ANCESTORS, GRANDPARENTS and SURNAMES
Not everyone, but most everyone, knows or knew their grandparents, your mom and dad’s parents. But did you realize that you had more than 10 sets of grandparents? If so, do you know who they were?
As you can see I still do not know who all of my grandparents were but that is why I am still researching in my spare time. I would like to know all of their names, where they came from and all about their lives.
I have some Surnames that are in both my paternal and maternal family trees but have not yet linked them together and do not know, as of yet, if they do link together.
Below is the list of surnames that you will find on this website and the names of my Grandparents that the surname was derived from. These individuals are the ancestors that I am derived from.
Each set of grandparents listed under the same surname is a different generation, with the youngest generation being the first set of names.
There would be more surnames listed but as you can see, as you read the list, some of my grandmothers have missing surnames because I have not found them in my research yet.
McCully Family Line (my paternal/paternal family)
I have 17 surnames and 19 sets of grandparents listed for this family line.Elijah Allen and Christina Banta
Gideon Farris and Sarah McSpadden, William Farris and Deborah
Joseph Simpson Garshwiler and Christina
Joseph Hunt and Nancy Garshwiler, Simeon Hunt and Betsy Elizabeth Rivers
James Lingo and Sarah Smith
Jefferson David McCully and Josephine Odessa Ball (my dad’s mom and dad), John “Frank” Franklin McCully and Mable Missouri Utter, Isaac Lawson McCully and Louisa Penelope Turner, John Alexander McCully and Sarah “Sallie” White
John A. McCulloch and Jane Farris
Thomas C. McSpadden, Sr. and Dorothy Edmiston
Judge Joseph Wright Turner and Mary Lingo, Mathias Turner and Mary Margaret Nesbit, William Turner and unknown
David Jefferson Utter and Christina (Kasclenweiler) Hunt, Milton Henry Utter and Sarah Hannah Allen, James B. Utter and Catherine Wheeler
I have 12 surnames and 13 sets of grandparents listed for this family line.
Josephine Odessa Ball and Jefferson David McCully (my dad’s mom and dad), Elias John Ball and Myra Odessa Bowers, Oscar John Ball and Crescentia Rosanna Durham, Bernard Ball and Mary Magdalene Phillips, Jean Ball and Marguerite Gassert
Augustus Levi Bowers and Catherine “Carrie” A. Hilbert, Adam Bower and Mary Elizabeth Pitts, Johannes Bower and Mary Cline
Ezra Durham and Mary
Rueben Y Hilbert and Esther “Hattie” Moyer, Abraham Hilbert and Christina Yoder
John Moyer and Elizabeth Folk
Joseph Antoine Phillips and Maria Eva Roehrig
I have 14 surnames and 16 sets of grandparents listed for this family line.
Rev. Major M. Bedwell and Mary “Polly” K. White, Caleb Bedwell and Rebecca “Becky” McNatt, James Bedwell and Anne Wilson, Robert Bedwell, Jr. and Helen Preston, Robert Bedwell and Ann Colly
John Riley Crane and Susan Prisser Prosser, Timothy Watson Crane and Elizabeth “Belle” Bedwell, Spartan G. Crane and Jane Steelman
Thomas Colly and unknown
David Holly and Margaret Howell
John McNatt and Sarah Benson
William Buchanan Prosser and Catherine Nancy Holly
John Wesley Savage and Margaret “Margie” Elizabeth Griffis (my mom’s mom and dad), George Washington Savage and Bettie Catherine Crane
James Steelman and Chloe Ashby
Samuel White and Lucinda
Robert Wilson and unknown
I have 18 surnames and 23 sets of grandparents listed for this family line.
Unknown Bailey and Charlotte
Richard Cheek and Jane, John Cheek and unknown, Anthony Cheek and unknown
Samuel Graham and unknown
Margaret “Margie” Elizabeth Griffis and John Wesley Savage (my mom’s mom and dad), Adonald Theodore Judson “AJ” Griffis and Laura Mae Womble, William Newton Griffis and Margaret Tennessee Turner, James D. Griffis, CSA and Lucinda “Cindy” Walker, James Griffis and Rebecca Griffin, Thomas Griffis and Sarah Anderson
Daniel Sanders and Louisa Jane Bailey
William M Thompson and Louisa Rorex
Hardin Turner and Nancy Graham
Cornelius Tyson and Jane C. Cheek, Cornelius Tyson, Sr. and Lucy Sugg
Woodson Walker and Sarah McClarren, Thomas Walker and Mary “Polly” Jordan
Edward Warren and Rebecca
James Marion Womble and Elizabeth “Bettie” Sanders, John D. Womble and Catherine Thompson, Cornelius “Neal” Alexander Womble and Mary Eliza Leathers, James Womble and Joanna Warren, Samuel Cornelius Womble and Jane Cheek Tyson, Cornelius S. Womble and unknown