Fifth Generation

John Roberts Tucker was born 14 Feb 1800 in Culpepper County, Virginia and is the son of William Tucker and Jemima Roberts.

He married Isabella P. Tatum who was the daughter of Nathaniel Tatum and Lucy Ford. She was born December 10, 1810 and is from Madison County, Virginia.

They had first daughters 1. Lucy Mary (1835) and 2. Jemima Ann (b. 1837, married John Page Yowell)

Then they had 3. Eliza Ellen Tucker who was born in 1838 and married James Swan.

Child #4

From the Encyclopedia of Virginia Biography 805-808

“The name Rust has figured in Virginia history since 1650, William Rust, the founder of the family in this state, settling about that date in Northumberland County. He was a renowned hunter and Indian fighter.” (This book was written when being an Indian fighter was still a cool thing to be)

“The earliest records of the Rust Family in England are in Norfolk County, of Hugh Rust, in 1312, of Thomas and Robert Rust in 1379, and of Peter Rust , in 1655. The will of William Rust is recorded in Westmreland County, Virginia, and is dated March 18, 1696, and probated July 28, 1697; his wife is mentioned as Margaret and the document is witnessed by George Rust. The children named in the will are William,  Ann, Margaret, and probably George and Samuel Rust. Another will of William Rust probably the son of the above William Rust is dated 1699 and evidence points toward his having a son named John.

All of the southern RUsts are descended from the poineer, William Rust, who is thought to have come from Northumberland to Westmorealnd County, but some authorites stating direct from England. “

I have already written a post about this great great grandparent, the mother of my great grandmother, Ida Pope Majors. I never wrote down her lineage which is very interesting. She comes from an old Georgian family. Remember fathers are the even numbers and mothers are the odd. To find the parent double their number and for the mother, double the number and add one.

1. Ida May Landrum 1854 in Oglethorpe County Georgia- 1895 Lauderdale County, Tennessee, married Marshall Daniel Majors, also of Georgia

2. William Thomas Landrum  1827 Oglethorpe County, Georgia- 1870 Oglethorpe County, Georgia

3. Sara Rebecca Milner- 1834 Oglethorpe, Georgia- 1874 Oglethorpe, Georgia

4. William H Landrum 1794 Orange County, Virginia- 1867 Lauderdale, Tennessee

5. Jane Bledsoe 1791 Virginia- 1861 unknown

6. John Dunn Milner 1808 Oglethorpe, Georgia- 1863

7. Matilda Lumpkin 1813 Oglethorpe, Georgia- 1850 Oglethorpe, Georgia (does anyone have a picture of her?)

8. William Thomas Landrum 1759 Orange County Virginia- 1833 Oglethorpe, Georgia

9.  Nancy Bell, there needs to be more research on her

10.  William Bledsoe 1761 Fredericksburg, Virginia (nearby where I live, I need to look him up!)- 1841 Oglethorpe, Georgia

11. Jean Bolling 1761 Spotsylvania County, Virginia (Fredericksburg)- 1838 Oglethorpe County, Georgia

12.  Jonathan Milner 1778 Georgia- 1844 Oglethorpe County, Georgia

13.  Rebecca Dunn 1783- 1829 Oglethorpe County, Georgia

14.  Rev. George Lumpkin 1788- 1858 Oglethorpe, Georgia

15. Sarah Pope 1787 Wilkes County, Georgia

16. Thomas Landrum 1727 Essex County, Virginia- 1785 Orange, North Carolina

17. Mary Hawkins 1730- 1785 Virginia, North Carolina?

18. Joseph Bell

19. Elizabeth Morley, there is not a lot of information on them

20. Moses Bledsoe 1720-1764 Spotsylvania County, Virginia probably near Fredericksburg

21. Mary Miller- Spotsylvania County, Virginia

22. John Bolling 1739 Shadwell, Albemarle, Virginia (beautiful area)- 1812 Clarke County, Georgia

23. Ursela Bell 1736 Orange County, Virginia

24. John Milner 1746 England- 1812 Oglethorpe, Georgia

25. Elizabeth Godwin 1749 Virginia- 1812 Oglethorpe, Georgia

26. Drury Dunn died in 1811 in Hancock County, Georgia

27. Martha Powell 1752 Virginia- 1825

28. John Lumpkin 1762 Halifax County, Virginia- 1834 Oglethorpe County, Georgia (the father of Governor Wilson Lumpkin of Georgia)

