Pieter van Doorn abt.1609-abt.1658 Born: abt. 1609 in Gravezande, Holland. Died: abt. 1658 in Brooklyn, NY. Spouse: Catherine Stelting. Two children From the book: "The fact that Pieter’s name was spelled upon the records at the time of the baptism of his daughter Jannetje, ‘Van Doren’ merely goes to show that the spelling of […]
Note that she was born in Knoxville, Tennessee in 1866, and her husband died in 1889, leaving her with four kids at age 23. For the record, the daughter referenced as "Mrs. Homer Parks" is an error and should read "Mrs. Arthur Parks".
TMM became friends with golfer Arnold Palmer during a period when Arnie was in dicussions with Delta for promotional work. TMM had dinner with Arnie and Winnie at their home in Pennsylvania. TMM once said that Palmer is only the second nicest person in the world, Winnie being number one.
The Dabney Line as given by Susan Dabney Smedes in her Memorials of a Southern Planter (1887) and William H. Dabney in his Sketch of the Dabneys of Virginia has been criticized by others, notably by Charles William Dabney in Virginia Magazine of History and Biography , vol. XLV (April 1937), pp. 121-143. CWD […]
Zeke’s mother, EMM’s paternal grandmother, known to us as "Grandmother Shumway". Kay is in both pictures and Margaret Mae Brown in one.
Four generations. There’s another four-generation picture on this site, shifted one generation.