. Glassell's second wife's father was a member of the New Orleans, LA law firm of Benjamin and Micou. 62 She d. in 1897. - 256 - Edward Otho Cresap Ord EDWARD OTHO CRESAP ORD By C. E. Parker Edward Otho Cresap Ord was born October 18, 1818, in Cumberland, Maryland, third son of James Ord, a former officer of the United States Navy, and later a lieutenant in the Army during the War of 1812. His mother was a daughter of Colonel Daniel Cresap, who served under General Washington during the American Revolution. Through E.O.C. Ord's father's ancestry he could claim royal blood flowed, for the father, James Ord, was the son of George IV, King of England, by a morganatic marriage with the beautiful Mrs. Maria Anne Fitzherberbert, while George was still Prince of Wales. As a young man, George Augustus Frederick, the eldest son of George III, had established an intimate relationship with a young widow, Mrs. Mary Ann (Maria) Fitzherbert. There were persistent rumors that a marriage had taken place between the Prince and Mrs. Fitzherbert, and finally in 1787 the Prime Minister, Sir George Fox, declared in the House of Commons, on the Prince's behalf, that the story of the marriage was false. Mrs. Fitzherbert was of the Catholic faith and any such marriage would have violated the Act of Settlement, enacted in 1689, and caused the forfeiture of succession to the throne by the Prince of Wales by reason of having married a Roman Catholic. The result would not have been an invalid marriage, but rather a disgualified heir. Faced with this problem and since he was increasingly subject to the harassment of his creditors, the prince did not hesitate to deny a marriage that all of his family and intimate friends knew to exist and treated as valid, though a morganatic marriage. More than a century later, in 19 05, a sealed packet that had been left at Coutt's Bank in 1833 was finally opened with royal permission, and documents evidencing - 1 - Edward Otho Cresap Ord the fact of the marriage between George IV (then heir apparent) and Maria Fitzherbert were made public. They were published in W. H. Wilkins Mrs. Fitzherbert and George IV. These documents were to show that the prince and Mrs. Fitzherbert had been married secretly on December 15, 1785, by the Rev. R. Burt of the Church of England. In 1794 George IV, without the slightest tinge of conscience, deserted Mrs. Fitzherbert when he fell under the influence of and became infatuated with Lady Jersey. However, in 1796 the prince executed a will in which he spoke of Mrs. Fitzherbert as his lawful wife. Mrs. Fitzherbert obtained Papal confirmation of her marriage about this time. After a brief reconciliation in 1800, he again left Mrs. Fitzherbert for Lady Hertford, and later, Lady Conyngham, and various other intimate affairs. George IV, while Prince of Wales, was a close friend of George Bryan Brummel, known in history as Beau Brummel. He was born in London in 1778, and acquired great distinction by his taste in dress - an autocrat in the world of fashion. At sixteen he made the acquaintance of the prince, who made him a cornet in the 10th Hussars. Brummel rapidly rose in the ranks and led an affluent life. After 1814 his wealth evoporated and he emigrated to Calais, France, where he spent some years in dire poverty. George Brummel died in a mental asylum in France in 1840. Mrs. Fitzherbert, after George IV's death, declined an offer of his brother, William IV, to make her a duchess, but she did accept his permission to dress her servants in royal livery. This marriage to Mrs. Fitzherbert pre-dated George's marriage to Princess Caroline of Brunswick, who was to become his queen. This latter marriage was the subject of a significant domestic and political dispute as to the legal validity, in light of the earlier marriage. The actual bar to the alleged marriage with Mrs. Fitzherbert was the Royal Marriage Act of 1772. -1- This - 2 - Edward Otho Cresap Ord act states that any marriage of any descendant of George II is invalid unless royal consent is obtained. Since the alleged marriage took place in 1785 and George III was alive and competent at the time it took place, it hasd been without royal consent in violation of the act. Had the prince waited three years he could give his consent as regent. Papal confirmation had no significance under English law. As to James Ord and his family, they returned to Washington D.C. in 1819 where Edward received his early education, primarily from his father, who had been under the influence of Bishop Carroll of Carrollton and the priests at Georgetown University in his early days. At the age of sixteen Edward Ord entered the United States Military Academny at West Point, and graduated in 1839 as the seventh in his class. On July 1st, 1839, he was appointed Second Lieutenant, and assigned to the Third Artillery, United States Army. His first service was in the Florida everglades in action against the Seminole Indians, where for his valor he was appointed a First Lieutenant. 2 In 1847 Ord was sent with his regiment to California, and there he was associated with both William Tecumseh Sherman, a member of his West Point class, and Henry Halleck. All three officers were to achieve general officer rank during the Civil War. Both of Ord's brothers, Pacificus and Dr. James Ord, were also to emigrate to California about this time. Unlike Ord they became permanent residents. Dr. James Ord, who as not a military man, was assigned as surgeon to the Third Artillery under a contract with the Army. He later married a daughte of Don Jose Antonio de la Guerra of Santa Barbara, who had been the widow of 1 12 Geo. Ill c. 11. 2 See XVII, No. 4, HSCQ (1935) 139. - 3 - Edward Otho Cresap Ord Manuel Jimeno, one of the most prominent of the Spanish Californians of his day. As the widow Jimeno in Monterey, Dona Augustina de la Guerra y Jimeno y Ord maintined a boarding house in which the three officers stayed during their sojourn in California. Because of the discovery of gold in 1848 the officers of the Third Artillery found their limited wages from the Army insufficient to maintain a necessary life style. As a result, with Army permission, they sought and received employment by various new communities to make surveys and prepare maps of the new townsites. The Ayuntamiento, or Town Council of the Pueblo de Los Angeles, placed a request before the Military Governor of California, Colonel Richard Barnes Mason, to make available a surveyor, and ord was assigned to proceed to Los Angeles, where he entered into a contract to make the first formal map of the Pueblo in 1849. This Ord survey of 1849 is the first of the pueblo. For a period of ten years before the American occupation of California, the Ayuntamiento of the Pueblo or Ciudad de Los Angeles, had discussed the possibility of laying out the streets of the town, and having a map prepard for this purpose - but for a number of years it was simply talked about. Early in 18 49 the then military governor, General Bennett Riley, sent a reguest to the Ayuntamiento for a city map and information as to titles to the town lots that had been granted, at which time he was informed by the Town Council that no city map was in existence, and there there was no surveyor in the town to make one. The Ayuntamiento, having passed a resolution requesting a surveyor, soon received Lt. Edward Otho Cresap Ord of Company F, of the Third Artillery. At the time of his arrival in Los Angeles ord had just finished a survey of the City of Sacramento at the request of its founder, John Augustus Sutter, Jr., the eldest son of the pioneer Swiss merchant who established Sutter's Fort, and owned the saw mill on the American River where the first gold was discovered in 1848. Edward Otho Cresap Ord Lt. Ord refused to accept anything but cash for his services to the pueblo of Los Angeles, feeling that real estate in the little city could never amount to much, and the Ayuntamiento immediately negotiated the necessary loan from William Temple, who was gaining prominent then as a businessman in the community, and the sale of several lots to repay the amount borrowed. On September 19, 1849, Don Juan Temple, William's brother, and the syndic (city attorney) of the Ayuntamiento submitted to its members the finished City Map, now referred to as the Ord Map of Los Angeles, as well as a receipt showing he had paid the surveyor three thousand dollars, the amount which had been raised to pay the surveyor's fee. After completing his survey of the Ciudad de Los Angeles in 1849, Lt. Ord saw considerable military services in California, and on September 7, 1850, received his captaincy. He was married in San Francisco on October 14, 1854 to Mary Mercer Thompson, daughter of Robert Augustus Thompson, a prominent land lawyer, a native of Virginia, and a one time member of the United States Board of land Commissioners, which passed upon the validity of Spanish and Mexican land titles in California. From this union Ord had two sons and a daughter. During 1856, and again in 1858, he campaigned against the Indians in Oregon, between which tours of duty he was in charge of old Fort Miller in the San Joaquin Valley, near present day Fresno. Ord was briefly a business partner of William Tecumseh Sherman and Colonel Richard Mason. 