Richard Nixon Presidential Library White House Special Files Collection Folder List Box Number Folder Number Document Date Document Type Document Description 10 15 n.d. Report The Ancestry of Richard Milhous Nixon, 1972 Edition. (Continued in 10:16). 45 pages of 88. Wednesday, June 17, 2009 Page 1 of 1 THE ANCESTRY OF RICHARD MILHOUS NIXON by Raymond Martin Bell Washington and Jefferson College with special assistance from Frank R. Baird, West Chester, Pennsylvania and Stuart P. Lloyd, Summit, New Jersey Washington, Pennsylvania 1972 edition Dedicated to Francis Anthony Nixon and Hannah Milhous Nixon "I can see that what you are doing in put,ting the puz zle together is exciting and intriguing. Perhaps all of us would do a better job of recording whence and whither, if we knew we might some day be placed before the public, beyond our own circle of co-workers or neighbors." Ernest L. Nixon 2 CONTENTS Preface ­ 3 Acknowledgements ­ 4 Introduction ­ 5 Maps 7 Family Tree 8 Parents 2-3 ... ­ 16 Grandparents 4-7 17 Great-grandparents 8-15 19 2gt II 16-31 22 3gt • 32-63 . 27 4gt • 64-127 33 5gt • 128-255 ­ 43 6gt • 256-511 51 . 7gt . '. 512-1023 ­ ' 65 >- 8gt, 9gt II 1024-2047. 2<>,8-409:5 - ?X. 78 fhe Moores of Ballymoney. Ireland 80 Hoover & Eisenhower Trees' -81 Index of Surnames ­ 82 Index of Nixons - 87 .. 3 PREFACE On September 26, 1952 Mrs. Florence B. Sterner. of Nienges Mills, Pat wrote to the compiler of this record asking for assistance in determining the forebears of Senator Richard. Nixon. She was a friend and former neighbor of Senator Nixon's mother. She wrote at the suggestion of Miss Jessica C. Ferguson, Genealogist at the Pennsylvania State Library. Senator Nixon knew that his great-grandfather Nixon had been killed at the battle of Gettysburg in 1863 and that his grandfather had been born somewhere west of Pittsburgh, Pat A search of Washington County (Pa.) court records showed three George Nixons. Census data and pension data showed their birth dates to be 1752, 1784 and 1821. George Nixon I purchased a farm at Washington, Pat in 1803. His son, Seeds Nixon, was one of the connecting links. Delaware records showed a marriage in 1775 of George Nixon and Sarah Seeds. Ohio records showed a Revolutionary veteran, named George Nixon, who had a son, Seeds. Washington County deed records indicated that George I and Seeds lived on the same farm. The pension record of George Nixon I (S8919) coupled with will and deed records of New Castle County, Del. proved that George I was a son of James, that he went to Penna. in 1803 and Ohio in 1830. Further research showed that George Nixon I went to Henry County, Illinois in 1842 and died soon after arrival. The DAR marked his grave in 1925. The grandson, George Nixon III, was born in Pa., went to Ohio in 1853 and died at Gettysburg in 1863 a few days after the battle. Research turned next to the Trimmer family of Washington County, for the Pension record of George Nixon Ill's widow showed her maiden name to be Trimmer. By a roundabout way involving amateur radio a copy was ob­ tained of the manuscript on the Trimmer Genealogy written in 1904 by David Trimmer of McArthur, Ohio. Correspondence with the parents of Richard Mil­ hous Nixon showed that on the maternal side his Milhous, Griffith and Burdg ancestors had lived near Washington, Pat This led eventually to the tracing of all lines and the publication of this record. The compiler of these notes found the Nixons listed in the early 1800's as members on the rolls of the First United Methodist Church (Washington), for which he is records custodian. A sampler which had puzzled Miss Flo­ rence Eisele, of Natchez, Miss. for many years turned out to bear the names of members of the family of George Nixon II. It was found that the parents of both the Nixon and the Milhous grandfathers were married in Washington CountYl George Nixon - Margaret ~Trimmer 184) in a Mthodist ceremony, Joshua V. Milhous - Elizabeth P. Griffith 1847 in a Quaker one. Research was greatly facilitated by the excellent Quaker records in Hin­ shaw's volumes and at Swarthmore College. All of the maternal lines and one-third of the paternal lines were found to be Quaker. To search out a line such 'as Moore required.years of diggi'ng, with the search ending in a printed genealogy. Many families have been written up in county histories. Family, church, court, census and pension records were searched. These families were found to have published genealogiesl Almy, Brinton, Burdg, Cattell, Clemson, Cornell, Dickinson, Doane, Ellison, Gaskill, Griffith, Haven, Hemingway, Howland, Hussey, Inskeep, Lippincott, Maris, Mendenhall, Milhous, Moore. Morris, Morse, Peirce, Perkins, Potts, Price, Scothorn, Shattuck, Shinn, Smith, Stearns, Trimmer, Twini.ng, Washburn 