EXTENDED DETAILS OF LINEAGE: SOUTH

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Code: S= Son. F = Father. G=Grandparent. "Great-" is denoted by addition of number. G1=Great-grandparent

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== The origin of the name is South English and the Coat of Arms contains “Silver with two red bars.” The Crest is “A griffin's head.” Spelling variations include: South, Sowthe, and others. First found in Lincoln. By the 14th century they had branched to Amesbury and Swallow Cliffe in the same county. Some of the first settlers of this name or some of its variants were: John and William South who settled in Virginia in 1650; Humphrey South settled in Pennsylvania in 1682; Mary South and her husband William settled in Maryland in 1733; William South arrived in Pennsylvania and others.

|  Gen00-G-John South (b.abt.1689 Middlesex Co., VA-d.yr?)
|  married Jan. 07, 1710/11 in Middlesex Co., VA to Mary Elizabeth Smith (b.Mar. 20, 1695/96 Middlesex Co., VA-d.yr?)
|  Gen01-Elizabeth South b: NOV 1711 in Middlesex Co., Virginia
== In a book called "Tecumseah - A Sorrow in Our Heart" (non fiction) the writter who is telling the life story of Tecumseah, mentions in his book Thomas South by name being killed by the Shawnee, Thomas being outside the walls of the fort being ambushed by the Shawnee. ~ John M. South
|  Gen01-Thomas South (b.1713 Middlesex Co., VA-d.1779 Boonesbourgh KY: killed by Shawnee Indians)
Marriage 1 Elizabeth Barnett
|  |  Gen02-Mary Catherine South b: 1758 in Va
|  |  Gen02-John South b: 1760 in Va
|  |  Gen02-Nancy Barnett South b: 1775
|  |  Gen02-Sarah South
|  Gen01-Andrew South b: 25 APR 1715 in Middlesex Co., Virginia
|  Gen01-Smith South b: 24 JAN 1716/17 in Middlesex Co., Virginia
|  Gen01-William South b: 1720 in Middlesex Co., Va
|  Gen01-Benjamin South b: ABT. 1721 in Middlesex Co., Va
|  Gen01-Zedekiah South b: 1726 in Virginia
|  Gen01-Polly South b: in Middlesex Co., Va
|  Gen01-Samuel South b: in Middlesex Co., Virginia
== John South was the first Leguslator of Fayette Co., Kentucky (1793-1804). In 1792 he was appointed Inspector of tobacco and in 1795 (Fayette Co., KY) he was appointed Justice of the peace. Margaret is a great-grandniece of explorer Sir Francis Drake.
|  Gen01-G7-Brigadier General John B. "Hopping John" South Sr._1. (b.May 21, 1724 Chester Co., PA-d.aft. MAy 18, 1804 Madison Co., KY)
|  |   married 1752 to Margaret Weldon Drake (b.1724? VA-d.1798 Fayette Co., VA)
|  |  Gen02-Catherine Elizabeth South (b.1753 VA-d.abt.1815 LA) married yr? to Jacob Stearnes (b.yr?-d.yr?)
|  |  Gen02-Benjamin South (b.1764 VA-d.bef.1821) married yr? to Polly Moore (b.yr?-d.yr?)
|  |  Gen02-William South (b.Apr. 22, 1769 VA-d.yr?) married yr? to Margaret Dorman?Rebecca Lock? (b.yr?-d.yr?)
|  |  Gen02-Sarah M. South (b.1751 VA-d.1821 KY) married yr? to Colonel Aaron Lewis (b.1750-d.1821)
|  |  |  Gen03-Aaron Jr Lewis (b.abt.1773-d.yr?)