3 This venture was at Coloma, north of San Francisco. Fort Ord, the military reservation in Monterey County, bears tghe name of Edward Otho Cresap Ord. In 1859 Ord was fond in the expedition under the command of Colonel Robert E. Lee to suppress the uprising by John Brown 3 A descendnat of Colonel George Mason of Gunston Hall, Virginia, who wrote the Virginia Declaration of Rights, from wich Thomas Jefferson liberally borrowed in writing the Declaration of Independence. - 5 - Edward Otho Cresap Ord and his raiders at Harper's Ferry, Virginia. He briefly returned to the Presidio in San Francisco, and was stationed there at the outbreak of the Civil War. He rapidly rose to the rank of Brigadier General, served in a number of battles, and was a member of General Ulysses S. Grant's personal staff at Vicksburg. At the conclusion of the Civil War President Johnson designated him the Military Governor of Virginia, where he ahd the unenviable task of taking into custody his former military colleague, the President of the Confederacy, Jefferson Davis, who was held at Fort Monroe, Virginia, for a period of time. 4 4 For further material about Edward Otho Cresap Ord see Amelia Ransome Neville, The Fantastic City, Houghton Mifflin & Co., 1932. Dwight Clarke, William Tecumseh Sherman, Gold Rush Banker, p. 374. - 6 - Washington Family and Related Branches b. Oct. 18, 1818, in Cumberland, MD, third son of James Ord. 63 His father had been a Lt. in the U.S.Army and was in the War of 1812. His mother was a dau. of Col. Daniel Cresap, who served under Washington. He grad. from the U.S. Military acad., in 1839, seventh in his class. He was the army engineer who contracted to make the first survey and map of Los Angeles in 1849. In the Civil War he served as the military governor of VA, and was in charge of the custody of both Robert E. Lee and Jefferson Davis after the surrender at Appomatox. He retired from the Army dec. 6, 1880, and d. of yellow fever at Havana, Cuba on Jul. 22, 1883. He was bur. at Arlington National Cem. It is alleged that King George IV, while the Prince of Wales, entered into a marriage with Mary Ann Fitzherbert, (not recognized under the law of Great Britain) and had a son by him, which was raised by the James Ord family of Baltimore, who were close friends of Mrs. Fitzherbert. He adopted the name James Ord and in turn had several sons - including Edward Otho Cresap Ord and Dr. James L. Ord, a Surgeon with the Third Art., CA, 1847, who md. Maria Augustias del la Guerra of Santa Barbara, dau. of Jose de la Guerra y Noriega and the wid. of Manuel Jimeno Casarin of Monterey. He was a claimant for land in Tuolumne Co., and later spent some years in Mexico, holding about 1882 the position of Consul- General. In 1874 he resided at Santa Barbara, and in 1878 was appointed attending surgeon to the U.S. troops at Ft. Point, San Francisco, and was still residing there in 1884. He had one dau., Rebecca, who in 1885 lived with her mother at Salinas. The Ord Survey of 1849 was the first of the pueblo of Los Angeles. When Gen. Bennett Riley, the military governor in 1849 requested a city map and was advised there was none and that there was no surveyor to make one at the time, he sent Ord to accomplish this task. Lt. Ord refused to accept anything but cash for making the map, having been offered real estate in Los Angeles in lieu thereof, as he felt real estate in the new pueblo would never amount to much. The town council immediately negotiated a loan and a sale of lots was ordered to repay the amount borrowed. By Sep. 19, 1849, the Syndic (City Attorney) of the Ayuntamiento (town council) submitted to its members the finished city map as well as a receipt showing he had paid the surveyor three thousand dollars, the amount having been a loan by Temple to the city, to enable it to pay its bi11. - 257 - Washington Family and Related Branches Chart LIII Henry Willis Mildred Howell (Brown) Willis 053-1. Ann Willis 64 M- Duff Green, b. 1784 65 Chart LIV Ann (Willis) Green Duff Green 054-1. Willis Green M- Sarah Reed, 1783 Moved to near Danville, KY 054-2. John Green Unmd. - "My Lord John" - very wealthy - was a Capt. in American Revolution, badly wounded. 054-3. Betsy Green (Eliza) MO William Green, son of William Green 054-4. William Green, moved to Lincoln, KY M- Ann Marshall, dau. of Markham Marshall, Aug. 25, 1790, KY. 054-5. Henry Lewis Green, b. 1807, d. Dec. 16, 1881 M- Lucy Bird Semple, 1831 Res. in KY and MO Fort Ord, the military reservation at Monterey, CA bears his name - extending from the reknown he had over all of military career. See Amelia Ransome Neville, The Fantastic City, Houghton Mifflin & Co., 1932; Dwight Clarke, Wm. T. Sherman, Gold Rush Banker, p. 374. 64 She was the dau. of Henry Willis Sr. by his second wf. Mildred Howell Brown. 65 His first wf was — Thomas. - 258 - Washington Family and Related Branches 054-6. Ellen Green (or Anne) M- Jonathan Smith Moved to KY, had Jno., Henry and Willis. Chart LVI Chart LV Willis Green Sarah (Reed) Green 055-1. Dr. Lewis Warner Green 66 M-lst - Eliza J. Montgomery M-2nd - Mary Lawrence Fry Chart LVI Dr. Lewis Warner Green Eliza J. (Montgomery) Green 056-1. Letitia Green, b. Jan. 8, 1843 M- Adlai Ewing Stevenson, Dec. 20, 1866. 67 056-2. Sophia Elizabeth Green, b. Jul. 23, 1833 M- 056-3. James Bell Green, b. Oct. 10, 1838 M- 056-4. Fielding Alexander Green, b. Sep. 23, 1844 M- 056-5. William W. Green, b. Aug. 15, 1840 M- 056-6. John Calvin Green, b. Sep. 27, 1847 66 He was the President of Center College, KY. r£ "7 He was Vice President of the United States in the second term of President Grover Cleveland. They were the grandparents of Adlai Ewing Stevenson, candidate for President of the United States in 1952 and 1956. - 259 - Washington Family and Related Branches M- 056-7. Thomas W. Green, b. Aug. 16, 1851 M- Chart LVII Letitia (Green) Stevenson Adlai Ewing Stevenson 057-1. Lewis Green Stevenson, b. 1869 68 M- Helen Davis 69 057-2. Mary Stevenson, b. 1874, d. 1895 Unmd. 057-3. Julia Stevenson, b. 1875 M- 057-4. Letitia Stevenson, b. 1877 M- Scott Chart LVIII Lewis Green Stevenson Helen (Davis) Stevenson 058-1. Adlai Ewing Stevenson, b. Los Angeles, CA Feb. 5, 1900, 70 68 He was badly injured in a hunting accident in boyhood, an injury that plaqued him the remainder of his life. He and his wife were friends of Phoebe Apperson Hearst, and through her he became employed by the Los Angeles Examiner for a period. While res. in Los Angeles their son Adlai Ewing Stevenson was b. 69 dtr of William Osborne Davis and Eliza Fell Davis, dtr. of Jesse Fell, who suggested the Lincoln-Douglas debates. Jesse Fell founded the Bloomington IL Pantagraph. 70 A.B. Princeton Univ. 1922, J.D. Northwestern Univ. He was Governor of IL, 1948-1952, and candidate for President of the U.S. in 1952 and 1956 on the Democratic ticket. He became permanent Ambassador the United Nations in 260 Washington Family and Related Branches M- Ellen Borden, 1929, div. 1949. 058-2. Helen Stevenson M- Her nickname was Buffie Chart LIX Adlai Ewing Stevenson Ellen (Borden) Stevenson 059-1. Adlai Ewing Stevenson, Jr., United States Senator for IL. 1970-1981. b. Chicago, IL Oct. 10, 1930. Grad. of Harvard Univ. 1952, LLB 1957 M- Nancy L. Anderson, Jun. 25, 1955. 059-2. John Fell Stevenson M- 059-3. Borden Stevenson M- Chart LX Adlai Ewing Stevenson, Jr. Nancy L. (Anderson) Stevenson 060-1. Adlai Ewing Stevenson IV M- 060-2. Lucy W. Stevenson M- 060-3. Katherine R. Stevenson M- 060-4. Warwick L. Stevenson ti the John F. Kennedy administration, and d. in Jul. 1965 while serving in that office while on official business in London, Eng. - 261 - Washington Family and Related Branches Chart LXI William Ewing (1665-1670) 061-1. Nathaniel Ewing 71 M-lst - M- 2nd - Chart LXII Nathaniel Ewing (by first marriage) 062-1. William Ewing, b. 1710, at Londonderry, Ireland. M- 062-2. Joshua Ewing re settled in Cecil Co. MD 062-3. Samuel Ewing M- 062-4. James Ewing M- 062-5. Ann Ewing Chart LXIII Nathaniel Ewing (by second marriage) 063-1. Nathaniel Ewing M- Rachel Porter 71 b. near Coleraine, Co. of Londonderry, Ulster, Ireland, b. 1692, came to America c. 1725, d. Sep. 6, 1748. - 262 - Washington Family and Related Branches Chart LXIV Joshua Ewing 064-1. Nathaniel Ewing 72 M- Osborne. 73 Chart LXV Nathaniel Ewing (Osborne) Ewing 065-1. Adlai Osborne Ewing M- Sophia Goodrich Gillespie Wallis Chart LXVI Adlai Osborne Ewing Sophia Goodrich Gillespie (Wallis) Ewing 066-1. Eliza Ann Ewing, b. Oct. 20, 1809. John Turner Stevenson, b. 1808, d. 1857, son of James Stevenson and Nancy Young Brevard Stevenson. 066-2. John Wallis Ewing, b. 1808, d. 1855. M- Maria McClelland Stevenson, b. 1802, d. 1883, dau. of James Stevenson and Nancy Young Brevard Stevenson, Christian Co., KY, Oct. 12, 1830, later res. at Woodford Co. IL. Chart LXVII Eliza Ann (Ewing) Stevenson John Turner Stevenson 72 He was a soldier in the War of Revolution, a member of Capt. James Houston's Co., and engaged in the battles of Ramsour's Mill, Kings Mountain and Cowpens. 7 3 Dau. of Col. Alexander Osborne. They res. in Charlotte, and afterwards Statesville, NC. 263 - Washington Family and Related Branches 067-1. Adlai Ewing Stevenson M- Letitia Green - see Chart LVIII above. Chart LXVIII Lionel of Antwerp 74 Elizabeth de Burgh of Ulster 068-1. Phillipa, Countess of Ulster M- Edmund Mortimer, 3rd Earl of March Chart LXIX Philippa Edmund Mortimer 069-1. Elizabeth Mortimer M- Sir Henry Percy (nicknamed Hotspur) one of the most famous knights of medieval England. Noted in Henry IV, Part 1, Shakespeare. Chart LXX Elizabeth Mortimer Percy Sir Henry Percy 07 0-1. Henry Percy, 2nd Earl of Northumberland Chart LXXI Henry Percy 071-1. Henry Percy, b. 1421, d. 1461 Chart LXXII Henry Percy 74 Third son of King Edward III of England, pre-deceased his father, leaving only a daughter surviving. He was the first Duke of Clarence. - 264 - Washington Family and Related Branches 072-1. Margaret Percy M- Sir William Gascoigne Chart LXXIII Margaret (Percy) Gascoigne Sir William Gascoigne 073-1. Elizabeth Gascoigne M- Sir George de Tailboys (or Talboys) Chart LXXIV Elizabeth (Gascoigne) Talboys Sir George de Talboys 074-1. Anne de Talboys M- Sir Edward Dymoke 75 Chart LXXV Anne de (Talboys) Dymoke Sir Edward Dymoke 075-1. Frances Dymoke M- Sir Thomas Windebank Chart LXXVI Frances (Dymoke) Windebank Sir Thomas Windebank 076-1. Mildred Windebank M- Robert Reade Chart LXXVII Mildred (Windebank) Reade Robert Reade 75 He was the hereditary champion of the Kings of England. - 265 - Washington Family and Related Branches 077-1. Col. George Reade, emg. to VA M- Elizabeth Marteau. 