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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.
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.
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.
July 26, 2009
of Caroline County, Virginia
plus
some of their siblings, cousins, aunts and uncles
A Family History and Genealogy Website by
Don Chamberlayne
contents...
(updated July, 2009)
(End-notes to the Descendancy Chart)
(updated July, 2009)
(updated July, 2009)
- Minters of Henry County
A Narrative History
(rev. September, 2005) - Photographs
additions, July 2009 - A Wedding Day Tragedy in 1800
County Reservoir, Leatherwood, Henry County, Va.
This site is...
... about some of the branches of the family tree originating with Anthony Minter of Caroline County, Virginia, and his wife Elizabeth. It is both genealogical and historical in nature, focussed in part on the author's own line of descendancy, but also, increasingly as new information surfaces, on other branches of this very large family tree.
The project started with my narrative account, posted on the Internet in December, 2004, of the line of this descendancy which leads to me, of Generation 9, through my mother's mother's side (see contents, left). Included with the narrative was a descendancy listing which followed a single path from Anthony [1] down to my great- grandparents in generation 6, then followed all nine of their surviving children, and the 45 children of that generation. Some mistakes and other inadequacies punctuated the effort, and a major problem was the inadequacy of the documentation.
For all its shortcomings, however, its inclusion of the names and vital information (where known) of the siblings of my ancestor at each generation had the effect of attracting responses by email from a few readers, some of them accomplished researchers. In every case, what they told me about their lines piqued my interest, prompted me to do additional research on Minter lines only remotely related to my own, and gradually broadened the focus of my continuing interest in the larger Minter clan.
The revised descendancy listing available here, and the Minter Notes providing the documentation, are the products of this evolutionary process. The "Notes" are designed to work as a stand-alone document providing information on various members of the descendancy, and also as the basic "end-notes" of the listing itself, and the two documents are cross-linked for reference. The design is inherently open to additions and changes at any point, and to the inclusion of links to other websites where the work of other researchers might be tied in, by permission only, of course.
So I hope that interested parties reading what is found here will get in touch with me, let me know what they think of the effort and any suggestions they might have for changes or additions.