Genealogical and Historical writings

This is a long page, through which you are encouraged to scroll to see a big variety of genealogy, both for our family and for items of historical importance and significance. 

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Contact me at:    da@dasharpe.com

Dwight Albert Sharpe, known as D. A., is happy to post this genealogical information for the good and benefit of others who may find such information useful in their research and for their interest.  It is free to copy and citation of this as a source would be appreciated. 

• The links below are various articles, charts and stories composed from the genealogical study of my family and the families of those close to us.  The hope someday is to publish in hard back bound hard copies some of these stories and to place them in some libraries.   

           Dialog about the background for these genealogical writings

                                   

Assisting in decorating the outdoor family Christmas tree on the Sharpe Ranch in Aurora, Texas is my father-in-law on the left, Mr. T. S. Boggess, Jr., my four grandchildren, twins Lily and Sarah, with Jack and Katie; and my daughter, Tiffany Lenn Sharpe Westmoreland.  This was Christmas 2004. 

All-In-One Chart of The Story - All of my genealogy
This is a 1 page PDF file that must be turned up in the viewer to 1200% to view it

 

Hourglass chart of Eystein Glumra, which covers most of the royalty in this lineage.

This would be a chart about 60 feet wide and three feet high.  I could be printed on a plotter printer.  Typical cost for a commercial printer to produce it at about $5 per square foot would be about $900.  The viewing percentage should be 1600% for best viewing.

Stories below are groups by families and allied families. 

Click here for an alphabetic list of all family reports

Stories for the Immediate Sharpe Families:   

D. A. & Suzanne stepping out for a Texas Governor's Reception in Washington, D.C., January 2005

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• A Combined Sharpe & Boggess Ancestry series
• Sharpe Family lineage in America since 1710.
• Sharpe Family Chart
        This is a PDF file as one page, but is about 2 feet high and 95 feet horizontal in shape. 
      If it is too small to read, change the Zoom to 1,200% to view it on screen for the best understanding. 
      You can copy it to a floppy disk or a CD and take it to a commercial printer to print a banner
      chart.  These are wonderful, but costly, usually around $5/sq foot.  This might cost over $900.
   
• King Charlemagne is my 35th great grandfather - see the chart
• German Palatines
• Hewlett Family Connection
• Hewlett Family CHART
      This chart will be about 2 feed by 13 feet and cost about $125 to get printed commercially
  
  Simons Family Report   
• Simons Family Descendants Chart
        This is a PDF file as one page, but is about 2 feet high and 11 feet horizontal in shape. 
      If it is too small to read, change the Zoom to 150% to view it on screen for the best understanding. 
      You can copy it to a floppy disk or a CD and take it to a commercial printer to print a banner
      chart.  These are wonderful, but costly, usually around $5/sq foot.  This one cost me about $107.
   
• Sharpe Family descended from Gov. William Bradford of the Mayflower.
• My Earliest Republic of Texas Ancestor, Felix Benedict Dixon
   
• Dixon Family Chart
  This is a PDF file as one page, but is about 1.5 feet high and 6.5 feet horizontal in shape. 
  If it is too small to read, change the Zoom to 150% to view it on screen for the best understanding. 
  You can copy it to a floppy disk or a CD and take it to a commercial printer to print a banner
  chart.  These are wonderful, but costly, usually around $5/sq foot.  This one might cost about $50.
   
• Eubanks and relation to the Sharpe's
• Stapp family relation to the Sharpe's
• The Chicago Sharpe's
• My Royal Heritage
  Since 519 AD, there have only been nine Kings or Rulers of England reigning over a total of 80 years who were
  not related to our family. Out of 72 Kings for those 1,489 years, 63 have been in our family. These are cousins,
  cousins of cousins and grandparents of cousins. This chart describes the family relationship to each of these
  Kings, Queens and Rulers.
   
• How are the Magna Carta and the Mayflower Compact related?
• King Cerdic, English Monarch 519-534 AD
• My Bradford Family Lineage
• Bradford Genealogical Chart, Robert to me
• The Carpenter Family
• Ancestral Chart of Dwight Albert Sharpe
• My Commission as an Admiral in the Texas Navy
• My American Revolutionary Soldier ancestor, Lt. George P. Sharp
• Descendant Chart from George P. Sharp to Jack Westmoreland
• Gov. William Bradford Chart to My Son
• Gov. William Bradford Chart to Kristina King
  
   

Stories for the Kellogg Family       

• Kellogg Family
  This is a most interesting family in American history.  It contains Frank Billing Kellogg, the Nobel prize winner and United States Secretary of State, Charles Curtis, Vice President of the United States, William Howard Taft, President of the United States, Will Keith Kellogg, founder of the Kellogg Cereal Company, and even Clint Eastwood and Steve Reeve, movie stars.  It includes connecting John Benjamin Kellogg, a young man who died in the siege at the Alamo, an inspiring element in the history about Texas gaining its independence from Mexico in 1836.  This family connected to my Sharpe family when Sarah Lavenna Kellogg married John Elsefer Sharp II in 1857 in Ohio.  They are my great grandparents. 
   