29. Lucy Elizabeth Hopson 1764 Goochland County, Virginia- 1820 Oglethorpe, Georgia

30. Henry Augustine Pope 1760 Halifax, North Carolina- 1807 Oglethorpe, Georgia

31. Clara Hill 1763 Chowan, North Carolina- 1798 Wilkes County, Georgia

32. John Landrum 1700 Essex County, Virginia- 1770 Chatham County, North Carolina

33. Mary Buckner from Essex County, Virginia

40. William Bledsoe (more research needed)

41. Anne

42. William Miller

46. Roger Bell 1705 Fredericksburg, Virginia- 1774 Orange County, Virginia

47. Elizabeth

48. John M. Milner 1720 Ravenstonedale, Westmoreland, England

49. Ann Pitt 1724 England

50. Barnaby Godwin 1723 Virginia??

51. Wilkinora Wilkinson 1727 Virginia- 1790

52. John Dunn 1714 Virginia

53. Lucy Bolling

54. Edward Powell

55. Mary

56. George Lumpkin 1723 King and Queen County, Virginia- 1799 Wilkes Georgia

57. Mary Archdeacon Cody 1729 Halifax County, Georgia- 1800 Lexington, Georgia

58. Henry Hopson 1713 Henrico, Virginia

59. Martha Neville 1720 Albemarle County, Virginia- 1800 Halifax, Virginia

60. Henry Pope 1725 Edgefield County, North Carolina- 1764 Halifax County, North Carolina

61. Tabitha Bradford 1726 North Carolina

62. Abraham Hill 1732 NAnsemond, Virginia- 1792 Wilkes, Georgia

63. Christian Walton 1739 Virginia- 1808 Wilkes County, Georgia

64. John Landrum 1665 Aberdeenshire, Scotland- 1708 Essex County, Virginia

65. Sophronia Jane Evans 1670 Essex County, Virginia- 1707 Essex County, Virginia

96. John Milner 1677 England- 1744

97. Patience Bridger

100. William Godwin 1697- 1736 Isle of Wight, Virginia

101. Ann Pitt

112. Robert Lumpkin 1688 King and Queen, Virginia- 1784 Pittsylvania County, Virginia

113. Unknown 1690-?

114. James Cody 1718 Ireland- 1795 Warrenton, Georgia

115. Sarah Womack

116. Joseph Hopson 1675 Henrico County, Virginia- 1767

117.  Margaret Hatcher 1690 Henrico County, Virginia

118. James Neville  1686- 1752 Albemarle County, Virginia

119.  Lucy Thompson 1696- 1785

120. John Pope 1692 Isle of Wight County, Virginia- 1745 Edgecombe, North Carolina

121. Mourning McKinnie 1704- 1745 North Carolina

122.  John Bradford 1704 Jamestown, Virginia- 1735 North Carolina

123. Rebecca Pace 1706- 1794

124. Abraham Hill

125. Judith  Hinton

126. Thomas Walton 1713- 1759

127. Sarah Roundtree all from North Carolina

130. John Evans born in Wales died in 1703 in Essex County, Virginia

131. Marian Johnson said also to be from Wales but no proof.

200. Thomas Godwin 1640 of Virginia

201. Martha Bridger also of Virginia

224. Jacob Lumpkin 1644-1708

225. Ann

232. William W. Hopson 1651- 1732 Virginia

233.  Elizabeth

234. Benjamin Hatcher 1644-1727 of Henrico County, Virginia

235. Elizabeth Greenhaugh

240. Henry Pope 1663- 1728

241. Sarah Watts 1664-?

242. Barnaby McKinnie 1673- 1740

243. Mary Exum

244.  Richard Bradford 1660 London- 1725 Virginia

245. Ann Roles

246. Richard Pace 1670 in Virginia

247.  Rebecca Poythress 1672in Virginia

248. Henry Applewhite Hill died in 1719 in Nansemond County, Virginia

249. Mary Pugh died in North Carolina

250.  John Hinton

251. Mary Hardy

252. Thomas Walton

253. Sarah

254. Francis Roundtree

262. Martin Johnson 1625 in Wales?

448. Thomas Lumpkin

464. Henry Hopson 1630 Rhode Island

465. Mary

468.  William Hatcher 1613 CAREBY, LEICHESTERSHIRE, ENGLAND

469. Mary Smith

470.  John Greenhaugh 1614 England- 1696 Virginia

480. William Pope 1634- 1700 Isle of Wigh, Virginia

481. Mary Bridges

482. John Watts

483. Alice English

484. Michael Macquinny

485. Elizabeth

486. Jeremiah Exum

487. Ann Lawrence

488.  Richard Bradford of London, England

489. Frances Taylor

492. Richard Pace

493. Mary Knowles

496. Thomas Hill

497. Mary Marshall

498. Daniel Pugh

I must say that once you start doing genealogy it starts to take over your life. I have decided to keep up with my genealogy here rather than try to keep up with another blog. I find it fascinating. I love history and that is why genealogy is a great hobby for me. I hope to get better and to become a near professional. Check back here for names etc.

