Fifth Generation

1. Parthenia Elizabeth Lomax 1882 Linden, Tennessee-1965 Trenton, Tennessee

Parents

2.James Russell Lomax 1859-1937 Linden, Tennessee

3. Mary Jane Richardson 1858-1930 Linden, Tennessee

Grandparents

4. John Lomax 1837-1918 Perry County, Tennessee

5. Elizabeth Horner 1835-1878 Perry County, Tennessee

6. Josiah Richardson 1829-1892 Perry County, Tennessee

7. Nancy Childress 1833-1903 Perry County, Tennessee

Great Grandparents Fourth Generation

8. John L. Lomax 1785 Wilkes County, Georgia- 1854 Dunklin, Missouri

9. Phobe Hufstedler 1808- 1859 Dunklin County, Missouri

10. Jesse Horner 1808 Hickman County, TN- 1840 Perry, TN

11. Mourning Denton 1814-1861 Perry County, Tennessee

12. John Richardson 1776 Augusta, GA- 1879 Perry, Tennessee

13. Mary Horner 1802- 1880 Perry County, Tennessee

14.  Jacob Childress

15. Unknown

Fifth Generation

16. Samuel Lomax 1762 England-1833 Perry County, Tennessee

17. Temperence Bugg 1765 Virginia- 1820 Tennessee

18. Jacob Hufstedler 1785 York, South Carolina- 1860 Arkansas

19. Alcey Moore 1785 Virginia- 1866

20.John Horner 1770 North Carolina- 1822 Perry,TN

21. Elizabeth Russell 1772 early Tennessee- 1820 Perry County, TN

22. Samuel Denton 1777-1856 Perry County, Tennessee

23. Eunice Conger 1789 South Carolina

24 25 unknown

26 27 same as 12 and 13

Sixth Generation

34. John Bugg 1730 Virginia- 1818 Dickson, Tennessee

35. Elizabeth Pennington 1740 Virginia Died unknown

36. Jacob Hufstedler 1745 Lancaster, Pennsylvania- 1825 Anderson, Tennessee

37. Mary Summy 1759 York, South Carolina

40. William Horner 1746 Pennsylvania- 1824 Hamblen, TN

41. Elizabeth Allred 1747 Orange County, North Carolina- 1823 Whitesburg, Hamblen, Tennessee

42. George Russell 1720  Loudon,Virginia- 1796 Granger County, Tennessee

43. Elizabeth Bean 1723 Northumberton, Virginia- 1800 Granger County, Tennessee

44. Abraham Denton 1730 Shenandoah, Virginia- 1825 Obion county, Tennessee

45. Morning Hogg 1787

Seventh Generation

68. William Bugg 1712 New Kent County, Virginia- 1796 New Kent, Virginia

69. Mary Bacon 1713 New Kent County, Virginia- 1770

72. Hans Johan Jakob Hoffstadler 1701 Germany- 1776 Pennsylvania

73.Maria Eva Troutman 1709 Germany- 1757 Pennsylvania

80. George Horner 1726-1811

82. John Allred 1736 North Carolina- 1792

83. Margaret Chaney 1739 North Carolina

88. Abraham Denton 1700 New York - 1774  Virginia

89. Mary Odell 1702 Shenandoah, Virginia- 1778

90. Gideon Hogg 1760 Edinburgh, Scotland-1793  NC

91. Judith 1762-?

Eighth  Generation

136. Samuel Bugg 1689-1779 New Kent County, Virginia

137. Sarah Bacon 1693

138. John Bacon 1682-1742 New Kent County, Virginia

139. Susannah Park 1686-1778 New Kent County, Virginia

144. Christian Hochstattler - Present day Germany

145. Maria

146.  Johan Heinrich Troutman

160. John Horner 1699 Orange County, North Carolina

164. John A. Allred 1706 Wicomico, Virginia

165. Ann Hamilton 1705-?

166. Francis Chaney

167. Sarah Orrick

176.  Abraham Denton 1668 Jamaica, Queens, NY-1730 Nassau, New York

177. Abigail Billiou

180. John Hogg 1737 Scotland- died in North Carolina

Ninth Generation

274. Edmund Bacon 1641 Suffolk, England- 1705 New Kent, VA

275. Ann Lydall 1658- 1705 Virginia

276 277 same as 274  and 275

352. Samuel Denton 1633 Nassau, New York- 1713 Nassau, New York

360. Peter Hogg 1755- Scotland

361. Elizabeth Simson 1759-? Scotland

Tenth Generation

548. William Bacon 1596-1660 England (theory)

550.Colonel George Lyddall  1620 London, England- 1705 Virginia

551. Possibly Barbara Strangeways 1616-?

704. Richard Denton 1586-1663 England

705. Helen Windbank 1588 Yorkshire, England

706. John Rock Smith England

720. James Hogg 1729-? Scotland

Eleventh Generation

1110. Thomas Lyddall 1583-1627 Uxmore, England

1111. Elizabeth Venables 1585-? Andover, England

1408. Richard Denton 1559 Worley, England

1409. Sibella

Twelfth Generation

2816. Richard Denton 1516 Halifax, England

2817. Gennett Banyster 1526 Halifax, England

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Parthenia Elizabeth Lomax was born on April 2, 1882 in Linden, Perry County, Tennessee and died March 17 1965 in Trenton, Gibson County, Tennessee. She was the daughter of James Russell Lomax and Mary Jane Richardson bith of Perry County, Tennessee.

