3d Model of Sentell home in Collinsburg ca 1935

I built this digital model based on photos posted below.  None of the photos showed the rear of the house very well.  The look of the rear gallery and milk room is an educated guess.  If you click on the image below it should load up the 3D view and let you twirl the model around.

3D Warehouse Link

The Sentell home at Collinsburg was built shortly after the Civil War and burned completely in a matter of minutes in 1939.

Floor Plan by Ann McBride Chilcutt

Elevation by Ann McBride Chilcutt

Site Plan by Eugenia McBride Bridges

DNA cousins

Ancestry shows I have matching DNA with over 82,000 "cousins." I check my new matches frequently to see who has popped up.  As of today, of the 82,000 people on Ancestry that I share DNA with, 1,064 of them have an ancestor in their tree that matches one in mine.  So, we know we have matching DNA and we are pretty sure of where that DNA came from.  Some of my matches share more than one ancestor pair with me.  That makes them a "double" cousin.  I have lost count of the number of double cousins.  Surprisingly, there are a few triple cousins also.  A good number of these cousins match both my maternal and paternal sides.  I have found this most common with the Culpeper and Cleveland families.  Culpeper's are a paternal line while the Cleveland's are on my mother's side.  The two families shared a very similar migration path from Colonial times across the southeast.  They intermingled a good bit.

Ancestry is unable to deduce a common ancestor for the vast majority of my cousin matches.  This is generally because many people's trees are not filled out beyond a couple or three generations.  Sometimes I am able to determine if the match is maternal or paternal or even narrow down to a family line based on our common cousin matches (that is, people that share DNA with both me and the cousin match in question).  If a bunch of them show a connection to a certain family line, the original match is likely in that line as well.

Beyond immediate family and a few 2nd cousins, I have only recognized one or two of the matches that have shown up in my list of 82,000 cousins.  One was a friend of a friend that I met on a couple occasions before seeing his name in my match list.  His profile showed that he was from Mississippi and I figured it must be him.  Sure enough, it was him.  I expected to see a lot more of that, but so far it's been extremely rare.

Sometimes I will add a DNA cousin match to my Tree.  I'll do this if I have been corresponding with that person or they are part of a family I'm particularly working on.  I will fill out my tree enough that I can include them.   It typically involves a lot of lateral additions.  I designate those DNA matching cousins in my tree with a special graphic.  I've got about 40 of those folks now. Here's the graphic and a list of the individuals it's assigned to...

DNA matches that I have also included in my tree at ancestry

I'd guess about one in ten ancestry.com users attach a photo of themselves to their profile.  This is the only reason I noticed the following two cousin matches.  They are both wearing uniforms that caught my attention.

Screenshot from DNA match list

I like baseball but I don't really follow it and would have let Curtis Montague Schilling's name pass right by, but the uniform in his photo was a giveaway.  Curt was a pitcher with the Phillies when they won the world series in 1993.  He has also played with the Boston Red Sox and the Arizona Diamondbacks.  He retired in 2009.  According to wiki he has done some sports and political commentary on radio since then.

According to Ancestry.com, he and I share 7.5 centimorgans of one DNA segment.  That's not a lot, but it's enough to register a match.  We also currently share 4 common cousin matches.  Two of those I have identified on my mother's side of the family.  Specifically up the Keller, Dickson, Cleveland lines.  So, likely, Curt and I have a common ancestor in one of those families 6 or more generations back.  His tree is private, so I can't get more specific information.

Screenshot from DNA match list

The other uniform I noticed was a Starfleet uniform from the United Federation of Planets.  Truthfully, I had to google that also.  I did recognize the uniform from the Star Trek TV show series and I knew enough to say that his red shirt signified his role as engineering or security aboard ship.  Chris Doohan is the match.  Turns out he is an actor who appeared on "Star Trek The Motion Picture" and Star Trek Into Darkness."  He also played "Scotty" in "Star Trek Continues," a web based series.

His father, coincidentally, was James Doohan, the Canadian actor who played the original "Scotty" in the television series.  I suspect Chris' small DNA connection with me, however, is through his American mother, Janet Young.  Chris' father, James had parents from Ireland.  If our connection is through him it would be way back many generations because my people have been in the states a long time.  That's why I figure the connection is through Janet Young.  I figured we would connect on my father's side due to the Young family being in my paternal branches, but this may not be the case.  We share only one DNA cousin who is most likely related to me on my mother's side.  Chris Doohan's tree is public, but there are only 3 people in it, so determining our common ancestor is not possible at this time.

