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Who Are Those Ancestors?

Friendly Ghosts From the Past Haunting the Present

• Names

– Shanny – Lyndon brothers – Nanee – Aunt Clyde & Uncle Rufus – Granny Bo – Robertsons – McCartneys – Shorts, Hollidays, Floods, Maclin – Catherine – Collot

• Places

– The Fort – The Farm – Ferncliffe – Blairbeth – Beaver Falls – Appomattox

• Events: Family Myth or True Fact

– Escape from Sherman’s Army – Clerk at Appomattox – Speaker of House in CSA – Underground Railroad – Split in Scottish family over civil war – Lyndon brothers & Coca-Cola formula – First woman graduate; shopping for blouse – Biking to the patent office in Washington DC

The Medicine Chest The Secretary

• Furniture

The Secretary

• Silver, Counterpane, Special Quilt

Counterpane from the Fort Nanee’s Silver Martha Peterson Short Quilt

• Grammy’s Wedding China

– Die Lorlei & Catherine’s velvet wristband

1985-1986

• Masses of unsorted papers
• Numerous photographs, many unidentified by

name, year, location

• Documents in boxes, bottom of bureau

drawers, stuffed in shoeboxes and suitcases

• Letters and diaries, some in undecipherable

penmanship

• Books, pamphlets, written recollections

Boxes and Boxes of Unsorted Papers

Family Trees

• Questions to my mother’s brother

– Research on the Bococks, Floods, Hollidays, Lyndons, Powells, Shorts, and others

James Branch Bocock

• First Cousin, Ancestry.com, and More Boxes

• Cousin who contacted us re the Scottish

Robertsons

• Research by Madeleine Guerard, then her son

Paris, 1968 2011

• Created a family tree for each last name on

two sides:

– Mother’s parents

• June Lyndon m James Branch Bocock

(8/28/1886 -6/29/1977) (11/10/1884 – 5/24/1946)

– Father’s Parents

• Wilhelmina McCartney m Albert Leon Guerard

(8/3/1876 – 1/26/1963) (11/3/1880 – 11/13/1959)

• Put the associated family trees side by side

• Shelf paper scrolls with family tree

information

• Photographs

– Names – Places – Furniture – Events

Father’s Side

• The Scottish Connection: Robertsons

John ROBERTSON 3/1/1808 - 1875 Catherine YOUNG 1803 -1891

• Robertsons traced back to

– William Robertson (1677 – 1757)

• Who married on 3-7-1704

– Agnes Hastie (1677 – 1757) – Four generations later

• John Robertson (3/1/1808 – 1875)

• Young/Noble traced back to

– James Noble (1500 – 1582)

• Who married

– Catherine Steriveling – Nine generations later

• Catherine Young Robertson (1803 -1891)

• Catherine Young Robertson (1803 - 1891)
• 8 children

1868

Catherine Robertson Great grandmother 1/28/1838 – 1922

• Robertson Family and Spouses 1868

Blairbeth

1860

Robertson Mills

• Mill Burned 11/12/1875

The Irish Connection: McCartneys

• Traced back to

– Henry McCartney (1765 – 1849)

• Who married in 1788

– Jane Strong (1763 – 5/6/1832)

• William McCartney (1790 -10/29/1833)

– Who married in 1813

• Isabella McCreary (1790 – 1878)

Great great grandmother Mother of 9 children including John Longfellow McCartney

John Longfellow McCartney Great grandfather 1828 - 1911

1862 1872

Geneva College, Northwood Ohio

• McCartney Family 1889

1889

• McCartney Family 1903

• Catherine Robertson

“Ferncliffe” Beaver Falls, Pa.

The French Connection

• Who were the Guerards?
• Madeleine Guerard
• A nursery rhyme
• Cimitiere Montrouge

Great grandparents Guerard

• The French Connection

French great grandparents

Marie Delphine Augustine COLLOT (1855 – 12/1/1917) Marcel Theophile GUERARD (3/28/1851 – 1/4/1890)

• Traced Guerards back to

– Edme Guerard, Vigneron (1684 – 1/13/1734)

• Who married in St. Colombe

– Jeanne Dondaunie (1699 – 3/14/1746) – 3 generations later – Jean Paul Guerard (3/1/1814 – 7/30/1875)

• Who married on 1/12/1836 in Marmeaux France

– Edme Julienne LeGas (2/18/1808 -9/30/1875

Marmeaux

Jean Paul Guerard Signature on Marriage

• Jean Paul Tombstone

Marmeaux 1984

• Traced Collots back to

– Auguste Thomas Collot (? – 7/12/1853)

• Who married

– Marie Catherine Rosalie Boc ( ? – 1/5/1863) – 2 generations later

Marie Augustine Delphine Collot (1855 – 12/1/1917) 78 rue Michelange, Paris

• Marie Augustine Collot Guerard

• Mother’s Side

• The Maryland Connection: Hollidays

Louisa Mae Powell (3/3/1829 – 4/17/1914) William Murray Holliday Ratcliffe Manor, Easton Maryland (1/2/1818 – 12/5/1880) Parents of Catherine Rosalie (9/20/1857 - 12/15/1934) 1/6/1852

• Powells traced back to

– William Powell (England) to Chesapeake Bay with Captain Smith, 1607.

• Hollidays traced back to

– Col. Henry Holliday (3/9/1725 – 3/11/1789)

• Who married in 1749

– Anna Maria Robins (d. 1805)

Catherine Rosalie Holliday “Granny Bo” Great grand mother

Mother of James Branch Bocock James Branch Bocock 11/10/1884 – 5/24/1946

The Virginia Connection Bococks traced back to Salem Bocock, Albemarle Cty, 1747 Of interest Willis Perry (b 1807) Va. AG Thomas S (1815-1891) Speaker, CSA Henry Flood (d 1892) Clerk Appomattox Ct.

Another Virginia Connection Martha P. Short John Maclin Lundie

(1810 - 1898) (1810 – 1887) Great grand parents

• Martha Petersen Short (1810 - ?)

– Fled in covered wagon from Sherman’s Army – With her Secretary & Quilt

• Lucy Francis Yates Lundie (“Shanny”)
• Andrew Jackson (Smith) Lyndon

12/23/1849 – 2/13/1944 2/23/1844 – 1/10/1903

The Smith/Lyndons Traced back to Aaron Smith, 1693-1720

• June McKinley Lyndon (1886 – 1977)

• Mary Dorothy Lyndon (1877 – 1924)

• Clyde Lyndon m Rufus Lenoir

(1875 – 1935)

• Lived at Fort Defiance (“The Fort”)

Crochet Bedspread from Fort Defiance

• June McKinley Lyndon
• James Branch Bocock

August 10, 1910 Athens, Ga.

“The Farm”

Blackstone, Va

• Furniture List from the Farm, 1945