76 See Chart XXII above. Chart LXXVIII Taverner Beale 77 Elizabeth (Hite) Beale 078-1. John Beale, d. Oct. 21, 1809. M-lst - Margaret (Peggy) Skillern, 1788, dtr. of George Skillern of Revolutionary War fame. M-2nd - Rhoda Triggs, 18 05, dtr. of Abraham Triggs. He was a member of the House of Delegates in 1793. 078-2. Thomas Beale, b. 1742. M- Celeste Grandpierre, nat. of NC. 078-3. Catherine Beale, b. Sep. 25, 1765, d. Feb. 22, 1856. M- Capt. John Jordan, Apr. 28, 1789. 078-4. Charles Beale, b. Feb. 17, 1771, d. Jul. 10, 1842. M- 1st - Elizabeth Skillern, b. 1780. M- 2nd - Anna Kyle Moved to MO 078-5. Mary Beale, b. 1762 M- 1st - Major Peter Higgins M- 2nd - Dr. Jacob Williamson of New Market, VA. 078-6. James Madison Hite Beale, b. Feb. 17, 1786, d. Aug. 2, 1866. M- Mary Casey Steenbergen, Oct. 3, 1807. He was a member of the United States Congress, 18 3 3-35. 7 6 Her father was Nicholas Marteau, one of the first settlers of Yorktown, VA. 77 See Chart VII, Beale Family Branch. - 266 - Washington Family and Related Branches 078-7. Elizabeth Beale M- 1st - M- 2nd - William Steenbergen Chart LXXIX John Beale Margaret (Skillern) Beale 079-1. George Beale M- 1st - Betty Lewis M- 2nd - Elizabeth Bowie Lane Chart LXXX George Beale Betty (Lewis) Beale 080-1. Robert Beale, b. 1798 M- 080-2. George Beale, b. 1792, d. 1835. M- Emily Truxtun. 78 Chart LXXXI George Beale Emily (Truxtun) Beale 081-1. Mary Elizabeth Beale, b. 1820. M- William Read, b. 1828, d. 1884. 79 081-2. Edward Fitzgerald Beale, b. 1822, d. 1911 M- Mary Edwards Chart LXXXII 78 See Chart IX, Beale Family Branch. 79 See Chart XI, Beale Family Branch. - 267 - Washington Family and Related Branches Edward Fitzgerald Beale 80 Mary (Edwards) Beale 082-1. Truxtun Beale, b. Mar. 6, 1856 at San Francisco CA. d. June 2, 19 3 6 in Washington D.C. 81 M- 1st - Harriet Blaine 82 M- 2nd - Marie Oge Chart LXXXIII Truxtun Beale 8 0 He was a Navy Lt. during the Mexican War and was at the Battle of San Pasqual, Nov. 1846, near present day Escondido and close to the site of the San Diego Zoo Wild Life Center. He was the first man to bring word of the CA Gold Rush to the east coast in 1848; and became owner of the Tejon Ranch, on which Ft. Tejon is located. He left the navy and became an enthusiastic supporter of the United States Army Camel Corps, in which Jefferson Davis and David Dixon Porter played prominent roles. He was appointed by Pres. Ulysses S. Grant as Minister Plenipotenitary to the Austro-Hungarian Empire, 1876-1877. Beale had difficulty in this post as it was discovered that he was materially involved in the capture and execution of the Emperor Maximilian in 1864 in Mexico. Maximilian was the younger bro. of the Emperor Franz Joseph. Maximilian's wf. Carlotta, was the dau. of the Belgian King, and after many years of being invalided for insanity she d. in 1926. 81 He was a grad. of the PA Military College in 1874, and stud, law at Columbia Un., and after grad. was admitted to the bar. Instead of practicing law he managed the Tejon Ranch, owned by his father, in Kern Co., CA, north of Los Angeles. In 1891 he was sent to Persia as the United States Minister. The following year he was sent to Serbia, Rumania, and Greece, where he acted as Minister Plenopentiary. From 1894 to 1896 he traveled in eastern Asia, visiting Chinese Turkestan and Siberia. He was a frequent contributor to magazines on international questions and author of "The Man Versus the State" (1956). He gave to the City of Bakersfield Beale Tower, which served as a significant landmark for many years in that city. 8 2 Daughter of James Gillespie Blaine - see Chart XII, Beale Family Branch. - 268 - Washington Family and Related Branches Harriet (Blaine) Beale 083-1. Walker Blaine Beale, b. 1896, d. Sep. 18, 1918, killed in combat in World War I. 83 Unmd. Chart LXXXIV Juan Pablo Grijalva 84 83 He was killed in the Battle of St. Mihiel, France. He was the heir to the Decatur-Beale mansion in Washington, D.C, and the residence of his grandfather, James G. Beale in Augusta, ME. After his death his father, Truxtun Beale, deeded the residence in ME to the State of ME as a historic landmark. It became the residence of the Governor of the State of ME which it remains today (1988). Through Walker Blaine Beale the family has a relationship to the Washington, Madison, Beale, Taylor and related families on one side (Truxtun Beale) and to the Blaines, McMurrays and related lines on the other side (Harriet Blaine.) He was uniquely related, by md. to Jefferson Davis, President of the Confederacy, and Robert E. Lee, General of the Confederate Army on one side, and on the other to William Tecumseh Sherman, and Ulysses S. Grant, on the other side. 84 He was a nat. of Mexico, b. c. 1743, and d. 1806, in CA. His entire career was with the Army of Spain in northern Mexico and CA. He had been an experienced Indian fighter, and was selected by Juan Bautista de Anza as his second in command in the historical Anza Expedition to CA in 1776, to found the new city of San Francisco. The Anza party brought their families - and Grijalva was accompanied by his wife Maria Dolores Valencia and two daughters, Maria Josefa and Maria del Carmen. Maria Josefa later md. Jose Antonio Yorba I, a member of the Portola Expedition of 1769, and Maria del Carmen md. Pedro Peralta, who she knew as a boy accompanying his parents on the Anza Expedition of 1776. He was present at the founding on San Francisco, June 26, 1776, and stationed at the Presidio there for a period of ten years. On Oct. 1, 1786, the governor recommended him for promotion and his commission as alferez of the San Diego company was issued on July 20, 1787, by General Ugarte. In Dec. 1795 he asked for retirement on account of infirmities contracted - 269 - Washington Family and Related Branches Maria Dolores (Valencia) Grijalva 084-1. Maria Josefa Grijalva, May 17, 1782 at Mission San Francisco. b. c. 1765, in Mexico. M- Jose Antonio Yorba I, b. 1746 in San Sandurni de Noya, Spain, the ancestral village of the Yorbas. 85 084-2. Maria del Carmen Grijalva, b. c. 1766. M- Pedro Peralta, Oct. 27, 1785. during long service. It wa recommended that he be retired as lieutenant with half pay, at $200 a year. It is believed that he was the original occupant of the land known as Rancho Santiago de Santa Ana. He acted as habilitado of the San Diego company for brief periods. He d. Jun. 21, 1806 at San Diego. See Bancroft ii, p. 104. 8 5 The exact date of his b. is unknown but was shortly before Jul. 26, 1746, the date he was baptized. Bk 4, Pg 110, Baptisms, of the local church, San Sadurni de Subirgats, bishopric of Barcelona, son of Pablo Yorba, glazier, and of Rosa Ferran, his wf. He came to New Spain (Mexico) in 1767 as part of the Royal Catalan Volunteers. He was with twenty five Catalan soldiers under the command of Lt. Pedro Fages, which joined Don Gaspar de Portola at La Paz for the Holy Expedition to CA in 1769. He sailed with this company aboard the San Carlos on Jan. 9, 1769 for San Diego. Many of the Catalans were ill with scurvy by the time they arrived at San Diego. Some died and are buried at Puerta de Muerto (Dead Man's Point on the present waterfront of San Diego). Portola was one of the few able to accompany Portola on the trek north in July, 1769. On July 27, 1769 the expedition camped at an "arroyo of running water" which was given the name Santiago in honor of the Patron Saint of Spain. This was less than a mile from the location Yorba would eventually place his adobe house on Hoyt Hill on the south side of Santiago Creek near El Modena. On the next day, Jul. 28th, they camped on a river at the moment an earthquake struck. As a result the priests named the river El Dulcime Nombre de Jesus de Temblores (the River of the Sweet Name of Jesus of the Earthquakes). The Soldiers called it Santa Ana in honor of St. Ann and her fiest day. This is the name that stuck, though on the early Spanish maps the river was referred to as the Temblores, and the adjacent bay the Bahia de Temblores (now known as San Pedro Bay.) He d. Jan. 16, 1825 at his rancho, and was bur. after a Mass celebrated by Fr. Geronimo Boscana, the mission priest, in the cem. of the Mission San Juan Capistrano. - 270 - Washington Family and Related Branches Chart LXXXV Jose Antonio Yorba I 86 Maria Josefa (Grijalva) Yorba 085-1. Jose Antonio Yorba II M-lst - Maria Antonia Verdugo M-2nd - Maria Catarina Verdugo, sister of his first wf, 87 085-2. Tomas Antonio Yorba 88 M- Vicenta Sepulveda 89 By a petition filed in 1801 he and his father-in-law Juan Pablo Grijalva asked for a tract of land of the Arroyo de Santiago to place their cattle and horses. A map filed with the petiton showed three houses on the land requested. One of these was on Hoyt Hill, between El Modena and Villa Park. It is probable that both men spent their retirement years at this site. The map also showed another house near what is now Olive. After Juan Pablo Grijalva's death in 1806 there was another petition, dated Nov. 24, 1809 asking for a confirmation of the grant by the then Gov. Jose Joaquin de Arrillaga. This may have been occasioned by the then dedication of the new stone church at Mission San Juan Capistrano earlier the same year. In the petition Yorba was joined by his nephew, Juan Pablo Peralta, a son of Pedro and Maria del Carmen Grijalva. These lands became known as the Rancho Santiago de Santa Ana. The grant was confirmed on Jul. 1, 1810. He died on this rancho in 1825. 