About Elizabeth Kuykendall Keller written by her sister, Ivah

Elizabeth Kuykendall Keller

Her grandchildren called her Momaw.  The following was paper-clipped into the guest book from her funeral service.  I'm guessing Ivah wrote it for Sarah Jane Keller Castleman as she was the only one of Momaw's daughters that had all boys at the time.  I remember Ivah was a very sweet aunt.  She wrote bio's on several family members.  I'm glad we have this one about Momaw...

Sept. 14, 1979 

Elizabeth Kuykendall Keller

About the first thing I can remember was Elizabeth and me playing-- jumping from one rafter to another while the carpenters were building the porch on our new house where the Shetleys live now.  She was about 3 1/2 years and I was 2 years (almost) older.  Then came time for me to go to school.  Mama asked the teacher if Elizabeth could go with me and they let her start.  We made it fine going because we had Claudia to take us.  But we only went 1/2 day and poor Claudia spent her lunch hour walking part of the way home with us.  Mama met us and we made it fine.

Somehow Elizabeth was more aggressive than I.  She had gone with Claudia to Central College and Had seen her first piano.  She took a plank and made a key board and she imagined she was making music.  I was so dumb, I didn't know what she was doing.  Papa and Mama decided she had talent and they bought an organ and she and Hettie learned a few tunes.  Mama's uncle could play so he taught them a few tunes.  It was a beautiful piece of furniture.  Papa bought a place in front of Hendrix College and we moved there so the little ones could be closer to school.  Then he bought a piano.  That was 70 years ago.  They gave Elizabeth lessons with Mrs Nell Cole-- paid her in cream and butter.  

When Elizabeth and I were in 6th grade they took her out of grade school and sent her to Central College so she could take lessons there and not walk from school to Central.  I was lost-- never had any more interest in school after that.  She begged for me to go to Central but papa wasn't able to send both of us.  She got a wonderful education then and finished her musical degree under the very best instructors.  She gave her recital in 1917 and got her degree then.  While she was at Central she had a studio close to public school and taught some pupils.

Then she and Claudia were asked to go to Wellford, the first consolidated school in Arkansas.  They stayed there 2 or 3 years.  Got wonderful salaries.  She was engaged to Perry Herrin and she spent most of her money on her trousseau.  Then she came home in the summer and started dating your father, Bill Keller.  They were married the next year-- 57 years ago.

Elizabeth was always the favorite of the whole family.  She was the bright spark in everyone's life and she expected lots of love and attention from every member.  She was a devout Christian from the time she could toddle off  to the Church and Sunday School and BYPU.

She was always kind and thoughtful of every member of her family.  Nothing was too good for any member of the whole family. 

Elizabeth had many many true friends.  She attended U of A in Conway and took some manual training so she could be in the class with your dad.  He did most of the work for her. 

She used to go with Papa when he would go on his 2 or 3 nights trip to places where they had pianos and she would play for them.  They would call in the neighborhood and they would all have a ball.  She was very popular. 

She and I loved our double cousins, Ida and Marietta King- and we spent each weekend together- either at their house or ours.  We were all about the same age. 

Friday AM
Guess you're home by now and taking care of all your boys.  Was that biography kinda what you wanted?  If there is anything else you want me to tell, let me know.  I could have written a book on her. 

I'm glad you were with your dad for that week.  I am really doing fine and I think I will be entirely well in a few weeks.  Has it snowed yet up there?  Believe me it is chilly here, but wonderful.  You won't believe it, I sold about a bushel of pom-granite this morning.  They were so big and beautiful.  I got 25 cents each for them.  It's better to sell them than see them hang there and burst open.  I will have about 20 or 25 dollars worth-- not bad eh. 

The Kordsmeier's gave me a bushel of the most beautiful tomatoes and yesterday I canned 13 quarts and 3 pints of tomato juice.  Tomorrow I am going to can pears.  I have already made preserves as I decided to can these.  I tell you there's not a free minute as long as I have a garden, pond, and everything around. 

Ida and I are going with some friends of ours to the Toad Suck fish place this P.M.  I want to take you all over there if you ever come and stay long enough.  You'd love it.  Must stop now and mail this. 

I love all of you,
Ivah

Wrightsborough

Photo posted by user "wind9954" at Ancestry.com

President Jimmy Carter wrote a historical novel a few years back set primarily in Georgia (naturally) during the Revolutionary War.  It's called The Hornet's Nest and I'm about halfway through it.  It's been a good read so far.  Carter apparently thought a lot about what it was like to live in the 18th century.  Daily activities that seem foreign today are detailed and brought to life through his characters.  It is a work of fiction, but the broad historical context is accurate.

