Genealogy Traces

The Church of Christ Suffers a Great Loss

noreply@blogger.com (Judith Richards Shubert) — Mon, 05 Apr 2021 18:34:00 +0000

This news clipping was found in my grandmother, Edna Puckett Gailey's, scrapbook. Although the article does not say, I feel the church it speaks of was the Sturdivant Church of Christ in the Sturdivant Community south of Mineral Wells. My uncle, Raymond R. Stone was a member of the Mineral Wells Eastside Church of Christ. Both churches which had close ties would have both experienced a great sadness and loss at Bro. Roy's passing.

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News clipping in Edna Puckett Gailey's scrapbook. Original owned by Judith Richards Shubert. Scanned jpg used in post.

The Looney's

noreply@blogger.com (Judith Richards Shubert) — Sat, 19 Dec 2020 17:24:00 +0000

The Looney's of the Isle of Man,

James River and Fort Nashborough on the Cumberland River

To write about the Isle of Man and the Looney family from the 21st Century is to view an everyman’s story, as they were soldiers, farmers, and citizens of an old world that turned a new world in their time. Previous scholarship on the documenting of the many Looney families enables this writer to stand on the shoulders of giants. Highly creative writers, such as, Don Norman, Leroy W. Tilton and Roberta Tuller provide much insight into the lives of the historic Looney family. I am also grateful to my paternal 1st cousin, Vernon Lee Holmes and his wife, Marilyn Williams Holmes, for their highest quality research that admitted me to the First Families of Tennessee from the genealogy of Peter Luna who came with James Robertson overland from Virginia to present day Big Salt Lick, 1779, Davidson County Tennessee at Fort Nashborough on the Cumberland River.

My paternal grandparents were Nora Lena Collins Holmes, 1897-1982, descendant of Joseph Looney, Sr. and Elizabeth Lleweyn, and Perry Allen Holmes, 1891-1988 of Fowlkes, Dyer County, Tennessee. I dedicate this story to my 1st paternal cousins: Vernon Lee Holmes, the late Gloria Dean Holmes Burkhead, Shelia Ann Holmes, Kevin Holmes, Larry Wayne McDaniel, Kathy McDaniel Cook, the late Jenninfer Allen Nash McDowell, Max Anthony Nash, Dennis Clyde Nash, Scotty Ray Nash, and my sister, Donna Holmes Shipley, also, to my special cousins, Julia Mae Duke Galordi and Shirley Lee Duke Vescovo.

The voice from which I heard their accomplishments is that of a 6th generation grandson of Robert Looney, Sr. abt 1692-1769 and Elizabeth Llewelyn, 1696-1770.

In 1739-40, Robert Looney joined some seventy other families of Friends in moving southward through the Shenandoah Valley to settle a 100,000 acre grant of land on the Opeckan River. Robert settled a tract of 250 acres of land on the James River in what was to become part of Augusta County, and later Botetourt County, Colony of Virginia. He donated lands for the county seat and became an influential man in colonial politics. In 1742 he acquired three grants of approximately 1000 acres of land. Sayre says he became "one of the most prosperous farmers in the area, with his own mill, orchards, nursery, cattle and horses and even operated a ferry across .... Looney's Mill Creek." Goodrich Wilson writes in The Roanoke Times that they had a blacksmith shop and, because of the strategic location of their property where James River flowed around the base of the Purgatory Mountain spur of the Alleghenies and the base of the Blue Ridge, their home became a sort of tavern and trading center .... In 1745, John Buchanan was entertained at Looney's both going and coming on his visits to the New River Settlements. In 1753, the Moravian Fathers, on their way to start their settlements around what is now Winston-Salem, stopped at Looney's to have their wagons mended, their horses shod, their food supplies replenished, and .... a large batch of bread baked to their order. In 1756, George Washington crossed the river by their ferry on his way to inspect frontier forts, and the year before the Revolution, Hugh McAden stopped there while he watched the Looneys build a stockade fort for defense against the Indians. Robert's will, dated September 14th, 1769, was recorded in Botetourt County; it was probated November 13th, 1770.

When war with the French and Indians broke out, Robert, (5th Great Uncle of the descendants of Nora Lena Collins Holmes) was among the first to be killed (by Shawnee) in southwest Virginia: Sunday, Feb. 15, 1756. James Burke brought word that Robert Looney was killed and that he had himself one horse shot and five taken away by the Shawnee Indians.

Goodrich Wilson also reports that "Peter”, (5th Great Grandfather of the descendants of Nora Lena Collins Holmes) another son [the first born in the colonies], a sergeant at Fort Vause, was captured when the fort fell, and was carried off by the Indians. The winter passed; summer came to the Valley. Peter came back from “.... as far north as Detroit.” Ed Sayle captures the heart of the family's early American military history: A third son, Samuel, (5th Great Uncle of the Descendants of Nora Lena Collins Holmes) was killed by Indians in 1760, and the home of a daughter, Lucy Jane, was raided and looted by Indians.

Robert Looney, mindful of his responsibilities to his family and followers, erected Fort Looney, one of the fortifications recorded as resisting the Indian and French depredations until the end of the war in 1763 .... But the end of the Indian Wars was not to spare the Looney family. During the American Revolution, two of Robert Looney's sons, Absolem and David were to see duty: Absolem (1729-1793) (5th Great Uncle of the Descendants of Nora Collins Holmes) in patriotic service in support of the military forces under General Washington; and David Looney (5th Great Uncle of the Descendants of Nora Collins Holmes), a Major in the North Carolina Militia who married Mary McClelland and had nine known children.

10 August 1774 - Major. Arthur Campbell to Colonel William Preston: "The bearer Captain Looney will wait on you about some business concerning the expedition.. If Captain Russell goes on the Expedition (to Point Pleasant, confluence of the Ohio River and Kanawha Rivers in present day West Virginia), I think there will be an absolutely necessity for Captain Looney to be put in business that quarter as I cannot think of any officer on this river that will suit so well." Source: http://www.planetmurphy.org/content/body/FrontierAlarms1774.htm

19th August 1774 - Arthur Campbell (Royal-Oak) to Colonel William Preston: "I have now an opportunity by Mr. Logan to write Captain Looney (who) marched in high spirits from this place with upwards of 80 men. Looney and Drake have done hurt to Shelby and Billey Campbell.... However I will endeavor to humor all parties until they come to rendezvous." Quoted from Source: http://www.planetmurphy.org/content/body/FrontierAlarms1774.htm

Captain David Looney was paid for 58 days in 1774 and had a total of about 163 soldiers under his command. His Lieutenants were Gilbert Christian, John Cox and Daniel Boone. Ensigns were John Anderson and William Poage. Privates included Humphrey Hoggan for one period of 27 days and another of 31 days; and Daniel Hoggin for 57 days. Quoted from Source: http://www.planetmurphy.org/content/body/FrontierAlarms1774.htm

They built a blockhouse on Muddy Creek, two miles above the Holston River. In 1777 Major David Looney, Sr. signed the 1777 Petition of Holston Men. In the 1778 Washington County court records:

Ord. take the depo. of David Looney and Jas. McCain (his half brother and son of Eliz. Lauderdale Looney McKain) on behalf of Peter Huffman, defdt. in a suit with William Cocke, on a cavit.

In 1780, he was appointed to be a justice of the peace in Sullivan County, Tennessee.

In 1783, 1784, and 1789 David received warrants for land in Sullivan County, Tennessee. At that time it was in North Carolina.

Moses Looney (6th Great Uncle) and, along with his brother Capt. David, were among the earliest settlers of the new Sullivan County, Tennessee. A document from the Moses Looney Historic Site reads: Moses Looney built his log house on a high ridge above the headwater spring for Fall Creek and beside the military road. The exact construction date is uncertain for the house but the military road was built here in 1761. A main route, the traffic along Old Island Road now has been taken up by the new Highway 126 which runs parallel and approximately one mile south of this point. Outbuildings include an assortment of early log farm buildings, constructed of hand-hewn timbers, joined in the half-dovetail fashion. There is a two-story log house built over the spring, and to the right side of the house is a double-crib, log granary with a centered, gable end-to-end, open pass through. In the yard is a single-pen corn crib with an open-end shed attached at one side. The largest log building is the frame and weatherboarded double crib log barn. The barn was designed with a central, puncheon threshing floor, deep hay lofts, and enclosed granary room at either gable end. The barn was eventually recovered with siding and enlarged to its present form. The Hawk-Pettyjohn General Store is located at one side of the property adjacent to the road and to the west of the house. It is presently being used for storage and has remained unchanged since 1918; however, in recent years it has fallen into a state of disrepair.

The earliest records of this area show that Moses and David Looney were among the first pioneer settlers to make homes in the wilderness of Virginia which later became Sullivan County, Tennessee. Recently, historians have found and located the original, 383-acre Moses Looney land grant and they have identified this early log building as Moses Looney’s Fort House. It is the only fort house left standing of the four original forts which were vital to the settlement of Sullivan County before 1776. A pass through the Clinch Mountains was called Looney’s Gap marking their presence on the wilderness frontier. Records from the court of Fincastle County, Virginia, 3 May 1774, ordered Anthony Bledsoe to report all "tithables" in Captain Moses Looney's militia company. Moses Looney's log house was an important link in the fortification for this region of Tennessee. King's Mill became fortified as early as 1770 and Looney’s Fort House, Ramsey's Fort House and Eaton’s Fort House formed a tight protective triangle for the early settlers who were often forced to seek refuge during Indian raids on their homesteads.

Accounts dating from this period show that settlers took refuge at Moses Looney’s during Lord Dunsmore's War and the Indian raids of 1774. Again in 1776 large numbers of settlers were “formed” at Looney's from July to September. The Island Road was built through this region by men of the 1 Virginia Military. The Island Road was the first wagon road, built as a military road to fortifications located on the Holston River. Constructed in 1761, it is second in age to Cresap's or Braddock's Road from northern Virginia to Maryland and western Pennsylvania. On 7 February 1780, the first official organization of Sullivan County took place at Moses Looney's.

David Looney was one of the first justices of the peace in the new county. He became a major in the militia and later resigned as a lieutenant colonel in 1781. He and nine other justices of the peace were present for the now historic meetings of the court which met at Looney's fort house. The court continued to meet there as in other buildings in this area up until 1785. David Looney was a member of the lower house of the Carolina Assembly of 1784. He was chosen as a delegate from Sullivan County for the 1788 convention called to consider ratification of a national constitution. In 1790 Governor Blount commissioned David Looney as a justice of the peace under the territorial government. He also represented the county in the first legislature of the state of Tennessee. By 1796 David Looney had moved to Knoxville where he became well known as an innkeeper. Moses Looney served in the militia and was captured by Indians in 1781. Local legend states that Moses Looney was shot and killed by Thomas Faulin who was attempting to escape from a posse. All other accounts or records of his life and property are unknown after 1785. Apparently Moses Looney's land did not change ownership until a 200-acre land grant was issued to Andrew Hawk in 1855. Signed by Governor Andrew Johnson, this grant is smaller than the Moses Looney grant. The Hawk grant was passed down through the Hawk family to the present owner who is the fifth generation of this family, the adopted son of James Susong Hawk, born in 1858. The Hawk-Pettyjohn General Store was built on the property in 1899. Located on the Old Island Road it was operated by John Pettyjohn and James Susong Hawk, and during the years it was considered to be the social gathering place for the local area.

Prior to 1970, the approximate location of Moses Looney's property was determined by three major sources of information. The John Anderson manuscripts (1765-1850) were locked away in an old desk where they were found in 1950. Written by Anderson in his old age, these accounts described his experiences as a boy at the fort in 1776 and gave the location of Moses Looney's Fort House on the Old Island Road, above the headwaters of Fall Creek. Historians searched through old courthouse records and found additional information about the location of the Looney land grant. With this documentation, they were able to plot the location for the fort house.

Further comparisons of these deeds and records indicate the Hawk grant had some of the same boundaries, borders, and neighboring grants as the earlier Looney grant. In 1970-1972, the log buildings were uncovered at this location where they had been boarded over inside the Hawk House. The log structure has remained undisturbed and its form was unknown until it was carefully recorded, preserved, and re-encased within the walls of the present.

Source: UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE It is important to note the further significance of the Moses Looney Fort House is that this is where on 7 February 1780 that a meeting to organize the new Sullivan County was named.

DAR Lineage Books: Vol 112, ID# 111637

David Looney (1730-1810) Served as major and colonel, North Carolina troops. He was born in Augusta County, VA; died Sullivan County, Tenn.

DAR Lineage Books: Vol 36, ID# 35046

David Looney (1738-1810) Appointed major 1779 and served under Col. Isaac Shelby. He was born in Augusta County, VA; died Sullivan County, Tenn.

David died on 1 May 1810 in Blountsville, Sullivan County, Tennessee. Their son, Abraham Looney, was born 18 September 1780, married in that county, 19 May 1803, Elizabeth Gammon, born there 19 September 1786. Her father was Richard Gammon, born 1750, a member of the convention that formed the state of Tennessee, as well as of the first legislature of that state. Her mother was Sarah Gamble, born 1750, at Richmond, Virginia, where her family had long resided.

Thomas Looney 1718-1759 (6th great Uncle of the Descendants of Nora Lena Collins Holmes) married Jane Harmon and they owned 400 acres in Abb’s Valley that was named for his brother Absolum Looney. They had one daughter Louisa Looney (1st cousin 5 x) 1739-1745 who married James Brigham.

In 1766, Augusta County, Virginia records indicate that James and Louisa Brigham sued her grandfather Adam Harmon for monetary disputes; this was accomplished with the help of David Looney, Louisa’s uncle and later James Brigham’s commander in the militia, 1776-1777. Before the Revolutionary War during the 1760s, both James Brigham and David Looney were active members of the Virginia Militia in Augusta County, Virginia and fought against Cherokee raiders. Brigham family historian David Salmon asserted that James and Louisa Brigham relocated near the area of present-day Blountville, Sullivan County, Tennessee (then Virginia), 1769-1770. They were joined by Louisa’s uncles, Moses Looney and his brother David Looney, thus being among the earliest settlers of what would become Tennessee. Sometime in the mid-1700s, James Brigham relocated to Virginia, near Roanoke, in the Augusta County area. He then married Louisa Looney (b. 1739-1745, Looney’s Creek, Augusta County, Virginia5,6), the only daughter of Thomas Looney and Margaret Harman (Harmon)6. Thomas Looney had earlier lived in Pennsylvania, listed on the tax roll of Nantmeal Township there in 17247. He was also the first of the Looneys named on the muster roll of Augusta County, Virginia in 17428.

The 400 acres in Abb’s Valley that Thomas Looney owned along the Bluestone River in Virginia was later legally claimed by his daughter Louisa Looney Brigham sometime after Thomas’ death 17607,8. Not too far away, in what is now the area of Bristol, Tennessee, John Shelby, Sr. and his nephew Isaac Shelby had also relocated at about the same time8. Both James Brigham and Moses Looney are also mentioned in a 29 January 1770 Washington County, Virginia court document; this is described in Annals of Southwest Virginia by John Preston Summers9. Research by W. Dale Carter indicates that Pvt. James Brigham was on the pay roll of Capt. David Looney’s militia company in 1776; he was garrisoned at the Moses Looney Fort at Gunnings, in then Fincastle County, Virginia (modern-day Sullivan County, Tennessee) and served as a spy for the militia at that time1. Other sources state that Pvt. James Brigham was a member of Capt. John Shelby’s Company, Col. Evan Shelby’s 10th Regt. Virginia Militia that was organized January 1777.

Recently, Jeff Brigance obtained Revolutionary War militia payroll documents from the North Carolina State Archives that document Pvt. James Brigham serving in Capt. David Looney’s Company, and stationed “on the Frontiers of Fincastle 1776”. As documented in Crane and Crane (2008), modern-day Sullivan County, Tennessee was at that time (1772-1777) Fincastle County, Virginia. It is possible that Pvt. James Brigham may have participated in the so-called Cherokee Expedition of Col. Christian during July 1776 while stationed at Moses Looney Fort in then Fincastle County, Virginia1. In addition, Pvt. James Brigham while a member of Capt. David Looney’s militia company is listed in the Library of Virginia Archives as taking part in Lord Dunmore’s War.

Source: Kenneth E. Byrd, 5th great-grandson of James Brigham (1744-1814) Revised Dec. 8, 2015 Indianapolis, IN (Roberta Tuller 2020)

Capt. David Looney’s son Abraham (1st Cousin 8x) was born 18 September 1780, married in that county, 19 May 1803, Elizabeth Gammon, born there 19 September 1786. Her father was Richard Gammon, born 1750, a member of the convention that formed the state of Tennessee, as well as of the first legislature of that state. Her mother was Sarah Gamble, born 1750, at Richmond, Virginia, where her family had long resided. (Roberta Tuller 2020)

Abraham Looney possessed much influence and considerable wealth. He was a banker and latterly a large iron producer in Middle Tennessee. They first lived in Sullivan county, where their eight elder children were born, and afterwards at Columbia, Maury county. (Roberta Tuller 2020)

I—Polly Looney, (2nd Cousin, daughter of Abraham Looney, married, 13 December 1818, Matthew Rhea.

