Tuesday, July 28, 2020
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Born in Buckingham Virginia, a descendant of the first settlers in the Jamestown Colony and earliest Colonial women of true strength. Her early ancestors can be found in The Adventures Of Purse and Person, third sons of offshoots of various branches of the Royal Family, which has made it easier to follow her ancestry back to England, Wales, Scotland, both Saints and Sinners. Descended from Richard Strongbow and Red Eva, Eleanor of Aquitaine, and the meanest woman who lived then, Mabel Tarvas who was beheaded in her own bed by her stepsons. Her kin survived the starving times and two Amerindian raids in the new Jamestown. She is descended from a younger sister of Pocohantas who was renamed by John Rolfe and baptized as Cleopatra whose grand daughter married a Welsh Trader and they ran a successful trading post. She shared an ancient grandmother with the great grandmother of Thomas Jefferson. Her fathers background was unknown and thanks to Ancestry and the Mormons, it was discovered that her father was born into a Mennonite family in Pennsylvania which she found snapped into her memory of visiting this family and describing the women as wearing little white caps. These Anabaptist immigrants from Switzerland went first to 'the Black Forest' of Germany and then to Germantown Pennsylvania where they migrated and settled to wilderness of Lancaster County. She said it finally made sense to her, as she recalled being baptized as a young tween when she was able to give consent which was the basis of beliefs with the River Brethren of the Susquehanna. She discovered this information much later in life. She shared grandparents from the late 1600's in Albemarle and Nelson Virginia and through this connection shares grandparents with the Colonial Joplins and Janis Joplin. Herr kin also mixed with Dutch settlers of Harlem New York and original settlers of the Puritans of New England founders of Hartford Connecticut and towns stretching down to New Amesterdam. She was begotten of a family of writers and to this day is shared by her great grandchildren. It was a great joy and excitement to be included in these 'round robin' letters and peaked my great interest in family history. How joyous to have found out so much about her family history and her delight of being able to recall hints of this in her childhood. I have much to be thankful for in being begotten from the loins of these gentled folk and from her writing guidance and her smarts which I passed on to my children and now pass on to my grandchildren. A Grand Ole Dame and an example, a fitting tribute to you my Dear Mother. With Love R
