Keats' Family Tree

Pictures of family members, homes, memorials, and tombstones are available on the World Wide Web.

Weatherford Family Bible, Prince Edward County 1802-1938
"Copied from the original in the Archives of the Library of Virginia, Accession #26644, by Annette Elam Wetzel who adds:
This would appear to be the family bible of William Sublett Weatherford (born July 19, 1802, Mecklenburg County, Virginia; died November 30, 1896, Mecklenburg County, Virginia) who married Elizabeth James Hall on February 20, 1828, in Mecklenburg County, Virginia. William Weatherford was the grandchild of Rev. John Weatherford.
In it, it is written: "My little daughter Virginia Jackson Weatherford departed this life 6th of Oct ber 1859 Ten years Five months and Eight days old Born 1849"
This is a match to the records of Descendants of William Soblet and Susannah Allen.
"Red Hill, the Patrick Henry National Memorial, is the last home and burial place of the orator of liberty and Virginia's first elected governor.
Patrick Henry appeared in Williamsburg in 1760 to take his attorney's examination before Robert Carter Nicholas, Edmund Pendleton, John and Peyton Randolph, and George Wythe. Towards the end of his career, he represented my 5x great-grandfather Rev. Weatherford.
In 1746, Edmund Pendleton advertised that he had lodgings in the home of Mrs. Sarah Packe, my 7x great-grandmother.
Sarah Packe lived next door to the Printing Office on Lot #47. She was a partner with William Parks in the printing establishment and store-house in Williamsburg, Mrs. Sarah Packe. His granddaughter, Sarah Shelton II, married the aforesaid Patrick Henry.
This Web page, which has a portrait of Edmund Pendleton, shows that he was the first cousin, 2x removed, of President James Madison.
CHESTERFIELD, 10.4 m, (150 pop.), seat of Chesterfield County, has maintained its atmosphere of eighteenth-century leisure. The brick COURTHOUSE, with a Tuscan portico, in an enclosure thickly shaded by old trees, was erected in 1917. The well-kept records date back to 1748, the year that Chesterfield County was carved from Henrico. The British destroyed the first courthouse in 1780-81. The OLD CLERK'S OFFICE, built in 1828, is a one-storied cottage-like rectangle of mellowed brick, now used by the superintendent of schools and the county auditor. The present CLERK'S OFFICE, built in 1889, was enlarged in 1930. On the site of the old jail is a granite shaft bearing the inscription: 'On this spot were imprisoned 1770-1774 John Tanner, David Tinsley, Joseph Anthony, Augustine Eastin, Jeremiah Walker, John Weatherford, Apostles of Religious Liberty.' Probably the most famous prisoner of the old jail was Colonel Henry Hamilton, former Governor General of Canada, known as the 'scalptaker' or 'hair buyer,' captured in 1779 by George Rogers Clark at Vincennes and brought first to Williamsburg and then to Chesterfield. 'While at Chesterfield,' wrote Hamilton, 'our confinement was rendered very tolerable . . . We had liberty to walk about in the neighborhood.' In Williamsburg he had had far less courteous treatment, for there 'the people were much incensed against him, on account of his dealing with the savages, and he was put in irons and kept in jail for some time.'
During the Revolution, Virginia militia were trained here by the great drillmaster, Baron von Steuben. The local barracks were one of the principal objectives of General William Phillips, who, with the aid of General Benedict Arnold, succeeded toward the end of the war in destroying them and large stores of tobacco.
The left section of CASTLEWOOD was built about 1776 by Charles Poindexter. Pavilions connect three small units on a high foundation.
John Mercer was another documented lodger of Sarah Packe. On July 14, 1737, he advertised that he had lodgings there. This Web page has a portrait of him.
"Winton Plantation is in the small town of Clifford, twenty-five miles north of Lynchburg in Amherst County, Virginia. This was the home of Sarah and John Henry's daughter Jane and her husband Col. Samuel Meredith. It is currently a country club and golf course. (1998)" There is a picture of Sarah Henry's tombstone on it.
The Aleutian World War II National Historic Area
My great-uncle Estel Young fought in the Pacific Theatre in World War II and lost his leg when he was shot by Japanese soldier.
From a newspaper article of the era:
"County Soldier Wounded
Pvt. Estel Young, son of Mrs. Maggie Young, of Warford, Summers county, was amomg six West Virginians listed last week by the war department as being injured in battle in the Aleutians area."
Andrew Young, Sr. was buried at Augusta Stone Presbyterian Church.
George Pitt House
I doubt that many descendants of coloial families have the opportunity to buy a collectible or the floor plans and construction drawings to their ancestral home or a Martin Senour Williamsburg exterior paint named after it.
Postcard of Duke of Gloucester St. looking east from the Market Square Tavern, late 1940's, including the George Pitt House.
Huguenot Bridge in Richmond
Duke of Gloucester Street
Gloucester Street is the principal street in Colonial Williamsburg; began as narrow trace; a train track went through street in 1881, and FDR called it "most historic avenue in all America."
"George and Martha Washington and Thomas and Martha Jefferson are among the men and women who have walked it. Bill and Hillary Clinton, Ronald Reagan, Lyndon Johnson, Dwight David Eisenhower, Harry Truman, and Winston Churchill are among those whose feet have trod in the steps of the likes of Peyton Randolph, George Wythe, St. George Tucker, Patrick Henry, and James Madison."
Postcard of the Pitt-Dixon House, circa 1937, on the north side of Duke of Gloucester Street. Beyond it can be seen the Prentis Store.
Web page with a map showing the location of the Morris Planation and a drawing of the Manakin Episcopal Church founded by the Huguenot in 1700.
Colonial Williamsburg Printing Office and Post Office
There is a deed at Yorktown dated August 19, 1749, which shows that William Parks had as partner in the printing establishment and store-house in Williamsburg, Mrs. Sarah Packe, widow of Capt. Graves Packe.
Television star Lassie takes a stroll, 1966. - Colonial Williamsburg Printing Office and Post Office
A large granite marker beside a picnic site on Route 301, between Richmond and Bowling Green, near the Mattaponi River Bridge commemorates the DeJarnette family.
National Parks: Overmountain Victory
"The Overmountain Victory National Historic Trail (OVNHT) commemorates the campaign leading to the battle of Kings Mountain by following the Revolutionary War route of Patriot militia men from Virginia, today's eastern Tennessee, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia to the battle site at Kings Mountain National Military Park in South Carolina."
"...SAMUEL[, Ensign Samuel Ferguson, my 6x great-grandfather,] was at the Battle of King’s Mountain, South Carolina, 7 October 1780. He is listed as going with Thomas Peery (the distiller), Thomas Peery (the blacksmith), William Peery and John Peery...."
Tazewell Co. Incorporation
"Land for Tazewell Co. Courthouse donated by Samuel Ferguson & William Peery in early 1800's."
William Sublette, Geysers Yellowstone
SUBLETTE CUTOFF
SUBLETT'S TAVERN
The current owner bought Sublett's Tavern in 1974 from a descendant of William Sublet, son of Peter Lewis Sublett. William Sublet is my 6x great-grandfather.
Jedediah Smith's Explorations
Weatherford Memorial Baptist Church
John Weatherford's Grave state historical marker is found on VA 640 just south of the VA 57 intersection, at the entrance to Shockoe Baptist Church.
A monument to John Weatherford, erected in 1906 by the Pittsylvania Baptist Association, is found in the Shockoe Baptist Church graveyard. It states:
Photograph of Charles Edward Clay, My Third Cousin, 5x Removed
Lincoln Herndon Law Office - Springfield
William Whitley House - Birthplace of William Lewis Sublette, My First Cousin, 6x Removed
Mitchell Clay House
"Spring Grove house built about 1856 in Virginia. The DeJarnette family owned the plantation since the 1700s. Earlier buildings have burned down. Spring Grove is in Caroline county Virginia."
"Visitors to “Spring Grove” have included General Marquis de Lafayette, Presidents James A. Garfield, Rutherford B. Hayes, and Ulysses S. Grant and Union generals Philip H. Sheridan and John A. Logan."
Jeremy has become a big fan of General Marquis de Lafayette since he began watching "Liberty's Kids."
"Mary Hampton Dejarnette of Virginia (portrait)."
Halfway House
Picture of Hiram and Ursula Jane Hatcher Thomas family taken c1898 at Backus, WV, contributed by Evelyn Utterback Drake
Jane Hatcher, my 4x greataunt, was the daughter of Edmund and Nancy Walker Hatcher, my 5x geat-grandparents.
Obituary of Elizabeth Weatherford, My Great-Great-Aunt
Old Rehoboth Church
"...[I]n Union, West Virginia, a Methodist society was organized in 1784 which met for two years in a schoolhouse. In 1786, they built Old Rehoboth Church, the oldest extant Protestant church building west of the Alleghenies. The church also hosted the first Methodist ordination ceremony west of the Alleghenies on July 5-6, 1788, conducted by bishop Francis Asbury. Asbury visited Rehoboth several times in the 1790s."
Ashland - The Henry Clay Estate
Mary Ann Harmon, a lady of the Kansas plains, buried at Hallowell, Kansas, is the mother-in-law of Dianna Wiseman, my first cousin, 4x removed.
The Henry Clay Monument - Lexington Cemetary