Amazon LINK to "The Hornet's Nest"

Much of the book focuses on the Quaker settlement of Wrightsborough or Wrightsboro as it became known.  I understand it was the southernmost Quaker settlement in the colonies.  At the time of the Revolutionary War, Wrightsborough was on the frontier. If you traveled any further west, you would be in Indian territory.  A road was cut through the forest from Augusta to provide access to the new settlement.  Today, it is a little dot on the map in McDuffie County, Georgia 40 miles west of Augusta and about 90 miles east of Atlanta just north of Interstate 20.

I was a little familiar with Wrightsboro because I had read that a 5th great grandfather was murdered there.  He was born into a Quaker family in Chester County, Pennsylvania.  Along with other Quaker families, he migrated from Chester to North Carolina and ultimately, Wrightsboro, Georgia.

His name was Thomas Jackson.  Here is what his birth record looks like from the New Garden Monthly Meeting, Chester, Pennsylvania...

The record mentions his parents, Isaac and Mary Jackson.  Isaac and Mary were immigrants from Ireland landing with their families in Pennsylvania in the 1720's.  They married in Pennsylvania and eventually moved to Orange County, North Carolina.  It was in Orange County that their son Thomas married a girl named "Mary."  There is no solid proof for Mary's last name though there is a very good case for her being the daughter of Joseph Maddock, a Quaker leader.  Joseph founded Wrightsborough and he features prominently in Carter's book.  If Mary is his daughter, Joseph Maddock would be my 6th great grandfather.

In Wrightsborough, Thomas and Mary Jackson had at least 2 children before he and a neighbor were brutally killed by Creek Indians in August of 1770.  The story is recounted in several sources.  In "Documents of the American Revolution, 1770-1783," Vol III edited by K.G. Davies, we read the following:

...yet the Creek Indians have frequently stolen great numbers of horses and cattle from many of His Majesty's subjects and have also committed several murders since that time, the last of which was in August 1770 when some of the said Indians in cool blood and without any cause or reason whatever barbarously murdered Thomas Jackson and George Beck, two of the inhabitants of Wrightsborough Township...

Other accounts further describe that Thomas was tending his field just outside of Wrightsborough when he was surprised by a Creek war party.  So far, Jimmy Carter's book does not mention this episode.

Thomas and Mary's two children were Deborah and Joseph.  Deborah Jackson, married Robert McGinty a year after her father's death.  It is the McGinty line through which we connect to Thomas Jackson.

A cousin, who "wrote the book on the McGinty family," lays out the case for Thomas Jackson's wife being the daughter of Joseph Maddock.  Jerry McGinty outlines about 10 items that reinforce the connection.  We know Thomas' wife was named Mary because an Oath of Administration is issued to Mary Jackson (his wife) after Thomas' death.  Joseph Maddock signed that document.  Both Thomas Jackson and Mary Maddock appear in the Cane Creek Monthly Meeting minutes in the 1750's back in North Carolina.  Land plats of Joseph Maddock and Thomas Jackson adjoin each other in Wrightsboro.  Mary names her children Joseph and Deborah.  These names occur frequently in the Maddock family.  Mary's father and brother were named Joseph. She had a sister named Deborah.  Neither name is common in the Jackson family before the Revolutionary War.  The ages of Thomas and Mary's children fall in line with the ages of the parents and their probable marriage date.

By the way, Jerry McGinty's book is available from him personally.  Let me know if you want a copy and I can get you the contact information.

Beyond the above circumstantial evidence for Mary Maddock Jackson, there are currently over 40 DNA matches to me and my sisters that show this same Maddock line in their ancestry.  While I admit it's not "proven," the culmination of all this evidence makes me comfortable calling Joseph Maddock my 6th great grandfather.

The Quakers generally suffered during the Revolutionary War.  This was certainly the case at Wrightsborough.  As more and more non Quaker settlers moved to the area, conflicts became more prevalent between the pacifist Quakers and their more Patriot minded neighbors.  Rebel partisons raided the community frequently.  There were more murders.  Some Friends fought back and were disowned.  Many of the Friends outright sided with the British-- Maddock especially.  He was imprisoned for a time by the rebels and spent a number of months as a refugee in British-held Savannah.  After the war the exiled Quakers were allowed to return to Wrightsborough but life did not improve.