I always hear immigrants talk about how boring white Anglo-Saxons are and how they lack a culture. They usually do this while walking by a Christmas tree or looking at a cute Easter bunny. They will tell of about strange superstitions as if we don’t have anything like that ourselves. On the news you hear of people suing to get rid of “Christian” symbols like the Eater bunny or the Christmas in order to lower the power of the White Christian hegemony. Here is a little secret, your average white American is superstitious and is connected to ancient old traditions that have nothing to do with Christianity. Many of us are the direct descendants of people who fought in wars naked with painted bodies and did human sacrifices. There are even stories of our ancient ancestors that practiced cannibalism and would hang the heads of their slain around the necks of their horses. Yes, it is true, many of us “civilized” white folk tend to ignore our pagan past. (or we glorify it, think Wagner) Think about that the next time you protest a Christmas tree or see a white hippy hug a tree. These traditions are now commercialized but are old traditions from our Pagan heritage, that honestly make us cringe. Our ancestors were scary, but misunderstood folk. As much as we try to ignore them, we still knock on wood, wear rabbit feet, and find pennies lucky.

The United States of America is a nation whose primary culture is based on Protestant Christian values. The majority of colonists were Protestant Christians from Western Europe. Those settlers brought their culture with them to the America’s, the bad and the good. They brought strong work ethics based in Calvinism. However, they also brought over superstitions held over all the way from before Christian times. These superstitions survived Catholicism and later Protestantism. It is amazing how these old beliefs survived despite the many attempts to stomp these old beliefs out.

In some ways, the Catholic traditions started new superstitions that replaced the pagan ones. Read any hagiography and you will hear a story of a saint getting rid of something dangerous or evil simply by doing the sign of the cross. I believe in Russia some people still do the sign of the cross when they hear something bad. Growing up Mormon, I never used the sign of the cross or wore a cross. Because of the sign of the cross turning into some kind of magic almost pagan like charm, members of the LDS church do not wear crosses. I am sure if people think their CTR ring will ward of evil, that also would be banned.

Well, these old superstitions still carry over into America. I still hear of people knocking on wood. That came from an old Pagan belief that fairies lived in the wood and knocking on wood would prevent the fairies from hearing what you planned to do, so that they could not ruin your plans or desires. Another variation is to wake up the wood sprite so that the sprite could protect you. The pagans believed that the Gods lived in the trees. Ancient pagans had groves for worship. These forests were not to be cut down and bothered. Tacitus writes about these groves and says that the old Germans did not worship idols, but worship ideas of these Gods and worshiped them in these woods. Human sacrifice was done at times. Archaeologists are still finding these victims of human sacrifice. They would usually strangle the victim and then drown them in a bog for the god or goddess.

It is interesting that trees were special for the old Pagans as we in America still decorate trees for Christmas. The cutting of a tree and putting it in your home for decoration was not from the ancient Germans because the tree would be too sacred to cut down. I did hear a story though from my grandmother that as a child they decorate trees with food (I think she said nuts, I can’t quite remember) on Christmas to feed the birds. I don’t think that has much to do with Paganism though but a very Christian idea of being kind to all creatures. The Roman pagans were more likely to put boughs of evergreen trees in their home to celebrate the winter solstice. The American version of Christmas trees came from German immigrants and has since became a “Christian” symbol. The Christmas tree is one of many pagan symbols that have turned into “Christian” symbols.

