ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Patricia “Pat”
Short Makris was born and raised at Sewanee,
Tennessee. She attended Sewanee
Public School, Jump Off Public School,
and graduated from Franklin
County High
School. Her
Barnes family roots at Sewanee go back to the days of the Indians, when the
mountain was known as “The Nation.”
Her Short
family roots have been traced from England
to Virginia,
arriving there in 1634. The Shorts came
to Franklin County in the early 1850’s to work on
the railroad. They helped build the
first railroad up the mountain from Cowan, Tennessee.
Pat has written
four family history books. MY GREEK CONNECTION is based on
her husband’s Greek ancestors. A JOURNEY THROUGH HISTORY WITH THE SHORT
AND BARNES FAMILIES is about her father’s family. DESCENDANTS
OF HENRY SULLIVAN was written about her Irish roots in America. The PASSONS’
FAMILY CONNECTIONS is based on her mother’s maternal side of the
family. Major Passons, the main ancestor
in the Passons’ book, served in the War of 1812 with Davy Crockett. Major and Davy were part of Major William
Russell’s Company of Mounted Spies from Franklin County, Tennessee. They fought on horseback, and served as
scouts for General Andrew Jackson’s Tennessee Volunteers. Pat wrote THE OTHER SIDE OF SEWANEE. In 1999, she wrote a follow-up to THE
OTHER SIDE OF SEWANEE called SEWANEE – ECHOES OF ITS PAST. This book has additional stories about
Sewanee and the families that helped establish it as a community. In 1999, she published EARLY EPISCOPAL
CHURCH RECORDS, which are transcriptions of old Sewanee Episcopal
church records from 1872 to 1944. In
2006, SEWANEE – PEOPLE, PLACES AND
TIMES, was published and includes many firsthand diary entries from
soldiers that were in the Sewanee, Tennessee
area around 1863, during the Civil War.