• Chart of the Kellogg Family
         This PDF file is 34 feet long and 2 feet high.  I can be run on a plotter printer.  Its size
          is such that it probably would cost about $350 to print commercially on 30 pound paper.
          It needs to be set at 600% to view on screen the characters legibly.
   
• Hourglass Chart Centering on Sarah Lavenna Kellogg Sharp to show both family lines.  It is about 9 feet by 2 feet.  On a commercial professional plotter printer, it would cost close to $100 to reproduce. 
   
• Frank Billings Kellogg
          Frank was a 1929 Nobel Prize winner, a United States Senator from Minnesota and a
          United States Secretary of State who negotiated a peace treaty with European
          nations, an accomplishment which won him the Nobel Peace Prize
   
• Trustbusting! - Standard Oil of New Jersey Ordered broken up by Supreme Court in a case
      prosecuted by Frank Billings Kellogg
   

The Rockefeller Family
        The Rockefeller family of Germany tied in early to the Sharpe family in America around the time of the American Revolution.  This report gives a general Rockefeller report and shows how we Sharpe's relate. 

                The Rockefeller Chart.  This is a PDF file that is an all-in-one document that must be printed  on a plotter printer.

 Stories for the Boggess Family & papers

Including Noxubee County

Mississippi Materials

Mr. Thomas Shelton (T. S.) Boggess, Jr. is today's patriarch of the Boggess family close to us.  He is vibrant, having been born in 1912, the year the Titanic sailed and sank.  Read some interesting things about Mr. T. S., the Gentleman Farmer of Noxubee County, Mississippi:

T. S. Boggess, Jr. LINK

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Ancestral Chart of Thomas Shelton Boggess, Jr.

•    Boggess Family Story
•   Boggess Family Chart
          This is a PDF file as one page, but is about 2 feet high and 33 feet horizontal in shape. 
       If it is too small to read, change the Zoom to 800% to view it on screen for the best understanding. 
       You can copy it to a floppy disk or a CD and take it to a commercial printer to print a banner
       chart.  These are wonderful, but costly, usually around $5/sq foot.  Probably this would cost about $350.
   
•    Julian Eugene Boggess
•    Julian Eugene Boggess Descendant Chart
         This is a PDF file as one page, but is about 2 feet high and 8 feet horizontal in shape. 
       If it is too small to read, change the Zoom to 150% to view it on screen for the best understanding. 
       You can copy it to a floppy disk or a CD and take it to a commercial printer to print a banner
       chart.  These are wonderful, but costly, usually around $5/sq foot.  Probably this would cost about $90.
   
•    Four Knights on a Charge - The sotry of T.S.'s 1929 6,000 mile trip to the West Coast with three other young men of Macon
•     History of Noxubee County Fairsby T. S. Boggess, Jr.
•    History of Frith Lake Club of Noxubee County
•    Henry Dye Boggess - a Pioneer of Plano, Collin County, Texas
•    McElroy Family line
•    McElroy Family Chart
•    Heald Family Line
•    Heald Family Chart
•    Wellborn Family Line
•    Eliza L. Wellborn Boggess Story
•    Ode to Lillian Binion Boggess   My poem written for her and read at her funeral in 1994
•    Ageless Wonder - T. S. Boggess, Jr. honored March 31, 2004
•    The Saga of Irby Holt Boggess & his founding of St. Jo, Texas
•    The Ancestry of Maud Foote Yates Murphey
•    T. S. Boggess Home Page
•     Laura Elizabeth Sitters Ancestor Chart
•     Edward Wilbourn descendent report
•    Isaac Stearns Welborn descendent chart
  
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•     Here's a link to the Boggess Family Association:
      http://www.boggessfamilyassociation.com/

• Thomas Shelton Boggess    (Son of Bennett Boggess, Jr.)
  
    Siblings (children of Shelton & Pauline Murray Wellborn):
• Eliza L. Wellborn Boggess  (Widow of Bennett Boggess, Jr.)
• William B. Wellborn   (William & Isaac were around when
• Isaac D. Wellborn         Noxubee County was organized in 1833)

    Families Connected to the Boggess Line

• The Jones family:  Sarah Baldwin Jones Cheatham, mother of our sister-in-law, Lindley Jones Cheatham Boggess, wife of Dr. Thomas Shelton Boggess III. 
   
• Jones family chart
   
• The Cheatham family:  Robert Wycliffe Cheatham, father of our sister-in-law, Lindley Jones Cheatham Boggess. 
   
• Cheatham family chart
  
   

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    Stories for the Westmoreland Family:

        Tiffany Lenn Sharpe Westmoreland is shown here with her husband, Steven O. Westmoreland, and their five children, Sarah & Lily (twins), Jack & Katie and Sam. The children are the 12th great grandchildren of English Ancestor Robert Boggess.  These children are seventh generation Texans.   Also, beside husband & wife relationship, Steve and Tiffany are related as 30th cousins, twice removed. Steve turns out to be the 24th great grandson of King Edward I, whereas Tiffany is the King's 12th cousin, 24 times removed.  So, it's all in the family!  Photo August 2007

• Ancestral Chart of Steve O. Westmoreland
• The Westmoreland Family Report
• King Charlemagne's descended line to them
• Chart of Godwulf to Katie Westmoreland - 68 Generations
• The Godwulf Book
•     Go back to 80 AD to represent the earliest ancestors to whom our family has connection.  This         particular line goes back through the Westmoreland family into which our daughter married. 