Halloween is an old holiday of the ancient Celts. Any reading of the ancient Celts make modern day Christians’ skin crawl. Have you seen the movie “Wicker Man”? Many consider it one of the scariest movies ever. I am of course talking about the original not the new version which is based more on the works of Strabo than on the 1973 movie. This is a movie that brings the old Celtic practices into the modern world. Here is a link to Strabo’s Geography. It is not known how accurate Strabo was, but it is a fact that the Celts did practice human sacrifice. The customs of cutting up a pumpkin and putting a candle in it, trick or treating, and dressing up in scary costumes all come from the ancient Celts. The Christians changed this celebration into All Saint’s Day, a holiday not widely practiced in the USA. I don’t know anyone who celebrate All Saint’s Day and I lived all over the USA my entire life!

Easter is the most Christian of holidays, but now it too has some Pagan elements. The Easter Egg is the symbol of a mother goddess. White rabbits were the symbols of witches and magic. We still connect white rabbits to magic. Easter falls on a Sunday which “is derived from the name of the Scandinavian sun Goddess Sunna.” “Easter celebrations were held hundreds of years before Christ was born as festivals of spring honoring Eostre, the great mother goddess of the Saxons. This name was fashioned after the ancient word for spring, Eastre. The goddess Ostara was the Norse equivalent whose symbols were the hare and the egg. From this comes our modern tradition of celebrating Easter with eggs and bunnies.”

Simply put, the pagans had celebrations at each season. There is even a Midsummer’s festival no longer celebrated by Americans except by a few immigrants. On Midsummer’s Eve you light a bonfire. I guess Americans have Independence Day as their summer festival to replace the Midsummer’s Festival. The Christians, still wanting to celebrate these holidays at the seasons, replaced them with Christian holidays. When you are are serf, and the only days you have to look forward to are the seasonal festivals, you aren’t going to give them up. Seasonal festivals are not just a European tradition. I know Asians also have huge festivals and holidays at the season changes. (The one in October is very huge!) Since I am terribly ignorant of Africa, could an African please enlighten me about their holidays? I would love to learn about them!

There are so many other traditions that come from the old. I laugh when people from other countries think that Americans have no culture because we most certainly do! Eat a cake at a party, that came from the old pagans too! My grandmother still believes that cats and dogs suck the breath out of infants. She is not an immigrant from the old country either. Her family has been in America for many generations. She remembers stories about her grandmother planting by the stars. Her CHRISTIAN grandmother! Or that coming into a house after being hot and drinking cold water will kill you. She sometimes tells me things that her mother told her that she thought was weird, but I don’t remember any. I will ask her to see what she remembers.

I notice that I do strange things without any explanation. I always pray when I drive over a bridge. Was that learned behavior or something I picked up on my own? I don’t like to step on cracks. To me stepping on cracks ruins the logical flow of my walk and yes I admit, I fear bad luck. I am a Christian!! Why on earth do I fear bad luck? I don’t like the number seven and I don’t like to drive during a full moon. When I walk into a room and hear someone talk about me, I say that I knew my ears were burning. I get nervous when someone sweeps near me. I am now over the Friday the thirteenth superstition. I actually usually have a good day on that day I guess because I am more aware.

It is true that believing in Christ frees you of being afraid of superstitions. The more religious you become, the less superstitious you are. Being a good Christian doesn’t mean that you can’t celebrate old pagan festivals! Festivals bring the community together and generally are good times. If you want to use those days to bring out Christian virtues, so much the better. Even Halloween is positive. It is an excuse for me to visit and get to know my neighbors. I think that is why the old Pagan holidays never died out.

So the next time someone wants to take down a Christmas tree, tell the person that it is not for Christians, but it is a Pagan symbol meant to bring Christians and pagans in the community together in peace, just like Christ would want us to. It is a symbol for fun and friendship. It is for Muslims, Christians, Jews, and Pagans! The Nativity Scene on the corner IS actually for Christians to remember the birth of our Savior. It reminds Christians how we should live and reminds us to be kinder to our Muslim, Hindu, and Buddhist neighbors. So if I were you , I would leave the symbols alone. I would have a happy Christian neighbor who is reminded to be kind to their neighbor, over a bitter one who is stripped of anything positive in their life over a fear of being sued. If you keep being kind, maybe eventually Americans will eat rice cakes in October or wear an evil eye around their necks!