They lived in Somerville, Tennessee, and left several children. One son, Lieutenant Matthew Rhea, fell in the battle of Belmont, in Missouri, opposite Columbus, Kentucky, where he gallantly carried the sword of his grandfather, bearing this honorable inscription: "Presented by Gen. Greene to Matthew Rhea, the last man to retreat from the battle of Guilford Courthouse." Wounded, he sank to his knees, his surrounding foes demanding his surrender. Waving the old relic, with his expiring gasp he exclaimed: "I shall never surrender the sword of my grandfather to a Yankee!" At that epochal moment, who could have remembered that the illustrious donor was born in Rhode Island! (Roberta Tuller 2020)

John LOONEY, Sr. (6th Great Uncle of the Descendants of Nora Lena Collins Holmes) Born: 1732 probably in Pennsylvania Died: 1817 in Botetourt County, Virginia. Father: Robert Looney (6th Great Grandfather) Mother: Elizabeth Looney (6th Great GrandMother)

John married Ester RENFRO Born: 1739 or 1740 Died: 26 February 1821 in Sinking Creek, Virginia. Father: Stephen Renfro, Sr.

Notes:

Ester is said to have been, in 1739 or 1740, the first white female born west of the James River in that part of Virginia that later was to become part of Botetourt County. (Nat’l Intelligencer, Wash., D.C., 12 July 1821.)

John and Ester had the following children: (1st Cousins 6x)

○ John Looney b. ca 1757.

○ Stephen Looney b. ca 1758.

○ Robert Looney b. ca 1760.

○ Peter Looney b. ca 1761.

○ Jane Looney b. ca 1763.

○ Mary Looney b. ca 1766. Probably the Mary Looney who m. Henry Cartill 4 July 1786. Bond signed by John Looney as witness and surety. (Botetourt Mar. Reg., 30.)

○ Martha Looney b. ca 1769. Married a Cuningham.

○ Possibly a child b. 1773.

○ John Looney Jr. b. 1784 Augusta County, Virginia. He is presumed to be born after the first John died. Source:

http://diggin-up-bones.blogspot.com/2007/04/joseph-looney-1849.html

John (2) Looney was security with Robert Rowland on 17 March 1756 when his sister-in-law, Margaret (Rhea) Looney, administered the estate of her deceased husband, Robert (2) Looney Jr. On 11 October 1759 by the terms of an agreement recorded in May 1765 between Robert (1) and some of his sons, John (2) was to receive the horses (except 2) and 1/3 of the cows (except 3). On 6 May 1761 John Luney witnessed a power-of-attorney from Charles Milliken of Orange County, North Carolina, to John Buchanan. (Augusta Deeds A, 277.) On 17 February 1762 he assisted in the appraisal of the estate of Christian Hicks. (Augusta Wills 3, 113.) In 1765 J. Looney on Sinking Spring was mentioned as a processioner (but this could be Joseph (2) Looney).

On 27 September 1767 John (2) Looney purchased from his older brother Adam (2) Looney the 271 acres known as the Meadow Run or Bryan’s Creek tract which Adam had bought from Colonel James Patton in 1752. On 4 March 1768 John Looney had 250 acres surveyed on Looney’s Mill Creek along his own patent line; also 196 acres adjoining John Mill’s land. (Rockingham Co. Surveys 1, 137.) The 250 acres were purchased from his nephew Peter (3) Looney, but the deed was not made or recorded until 12 January 1796. (Botetourt Deeds 5, 347.)

Source: http://docs.google.com/document/d/15144c3pC0deD03QFGTFIThuwklh4p-anI5Yno1L PtFU/edit#.html

And three of Absolem's (6th Great Uncle) sons, like the offspring of his brothers, were to serve in the Virginia Militia, with one dying of gunshot wounds in both legs after his role in the American victory at the Battle of King's Mountain in North Carolina.

Source: Donald R. Holliday: Vol. V, No. 4, Spring 1992, Ozarks Watch.

The writer, Elmo Len Holmes, is a descendant of Peter Luna (Looney), the 10th child of Robert Looney, Sr. and Elizabeth Llewelyn.

Sgt. Peter Looney of the Virginia Militia, Augusta, Virginia,

during the French and Indian War

By 1756, in his early 20’s, Sgt. Peter Luney (Looney, Luna), of the Virginia Militia, (5th Great Grandfather) was in a detachment under Captain John Smith, appointed to garrison Fort Vause (present day Shawsville in Montgomery County, Virginia), one of the western defenses of the upper Roanoke during the French and Indian War. There were fifteen Virginia Militiamen in muster. The fort was 100 feet square surrounding the Vause home with cabins which could garrison seventy troops, and had 15 feet tall palisades. The Vause family and their servants were in residence at the time of the attack.

French, Shawnee, Miami and Ottawa with 200 troops led by French Military officer, François-Marie Picoté de Belestre, attacked Fort Vause, and the all day battle was a rout of the Virginia Militia; the fort was burned. One hundred fifty Virginians were taken prisoner, wounded, scalped and killed at this battle. Sgt. Peter Luna was captured, wounded and taken prisoner at the fall of Fort Vause, June 25, 1756.

While the French Officer Belestre was wounded and receiving medical treatment the Shawnee and others grew increasingly hostile to the Virginians and burned to death the son of Captain John Smith as he was made to watch. Sgt. Looney and the captives were led and some drug by horses to the Shawnee Village. Even though the Battle of Fort Vause was a rout, the wounding of de Belestre stopped the French and Indian coalition from advancing on Williamsburg, the capital of Virginia.

Sgt. Looney was with the Shawnee for about a year when he escaped. While captive, an Indian King adopted Sgt. Looney as his brother which enabled him to sit in council while at Detroit. Sgt Looney met another captive named William Phillips, and while on an expedition to buy supplies they escaped from the Indians. Then Sgt. Peter Looney traveled to Virginia to where his parents lived. (The “Mississippi Valley History Review” relates the story.) Fort Vause is reborn in the style of a composite earth-and-palisade structure. George Washington inspected Fort Vause in October 1756 during his tour of Virginia's frontier defenses. The story was documented also in a paper by Leroy Tilton who found it in an early publication as follows: Leroy W. Tilton states in “The Robert and Elizabeth Looney Family'' that no record of Robert Looney has been found earlier than 1734 when Robert and Elizabeth were in Philadelphia at the time their son Peter was born. In an interview that Peter Looney had on 28 July 1757 with a reporter of the “London Chronicle'' or ”Universal Evening Post'' for the September 6-8 issue that gives an account of Peter’s captivity for about a year among the French and Indians at Fort Detroit.

Peter stated that he was about twenty-three years of age and had been born in Philadelphia and was on his way from Albany to Virginia where his parents lived. It is probable that in 1734 Robert and their older children had recently arrived in America migrating west through Pennsylvania.

5th Great Grandparents of the Descendants of Nora Lena Collins Holmes

On or about 1759, Sgt. Peter Looney married Margaret Lauderdale. She was born near Looney’s Mill Creek about 1733 in present day Botetourt County, Virginia, and died 1786 in Sumner County of what would become Tennessee in 1792. Sgt. Luna had died in 1760 in Looney Creek, Augusta County, Virginia. Margaret was cited in court records Augusta County, Virginia, USA in 1764 in Augusta (Now Rockbridge), Virginia, USA. William Lauderdale is recorded having a contract with the widow of Peter Looney to drive some cattle which she inherited from Peter Looney. This William was her brother. (5th Great Uncle). Both Lauderdale and Looney families were pioneers into this frontier area of colonial Virginia. Recently, Clint Lauderdale published a book, "History of Lauderdales in America, 1714-1850.” Lots of counties and Fort Lauderdale, Florida named for descendants of Scottish emigrant James Lauderdale. After Peter's death, Margaret married James McKain/McCain, and they traveled to frontier Tennessee with the Donelson flotilla. Note that her son, Peter Jr. (5th Great Grandfather) traveled overland with James Robertson. Jane Crawford, James Lauderdale, John Lauderdale, Rodger Lauderdale, David Lauderdale, Joseph Lauderdale, Robert Lauderdale, William Lauderdale, and the Half sister of The Hon. Jean Fergusson (Maitland) Margaret Lauderdale (1750 - 1793) all traveled to Tennessee with the Donelson flotilla. Margaret Lauderdale Looney McCain’s father, James Maitland Lauderdale, Sr., (7th Great grandfather) had land holdings along Looney's Mill Creek, upstream from land holdings of Robert Looney, Sr. Margaret was still alive when James Lauderdale mentioned his daughter as "Margaret Cain, the widow of James Cain," in his will dated 22 September 1796.

Peter Grancer Luna III 1786- and Mary Polly Bond 1785-1856

4th Great Grandparents of the Descendants of Nora Lena Collins Holmes.

They were married in Sumner County, Tennessee 7 November 1804.

Peter Luna Candidate for House of Representatives

For Sumner County 20 April 1813

Peter Luna, a son of Peter Looney, Jr., was born near the Cumberland River in present day Tennessee about 1788 and died after 1850 in Marshall County, Tennessee. He married Mary “Polly” Barnes (Bond) with a bond of 7 November 1804 in Sumner County, Tennessee. (Sumner County marriage Records p 18).

Peter volunteered for service in the Fourth Regiment of Tennessee Mounted Gunmen and was mustered in at Fayetteville about 1 February 1814 and served as Second Sergeant under Captain George Smith in the war with the Creek Indian Nation until honorably discharged on 15 April 1814. His bounty land applications were numbered 12999-40-50 and 36951-20-55 and dated 28 October 1850 and 13 April 1855, Marshall County, Tennessee.

Peter and family were enumerated in 1820 as “Peter Loony” and in 1830 as “Peter Luna, Jr.” in Lincoln County, Tennessee, but in 1840 and 1850 in Marshall County, probably because of formation of a new county. In the 1850 census of Marshall County, Peter Luna was 62 years old and listed with Polly as she died 10 July 1856 (gravestone, New Hope Cemetery). According to J. D. Luna's letter written in 1925, Peter, his great-grandfather, was called "Wagoner Pete."

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Shortly after Sumner County was formed in 1786, the two Peter Looneys began to avoid ambiguity and confusion by slight changes in the signatures. Peter3 Jr. returned to the old style form of Luna and often wrote (P) or Pitman in or after his name and the older Looney, son of Absalom Looney, added (H) or Harmon in or after his name. This can be followed in the tax records.

Wright Luna 1815-1881 and Clarissa Sanders 1815-1863

3rd Great Grandparents of the Descendants of Nora Lena Collins Holmes

Children:

Micajah Videret Luna born 1872- in 1879 married Mary M. Brooks 1826-1898

Raney Clarissa Luna 1815-1863 married John Johnson Collins and their Son Robert Lee Collins married Almedia Littlieton 11 Oct 1895 at Obion County, Tennessee. They had two daughters:

Nora Lena Collins Holmes 1897-1982 and Georgia Raney Collins Seratt 1899-1977.

Elizabeth Emaline “Bedie” Luna 1835-?

Martha Adeline Luna born 1842 married James A Hogan 1836-1906

Sarah Elmira Luna

Louisa Jane Luna

With the marriage of Raney Clarissa Luna, 1815-1863, to John “Jack” Johnson Collins, 1834-1915, the lineage of the descendants of Nora Lena Collins Holmes, 1897-1982 leaves the Looney (Luna) family into the historic Collins family surname.

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Written by Elmo Len Holmes

A Surgeon of Colonial America

noreply@blogger.com (Judith Richards Shubert) — Tue, 10 Nov 2020 13:50:00 +0000

Johan Martin Shultz (1740-1787),

Patriot of the Battle of King’s Mountain, Cordwainer, Farmer, Husband, Father
and Surgeon of Colonial America:

A Retrospective

Elmo Len Holmes

One of the greater joys of examining one’s genealogy is visualizing the life that one’s ancestor possessed by interpreting their cultural footprint, viewing their lives to offer a perspective from the cultural, socio-economic, political; and family values they practiced. . What was the legacy of Johan Martin Shultz? It seems that Grandfather Shultz was a gentleman of his word who was held in high esteem by many, and he built a solid reputation of trust and decency for his descendants to emulate. Johan Martin Shuttz was born 1740 into a German Swiss extended family that immigrated from Darmstadt, Hessen, Germany in the 18th century to Pennsylvania Colony. To modern day readers this may seem simple, but in the 18th century the Shultz’s traveled along the Rhine River to Holland boating several weeks to reach the Atlantic port. It was another 8 to 10 weeks aboard a sailing ship to the Port of Philadelphia. By 1745 more than 40,000 lived in Pennsylvania Colony, an unusual colony for the time due to its ideals of anti violence, religious persecution, and arbitrary authority. Penn believed that no people can be happy if abridged of the freedom of their consciousness. Penn believed that the government, like clocks, should go by the motion that men give them.

Source: By William C. Kashatus

This article originally appeared in Pennsylvania Heritage Magazine

Volume XXXVII, Number 2 - Spring 2011.

His parents were Johan Veleten Shultz 1715-1745 and Eva Maria Stocker, 1716-1745 of Switzerland. Germany was a war torn inhospitable state for Lutherans, as well as other religious minorities.

The large and extended Shultz family group sailed on the Pennsylvania Merchant in 1731, as a second wave of German immigrants, from Rotterdam, Holland, disembarking at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania where they took an oath of allegiance to King George II of England and they became naturalized citizens.

They traveled for about ten days in a Conastoga style wagon across the frontier a hundred miles to York, York, Colony of Pennsylvania, along the western banks of the Susquehanna River on Little Conewago Creek to set up their plantation, as farms were called in Colonial America. York was formed from Lancaster County 14 Oct 1748.

Velten or Valentine and his second wife Eva Stocker were founders of the German Evangelical Church of York County, Pennsylvania. Velten and Eva stood as a Christian example for their family and neighbors by sponsoring a number of children for baptism.

Velten’s family and Johan Martin’s born 1740; siblings: Henrich born 1735; Johan Peter born 1736; Johan Velten born 1738; Eva Maria Scmidt born 1743, and Johan Christian born 1744. Eva Maria Stocker Shultz became a widow about 1745; her husband’s death was so untimely he had not recorded a will. The resulting appraisal revealed that Maria had 90 pounds sterling to be distributed among the legal heirs as decided by the orphan’s court. Eva remarried six months after her late husband’s untimely demise and lived to about the age of 61 deceasing about June 1777. She married secondly; Johan Jorg Ernest Mayer, May 29, 1746 Manchester Township, Pennsylvania Colony.

Sourced from Kellie Sue (Sapp) Sapp King. "Johan Jorg Ernest 'George' Mayer". The Kingealogy.

http://www.thekingealogy.com/tng/getperson.php?personID=I25807&tree=tree1.

Most of the source material for this section may be found at

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1K8fvtEQFoIOBjqAd1QmzhbVh_dgww7ZlBMU8RDiv4C4/ edit.

As was traditional, Johan began an apprenticeship to learn cordwaining. Cordwaining is an obsolete term in 21st century America, but it refers more to being a leather artisan and craftsman of finely tanned leathers rather than a simple shoe maker.

His apprenticeship ended on his twenty first birthday, which would have been about 1761. A young man completing his apprenticeship heralds his transitioning to adulthood. This move was celebrated by his marriage to Juliana Stentz,1741-1810 on 28 July 1761 at Christ Lutheran Church, York, Pennsylvania Colony. They had six children from their marriage: David Alexander Preston Shultz 1764-1824, the ancestor of the writer; Valentine Kristoff Shults, 1762-1846 who died at Bibb, Alabama; John R Shults 1769-1863 who died at Ellis, Texas; Jacob Shults 1771-1814 who died at Claiborne, Tennessee; Martin S. E. Shuts 1773-1846 who died at Emerts Cove, Sevier, Tennessee; and Julian Ann Shults Reaegn 1776-1845 who died at Gatlinburg, Sevier, Tennessee.

Upon the marriage of Johan Martin Shultz and Julianna Stentz, they took guardianship of Juliana’s nephew, Phillip Bayer, who had become orphaned. He took Phillip on as an apprentice in Cordwaining. By law he was required to teach Phillip mathematics to the rule of three, to read the Bible and to write, as well as feed and clothe him as was the custom of the day. Later competition with New England caused the cordwaining to diminish so Johan Martin Shultz prepared to move to North Carolina and most likely travel the Philadelphia Wagon Road which ended at what would become Lincoln County, North Carolina.

Before the family left York, Pennsylvania, Johan Martin Shults was sure to get his adopted nephew a suitable living situation and apprenticeship with a family friend and make the necessary court arrangements for such a move and know that the young man was to be well attenuated by a loving family.

