I love everything about Tuck Everlasting. I love the novel. I love the writing style of the novel. I love the magic that is captured in that novel, and beyond that, I love how Walt Disney transformed Babbit’s words into a movie version of that novel. For a few years, I lived in the Ozark…
The Duvals of Kentucky from Virginia
Published in 1938 HIS book was written to meet the need of a permanent record of the history of the descendants of four brothers of the old Virginia family of Col. Samuel DuVal of “Mt. Comfort,” Henrico County, Va. On this plantation of five hundred acres was built the Chestnut Hill and Highland Park additions…
William Claiborne of Virginia – by John Herbert Claiborne – 1917
https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/public/gdcmassbookdig/williamclaiborne00clai/williamclaiborne00clai.pdf INTRODUCTION UNTIL now the biography of William Claiborne, the foremost genius of early Virginia, has never been fully written. Religious, political, and even family prejudices have tended hitherto to give us distorted pictures of his life and public services. Dr. Claiborne’s account of his distinguished ancestor’s career shuns fable and corrects tradition. It is…
A Pictorial Booklet on Early Jamestown Commodities and Industries
A Pictorial Booklet On Early Jamestown Commodities And Industries By J. PAUL HUDSON – Illustrated by Sidney E. King 1957 Boat Building on the Black River BOATBUILDING [Pg 1] “On April 27 1607, the day after the Jamestown colonists landed at Cape Henry, some of the settlers began to build or assemble a small boat….
The Claiborne Family Tree from England to Virginia to Southeast Missouri
Rowland Cleburne [Cliburn] Born about 1364 He married Katherine de Lancaster Born 1415 II. John Cleburne Born about 1445 – 1487 He married Elizabeth Curwen| Born 1445 – 1489 III. Thomas De Cleburne Born about 1471 – 1573 He married Joan Sanford Born 1447 IV. Sir Robert John Cleburne Born about 1471 – 1553 He married Emmotte KirkbrideAnn Layton Born 1465 – 1535 V. Edmund Cleburne Born about 1502…
My Family Was Part of the Movement to America to Flee Religious Persecution
Persecution of the Protestant French Huguenots The Bartholomew’s Day Massacre “The St. Bartholomew’s Day massacre (French: Massacre de la Saint-Barthélemy) in 1572 was a targeted group of assassinations and a wave of Catholic mob violence, directed against the Huguenots (French Calvinist Protestants) during the French Wars of Religion. Traditionally believed to have been instigated by…
My Family’s Connection to the Lowther Castle in Cumbria in the Lake Distrct Part of England
About 1,000 years ago, my family married into the Lowther Family, who were landed gentry in the Cumbria part of England. Frances Claiborn (Lowther) married my ancestor Thomas Cleborne [Claiborne] Thomas Cleborne, 1574 – 1640 Thomas Cleborne was born in 1574, in birth place. Thomas had 7 siblings: Agnes Clairbourne, Dorothy Clairbourne and 5 other siblings. Thomas married Frances Cleborne (born LOWTHER) on month day 1594, at age…
The Whitaker Family Tree from England to Virginia to Southeast Missouri
Robert Sr. Whitaker [His grandson immigrated to America] Birth: circa 1604 Padiham, Lancashire, England 2. Robert Whitaker, Il MP Birth: March 29, 1637 North Yorkshire, England Death: February 6, 1741 (103) Grindletown, York, England Immediate Family: Son of Robert Sr. Whitaker Husband of Margaret Whitaker 3. Joshua Whitaker, Sr. MP Immigrated to America Birth: December 22, 1675 London, Middlesex, England…
Boone’s Wilderness Road and The Cumberland Gap
Image Credit: Kentucky Genealogical Society From Highways of America Volume 6 Cumberland Gap and Boone’s Wilderness Road [Pg 5] HISTORIC HIGHWAYS OF AMERICA VOLUME 6 Boone’s Wilderness Road y Archer Butler Hulbert With Maps and Illustrations THE ARTHUR H. CLARK COMPANY CLEVELAND, OHIO 1903 [Pg 6] COPYRIGHT, 1903 BY The Arthur H….
My Family’s Duvall Connection from France to Virginia to Southeast Missouri
I. Marc Duval de la Semee Born 1550 Died 1628 II. Jean Duval du Coudray Born 1590 Died Married Marguerite Fouqueron III. Jean Duval Born 1600 Married Novembre 27, 1617 Married to Jeanne Petit IV. Antoine Romine Duval Chambéry, Savoie, Rhone-Alpes, France Born 1620 Died 1665 Married 1645 Married to Marie Chanlier Born 1620 V….