My Minter Ancestors

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Posted November, 2010 to October, 2011:
  In memory of...
    Christine Turner Chamberlayne
,   the compiler's mother, who passed away on July 23, 2010, at the age of 99, after many years of loving care by her daughter, Dorothy (Chamberlayne) Love.     Obituary notice, Norfolk Virginian-Pilot, July 26, 2010.

Contributors and Contributions last posted October, 2011

Mary Lund, a descendant of Mary 'Polly' Burgess, second wife of Othniel Minter, provides some clarification of the Burgess line and its relation to the Minters. She is a person to contact regarding the Burgess family.

Obituary notice (1925) for Francis Clay Minter, and photographs of him, his wife, and some descendants, courtesy of Rodney Minter, a grandson.

D.A.R. patriot status of Anthony, Jr. and John provided by registrar Merry Anne Pierson. Also, a Henry County court record of 1833 linking Othniel and Silas Frederick to John Minter, courtesy of Ms Pierson.

 

  Contributors and Contributions last posted November, 2010

On the passing of Charles McKinley Stafford (7f8e), Feb-01-2009: revised notes and his obituary notice in the Martinsville Bulletin, courtesy of his daughter, Marilyn Prillaman.

Crossing lineage paths: encountering a line of Minters believed to be descended from a cousin of Anthony of Caroline County.   Information on a long descendancy is provided by Samuel Minter, a great-grandson of the Rev. William R. Minter (1873-1943), author of Travel Letters from Palestine and the East (1910), and a person to contact regarding this line and the book.

Our thanks to Twyla Edwards for informing us that the portrait of Silas F. Minter is hanging in the Bassett Historical Center in Henry Co.

 


Contributors and Contributions last posted September, 2008

Descendants of John Francis Adkins and Eliza Jane (Minter) Adkins (6B)   Joey Kent, a great-great-grandson, helps us correct an error and contributes his line of descendancy and the ancestry of his daughter.

Descendants of Richard W. Minter (5D) and Mary Ann Doyle   Information on a line through Missouri, Illinois, Ontario, and Idaho, contributed by Barbara Brazington, a great-great-granddaughter

A person to contact:  regarding descendants of James L. and Susan (Minter) Ziglar (5J):   Alice Morton, a granddaughter of Martha (Ziglar) Morton, who was a daughter of James and Susan Morton.

Descendants of James E. Minter (5H) (1831-1862) and Matilda Caroline Eggleston Minter   Information submitted by Linda Hodges, a great-great-granddaughter.

 
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