The Shultz’s convinced neighbors and friends to migrate to Lincoln County which was most likely Tryon County created from Mecklenburg County, North Carolina Colony. Given Johan Martin Shultz’s impeccable reputation he was made Constable by the Court of Quarterly Pleas and Sessions and witnessed many deeds in that county. He at this time began signing his name Dr. Shultz. It is believed that with the pioneer area that a doctor was more in need than a cordwainer; he learned the art of medicine by most likely understanding someone, or taught himself.

By 1777, the Shultz family decided to move to the newly created lands of Washington County, North Carolina,

This was the time that Sullivan County, Tennessee was carved from Washington, North Carolina. Johan Martin Shultz was now a land speculator, as well as a doctor. The American Revolution was now beginning to capture the minds and hearts of all who learned of its existence. Dr. Shultz enlisted in the Militia under Col. Shelby and Col. Campbell. The muster rolls have him listed as a private with John Sevier and not a surgeon. This is where family tradition and fact seem to separate. To further illustrate the point I read King’s Mountain and its Heroes written in 1881 by the renowned Lyman Draper and he does not even mention Shultz. I will admit though that since he was a self taught physician and given the nature of his character I would believe that he would use his skills to save lives.

The Battle of King’s Mountain of the American Revolution was a huge moral boost to the cause of Patriotism and the ultimate success of the American Revolutionary which energized the cause of freedom. The battle itself was one of a very short duration in which the sharpshooters of the North Carolina Militia’s Overmountain Men made quick work of the world’s greatest army of the British Empire, and the Tories or Loyalists who supported them. This was a time when Americans fought Americans.

The results of the quick battle were totally astounding in that every British soldier was killed or captured. Col. Ferguson, who had the chance months earlier to kill General Washington was shot from his horse and killed in the battle. This precipitated the second in command to surrender. Col. Ferguson’s bravado was responsible for the intensity of the Patriot Overmountain Men because he said that he would find each of them and hang their families. Dr. Martin Shultz left with the Overmountain Men, but not before they had hung nine of the most serious offenders of the Tory’s who were hung in groups of three at the Biggerstaff Hanging Tree which is now set aside as an historic area. It was said that they would have hung more but they ran out of rope.

Our ancestor Shultz made his way where he lived until 1787 in the State of Franklin and is interred there in an unmarked grave. His wife Juliana outlived him for several more years and lived until 1810 with their son Martin Jr. who lived in Emerts Cove in Sevier County, Tennessee where she is buried.

Epilogue

In the 1960’s, when I began researching my family due to a lack of information or documents from anyone other than oral tradition, I began writing every story I got for posterity. Not much was known about our Shults family as the name had come down to be recorded. The last Shults that was in my direct line was Mary Lou Shults Shipman Story who was born about 1867 in Obion County, Tennessee.

She was the daughter of William Shults and Mary whose maiden name is unknown. Her father William may have been born in Adair, Kentucky about 1833. She may have had siblings Maragarett 1868, Erick 1850 in Missouri, and Thomas born about 1865 in Missouri. William’s father was Jacob Shults born about 1787 in Sullivan, Tennessee and married Nancy Phillips (Fillups) 31 Oct. 1809 in Adair, Kentucky. William had siblings James Lewis Shults born in Adair, Kentucky 10 Oct 1810 and died 1856 in Henderson County, Tennessee; Mary Rachel Shults Clapp, 1815-1874 who died in Los Angeles.

Jacob Shults died in McNairy County, Tennessee and his burial location is unknown. He was the son of David Alexander Preston Shults, 1764-1834, whose wife may have been named Nancy ‘Weaver. David A. P. Shults was a Private in Johnson’s Third Regiment of the East Tennessee, Militia, War of 1812, being born in Mecklenburg, North Carolina and a Charter Citizen of Sevier County, Tennessee. David was the son of Johan Martin Shuilts, Veteran of the American Revolution and Juliana Stentz. David emigrated to Kentucky after the death of his father Johan Martin Shults. David and Nancy had children who were siblings of Jacob our direct ancestor: Mary Shults Baze 1794-1860 who died in Missouri, John Shults 1785-1853 who died at Tippah, Mississippi; David Shults born 1803 and perhaps died in McNairy, Tennessee; Squire Shults born abt. 1806 and died at Cass County, Missouri; Jane Shults Kemp whose daughter is buried at Mars Hill Cemetery, Adamsville, Tennessee.

Mary Lou Shults Shipman Story (1867-1867) lies buried in an unmarked grave at Church Grove Cemetery, Newbern, Tennessee.

The family line is the children and their descendants of Trummie Gaye Story Wright 1904-1996; Riley Betty Story Webb, 1902-1947; Robert Chester Story, 1906-1974; John Daniel Story 1895-1978; and their half sister Mary Lou Shipman Duncan (dates unrecorded) to Mary Lou Shults Shipman Story Duncan who died at Jackson, Madison County, Tennessee on Jan 23, 1935 whose father was William Shults, to Jacob Shults; to David Alexander Preston Shults, to Johan Martin Shults, the 5th great grandfather of the writer and his family mentioned.

"As I Remember It" by Raymond R. Stone

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I, Raymond Reginald Stone, was born May 16, 1919 at Hastings, Oklahoma (Jefferson County), the second son of Henry Luther and Annie May Stone. I had one brother older than me, Edsel Luther Stone, one sister younger than me, Celesta Audean Stone, and one brother younger than me, Wendell Leon Stone. My brother, Edsel, died in 1935 and my sister, Audean, died in 1987.

Early in my life we moved from Hastings to a farm about five miles west in Cotton County. It was about halfway between Hastings and Temple, Oklahoma. This is where we lived when I started to school at Pleasant Ridge School, District Six. I was five years old. You see, in 1924 when Edsel was six years old and was ready to start to school Mama and Daddy made me start to school with him so he wouldn’t have to start by himself. When Edsel failed to pass the third grade Mama and Daddy made me stay in the third grade with him. We spent two years in the third grade!

We lived two miles from the schoolhouse and we had to walk both ways unless the weather was bad; then Daddy would come to pick us up in the wagon. Edsel and I graduated together from the eighth grade in 1932. When I graduated from Pleasant Ridge School I was the salutatorian of our class. There were eight of us in the eighth grade class.

After graduating from Pleasant Ridge I entered high school as a freshman at Temple, Oklahoma, and graduated there as a senior in 1937. All the years that I was in school we continued to live on the farm and I helped Daddy with all the work on the farm. I was not an outstanding athlete but I did play basketball, baseball and track. I ran the mile and the 1/2 mile in track. In 1936, five of us boys had just graduated to the senior class and we decided to take a vacation. Walter Wilson, the mail carrier’s son, had just obtained a 1929 Model A Ford Touring Car. We put all the groceries and bedding that we could in that car and headed out for Dallas, Texas. We planned to sleep out under the stars and cook all our own food. We all chipped in and pooled money to buy gasoline and food. We were going to the Dallas Centennial -- celebrating Texas’ 100 year birthday. We didn’t have much money. I had $11.15. The other boys had about the same. Walter Wilson who owned the car put $5.00 in his shoe in case we had car trouble. He put a shoe heel under the foot-feed so we wouldn’t drive too fast. J.D. Bowers and myself were the only ones with much driving experience, so we did most of the driving. It didn’t take us long to get rid of the shoe heel. We couldn’t get enough power to pull a hill. We did get to Dallas and to the celebration. We slept out under the stars at Lake Dallas. We went to all of the free stuff. The barker on the stage outside one of the shows was trying to draw a crowd to go inside. Naturally all five of us were right in front of him just dying to get inside to see all of the dancers. He motioned us all on in for free just to help draw the crowd. We got pretty well acquainted with one of the show girl dancers. She was called “Flaming Fanny”. When we left Dallas we named the car “Flaming Fanny” and years later I had a fox hound (and a good one) whose name was “Flaming Fanny”.

After graduation I wanted to go to college at Oklahoma A&M but I wasn’t able to afford it. So, in 1938 I joined the “CCC” camps (Civilian Conservation Corp), a program started by President Roosevelt to give young men jobs. We could enlist for six months at a time and we were paid $30.00 a month. These were regular camps. We lived in barracks and were furnished our clothing, food, and other necessities such as medical needs. The camps were commanded by and supervised by regular Army officers. We were issued army clothes and stood in formations just like army life, except we were not issued guns. There were about 200 men in each camp. We worked an eight hour day, five days a week. We did various kinds of work. We worked on farms, built tanks, lakes, etc. We did forest work, built parks, terraced fields, did contour work on grasslands; most anything that had to do with soil conservation. I was stationed at Duncan, Oklahoma. We did a lot of work for the farmers who furnished the equipment such as plows, tractors, teams (mules or horses), whatever we might need. I was in the CCC Camps for nearly two years. My last six months I was assigned as a dental assistant. I worked for an Army dentist. We traveled from camp to camp all over Oklahoma. We would spend two weeks in each camp. I polished lots of boy’s teeth on the side in exchange for show tickets or post exchange tickets. The machine the dentist used for filling teeth was a portable one that had to be pedaled by foot. I was the one that furnished the foot power.

In late 1939 I was back home on the farm and I was doing most of the farm work. Daddy was busy trading cattle. In 1940 I helped him plant all his crops and worked them. In late summer I laid the crops by. I was now 21 years old and decided to go on my own. Me and three other men in an old 1934 Ford headed for California. We thought we might get rich. We didn’t. We went to work for the harvest in the peach orchards. We were paid five cents a lug (about half a bushel). We had to use 12-foot ladders to pick the peaches in most of the trees. I decided to see how much I could make in one hour. I worked as hard as I could for one hour in 113 degree heat. I gathered 13 lugs--sixty-five cents. I was wet from my head to my toes from sweat.

Next we went to work in the grape vineyards. I started boxing grapes for thirty cents an hour. I got promoted to putting lids on the boxed grapes and made thirty-five cents an hour. Then, I got promoted to swamping on trucks, loading the boxed grapes on trucks, and made forty-five cents an hour. After the grape vineyards we worked picking cotton. The fields were making two bales per acre. I don’t even know how much I made there. I do know that I heard from home that Daddy was making one bale per acre from the crop I had laid by for him.

While I was in California the World War II draft was enacted. I was 21 years old and had to register; so I had to register in California but had them send my registration back home to Temple, Oklahoma. On November 22, 1940, I was drafted into the army. Five of us from Cotton County, Oklahoma, were drafted and sent to Oklahoma City for physicals. Three of us passed the physical. Two did not pass. One was too short and the other had pink-eye. They sent us to Fort Sam Houston, Texas, to Dodd Field. There we received what little basic training they had at the time, and then we were sent out to various army units.

They kept me in Company C of the Reception Center where I received my basic training. Because I could type they sent me to a recruiting station in Lubbock, Texas. I stayed there for two months. My ability to type helped me many times in respect to jobs. As recruits our pay was $21.00 a month. While I was in Lubbock the government came out with an order that the Army would automatically promote so many draftees. I was promoted to Corporal which paid $36.00 a month. However, I still couldn’t draw but $21.00 for four more months. When I got back to Fort Sam Houston I was quarantined in a barracks with some recruits with the mumps. Then they made me a drill instructor. I remained a drill instructor until November when my year as a draftee ended. We were then offered the opportunity to re-enlist and they sent me to Camp Wolters Reception Center as a Supply Sergeant. That was quite a promotion.

There I sat in my supply office a few days after the bombing of Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1940. I looked out of my window at the large warehouse where they issued new recruits their clothing. There was a long line of men waiting to receive their clothing, and low and behold, there was a bunch of the same men who were recruits with me at Fort Sam Houston. They had taken their discharge after one year, but here they were now coming back in. Now there was no enlistment time. My eighteen month enlistment didn’t matter. We were all in now for the duration.

Fort Wolters was a large Infantry Training Center. Generally there were from 30,000-plus men training there at that time. They had just finished building the Reception Center. It was doing a lot of raining about that time and we waded around in mud for quite some time. This Reception Center received all of the draftees coming into the Army from this area of the country. The draftees would be processed into the Army here and take some training. Then they were shipped out to Army combat units. One of the enjoyable jobs of my service here was when recruits were shipped to other stations (Army units). If there were 50 or less men in a group, a non-commissioned officer (NCO) carried them. If over 50 were being shipped very far, an officer and some NCOs carried them. During my year at Fort Wolters I made a lot of trips with recruits. I think during that time I was in or through 38 different states. My longest trip was to Pendleton, Oregon. We weren’t allowed to tell the men where they were going because of security about troop movement. You can imagine how confused these men were about making that long trip to Oregon and not knowing where they were going.

My largest group of recruits was from Fort Wolters to Fort Sill, Oklahoma. The group consisted of 200 African Americans on four Greyhound buses. We left Fort Wolters in the morning and I had to feed the men in Wichita Falls, Texas. I called from Jacksboro, Texas, to a cafe there to start fixing a lunch (this was during the days of segregation). You can realize my problem. When we got there, the cafe really had the smoke rolling, cooking steak and potatoes. I paid for the meal with meal tickets ($ .75 a meal). That was what we used to pay for meals when we were transporting men unless they were being transported on the trains with Pullmans. Then we paid $1.00 a meal.

At one point we had 125 Japanese soldiers in the Reception Center. All Japanese people were moved away from the West Coast because of the attack on Pearl Harbor. These soldiers and all other Japanese soldiers were finally shipped to Mississippi where they formed a Japanese Battalion. They fought with honor in Italy.

Well now, here in Mineral Wells (Fort Wolters was in Mineral Wells, Texas) is where I met and married the lovely red-haired young 19-year old Irene Gailey. Our honeymoon was spent in Jacksboro, Texas, on November 14, 1942. Then, it was back to my Army duties. Incidentally, those Japanese boys gave me and Irene a beautiful set of dishes for our wedding. After all, I was their supply sergeant!

Well, somebody finally caught up with me. I had a 1-A physical classification, and Reception Centers were 2-B units. There was a new Battalion being formed in Camp Campbell, Kentucky. So, they sent me there as a part of the cadre as a supply sergeant. I also carried about 30 recruits with me. We became the 782nd Tank Battalion in 1943. We took up training to become an effective combat tank battalion. I was assigned to A Company as Supply Sergeant. The company had 18 medium tanks. I think they weighed about 34 tons each. We trained there nearly a year. Irene came and we lived at Clarksville, Tennessee, while she was there. But, Linda Kay was going to be born soon and I was going to be training in the Tennessee Maneuvers for about three months. So, we decided that Irene should go back home to Mineral Wells where Linda Kay was born on March 14, 1944, in the Norwood Clinic. I spent nearly three months of cold, wet winter in the boondocks of Tennessee. This is when I was promoted to First Sergeant. We spent Thanksgiving dinner standing out in the cold, cold rain. Christmas was almost as bad. From there they moved us back to Fort Knox, Kentucky, where we trained for quite a while. Irene and Linda Kay (Mrs. Gailey came with them) came to live with me. As a First Sergeant I was authorized living quarters on the post. We went to the Quartermaster warehouse and checked out some bedding and other necessities. We had a two bedroom apartment. One bedroom was upstairs and one was downstairs. Another couple lived with us. They were not supposed to; but we always referred to them as visitors. Now after a while they decided to ship our Battalion of heavy tanks to Fort Bragg, North Carolina. They wouldn’t let us on their streets with these heavy tanks so we were put in an old calvary area somewhere out in the sand dunes.

Mrs. Gailey returned home and Irene and Linda Kay went to Cleveland, Ohio, to visit a friend, Elinore Sullivan. Elinore and her husband were the ones that lived with us at Fort Knox. They stayed about a week with Elinore then they came to where I was at Fort Bragg. We lived in Dunn, North Carolina. After being here for a while, they decided to ship us again all the way to Camp Cooke, California. We rode a troop train all the way from Fort Bragg to California. What a long, long ride. We came across the southern part of Texas along the way. While I was in training at Camp Cooke Irene came to be with me for a little while. She had to come out on the train. I met her about midnight in a little place called Lompac. We had a small apartment close to camp. She had to leave Linda Kay with Mrs. Gailey so she couldn’t stay very long. While she was there I took a three day pass and we went to Los Angeles to see the sights. I rented a car and we had a most enjoyable time. She went back home and that turned out to be the last trip she would make with me (while I was in the Army).

While we were at Camp Cooke they used some of our tanks to make a movie. It was something about the defense of Moscow. They sent us down to Fort Rosencranz, California. That is near San Diego. They were giving us amphibious training, preparing to send us to the Pacific. Then they moved us from there back up to Camp Cooke. About that time the Belgium Bulge broke out in the war in Europe. They immediately bundled us up again and shipped us all the way back across the USA to Camp Kilmer, New Jersey. There they processed us for overseas shipment. They sent us to New York and loaded us on a large transport ship. We headed across the Atlantic as a part of a 30 ship convoy. This convoy consisted of a bunch of Army troops. The whole 10th Armored Division was a part of it. They were endeavoring to get a lot of tanks over there to head off those Germans who were attacking in the Belgium Bulge. We were 17 days crossing the ocean to LaHarve, France. We were going in such a manner as to dodge submarines. We were escorted by some destroyers. On one occasion, they dropped a depth bomb really close to our ship. We also ran into a major storm on the way over.

