Monday, March 24, 2014

Angela Rogers Hancock #MemorialMonday

Angela Eileen Hancock, 54, of Pickard Circle, died Friday, March 14, 2014, at Wake Forest Baptist Health — Lexington Medical Center after declining health of several years.

A graveside service will be at 2 p.m. Tuesday in Forest Hill Memorial Park by the Rev. Abraham Silva.

Angela was born June 8, 1959, in Richland County, S.C., to Lavern Rogers and Mary Kelly Silva. She was previously employed with Frank Ix & Sons. She was preceded in death by a sister, Margaret Sue Lopez.

Surviving are her mother of Lexington; father of Camden S.C.; husband Fred Hancock of the home; sons Freddie Hancock of Welcome and Abram Hancock of the home; daughter Felicia Hutchens of Mocksville; brothers Ronald Silva of Arizona and Russell Rogers of South Carolina; sisters Rhonda Bermudez of Matthews and Mary Farley of Lexington; and grandchildren Ashley, Samuel, Reina, Tristan, Lelann and Eva.

Davidson Funeral Home is serving the family.

Online condolences may be made at www.davidsonfuneralhome.net.   

http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=126571513

Monday, March 17, 2014

Saint Patrick, Patron Saint of Ireland

Saint Patrick AKA Patrick mac Calpuirn o Éireann, Patron Saint of Ireland is my 20th great uncle's great grandfather's wife's second great grandfather's wife's brother.

You 
   →  Mom 
your mother →  Pvt. Garnett Hancock, WWII Veteran 
her father →  Ida Mae Hancock 
his mother →  Robert Lee Linville 
her father → Moses Linville 
his father →  Hannah Scarlett Linville 
his mother →  Elizabeth Margaret Morgan 
her mother →  John Jarman 
her father →  Arthur Jarman 
his father → John Jarman 
his father →  Thomas Jarman 
his father →  Gwen Jarmen 
his mother →  Sir Rhys of Penrhyn Griffith 
her father →  Sir William Griffith, of Penrhyn 
his father → Sir William Griffith, Chamberlain of North Wales 
his father →  William Fychan ap Gwilym 
his father →  Gwilym Ap Gruffydd 
his father →  Gruffydd ap Gwilym 
his father →  Gwenhwyfar verch Ieuan 
his mother →  Ieuan Ap Gruffudd 
her father →  Gruffudd ab Iowerth 
his father →  Angharad verch Llewellyn 
his mother → Wyona verch Rheiny 
her daughter →  Cadwr "Wenwyn" ap Idnerth, King of Builth 
her husband →  Idnerth AP IORWERTH HIRFLAWDD 
his father → Orgren (Arianwen) . verch Brychan, Saint 
his mother →  St. Brychan Gododdin, Brenin Brycheiniog 
her father →  Prawst . verch Tudwal 
his wife → Tudwal, King of Dumnonia 
her father →  Gwrfawr (Morfawr) ap Cadfan, King of Dumnonia 
his father →  Gadeon ap Conan / King of Dumnonia 
his father → Conan Meriadek/Cynan Meiriadog/Kynan Meiriadawe leader of the Bretons 
his father →  Saint Dareca 
his wife → Patrick mac Calpuirn o Éireann, Patron Saint of Ireland 
her brother


