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All familiar. Do you have the book "Tidewater Virginia Families" by Virginia Lee Hutcheson Davis? We are related through marriage most likely, I don't descend from the Hutchesons, Watkins, or Lees.
I don't have that book but it sounds like I need to! And yes, I bet we are related by marriage!
Later Tidewater Virginia names in my family tree (still early - 1600s) are Martiau, Carter, and Bradley. From Yorktown and Williamsburg and that area.
A lot of small towns seem to have a lot of descendants of the early settlers of those communities. Do you know of any towns where your family were some of the first settlers where there are still descendants living there today? Is the original homestead still there?
On one side of my family, my Great-Great-Great Grandparents and their young family(including my GG Grandpa) were some of the original settlers in a small South Dakota town in the late 1880s. The original homestead still stands today and although they are distant cousins to me, there are descendants of my ancestors still living there and farming.
How about you? Do you know of any towns where your ancestors were some of the "pioneer settlers?"
My Owings line settled Owings Mill, MD. There is also an Owingsville in KY I believe. And then there's a small farming village......Owings, SC.
As for the homesteads, there may be one or two in MD still standing. At one time, I believe one of their mills and/or homes was a restaurant. There was also an issue where a developer tore down one of the homes and the resulting outcry from the community caused the developer to recreate the original homestead lol.
The original homesteads in SC were all auctioned off and torn down by the end of the twentieth century. There are a couple of second generation to the original homesteaders that are still standing.
Cant say about what's left in KY.
Another line the Hunts in SC, there is a log cabin still standing that was an original settlers homestead.
I don't have that book but it sounds like I need to! And yes, I bet we are related by marriage!
Later Tidewater Virginia names in my family tree (still early - 1600s) are Martiau, Carter, and Bradley. From Yorktown and Williamsburg and that area.
I'm looking at the index, a zillion Hutchesons, many Watkins. Carters include Charles, George, Giles, Mr (?), Myrtle, R Page, and Thomas. Just one Bradley, Edward. Lee family, she has a load of them.
A lot of small towns seem to have a lot of descendants of the early settlers of those communities. Do you know of any towns where your family were some of the first settlers where there are still descendants living there today? Is the original homestead still there?
On one side of my family, my Great-Great-Great Grandparents and their young family(including my GG Grandpa) were some of the original settlers in a small South Dakota town in the late 1880s. The original homestead still stands today and although they are distant cousins to me, there are descendants of my ancestors still living there and farming.
How about you? Do you know of any towns where your ancestors were some of the "pioneer settlers?"
I wish I had more information about my ancestors: All I know is one family came over on the Mayflower, but the person who had the history is long dead and I have no way of finding out the "rest of the story" I do know the name of the family: it was the Brewster family. My mothers family came from germany in the mid 1880s and settled in Ky and Kansas. that is all I know about them as well.
I wish I had more information about my ancestors: All I know is one family came over on the Mayflower, but the person who had the history is long dead and I have no way of finding out the "rest of the story" I do know the name of the family: it was the Brewster family. My mothers family came from germany in the mid 1880s and settled in Ky and Kansas. that is all I know about them as well.
It might take a while but if you can trace your paternal lines back far enough, there are books called Silver Books. They will have at least the first four generations after the original Brewster who came of the Mayflower. Once you get back far enough, that makes it easier.
Yes, both my mom and my dad's families were among the original settlers of their rural western Wisconsin communities. It was mid 19th century, though, not really that long ago.
My sister and her family currently live in the farmhouse that was built around the original log cabin that my great-great-great grandparents built. It's their kitchen now; they took down the plaster off of one wall to expose the original logs.
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