Company A (my company) was assigned MP duties on the ship going over. Company B was assigned duties in the Mess Galley. I had to keep regular guards posted at all times. There was a complete hospital unit on our ship -- doctors, nurses, all hospital personnel. They were on “C” deck, about the 3rd deck up. My company was quartered on the same deck because of security. As an MP I had to keep a guard posted at the entrance to their section of the deck. We had to keep all unauthorized people away from their section. It became a real benefit to our Battalion that they were on the ship with us because they unloaded before us and were sent on to Camp Lucky Strike on the sea coast of France before us. There were a lot of processing camps in France all named after cigarettes.

We were unloaded on the 17th of January at LaHarve, France, about midnight. We marched down those cobble stone streets covered with snow, carrying our full field pack to a train station. They loaded our entire battalion (about 600 men) into box cars. These were box cars with real high wheels under each end. In the First World War they acquired the name of 40 and 8 box cars. That was because they would hold 40 men or 8 horses. We put about 40 men in each car -- a pretty tight fit. The men were tired and sleepy and most of them were laying down across each other just about any way they could.

We were headed for Camp Lucky Strike on the French sea coast. This was the very dead-end of the railroad. The depot set at the end of the track. From the last water-stop for the engine, it was all down hill to Camp Lucky Strike. The brakes gave out on the train. Going down hill with no brakes! The train kept getting faster and faster waking most of us up. Finally it began to rock from side to side and then there came a big crash. Cars were thrown off the track, some turned over, and some went over the tops of others. The engine ran completely through the depot building. Some of the Frenchmen said that old train was coming down the track with the whistle wide open. It was about seven o’clock in the morning.

There were trucks there to meet us and carry us to Camp Lucky Strike. The drivers and a lot of Frenchmen were a big help. We had men pinned under cars. The cars just had a door on one side. One of “B” Company cars was turned over and they didn’t have any way out. We were really proud of our own medics who were of great help to all of the injured. Out of our entire battalion we had 58 men killed and about 150 badly injured. As I said, I was glad that the hospital unit had unloaded before us because they had already arrived at Camp Lucky Strike and were set up for business. It didn’t take them long to get busy taking care of us.

“D” Company suffered the most. Their cars were next to the engine, the “C” Company, “A” Company (my Company), “B” Company and then Headquarters. I came out fine, just got a small cut on my head and was pretty shook up. My Company, “A”, only had four men killed -- one officer and my Company Clerk. I don’t remember the others. The entire battalion had a bunch of men injured. They were sent all over to different hospitals, some were even sent back to the USA. As First Sergeant I had a difficult time learning where all of “A” Company’s men were. This took our battalion out of action and we didn’t go to the Belgium Bulge where we were headed.

They had to replace about 200 men in our battalion, so they sent us infantry soldiers. We trained them on the tanks for about a month, and finally we were ready to go again. Our Army had already pushed the Germans back across the Rhine River. They sent our battalion up. “A” Company was sent up by train. All the other companies “roaded” their tanks and equipment. We stopped at the Rhine River where combat was still happening. We crossed the river at Cologne on a pontoon bridge that the engineers had built. Since we were a small battalion of tanks, we were mostly assigned to Infantry divisions. It was hard to know who we were assigned to. It seemed like we spent most of our time chasing after Patton’s Third Army. He was going through Germany like a storm. But sometimes we would be assigned to the Ninth Army which was in the northern part of Germany. When the war ended in 1945, we were assigned to the Second Infantry which was a part of Patton’s Third Army. We ended up in Checozlavakia in Sudaten Land which was the first place Germany invaded when the war began. We were there doing occupation duties for about a month or two. We would send a tank and crew to the little villages. These people in the villages were glad to see us and treated us all real nice. Soon we were on a train on our way back to France and from there, on our way home. We crossed the Danube River on our way to Frankfurt, Germany, and then we went on to LaHarve, France.

We were loaded on another troop ship headed back to the good old USA. This old ship was really crowded. We didn’t have the luxury we had on the one going over. It took us only six days to get back across the ocean. We landed in Boston, Massachusetts. Our battalion was processed and sent to Fort Bragg, North Carolina. We were all then given thirty day furloughs so we could go home. I was in charge of all the men going to Texas. We were sent to Fort Sam Houston in San Antonio. After our furloughs were over, we all had to report back to Fort Sam Houston where I was in charge of getting everybody back to Fort Bragg. While we were on furlough the war ended in the Pacific and our battalion did not have to go there. The Army started discharging men based on a point system based on the length of time you had been in the service. I ended up with 80 points and was immediately eligible for discharge. They offered me the opportunity to re-enlist and they would send me to a recruiting station in Baltimore, Maryland. But I decided to take the discharge instead. I was discharged and back in Mineral Wells by the middle of October, 1945, after serving four years and eleven months in the Army.

Back home as a civilian I went to work for General Mills in Wichita Falls, Texas, where I packed 2-, 5- and 10-pound bags of flour. We rented a small house there but we were running up and down the road every weekend. We were either going to Mineral Wells where Irene’s folks lived, or to Walters, Oklahoma, where my folks lived. So we decided to move to Mineral Wells where I joined Mr. Gailey in the dump truck business. In 1947 we had a little boy, but he died at birth. We saved the name we had picked out for him in case we had another son later. In 1948 I carried my truck and followed the wheat harvest up north. I ended up in North Dakota.

Irene stayed home most of that summer. I would send home money as often as I made it, which wasn’t too regular! Irene decided she would rather I get a job where we would know how much money we would have to spend each week. I went to work for Jacques Power Saw Company as a welder. We now had another mouth to feed since our son, Reginald Ray, was born on March 25, 1950. He was born in the old Nazareth Hospital in Mineral Wells, Texas. Our family was now complete.

In 1951 the company I was working for went bankrupt and I was out of a job. Fort Wolters had opened up again to be used by the Army Engineers. I decided to apply for a warehouse job and was hired the next day. This was a civil service job. I stayed with that job and advanced to warehouse foreman. I stayed employed by civil service until Fort Wolters closed again in 1974. If we were 55 years of age or older and had 20 years service we could retire. I took my retirement with 27 years of service with the government (including my Army service).

I stayed at home and loafed around for about a month or two. Irene’s birthday was coming up on the 6th of October; I asked her what she wanted for her birthday, and how much money could I spend on it. She said all she wanted for her birthday was for me to get out and get a job. The next day I went to work for Perry Equipment. I worked there for eight years until I retired again. This time for good.

In 1955 Irene and I moved our little family to a three acre place southeast of Mineral Wells. We now owned three acres of land, a little rock house, and 37 pecan trees (as of 1998, the pecan trees are 70 years old). We bought our new house from Irene and Henry Tuggle who were members of our church and life-long friends. Linda Kay was in the third grade when we moved here and Reggie was just getting ready to start school. This proved to be a good place for our kids to grow up and we have lived here ever since. In 1958 we brought Irene’s sister, Vernelle’s, baby home to live with us. Ann stayed with us until her daddy, Leon, decided that she needed to be with her sisters, Judy and Peggy. So then, Ann went to live with Mr. and Mrs. Gailey. We still think of all three of those girls as our girls.

In 1963 we decided that we needed more room for our family, so we added a big new living room and two-car garage to our house. It was a pretty addition and gave us room to have people out whenever we wanted. It also gave us room to have all the family in for all of the holidays. This is a tradition that has continued to this day. Everybody still comes to our house for the holidays. (Most of the time.)

In 1972 our house burned to the ground. We lost every material thing that we owned. I had built some really nice furniture pieces when I went to a woodworking school. We were able to save a few of the pieces, but most of them were burned. We rebuilt on the same site, and that is the home where we now live--still big and warm enough to house all of the family whenever they want to gather in.

In 1948 and 1949 Irene and I obeyed the Gospel of Christ and became Christians and members of the Kingdom of Christ on Earth, the Church. We were members of the Church of Christ at Sturdivant. In 1951 we established the Eastside Church of Christ in Mineral Wells. I was appointed an elder in this congregation along with Brother Cliff Daniels and Brother Hugh Ashley. I remain an elder there to this day. Brother Cliff and Brother Hugh have gone on to be with God.

Irene and I have had a long and, I think, happy and prosperous life. This year, November 14, 1998, we were married for 56 years. I give God thanks for all the blessings we have had in this life. We have been blessed with a rather large family and many good friends. I sit here at my desk writing these memories and I look at all of the pictures of the children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren in front of me and I think, “Look at what me and Irene caused!” I thank God for each and every one of them.

Psalms 127 -- “Lo, children are a heritage of the Lord; and the fruit of the womb is His reward. As arrows are in the hand of a mighty man; so are children of the youth. Happy is the man that hath his quiver full of them: they shall not be ashamed, but they shall speak with the enemies in the gate.”

Genesis 33:5 -- Jacob met his brother, Esau, and Esau asked Jacob who those were with him. Jacob answered, “The children which God hath graciously given thy servant.”

I have told many young people as they were being married that they should remember the following lines from the poet, Robert Browning: “Come, grow old with me, the best is yet to be.”

A hope that Irene and I have is that all our heritage will be Christians.

Written this 9th day of December, 1998
Raymond Reginald Stone, Age 79

Raymond Reginald Stone was my uncle, married to my mother's sister, Irene Gailey Stone. He was a wonderful, caring man who was loved by all of his family and friends. He is certainly missed. He died at home June 9, 2002. His obituary can be found here on Genealogy Traces..

Festival of Postcards: Wheels of Change - A Reposting

noreply@blogger.com (Judith Richards Shubert) — Mon, 15 Jun 2020 18:21:00 +0000

94 BREST Los Rampes d acces et la Rade

Brest, a port city in western France sits on two hills divided by the Penfeld River. A magnificent road, the Rade de Brest, spans 14 miles (23 km) and is protected from the sea by the Quélern Peninsula, and the Goulet Passage (about 1–2 miles wide [1.5–3 km]) leads to open water. Cardinal de Richelieu decided in 1631 to make it a major naval base. It was improved by Jean-Baptiste Colbert and fortified by Sébastien Le Prestre de Vauban. The former instituted the Inscription Maritime, still functioning, which inducted Breton fishermen (18–48 years old) into the Naval Reserve. In exchange for this obligation, the Inscription offers them family security for life. Brest has been the seat of the French Naval Academy since 1830. Brest was the debarkation point for U.S. troops during World War I. Afterward its importance as a naval and transatlantic passenger port increased. The Germans, who occupied it in June 1940, built concrete submarine pens and used the port as a base against Allied shipping. The city, almost completely destroyed during World War II, has been rebuilt, its port restored and re-equipped. The naval port, behind the Lanion breakwater, is in part excavated from the rock, and some of the installations are in deep caves in the cliffs. The commercial port, which has large shipfitting installations, is separated from the city by the Cours Dajot, an excellent promenade constructed on the old ramparts in 1769 by convicts from the notorious prison hulks of Brest (closed in the 19th century when Devil’s Island and the penal colony of French Guiana were established). It is, with Toulon, one of the two major bases of the French navy. Benjamin Reginald Groom, born to Joseph Sanford Groom and Anna Cotton in 1897, joined the US Navy at some point during WWI. He was stationed on the U.S.S. Vermont and traveled to France where he purchased this postcard. Shown in the 1920 U.S. Census on line 84 he was only 22 years old when enumerated with the population of the U.S.S. Vermont. Although he didn't address the postcard to anyone, it was found in his sister, Annie Mae Groom Stone's, belongings along with several other postcards he had purchased while serving overseas. The back of the Brest postcard has his boyish handwriting in a brown ink. The words Imprimeries Reunies de Nancy is printed vertically on the far left side. I assume this means it was printed in the city of Nancy, France. The card is 5 1/4" x 3 1/4" and is a CARTE POSTALE. Webster's definition: a card on which a message may be sent by post, often with a picture on one side (a picture postcard).

"Here are some cards that I bought in France that may interest you. this is the Harbor where we anchored. I've been to this store twice."

The Festival of Postcards: Wheels has encouraged me to look for a second meaning to some of the images I have in my photo album. At first glance this card may not seem to belong to this May's challenge, but I see that a trolley or streetcar is waiting there on the ramp to access the Rade de Brest. I can imagine my ancestor, Reginald, catching the car along with some buddies from the U.S.S. Vermont and heading into the little town to shop. It must have been then when he purchased the postcard. At this, the close of WWI, the wheels of change were moving all around the busy Naval port and the whole of France, indeed the entire world.

Evelyn Yvonne Theriault is hosting this Festival of Postcards. She shares her Canadian Family’s Vintage Postcard Collection and encourages the use of postcards in the field of family history. Source Information on Brest taken from: Brest. (2009). In Encyclopædia Britannica. Retrieved May 19, 2009, from Encyclopædia Britannica Online: http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/78900/Brest

Pentecost by Len Holmes

noreply@blogger.com (Judith Richards Shubert) — Mon, 01 Jun 2020 17:55:00 +0000

The Gift of Pentecost

Elmo Len Holmes

How do we as 21st Century Christians view the Gift of Pentecost that was bestowed upon us some two millennia ago? I found inspiration to write this from my daily office readings and from reading a sermon from Br. James Koester who preached at the Society of St. John the Evangelist. Br. Koester relates that in the study of history there are two kinds of persons; the antiquarian and the historian. 21st Century Christians and church goers may fall into the same views. The antiquarian view is as Br. Koester states, “Interested in the past for its own sake.” In contrast, the historical view states, “Is to study the past to make sense of the present.” I find the analogy striking for the life of a 21st Century Christian or church goer. The antiquarian reader will view Pentecost as an isolated day in Christian Apologetics noted by some theologians annually and be on their way. However; the one who observes this event to internalize their growth of digesting spiritual food will offer to make sense of it in the 21st century. The easy path is to sit wherever you're reading or meditating about Pentecost and think that according to Br. Koester, “Nothing has changed in two thousand years.” The Season of Pentecost and this day of remembrance is important because this two millennia ago event must be conveyed today. We live and have our being in that event. God’s promise is practiced in the view of the historian; “I will send the comforter and you will be taught everything!” Comprehension is one thing, but making them real is another. If you share this historical view, then God is not dead to you, but an alive, risen Lord. We are called to proclaim the Gospel of Jesus, the risen Lord who appeared to his female and male disciples who were now Apostles on the first day of the week, This represents a new covenant not written in stone, but in the hearts of all who believe. We have to be doers of the word, not hearers only. We have to grow spiritual teeth and not depend on the “milk of the word.”

We are morally obligated to be historians in our view, to become as Br. Koester put it so well, “Witness of a vibrant, Christ centered, focused, strong mission oriented community of believers.”

Captain Thomas Cook Citizen Soldier of American Revolution

noreply@blogger.com (Judith Richards Shubert) — Sat, 23 May 2020 11:42:00 +0000

Captain of Guilford, North Carolina Militia, Born 15 May 1752 in Hanover, Virginia, Died 5 May 1841 in Henry, Georgia. He was the son of Francis Cook and Elizabeth Dudley Cook. He is a half 4th cousin of William Ragan Cook, father of my great-grandmother, Alice Irene Cook Puckett.

Judith Richards Shubert

Retrospective Written by Elmo Len Holmes
In memory of Captain Thomas Cook, Memorial Day 2020

Click on link below:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1IeiyIh53hm_QQ1wjHaNvGmMxqvWZTReB/view?usp=drivesd

Genetic Cousins of Judith Gail Shubert

noreply@blogger.com (Judith Richards Shubert) — Tue, 17 Mar 2020 19:24:00 +0000

The Louisiana area in the early 18th Century

Map by Nicholas de Fer, 1718

The Newberry Library (A Britannica Publishing Partner)

This genealogy is about the ancestry of Judith Richards Shubert, daughter of Leon F. Richards 1916-1985 and Vernelle Gailey 1921-1998.

Judith’s Province line is a double x line from Vernelle Gailey to her maternal grandmother, Alice Irene Cook who was the daughter of Mary Louisa Province Cook, who was the daughter of Mary Wilson and William Province 1813, who was the son of John Province and Love Barnard, who was the son of Sarah Frazier and Thomas Province, who was the son of Sarah Hackney and Thomas P. Province, who was the son of Lettice Dismore d. 1725 and John P. Province 1636-1749 of the Virginia Colony and Pennsylvania Colony, being the first born in the North American Continent.

A search of gedcoms revealed a list of names as shown below relevant to the search.

The Paula Earls Kit A192831 represents GEDCOM ID#: 6035979 Living EARLS.

Albert Provence 1812-aft 1867 of Tennessee married Sarah Jane Kerr 1830-1860, and their issue Rachel Montana Provence 1867-1951 married George Washington Ellis 1854-1929; additionally William John Provence 1772-1846 married Rachel Cooper 1774-abt 1860, and their issue Elizabeth Provence 1792-1873 married John M. Kerr 1798-1877.

The William Gray A250243 which represents GEDMatch reference 8305928 Gray Descendants. The genetic relationship with Judith Richards Shubert is with the marriage of Eleanor Province 1813-1888, daughter of Love Barnard Province and John Province 1767-1830 to Elijah Wright Berry 1813-1888.