Joseph Maddock solicited monetary assistance for the displaced refugees from the British and other sources during their time in Savannah.  After the war the monthly meeting asked him to account for his use of the money.  He was ultimately disowned as he was unable or unwilling to provide the accounting.  He died at Wrightsborough in 1794.

The Wrightsboro Quakers held staunch anti-slavery beliefs that were basically incompatible with their surroundings.  By 1810 most of the Quaker families had migrated to Ohio.  The remaining community in Georgia dwindled and ceased to be by 1923.  Now it is a simple crossroads in rural Georgia.

Maddock's granddaughter, Deborah Jackson, became a preacher's wife.  In 1785 she and Robert McGinty moved from the area of Wrightsboro to Wilkes County, Georgia. Robert, who was originally either Presbyterian or Quaker was baptized at age 35 by their neighbor, Silas Mercer in the Baptist Church.  Silas was a pioneer Baptist preacher in Georgia-- Pastor of Phillips Mill Baptist Church.  Silas baptised his son, Jesse and Robert McGinty on the same day using the same barrel on his property.  Jesse and Robert both became Baptist ministers serving long and fruitful careers.  Mercer University was named for Jesse Mercer.

-Lineage from Joseph Maddock-

JOSEPH MADDOCK (1720-1794) - 6th great-grandfather

(father of)

MARY MADDOCK (1735-1780) who married Thomas Jackson (1731-1770)

(mother of)

DEBORAH JACKSON (1760-1835) who married Rev. Robert McGinty (1750-1841)

(mother of)

WILLIAM A MCGINTY (1792-1858) who married Martha Grant (1800-1876)

(father of)

ELISHA KING MCGINTY (1830-1896) who married Mary Catherine Stinson (1841-1930)

(father of)

MEDORA MCGINTY (1867-1926) who married John Sherwood McBride (1860-1937)

(mother of)

WILLIAM MCGINTY MCBRIDE SR (1899-1963) who married Annie Lou Sentell (1903-1990)

(father of)

WILLIAM MCGINTY MCBRIDE JR. (1929-2016) who married Marjorie Catherine Keller

(father of)

JOHN SENTELL MCBRIDE who married Karen Nell Cochran

The Order of the First Families of Mississippi

I work in the library at church for a brief time most Wednesday afternoons.  I enjoy it because I get to see people that I wouldn't see otherwise.  One intersting character who used to come through frequently was Mr. Thomas Bowen Jr.  Tom Bowen was a past Governor General of The Order of the First Families of Mississippi.  He passed away a couple months ago.  

A few years back on one of his stops in the library, Tom asked about my McBride's and if they had been in Mississippi long.  He was interested because he had a son-in-law who was a McBride. He also had a passion for the First Families organization.  I knew Tom's son-in-law because we had boys that did scouts together.  We've been on many camping trips, endured foul weather, gruelling hikes and questionable scout cuisine.  I figured out at some point that we share a pair of great great great grandparents.  Actually, our shared ancestor is my third great and his fourth great grandparents.  That makes us fourth cousins once removed.  Our boys are 5th cousins once removed.  The ancestor we share was John McBride (1800-1868).  There is a blog post about him a couple posts back.  He spent 45 years in Mississippi starting from about 1821.

Tom was wondering if our John McBride would qualify me (and his son-in-law) for membership in "First Families."  To qualify for membership in the Order of First Families of Mississippi, you have to prove descendancy from someone who resided in the Territory of Mississippi-- that is, the area of the state before it became a state in 1817.  Unfortunately, John McBride was 4 or 5 years too late to the party but Tom's asking got me interested in the organization.

My sister was also interested in joining, so I checked into the options.  What I liked about the organization is that it is history minded.  First Families is "dedicated to perpetuating the memory of the founders of the state of Mississippi."  They "work to preserve for future generations the history and genealogy of Mississippi's colonial past."  They meet a couple times a year and offer lectures and tours during those meetings.

I found at least 5 ancestors who would qualify me for membership.  The easiest to document was already in the Roster on their website, Benjamin Brashear.  Three of them were already on the roster. I've already written about the Brashear family on this blog.

I did some legwork and pulled together the proofs and Tom and his daughter agreed to sponsor me and my sister.  We were made members just before the 2017 celebration of Mississippi's 200th birthday.  I've been to a couple of the meetings, toured the Governor's mansion and an antebellum home in Natchez and heard a couple great lectures since joining.

Here is the website...  https://offms.org/

The roster of ancestors on the First Families' website provides an option for submitting a short bio for your ancestor.  I wrote the following and submitted it...