87 He was Juez de Campo, auxiliary alcalde at Santa Ana Abajo, and regidor at Los Angeles in 1847. He served as suplente to the territorial deputation (alternate to the provincial assembly) and as an auxliary alcalde at Santa Ana. He ran the first general store in the San Diego Canyon. Q Q After his death in 1845 she md. Ramon Carrillo of San Diego, who had been the scout for the lancers of General Andres Pico during the Mexican War, and whose family was prominent in the affairs of CA. One sister md. Henry Delano Fitch, the founder of modern San Diego, and another sister, Benicia Carrillo md. General Mariano Guadalupe Vallejo of Petaluma and Sonoma, CA. - 271 - Washington Family and Related Branches 085-3. Isabel Yorba M- Jose Joaquin Maitorena, an alferez of the Army of Spain. She was a grantee of Rancho Quadalasca in Ventura Co. 085-4. Presentacion Yorba M- Leandro Serrano 90 085-5. Raymunda Yorba M- Juan Bautista Alvarado 91 085-6. Francisa Yorba M- Francisco Ortega 085-7. Bernardo Yorba, b. 1801 92 M- 1st - Maria Jesus Alvarado M- 2nd - Felipa Dominguez M- 3rd - Andrea Elizalde 085-8. Teodocio Yorba, b. 1809 93 90 The first white settler in Riverside Co. and the grantee of the Rancho Temescal in San Diego Co. He later occupied land near the Yorba settlement on the Rancho Santiago de Santa Ana and the name Serrano is associated with roads and schools in the area today. 91 He was a relative of CA Gov. Juan Bautista Alvarado, having served as a musician with the Army of Spain in CA. 92 He was the grantee of the Rancho Canon de Santa Ana in 1834 in northeastern Orange Co., and of the Rancho La Sierra (Yorba) in western Riverside Co. He was also the owner of the Rancho El Rincon, which he obtained from Isaac Williams. He was honored by numerous elections to the office of juez de campo, whose primary duty was to supervise rodeos. He died at his rancho in 1857, and was buried in a cemetery in Los Angeles. Later his remains were removed to the Yorba Cemetery in the Santa Ana Canyon where they remain today. This Cemetery is part of a historic park today. By his three wives he had twenty-one children. 9 3 He was the grantee of the Rancho Lomas de Santiago, being a close friend of the last Mexican Gov. of CA, Don Pio Pico. This rancho represents the northern part of the great Irvine Ranch today. He also was the grantee of the Rancho Arroyo Seco near Pasadena, and served as an auxiliary - 272 - Washington Family and Related Branches M-lst - Maria Antonia Lugo M 2nd - Inocencia Reyes. 085-9. Andrea Yorba M- Jose Maria Avila 94 Chart LXXXVI Eleanor Parke (Custis) Lewis Lawrence Lewis - see Chart XXXI above. 086-1. Frances Parke Lewis, b. Nov. 27, 1799, at Mount Vernon 9^ M- Edward George Washington Butler, Apr. 4, 182 6, d. Jun. 30, 1875. 086-2. Lorenzo Lewis, b. Nov. 13, 1803, d. Aug. 27, 1847. M- Esther Marie Coxe, Jun. 6 (May 25) 1827 96 086-3. Mary Eliza Angela Lewis, b. Apr. 1, 1813 M- Charles M. Conrad, Jul. 30, 18 3 5 of New Orleans Res in LA and MS. 08 6-4. Agnes Lewis, d. at age 16. dif. Chart LXXXVII Thornton Washington Mildred (Berry) Washington - see Chart IX alcalde. 94 They resided in the adobe building on Olvera Street that is now part of the historical plaza of Los Angeles. It was in this adobe that General Stephen Watts Kearney stayed during his brief occupancy of Los Angeles in 1847, at which time he had his men perform a military concert in the plaza of Los Angeles to soothe the ill feeling between the Califomnians and the newly arrived Army of the West. 95 They res. in LA and MS. She was the baby born just before George Washington's death. 96 She was the dtr of John Redman Coxe of Philadelphia, PA. - 273 - Washington Family and Related Branches 087-1. John Thornton Augustine Washington, b. May 20, 1783 (1782), d. Oct. 7, 1841. M- 1st - Elizabeth Conrad Bedlnger, Sep. 2 (24) 1810 M- 2nd - Sarah Rutherford 087-2. Samuel Washington, b. 1787, d. 1867 97 M- Kate Townsend Washington Res. in OH and KY. Chart LXXXIII George Steptoe Washington Lucy (Payne) Washington - see Chart IX 088-1. Samuel Walter Washington, b. c. 1799, d. 1831 M- Louisa Clemson, 1820 (1822) Res. in WV 088-2. William Temple Washington, b. 1800, d. 1874 M- Margaret Calhoun Fletcher, 1821. Chart LXXXIX Col. Francis Thornton Ann (Thompson) Thornton 089-1. Mildred Washington Thornton, b. Dec. 20, 1761 M- Abraham Maury 089-2. Francis Thornton M- Sally Innes Chart XC Nathaniel Ewing Rachel (Porter) Ewing 090-1. Sarah Ewing, b. at or near Coleraine, 1722. 97 May be the son by second wf, Frances Townshend Washington. - 274 - Washington Family and Related Branches M- Robert Potts Res. Lancaster Co. PA near Harrisburg. 090-2. William Ewing, b. near Coleraine, 1723-1724, d. Sep. 10, 1788 - res. in MD M- Kitty Ewing, dtr. of emg. Joshua Ewing. 090-3. Anne Ewing, b. on Atlantic Ocean, 1725, d. 1809 M- James Breading, 1745, b. 1726 Res. at Nottingham, PA 090-4. John Ewing, b. Little Britain, Lancaster Co., PA., Jun. 21, 1732, d. Sep. 8, 1802 M- Hannah Sargent He was noted as a clergyman in Philadelphia 090-5. James Ewing, b. Jun. 21, 1732 - twn. d. 1818- 1819 M- Peggy Ewing 090-6. Rachel Margaret Ewing, b. Little Britain, 1735 M- William Ewing, her cousin 090-7. George Ewing, b. Little Britain, Sep. 1, 1737 d. Apr. 1785 M- Mary Porter, Apr. 8, 1766, dau. of Jane and Ellen (Gillespie) Porter 090-8. Alexander Ewing, b. 1740, d. Jun. or Jul. 1799 M- Jane Kirkpatrick Chart XCI William Ewing Kitty Ewing 091-1. Rachel Ewing M- Stephen Dancy 091-2. Nathaniel Ewing M- Went to KY, killed at Ft. Meigs under General Harrison. - 275 - Washington Family and Related Branches Chart XCII Anne (Ewing) Breading James Breading 092-1. Mary Breading M- Hugh Laughlin, res. Fayette Co. PA 092-2. Nathaniel Breading, b. Little Britain, Mar. 17, 1751, d. Apr. 15, 1721 M- Mary Ewing, dtr. of George Ewing, b. Apr. 1, 1767, d. Aug. 31, 1845 092-3. Rachel Breading M- 092-4. Sarah Breading M- 092-5. David Breading M- 092-6. Anne Breading M- Nathaniel Ewing, son of George Ewing, Oct. 1, 1793 Chart XCIII George Ewing 98 Mary (Porter) Ewing 093-1. Mary Ewing, b. Apr. 1, 1767, d. Aug. 31, 1845, at Alleghany, PA. M- Nathaniel Breading, son of Anne (Ewing) Breading and James Breading. 99 98 He was a Commissary under appointment of Col. Ephraim Blaine, and he bought goods for Washington's Army at Valley Forge in the winter of 1777. He was never reimbursed for personal funds advanced and d. a pauper. He was in the service of the Revolutionary Army at Valley Forge PA in the winter of 1777-78. - 276 - Washington Family and Related Branches 093-2. William Porter Ewing, b. May (or Dec.) 19, 1769, d. Oct. 21, 1827, Fayette Co. PA. M- Mary Conwell, 1791 093-3. Ellen (or Eleanor) Ewing, b. Aug. 3, 1774 M- William Oliphant, lived near Marietta, OH 093-4. Nathaniel Ewing, b. Apr. 10, 1772, d. Aug. 6, 1846, near Vincennes, IN M- Rebecca Morgan 093-5. James Ewing, b. Sep. 25, 1776, d. 1859 in MO Chart XCIV William Porter Ewing Mary (Conwell) Ewing 094-1. John Hoge Ewing M- Ellen Blaine, Nov. 2, 1820. 10° Chart XCV Nathaniel Ewing 101 Anne (Breading) Ewing 095-1. Mary Ewing, b. Jun. 16, 1794, d. Nov. 3, 1865 M- Dr. William Carr Lane, Feb. 26, 1818 095-2. Rachel Ewing, b. Jun. 10, 1796, d. Jan. 24, 1836 M- Daniel Jencks, of Terre Haute, IN dtr. of James Blaine, son of Col. Ephraim Blaine, Asst Commissary General at Valley Forge, 1777. She was b. Feb. 2, 1802, and d. Aug. 26, 1840. He was b. Oct. 5, 1796 and d. Jan. 15, 1862. He was a United States Congressman for PA. 101 He was at one time head of Newark Academy, DE. He went to Vincennes, IN as Collector of Public Monies for the U.S. He became a member of the Territorial Legislature, and d. at Mont Claire, IN, 1846, age 74. - 277 Washington Family and Related Branches 095-3. George W. Ewing, b. Mar. 4, 1798, d. Sep. 15, 1838 M- Grace H. Law, May 11, 1837, Vicennes, IN 095-4. James Ewing, b. Apr. 6, 1800, d. Mar. 10, 1877 M- Eliza Shaw, Jul. 1860 095-5. Eliza Ewing, b. Aug. 3, 1802, d. Jul. 1808. dif. 095-6. Sarah Ewing, b. Jul. 12, 1804, d. Mar. 10, 1877 M- John Law, Nov. 28, 1822 095-7. Harriet Ewing, b. Feb. 9, 1807, d. Aug. 10, 1877 M- James Farrington, Nov. 29, 182 6 095-8. Caroline Sidney Ewing, b. Feb. 11, 1811 M- George W. Mears, Nov. 21, 183 3 095-9. Nathaniel Ewing, b. Apr. 13, 1815, d. Nov. 1816. dif. 095-10. William Lane Ewing, b. Jan. 31, 1809, d. Oct. 22, 1873 102 M- Claire Berthold, Feb. 1838 Chart XCVI William Lane Ewing Claire (Berthold) Ewing 096-1. Auguste Berthold Ewing, b. Apr. 6, 1839 M- Mary McCausland, Sep. 8, 1869 096-2. Ann Emily Ewing, b. Aug. 26, 1841 M- 1st - William Covington Mitchell, Jul. 1, 1865 M- 2nd - George W. Kerr, Feb. 19, 1879 102 He was a prominent businessman in St. Louis, M0. - 278 - Washington Family and Related Branches 096-3. William Lane Ewing, b. Mar. 16, 1843 M- Mary Fleming, Jul. 17, 1883 096-4. Nathaniel P. Ewing, b. Jan. 23, 1845, d. May 13, 1846, dif. 096-5. Pelagie Isabel Ewing, b. Nov. 19, 1846 M- Charles T. Taylor 096-6. George Ewing, b. Apr. 9, 1848, d. Sep. 6, 1853, dif. 096-7. James Ewing, b. Apr. 13, 1850, d. Apr. 21, 1852. dif. 096-8. Ernest L. Ewing, b. Jul. 14, 1851, d. Jul. 30, 1852. dif. 096-9. Emily Kennedy Ewing, b. Mar. 2, 1853, d. Feb. 13, 1869, dif. 096-10. Frederick Berthold Ewing, b. Mar. 2, 1853, d. Feb. 10, 1897 M- J. Valle 096-11. Clara Louise Ewing, b. Sep. 7, 1855 M- William Sidney Wilson, Feb. 27, 1878 Chart XCVII Bernardo Yorba Maria Jesus (Alvarado) Yorba 097-1. Ramona Yorba, b. 1829, d. 1849. M- Benjamin Davis Wilson (Don Benito), 1844. 