Jennifer Christine Shipley with Kit #883668 with Gedcom #4333234 on GEDMatch.com Shipley Nickens Kiowski Miller. This Gedcom represents the marriage of James Berry Smith Provence, son of Thomas Province and Mary Stokes, in 1831 to a N Mitchell and their child among others. Nancy Alicai 1862-1930 married Matthew Nickens.

*Deb represents Kit #489233 with Gedcom #287422 Debra Lynn Roberts, and she is related to Effie Lue Provence 1904-2002 who is the Great-great-granddaughter of William Province 1772-1846, Madison, Alabama, and Rachel Cooper, born about 1724 Pennsylvania Colony.

*Loretta A860828 is the same Gedcom as above.

By Elmo Len Holmes with assist by Judith Richards Shubert

Sam Houston's Proclamation

noreply@blogger.com (Judith Richards Shubert) — Fri, 07 Feb 2020 17:26:00 +0000

San Augustine Jail

Town where Charles Richards Died

219. Texas (republic). PRESIDENT, 1836-1838 (Houston).
[Proclamation offering rewards for the recapture of James Humphreys, charged with the murder of Captain Joseph Powell, and Charles Richards, charged with the murder of a friendly Indian, Captain Toby
Dated at Houston August 17, 1837, and signed by President Houston and R. A. Irion, Secretary of State.]
[Houston Printed at the Telegraph Office, 1837]
Filmed from the Holdings of the Texas State Library Austin, Texas

PROCLAMATION
By the President of the Republic of Texas
Proclamation for the Apprehension of
James Humphreys and Charles Richards
17th August 1837

Whereas, official information has been received that James Humphreys who had been committed by the civil authorities of the County of Brazoria on the charge of having assassinated Capt. Joseph Powell, at Columbia in June last; and was transferred by said authorities to then Military Post of Velasco for safe keeping, did escape on the night of the 10th instant in irons from said Post. Said Humphreys was born in the County of Orckney, Scotland, is about twenty eight years of age, five feet eight inches high, dark complexion, black hair and eyes and by profession a Physician.

Now therefore I Sam Houston President of the Republic of Texas, do, by these presents, in the name of said Republic offer a reward of Two hundred dollars for the apprehension and delivery of the said Humphreys to any Judge or Justice of the Peace, of the Republic, in order that he may be dealt with according to the Law.

And whereas, Charles Richards, who had been committed on the charge of having murdered a friendly Indian, known by the name of Capt. Toby, near this place, in the month of May last, by the Civil Authorities of Harrisburg County; and did escape in irons on the night of the 10th instant from the guard who had him in custody. Said Richards is about forty five years old, stout made, fair and curly hair; a small piece off the end of his nose; is addicted to drinking, and resides near St. Augustine.

Therefore, I do, by the authority aforesaid, hereby offer a reward of Two hundred Dollars for the apprehension and delivery of the said Richards to any Judge or Justice of the Peace, of the Republic, in order that he may be dealt with according to Laws.

In testimony whereof, I have caused the Seal of the Republic of Texas to be hereto affixed; Done at the City of Houston this 17th day of August one thousand and eight hundred and thirty seven.

Signed Sam Houston and R. A. Irion, Secretary of State

--------------------

Charles Richards is my 3rd great grandfather

Photograph taken by my cousin, Bobby Moore, in 2011. His ancestor was Bettie Richards Parker. His wife, Sue Moore, said the new courthouse in background was built in 1920's when many old records were destroyed. The jail is not the first one in the county. Original photograph in possession of Sue Moore. Digital format used.

Charles H. Richards Appears in Republic-era Documents

noreply@blogger.com (Judith Richards Shubert) — Fri, 07 Feb 2020 17:15:00 +0000

I knew my ancestor, Charles Harrison Richards, was a volunteer in the Texas Army and was supposed to have died after falling from a horse in the streets of San Augustine in 1839. So I began my search in the Texas State Library Archives.

Ever since I learned the identity of my 3^rd-great-grandfather, I have been curious about him and his life. Other descendants have written about him, how he left his home in Blount Springs, Alabama, with his young family and came to Texas, settling in the East Texas area around San Augustine and Shelby County. They wrote that he served as a volunteer in the Texas struggle for independence in 1836 and he died in the streets of San Augustine in 1838. In the Autobiography of Phillip Wade Hampton Richards, Mr. Richards states, “My father’s father was Charles Richards, was raised in Alabama, but came to Texas May 1833; was in the Mexican War, with Sam Houston; was killed by a horse on the streets of old San Augustine in 1838.”

Often that is all the information we can find on an ancestor. But I was intrigued about how he died and started digging a little deeper.

Descendants living in the East Texas area and growing up listening to family stories about Charles Harrison Richards and his brothers and sons said they were not all good men. One said, “I have known since childhood that my ancestor CHR was not a nice man. His wife was a good woman and some, but not all, of his sons were good men. I have always believed that CHR didn’t fall off a horse, at least not without help. I have some recall of my grandmother telling me stories about her great-grandparents and I think she may have said he killed somebody. I know for sure she told me they were involved hip-deep in the Regulator Moderator feud.”

And so I find that my 3^rd-great-grandfather, Charles Harrison, was “hip-deep in the Moderators and Regulators War,”¹, a civil disorder centering on Shelby County beginning in the 1830s and culminating in 1844 when Sam Houston stationed a company of volunteers there and brought the lawlessness to an end.. “There were no almost adult males in the area at the time who weren’t involved in the Reg-Mod Feud. Everyone chose up sides. There were still very bad feelings well into the late 1800s, I think, and not a lot of documents (verifying involvement). I know of the Richards’ involvement because of my grandmother’s stories, as well as knowing they were there at the time. No one could safely sit on the sidelines.”

I have been reading several historical novels and history books about the Republic of Texas and the Texas Mexican Revolution taking place when the first Charles Harrison Richards was a volunteer in Wm. Scurlocks’s company in 1836. I find myself imagining him riding along beside the characters experiencing the same hardships, etc. Also intrigued about the fact that he was killed in the streets of San Augustine according to the Autobiography of Phillip Wade Hampton Richards, and wanting to find out more I started looking again at the Texas Library and Archives website. The newly digitized claims, etc., are fascinating.

I found Charles Richards listed in the Texas State Archives Missing List ². There is a missing document written by Sam Houston to the Sec. of State, R. A. Irion on August 15, 1837 that directed Irion to have a “proclamation for the arrest of Richards and Humphries issued”. I have been trying to back track and discover why he was supposed to have been arrested. Also, could this have been another Richards?

Melinda Tillman, also a descendant of Charles Harrison Richards, said the CHR referred to in the documents I have found has to be the same one we are looking for because there weren’t any other adult Charles Richards around that part of Texas before 1840.

Then, there is this certification by Judge Benjamin C. Franklin in September, 1837, that a Randall James be paid for being a witness in the case of the Republic of Texas vs. Charles Richards and one Ezekiel George.

Document³

Republic of Texas

Harrisburg County

District Court

September Term(?) 1837(?)

I do hereby certify that Randall Jones has proved his attendance as a witness in the case of the Republic of Texas vs. Charles Richards and same vs. Ezekiel George for four days for which he is entitled to thirteen dollars seventy five cens,

Benjamin C. Franklin

Judg. 2nd Jud. Dist.

_____ _____ Clerk

_____ _____

Document⁴

But the most confusing image is one that is not very legible. It appears to be a list of monies to be charged against a soldier’s pension claim. The 2^nd one on the first page is against one Charles Richards. The first 2 lines appear to read as follows:

Same (TX Republic) vs Charles Richards

“Indited Fall Term of 1837 for murder, and _____ by death - Fall Term of 1840.”

Clk _____ $28.75

He appears to be charged with murder! Is that really what this says?

Document⁵

The following document in an Order to Recover Costs of Injunction:

Order for the Sheriff of San Augustine County to execute a judgment in the case of Edmond Hyde and James Perkins versus James S. Richards, administrator for the Estate of Charles Richards. Signed by J. B. Johnson, District Court Clerk, and T. Payne, Deputy Sheriff,

February 17, 1841.

Front of folded document:

Then I suddenly found what I was looking for ~ that missing document written by Sam Houston to Sec. of State of the Republic of Texas, R. A. Irion. But it still does not say WHY Charles Richards and Humphries were wanted for arrest.

Document⁶

City of Houston

15th August 1837

The Secy of State,

Will be so kind as to cause two proclamations to be issued, for the apprehinsion of Richards and Humphries argruably to the information of the Attr. General of this District. Let a reward of $250 be offered for each.

Your Obt Servt & friend

Sam Houston

President

To Doct. R. A. Irion

Outside of folded document

I have not yet found where or if he was imprisoned, but there is a microform originally printed in Houston in 1837 at the Telegraph Office and written by the Texas President Sam Houston and stored in the Special Collections of The University of Texas at Arlington Library. It may be nothing more than the letter above, but the title of the Proclamation states "Proclamation offering rewards for the recapture of James Humphreys, charged with the murder of Captain Joseph Powell and Charles Richards, charged with the murder of a friendly Indian, Captain Toby."⁷ I will try to access this as soon as possible.

Upon learning Humphreys' first name, I searched again with Google Book Search and found his name and Charles Richards' name in Gone to Texas, by Kevin Ladd.⁸ On page 74, Mr. Ladd transcribes a news article from the Saturday, June 30, 1838, New Orleans Picayune.

"We learn from the Courier that James HUMPHREYS, who killed Capt. Jo. POWELL at Columbia, Texas, some time ago, was arrested on Wed. last by Capt. JONES of the Third Municipality. He is in the Calaboose, has confessed to the murder, & will be sent back to Texas."

And from Friday, May 26, 1837:

"An Indian was murdered a few miles from this place on 23rd by a man named RICHARDS from the Red Lands; the suspect has since been arrested and is waiting trial at Sept. term of court."⁹

Sources:
1 John W. Middleton, "History of the Regulators and Moderators and the Shelby County War in 1841 and 1842, in the Republic of Texas," The Portal to Texas History, (Online: University of North Texas Libraries, Rare Book and Texana Collections, September 26, 2008) [originally published at Loving Publishing Company, Fort Worth, Texas: John W. Middleton, 1883], http://texashistory.unt.edu/permalink/meta-pth-2362>, accessed April 24, 2009.

2 Texas State Library & Archives Commission, "Texas State Archives Missing List," Archives & Manuscripts Texas State Library and Archives Commission, (Online: Texas State Library & Archives Commission Web Site, February 26, 2008) [Original data published by TSLAC, 1991], http://www.tsl.state.tx.us/arc/missingintro.html, accessed January 20, 2008.

3 Texas State Library & Archives Commission, "Republic Claims: Claimant Randall Jones AU Unnumbered 01, Name Mentioned Charles Richards, Reel 54, Image 641, id 32702" jpeg image, (Online: Texas State Library & Archives Commission Web Site), <http://www.tsl.state.tx.us/arc/repclaims/viewdetails.php?id=32702&set=1&img=05400641#05400641> accessed April 27, 2009.

4 Texas State Library & Archives Commission, "Republic Claims: Claimant E. H. Winfield AU No. 5760, Name Mentioned Charles Richards, Reel 117, Image 133, id 99567" jpeg image, (Online: Texas State Library & Archives Commission Web Site), <http://www.tsl.state.tx.us/arc/repclaims/viewdetails.php?id=99567&set=1&img=11700133#11700133> accessed April 27, 2009.

5 TIDES Database, "Order to Recover Costs of Suit of Injunction: Document MC_145, Source: Millard's Crossing Historic Village" jpeg image, (Online: TIDES Database), <http://tides.sfasu.edu; accessed April 27, 2009.

6 TIDES Database, "SHH I:12 Sam Houston, President, City of Houston, August 15, 1837, letter to the Secretary of State, Doctor R. A. Irion, concerning apprehension of Richards and Humphries, $250 reward offered for each. A. M. Tompkins' name is also on envelope. 2pp. 10x8" jpeg image, (Online: TIDES Database), <http://tides.sfasu.edu; accessed April 27, 2009.

7 The University of Texas at Arlington Library, "Library Catalog," UTA Library (Online: UTA Library, 2009) [Originally printed in Houston at the Telegraph Office, 1837. Book located in UTA Special Collections, Floor 6: Microfilm (non-circulating) Call No. F 386 .T4 1980 reel 3 no.219] , <http://tinyurl.com/ddqx21> accessed April 27, 2009.

8 Ladd, Kevin, "Gone to Texas Genealogical Abstracts from The Telegraph and Texas Register 1835 - 1841," Google Book Search, (Online: Books.Google.com) [Original published by Heritage Books, 1994], page 74, <http://books.google.com/books?id=SlL6HwNHI-QC>, accessed April 27, 2009.

9 Ladd, Kevin, "Gone to Texas Genealogical Abstracts from The Telegraph and Texas Register 1835 - 1841," Google Book Search, (Online: Books.Google.com) [Original published by Heritage Books, 1994], page 27, <http://books.google.com/books?id=SlL6HwNHI-QC>, accessed April 27, 2009.

Elias Eph Homesley

noreply@blogger.com (Judith Richards Shubert) — Tue, 12 Mar 2019 16:21:00 +0000

Homerlsey

This writing is a partial offering of our long ago forgotten history of our 21st century family from mid 16th century North America. Arriving in wooden ships in the stormy seas to English Colonies of the United Kingdom. The first generation is that of Thomas Homerlsey, the immigrant, who had been in Staffordshire more than a dozen times for violating the English Church.

Read the fascinating story about our ancestors by Elmo Len Holmes with an assist by
Judith Richards Shubert

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HOMERSLEY de HOMERSLEY

noreply@blogger.com (Judith Richards Shubert) — Sat, 05 Jan 2019 16:21:00 +0000

The purpose of the Coat of Arms was for identifiation. The feudal system had a range of payments and the Coat of Arms helped identify the sender.

The Grifin implies that this Coat of Arms was the frst in the series that would follow. Each subsequent family could add identifying marks of various forms.

For the Bible scholar, the Grifin reminds me of Ezekiel’s vision.
The color red implies magnanimity, military strength, martyr.
The Cross is that of the Episcopal Church, earlier versions may have a Latin Cross.
The three rams heads indicate they were wool growers. Coincidentally; the Homesley family of North Carolina grew wool for military uniforms until after the War Between the States.

Honore Et Amore means Honor and Love.

Click on the link below to read a fascinating history of our Homesley family written by our cousin, Elmo ‘Len’ Holmes.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Y_qR4azZkDBqSqTQEhuijqdkGlHbnht_/view?usp=drivesdk

Homesley Study by Karen Caton

noreply@blogger.com (Judith Richards Shubert) — Mon, 26 Jun 2017 14:54:00 +0000

Genealogy has turned the corner and

For an exact science that angers the living and

roils the dead, genealogy is now objectively measurable with thanks to sciences's unending quest for

an absolute answer.

Today, we proudly announce the newest convert to our family of genealogists,

Ms. Karen Caton. She contacted Greg Holmes from some DNA matches on Homesley.

Since then, it has been like a river flowing with information. A special thanks to Karen.

She has already produced much data that boosts our understanding the genetic connections of our family. A new language is being learned and used to communicate relations values.

This is the most recent report she made.

Click on the link below:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B6Dp0sjuJYcsbk9Sd19JQl8zYk0/view?usp=sharing

Homesley Family Study by Len Holmes

noreply@blogger.com (Judith Richards Shubert) — Sun, 25 Jun 2017 23:02:00 +0000

Mosby Values

noreply@blogger.com (Judith Richards Shubert) — Tue, 04 Apr 2017 19:12:00 +0000

Quakers have their own social and religious agenda and don't wish for questioning persons to unravel it. That is part of the reasons they moved to form community, for Constantine Christianity was obtuse to them. North Carolina and Virginia had been settled long enough for some cultural institutions to flourish. Considered to be pacifist, yet its membership produced some soldiers, while the Methodists demurred.

Yes, Edward Mosby seemed to have a dark relationship with the Quakers, for it seemed that the matriarchal influence was heavily present until 1709 when her being mentioned in the records ceased.
He remarries Sarah Watkins at the Curles House Meeting, and later completed a new church by 1724. Then he was kicked out of the Quakers for disorderly walking and mention of him again also ceased.

Retrospect is viewing a glass darkly to comprehend the Homsley family: Garnett, James, Elias Epp, Lawson B., their lives and religious, political and social norms. In Southern families the maternal instinct is strong. It would seem to me that they would have been closer to the reformed North Carolinian via Pennsylvania, anti-slave poor who subsistence farmed the edge of the frontier. The cultural institutions of Virginia and North Carolina were a memory there, for literacy was a premium. Just as it was in England and the Continent, the church and state had supremacy on literacy.