Benjamin Brashear (1727 - 1809) 

Benjamin Brashear, a fourth-generation American colonist of Huguenot descent, was baptized in 1727 at Saint Barnabas Episcopal Church in Prince George's County, Maryland.  Within the impressive brick structure is currently housed a marble baptismal font and silver communion set inscribed “St. Barnabas Church in Merreland, 1718.”  Benjamin and his children were likely baptized from that font.  

Benjamin was a veteran of the French and Indian Wars having served in the Maryland Militia.  He married his Captain's niece, Catherine Lucy Belt, in 1750.  Their union produced 10 children.  Lucy was the grand-daughter of Colonel Joseph Belt who is credited as the patentee of Chevy Chase, Maryland and member of the House of Burgesses. 

In 1773, Benjamin removed his young family from Maryland and embarked for the western frontier initially settling at Red Stone Creek near Fort Burd on the Monongahela River, then part of the Colony of Virginia.  It was here, two of Benjamin's sons, Richard and Tobias, enlisted under General George Rogers Clark and embarked on the notable Northwest Campaign near the end of the Revolutionary War.  Benjamin and the rest of the family accompanied Clark's army down the Ohio River stopping briefly at Bullitt County Kentucky and on through the Illinois territory; settling for a time at Kaskaskia, Illinois after Clark and his men wrested the area from the British. 

Benjamin’s oldest son, Marsham, remained in Bullitt County and established a trading post on the Wilderness Road between Harrodsburg and the Falls of the Ohio River.  Marsham’s was purportedly the first marriage ceremony performed in the fledgling settlement of Louisville.  Marsham married Lucy Phelps, a survivor of the Boonesborough siege of 1778.  In an interview with Lyman Draper, she recounted having watched Col. Daniel Boone sharply eye an Indian spy peering into the fort from an adjacent sycamore tree.  A crack from Boone’s musket and the Indian was felled from his branch. 

In 1780, the Brashear family left Clark’s army in the Illinois territory and made their way down the Mississippi River. Benjamin secured a Spanish land grant of 400 arpents on the waters of Bayou Pierre in the Spanish held Natchez district.  Sons, Richard and Tobias had married in Kaskaskia and brought their young families south as well.  The entire family settled in and around Natchez and Port Gibson marrying into local families and becoming intertwined with the community.  Several of Benjamin’s sons and sons-in-law also secured Spanish land grants in the area. 

One son, Turner Brashear, is well known for having established, in 1806, a stand on the Natchez Trace.  Today, Brashear’s Stand is a featured historic waypoint on the Natchez Trace Parkway at Ridgeland, Mississippi.  Turner married into the Choctaw Nation and served Spanish and American authorities as an official Choctaw interpreter.  His name is found among the signatures of many notable treaties.  Turner and his younger brother Eden served in several capacities at the nearby Choctaw Agency in conjunction with their business endeavors along the Natchez Trace.  Their father, Benjamin, maintained a plantation on Bayou Pierre in what is now Claiborne County until his death in 1809 after over 20 years in the Mississippi Territory. 

Benjamin Brashear passed away when he was 82 years old outliving his wife and five of his children.

Ambush Rock - Eliot, Maine

Illus. from the publication, "Ye romance of old York"
by Herbert Milton Sylvester

Phebe Littlefield Heard was a second generation colonist in 17th century New England.  Her father, Francis Littlefield, was born in Hampshire on the southern coast of England.  He migrated to the colonies in the 1630's.  Francis married a Maine native, Rebecca Rust, in December of 1646 in Wells, Maine which is just a couple miles down the coast from Kennebunkport.  Phebe was born in 1670, one of several children.  She married Captain John Heard in April of 1690.  By 1697, Phebe and John had three girls and one boy under the age of 7--  Dorcus, Phebe, Shua and James.  They were living in the vicinity of the village of Eliot, Maine.

The following excerpt was written in 1906.  Like the picture above, it is taken from the book, "Ye romance of old York" by Herbert Milton Sylvester.  Eliot is in York County, Maine.  The passage describes the final moments of 10th great grandmother, Phebe Littlefield Heard.

This was old Quamphegan, better known in these hurrying days, as South Berwick.  It was here that church service was first inaugurated, for John Mason sent over with his pioneer colonists (which was in 1631), a communion set, also a "great Bible and twelve Service Books."  The service was of the Episcopalian order, and I have no doubt but the service of the Church was read, and that the laborers joined in saying of the responses and the creed with bowed heads and an accompanying reverence.  As early as 1640 fines were imposed for such violations of the Sabbath as occurred, which may be taken as an indication of the sanctity with which this day was thus early clothed.

