Biography |
"Pocahontas" Motoaka
Rebecca Powhatan
Born 9-17-1595
in Tidewater, VA
Died 3-21-1617
in Gravesend, Kent, England |
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married
4-5-1614
Jamestown, VA |
John
Rolfe
Born 5-6-1585
in Heacham, Norfolk, England
Died between 3-10-1621 and 10-7-1622
in Varina Plantation, VA
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John Rolfe was a colonist, tobacco plantation owner
and politician
"Pocahontas" was the daughter of Powhatan,
a powerful chief of tribal nations in the area of the
Jamestown, VA
colonial
settlement. Her Wikipedia biography is linked to the
left.
"Pocahontas" and John had only 1 child (1 son)
Thomas |
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 Thomas was the only child and son to
"Pocahontas" and John
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Thomas
Rolfe
Born
1-30-1615
in
Varina Farms, VA
Died
1680
in Kippax Plantation, VA
Buried in
VA |
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married |
Jane
Poythress
Born
1630
in
Jamestown, VA
Died
~1680
in Charles City, VA
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Thomas was a plantation owner and lieutenant in the colonial
militia
Thomas and
Jane had only 1 child (1 daughter)
Jane |
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Jane was the only child and daughter to
Thomas and Jane
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Jane
Rolfe
Born
10-10-1650
in
Varina, VA
Died
1676
in Kippex Plantation, VA
Buried
in VA |
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married
1674 |
Col.
Robert Bolling
Born
12-26-1646
in
London, England
Died
7-17-1709
in
Kippex Plantation, VA
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Robert arrived at the Jamestown colony at age 14 in 1660.
He became a merchant, farmer, a colonel in the colonial
militia and a politician (as a member of the House of Bugesses
in 1702)
Jane and Robert had only 1 child (1 son)
John |
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John was the only child and son to Jane
and Robert
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Col.
John Fairfax Bolling
Born 1-27-1676
in Charles City, VA
Died 4-20-1729
in Enon, VA
Buried in Enon, VA
at Cobb's Cemetery |
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married
12-29-1697 |
Mary
Elizabeth Kennon
Born 1-29-1676
in Conjurers Neck, VA
Died 6-29-1727
in Cobbs, VA
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John was a colonist, farmer, a Colonel in the colonial
militia, and a politician
John and Mary had
7 children (6 daughters, 1 son)
Jane, John, Elizabeth, Mary, Martha, Anne, Sarah |
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Anne was the sixth child and fifth daughter to
John and Mary
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Anne
Bolling
Born 12-12-1718
in Cobbs, VA
Died 11-6-1756
in Powhatan, VA |
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married
1737
Cobbs, VA |
James
S. Murray
Born 5-5-1716
in Cobbs, VA
Died 1789
in Athol, VA
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Anne and James lived in Cobbs, VA
Anne and James had 8 children (4 daughters, 4 sons)
Thomas, Jean, John, Anne, Margaret, William, Elizabeth, James |
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Elizabeth was the seventh child and fourth daughter to
Anne and James
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Elizabeth Murray
Born 4-11-1754
in Caroline, VA
Died 3-24-1838
in Orange, NC |
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married
6-19-1771
New Holland, PN |
John
Luckey
Born 1749
in Dunmore, PN
Died 7-30-1796
in Orange, NC
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Elizabeth and John lived in Orange, NC
Elizabeth and John had 5 children (5 sons)
Robert, Alexander, John, Hugh, James |
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James was the fifth child and son to
Elizabeth and John
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James
Rudolph Lackey
Born 8-10-1797
in Orange, NC
Died 1860
in Conway, AK |
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married
1825 |
Sarah
Hester Evans
Born 1797
in GA
Died 2-1860
in Prairie, AK
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James and Sarah lived in Hickman, KY, Hardeman, TN and
Prairie, AK
James and Sarah had 8 children (8 sons)
George, John, Richard, William, Ephraim, Robert, Benjamin,
Theodore |
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Richard was the third child and son to James and Sarah
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Richard
James Lackey
Born
1826
in
NC
Died
1890
in Prairie, AK |
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married |
E.B.
Born 1834
in KY
Died 1890
in Prairie, AK |
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Elizabeth and Richard had 4 children (2 daughters, 2 sons)
James, Sarah, John, Jessie
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Jessie was the last child and second daughter to
Elizabeth and Richard
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Jessie
Emeline Lackey
Born
2-20-1857
in Weakley, TN
Died 4-25-1914
in Melvin, IL
Buried in
Melvin, IL at
Melvin Cemetery |
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married
4-4-1876
Prairie, AK |
Andrew M
"Teed" Priest
Born 1854
in Hardeman, TN
Died before 1900
in Faulkner, AK
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Andrew "Teed" was a farmer and he and Jessie lived in Prairie,
AK
Jessie was a mother/homemaker
Andrew and Jesse had 6 children (4 daughters, 2 sons)
Alvirdia, Augustus, Della, Alice, Ladie, Marcus |
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Alvirdia was the first child and daughter to Jesse
and Andrew
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Alvirdia
"Verdie" Priest
Born 6-13-1879
in
Cadron, AK
Died
8-16-1919
in Altoga, TX
Buried in
Altoga, TX at
Altoga Cemetery |
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married
10-14-1896
Faulkner, AK
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Robert
Clifton Rankins
Born 8-17-1877
in Conway, AK
Died 6-20-1961
in
Altoga, TX
Buried in Altoga, TX at
Altoga Cemetery |
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Robert's listed occupation
in the 1900 US Census was "Farming" and they lived
at "One Mile 1/2 N. of Wilson Community - Route #3, McKinney,
Collin Co, TX"
Verdie was a mother/homemaker
Robert and Verdie had
8 children (7 daughters, 1 son)
Lola, Claudia, Iva, James, Floy, Lucy, Sybil, Inez |
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Sybil
was the seventh child and sixth daughter to Alvirdia and
Robert
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Obituary |
Sybil
Irene Rankins
Born 1-10-1909
in Cadron, AR
Died 7-24-1991
in Seaford, DE
Buried in Brentwood, MD
at Fort Lincoln Cemetery
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married
1-1-1926
Collin, TX |
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married
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Temple Spurgeon Jenkins
Born 1-16-1901
in
Stanfield, NC
Died 1-1977
in
Greenbelt, MD
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Clyde was a farmer and mechanic who died in a model-T car accident
at age 28
Sybil was a mother/homemaker who later remarried Temple
Spurgeon Jenkins (Clyde's brother). Sybil's Family
Tree links
her directly back to Pocahontas
and the first English settlers!
Temple was a mechanic.
Temple married Javee ???, had two children with her, Shirley
and Royce Clifton (RC), and then they divorced. He was believed to be named
after Hampton Temple Carpenter, his mother Nancy's
brother. Temple then married Sybil, after his brother
Clyde died in a car accident. Temple died in January
1977 in a nursing home at age 76 after a life of alcoholism
and heart disease.
Clyde and Sybil had 2 children (2 sons) -- Temple and Sybil had 2 children (1 daughter, 1 son)
Billie, Clyde
(Jack) -- Shirley,
Royce
Clifton |