Evidence has not come forth as to why Elias Epp went to Lauderdale County, Alabama. It was obvious that there was an incentive there, for he seemed to live a long life and had a huge family that we know little about, as their cultural footprint is presently unknown. He did allow us to learn about the Homsley of Hardin County, Tennessee, however. From what I have read it seems that they occupied both sides of the river and crossed with ease. Now, they seem to be cast as poor, working, subsistence farmers in Northern Alabama and the Tennessee River Valley.

We find the migration of James, Lawson B., and Garnett with their families across Lincoln, North Carolina; Carroll, Georgia; and Randolph, Alabama. They did carry with them their anti-slave philosophy from their Quaker ancestors.

Len Homsley

FERRERS - A Fortunate Ancestry

noreply@blogger.com (Judith Richards Shubert) — Tue, 24 Jan 2017 18:41:00 +0000

A Fortunate Ancestry

Genealogy, as in any art form, evokes emotion that flows like honey from the
pen of the writer to its destination in the mind of the reader.
One such narrative is of the noble
Norman house of Walchelme de Frerrars.
He is of the Ferrar family that originated in Ferbered, Normandy.
The ancient re'gime manor house was the site of a Knights Templar building and
a 7th century Benedictine abbey, being a thousand years old when
destroyed during the French Revolution.

Taking their name from the ubiquitous elements, the family Ferrar
is no exception. This noble family operated one of the most
ancient of forges at St. Hilliary, at the site of its armor shops. 
This family had the double distinction of being
Armorer and Master of the Horse for the Duke of Normandy.
Proof of such history was attached to the hooves of war horses of the
Duke of Normandy horse shoe with an escutcheon inaugurating a
manorial custom of nobility and hereditary status as the
Master of the Horse, the Marechal.

The Marechal, a Vassal of the Duke of Normandy distributed the contributions by the King as to the value of horses lost and the hotel fees of the companions of the horse. The accomplishment of a dual role of this noble family caused it to become one of the richest families in the English domain.  The study of this genealogy is a clear example of how the feudal system of vassals worked to secure lands for the English monarchs and those who served or warred with them for centuries.  Viewing this genealogy from the 21st century causes history to come alive within the minds of the writer and reader alike. It is a rare treat to view the Bayeaux Tapestry and see causes and effects of a civilization and persons who bare our Western European ancestry within the very cells of our bodies today. And for generations to come.  The most recent common ancestor of the Ferris family as it was known in North America is historically and genetically recorded with our

4th Great Grandfather of the writer and most of the present
Holmes researchers
Garnett Homesley abt 1776-aft 1870 

If we move back in time four generations we find the marriage of Sarah Woodson 1662-1716 to Edward Mosby about 1660-1742.  Edward Mosby is a genetic match from the Mosby family. Sarah Woodson is a genetic match from the Woodson family.

This fact means that all descendants of Edward Mosby and Sarah Woodson are double related.  The Woodson line goes to her father, Colonel Robert “Taterhole” Woodson. He survived the Jamestown massacre by hiding in a potato hole as a young child while his family was murdered. His wife Elizabeth Ferris 1638-1689 is also a genetic match.  Her father was Richard Ferris 1596-1637. He changed the spelling of his name at his emigration to the Colony of Virginia. It is the writer's opinion that he wanted to sever his name with the politics of his aristocratic English Ferrer family. Richard had married Sarah Hambleton 1616-1690, also a genetic match.  His father was Nicholas Ferrar 1560-1620 and he was married to Mary Wodentnoth 1552- 1634. They both died in London, Middlesex England.

From: RootsWeb.com Twigs and Branches L. Jones

Nicholas Farrar was a distinguished member of the Virginia Company; Of the town of Hertford, in 1570, was taxed on L60.6.8. On August 13, 1590 administration on the goods of John Farrar of Hertford was granted his widow Mary. This John Farrar was the father of Nicholas Farrar, Sr. of London. The books of the Skinners Company show that at Michaelmas, 1564, Nicholas Farrar, son of John Farrar, of the town of Hertford, was apprenticed to John Harvey, a Skinner and merchant adventurer, and that he took up his freedom December 1574, became a member of his company, and was its master in 1613.

Nicholas Ferrar, born 1544, died April 1620, was an eminent merchant of London and a leading member of the Virginia Company. He traded extensively with East and West Indies, and other parts of the world and was the friend of many of the important men of the day. Raleigh, Hawkins, Drake and Sandy's were frequently his guests. At his house in St. Sythe's Lane, meetings of the Virginia Company were often held.

His father John Ferrer 1540-1590 married Mary Cecily Kelke in 1568 at Hertford.  His father John Ferrer 1500-1573 married into the important de Lacy family: Hugh De Lacy being a direct descendant of Geoffrey Plantagenet and Matilda of England making Henry II and Eleanor of Aquitaine 24th generation grandparents.

It is important to note here that the earliest history of our family, the Homersley, is of the lands that Eleanor of Aquitaine possessed and caused our Homersley family to migrate to England during the Norman Conquests and after.

The father of John Ferrer was Henrie Farrer who died about 1549 and was married to Agnes Barcroft Ferror (Horsfall) Lady

The next ones I will group as one for the sake of brevity.
Records of these Barons of Groby show they are our genetic ancestors.
 
There were five Barons of Groby named
From Wickepedia

Barons Ferrers of Groby (1300)

• William Ferrers, 1st Baron Ferrers of Groby (1272–1325)  
• Henry Ferrers, 2nd Baron Ferrers of Groby (1303–1343)  
• William Ferrers, 3rd Baron Ferrers of Groby (1333–1372)  
• Henry Ferrers, 4th Baron Ferrers of Groby (1356–1388)  
• William Ferrers, 5th Baron Ferrers of Groby (1373–1445)  
• Elizabeth Ferrers, 6th Baroness Ferrers of Groby (1419–1483)
• Edward Grey, Baron Ferrers of Groby (c. 1415–1457) was summoned to
parliament in right of his wife from 14 December 1446 to 26 May 1455
(women were not permitted to attend in their own right)  
• John Bourchier, Baron Ferrers of Groby (died 1495), second husband of the 6th  
• John Bourchier, Baron Ferrers of Groby (died 1495), second husband of the
6th Baroness, also held the title in right of his wife from
1462 to her death in 1483  

• Thomas Grey, 1st Marquess of Dorset (1451–1501)
(created Marquess of Dorset, 1475), was the
son of Sir John Grey of Groby, who was the son of the
6th Baroness and her first husband
• Thomas Grey, 2nd Marquess of Dorset (1472–1530)
was summoned to parliament as Baron  Ferrers of Groby in 1509  
• Henry Grey, 1st Duke of Suffolk (1517–1554)  
The barony was forfeit in 1554, when the Duke of Suffolk
was tried for high treason and executed.

Barons Grey of Groby  

• Henry Grey (c. 1547–1614), nephew of Henry Grey Duke of Suffolk,
was created Baron Grey of Groby, 21 July 1603.  
• Henry Grey, 2nd Baron Grey of Groby (c. 1600–1673)
(created Earl of Stamford in 1628)  

This sentence bears re pasting as it is germain to the genealogy:

The barony was forfeit in 1554, when the Duke of Suffolk was tried for high treason and executed. This is most likely the reason why Richard Ferrer became Richard Ferris.  The 6 Earls of Ferrer and a Brother  1st Earl Derby Robert Ferrers 27th Great Grandfather 1062-1139  married  Hawise

 From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia  

Robert I de Ferrers, 1st Earl of Derby (c. 1062 – 1139) was born in Derbyshire, England, a younger son of Henry de Ferrières and his wife Bertha Roberts (I'Aigle). His father, born in Ferrières, Normandy, France accompanied William the Conqueror during his invasion of England. The family was rewarded with a grant of Tutbury Castle in Staffordshire and 114 manors in Derbyshire  2nd Earl Derby Robert Ferrers, the younger.

26th Great Grandfather  married  Margaret Perceval  
He died in 1162 succeeded by  3rd Earl Derby William de Ferrers who died 1190
married to  Sybil de Brose and died at the Seige of Acre 1190 .

Note from Wickipadia:
William de Ferrars Preceptory No.530 is a Knight Templar preceptory named after William de Ferrars. This preceptory is stationed in Burton upon Trent

From Wickapedia:

William de Ferrers was one of the earls who joined the rebellion against King Henry II of England led by Henry's eldest son, Henry the Younger, in the Revolt of 1173–1174, sacking the town of Nottingham. Robert de Ferrers II, his father, had supported Stephen of England and, although Henry II had accepted him at court, he had denied the title of earl of Derby to him and his son.[1]

In addition, William had a grudge against Henry because he believed he should have inherited the lands of Peveril Castle through his mother. These, King Henry had previously confiscated in 1155 when William Peverel fell into disfavour.

With the failure of the revolt, de Ferrers was taken prisoner by King Henry, at Northampton on the 31 July 1174, along with the King of Scots and the earls of Chester and Lincoln, along with a number of his Derbyshire underlings and was held at Caen. He was deprived of his castles at Tutbury and Duffield and both were put out of commission (and possibly Pilsbury.) In addition to defray the costs of the war Henry levied a so-called "Forest Fine" of 200 marks.

He seems to have afterwards regained the confidence of Henry II., and he showed his fidelity to the next Sovereign, (King Richard I.), by accompanying him in his expedition to the Holy Land, and joined the Third Crusade and died at the Siege of Acre in 1190

4th Earl Derby & Earl Ferriers Earl of Chester Sheri of Nottinghamshire Derbyshire & Lancashire Sir William de Ferrers 
25th Great Grandfather  1168-1227  married
Agnes De Kevelioch
5th Earl Derby Constable of Bolsover Castle Sir William de Ferrers
 24h Great Grand Uncle 1193-1254
married Agnes of Chester buried  Merevale Abbey Warkwickshire
His brother and our
23rd Great Grandfather Constable of Scotland Sir William de Ferrers 1240-1267
 husband of
Anne deSpenscer

Note: Plantagenet Ancestry: A Study In Colonial And Medieval Families, 2nd Edition: This is an important note in the study of our genealogy and our understanding of how lands were distributed then.

About 1260 the 6th Earl of Derby gave his brother William (our direct line) the Manor of Bolton in Great Bolton Lancashire with all his lands in the wapentake (comparable to a hundred) of Leyland, Lancashire including the manors of Bisbam, Bolton, Bretherton Charnock (in Charnock Richard) Chorley Heath, Duxbury, Charnock, Heath Chrnock, Mawdsley Shevington and Welch Whittle, Henry de Ferrers . The Domesday Book records over 200 manors given to Henry de Ferrers. Henry married Bertha and had three sons one daughter, Amicia, who married Nigel of d'Aubigny (we have genetic matches to Aubigny) . William inherited the Norman estates  and third son Enguelnulf Vauquelin de Ferrers  Seigneur of Ferrieres St Hilaire, Eure in Upper Normandy.

Note from Wickepdia:

Valkelin fought Hugh I the Bearded of Montfort-sur-Risle in battle in 1045 in which both were killed. Hugh I was the father of Hugh de Montfort, proven Companion of William the Conqueror.

Our family was a strong Norman family who were descendants of Vikings that subdued the Saxons of England .and was one of the single most important political events in history. The background is that Edward the Confessor died heir less.and his brother in law Harold Godwinson William of Potiers had felt that William was the logical choice to be king. Harold's entrails were liquefied with a spear at the Battle of Hastings.William reformed England removing all the English from the church and government, William invited the Jews and commanded them to make credit links between England and what is now France. Also the English Church was literally destroyed for there is no masonry above the ground from before the Norman Conquest.

Written by Len Holmes

Remembering Our Patriots

noreply@blogger.com (Judith Richards Shubert) — Fri, 11 Nov 2016 23:25:00 +0000

These young men are not forgotten, even though their names are not known to me. They are probably sons or sweethearts of my Richards or Proffitt family, as they were tucked away with my Great-aunt Dewey Richards' and Louise Richards Lee Proffitt's collection of family pictures. Dewey, born in 1898, never married. One of these young men may have been her sweetheart. When Dewey died, she left all of her belongings with her younger sister, Louise, who cared for her in her later years. Or one or two of them could be Louise's brother-in-laws, one of the Proffitt boys.

On the back of this one "This is the cutest boy in the world."

And finally, this one.

SOURCE:
Photograph collection of Louise Proffitt and Dewey Richards given to nephew, Joe Cronin, Sr. and subsequently given to cousin, Judith Richards Shubert.

FLOYER Family

noreply@blogger.com (Judith Richards Shubert) — Tue, 11 Oct 2016 17:49:00 +0000

FLOYER

The Floyer name enters the already ancient 300 years of Homersley genealogy with William Homersley 1st x 9 Cousin of Garnett Holmes; (15th great grandson of Ade de Rowenwal, our common ancestor, and his daughter by an unknown wife, Margaret Homerlsey (1548-1597) who married Richard Flyer (1546-?) Hints, Stafford, England about 1571.

UK, Extracted Probate Records, London, England, Baptisms, Marriages and Burials, 1538-1812
NOTE: Margaret Homerlsey 1548-1597 is the 9th great grandaughter of Ade de Rowenwald.
They had a son, Ralph Flyor (3rd x 5) 1572-1643, who resided at Oxford, England, married Margery Weston (1577-1609) England & Wales Christening Records, 1530-1906.

Ralph and Margery had four children; Richard, Francis, Mary, Lettice.

Richard Flyor/Richard Floyer (29 Jul 1603 Hints, Stafford - 27 Aug 1679) married 21 Mar 1645 Manchester, Warwicke to Elizabeth Eleanor Babington (1618-1679) ; (The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, "Ancestral File," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/2:1:MZS8-S5F : accessed 2016-08-28), entry for Elizabeth Or Eleanor BABINGTON)
Richard and Eliz. Foyer have 7 children. Matthew Floyer (13 Dec 1646-?) marries Anne Scott, Abt. 1667, Hints, Stafford.; Elizabeth Floyer (28 Nov 1647 -?) married Thomas Goring, 02 Jun 1668. Florence (1653-?), John,* (copied from http://www.hints-village.com/jonfloy.html
*Peter, True, Samuel

1. The John mentioned above proved to be a prominent Physician and helped to establish a family seat that lasted for generations. . There is additional reading about Dr. John Floyer.
2. Francis Flyor died in the first year.
3. Mary Flyor seems to separate in England with her husband, Thomas Moseley who emigrates to the British Colony of Virginia, Isle of Wight with their son sho will become Capt. William Moseley 12 Jan 1628- Feb 1685- of Essex, Virginia. (4th Cousin - Remote Cousin Warner Davenport) marries Marha Brasseur. This line continues nine more generations till the 1940s . It continues with the famly of Warner Davenport.

To offer a grounding here; this represents the great grandchildren of William Homersley who was a 1st Cousin nine times of Garnett Holmes.

Mary Floyer, (07 May 1605-1692) marries Thomas Moseley (1585, Moseley, Staffs, W Midlands, England-1659). Thomas Moseley is genetically matched with my DNA at Family Tree DNA .. My DNA!

4th Cousin - Remote Cousin Warner Davenport is spelled MOSELEY and has twelve other matches in the Autosomal DNA ; with the spelling of Mosley there are eight. To go into the Moseley and Mosley Autsosomal DNA comparisons is not practical here; however, data about Mr. Davenport's DNA comparison is that 15 centiMorgans are present (about 10 centiMorgans is the minimum for kinship.)

4. Lettice Floyer born 17 Nov 1607 Shropshire, England.

MORE ABOUT FLOYER READINGS:
A genealogical and heraldic dictionary of Great Britain by Sir Edmund Burke, pp 421-423
https://books.google.com/books? id=9mNHAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA422&lpg=PA422&dq=john+floyer+His+grandfather+Ralph+Floyer,&s ource=bl&ots=viWqayQDyB&sig=x9YbgBUa_Y2yXrVTexKzFbwpl8A&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUK EwjDs_3A96rPAhXF2yYKHU7qBQQQ6AEIJDAB#v=onepage&q=john%20floyer%20His %20grandfather%20Ralph%20Floyer%2C&f=False

Reference Entry

Floyer, Sir John (1649-1734), physician
Denis Dunbar Gibbs
in Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
Published in print September 2004 |
Published online September 2004 | e-ISBN: 9780198614128 | DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ref:odnb/9775
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography

E-ISBN: 9780198614128

http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~floyer/

This is a scholarly study worth the reading. When one does read this account of the Flyor family since angle Saxon times. I am an unabashed lover of Coats of Arms. The landed gentry that the Floyer arose from were granted arms after serving the Monarch. This was of a time when literacy was rationed and signs meant something. The arms show three arrows. There are a couple of stories and one of them is in the reading, but the one I like is that they were a family of arrow makers. Sometimes Fletcher is a name associated with arrow making as well. The sets of a single arrow also implies flyer, an early name for an arrow. I can see Flyer becoming the name. Anyone who has had more than a casual glance at Stafford English estates has noticed the ubiquitous Yew, Taxus baccata, native to England and over to Iran. It was grown purposfully for arrows or flyers.