The Real St. Patrick, Bishop of Ireland

by Fr. Kristopher and Matushka Elizabeth Dowling
The following is paraphrased from St. Fiacc's Hymn of St. Patrick. St. Fiacc, commemorated on October 12th, was a bard before St. Patrick made him a Bishop. Although some modern writers believe that St. Fiacc's Hymn of St. Patrick was written many centuries later; this thought is based on later additions of footnotes following the hymn. However, footnotes in Irish books copied by hand were always added by later copiests; the earlier the book, the more footnotes with Scriptural and other references. Thus, the very well footnoted Hymn of St. Patrick is from a very early source, as is St. Secundinus's Lorica, Hymn on St. Patrick. Whether St. Patrick was one of the group of Priests that travelled to Britain with St. Germanus or not, it is certain from other sources that St. Patrick was a pupil of St. Germanus for a long time, and would have had the same theological foundation. Perhaps modern writers were uncomfortable with the miracles of St. Germanus which occured when he fought the heresy of Pelagius. These miracles are also recorded by St. Bede.
St. Patrick was born in the late Fourth Century. His Father was Calpurnius, a Briton and a Deacon; his mother, Concess, was a Frank and a close relative of St. Martin of Tours. At sixteen years of age, St. Patrick and many others were kidnapped from the family estate near Bannavem Taburniae (some say this was in western Britain, others say it was in Brittany) by the seven vengeful exiled sons of a king of the Britons. This happened after Rome required that all Briton soldiers under Roman authority go to Rome to defend that city from barbarians, leaving Britain without any army or police, as recorded by St. Bede. Many acts of violence and greed were recorded at that time, which St. Bede called a terrible shame in Britain, which had been Christian a long time.
St. Patrick's father was killed; his sister disappeared.
St. Patrick was sold into slavery in Ireland. His life turned from youthful simplicity into a lesson for all of us. He was a slave, but obeyed his master. He would not depart until given leave to do so.
St. Patrick's escape from slavery was accomplished with miracles. He was visited in a dream by an angel in the form of a bird, Victor, the conqueror, who arranged a miraculous escape. Patrick said that he needed his master's permission to go home, but his master required a ransom of gold as large as his head. The angel told Patrick to follow a boar. The boar's rooting turned up the gold which was to ransom him. The angel took him to the seacoast sixty miles in one day to meet a ship, but instead the lord of the port sold Patrick to others. Then the fee, a set of brazen cauldrons, tormented the betrayer and his family. When they were admiring the cauldrons, their hands stuck to the metal. The lord of the port repented, was forgiven by Patrick. He converted to the will of God, ransomed Patrick from the slavers, and sent Patrick home. He was baptized by Patrick later, when St. Patrick returned. St. Patrick had been a slave six years.
Patrick had a dream that he must preach the Gospel to the Irish, but Victor had told him to seek an education first. He found his education under St. Germanus of Auxerre, who lived close to the southern part of Gaul which is next to the Mediterranean sea. (St. Fiacc does not record other miracles. The town of St. Patrice near Tours in France claims that it was visited by St. Patrick in midwinter. He was tired and cold, and the frost-covered thorn tree he slept under burst into soft warm blooms above him. In December every year until the tree was destroyed the "flowers of St. Patrick" bloomed there. French archaeological and agriculture societies testified to the truth of this phenomenon into this century.)
St. Germanus took his pupil to Britain to save that country from the errors of Pelagius. (The error of Pelagius was a belief that we may attain salvation through our own efforts without God's help, as if the image of God in us were completely separated from the help of the Holy Spirit, the grace of the living God. This heresy is seen today in mistaking the Holy Spirit for the whims or emotions of the mob; "zeitgeist" instead of Holy Spirit.) St. Fiacc records the work of St. Patrick in Britain under St. Germanus to show the development of his saintly leadership, but St. Patrick, in his Confessio, does not mention this, perhaps because the focus of his life's work was in Ireland. St. Germanus, with a group of priests that included St. Patrick, travelled through Britain convincing people to turn to God, throwing out the false priests of Pelagius known as snakes. St. Bede records in his Ecclesiastical History of the English People that this was accomplished by great miracles of healing. St. Patrick suggested fasting to turn a city from their heresy, but it would not turn, and at nocturns the third night the earth swallowed the city. Later, the same place that St. Germanus and St. Patrick had fasted with their company became the location that clerics went to fast. St. Patrick, who obeyed God's will, defended reverence for God's grace which is necessary for Salvation.
St. Patrick told St. Germanus that he had often heard the voice of the Irish children calling to him "come St. Patrick and make us saved." St. Germanus said that St. Patrick must go to Pope Celestine (Bishop of Rome from 422 to 432), to be consecrated, because it was proper to do so. But another had been sent to be Bishop of Ireland before him (Bishop Palladius), and St. Patrick had to wait. Bishop Palladius began missions, but he did not live very long.
St. Patrick went to the island of Alanensis in the Mediterranean sea (in the Lerins district, known as St. Honorat near Cannes in France) to pray, and was given Jesus Christ's own staff on Mount Arnum to hold him up. (An engraved stone on the side of the main monastery of the island records that St. Patrick, Apostle of Ireland, came there to study in the fifth century the sacred sciences in preparation for his mission to Ireland. The staff of Jesus Christ was publicly burned in Dublin in 1538 during the reign of king Henry VIII of England.) In 432, St. Patrick went back to St. Germanus, telling him of the vision and the staff. St. Patrick was then sixty years old. He was sent back to Pope Celestine, who had heard that Palladius had died. The chief consecrator of St. Patrick was Bishop Amatorex of Autissiodorens. Pope Celestine lived only a week after St. Patrick's consecration, and was succeeded by Sixtus III (432-440). Celestine gave St. Patrick relics and many books. At the moment of Patrick's consecration, the Pope also heard the voices of the children calling out: Crebriu and Lesru, two daughters of Glerand, recorded as Saints by St. Fiacc. Patrick later baptized the children. They said out of their mother's womb, "All of Ireland cries unto you." (This cry was to God, not to St. Patrick.)
