Jacobus Elmendorf was the first Elmendorf ancestor in this country and an early settler at Kingston, Ulster County, NY. He was born...

Cornelius Barentsen Slecht was born about 1616 in the municipality of Woerden in Utrecht, Netherlands. He was mentioned in records of...

Click Here for Part 1 About 1685, John married Sara (her maiden name is currently unknown). They had seven children who grew to...

James Pettyjohn was living in Hungars Parish, Northampton County, located on Virginia's Eastern Shore in 1660. The first existing record...

The story of the Pattons continues. Click here for Part Three. Before he had the nickname "Old Blood and Guts", he was simply known as...

The story of the Pattons continues. Click here for Part Two. George was born as George William Patton in Charleston, West Virginia (then...

The story of the Patton family continues. Click here for Part 1. George Smith Patton was born 26 June 1833, in Fredericksburg, Virginia,...

The Patton family entered my family tree on 8 January 1824 when Margaret "Peggy" French Williams married John Mercer Patton. Margaret was...

Peter Lauderbach (also spelled Lauterbach, Louderback, Louder-Back, and Lowderback) was born around 1732 and immigrated as early as 1737...

Samuel Evans Stokes, Jr. was born on 16 August 1882 in Philadelphia, PA into a wealthy and distinguished Quaker family. His father,...

John William "Johnny" Carson was born on 23 October 1926 in Corning, Iowa. He was the second of three children of parents Ruth Elizabeth...

And now the continuation of story of Thomas Fenwick (for the prior post, click Here.) Thomas Fenwick, born between 1632 and 1635, was the...

The name Fenwick first arose amongst the Anglo-Saxon tribes of Britain. This habitation name was originally derived from the Old English...

Welcome to my 150th Post! Since a number of my relatives were Huguenots, particularly the DuBois family, I will now tell you a bit about...

Varina's story concludes. Click here for Part One, here for Part Two and here for Part Three. The reasons for the move to New York City...

Varina's story continues. Click here for Part One and here for Part Two. Final surrender ended one kind of suffering and began another. ...

Varina's story continues. For Part One, click here. Anticipating a call for his services since Mississippi had seceded, Jefferson Davis...

Varina Howell Davis was not any happier at the prospect of her husband being president than he was. Jeff Davis was no politician and she...

In honor of Presidents' Day, I thought I would share some stories that Abraham Lincoln used to tell (Click here for the original post...

On Thursday, 2 November 1752, Johann Melcher (Malachi) Hörner appeared at the Court House in Philadelphia, PA. He took the oath of...