Her father was a farmer and she was raised among her many cousins.  She was the eldest of ten children. She had four sisters: Ethel, Minnie, Matilda, Annie, and and five brothers: John Franklin, Jospeh Elsberry, Henry Thomas, Ellis, and Jacob Earl. Ellis was born in 1898 and died at the age of two.

“Partheny”, as she was known, married William Albert Burns on May 3, 1902 when she was 20 years old. Her first daughter, Ila Ruth, was born a year later in 1903. Unfortunately, Ila died when she was only a month old. Parthenia Burns waited two years before having Olive Pearl.  In 1907 she had Lena Irene, my great grandmother. Two years later she had Lora Mae and then after moving to Gibason County, Tennessee in 1912 had Hattie Lugenia, known as Lugenia. It seemed like they were trying to have a son. Two years later she had Russell Albert Burns. Finally, she took a break from having children. She didn’t have Mary and William Wallace until 1921 and 1923.

I don’t know much about her right now, but I hope to remedy that soon. I think the family’s strawberry red or even red hair and huge sparkling blue eyes come from her.  The traits from Parthenia Lomax and Albert Burns appear to be very dominant in my family.

I do not know much about Parthenia Lomax, but I do know a lot about her family tree which is very old.

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William Albert Burns was born on 25 February 1884 in Linden, Perry, Tennessee. He died on March 11, 1971 in Jackson, Tennessee. His mother was Sallie Burns who married a John French in 1872, but were mysteriously no longer living together by 1880. We don’t know who Albert Burns’ father was. Sallie was the daughter of Guilford Burns and a woman named Tabitha.

Albert Burns grew up in Perry County, Tennessee on farms. He was a farmer all of his life. He had two four sisters, Laura, Alice, Nancy, and Virginia, and two brothers, George and Oscar. All but Nancy and Virginia went by Burns. Nancy and Virginia had French as their last name.

When he was 18 years old he married Parthenia Lomax also of Perry County, Tennessee. The next year their first child, Ila Ruth, was born. She died a month later.  He continues to farm in Perry County until around 1910 when the family moved to Gibson County, Tennessee.

He and Parthenia had the following children:
1. Ila Ruth Burns 1903-1903
2. Olive Pearl 1905-2000 married Stylon Dodson Proctor
3. Lena Irene 1907-1968 (my great grandmother)
4. Lora Mae 1909-1951 married Jesse Hillard Bell
5. Hattie Lugenia 1912-2002 married Richard Calvin Dycas
6. Russell Albert 1914-1976 married Thelma Warren
7. Mary Ruth 1921- married William Mayes
8. William Wallace 1923-1995 married Lila Palmer

William Albert Burns was known as Papa Burns to his grandchildren and great grandchildren. Since he died in 1971, my mother and grandfather have many great memories of Papa Burns, (that I wish they would tell me more of:-)

Here is one story shared by my grandfather, James Etheridge:

Papa was a farmer all his life and I best remember him when he lived about five miles west of Trenton, Gibson County Tennessee.   Papa had always farmed with two mules and a plow and the maximum land that he could farm this way with help was 40 acres.  When Uncle Wallace was in his late teens, Papa decided that to expand the farm, they needed to buy a tractor which Wallace would drive.  Some time after the tractor was bought, Papa decided that he should learn how to use it on the farm and to use it to pull his wagon into Trenton to pick up supplies.  He and Wallace went out into the pasture, took the tractor which was a Model H John Deere.  This machine used a hand lever as a clutch.  Papa was shown where the brakes were, (each rear wheel had a separate brake pedal which were joined as one with a metal bar that locked the two pedals together.  Wallace then pushed the hand clutch in  and stepped off the rear of the tractor.  Around the pasture went Papa and as he came around where Wallace was he began to say Whoa and of course the tractor kept going.  No amount of whoa’s would stop the machine.  Wallace then ran, jumped on the rear of the tractor and pulled the clutch, stopping the machine.  Papa got off the tractor and never set foot on it again.  He never learned to drive nor ever had a car.  He would hook up his team of mules to the wagon and make the 5 mile trip into town for his supplies.  He knew that he could stop that team when and wherever he wanted.

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Alexander Boyer in Google Books (click on the title)

Calender of Historical Manuscripts in the Office of the Secretary of State, Albany, NY By New York State Secretary’s Office, New York, 1865 from Harvard University

The Wilderness Trail by Charles Augustus Hanna

American Boyers by Charles Clinton Boyer

History of Delaware:1609-1888 by John Thomas Scharf

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I knew about my English, Scottish, Irish, French, and German heritage, but since blogging my family tree I have found more German, Swedish, and Dutch connections.

Alexander Boyer 1618 (0r 1620) to 1661. He was a Dutchman who came to the colony of New Amsterdam. He was later sent to Fort Nassau in Delaware and was an interpreter to the Indians. He also worked with the Swedes who colonized Delaware around 1648 and married a Swedish woman. With her he had two children, Jan and Josyn. Right now I can’t find out this woman’s name, but I found a book on early Delaware Swedish Settlers written by Amandus Johnson and I am hoping to find some clues based on that research. She died sometime before 1655.

Alexander later married Elizabeth Jans and baptized two children on December 1, 1655 in Manhattan, Pieter and Samuel. He returned to Delaware in 1656 and died in 1661. His daughter Josyn married William Sample, an Englishman who came to Delaware from Maryland. Their daughter, Margaret, married a William Sparks from Maryland. They are the distant ancestors of my great-great grandmother Callie Carter of Tennessee.

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