St. Fiacc does not record the details of what happened at Tara, but this is recorded elsewhere. In 432, Easter coincided with the Druid (pagan) festival. No fire was supposed to be lit but the new lighting of the pagan fire. But St. Patrick lit the Easter fire first. The tradition warned King Laoghaire that if that fire were not stamped out, it would never afterward be extinguished in Erin. The king invited St. Patrick to Tara the next day. St. Patrick was reciting his Breastplate prayer (the "Deer's Cry") on the way from Slane to Tara on Easter Sunday. King Laoghaire had stationed soldiers along the road, expecting to intercept St. Patrick before Tara. The Tripartite Life says, "St. Patrick went with eight young clerics and St. Benen (commemorated November 9th) as a gillie with them, and St. Patrick gave them his blessing before they set out. A cloak of darkness went over them so that not a man of them appeared. Howbeit, the enemy who were waiting to ambush them, saw eight deer going past them, and behind them a fawn with a bundle on its back. That was St. Patrick with his eight, and St. Benen behind them with his tablets on his back." (The Tripartite Life was an eighth century book in three parts to be read in the three day celebration of St. Patrick's Day.)
The wizards before St. Patrick's time (Druids) predicted that an adze head would come over wild sea, his mantle hole-headed (vestments tailored with an opening for the head, not cloth wrapped as the Druids did), his staff crook-headed (Jesus Christ's Pastoral staff, not straight as the Druid's staves), his table in the anterior part of his house (an altar), and all his household (the church) will always answer, "Amen. Amen." They told the king that they would not hide the truth from him, that the posterity of this man would remain until doomsday, because he is the herald of the Prince of Peace.
St. Patrick was called by the Lord and sent to Ireland. He taught that the Trinity is ever with us to sustain us, even when all is misery. He knew firsthand. He taught that God loves us, despite the buffetings of the world.
St. Patrick was diligent until the day he died. He dispelled iniquity. He preached, he baptized, he prayed, he constantly praised God with Psalms, he sang one hundred Psalms every night, he slept on bare flagstone with a wet quilt about him, and his pillow was a pillar stone. He preached for three-score years (including the time before his consecration as bishop when he was a Priest under St. Germanus). St. Secundinus records in his hymn that St. Patrick bore the stigmata of Christ in his righteous flesh.
The folk of Ireland used to worship "si-de" (spirits). They did not believe the true Godhead of the true Trinity. But when St. Patrick was finished, all Ireland believed in the Holy Trinity, believed in Jesus Christ, did not follow nature spirits, and the court at Tara was replaced by the court of Christ at Armagh. In the Confessio, St. Patrick said that he was God's debtor for the great grace of baptism given to so many thousands, for the people reborn in God and then confirmed, and clerics ordained for them everywhere. "Not wishing to bore his readers," St. Patrick gives only a small mention of persecution even unto bonds, twelve dangers to his life, and numerous plots against him. For example, St. Odran, a charioteer for St. Patrick (commemorated February 9th) was warned of danger and pretended weariness, so St. Patrick took the reigns, and Odran in the place of honor was killed with a lance meant for St. Patrick.
When St. Patrick became ill, he decided to go to Armagh. He was met by an angel, who took him to see Victor, and Victor, speaking to him out of rushing fire, said, "Primacy to Armagh; to Christ render thanks. Unto heaven thou shalt go soon. Thy prayers have been granted: the hymn thou hast chosen in thy lifetime shall be a protecting corslet to all. Those men of Ireland that are with thee on the day of doom shall go to judgment."
One of the clergy, Tassach (commemorated April 14), remained with him and gave him Communion. St. Fiacc recalls Joshua: if the sun should stay still in the sky for the death of the wicked, how much more appropriate it should be for brightness to shine at the death of saints. Ireland's clerics came to wake St. Patrick from every road; the sound of the chanting (of angels) had prostrated them. They said that the place was overrun with singing birds: as Victor had appeared as a bird, they thought the winged angels were birds. St. Patrick's soul had separated from his body after pains. God's angels on the first night were waiting upon it without ceasing. When he departed, he went to the other St. Patrick (of Glastonbury, called "old Patrick" commemorated August 24th), because St. Patrick, son of Calpurnius, had promised old Patrick that they should go to heaven together. It is said that from the eighteenth of March to the twentythird of August, to the end of the first month of Autumn, St. Patrick was with angels about him awaiting old Patrick, and together they rose to Jesus, Mary's Son.
St. Fiacc said, "St. Patrick, without sign of vainglory, meditated much good. To be in the service of Mary's Son, it was a pious circumstance wherein he was born."
(Much later in the twelfth century, King Henry II of England, after his part in the death of St. Thomas Beckett, received permission from the Pope to take over Ireland, which had by that time sent its monks to educate all of Europe. The Irish monks read Latin, Greek, Hebrew, and other languages. Henry II ruled that no Irish were allowed to attend a seminary. All Irish monasteries in Europe were taken away, mistaking the term Scot which meant the Irish from the north, with Scotland. After that, all of Europe fell into an age of illiteracy which lasted until the Renaissance.)
Mary Ryan D'Arcy notes in, The Saints of Ireland, that, although the staff of Jesus Christ was burned, the hand bell of Saint Patrick and a reliquary box still exist. 
http://www.geni.com/people/Patrick-o-%C3%89ireann/6000000008173864486