103 103 Benjamin Davis Wilson, known to his CA friends as Don Benito Wilson, was a native of Nashville, TN; born in 1811. He was a relative of Major David Wilson, who served in the Revolutionary War, and emigrated from PA to Sumner County, in what then was NC, and later was in the Territorial Assembly of TN. David Wilson was eventually the speaker of the Assembly. At - 279 Washington Family and Related Branches Chart XCVIII the age of fifteen Benjamin Davis Wilson opened a trading post at Yazoo City, Mississippi. In 1833 he went to Santa Fe, New Mexico, where he began engaging in bear hunting and fur trapping for several years. At the age of thirty, in 1841, he accompanied the Workman-Row I and Party to CA from New Mexico, to Los Angeles. William Workman, later owner of the La Puente Rancho, and John Rowland, were leaders of the party, which also included Lemuel Carpenter, all of whom remained in CA. Wilson then purchased the Rancho San Jose de Buenos Ayres (now the site of present-day Westwood). The Jurupa Rancho, which he had purchased from Don Juan Bandini, was the base from which Wilson engaged in several campaigns against hostile Indians. In the summer of 1845 Wilson was requested by Governor Pio Pico to chase a band of renegade Indians into the Mojave desert. The group which Wilson led came to what is now Big Bear Lake - and finding it swarming with bears this party gave the lake its name. Second in command of this expedition was Enrique Avila, who took over when Wilson was wounded by an Indian arrow. In the same expedition they encountered the chief of the Cahuillas, whose name was Cabazon. In 1844 Wilson courted and won the hand of Ramona Yorba and they were married in February of that year. She was the eldest daughter of Don Bernardo Yorba, who was one of the four Yorba brothers, the first settlers of Orange County along the Santa Ana River. Bernardo Yorba had established his rancho Canon de Santa Ana in 1832 and had built an enormous adobe hacienda on his property, which he named the Casa de San Antonio, at which his many children grew up. By three wives he had twenty one children. The youngest child of the first marriage was Ramona Yorba. She died in 1849 survived by her husband and two children, John Wilson and Maria Jesus Wilson became the wife of James de Barth Shorb, a native of Maryland. The Shorbs acquired a portion of the estate of Don Benito Wilson on his death in 1878 at Lake Vineyard. Wilson had purchased vast acreage in the early 1850's in the San Gabriel Valley from Victoria Reid. Victoria Reid, as a young Indian girl, had served the mission fathers at San Gabriel Mission. For her faithful service she had received title to the mission rancho, Santa Anita, and lived in an adobe building there, that still stands within the present-day Los Angeles County Arboretum, near the Santa Anita Race Track. The adobe stands next to the Queen Anne's Cottage (the cottage used in the television series Fantasy 280 - Washington Family and Related Branches Island at the beginning of each program) built by E. J. "Lucky" Baldwin when he lawter acquired the rancho. Victoria Reid later married Hugo Reid, an early scot settler - who was known as the Scotch Paisano. After his death Victoria Reid continued to live at Santa Anita, and it was during this time Benito Wilson acquired his interest in the San Gabriel Valley. His own estate includes the present-day site of the Huntington Library, and was named Lake Vineyard. On the westerly portion of the Lake Vineyard Estate was an adobe occupied by the Patton family, the daughter and son-in-law of Don Benito Wilson, which they acquired in the distribution of Don Benito's estate. Because of the deteriorating condition of this adobe building the Pattons tore it down soon after the turn of the century and built a more imposing family house in its place. It was in the adobe building that George S. Patton and his sister, Anita were born and grew up. As the was the custom in Spanish times the Pattons had a governess or duena for the two children, who was Maria Scully. She was the daughter of a sister of Ramona Yorba, and her husband, John Scully, was the first school teacher in Santa Ana Canyon. The Shorbs acquired the easterly portion of the Lake Vineyard estate. Due to apparent mismanagement by James de Barth Shorb and other financial reverses of the family, this part of the estate was lost when the property was foreclosed upon by the Farmers and Merchants National Bank of Los Angeles after Mr. Shorb's death in 1897. Jackson Graves, a pioneer Los Angeles lawyer, at the time was the president of the bank. George Patton, in his papers, noted that his father, much against his will, undertook to act as executor of the Shorb estate. The bank later sold the property to Henry E. Huntington, the wealthy railroad man, who was at the time actively building the Pacific Electric Railway system throughout southern CA. Huntington built a great mansion on the property for himself and his wife, which was later to become the Henry E. Huntington Memorial Art Gallery, Library and Gardens. The gallery is best known for two of its Gainsborough paintings - Pinky and Blue Boy. Don Benito Wilson was active among the foreigners who participated against the forces of Governor Micheltorena and General Castro at Cahuenga Pass in Los Angeles in 1845. Micheltorena was deposed as governor of CA by Pio Pico, a native son, who himself became governor. During this period Governor Pio Pico, in August, 1846, sent Benito Wilson to meet with - 281 - Washington Family and Related Branches Ramona (Yorba) Wilson Commoldore Robert Field Stockton at San Pedro. He was to tell Stockton that no resistence would be encountered on his occupation of Los Angeles. Stockton had occupied Monterey, CA, the previous July 7th, the offiicial termination date of CA as a province of Mexico. Wilson escorted Stockton into the Pueblo de Los Angeles and conferred with him for several days. Wilson was appointed a captain by Stockton. Later in August, 1846, Wilson was in the San Bernardino mountains on a parlay with Indian friends when word came of an uprising in the Pueblo de Los Angeles against Archibald Gillespie, a lieutenant in the United States Marine Corps, and the first United States Marine ever to come to CA. Gillespie had been left in charge of a small garrison of men by Commodore Stockton and Major John C. Fremont, before they returned north in mid- August, 1846. Gillespie's undisguised contempt for the Californians had led to the revolt. Among the garrison under the command of Lt. Gillespie was William Todd, a cousin of Mary Todd Lincoln, and the man who designed the original bear flag at the time of the Bear Flag Revolt, the previous June in Sonoma; and James Marshall, who was to become immortal as the man who discovered gold in CA while working for John Augustus Sutter at his mill on the American River near Coloma, in Jan. 1848. Wilson returned quickly to the rancho of Isaac Williams, Rancho del Chino, where he and other foreigners were soon overwhelmed by a force under the command of Cerbelo Varela - the same man that had deposed Gillespie from his control of Los Angeles. As prisoners they rode in two groups with Cerbelo in the latter group, with Wilson and Diego Sepulveda in command of the forward group. Wilson and Cerbelo Varela discovered Sepulveda intended to execute his prisoners before reaching Los Angeles, but Varela talked him out of this course of action. The Americans under Gillespie were allowed to retire to San Pedro to wait the arrival of Commodore Stockton and a small naval force. Gillespie had previously sent word through one John White, alias Juan Flaco, to Stockton in San Francisco. White's ride north became one of the historic rides through CA in this period. Stockton, however, sent Lt. William Mervine, and with the combined forces of Gillespie and Mervine an attempt was made to retake Los Angeles. Marching as far as the Dominguez Rancho hacienda, neaer present-day Compton, Gillespie and Mervine encountered a signficant force of Californians under the command of Jose Antonio Carrillo. Six Americans - 232 - Washington Family and Related Branches Benjamin Davis Wilson 104 were killed in the battle that ensued and Gillespie retreated again to San Pedro, burying the American dead on a small island in San Pedro harbor, which henceforth became known as Dead Man's Island. Stockton later arrived in San Pedro and after due consultation with Gillespie and Mervine, all the Americans retired to San Diego to regroup. Early in Jan. 1847, with the assistance of the Army of the West, under the command of Colonel Stephen Watts Kearney, who had arrived in CA early in Dec. 1846, the Americans re-took Los Angeles - fighting brief battles on the San Gabriel River and at La Mesa - before once and for all entering the Pueblo de Los Angeles. Stockton ordered the army band to have a concert in the old plaza the first evening as an easy means of winning over the local residents. A few days later, on Jan. 13, 1847, a treaty of capitulation was signed between John C. Fremont, for the Americans, and Andres Pico, for the Californians, at a small adobe building near Cahuenga Pass in Los Angeles. This building still stands across the street from the main gate to Universal Interational motion picture studios and the MCA company headquarters. In 1852 Benito Wilson re-married. In Feb. of that year he married Margaret Short Hereford, the widow of a pioneer Los Angeles doctor. By her first marriage she had a son, Edward, who as a young man was murdered, as had been the young Shorb son. By the second marriage they had two daughters, Ruth and Anne Wilson. Ann Wilson never married but Ruth Wilson, the younger daughter, was to marry George Smith Patton II, in San Gabriel on Dec. 18, 1884. He was the son of Colonel George Smith Patton I, killed at the Battle of Winchester, Virginia, in the Civil War, on Jun. 19, 1864, and his widow, Susan Thornton Glassell Patton. Wilson and others acquired a substantial portion of the Rancho San Pedro, portions of which he sold to Phinneas P. Banning, a pioneer resident in the Los Angeles harbor area. Banning established a freight line and the new town of Wilmington. Wilson and Banning later, during the Civil War, sold the land on which Drum Barracks later stood in 1861 for the sum of $1.00. After the Civil War Wilson and Banning re-acquired Drum Barracks in 1870. Wilson established Wilson College for Women in the old hospital building of Drum Barracks. Other accomplishments included the building of the first - 283 - Washington Family and Related Branches 098-1. John Wilson, dif. having been murdered as was his step uncle in Los Angeles. 