|  |  |  Gen03-Jeremiah Lewis (b.1774-d.1841) married yr? to Judith Benning (b.1801-d.1831)
|  |  |  Gen03-Thomas J. Lewis (b.1776 Palmyra-d.1847) married yr? to Elizabeth Stone (b.1779-d.1828 TX)
|  |  |  |  married again yr? to Emily South (cousin) (b.yr?-d.yr?)
|  |  |  |  Gen04-Thomas Jr Lewis (b.yr?-d.yr?)
|  |  |  |  |  Gen05-John Lewis (b.yr?-d.yr? Palmyra)
|  |  |  |  |  Gen05-James Lewis (b.yr? Montgomery Co.-d.yr?)
|  |  |  Gen03-John South Lewis (b.1780-d.1848) married yr? Nancy Brown (b.yr?-dyr?) married again yr?
|  |  |  |  to Eunice W. Higgens (b.1812-d.1906)
|  |  |  Gen03-Mary Elizabeth Lewis (b.1781-d.1865) married yr? to Dabney Finley (b.1777-d.1843)
|  |  |  |  Gen04-Brutus William Finley (b.1806-d.1880) married yr? to Sarah Adams (b.1807-d.1869)
|  |  |  |  |  Gen5-Thomas Barnett Finley (b.1839-d.1897) married yr? to Nancy Adaline Stewart (b.1846-d.1896)
|  |  |  |  |  |  Gen6-Roma Margurite Finley (b.1883-d.1917) married yr? to Samuel Fisher Lawrence (b.1879-d.1950)
|  |  |  |  |  |  |  Gen7-Wilma Esther Lawrence (b.1910-d.1982) married yr? to Alton Stephen Olson (b.1904-d.1944) married again yr? to
|  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  Lowell Sylvester Howson (b.1898-d.198?)
|  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  Gen8-Margurite Wilma Olson (b.1938) married yr? to James Leroy Shannon (b.1935-div)
|  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  Gen9-Michelle "Shelli" Morley Shannon (b.1957) married yr? to Michael William Gordon (b.1924)
|  |  |  Gen3-Isaac Newton Lewis (b.1782-d.1818) married yr? to Elizabeth Stoval Stemmons (b.1787-d.aft.1850)
|  |  |  Gen3-Sarah S. Lewis (b.abt1786-d.yr?- married yr? to Collin C. Stoneman (b.yr?-d.yr?)
|  |  |  Gen3-William L. Lewis (b.1790-d.yr?) married yr? to Firstname? Hampton (b.yr?-d.yr?)
|  |  |  Gen3-Margaret Lewis (b.abt.1793-d.bef.1826) married yr? to Thomas Threlkeld (b.yr?-d.yr?)
|  |  |  Gen3-Elizabeth Lewis (b.abt.1796-d.yr?) married yr? to Nathaniel Harris (b.yr?-d.bef.1821) married again yr? to
|  |  |  |  Thomas Threlkeld (b.yr?-d.yr?)
|  |  |  Gen3-Parthenia Lewis (b.abt.1798-d.yr?) married yr? to Holman M. Burt (b.yr?-d.yr?)
|  |  |  Gen3-Kesiah Lewis (b.abt.1801-d.1818) married yr? to Benjamin I. Carnahan (b.yr?-d.yr?)
|  |  Gen02-Senator Samuel Drake South (b.1768 VA-d.1833 Fayette Co., KY) married yr? to Martha "Patsy" Glover (b.yr?-d.yr?)
|  |  |  Gen03-John Glover South (b.yr?-d.yr?)
|  |  |  Gen03-Samuel Jr Drake South (b.yr?-d.yr?) married yr? to Sarah Easton (b.yr?-d.yr?)
|  |  |  Gen03-Margaret Weldon South (b.yr?-d.yr?) married yr? to Samuel Drake (b.yr?-d.yr?)
|  |  |  Gen03-Martha South (b.yr?-d.yr?)
|  |  |  Gen03-Judith South (b.yr?-d.yr?)
|  |  |  Gen03-Celia South (b.yr?-d.yr?) married yr? to John Curd (b.yr?-d.yr?)
|  |  |  Gen03-Emily T. South (b.yr?-d.yr?) married yr? to Thomas Lewis (cousin) (b.yr?-d.yr?)
|  |  |  Gen03-Eliza South (b.yr?-d.yr?) married yr? to Richard Holtzclaw (b.yr?-d.yr?)