    Stories for the Ehlers Family:

• Ehlers Family

    Stories for the Jumper Family:

                  
The Mark Jumper Family            Home of Jim & Cheryl Jumper Jez & Family
                January 2005                        Jumper Reunion October 23, 2004

• Jumpers Family heritage                                    Return to Home Page
• Nason Family

     Stories for the Abney Families

• Abney and Chapman lineage, early 1800's focused on Lufkin, Texas
• Abney earliest ancestor:  Gor Thorrasson from 500 AD
  This one contains much English Royalty and a couple of US Presidency connections. 
   

• Sir Thomas Abney, Lord Mayor of London
• The Bank of England & Sir Thomas Abney

    About the Chapman Family (my mother was a Chapman)

• The Chapman Family Line
• The Lewis Joseph Jordan Family

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    Papers of Historical Interest

        Plymouth Colony interests:

• Writing the Declaration of Independence   Two of the five men assigned to draft the proposed Declaration of Independence were members of our family.  Read all about it.
   
• Noah Webster    Noah is a well-known lexicographer. He published his famous Dictionary, the "American Dictionary of the English Language" in 1828.  See why it's been republished today!
   
• Comparing Why Plymouth Colony was a success and Jamestown Colony was a failure.    This paper won the 1997 Best Program of the Year for the Texas Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution.
   
• The Mayflower, its story, its passengers, its crew & its Compact
• The Mayflower Compact
• Quotes from Mayflower people
• The First Thanksgiving Proclamation in Plymouth Colony    
• The First Thanksgiving was in Texas!          
   
• The Two Most Significant Documents of Democracy in the World
• What is the origin of the term, "Pilgrims" as applied to Mayflower people?
• Americans and the Nobel Peace Prizes in our Family
   
• Kings, Governance and Celebrities in the Sharpe Family
  You will learn about many English Kings with relationship to the Sharpe family,  principally through the Abney line of my Mother.  There is the story about Sir Thomas Abney, Lord May of London who is a cousin.  We see how Isaac Watts, the English Father of Hymnody is related to us.  We see about Gov. William Bradford of Plymouth Colony  and about Noah Webster of Dictionary fame.  We even see Benedict Arnold in the family!  We see how thirteen US Presidents are related to us in various cousin relationships, George Washington, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, James Monroe, John Quincy Adams, Zachary Taylor, Abraham Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, Franklin D. Roosevelt Gerald R. Ford, George Herbert Walker Bush and George Walker Bush.  We see how two US Vice Presidents are related to us:  Charles Curtis and Nelson A. Rockefeller.  We see how a US Senator and US Secretary of State is related to us, one who won a Nobel Peace Prize.  We see how a soldier, John Benjamin Kellogg, Jr., dying in the Alamo, fighting for the independence of Texas from Mexico in 1836 is related to us.  We see how Confederate President Jefferson Davis is related to us.  We see how a family member was an elected official in the Republic of Texas, Judge Felix Benedict Dixon.  We see how another family member was the first Republican elected to a state level office in Texas  following the Days of Reconstruction after the War Between the States.  We even see how a famous cereal maker and a couple of big name movie stars are in the family.  This is the height of fun and genealogical bragging.  It is hoped you will enjoy frolicking through these pages. 

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        General Interests for genealogy and history:      ▼

• Who said, "he belongs to the ages?"
• What about the 56 men who signed the Declaration of Independence?
• The Mount Rushmore Quartet is ours!
• The oldest Silver I own
• Christopher Columbus' Crew Member list
• Why are some years expressed as double dated?  1339/40
• What is important about the history of the dollar bill?
• Lincoln's Road to the White House & All His Failures
• The Origin of Taps
• Who are the German Palatines who came in 1710?
• Conjecture about the lost Colony of Roanoke
• What does it mean to be Texas?
• Forgotten History - Where Has God Gone?
• What is a third cousin, once removed?
• Why Should 18 year olds start to vote?
• So, your name is Rebecca?
• What does it mean to be a Southern Girl?
• Did you know that Cinco de Mayo affected the American Civil War?
• Making an Ash of One's Self
• Freezing the Ball Off a Brass Monkey is not a Vulgar Expression
  Smith Wigglesworth and our Family
  
• Presidents of the United States in our Family

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• 2007 Family Calendar
  Note:  Because multiple events occur on the same day for which insufficient room exists on a day square in the calendar, such is given accommodation by providing multiple pages of the same month.  This may result in two to four pages of the same month.  So, if you do not see a particular event for which you are inquiring, progress to a subsequent page. 

            Miscellaneous Direct Line Charts