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This hard cover details Descendants of Chief Powhatan through 16 generations and includes a bibliography and index.

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Publié par	Turner Publishing Company
Date de parution	24 novembre 2003
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9781630269005
Langue	English
Poids de l'ouvrage	1 Mo

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High Hill School About 1890 North of Humboldt, Tennessee

Row 1
1. Jim Powell
2. Mack Bennett
3. Zack Campbell
4. Elbert Campbell
5.
6. Jack Fitzgerald
7. ______ Sloan
8. Walter Dunlap
9. Frank Woods
Row 2
10. ______ Sloan
11. Fannie Price
12. Sula Dunlap
13. Lillian Campbell
14. Rebecca Bennett
15. Emma Sloan
16.
17. Alice Woods
18. Lillie Breeden
19. Teelie Chaphan
20. Sudie Coleman
Row 3
21. Anna Bell Harper
22. Sally Beth Harper
23.
24. Minnie Sloan
25. Gay Campbell
26. Kittie Dunlap
27. Mattie Fitzgerald
28. Marian Campbell
29. Chessie Dunlap
30. Dee Mayfield
31. Anna Bennett
32. Anna Dunlap
33. Miss Effie Gillespie (music teacher)
34. Miss Pearl Mayfield
Row 4
35. Will Fitzgerald
36. Harry Bennett
37. Charlie Bennett
38. Clayton Powell
39. Nell Coleman
40. Cary Hardison
41. Hessie Senter (teacher)
42. Walter Hess (teacher)
43. Bob Fitzgerald
44. Dan O Conner
45. Ira Fitzgerald
46. Bob Powell
Row 5
47. Tom Dunlap
48. Ross Campbell
49. Clarance Fitzgerald
50. Charlie Dunlap
51. Hamlet Powell
52. Ralph Powell
53. Eugene Mayfield
54. Sam Bennett
55. Curry Bennett
56. Zack Coleman
57. Dorsie Bledsoe
58. John Woods
59. Hugh Bennett
C OMPILED BY L ILLIAN J OHNSON G ARDINER M ARIAN K NOWLES A LBRIGHT
T URNER P UBLISHING C OMPANY Publishers of America s History
Copyright 2002 Lillian Johnson Gardiner Marian Knowles Albright Publishing Rights: Turner Publishing Company All rights reserved.
Turner Publishing Company Staff Editor: Tammy Ervin Designer: M. Frene Walker
This book or any part thereof may not be reproduced by any means, mechanical or electronic, without the prior written consent of the authors and Turner Publishing Company. The Publisher regrets it cannot assume responsibility for errors or omissions.
Library of Congress Control No. 2002116697
ISBN: 978-1-56311-856-2
Additional copies may be purchased from Turner Publishing Company. Limited Edition.
Table of Contents
About the Authors
Introduction
Descendants of Chief Powhatan
Generation No. 1
Generation No. 2
Generation No. 3
Generation No. 4
Generation No. 5
Generation No. 6
Generation No. 7
Generation No. 8
Generation No. 9
Generation No. 10
Generation No. 11
Generation No. 12
Generation No. 13
Generation No. 14
Generation No. 15
Generation No. 16
Bibliography
Index
About the Authors
Lillian Johnson Gardiner
Lillian became interested in genealogy through her husband, Laurence Gardiner. After marriage in 1944, they traveled all over the United States in the course of Laurence s business, spending many hours pouring over documents in court houses, libraries and private collections. For over 40 years they compiled reams of information on their family lines, and also helped friends with research.
Both were active in many genealogical organizations. Lillian and Laurence helped organize the Memphis Genealogical Society. Lillian originated Ansearchin News, the magazine of the Tennessee Genealogical Society, which is still in publication today. She has co-authored several genealogical research books and has written articles for various research magazines. Her list of accomplishments is quite lengthy.
Now in her 92nd year, after helping so many people with their family trees, she is finally finding time to publish part of her own.
Marian Knowles Albright
Marian s interest in family research was due, in part, to the many tales of our earlier generations told when any two or more family members were gathered. Some of her most pleasant memories were of visits with the Gardiners, Lillian s sisters, Marian s mother and lots of cousins, all reminiscing.
Given this background it was only natural that Marian should join Lil in compiling this family history. They have been in the process of organizing material, which Lil already had, gathering more, and writing the actual manuscript for at least four years.
Marian is a wife, mother, grandmother and retired nurse who started writing the book and learning to use the Family Tree Maker computer program all the same day. As she said, It was not smart. I needed lots of help. This has been a real challenge on one hand, but a great joy on the other. We have met so many cousins in the course of this writing and have enjoyed learning of their immediate families and how they connect with ours. I m truly thankful that Lil talked me into this project.
(Authors are pictured on page 82 .)
Introduction
Without the extensive research done by Lillian Gardiner and her late husband, Laurence, this book could never have been started much less completed to this point.
During their years of travel throughout the United States (for Laurence s work) they spent many hours in cemeteries, courthouses and going through private papers shared by relatives.