Jeremiah "Jerry" Weldon South I

|  |  |  Gen03-Jeremiah "Jerry" Weldon South General (b.1805-d.Apr. 15, 1880 "The Father of Breathitt County") married yr? to
|  |  |  |  Mary Magdalene "Kitty" or "Millie" Cock(e)rell (b.1811-d.1873)
|  |  |  |  Gen4-Mary Elizabeth "Eliza"South (b.Sep.11, 1830-d.Mar. 16, 1900) married yr? to Stephen Asbury Trimble (b.1825-d.1864)
|  |  |  |  |  Gen5-South Trimble Congressman (b.Apr.13, 1864-d.Nov.23, 1946) married yr? to Carrie Belle Allen (b.yr?d.yr?)
|  |  |  |  Gen4-Ellen South (b.1831-d.1914) married yr? to Thomas P. Cardwell (b.1829-d.1915)
|  |  |  |  Gen4-Andrew Jackson South (b.1832-d.1865 Civil War casualty) married yr? to Jane Strong (b.1842-d.1865)
|  |  |  |  Gen4-Samuel South (b.1833-d.1889 Civil War Hero) married 1857 to Malvry Blackwell Jett (b.1840-d.1911 see Boone EDL)
|  |  |  |  |  Gen5-Mary Ellen South (b.1858-d.1915) married yr? to Enoch Edgar Hume Doctor (b.1844-d.1911 Surgeon; Mem. KY Leg.)
|  |  |  |  |  |  Gen6-Edgar Erskine Hume General, Surgeon (b.1889-d.1952)
|  |  |  |  |  |  Gen6-Eleanor Marion Hume (b.1894-d.1955) married yr? to Henry Frederick Offutt (b.1889-d.1932)
|  |  |  |  |  |  |  Gen7-Eleanor Hume Offutt (b.1925-d.1988) married yr? to Edward Clay O'Rear II (b.1913-d.1998)
|  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  Gen8-Edward Clay O'Rear III (b.1949-d.2000)
|  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  Gen8-Eleanor O'Rear (b.yr?-d.yr?) married yr? to Thomas Peavy (b.yr?-d.yr?)
|  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  Gen8-John Offutt O'Rear (b.yr?-d.yr?)
|  |  |  |  |  Gen5-Beriah Magoffin South (b.1860-d.1860)
|  |  |  |  |  Gen5-Annie South (b.1861-d.1932) married yr? to Stephen FitzJames Trabue Jr (b.yr.?-d.yr.?)
|  |  |  |  |  |  Gen6-Virginia Taylor Trabue (b.1898-d.1996)
|  |  |  |  |  |  Gen6-Marion South Trabue (b.1901-d.1970) married yr? to Henry Myers (b.Jun. 23, 1893 Chicago, IL-d.Oct. 1975)
|  |  |  |  |  Gen5-Samuel Jr South (b.1863-d.1866)
|  |  |  |  |  Gen5-Jerry Curtis South (b.1868-d.1930 Mem. AR Leg.) married yr? to Ellen Chappel Hargis (b.1878-d.yr?)
|  |  |  |  |  Gen5-Thomas Jackson "Stonewall" South (b.1869-d.1872)
|  |  |  |  |  Gen5-Martin Van Buren II South (b.yr?-d.yr?) married yr? to Edith Shafer (b.yr?-d.yr?) married yr? again to
|  |  |  |  |  |  Lucy McGinnis (b.yr?-d.1900)
|  |  |  |  |  |  Gen6-Annie Keith South (b.yr?-d.yr?)
|  |  |  |  |  |  Gen6-Isabelle Glover South (b.1893-d.1980) married yr? to Ernst Hoge (b.1894-d.1962)
|  |  |  |  |  |  Gen6-Robert South (b.yr?-d.yr?)
|  |  |  |  |  |  Gen6-Aileen South (b.yr?-d.yr?)
|  |  |  |  |  Gen5-John Glover South Doctor, Ambassador (b.Jan. 23, 1873 Franklin Co., KY-d.1940) married Nov. 02, 1904 to
|  |  |  |  |  |  Christine Duncan Bradley (b.1879-d.1957)
|  |  |  |  |  Gen5-Gertrude South (b.1875-d.1945) married yr? to Thomas Lindsey Blayney Doctor (PHD) General (WWI), (b.1873-d.yr?)
|  |  |  |  |  |  Gen6-Lucy Lindsey Blayney (b.yr?-d.yr?)
|  |  |  |  |  |  Gen6-John McCluskey Blayney (b.yr?-d.yr?)
|  |  |  |  |  |  Gen6-Lindsey Blayney (b.yr?-d.yr?)
|  |  |  |  Gen4-Martin Van Buren South (b.Oct. 28, 1836 Breathitt Co., KY-d.Apr. 01, 1876 Frankfort, Franklin County, Kentucky :murdered:)
|  |  |  |  |  married Dec. 10, 1869 Franklin Co., KY to Sophronia Hockensmith (b.yr? Franklin Co., KY-d.yr?)
|  |  |  |  |  Gen5-John Henry (twin) South (b.1868-d.1944) married yr? to Julia Hopple (b.yr?-d.yr?)
|  |  |  |  |  Gen5-Samuel Fogg (twin) South (b.1868-d.1927) married yr? to Sue Carter (b.yr?-d.yr?)
|  |  |  |  |  Gen5-Thomas L. South (b.yr?-d.yr?)
|  |  |  |  |  Gen5-Eudora M. South (b.yr?-d.yr?)
|  |  |  |  Gen4-John Glover South (b.1837/38-d.1839/40)
|  |  |  |  Gen4-Celia South (b.1839-d.yr?) married yr? to John Cardwell (b.1824-d.1918)
|  |  |  |  Gen4-Jeremiah Weldon II South Lieutenant (b.1840/41-d.1864/65 Civil War casualty-Holly Creek) married yr? to
|  |  |  |  |  Caroline Cope (b.1839-d.1917)

