Long Ago Tales

This is a partial history and record of our children's ancestorsthe Scot Robert Abernathy sold to a Virginia tobacco planter in 1650. His wife Christine Tillman descended from John of Gaunt the 3rd son of King Edward III of England. Irish Bartholomew Carrell was in the Am Rev a grandson married Sarah Swynford who traces to Stephen Hopkins of the Mayflower. Our German Bollinger Schell Miller and Statler families crossed to Missouri the first day of 1800 from NC and PA. The Burns Abernathys and Conrads followed after 1820. Moses Wright from William the Conqueror's Norman knights. Adam Loftus Queen Elizabeth's Lord Chancellor to Ireland and first Provost of Trinity College. John Byrd Noble Anderson Nathan Caldwell Micheal Wood and Willis Austin. It is built around a timeline from the era of the Roman Empire through Western Europe and England to the exploration and colonization of North America thru the civil war in MO and AR.