098-2. Maria Jesus Wilson M- James deBarth Shorb. Chart XCIX James Ord Rebecca Ruth Cresap Ord 099-1. Placidus Ord M- 099-2. Edward Otho Cresap Ord M- Mary Mercer Thompson 099-3. Pacificus Ord M- 099-4. Dr. James L. Ord M- Augustias de la Guerra ditch from Eaton Canyon to bring the first water to the new city of Pasadena; the building of the first trail up what is now Mount Wilson, in search of timber, and established one of the first, if not the first, successful vineyard for wine making at his hacienda near present-day Pasadena, at the spot called Oak Knoll. He assisted Banning in getting the first appropriation from Washington D.C. for the development of San Pedro Harbor - the first step in its long but successful effort to become a major Pacific coast industrial harbor. During this period Wilson established his home place at Lake Vineyard Estate, which included the little mesas on what is now known as Oak Knoll. It is he who erected the adobe, later occupied by the Pattons, at the foot of the little Oak Knoll Hill. By his second md. to Margaret Hereford he had Ruth and Ann Wilson. Ann Wilson never md. but Ruth Wilson became the wf. of George Smith Patton - see Patton Family Branch. - 284 - Washington Family and Related Branches 099-5. Marcey Ord M- 099-6. Robert Brent Ord, b. Mar 4, 1827, d. Oct. 20, 1839 M- Eliza Good, Aug. 24, 1859 099-7. John Ord M- 099-8. Georgiana C. Ord M- Judge Holliday of San Francisco Chart C Mildred Washington Gregory Roger Gregory 100-1. Frances Gregory, b. 1716 M- Francis Thornton of Fall Hill, a mile west of Falmouth, VA. Nov. 3, 1736. 4 W (1) 158. d. Nov. 11, 1743. 100-2. Mildred Gregory, b. 1718 M- John John Thornton of Thornton Hill, Oct. 28, 1740, d. 1777, son of Francis and Mary Taliaferro Thornton. 1 W (1) 140. 100-3. Mary Elizabeth Gregory, b. 1720 M- 1st - Reuben Thornton lci5 Mar. 23, 1768. M- 2nd - Dr. Thomas Walker of Albermarle Co. 106 M- 3rd - Dr. Weston Alcock, of the British Army, d.s.p. The latter resided at Castle Hill. I Hoppin 163, I Freeman 37. Chart CI 105 of Drysdale Parish, Caroline Co. VA. 106 He was the guardian of Thomas Jefferson, his brother and dsisters, after the death of Peter Jefferson in 1757. - 285 Washington Family and Related Branches William Green Ann (Marshall) Green 101-1. General Duff Green Id- Famed editor and political leader in KY Chart CII General Duff Green 101-1. dau. M- Andrew Pickett Calhoun, son of John C. Calhoun, Vice Pres. of the United States. Chart CIII Harriot Washington Parks Andrew Parks 103-1. Lawrence Augustine Parks, b. 1801, d. 1822 M- 103-2. Bushrod Parks, b. 1806, d. 1832 M 103-3. Laura Angela Parks, b. Nov. 14 (15) 1809 M- Samuel Shrewsbury, 1827, d. Jan. 2. 1885, res. at WV. Their dau. Laura md. Nicholas Fitzhugh, a grandson of Sarah Ashton Fitzhugh. 103-4. Andrew Parks, b. 1811 M- Margaret Creed Res. in WV 103-5. Mary Parks, b. 1813 M- 103-6. John Parks, b. 1816 M- Lucy Anderson Chart CIV - 286 - Washington Family and Related Branches John Payne II 107 Mary (Coles) Payne 104-1. Dorothea (Dolley) Payne, b. NC M- 1st John Todd, Jr., of Philadelphia, PA, Jan. 27, 1790. He d. in the Yellow Fever epidemic of 1793. M-2nd - James Madison, Jr., Sep. 1794. 4th President of the United States. lci8 They were md. at Harewood, WV, the home of George Steptoe Washington and his wf, Dolley*s sister, Lucy Payne Washington. Harewood is located a few miles from Charleston, WV. 104-2. Lucy Payne M- 1st - George Steptoe Washington, May 10, 1793, b. 1773, d. 1809, son of Samuel Washington and Anne Steptoe Washington. M- 2nd - Thomas Todd, Mar. 29, 1812. This is the first marriage in the White House, Washington, D.C. Her second husband was appointed to the United States Supreme Court by President Thomas Jefferson in 1807. He d. in 1826. She d. in 1846. 104-3. Anna Payne M- Richard Cutts. He was a Congressman from the MA district that is now the state of ME. Chart CV 107»u He was the son of an English gentlemen of wealth and education who emigrated to the colonies and settled on the James River in Goochland Co., VA. He left home at an early age to manage family lands in NC. His wf was the dau. of William Coles, who emg. from Eniscorthy, Ireland, and founded a plantation called Coles Hill in Va. She was a niece of Patrick Henry and his second wf., Dorothea Dandridge. a long time Congressman representing Orange County, VA in the United States Congress. - 237 - JAMES MADISON •a W\ H''' ^^^**^*f^M^^^ .33* 1: M ;'\ ;"'^;~V i., ^-^^^B*.*—..^.^^^^,;^^.^' .4.. Urtt-.l^. The lifelong home of James Madison, Montpelier retains its colonial charm, although its original appearance has been considerably changed through additions, altering of partitions and other innovations. Built in 1756 about 30 miles northeast of Charlottesville, Virginia, the house was said to have been the first brick house in the neighborhood. Madison was brought there as a small child by his father. In 1809, he remodeled the home to enlarge it and a later owner added wings on either side. In a superb setting, the house snuggles against the low-rising brow of a large hill, looking out over gently rolling lawns and fields. In 1820, Madison wrote that he and his wife had 90 persons "to dine with us at our table fixed on the lawn, under a large arbor." A resident of Montpelier until his death at 85, Madison is best remembered as the "father of the constitution" and as being responsible for locating the nation's capital along the Potomac rather than the Susquehanna or the Delaware, favored by many legislators. 11 Our Family Tree - Mead - Parker Branch FIRST GENERATION Chart I John Mead *• Martha (Davis) Mead ch. : 001-1. Joseph Mead, b. 1630, in England, d. 1690 John Mead, the emigrant, was b. ca. 1599 in England (possibly Lydd, Kent). He was reputedly the bro. of Gabriel Mead who settled in MA. John Mead married Martha Davis, dau. of Elijah Davis, ca. 1630, prior to emigrating to MA and CT. His wf. and father in law accompanied him to the colonies, aboard the ship Elizabeth, commanded by William Stegg. Thomas Stegg, owner. The Meads brought their three chidren to the new world. John Mead was one of the first settlers at Westersfield, CT, and for a period went to Long Island, before settling at Horses neck. Martha Davis Mead d. Sep. 19, 1657. John Mead d. at Stamford, CT in 1663. Some records refer to him as William Mead and some as John Mead. Verification of the immigration of the Mead family to the new world has been uncertain. Records at Salt Lake City, LIT reflect as to the Ship Elizabeth that records existed in the Augmentation Office, Rolls Court, Westminster Hill, showing: Apr. 16 C1635] Elizabeth Wm. Stagg, Master, oath of allegiance before Sir Wm Whitmore and Sir Nicho. Ranton, no mention of the Meads on passenger list. Apr. 8 [1635] Elizabeth Wm. Stagg, Master, oath of allegiance, St. Alphage, Applegate parish. Apr. 9 [1635] Elizabeth - Wm Stagg Master, certificate from the minister of Hauckhurst in Kent. Apr. 10 [1635] Elizabeth - Wm. Stagg Master, Apr. 11, Elizabeth, Wm. Stagg Master. Thomas Stegg Sr. later established a settlement on the James River, in VA, called the Falls, at which he operated a trading post. This was the beginning of Richmond, VA. His dau., Elizabeth Stegg, was the wf. of William Byrd I, of the VA Byrds. His son, Thomas Stegg, Jr., came to VA and joined with him in the operation of the trading post. - 289 - Our Family Tree - Mead - Parker Branch M- Mary Brown, of Stamford, CT Dec. 4, 1654, d. May 3, 1690. They are the founders of the Norwalk, Ridgefield, and North Fairfax Co. Meads. 001-2. Martha Mead, b. 1632, in England, d. 1695 M- John Richardson, d. 1679 Resided West Farms, Westchester Co., NY 001-3. John Mead, b. 1634, in England, d. Feb. 5, 1699. M- Hannah Potter, of Stamford, CT 1657 001-4. A ch., d.y. before 1630. SECOND GENERATION Chart II John 1 John Mead 001-3 Hannah (Potter) Mead ch. : 002-1. John Mead, b. 1653, at Stamford, CT, d. May 12, 1693 M- Ruth Hardy, Oct. 27, 1681, dau. of Richard Hardy, dau. of Richard Hardy, (1625-1707) and Ann Husted Hardy (1623-1707). This was the first marriage in Greenwich. Ruth Hardy Mead, as a widow, married again to Finch. 002-2. Joseph Mead, b. May 2, 1660, d. Feb. 24, 1725 M- Mary 002-3. Ebenezer Mead, b. 1663, d. 1728 M- Sarah Knapp, 1691, of Stamford, CT, b. 1670. 002-4. Jonathan Mead, twin, b. 1665, d. 1727 2 - 290 - Our Family Tree - Mead - Parker Branch M- Martha Finch, 1683, b. 1665. 002-5. David Mead, twin, b. 1665, d. 1726 M- Abigail Deane He was a twin of Jonathan. David Mead settled at Bedford, Westminster Co., NY. Bates, Crawford Co., PA history. 002-6. Benjamin Mead, b. May 1667, d. Feb. 22, 1746 M- 1st - Sarah Waterbury, May 10, 1700, b. 1677 M- 2nd - Rachel Brown Benjamin Mead is bur. in old burying ground at Cos Cob, CT 002-7. Nathaniel Mead, b. 1669, d. 1703 M- Rachel 002-8. Samuel Mead, b. 1673, d. 1713 M- Hannah , married 1695 002-9. Hannah Mead, b. 1661 M- John Schofield, (Scofield) Stamford, CT, b. 1652, d. March 27, 1699. Married Jul. 10, (or 12) 1677. 