4 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Over two hundred individuals and libraries have helped in this project. In addition, a number of goyernmental agencies,have provided assistance. In recent mont~s Frank R Ba1rd (p~) has continued his excellent aid. In addition. spec1al help has been provided by John WHaines (N J). Mrs Carl Main (Ohio). Ro?ert Barnes (Md) and Warren W Nixon (Iowa). Clayton data have been suppl1ed by Miss Bertha Clayton, Mrs Marion Ridgley and Mrs Ruth Seese. Henry Hollingsworth has helped with families in Great Britain and Ireland. Special thanks go to Dr George E McCracken for publishing the complete Nixon family tree in The American Genealogist in April 1970. 1971 and 1972. Stuart P Lloyd has contributed much to the 1972 edition. espe­ cially on the New England and New Jersey lines. Here are some of the other persons who have been of help. Mr & Mrs Frank A Nixon F Donald Nixon Dr & Mrs Ernest L Nixon Mrs C H Nixon W K Nixon Roy'B Nixon Mrs Alice Wyatt Mrs Margaret Martin Mrs Joyce Sanden Mr & Mrs R M Everett Mrs Edna Jordan Mrs Susan Sheehan Harry A Diehl Jerry F Peter Mrs Frederick Banks George Swank Arthur M Saltzer WClifford Lant Mrs Bertha Nickell Mrs Dick Rugh Mrs Willard G Isaacson Mrs Thomas J Hannon Mrs Cora S Winkler Mrs Hazel Dubenhorst Mrs Ruth M Smith Miss Cornelia F Walker Mrs Revelie W Brannon Mrs Dorothy Z Milhous Henry H Beeson William F Mendenhall M G Price George W Ingram Walter Farwell Miss Dorothy Laird Leon deValinger Miss Rose Mary Woods Donald H Rogers Carl Boyer III Noble M Melencamp Mrs Paul Monks Miss Rebecca Wadsworth Mrs Eloise Wadsworth Mrs WAH McIlvaine Mrs Eleanor Melson Miss Jessica C Ferguson Beverly Brown Mrs Mary Richardson Wallace Johnston John C W Riddle C G James Mrs Hazel B Williams Charles MEwing Margaret SWard Mary S Patterson Floyd Trimmer Doyle'K Trimmer Mrs A H McCoy M L Heisey Mrs Grayce Farthing Don L Berry Mrs Edith G Nunes Mrs Jessamyn McPherson Gerald V Mendenhall Thomas L Anderson Mrs Rebecca B Colesar Philip Meyer Samuel J Clokey Mrs E F Gaskill Ira A Brown Ralph H Lane Mrs Bertha Kamm A Russell Slagle Mrs L E Goeller Frank Wadsworth Miss Florence Eisele Ralph McIlvaine Mrs Harold Fitzgerald Mrs Florence Sterner Mrs Sarah Butler Roger Thomas Charles Hines James E Emery Mrs L E Gibbons Henry Hall Mrs H N Lazenby Warren Pickett Charles Custer Gilbert H Doane David C Trimmer Edward P Trimmer Anna E Shaddinger R Kenneth Trimmer Mrs Ann H Hutton Mrs Olive Goodbody Paul J Lareau John B Threlfall Leslie WMillhouse Mrs Dianne S Humes John R Nesbitt NOTE ON THE CALENDA~ In records before 1752, especially those of Quakers, the tenth month was December and the new year began March 25. In 1752 the new year was changed to begin January 1 and 11 days were added to all dates to bring them in lin~ with the seasons. For example, George Washington was born 12m 11-1731 by a Quaker calendar, Feb 11-1731/32 by his calendar, Feb 22­ 1732 by our calendar. Some dates in this book may be based on one system, Some on the other. 10m 31-1731 = Dec 31-1731; 11m 1-1731/32 = Jan 1-1732; 1m 24-1741/41 was followed by 1m 25-1742 =Mar 25-1742. This does not take into account the eleven days added in Sep 1752. That month had 19 Qvs. 5 INTRODUCTION When a man becomes President of the United States, there is interest in his ancestry. President Nixon was born in California. His father was born in Ohiol his mother in Indiana. His parents, two of his grandparents and two of his great-grandparents died in California. All of his grand­ parents, all of his great-grandparents and 13 of his 16 great-great­ grandparents lived at one time in Ohio. The sixteen were born in. Penna 6; Md 4; N J 3; Del 2; Ohio 1 The states of residence at time of death werel Ohio 7; Iowa 3; Ind 2; Penna 1; Mo 1; Md 1. There are a number of unusual facts about the Nixon ancestors. (1) they all lived in a narrow band between Baltimore, Md and Boston, Mass. (there was considerable movement within this band) (2) on the average they landed in America about 1680. there is no record of an~ landin~ after 1775. (3) about two-thirds were Quakers, on both sides of the family; (4) many of the families are well-known and have published histories; (5) a conservative estimate is that over two million Americans are "cousins" of President Nixon, if one goes out to fifth cousins; (6) except for the Trimmers, all the lines go back to the British Isles, mainly England, with a few from Scotland and Wales, and several families stopping in Ireland on the way to America; (7) on the maternal side there is considerable longevity; for five generations the average age at death was about eighty years.