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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

• Furniture The Secretary The Secretary The Medicine Chest

• Silver, Counterpane, Special Quilt Nanee’s Silver Counterpane from the Fort 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 Catherine YOUNG 3/1/1808 - 1875 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 1872 1862

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 Marcel Theophile GUERARD (1855 – 12/1/1917) (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 1/6/1852 William Murray Holliday Ratcliffe Manor, Easton Maryland Louisa Mae Powell (1/2/1818 – 12/5/1880) (3/3/1829 – 4/17/1914) Parents of Catherine Rosalie (9/20/1857 - 12/15/1934)

• 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 James Branch Bocock 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 – 1887) (1810 - 1898) 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