Remembering my grandmother’s favorite cousin, Irving “Jay” McNeely Weaver.
Statesville Record & Landmark, 5 December 1933.
Jay as a boy, probably in Bayonne, New Jersey.
Photograph in collection of Lisa Y. Henderson.
Monthly Archives: November 2015
Great-great-grandparent demographics.
Edward Cunningham Harrison and Mary Brown. Jasper Holmes and Matilda, whose maiden name is unknown. John Walker Colvert and Harriet Nicholson. Henry W. McNeely and Martha Margaret Miller. Green Taylor and Fereby Taylor. Willis Barnes and Cherry Battle. John William Aldridge and Louvicey Artis. Joseph Buckner Martin and Loudie Henderson.
These are my 16 great-great-grandparents.
Four were born in Virginia; the remainder in North Carolina. They were born between 1817 and 1874; most in the 1840s or ’50s. All died in the state in which they were born.
Of the 13 born in the antebellum era, 11 were enslaved. One was a free man of color. Two of the enslaved were children of their owner. All of the three born after the war were born to freeborn parents.
Fourteen were of varying degrees of African descent, classified as black or mulatto. Two were white.
Hat tip to Edie Lee Harris for the exercise.
DNA definites, no. 22: my great-uncle!?!
Sometimes you get questions answered that you never knew to ask. My mysterious estimated 1st-2nd cousin at Ancestry turns out to be my paternal grandmother’s half-brother — 52 years her junior, two years older than I. Best DNA reward ever!
An Artis founding story.
A cousin sent me this undated letter a few days ago, asking if I knew anything about it. She is descended from my great-great-great-grandfather Adam Artis‘ brother Richard Artis. Her Richard is not one of the Richards listed to in the document. (There were several contemporaneous Richard Artises just in the Wayne-Greene-Wilson County corner, none of whom I can link to one another.) The family history recounted in the letter smacks of the apocryphal, but it is interesting, and I will try to follow up on it.
Scuffalong: Genealogy. 