This, in 1668 was known as the parish of Unity.  Stackpole concludes that the first meeting-house here was built about 1659;  but the service seems to have been of a somewhat desultory character, as this parish was presented to the court four separate times in as many years, "for not providing a minister."

It was from this old church that Captain Frost was returning on that summer morning of 1697, in company with Dennis Downing, John Heard and his wife Phoebe.  They had reached a point in the bridlepath of those days, opposite a huge boulder, which was about a mile away to the north from the Frost garrison house.  The sharp reports of three guns broke the silence.  Captain Frost and Downing were killed instantly.  The Heard woman, although sorely wounded, tried to regain her saddle but was unable to do so.  Falling back into the path, Spartan-like she urged her husband to ride for the cabin and place the children in safety, which he did, notwithstanding the savages chased him and shot his horse under him just as he got to the garrison.  He saved his house and his children.  Heard was a great Indian fighter, and the Indians were desirous to obtain his scalp.  They lurked about his place to finally come across him in the woods.  Heard ran and the Indians gave chase.  He remembered a hollow log in the woods and made for that, into which he crept, thereby evading his pursuers.  He had killed his dog, so he might not be betrayed by that faithful animal, and while thus concealed the savages came to the log.  Here they sat down to get their wind, and he listened to what they would do to John Heard when they caught him.

The body of Frost was decently buried, and the night after these ghouls of the woods had opened the grave and taken the body to the crest of Frost's Hill and impaled it upon a stake.  Such was their hatred of the man who helped to plan and carry out the trick which has come down in history as Waldron's Ruse.  This boulder still cleaves to its pasture side and is known as Ambush Rock.

Major Charles Frost was a well known leader and Indian fighter in his day.  At the time of the ambush he was the highest ranking military officer in Maine.  According to the Eliot Historical Society, the heavy granite stone used to mark his final resting place and secure his remains from further desecration is the oldest grave marker in the state.

Waldron's Ruse, mentioned in the passage, refers to a deception carried out by Richard Waldron (militia leader) and Charles Frost during King Philip's War (1676) where about 400 Indians were convinced to pitch a mock battle with the militia.  After the Indians had fired their guns, they were quickly forced to surrender their weapons to a fully armed militia.  The Indians were marched to Boston and those not executed were sold into slavery.  Most were shipped to the Caribbean.  The remaining Native population in the Colony were set on revenge.

In 1897, the village of Eliot created the Eliot Historical Society with the intent of commemorating the 200th anniversary of the ambush.  A ceremony was held.  Songs were sung; speeches and poems were read.  In 1915 a bronze plaque was placed on the boulder at the site of the ambush.  The plaque lists the people killed during the ambush, including Phebe Heard.  In 2018, a full 321 years after the event, the boulder is still marked and the story is still told.

Ambush Rock as it appears today

--Lineage from Phebe Heard--

Phebe Littlefield (1670-1697) who married John Heard (1667-1751)

[mother of]

Shua Heard (1694-) who married Nathan Bartlett (1691-1775)

[mother of]

Phebe Bartlett (1721-1805) who married John Dennett (1716-1787)

[mother of]

Phebe Dennett (1744-1799) who married Henry Sherburne (1737-1823)

[mother of]

Samuel Sherburne (1770-1819) who married Ursule Rose DuBois (1768-1824)

[father of]

Eugene Amedee Sherburne (1802-1860) who married Margaret Newton Lindsay (1816-1852)

[father of]

Charles Brashear Sherburne (1841-1913) who married Patience Elizabeth Young (1841-1892)

[father of]

Annie Eliza Sherburne (1876-1915) who married Nathaniel William Sentell (1866-1936)

[mother of]

Annie Lou Sentell (1903-1990) who married William McGinty McBride Sr (1899-1963)

[mother of]

William McGinty McBride Jr (1929-2016) who married Marjorie Catherine Keller

[father of]

John Sentell McBride who married Karen Nell Cochran

Ancestor Birthplace Chart

I created this chart a while back and updated it as necessary over the past couple of years.  It is essentially an ancestral fan chart.  Each flag represents the birthplace of each respective ancestor.  The chart shows 4th great grandparents and down.  The tabulation at the upper left indicates what states and countries are represented and the number of times they show up.  I'm represented by the big Louisiana state flag in the middle.  Of course the chart is also accurate for my 4 siblings.

See larger version at link below...

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