Jeremiah "Bad" Weldon South III

|  |  |  |  |  Gen5-Jeremiah "Bad" Weldon South III (b.1863-d.1896) married yr? to Lula Belle Hargis (b.1869-d.1954)
|  |  |  |  |  |  Gen6-Harlan South (b.1885-d.1958) married yr? to Emily Jane Perkins (b.1883-d.1933)
|  |  |  |  |  |  |  Gen7-Jerry Weldon South (b.1906-d.yr?)
|  |  |  |  |  |  |  Gen7-Wiley Walton South (b.1908-d.1908)
|  |  |  |  |  |  |  Gen7-Herschel Laverne South (b.1909-d.1989) married yr? to Maxine Neff (b.1919-d.yr?)
|  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  Gen8-Jayne South (b.1935-d.yr?) married yr? to Loren C. Hampton (b.1934-d.yr?) married again yr? to
|  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  Adie V. McRae (b.1926-d.yr?)
|  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  Gen9-Scott C. Hampton (b.1960) married yr? to Geneine Matillo (b.1961-d.yr?) married again yr? to
|  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  Julie A. Wiseman (b.1964-d.yr?)
|  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  Gen10-April L. Hampton (b.1979-d.yr?)
|  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  Gen9-Eric R. Hampton (b.1963-d.yr?) married yr? to Lisa Tyner (b.yr?-d.yr?)
|  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  Gen9-Dawn Hampton (b.1965-d.yr?) married yr? to Ed Bultman (b.1962-d.yr?)
|  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  Gen10-Nicolas E. Bultman (b.1989-d.yr?)
|  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  Gen10-Mariah A. Bultman (b.1991-d.yr?)
|  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  Gen8-Herschel Laverne Jr South (b.1936-d.1937)
|  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  Gen8-David R. South (b.1939-d.yr?) married yr? to Patricia A. Schneider (b.yr?-d.yr?)
|  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  Gen9-Susan K. South (b.1961-d.yr?)
|  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  Gen9-Barbara J. South (b.yr?-d.yr?)
|  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  Gen9-Jeffrey A. South (b.yr?-d.yr?) married yr? to Christina Lastname? (b.yr?-d.yr?)
|  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  Gen8-Patricia South (b.1943-d.yr?) married yr? to John Zimmerman (b.yr?-d.yr?)
|  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  Gen9-Kent Zimmerman (b. 1965-d.yr?)
|  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  Gen8-Daniel South (b.1948-d.yr?) married yr? to Kathy Sullivan (b.yr?-d.yr?)
|  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  Gen9-Darian Patrick South (b.1971-d.1997)
|  |  |  |  |  |  |  Gen7-Lulu Opaleigh South (b.1911-d.yr?)
|  |  |  |  |  |  |  Gen7-Mattie Elizabeth South (b.1920-d.yr?)
|  |  |  |  |  |  Gen6-Dora South (b.1888-d.1920) married yr? Blaine Short (b.yr?-d.yr?)
|  |  |  |  |  Gen5-Addie South (b.1860-d.1876)
|  |  |  |  Gen4-William Tyler Berry South Captain (b.1842-d.1932) married yr? to Annie May Jones (b.yr?-d.yr?)
|  |  |  |  Gen4-Martha Pattie South (b.1845-d.1925) married yr? to Edward Harrison Shaw (b.1840-d.1926)