Closing Comments

The family Floyer represents a paper trail and genetics that unfolds daily. Genetics makes a viable stance in a genealogy as paper trails fade. Never forget that in genealogy as well as other sciences there is an equal and opposite reaction for every action. For example, The Mosley, Moseley families of England gave way to other autosomal* cousins.in an ever cascading blanket of immortality. Mirroring post and present.rather like a Jacob's Ladder of ancestral dynasties ascending and descending. In a metaphor.

*Autosomal: Pertaining to a chromosome thats not a sex chromosome. People normally have 22 pairs of autosomes (44 autosomes) in each cell, together with 2 sex chromosomes, X and Y in a male and X and X in a female.

Len Holmes

October 11, 2016

Addendum to: Thought, Word and Deed

noreply@blogger.com (Judith Richards Shubert) — Mon, 03 Oct 2016 18:07:00 +0000

Addendum to: Thought, Word and Deed

Jesus of Nazareth was no Nazirite; He was the true Branch.

In the 9-27-2016 article I started to mention that Jesus was a Nazarite. Upon fact checking myself I realized that would be an error. Two words stating that the Jesus of Nazareth was no Nazirite.

Nazareth is the geographical locality of where the Old Testament prophesied the Messiah would have lived. Viewing these two words from an English language perspective they look superficially synonymous. From the usage in Hebrew they are totally different.

"...and being warned by God in a dream, he [Joseph] departed for the regions of Galilee, and came and resided in a city called Nazareth, that what was spoken through the prophets might be fulfilled, 'He shall be called a Nazarene,' " (Matt. 2:22,23)

(NOTE the 7's incorporated that show completeness below)

Thus there were fourteen generations in all, from Abraham to David, fourteen from David to the exile to Babylon, and fourteen from the exile to the Messiah. It is not possible to find a singular prophet using this idea. It is possible to know that St. Matthew generally interpreted prophets as meaning a more general term. St. Matthew made no mistake. It's the story here that matters.

God in his wisdom takes us to a wide spot in the road that was Nazareth. Jesus of Nazareth, as he identified himself, to the Apostle Paul, came into the world to save sinners from this insignificant wide spot in the road. God consistently uses the commonality of persons to self identify.

Some have suggested that the question hints that the town had a bad reputation, while others contend that Nathanael probably viewed the community merely as insignificant. The city is not mentioned in the Old Testament, the Apocrypha, the Talmud, nor by Josephus. One scholar notes that the geographical location of the city, overlooking the plain of Esdraelon, generated a certain disposition of “aloofness” which invited the scorn of the neighboring communities. (J.W. Charley, Baker Encyclopedia of Bible Places, John Bimson, Ed., Grand Rapids: Baker, 1995, p. 224)*

*Jackson, Wayne. "Was Matthew Mistaken in the 'Nazarene' Prophecy?" ChristianCourier.com. Access date: October 3, 2016. https://www.christiancourier.com/articles/573-was-matthew-mistaken- in-the-nazarene-prophecy

The term Nazarite is as ancient as Judaism.

To be a Nazarite one had to be an oath taker which Jesus of Nazareth was not. Nazarites' tradition holds that the candidates are set aside and cannot perform or partake in a Levitical litany of ideas.

For example, Nazarites could not go near a corpse. How could have Jesus raised Lazarus from the dead?

Nazarites may not drink wine. In Jesus' earthly ministry, the very first miracle was changing the water into wine. Secondly, the Last Supper would not have happened.!

Yet, in all this contradiction, there is a greater name attached to Jesus of Nazareth: the true Branch. Now, truly I tell you that Jesus may be viewed as Jesus, the true Branch of Nazareth.

It becomes very clear then, that what the Gospels are doing is not making Jesus out to be the 'vow taker' but 'the Branch,' for the meaning of Nazareth is 'branch,' a very powerful messianic title used by a number of prophets:

Isaiah 4:2: 'In that day the Branch of the Lord will be beautiful and glorious, and the fruit of the earth will be the pride and the adornment of the survivors of Israel.'
Isaiah 11:1: 'Then a Shoot will spring from the stem of Jesse, and a Branch from his roots will bear fruit.'
Isaiah 60:21: 'Then all your people will be righteous; they will possess the Land forever, the Branch of My planting, the work of My Hands, that I may be glorified.'
Jeremiah 23:5: 'Behold, the days are coming,' declares the Lord, 'When I will raise up for David a righteous Branch. And He will reign as King and act wisely and do justice and righteousness in the Land.'
Jeremiah 33:15: 'In those days and at that time I will cause a righteous Branch of David to spring forth; and He shall execute justice and righteousness on the earth.'
Zechariah 3:8: 'Now listen, Joshua the High Priest, you and your friends who are sitting in front of you, indeed they are men who are a symbol, for behold, I am going to bring in My Servant the Branch.'
Zech. 6:12: 'Then say to him, 'Thus says the Lord of Hosts, 'Behold, a man whose Name is Branch, for He will branch out from where He is; and He will build the Temple of the Lord.'

These are the major cites where the Coming One, Yeshua the Messiah, was entitled 'Branch.' There is much to this and it all began when God put an end to the rebellion of Israel in the Wilderness, specifically concerning who installed Aaron as High Priest. For the rebel Korah said it was because Aaron was Moses' brother, that Moses made Aaron High Priest. And God instituted a dead branch (also known in English as a staff or rod), to be His witness as to whom He had chosen to be High Priest. It was when this dead branch came to life, sprouted and had almonds on it (Numbers 17:8), that God revealed to Israel whom He had chosen. It was when Yeshua, a dead 'branch' came back to life, glorified,, that all Israel could know that God had made Yeshua both Lord and Messiah (Acts 2:36).

It was out of the turbulence of rebellion that God established who was to be His anointed one, Aaron. And now the concept of a branch would become a symbol for the Messiah, used by many prophets. So, when Matthew (2:23) and others call Yeshua a 'Nazarene', they are not referring to the vow, but to the place of His having been recognized as having grown up in, for they are also very well aware of the prophecies that say the Messiah will be a 'Branch,' which is the meaning of the name of Nazareth.

It gets very interesting when we read John 19:19 which is: 'Pilate also wrote an inscription and put it on the cross. It was written, 'Jesus the Nazarene, the King of the Jews.' It can equally be translated like this: 'Jesus My Branch, the King of the Jews.'

The above was extracted from: NAZARITE OR NAZARENE?, by Avram Yehoshua.

Len Holmes

10/3/2016

Quakers Homersley and Hamersley - by Len Holmes

noreply@blogger.com (Judith Richards Shubert) — Sat, 01 Oct 2016 02:48:00 +0000

Staffordshire England Quaker Research

Hammersley Genetic match to WOOLRICH

Genetic match to LAKER

It is known that the Hamersley family lived for many generations in Stafford, England.

Villages of Hamersley/Homersley 

Leek, Basford, Cheddleton and others

It is clear that the Homersley/Hamersley families were yoeman farmers for generations. Planned marriages were common, as well as those more of choice.

The extant literature suggests that Thomas Hamersley of Basford used his home as a Meeting Place for the Friends' monthly meetings.

ANNO 1669. On the 12th of September, Thomas Hamersly [Hamersley], Robert Miller [Mellor], John Stretch, William Heath, and Joshua Dale, taken at a Meeting in the said Thomas Hamersly [Hamersley]'s House at Basford ... [BESSE]

Thomas Hamersley of Basford in Cheddleton, Staffs, yeoman  (of Basford, Cheddleton parish, yeoman, absent from Leek church)
1642 [....] (as Hamersly, charged for gaol committal)
1661 [BESSE]  (his house at Cheddleton used as a Quaker meeting place)
1669 R196 [TURNER] (as Hamersly, a Quaker, imprisoned for religiously assembling)
1675 [BESSE] (as Hamersly, of Bradford[sic], a Quaker had goods confiscated)
1681 [BESSE] Thomas Hamersly, of Basford (a Quaker, goods confiscated for non-payment of tithes)
1682 [BESSE]

This represents [1642-1682] 40 years of conflict with the local authorities.

Hamersley/Stafordshire Data
Thomas Hamersly l6 March 1684 Uttoxeter FM Ann Hammersley 11 September 1685 Uttoxeter FM
Presumable birthdates marriage

Thomas Hamersley  m 4 Aug 1677 Leek FM: Ann Cosnot [?Cossinet]
Children: John Hamersley b 24 Aug 1678 Leek FM Sarah Hamersley b 13 Sep 1680 Leek FM Thomas Hamersley b 10 Aug 1683 Leek FM Ann Hamersley b 28 Nov 1687 Leek FM

Conclusions: The first son could be the husband of Lydia Laker, daughter of Benjamin Laker
John Hamersley b 24 Aug 1678 Leek FM

The FM means Friends Meeting.

What is present in the genealogy suggests that Thomas Hamersley was the husband; however, that is a real age discrepancy (22 yrs) but not atypical for the era.

The John Hamersley data in the genealogy suggests approximate dates based on common genealogical assumptions of about b. 1683 to d. 1645, which is not out of line with the son of Thomas Hamersley and Anne Cosinet.

We know from the gleanings of American colonial Virginia, most likely Martin Brandon's Parish, perhaps in the home of John Hamersley that meetings were held. It is noted that the views changed more to Baptist, most likely with the influence of the Laker reasoning of Protestant ideals.

The marriage may have occurred at a Friends Meeting where no record now exists. This is still hyperbole. It causes additional wrinkles in descendants.

One of the purposes of genetic genealogy is to provide answers where brick walls appear and there is no literature to support claims of ascent of descent.

There are genetic matches to Laker, Mosby and Binford.

I will list them subsequently; however, the updated model of the genealogy does show these matches in detail.

Notes from genealogy
Some associated with Doctor John Hammersley include Robert Norden, Matthew Marks*, Matthew’s daughter Sarah Marks* who married Nicholas Robertson*, Benjamin Laker’s daughter Lydia Blighton Clements and Benjamin Laker’s grandson William Blighton .

The genetic match of WOOLRICH family from Pershore, Worcs?
Sarah Cossinet m 10 Nov 1682 Stafford FM: Thomas Woolrich c1652-....
Ann Cosnot [?Cossinet] m 4 Aug 1677 Leek FM: Thomas Hamersley
Sarah and Ann could be sisters. The trees that are listed on Family Tree DNA and the match show

Derek Shaw
cfeathers04@gmail.com

5th Cousin - Remote Cousin here is how that goes
From Roots Web  There is a Thomas Woolrich:
%5Fholcombe&id=I8
who marries a
http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=john

• Birth: in repute of Shalford, Straffordshire, England 
• Emigrated to Abington, Pennsylvania • Note:  Bought the first land sold by William Penn in Bucks County, Pennsylvania on April 1, 1681. Had sister Susanna who married Robert Heath (cf Roberts, EARLY FRIENDS FAMILIES .., p. 390). Haines, op cit, p 101, writes that Thomas Jr, ". . yeoman, who had a deed to the 1000 acres in Bucks County, Pa. on which Robert Heath built the Heath Mill  and which is now the town of New Hope. . . (he) remained in England at Shalford." Compiler's note: The "Jr" referred to here who remained in England was the father, Thomas Sr.
• Children
1. Elizabeth WOOLRICH b: 1683 in of Abington PA (presently Montgomery Co)  
2. Cossinet WOOLRICH b: SEP 11 1684 in Leeke, ENG  
3. Josiah WOOLRICH b: JUN 17 1686 in Leeke, ENG  
4. Rebecca WOOLRICH b: SEP 27 1687  
5. Rebecca WOOLRICH b: JUL 3 1692  
6. Mary WOOLRIDGE  
7. John WOOLRICH b: MAY 22 1695  
8. Samuel WOOLRICH  

The match is with Elizabeth Woolrich who married a Holcomb.The other known sister here with children, Mary married a Holcomb as well.There are 16 matches I am working on here to see data.

We share 9 Centimorgans of DNA and we are examining abt 393 years for the same DNA to be present.

Len Holmes

Armor - by Len Holmes

noreply@blogger.com (Judith Richards Shubert) — Thu, 29 Sep 2016 04:08:00 +0000

To feel divinely inspired is a gift of God and not of anyone else. We are to baptize ourselves in its glory and radiate it to the world so that our lives may be like a city on a hill showing for to all the world the true greatness of how God has been revealed to us through Jesus Christ. 

For we are the new wine skins of the new wine of the new Covenant as Levi was contrasted at his calling. 

I would not say where the greatest manifestation occurs, but it does happen often where the Holy Spirit is present in a community of believers. We must take time to be Holy, whether we are members of a sprawling metropolitan congregation or a tiny rural one or not one at all. That happens through prayer and the power of the Holy Spirit working in the lives of all, reaching out to infect others with the love that GOD had for the world that he sent his only begotten son that we might believe and feed on Him.

But how does this happen? The answer is prayer without ceasing. It is possible and practical in today's world to pray without ceasing. It is a state of mind and consciousness about how you and GOD interface. The Lollard's were an excellent example as they were always “lolling” a prayer. We, too, may loll if we have our hearts, souls and minds tuned to GOD and follow the directions for prayerful spiritual tuning.

We are equipped for spiritual protection in warfare if need be and for our own personal focus in the joy and presence of the Lord in our lives. We are offered all the equipment needed for complete domination.  Let's metaphorically dress ourselves: we are covered from head to toe in the armor of light that glorifies of the Greatness of God.

Our soul has been washed in the Blood of the Lamb which is the helmet of salvation, for our mightiest foes are invisible, not visible like men. This is fraught with meaning in that we as Christians spend much time fighting with each other who worship One God, as the Prophet Abraham did, and not about the dark forces that oppose us.

We girt our loins with quality of truth and wear the breastplate of the quality of righteousness,  as these are two more powerful military metaphors which arm us against the forces of darkness. Light reflects darkness, absorbs everything into a black hole of a bottomless pit set up and designed to trap anyone who has self deception in an eternal tailspin, for GOD is not mocked.  To have our loins girt with the quality of truth implies we wear a belt that helps us be prepared to give and move in the quality of truth of Jesus Christ that is firmly established in GOD's Word. This gives more range of motion to the quality of our spirituality.  The breastplate of righteousness (attached to the girdle) is a free gift of God given to all at the crucifixion of Jesus and is worn in our combat against the foes of darkness, not man. We have to realize that apart from GOD we may do nothing; that is why righteousness and truth are connected. I believe that wearing this breastplate connected to the girdle allows us to make decisions in our lives and lifestyles that what we believe in our hearts that we may love unfeigned.

We are to shod ourselves with the preparation gospel of peace.

We are shod with the sure foundation of Jesus Christ.

And he said unto me, To build it an house in the land of Shinar: and it shall be established, and set there upon her own base. Zechariah 5:11 KJV and here it designs a firm and solid knowledge of the Gospel, as it publishes peace by Jesus Christ, which yields a sure foundation for the Christian soldier to set his foot upon, and stand fast on. (Gill's Exposition)

We are to above all, take the shield of faith, wherewith ye shall be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked. The type of military metaphor here is the type of shield that stood in front of the soldier and covered him completely. St. Paul likens this to faith in GOD being submissive to His will. (Elliot)

This shield protects us from these metaphorical arrows that would cause violent temptations. These fiery darts of temptations faith is said to quench, when, by the help of grace obtained of Christ, it overcomes them. (Poole)

Here we go with the Greek education: Homer used the word shield as a door. Many metaphors and ancient tales have been spun about doorways. However, as we strive to be more spiritual in our daily lives that blocking shield represents a hermitage in which we can formulate ideas in which Thomas Merton said, "Though there are certainly more ways than one of preserving the freedom of the sons of God, the way to which I was called....”

Clearly the "powers" and the "elements," which in Paul's day dominated men's minds through pagan religion or through religious legalism, today dominate us in the confusion and the ambiguity of the Babel of tongues that we call mass-society. Certainly I do not condemn everything in the mass-media. But how does one stop to separate the truth from the half-truth, the event form the pseudo-event, reality from the manufactured image? It is in this confusion of images and myths, superstitions and ideologies that the "powers of the air" govern our thinking - even our thinking about religion! Where there is no critical perspective, no detached observation, or time to ask the pertinent questions, how can one avoid being deluded and confused?
Thomas Merton. Faith and Violence: Christian Teaching and Christian Practice. Notre Dame, Indiana: University of Notre Dame Press, 1968: p. 150.

Len Holmes

September 28, 2016

Thought, Word and Deed by Thou Divine Majesty - written by Len Holmes

noreply@blogger.com (Judith Richards Shubert) — Wed, 28 Sep 2016 18:00:00 +0000

Larry Eubanks, Rev. PhD. 

Writes an inspired blog on “thinking about the Bible” topics as he flows

seamlessly onto a world stage of contemporary Christian writers.

In his September 16, 2016, blog he writes that to understand the New Testament one should stop reading it, temporarily. We are invited to open the Old Testament and begin to know it better as the Prophets proclaim the Glory of God to his people for all generations what God is with and without all the Law and the Prophets.

As a Christian in the pre-apocalyptic era, how do I think about the Holy Bible?