002-10. Abigail Mead M- 002-11. Mary Elizabeth Mead M- 002-12. Susannah Mead Id- John Mead was a resident of Horse Neck (Greenwich) CT, and was a member of the Assembly of General Court He was a resident of Mine Partners, Dutchess Co., NY. Crum Elbow or Nine Partners. Crum Elbow is now the town of Hyde Park. Nine Partners became Mechanic and is now MiIbrook, Dutchess Co., NY. - 291 - Our Family Tree - Mead - Parker Branch from Greenwich, 1679, 1680, and 1686. Hannah Potter was a dau. of William Potter of Stamford, CT i—• THIRD GENERATION Chart III John 1 John 2 Ebenezer Mead 002-3 3 Sarah (Knapp) Mead ch. : 003-1. Ebenezer Mead, b. Oct. 25, 1692, Greenwich, Fairfax, CT, d. May 3, 1775 M- Hannah Brown, Dec. 12, 1717 003-2. Caleb Mead, b. 1694, d. 1733 M- Mary Holmes, Feb., 1716 003-3. Sarah Mead, b. 1696 M- Jonathan Hobby 003-4. Hannah Mead, b. 1698 M- John Hobby, March 16, 1716 John Hobby had property at Horse Neck, CT 003-5. Jabez Mead, b. 1700 Unm. 3 Ebenezer Mead in 1696 was appointed to keep a tavern which stood on the same site for nearly two hundred years, and has a history linked with Colonial and Revolutionary Wars. When it was torn down in 1886 and many old relics were found, including a Hessian sable, an English penny dated 1701, a piece of blue cloth with brass buttons on it, and a pair of Indian moccasins. A board was disclosed near the big chimney, on which the name Reuben Mead and date 1741 was printed in charcoal. Ebenezer his son was a lieutenat of the East Company of Militia in 1728, and was commissioned captain of the same company in 1738. - 292 - Our Family Tree - Mead - Parker Branch 003-6. David Mead-, b. 1702, d. Sep. 1766, M- Sarah Close, May 21, 1731 003-7. Abigail Mead, b. 1702, d. 1766 M- Isaac Holmes 003-8. Susannah Mead, b. 1706 M- Moses Husted, Sep. 5, 1726, b. 1705 00 3-9. Jemima Mead, b. 17 08 M- Moses Knapp, Nov. 25, 1731. He was b. Aug. 6, 1709. FOURTH GENERATION Chart IV John 1, John 2, Ebenezer 3 Caleb Mead 003-2 4 Mary (Holmes) Mead 004-1. Jeremiah Mead, b. Feb. 13, 1727, d. Feb. 5, 1815 M- Amy Lockwood, 1749, b. March 11, 173 4, d. Aug. 29, 1814 004-2. Titus Mead, b. Sep. 15, 1729, d. Sep. 10, 1812 5 Caleb Mead Sr., built a house at Stonybrooke, near Greenwich, in 1734. Jeremiah Mead built a sawmill in 1751 at Stonybrooke after his father's d., and, in turn, passed the operation of the saw mill to his son, Edmund Mead, on his d.. Caleb Mead Sr.'s will was probated Dec. 4, 1733. Stamford Records, Vol. 1, Page 52. He d. at the age of 39 years. Caleb and Mary (Holmes) Mead built a house at Stonybrooke, near Greenwich CT, in 1734. Jeremiah Mead ran a sawmill at Stonybrooke, and after his d. the mill passed to his son, Edmund Mead. - 293 - Our Family Tree - Mead - Parker Branch M- 1st - Rachel Rundle, b. 1733, d. 1779 He was a private in CT Militia, in the Revolutionary War. In 1779 Titus Mead was sent by citizens of Greenwich, and under orders from G. Selleck Silliman, Brig. General of Foot to report the occupation of Horseneck (now Greenwich, Conn) by English troops: New Haven, Feb. 26, 1779 6 p.m. Gent--Titus Mead, a man to be depended on, is this moment arrived expressed from Col. Mead, with a message by word of mouth only, from Col. Mead. For their circumstances were such that col. Mead could not write. He says when he left Horseneck (which was early this morning) a Body of about 60 men and a Body of Horse, had pushed up the road into Horseneck, and were on this side of Knap's Tavern; and it was reported that a body of two or three thousand more were not far behind. You are therefore directed to muster & march your Regiments, forthwith to Norwalk to oppose the enemy, & where you will receive further Orders. Loose not a moment neither by Night nor day. G. Selleek Siliman Brig Genl of foot and Col. Ct. of Horse - to Col. Mosely & Major Bull, Woodbury At a special meeting of the Town Meeting of the Inhabitants of Greenwich, legally warned and held at the Town House in said Greenwich, on Monday the 14th day of Apr. 1777, The Town, by vote, made choice of Nehemiah Mead to be moderator for this present meeting. Further, the town, by vote, make choice of Messrs: Titus Mead Nehemiah Mead John Mackay James Ferris Enos Lockwood Roger Brown Daniel Merritt to be a Committee to inspect into, and see that the Families of those who enter into the Continental Army, shall be supplied with the necessaries of life, at the prices as stated by law according to the Governors Proclamation. Further, this meeting will assist and support the ministers of justice, in putting into execution the act of the Assembly respecting - 294 - Our Family Tree - Mead - Parker Branch M- 2nd - Lucy Mumford, b. 1726, d. 1304 M- 3rd - Tarnish Brown, b. 1731, d. 182 3 004-3. Jemima Mead M- 004-4. Zadok Mead M- 004-5. Mary Mead M- Jabez Mead 004-6. Caleb Mead, b. 1716, d. 1792 (1798) M- 1st - Hannah Rundle, b. 1716, d. 1770 M- 2nd - Mary Hobby FIFTH GENERATION Chart V John 1, John 2, Ebenezer 3, Caleb 4 Titus Mead 004-2 Rachel (Rundle) Mead 005-1. Andrew Mead, b. May 26, 1755, d. Apr. 21, 1821 M- Amy Hobby, Nov. 6, 1788, b. 1764, d. Sep. 11, 1852 005-2. Titus Mead, b. Nov. 26, 1759, d. Aug. 18, 1811 M- Eunice Hobby, March 1784, she was b. Jan. 17, 1768, and d. Feb. 26, 1813. They d. in Warren Co., NY, and are bur. at Bay Street Cemetery, Glen Falls, NY. Moved to Chester, Warren Co., NY sometime between 1797 and 1801 005-3. Jabez Mead, b. May 26, 1764, and d. Jan. 8, the stating prices. - 295 - Our Family Tree - Mead - Parker Branch 1838 M- Elizabeth Hobby, Aug. 28, 1783. _She was b. March 5, 1770, and d. Jun. 27, 1806. 005-4. Hardy Mead, b. Dec. 8, 1768, d. 1816 M- Rachel Brown. Apr. 19, 1791. She was b. in 1773, and d. 18 32 005-5. Ina Mead M- 005-6. Sarah Mead, b. March 27, 1762, and d. Jan. 1, 1840. M- Jasper Mead, b. Jun. 16, 1760, at Horseneck, CT They resided at Chester, Warren Co., NY about 1799. He apparently was the son of Nathaniel Mead, and the grandson of John Mead 3 005-7. Rachel Mead M-lst - Joseph Knapp M-2nd - Reuben Green 005-8. Shadrach Mead, b. Jan. 15, 1758, d. Sep. 16, 1344 M- 1st - Tammay Hobby, b. 1764, and d. Apr. 21, 1814 M-2nd - Abigail Ingersoll, b. 1781, and d. Apr. 7, 1875 005-9. Ira Mead, b. Oct. 10, 1770, and d. Aug. 12, 1851 M- Nancy Marshall, Jun. 1, 1795. She was b. Aug. 18, 1775, and d. Jun. 22,1877 005-10. Martin Mead, b. Oct. 15, 1773 It- Titus Mead Sr., was a private in Captain Abraham Mead's Company, of Lt. Colonel John Mead's Regiment, CT Militia, during the Revolutionary War. See Bailey's Early Marriages of CT, Book 4. - 296 - Our Family Tree - Mead - Parker Branch SIXTH GENERATION Chart VI John 1, John 2, Ebenezer 3, Caleb 4, Titus 5 Titus Mead 005-2 6 Eunice (Hobby) Mead 006-1. Delia Mead (Alia), b. Dec. 23, 1785 - see Edmund and Theodosia Mead for genealogy M- Obadiah Mead, b. March 10, 1785, son of Edmund and Theodosia Mead, d. Feb. 20, 1878 006-2. Hobby Mead, b. Dec. 1, 1787, d. Aug. 1863 M- Lydia Wood, b. 1792, and d. 1858 006-3. Ann Mead, b. Oct. 19, 1789, d. Jul. 12, 1811, age 2 2 years. Unm. 006-4. Sophia Mead, b. Sep. 1, 1791, d. Sep. 27, 1843 M-Philander Mead, Oct. 25, 1812, b. Nov. 11, 1785, and d. Sep. 23, 1853 006-5. Martin Mead, b. Sep. 2, 1800 M- Lydia Waite 006-6. Elizabeth Mead, b. Apr. 17, 1806, and d. Jan. 13, 1835 M- Albert H. Peck 006-7. Sarah H. ( Sally) Mead, b. Sep. 12, 1793, and d. in 1814 Unm. 006-8. Shadrach F. Mead, b. March 13, 1795, d. Nov. Titus Mead was one of the wealthy men of his times. He had a large profitable farm, and the inventory of his estate revealed a long list of securities and mortgages. The "Chimneys" and "Athelcroft" were built on part of Titus Mead's farm. - 297 - Our Family Tree - Mead - Parker Branch 10, 1859, at New Haven, CT He was a corporal in the War of 1812 in NY Militia. Vol. 16, 1812 anc. Index. M-Elizabeth Waite, Apr. 2, 1318. She was b. Sep. 25, 1798. 006-9. Fanny H. Mead, b. Aug. 23, 1302, d. May 2, 1364 M- Reuben H. Green, May 16, 1824 006-10. Titus Mead, b. Apr. 21, 1804, d. March 26, 1869 M- Lucy Mumford Mead. Feb. 28, 183 8, b. Sep. 8, 1810, and d. 1891. She was a cousin of her hus., being the dau. of Andrew Mead and his wf. Amy Hobby Mead, d.s.p. 006-11. Charlotte H. Mead, b. Nov. 25, 1807 M- Buckland K. Seaman, Jul. 6, 183 0. He was b. Oct. 3, 1807. 006-12. Eunice H. Mead, b. Jul. 16, 1810 M- Uri Young 006-13. Andrew Mead, b. Oct. 5, 1798, d. Dec. 13, 1878 at Chester, Warren Co., NY M- Parnell Waite, b. 1800 He was a resident of Chester, Warren Co., NY where he d. . He was a farmer and one of the first residents of Chester. He is bur. in the Bay Street Cemetery, Glen Falls, NY. 006-14. Fannie H. Mead, b. Jan. 2, 1797, and d. May 17, 1798. SEVENTH GENERATION Chart VII John 1, John 2, Ebenezer 3, Caleb 4, Titus 5, Titus 6 Andrew Mead 006-13 Parnell (Waite) Mead ch. : - 298 - Our Family Tree - Mead - Parker Branch 007-1. Mary Swain Mead, b. Jun. 15, 1822, Chester, Warren Co., NY, d. 1893 in Blackhawk Co., IA. M- Cicero Close, 1846 or 1847, resided Blackhawk Co., IA. , d. in 1883. Cicero Close and Horner Brown had neighboring farms near La Porte City in Black Hawk Co., IA.. 007-2. William James Mead, b. 1825, Chester, Warren Co., New York M- 007-3. Joseph Hobby Mead, b. Dec. 18, 1827, Chester, Warren Co., NY, d. Sep. 12, 1383, at Deming, NM. He was a carpenter by trade. M- Sarah Wignall Russell (second hus.) Apr. 5, 1355. She was b. Nov. 15, 1827. ' 007-4. Julia A. Mead, b. 1834, Chester, Warren Co., NY M- 007-5. Philander T. Mead, b. 1838, Chester, Warren Co., New York, d. 1919, Chester, Warren Co., NY M- Kate Johnston, b. 1830 They are bur. in the Bay Street Cemetery, Glen Falls, NY 7 The dau. of Samuel Wignall, a nat. of England, a merchant in NY City, and a manufacturer of astral lamps, who received a medal for the exhibit of same in 1848 or 1850. The NY City Directory listed him as a tavern owner in 1822-23, and by 1823 manufacturing the astral laps. His factory is listed at 180 Division Street, than at 18 Warren Street, and then at 245 Grand, NY City. He d. in 1848, and his estate was probated Jun. 15, 1848, as reflected by Bond book 48-24-51, Christ Gwyer, Administrator. She d. Dec. 17, 1894 at Mountain View, NM. Sarah Wignall's first hus. was William Russell. - 299 - Our Family Tree - Mead - Parker Branch EIGHTH GENERATION Chart VIII John 1, John 2, Ebenezer 3, Caleb 4, Titus 5, Titus 6, Andrew 7 Joseph Hobby Mead 007-3 Sarah Wignall (Russell) Mead 8 ch. : 008-1. Helen Russell (half sister), b. May 12, 1348, in IL, d. Jun. 13, 1925, at Pasadena, CA., dau. of Sarah Wignall Russell and William Russell. M- Moses Edward Dane, of Black Hawk Co., IA., Feb. 2, 1871 - known as Aunt Nellie Dane. 008-2. William Hobby Mead, b. Nov. 16, 1858, Waterloo, IA. , and d. Jan. 15, 1942 at Long Beach, CA.. M- Ida E. Lichty, b. Sep. 1861 in PA 008-3. Ada Mead, b. Oct. 10, 1860, Waterloo, IA., and d. Apr. 21, 1939, at Pasadena, CA. . M- Luther Devin 008-4. Ralph Waite Mead, b. Jan. 3, 1863, Waterloo, IA. , d. March 15, 1937, at Santa Ana, CA. . M- Mary Jane McMurray, Nov. 2, 1887 She was b. Dec. 3, 1864, and d. Jun. 30, 1955 at Santa Ana, CA. 9 NINTH GENERATION Chart IX g They were married Apr. 5, 1855. She had a dau. by a prior marriage, Helen