Saturday, December 17, 2016

I've always included a second wife for Edward May Magruder because the 1921 Yearbook of the American Clan Gregor Society mentioned a second wife named Elizabeth Frances Allen, but I've never been able to find any more information on her.  She's not in any census nor the family graveyard.  Dr. Magruder wrote an extensive autobiography which was included in an ACGS yearbook and there is no mention of her.  I did find that Dr. Magruder's wife, Mary Cole Gregory, had a grandmother named Elizabeth Frances Allen.  I believe she got mixed up somehow, so I am eliminating the second wife from Dr. Magruder.

Saturday, December 3, 2016

After watching a genealogy show on television I remembered my grandmother was accepted by the Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR).  I searched for days and finally found my grandmother's application and acceptance dated 1919.  I was able to log on their website and using my grandmother's number found out a few more tidbits about my ancestors.

Monday, November 28, 2016

Mom died Nov 13 at 94 years old.  In going through her things I found out that her father died on Dec 23.  I'd been missing the date. That's the same date my dad died on in 2014.  I also found that my Aunt Elizabeth remarried in 1981, but I have been unable to find any documentation of that or any further documentation of my aunt.

I did decide to go with the Find A Grave site for my Uncle Frank. The birth year on his grave was within one of the 1940 census, the year of his death is roughly right, he's listed as Frank G Morris - which is correct and he's buried in the same section as Aunt Mollie - his mother-in-law.

Wednesday, November 16, 2016

Found William Edward Magruder, Jr., his wife, and son.  All were on the Find A Grave site.

Monday, July 25, 2016

Added Ann Maria Hancock's parents William Hancock and Susannah Grigsby.

I've never been able to find any reference to a son James to James Muncaster and Rachel Ann Gray, so I deleted him. Everything I've found shows sons Zachariah who went to Montgomery Co, MD and John who went to New Orleans and three daughters: Rachel, Sophia and Sarah.

Saturday, July 16, 2016

My grandfather wrote an article on Muncasters in Maryland which confirms that James Copper Muncaster married a Hancock:

There seem to be no family records of the Muncasters of Maryland and the story is very 
incompletely gathered from the court records of the province of Lord Baltimore and the State of 
Maryland.

The first mention known is the record of marriage of James Monkister to Elizabeth Charmion in 
1671. She owned some land in Charles County Md. and at her death it passed to her son William 
Monkister. In later records her name was spelled "Shearman" and his became Muncaster as it is 
now spelled. 

William lived from 1675 to 1717. In 1707 he patented a tract called "Muncaster Croft", 100 
acres. This seems to be all the land he ever owned though his wife's land was added to this. 
The next owner was William Muncaster (1702-1750) and when he died it descended to his son James 
(1735-1805) and the plantation had grown to about 400 acres at the time of his death. James 
left it to his four children: Zachariah, John, Sarah and Sophia. He had another daughter 
Rachel, but she had married Walter Stone of Frederick Co. against his wishes and he left her 
out of his will.  John (1769-1829) bought the shares of his brother and sisters in the farm in 
1810, paying them 541.71 apiece. He lived on the farm. In 1796 he married Elizabeth Copper who 
owned property in Alexandria, Va. His brother Zachariah was married in 1804 and moved to 
Montgomery County where his wife Harriet Magruder owned a 200 acre farm and a group of slaves. 
Their descendants are found in Montgomery County, Md.

In 1819, John sold his farm and everything on it, and moved his family (wife and five children) 
to Louisiana, settling in Carrolton, near New Orleans.  Charles Wallace, Christiana, Cyrus 
Copper and Harriet Sophia reached New Orleans, a daughter, Mary was born afterwards, and a son 
Dr. James Copper was left at Henderson, Ky. where it is said to have married a Miss Hancock and 
set up the practice of medicine.  He was about 22 years old and he held a diploma from Medical 
College of Maryland, and license to practice in that state granted in 1818. 

He practiced medicine in Henderson until his death in 1829, when he left a widow and three 
children, but there is no record of their names, and they seem to have been lost to the 
Maryland family until about 1877 when a letter from the oldest son gave the names of his 
children as John, George, Thomas and three girls whose names he did not give. From this 
descendants have been traced in Kentucky, largely up to date.

Friday, July 15, 2016

The other fact matching up is that the 1850 census shows Annah living in KY but being born in VA as was Ann Maria.