LOUISA OCTAIVE ALDRIDGE KING #TombstoneTuesday


Wednesday, March 12, 2014

Captain Morgan to Captain Daniel Boone

Daniel Morgan Boone, Sr. is Admiral Sir Henry Morgan's 6th cousin four times removed.

Admiral Sir Henry Morgan (Privateer & Pirate)
   →  John Morgan of Tredegar
his father →  Sir William Morgan
his father → Thomas Morgan, Lord of Castell-Arnallt
his father →  Blanch Thomas
his mother →  Elsbeth Herbert
her mother →  Sir Walter Herbert, Kt.
her father → William Herbert, 1st Earl of Pembroke
his father →  William Herbert, 2nd Earl of Pembroke, Earl of Huntingdon
his son → Elizabeth Somerset, 3rd Baroness Herbert
his daughter →  Henry Somerset, 2nd Earl of Worcester
her son →  William Somerset, 3rd Earl of Worcester
his son →  Edward Somerset, 4th Earl of Worcester
his son →  Frances Somerset
his daughter →  Sir Edward Morgan, 1st Baronet of Llantarnam
her son → Sir James Morgan, 4th Baronet of Llantarnam
his son →  Capt. Edward Morgan
his son →  Sarah Boone
his daughter →  Daniel Morgan Boone, Sr.
her son