Russell (known by the family as Aunt Nelly). Sarah Wignall Russell was b. Nov. 15, 1827, in NY, NY, and d. Dec. 17, 1894, at Mountain View, NM. q J 1900 Census, Vol. 21, E.D. 148, Sheet 8, Line 93. Marriage Records filed in Book J, page 444, dated Nov. 11, 1887, records of Black Hawk Co., IA.. - 300 - Our Family Tree - Mead - Parker Branch John 1, John 2, Ebenezer 3, Caleb 4, Titus 5, Titus 6, Andrew 7, Joseph Hobby 8 Ralph Waite Mead 008-4 10 Mary Jane (McMurray) Mead 11 ch. : 009-1. Amy Berlin Mead, b. Oct. 17, 1888, at Deming, NM, d. Jul. 7, 1975 M- Osgood Paul Hardy, Nov. 25, 1918, in NY, NY 12 009-2. Mildred Lucille Mead, b. Dec. 23, 1890, at DemDemingi , NM, d. May 24, 193 9 at Santa Ana, CA. Unm. 10 The Meads, after their marriage in Waterloo, IA., resided at Deming, NM, where Mr. Mead was engaged in the banking, and later the lumber business. In 1892 they re-settled in Santa Ana, CA.. Mr. Mead had been employed by the Pendleton Lumber Company which transferred its business from Deming to Santa Ana in 1892. Later he was a partner in a clothing store, Utley and Mead, and subsequently was a bookkeeper with the Tustin Hills Packing House in Tustin, CA.. He then was employed by a building and loan association in Santa Ana, which went out of business during the depression of the 1930s. In his senior years Mr. Mead was a full time secretary (and past Grand Master) of the Masonic Lodge of Santa Ana. Mr. Mead attended Coe College in Cedar Rapids, IA.. The Meads are bur. in the Mead family plot in the Odd Fellows Section of Fairhaven Cemetery, Santa Ana, CA.. 11 Mary Jane (McMurray) Mead was b. Dec. 3, 1864 at Bushy Run Farm, near Jeanette, Westmoreland Co., PA, and d. Jun. 30, 1955 at Orange, Orange Co., CA.. 12 He was a grad. of Pomona College, CA., received a masters degree at Yale University, participated with Hiram Bigham, later a U.S. Senator, in the discovery of Macchu Picchu in Peru, received a PHd from the University of CA. at Berkeley, and became Norman Bridge Professor of Latin American History at Occidental College, 1921-1955. He d. in 1956 at his home in Eagle Rock, CA.. He was b. at San Bernardino, CA. Jun. 9, 1889, the son of the Rev. William Prescott Hardy and Lill Jane (Adams) Hardy. He d. in 1955 in Los Angeles Co.. d.s.p. 13 She was a grad. of the State Normal (teachers) School on Vermont - 301 - Our Family Tree - Mead - Parker Branch 009-3. Loren Joseph Mead, b. Feb., 23, 1894, Santa Ana, Orange Co., CA. , and d. May 24, 1983, San Diego Co., CA. M- Alma Plavan, Feb. 23, 1919, b. Oct. 24, 1893 009-4. Dorothy Mead, b. Apr. 15, 1398, Santa Ana, CA. M- George Ainsworth Parker, Jan. 30, 1923 at Santa Ana, CA.. He was b. in Santa Ana on Nov. 17, 1897 and d. in Santa Ana on Jun. 2, 1979. See 1900 Census, Vol. 21, E.D. 148 Sheet 8, Line 93 TENTH GENERATION Chart X John 1, John 2, Ebenezer 3, Caleb 4, Titus 5, Titus 6, Andrew 7, Joseph Hobby 8, Ralph Waite 9 Dorothy (Mead) Parker 009-4 George Ainsworth Parker ch. : 010-1. Charles Edward Parker, (Ted), b. Sep. 9, 1927, at Sant Ana, Orange Co., CA. M- Marilyn Esther Meyer (Perrin), Jun. 23, 1956. She was b. Dec. 1, 1927 at Santa Ana, CA. 14 TENTH GENERATION Chart XI Avenue in Los Angeles, CA 1911, a teacher at the old Newport School (Talbert), and later a teacher and principal at Lowell Elementary School, when it was established in Santa Ana, CA in 1924. She remained principal of that school until the time of her death. 14 dau. of Irving Meyer and Esther Segerstrom Meyer - Her mother d. soon after her birth and she was raised by Kurt and Elizabeth Jackson Perrin of Laguna Beach, CA. - see Perrin Genealogy. - 302 - Our Family Tree - Mead - Parker Branch John 1 John 2 Ebenezer 3 Caleb 4 Titus 5 Titus 6 Andrew 7 Joseph Hobby 8 Ralph W 9 Loren Joseph Mead " Alma (Plavan) Mead 011-1. Donald Edwin Mead, b. Jul. 23, 1921 M-lst - Sonja Rochon, 1944 M-2nd - Cynthia Redmon Hopkins, Jul. 30, 1976, Hong Kong, China 011-2. Rodney Francis Mead, b. Jun. 24, 1929, d. Jan. 21, 1983 at Orange, CA. M-lst - Marilyn Jean Lawson, Apr. 10, 1951, Santa Ana, CA. . b. Jul. 9, 1928 at Salt Lake City, UT. M-2nd - Rita Hauser, 1969. d.s.p.. TENTH GENERATION Chart XII John 1 John 2 Ebenezer 3 Caleb 4 Titus 5 Titus 6 Andrew 7 Joseph Hobby 8 Ralph W 9 Loren J 10 Donald Edwin Mead Sonya (Rochon) Mead 012-1. Jennifer Mead, b. Jan. 16, 1953, in Davao, the Philippines M- John Sullivan, March 1987. Married at former townhouse of Franklin D. Roosevelt, NYC 012-2. Elaine Mead, b. Apr. 27, 1955, in Davao the Philippines M- John Alexander, May 28, 1977. Have two ch., Christina Lee Alexander, b. Sep. 1, 1979, and . 15 Mr. and Mrs. Mead spent many years in China, where Mr. Mead was an officer with the Socony Vacuum Company, an international oil subsidiary of the Standard Oil Company of NY. He began his career in the far east soon after graduation from Cornell University's School of Agriculture in 1915. - 303 - Our Family Tree - Mead - Parker Branch 012-3. Donald Edwin Mead. Jr., b. Jul. 24, 1958, in Davao, the Philippines M- Chart XIII Rodney Francis Mead Marilyn Jean (Lawson) Mead 013-1. Ronald Gregory Mead, b. Nov. 15, 1954 at Palo Alto, CA. M- 013-2. Cynthia Ann Mead, b. Dec. 4, 1955, at Palo Alto, CA. M- Thomas Herbert Glinski, b. Aug. 18, 1950, at East Hampton, Long Island, NY. Married Sep. 18, 1982. 013-3. Michael Loren Mead, b. Jul. 4, 1959, at Scottsdale, AZ M- Chart XIV Frank D. Plavan Katherine Planchon Frank D. Plavan d. Dec. 29, 1950. A-19830. His wf. predeceased him. A-10360. ch. : 014-1. Leland L. Plavan, d. 1938 M- Mildred M. divorced Dec. 14, 1923, Case 16098, Orange Co., CA.. 014-2. Urbain H. Plavan, d. Aug. 31, 1968 M- Florence Annette , d. Dec. 14, 1966 014-3. Clyde A. Plavan, d. 1931, decree of distribution recorded as instrument number 10131, 1932, in the Official Records of Orange Co., CA. . - 304 - Mary Jane McMurray Mead and Ralph Waite Mead, circa 1395, Santa Ana, CA Loren Joseph Mead •*^fc Our Family Tree - Mead - Parker Branch M- Violet L. 014-4. Paul E. Plavan M- Edythe L. 014-5. Wilma D. Plavan M- Ralph Gordon 014-6. Edith P. Plavan M- Richard Robbins Resided at Birmingham, MI - he was President of the Carbaloy Corporation, a subsidiary of General Electric Corporation 014-7. Alma Plavan, b. Oct. 24, 1893 M- Loren Joseph Mead, married Feb. 23, 1919, b. Feb. 23, 1894, d. May 24, 1983. 014-8. Ernest F. Plavan M- Merle R. M- 2nd - Joan Dahlia Malan Swift lived with the family from the time she was a small ch., and regarded as a sister. She d. in Sep. 1984. EIGHTH GENERATION Chart XXIV John 1 John 2 Ebenezer 3 Caleb 4 Titus 5 Titus 6 Andrew 7 Mary Swain (Mead) Close Cicero Close 014-1. John Andrew Close M- Resided at Carrolton, IL 014-2. Mary Frances Mead Close (Ashley) M- W. P. Daniels Resided at Cedar Rapids, IA. - 3,05 - Our Family Tree - Mead - Parker Branch 014-3. Elizabeth Mead Close ._ M- E. D. Sill Resided in Chicago, IL 014-4. Julia Calphernia Close M- 014-5. Harriet Parnell Waite Close, b. Washburn, IA. M- 1st- M. L. Martins, Clibourne, TX M- 2nd- Fred Milton Bisbee DAR 116506, Vol. 117, Page 157 014-6. G. Howard Cicero Close M- Delia Doxey Resided at Washburn, IA. NINTH GENERATION Chart XV John 1 John 2 Ebenezer 3 Caleb 4 Titus 5 Titus 6 Andrew 7 Joseph Hobby 8 William Hobby Mead 16 Ida E. (Lichty) Mead 015-1. Waite L. Mead, b. Aug. 21, 1885, in NM, d. Long Beach, CA. M- He and his wf. were both deaf mutes 015-2. Lavina May Mead, b. May, 1889, in NM M- Tennyson D. Caustic Resided as late as 1967 at Long Beach, CA. 015-3. Marjorie R. Mead, b. Jun., 1896, Santa Ana, CA. ^-° See 1900 Census, Vol. 21, E.D. 148, Sheet 13, Line 19 Emma L. Lichty, a sister of Mrs. Mead, lived with the family while in Long Beach. She was b. in PA, Jan. 1860. - 306 - Our Family Tree - Mead - Parker Branch M- Wiliiam Hobby Mead's family rsided at 1319 Spurgeon St., Santa Ana, before moving to Long Beach. Chart XVI Delbert Earl Townsend Mildred Esther Ashbaugh Delbert Earl Townsend d. in 1964 at Puxico, Missouri. Mildred Esther Ashbaugh Townsend remarried, and took the surname Scharleville. ch. : 016-1. John Townsend, b. Oct. 9, 1938 at Puxico, Missouri M- 1st - Irene O' Dell, Jan., 1957, divorced M- 2nd - Sandra Thompson, Nov. 1962, divorced M- 3rd - Gilda , 1970-1975. divorced M- 4th - Mary Elizabeth Parker, Feb. 26, 1982 at Villa Park, CA. Chart XVII John Townsend Irene (O'Dell) Townsend 017-1. Deborah Lynn Townsend, b. Nov. 20, 1959 M- Chart XVIII John Townsend Sandra (Thompson) Townsend 018-1. Bart Allen Townsend, b. March 23, 1963 M- 018-2. Bruce John Townsend, b. Oct. 7, 1964. M- - 307 - Our Family Tree - Mead - Parker Branch Chart XIX John Townsend Mary Elizabeth (Parker) Townsend 019-1. Sarah Michael Townsend, b. Oct. 25, 1982, in Los Angeles, CA.. Chart XX Deborah Lynn (Townsend) Mauer Mauer 020-1. Jacob Mauer 020-2. Chart XXI Bruce John Townsend 021-1. Benjamin Jacob Townsend Chart XXII Frank D. Plavan Katherine Planchon Frank D. Plavan d. Dec. 29, 1950. A-19830. His wf. predeceased him. A-10360. He married 2d May Lewis, widow of Harry Lewis, who survived him. ch. : 022-1. Leland L. Plavan, d. 1938 M- Mildred M. divorced Dec. 14, 1923, Case 16098, Orange Co., CA.. 022-2. Urbain H. Plavan, d. Aug. 31, 1968 M- Florence Annette Courdin, d. Dec. 14, 19 66 022-3. Clyde A. Plavan, d. 1931, decree of - 308 - Our Family Tree - Mead - Parker Branch distribution recorded as instrument number 10131, 1932, in the Official Records of Orange Co., CA.. M- Violet L. 022-4. Paul E. Plavan M- Edythe L. Jessee 022-5. Wilma D. Plavan M- Ralph Gordon 022-6. Edith P. Plavan M- Richard Robbins Resided at Birmingham, MI - he was President of the Carbaloy Corporation, a subsidiary of General Electric Corporation 022-7. Alma Plavan, b. Oct. 24, 1893 M- Loren Joseph Mead, married Feb. 23, 1919, b. Feb. 23, 1894, d. May 24, 1983. 022-8. Ernest F. Plavan M- Merle R. M- 2nd - Joan Dahlia Malan M- Harold Swift. She lived with the family from the time she was a small ch. , and regarded as a sister. She d. in Sep. 1984. - 309 -