Thursday, July 14, 2016

On May 30 I got this email from Jim Davis:

Hello
Hi how you i am doing just fine
I need you to check this out
I found  a  ANN MARIA HANCOCK  WHO MARRIED JAMES C MUNCASTER   COULD SHE BE THE ANNAH
Please check this out on ROOTS WEB WORLD CONNECT ON NORTHRUPS / NORTHORPS/GALLOPS  AND FAMILY

I got on Rootsweb and found William Hancock born about 1765 in Virginia, died 1827 in Henderson Co, KY.  Oct 27, 1788 he married Susannah Grigsby (born about 1767) in Fauquier Co, VA.  It shows them having 4 children, one of which was Ann Maria born about 1800 in VA who married James C. Muncaster born about 1798.


The only thing I really have on Annah is the 1850 census for Henderson Co, KY which shows her living with her son John W.  He was born June 22, 1821 in Henderson Co, KY.  The date is consistent with what we have on Ann Maria Hancock and we know the Hancocks and James Copper were all in Henderson Co, KY, so it is likely that this Ann Maria Hancock is the same Annah, but I can’t tell for sure.

Saturday, January 30, 2016

Thomas Hart, Sr. (1650-1701) obviously couldn't be the husband of Mary Page (1609-1635) who died 15 years before her "husband" was born.  Found there was a Mary Page (1609-1635) married to a Thomas Hart in England and their son's birth year fit.  So I am deleting Thomas Hart, Sr. and Mary Page from my database.

Wednesday, January 27, 2016

Capt John B Hart's parents were Benjamin Franklin Hart, Sr. and Anne Nancy Morgan.

Tuesday, January 26, 2016

Patience Lane's parents were Lt. Jesse Lane and Winifred Aycock. Jesse's parents were Joseph Lane, Jr. and Patience McKinne.  Joseph's parents were Joseph Lane, Sr. and Jilian and Patience's parents were Barnaby McKinnie and Mary Exum.

Winifred's parents were William Aycock and Rebecca Pace.  William's parents were William Aycock and Elizabeth Pope while Rebecca' parents were Richard Pace and Rebecca Poythress.

Monday, January 25, 2016

Agonized long and hard about some of the information Jim Davis sent me. It violated the criteria I set up to limit the size of the database I was working on.  Namely it extended far into the past along lines I did not follow, along spouses lines.  However, the data was so detailed and went back so far that I've decided to include it.

It goes back from the West Virginia Muncaster line.  John Muncaster (1821-1896) married Ann Hart.  Ann's father was Thomas Hart and his parents were Capt. John B Hart and Patience Lane. Ann's mother was Sarah (Sallie) Bugg and her parents were Samuel Bugg and Elizabeth Bilbo.

Saturday, January 23, 2016

Found that Guyler Magruder was born Jan 29, 1925 in El Paso, TX and died Mar 13, 2012 in Palm Beach, FL.

Friday, January 22, 2016

RootsWeb ppm

Edward Wyatt married Adelina Virginia Magruder May 31, 1843 in Petersburg, VA.

Patrick Henry Magruder married Evelina Dunlaney Dec 16, 1835 in Botetout County, VA. They had the following children:

Mary E Magruder born Sep 14, 1836 in VA, died Jan 29, 1893 in Sealy, TX, married Albert G Reider Sep 8, 1859 in VA.

Adelina Virginia Magruder born Nov 4, 1838, died 1888 in VA; married Robert Crutchfield Green on Dec 6, 1866 in Giles Co, VA.

William Henry Magruder born Dec 4, 1840 in VA, died Nov 2, 1914 in New Orleans, LA.

Fortunatus Brook Magruder confirmed

Robert Elkany Magruder born Nov 25, 1844 in VA, died Oct 9, 1887; married Frances Elizabeth Crunk (Jan 28, 1856 MO - Oct 29, 1932 TX)  Sep 5, 1877

Marshall Magruder born Jan 18, 1847 in VA, died about 1921 NY, NY

Olivia Epps Magruder born Jun 1, 1849 in VA, died Jan 13, 1916 in Freemont, NB; married George Washington Pratt (Sep 2, 1836 - jun 9, 1906)

Lucy Ann Magruder born sep 6, 1851 in VA, died apr 15, 1933 corpus christie, TX; married Wylie A Sanders mar 5, 1884 in TX

Emma Louisa Magruder born Aug 2, 1854 in VA, married James Phillips (born in Scotland)

Edward Greenville Magruder born Feb 12, 1857 in VA, died Oct 5, 1929 in San Angelo, Texas

Clay Magruder born Apr 3, 1859 in VA, 

Sallie Magruder born Apr 3, 1859 in VA, 



Friday, January 15, 2016

Logged on to WikiTree and found the day that Col. Samuel Magruder (my 7th great-grandfather) died in 1711 and the day that Ninian Beall, Jr. died in 1710.