Monday, March 03, 2014

Henry D. King m. Sarah Ann Bartlett 1827

Husband:   Henry D King
Birth/Chris:    ... 1800 at ...
Death/Burial:   ... 1863 at ...
Wife:   Sarah Ann Bartlett
Birth/Chris:    ... 1808 at ...
Death/Burial:   ... 1870 at ...
Married:   ... 1827 at ...

Children:
1. King, Robert Woods - Birth/Chris: ... 1830 at ...
2. King, Joseph Henry - Birth/Chris: ... 1832 at ...
3. King, Thomas - Birth/Chris: ... 1835 at ...
4. King, Sarah T - Birth/Chris: ... 1838 at ...
5. King, Eliza - Birth/Chris: ... 1839 at ...
6. King, Reubin Harrison - Birth/Chris: ... 1842 at ...
7. King, Nancy Rachel - Birth/Chris: ... 1845 at ...
8. King, Augusta - Birth/Chris: ... 1855 at ...
http://www.mytrees.com/ancestry/Virginia/Married-1827/Ba/Bartlett-family/Sarah-Bartlett-cr000370-36929.html

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Saturday, March 01, 2014

Marilyn Monroe #CousinOfTheWeek

Currently the paternity of Marilyn Monroe is unavailable, so that the identity of her biological father is unknown. The legal father of Marilyn Monroe was Edward Martin Mortenson aka Martin Edward Mortenson. However, Stanley Gifford is also assumed to be the biological father of Marilyn Monroe.
Artist name Marilyn Monroe, born Norma Jeane Mortenson, but baptized Norma Jeane Baker.
Norma was shown a photo of a man, resembling Clark Gable, who she was told was her father. That man was Stanley Gifford.
Since Stanley Gifford carries a coveted family history background, being a descendant of pilgrims John Alden & Priscilla Mullins, it is popular to claim him to be Marilyn's father, in order to claim her as a distant cousin.
One source perpetuating this popular myth is the Mayflower history site:http://www.mayflowerhistory.com/Genealogy/famousdescendants.php                           

Marilyn Monroe is my 15th cousin once removed.
You 
   →  Pop 
your father →  Mamie C. Nichols (Collins) 
his mother →  Martha Collins (BARTLETT) 
her mother →  Nancy Rachel Bartlett (KING) 
her mother → Sarah Ann King (Bartlett) 
her mother →  Reuben S. BARTLETT 
her father →  John Garner Bartlett 
his father →  WILLIAM BARTLETT 
his father →  WILLIAM BERKLEY 
his father →  Margaret (Brent) Bartlett 
his mother →  Margaret Peshall 
her mother →  Anne Peshall 
her mother →  Anne Sheldon 
her mother → Sir Robert Throckmorton, of Coughton Court 
her father →  Sir George Throckmorton, of Coughton Court 
his father → Sir Richard Throckmorton, of Higham Ferrers 
his brother →  Mary Butler 
his daughter →  John Butler 
her son →  John Boteler Butler 
his son →  Elizabeth Butler 
his daughter →  Lt Col Thomas Claiborne 
her son →  Elizabeth O'Sullivan 
his daughter →  James Sullivan 
her son →  Sarah Shadrack Sullivan 
his daughter →  James HOGAN 
her son →  John Hogan 
his son →  Zachariah HOGAN 
his son →  George Willis Hogan 
his son →  T. Hogan 
his son →  D. Monroe 
his daughter →  Gladys Pearl Baker 
her daughter →  Marilyn Monroe 
her daughter

http://www.geni.com/people/Marilyn-Monroe/6000000005395646559     

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