I think in a rationally emotive fashion as my learning has occurred. We are products of ecclesiastical thought offered in my case from those who were inspired to or not to impart foundations for Christian beliefs for me to grow into the furthering of Christ's Kingdom here on earth, as it is in Heaven.

We think like the ancient Greeks as Dr. Eubanks adroitly states that if you were to ask a Greek about time he would include lots of ideas, examples of mathematics, to prove a point. I would give that kind of answer due to the Western education I have received.

In contrast, if one asked a Jew about time as Dr Eubanks points so well, a story would be told. Both answer the question well. And again as Dr Eubanks mentions the Holy Bible as canonized is a Jewish book in thought. Yes, the New Testament is written in Greek; but the ideas are Jewish that is Christian faith.

It comes down to this.

It is an acceptance that the Holy Bible is the inspired word of God. The ancient Jews of the Old and and some of the New Testament would agree with that.. When Jesus said, “All the Law and the Prophets,” that is what was meant.

On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets.

Matthew 22:40 KJV

WHAT WERE THESE TWO COMMANDMENTS THAT JESUS GAVE IN MATTHEW 22:40?
He unabashedly stated to love God and your neighbor, and on those two principals of love hangs all the law and the prophets all neatly tied in one package.  How simply complex conundrum of a paradigm this is for the modern day Christian. It is the purpose of story telling, like any art form to invoke an emotion. Jesus Christ is the superstar of invocation in past, present and future of our lives. One emotion that is arguably present in Christians and non-believers of all times from (the beginning) is anger that arises from the question, who is my neighbor?

It is embedded in the sacredness of the Eucharist to be in love and charity with your neighbor and if not, make it right.

Anger arises in Christians even when their cup is spiritually full, maybe too full, which implies that we should get out of the pew and share our love and blessings with our neighbor whomever they are, even if we have to turn the other cheek in doing so.  I think Christianity is a religion of pay-it-forward for the debt Christ paid, not just for our sins, but for the sins of the whole world. He died and rose again that those who believe on him will have eternal life. What about those who do not believe? He died for them as well. Who are we to criticize for whom Christ died and rose again on the third day? Yet, the simple emotion of anger keeps us from addressing the eternal notion. Is it our darker nature that causes this? We are commanded to be Christ-like, but can we be one hundred percent? No.

The beginning of knowledge is FEAR of the LORD;

we are not to lean on our own understanding.

The first seven verses of Proverbs written by King Solomon, an ancestor of Jesus of Nazareth, is as a tree in a garden with many levels of meaning in its parts. 

First, the number seven in Jewish thinking is a number that expresses completeness. That is my Greek thinking about Jewish writing showing. Yet, in these seven proverbs it gives seven simple steps for loving your neighbor as Jesus commanded.

First idea

Who?

This is a King of Israel, seed of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob giving prophecy who was an earthly ancestor of Jesus of Nazareth and Son of David.

Solmon Says

 Second Idea

 What it is...?

 To perceive the words of understanding .

 To know wisdom and instruction.

Third Idea 

To perceive the words of understanding

receive the instruction of

wisdom

justice

judgment

equity.

Fourth Idea

How?

Give Subtlety

to the simple. 

My Greek learning interprets the Jewish narrative:
Subtlety offers gullible persons insight. Matthew Henry states, “We have to feel our own ignorance to be taught”.

And to the young knowledge and discretion.

Fifth Idea

Who?

The same rules apply to all.

Sixth Idea

A wise person will seek out interpretation of the meanings of scripture and dark sayings, within such as Samson's knot in Judges where Samson was the last Judge and a Nazarene like Jesus, Isaac and John the Baptist.

 Within the times of Samson the number seven appears in that seven times the nation of Israel turned against God. The lesson here is that God had rather forgive than judge.

Seventh Idea 

The truest knowledge is the fear of the Lord. Fools and blasphemers cannot grasp this concept of loving the Lord your God with all that is within you.

These seven ideas from Proverbs command us to love one another, and our neighbor as they provide the Christian reflection for Matthew 22:40. The old becomes new again!

Len Holmes

Homersley Genealogy by Len Holmes

noreply@blogger.com (Judith Richards Shubert) — Mon, 26 Sep 2016 19:36:00 +0000

Henry VIII (28 June 1491 – 28 January 1547)

King of England from 21 April 1509 until his death. He was the first English King of Ireland, and continued the nominal claim by English monarchs to the Kingdom of France.

CALENDAR FOR YEARS OF REIGN OF HENRY VIII

ADD THE NUMBER OF YEARS TO 1509

CALENDAR FOR THE YEARS OF REIGN OF EDWARD VI

Edward VI (12 October 1537 – 6 July 1553)

He was crowned on 20 February at the age of nine.

HE RULED FOR 16 YRS

ADD NUMBER TO 1547

CALENDAR FOR THE YEARS OF MARY, QUEEN OF SCOTTS

1 October 1553, Gardiner crowned Mary at Westminster Abbey

She died on 17 November 1558

ADD NUMBER TO 1553

CALENDAR FOR YEARS OF REIGN OF ELIZABETH I

Elizabeth I (7 September 1533 – 24 March 1603)

Crowned 15 January 1559

44 year reign

ADD NUMBER TO 1559

CALENDAR FOR YEARS OF JAMES VI SCOTLAND

AND I (FIRST) OF ENGLAND

James VI and I (19 June 1566 – 27 March 1625) was King of Scotland as James VI from 24 July 1567 and King of England and Ireland as James I from the union of the Scottish and English crowns on 24 March 1603 until his death 1625. James was the son of Mary, Queen of Scots, and a great-great-grandson of Henry VII, King of England and Lord of Ireland (through both his parents), uniquely positioning him to eventually accede to all three thrones. James succeeded to the Scottish throne at the age of thirteen months, after his mother Mary was compelled to abdicate in his favour. Four different regents governed during his minority, which ended officially in 1578, though he did not gain full control of his government until 1583. In 1603, he succeeded the last Tudor monarch of England and Ireland, Elizabeth I, who died without issue. [Wickapedia]

THE BEGINNING OF JAMES' REIGN IS 1603. HE DIED IN 1625.

ADD ANY YEAR TO 1603 THRU 1625

CALENDAR YEARS FOR CHARLES I

Charles I (19 November 1600 – 30 January 1649[a]) was monarch of the three kingdoms of England,

Scotland, and Ireland from 27 Mar 1625 until his execution in 1649.

Charles was crowned on 2 February 1626 at Westminster Abbey, but without his wife at his side

because she refused to participate in a Protestant religious ceremony. 

ADD THE NUMBER OF YEARS TO 1626

At about 2:00 p.m. Charles put his head on the block after saying a prayer and signaled the executioner when he was ready by stretching out his hands; he was then beheaded with one clean stroke.

Yet in one clean stroke the world changed. The English Monarch's age was stopped by Oliver Cromwell 1649, after the proclamation of the republican Commonwealth.

NOTE; DOCUMENTS DURING THIS TIME HAVE TWO DATES: Julian Calendar 45 BC-1582; Gregorian cutting 10 days from the calendar in 1582 (so that 15 October 1582 followed 4 October 1582 cutting 10 days from the calendar in 1582 (so that 15 October 1582 followed 4 October 1582).

Charles II (29 May 1630 – 6 February 1685) [c] was King of England, Scotland, and Ireland. He was King of Scotland from 1649 until his deposition in 1651, and King of England, Scotland, and Ireland from the restoration of the monarchy in 1660 until his death.

Recognised by Royalists in 1649

Gregorian Calendar prominent.The regnal calendar ("nth year of the reign of King X", etc.) is used in many official British government and legal documents of historical interest, notably parliamentary statutes.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_English_monarchs

Scottish Records Association

http://www.scottishrecordsassociation.org/index.php/news-archive/11-news-events/archive/12-the- calendar-and-related-problems

Medieval source material on the internet:

Heralds' Visitations and the College of Arms http://www.medievalgenealogy.org.uk/sources/visitations.shtml

https://archive.org/details/collectionsforpt205stafuoft

This text has many citiations of Homersley in 1614 and features the years of 1663 and 1664.

This is the text that shows the intermarriage of the Floyer and Homersley families with Arms and trees noted. The Arms of the families are unique and are modified from time to time to reflect lineage, residence, royal offerings. The laws of primogeniture usually follow. (Eldest son rule)

SO HOW ARE THEY KIN TO ME?

THE TREE IS PRESENTLY ALLIGNED AS GARNETT HOLMES OF VIRGINIA

AS THE HOME PERSON. THE DESCENDANCY IS HIS.

Page 117 features an early scheme of the descendancy of Homerlsey of Homersley. Remember that we are viewing a family that there is about 400 years already of presence in England. If you recall, the Homersley genealogy begins in Provence, France (what is now) in the 13th century AD.

Why would a future Englishman be in Provence in the 13th century?

Answer is a soldier.

16 November 1272 – 7 July 1307 Not for those specific times, but that was Edward I. More than likely he, as a common soldier was employed by his mother the famous Eleanor of Provence. So you can begin to see the English population there which was intermingled with lots of Vikings. After all, William was a Norman of France and routed as much of the Viking power out. But it has only been since 1066 that the change began, and oh how it did. The Viking descendants had begun with the earliest invasions of England and the setting up of the Saxon State such as Mercia where the present political boundaries Stafford Shire.

HOW ARE THE EARLIEST HOMERSLEY'S PORTRAYED?

The earliest Homerlsey portrayals are written and discussed in Judith Richards Shubert's Blog, Genealogy Traces. She is a 4th great granddaughter of Garnett Holmes.

Ade le Kinge de Rowenhall which translates Adam who lives on lands of the King at Rowenwald; or as my 4th Cousin would say, he was a King of Rowenwald because he lived on land of the King.

Adam of Rowenwald, Staffordshire

1260—1318

 That is 194 years after the 1066 Conquest. Many records are vague in this time period or absent. The rich and powerful were the ones who left records. Literacy was restricted, heavily.

Adam had two sons by unknown women most likely in Provence.

By the early 1300s the shape of the name Homersley at Homerlsey was emerging as a family.

One son, Adam de Homerley 1325-1389 created the additional name of Kingsley.

Unfortunately, this is our line to Garnett and it is not as published or as colorful as the brothers' line.

Greg Holmes would say, it is from the Dilhorne, Staffordshire that we descend. So far that is correct.

That is what the majority of the finds in the 4 or 5 Visitation Books are:

cousins, and my goodness they glow bright on a tree.

Margaret Hamersley (Hamersley and Homersley are used it seems at random) is the 9th Cousin 6 times removed. Yet her children's names by Floyer are also spelled Flyor and/or Flyer. Their ignoble arms are shown.

At this branch of the Homersley family the Floyer show up as distant autosomal cousins.

Sarah Homersley is an 8th cousin and daughter of Thomas Homersley of Botham, and marries William Trafford of Swithamly Grange, Staffordshire.

page 288 Homersley in 1614 Visitations

The Heraldic Visitations of Staffordshire

Made by Sir Richard St. George

I think it is important to share everything at this juncture in life. We collectively know more family data than any generation in history. Genealogy research for all of us has gone from our heads in musty courthouse basements and old libraries with a pencil and paper to writing letters defending positions that took weeks to exchange now can be done in the blink of an eye. I intend to research till I can't. All I want to do is to spread information. New researchers are welcome.
Len

Once Around the County in Newberry

noreply@blogger.com (Judith Richards Shubert) — Tue, 15 Dec 2015 20:28:00 +0000

Newberry School is just a few miles east of Mineral Wells, Texas, in the county of Parker. Newberry Cemetery now is the resting place for my grandparents, J. D. Gailey and Edna Puckett Gailey, and their daughters, Irene Gailey Stone, and Maedelle Gailey Carlyle, plus several other relatives. Irene, Maedelle and my mother, Vernelle, lived near the school as small children and told stories about going to school in Newberry. I can only assume it was the same school building, as my mother and her twin were born in 1921.

The Pucketts named in the picture below are my mother's first cousins once removed: Gerald, Iona, and Stella were children of Travis Austin Puckett and Nancy Catherine Mayo.

In 1924 Richard Gerald Puckett, age nineteen; Stella Puckett, age twelve; Iona Puckett, probably age 10 or eleven.

Thelma Doss, writer for the Mineral Wells Index said Esta Lea Daniel Ashley was quick to identify all the students and teachers in this 1924 picture. I do not know when she did this, but the newspaper clipping was given to me by my aunt Irene Gailey Stone. Esta Lea and her twin sister, Para Lea were good friends with my aunt. My cousin and Irene's daughter, Linda Kay Stone Cox and I took Irene to visit with them in 2005 in their home in North Richland Hills, Texas.

Para Lea Daniel Moore, Irene Gailey Stone, and Esta Lea Daniel Ashley

Once Around the County

by Thelma Doss

Remembering and Honoring Those in the Military and Civil Service

noreply@blogger.com (Judith Richards Shubert) — Tue, 26 May 2015 00:01:00 +0000

A Repost from This Blog

May 24, 2015

Memorial Sunday and Pentecost

at our beautiful

New Sharon United Methodist Church in Hillsborough

The musical Prelude: To Our Beloved Country, Gertrude Haupt Richolson on tune "America" by Henry Carey; and the Introit: by the Choir, Let Our Earth Be Peaceful; Flag Processional and Taps

Pledge of Christian Allegiance: I pledge allegiance to the Cross and to the Savior for whose kingdom it stands; One Savior, crucified, risen, and coming again, with life and liberty to all who believe.

Pledge of Allegiance: I pledge allegiance to the Flag of the United States of America, and to the Republic for which it stands, one Nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.

The Christian Flag was carried by Veteran Robert A. Shubert, U.S. Army; the American Flag carried by Technical Sergeant Christopher Sykes, USAF Security Forces

Pastor Kong's Message was entitled The Ultimate Sacrifice.

There was a time to remember and honor those in the military and civil service.

My husband, Bob, was very honored when Pastor Kong asked him to take part in the service and carry the Christian flag in the Processional. I had every intention of making photographs of he and Chris, who was in his uniform, and looked awesome; however, I was so overcome with emotion I totally forgot. The music and the somber feeling of the moment made me so proud of both of them, I was back in 1964, in the years when so many of our young men and women were going to Vietnam. Shubert was in the middle of the Kennedy assassination and the Cuba Crisis and served in the 303rd ASA BN in Texas.

PFC Robert A. Shubert, U.S. Army, 1962

Robert A. Shubert, 2012

Technical Sergeant Christopher Sykes, USAF Security Forces

with his wife, Kelley Sykes and their family, May 24, 2015

It seems Chris and his young family have spent their entire lives dedicated to the service of our country! He has been active duty for 16 years and in the reserves for the last 5. I am sure it is with a mixture of feelings that he plans to retire this year. That's 20 years of service ~ active and reserve. He had four tours to the middle east ~ 1 to Iraq and 3 to Kuwait. Serving as USAF Security Forces we are all proud of Chris and his love of home and country. He has a large family at New Sharon who is equally glad that he is home and serving here. Below he is shown with his "biggest fans!"

Thank you to all who serve, have served, and did serve. Freedom is not free.

SOURCES:
Photographs: Flags, http://www.flickr.com/usnationalarchives/. accessed May 25, 2015.

New Sharon United Methodist Church Cemetery, Digital Format, Original photographs taken and belonging to Judith Richards Shubert, Copyright 2015.

Shubert, Robert, Privately owned by Robert Shubert, Digital format used with permission. Judith Richards Shubert March 15, 2012.

Sykes, Technical Sergeant Christopher USAF Security Forces, Privately owned by Chris Sykes, Digital format used with permission. Judith Richards Shubert May 25, 2015.

Copyright 2015; Judith Richards Shubert.

Genealogy Traces

The Church of Christ Suffers a Great Loss

The Looney's

A Surgeon of Colonial America

Johan Martin Shultz (1740-1787),

Patriot of the Battle of King’s Mountain, Cordwainer, Farmer, Husband, Father and Surgeon of Colonial America:

A Retrospective

Elmo Len Holmes

"As I Remember It" by Raymond R. Stone

Festival of Postcards: Wheels of Change - A Reposting

Pentecost by Len Holmes

Captain Thomas Cook Citizen Soldier of American Revolution

Genetic Cousins of Judith Gail Shubert

Sam Houston's Proclamation

Charles H. Richards Appears in Republic-era Documents

Elias Eph Homesley

HOMERSLEY de HOMERSLEY

Homesley Study by Karen Caton

Homesley Family Study by Len Holmes

Mosby Values

FERRERS - A Fortunate Ancestry

Remembering Our Patriots

FLOYER Family

Addendum to: Thought, Word and Deed

Quakers Homersley and Hamersley - by Len Holmes

Armor - by Len Holmes

Thought, Word and Deed by Thou Divine Majesty - written by Len Holmes

Homersley Genealogy by Len Holmes

The Heraldic Visitations of Staffordshire

Made by Sir Richard St. George

Once Around the County in Newberry

Remembering and Honoring Those in the Military and Civil Service

Patriot of the Battle of King’s Mountain, Cordwainer, Farmer, Husband, Father
and Surgeon of Colonial America: