Welcome to my CAROLINA FAMILY history website, a summary of my family surname and their early family connections and allied families in the Carolinas.
My documented paternal line currently is centered in South Carolina, mostly around Lancaster, Kershaw and Chesterfield Counties. Many of the families were living in that area by the time the Revolution was over, if not before. Some of the surnames for these families are: PHILLIPS, DEASON, MORGAN, HILTON, SELLERS, EUBANKS, MILLER, and BIRD. My paternal grandmother's families connection were centered in Iredell (ROGERS, HUGHES, BEATY), and Union County (RICHARDSON, STEWART, NISBET, McCAIN, RODGERS, WHITE, GILLON, WALKUP, MORROW, WYCHE and PICKENS) in NC. Unon County was formed in 1842 from Anson and Meckenburg Counties. Most of these families lived in the Waxhaw Settlement and Old Mecklenburg County.
[For a more complete list of surnames, see tab E-mail / Sources / Links ]
My documented maternal lines are mainly in North Carolina, center in and around Guilford and Randolph Counties. Many lines are connected to SUMMERS such as SMITH, GERRINGER, CLARK, LOY, CAGLE, BIRD, SILER, HARTSOE, CHAMNESS, and many more.
With my participation in the Phillips DNA Project, I have learned that my PHILLIPS line focuses in Chatham, Randolph, and possibly Guilford Counties, prior to their settling in Lancaster District, SOUTH CAROLINA.
I welcome correspondence with descendants of these families. Learning more about our earliest family relations, establishes the foundations for their descendants in America. They experienced hardship and difficulty as they settled a new land to establish their families in their communities and their faith. But they succeeded as the proof is in their descendants, and the part each family contributed to make America's history and the road to a great nation.
Select a tab on the top left for a new page. Names highlighted in "red" are direct descendants.
ROSTER OF MILITARY SERVICE has the latest revision date posted on top of the page.
MAKING HISTORY has a list of known ministers, pastors, and preachers of the family.
Also read the story of "The Execution of James Madison MILLER"and the reply of my inquiry "Where Are The HILTON Boys Buried?"Added more data for family connections to the US-Mexcian War (1846-1848).
* Roster of those family members who fought at Gettysburg on 1-3 July 1863.
MATERNAL Under this Tab is an article from The Greensboro Record about Ludwick SUMMERS, my grt-grt-grt-uncle. He was a son of Captain Peter SUMMERS.
FAMILY PIONEERS tab has the personal stories that mark the lives and events as passed down or discovered in public records. See the tax rates paid by my Great-great-grandfather William Burrell PHILLIPS (1868-1871) on what he owned at the time.
(For PHILLIPS DNA participate data [see PHILLIPS 1786 to Present tab])
DNA matches determined for Group 10 DNA [FTDNA Kit #69666] for the PHILLIPSsurname; Haplo-Group R1b1b2a1b5 (authenicated by FTDNA)
12 Y-markers - 13 matches; 25 Y-markers - 10; 37 Y-markers - 9; and 67 Y-marker matches - 3. DNA 67 y-markers provide the greater degree of determining genetic matches and ancestral ties. There are three (3) 67 Y-marker matches in Group 10. One individual, for whatever reason, refuses to discuss or disclose his ancestor links. That is most unfortunate!!
Last update: 3 July 2009
For those interested, I am a participate in PHILLIPS DNA Project, and DNA y-SEARCH.
(For MORGAN Family DNA participate [see Paternal Ancestor tab]);
Other DNA projects that relate to my families:
A match has been determined for Matthew RODGERS in Union County, NORTH CAROLINA and I am in progress of expanding that data base;
The last living male member of the ROGERS from Iredell County, NORTH CAROLINA has agreed to participate in DNA testing. The results are back for the 12 y-markers (test done was for 25 y-marker the remainder results due in about 2-3 weeks). Already I have been contacted by three of the six matches. An interesting finding for this DNA testing was the Haplo-group was determined to be 'G'. The following is from Wikipedia:
In Europe:
In Europe Haplogroup G is found at 4.88% on average throughout the continent. Frequencies range from 5% to 11% north of the Caucasus, in southern Russia and eastern Ukraine. Frequencies also increase to >5% in central and southern sections of the continent, such as Greece, Italy, and parts of Spain. It has relatively high concentrations in the Greek island of Crete(approx. 7%[8]to 11%[9]), Sardinia(approx. 21% in Tempio, 14% in Cagliari, 12% in Sorgono),[10]and the Tyrolregion of Austria (8%).[11]Moving north and westwards from the Alps, concentrations drop to around 7–5% in parts of Germany, Bohemia, Moravia and Hungary. In the British Isles, Scandinavia, northern France, northern Germany, the Netherlands and the Baltic countries it is less common, e.g. Britain and Norway at 2%. Around 4% of Welsh men are in Haplogroup G.
Around 10% of Ashkenazi Jewish males have Haplogroup G, and the Jewish diaspora to Europe from the Middle East and the Moorish (Arabsand Berbers) occupation of Spain are two other probable routes into Europe for certain types of G.
PROJECTS IN PROGRESS:
* Working to expand maternal lines from pre-Revolution to Civil War of SUMMERS, SILER, WYRICK, COBLE, and other allied families.
* Researching family Civil War Veterans, their regiments and their final burial sites, particularly those buried in battlefield grave sites.
* Adding more details about the Mexican-US War in 1846-1848.
New information recently found on the Death Certificate of Caroline Hughes CLARK, revealed her mother's maiden name was BEATY. Now I can add that Nancy BEATY, parents were David BEATY and Isabella HUGGINS.
REPEAT OF HISTORY??
Due to the recent flurry of info regarding the possible pandemic of 'swine flu', I looked into the details of the Spanish Flu of 1918-1919 that killed millions world-wide. Not as news worthy as The Great War, it nevertheless was a killer of great proportions. Most of the victims that died in the US died within a period of nine months, totally between 500,000 and 675,000.
Why does this event deserve a recollection by genealogists? Many families lost someone to the Spanish Flu. My great-grandmother, Annie Lou Morgan PHILLIPS, was a victim of this epidemic. Dying in Jan 1919, she left her husband with five sons and a daughter to raise. The eldest was twenty and had just returned from serving in the US Navy, the youngest was seven.My grandfather was just a little over eleven years old when his mother passed away.
A search of both paternal and maternal data bases revealed a total of 42 members of my direct and extended families died during this period. I recall some researchers mentioning the reason many deaths were not recorded on the newly required death certificates is that doctors, particularly in the rural areas of the Carolinas, didn't have time to record all the deaths. Burials the same day or the next day, were a very common event in many small communities at this time, many in unmarked graves as poverty was common.
I feel confident many family historians can find a victim of the Spanish Flu in their family too.
"Who we are, is who we were."
"He who feels no pride in his ancestors, is unworthy to be remembered by his descendants."
This website was last updated 3 July 2009 / RWP.