Laurence had always been interested in genealogy and in order to occupy herself while he read dusty old tomes, Lil started helping him, and caught the bug herself. The two put together exhaustive research on both families and we are so fortunate to be recipients of their tireless efforts.
Lil also spent time looking up ancestors in England, Scotland and Germany. On one of her ansearching trips her luggage was stolen and although she didn t care about her clothes, she gladly paid the hefty ransom to have her genealogy notes returned.
Another relative to whom we owe much is the late Colonel M.J. Kelley of Owensboro, Kentucky and Pittstown, New Jersey. Colonel Kelley had done a great deal of research on our mutual Davis line in Virginia, Kentucky and Tennessee and was very generous with his information.
To you family members who have graciously shared your knowledge of our history and ancestry we extend our sincere appreciation. You have greatly added to the interest of this book.
If any errors are noted, please forgive us and send corrections to Marian.
Descendants of Chief Powhatan
Generation No. 1
1. Chief 1 Powhatan was born abt. 1550 in Virginia, and died April 1618 in Richmond, Virginia. He married Queen Winganuska.
Notes for Chief Powhatan:
Powhatan! The very name evokes a sense of mystery and awe, coming from the dim mists of our nation s infancy. As young people, we thought of this man only in the background of stories of early settlers, of Pocahontas, of John Smith-but there was so much more to this great leader who was the only Emperor this country ever had-and was our family s earliest native ancestor.
Unfortunately, much of the information regarding the earlier inhabitants of this land is no longer emphasized and the authors feel it important to Powhatan and his descendents to tell his story the best we can from the sketchy facts available. Several accounts of Powhatan s life and family come from various early settlers and historians, similar but not exactly alike. Somewhere therein lies the truth.
Powhatan inherited, from his mother, the title of Chief of eight small Indian tribes [ 1 ], and by shrewd cunning and superior talents established his authority over at least thirty tribes, eventually commanding over eight thousand warriors. His confederacy controlled Chesapeake Bay and its tributary rivers. This corresponds to Eastern Virginia, most of Maryland and Delaware. [ 2 ] Each tribe had its own village with houses built of bark over wooden frames. Along with other crops they planted corn, and tobacco; they hunted and fished. Every few years as the land became depleted, they would abandon the old village and build a few miles away.
Early historian, William Strachey, said Powhatan was referred to as Emperor-or King [English translation of the Indian term]. He took the name Powhatan in his youth from the area then called by that name, where he was born about 1550 near Balcony Falls on the James River in Virginia. The inhabitants, especially his neighboring chiefs, still called him Powhatan as an adult. His own people called him Ottaniack, and sometimes Mamanatowick [which means great King ] [ 3 ]; but his proper name with which he was saluted personally was Wahunsenacawh.
Powhatan was not a young man when the English came. I am very old, and I have seen many generations of my people, he told Captain John Smith. Yet he was still an impressive figure. Captain Smith described him thus: a tall well proportioned man with a sour look. Later, on better acquaintance, Smith changed sour to grave, majestic countenance, and said he looked almost like a god. His head somewhat gray, his beard so thin it seemed not at all, his age near sixty, of a very able and hardy body. [ 4 ] Early historians such as Strachey, Beverly, Kegley and others all commented that Powhatan, Opechancanough, Pocahontas and Cleopatra looked different from the other Indians. It was said that his father had come from the West Indies, run out by the Spanish. [ 5 ] This West Indian heritage could account for the different appearance. Our cousin, the late M.J. Kelley, managed to obtain copies of paintings of Powhatan, Opechancanough; the wedding of Pocahontas to John Rolfe and the Coronation of Powhatan, showing his wife, Queen Winganuska, daughter Pocahontas, daughter Cleopatra, etc. and commented that it was plain to see the difference, especially in the women. The Indians, themselves, said that Opechancanough was not one of them, but had come a long way from the south. [ 6 ]
Captain Christopher Newport served the London directors of the New Colony as Admiral in charge of transporting men and women to Virginia, and bringing back valuable cargo, and was commander of the Original fleet in 1607. On the occasion of the Second Supply, he sailed from England with, not only fresh commodities for the New Colony, but with presents from King James to Powhatan. He carried orders to crown Powhatan Emperor of all the Indians [thereby making him subject to England and thus validating ownership of the land for England]. [ 7 ]
Captain John Smith delivered the invitation to Powhatan to come be cro