Reverand James Knox Polk South

|  |  |  |  Gen4-Rev. James Knox Polk South Reverand (b.Feb. 01, 1844 Breathitt Co., KY-d.Jan. 29, 1921 Jett, Frankfort, Franklin Co.,
|  |  |  |  |  Kentucky) married 1876 Franklin Co.,KY to Eudora Gray Lindsay (b.1853-d.1918)
|  |  |  |  |  Gen5-Spice Belle South (b.1878-d.1940) married yr? to Dudley Chase Chaffee (b.1872-d.1952)
|  |  |  |  |  Gen5-Nicholas Lindsay South (b.1879-d.1957) married yr? to Nellie Clanton (b.yr?-d.yr?)
|  |  |  |  |  Gen5-Floretta M. South (b.1881-d.1967) married yr? to Simon Francis Hamilton (b.yr?-d.yr?)
|  |  |  |  |  Gen5-Mary Weldon South (b.1883-d.1951)
|  |  |  |  |  Gen5-Ethelind Cane South (b.1886-d.1953) married yr? to Reuben Massey Coblin (b.1875-d.1954)
|  |  |  |  |  Gen5-Eudora Lindsay South (b.1888-d.1978)
|  |  |  |  |  Gen5-James Knox Polk Jr South (b.1891-d.1947) married yr? to Alice Seely Alexander (b.1893-d.1980)
|  |  |  |  |  Gen5-Rachel South (b.1894-d.1927)
|  |  |  |  Gen04-Lewis Cass South (b.Jan, 12, 1848 Breathitt Co., KY-d.1909) married Apr. 27, 1881 to Alice "Allie" Hughes
|  |  |  |  |  (b.yr? Franklin Co., KY-d.yr?)
|  |  |  |  |  Gen5-Patti B. South (b.yr?-d.yr?)
|  |  |  |  |  Gen5-Weldon H. South (b.yr?-d.yr?)
|  |  |  |  Gen04-Thomas Jefferson South (b.1852-d.1882)
|  |  |  |  Gen04-Judith South (b.1854-d.1913) married yr? to John Holten Bowen (b.yr?-d.1906)
|  |  |  |  Gen04-Narcissa South (b.1856-d.1901) married yr? to James Young Fitzpatrick (b.1850-d.1906)
|  |  Gen02-Colonel John B. South Jr. (b.1760 VA-d.1818?) married yr? to Elizabeth "Betsy" Hay?Hoy? (b.yr?-d.yr?)
|  |  Gen02-Weldon South (b.1766 VA-d.1825 Kentucky) married yr? to Elizabeth Dunbar?Dunston (b.yr?-d.1833 Pike Co., MO)
|  |  Gen02-G6-Mary "Polly" South (b.1754 VA-d.1837?)
|  |  |  married Nov.4. 1770 Bedford Co., VA to Robert Robin Irvin(e) (b.ca.1742-d.1799)
|  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |   Please refer to EXTENDED DETAILS OF LINEAGE: IRVINE for additional children.
|  |  |  Gen03-G5-Elizabeth Irvine (b.1778-d.1846)
|  |  |  |  married 1798 to Samuel Davies McLean (b.1775-d.1850 Lawrence Co., TN)
|  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |   Please refer to EXTENDED DETAILS OF LINEAGE: IRVINE for additional children.
|  |  |  |  Gen04-G4-William McLean (b.1802-d.yr?)
|  |  |  |  |  married 1822 TN to Nancy Parchman (b.1800-d.1880 Nixon, TX)
|  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |   Please refer to EXTENDED DETAILS OF LINEAGE: MCLEAN for additional children.
|  |  |  |  |  Gen05-G3-Samuel Phillips McLean (b.1824 TN-d.1909)
|  |  |  |  |  |  married 1844 to Martha Adeline McCown (b.1828 Lincoln Co., TN-d.1846 Falkner, Tippah Co., MS)
|  |  |  |  |  |  married again 1850 to Sarah Jane Hill (b.yr?-d.yr?)
|  |  |  |  |  |  married again 1892 to Jane Campbell (b.yr?-d.yr?)
|  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |   Please refer to EXTENDED DETAILS OF LINEAGE: MCLEAN for children.
|  |  |  |  |  |  Gen06-G2-Sarah Jane McLean (b.1846 Mississippi-d.1902)
|  |  |  |  |  |  |  married 1868 to James Edward "Ed" Reed Jr. (b.1844 TN-d.1937)
|  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |   Please refer to EXTENDED DETAILS OF LINEAGE: REED for additional children.
|  |  |  |  |  |  |  Gen07-G1 REED PEARL JOSEPHINE (b.1883 Burnet Co., TX-d.1980) married 1907 to
|  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  LEE WALTER HERRING (b.yr?-d.1945)
|  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |   Please refer to EXTENDED DETAILS OF LINEAGE: HERRING for additional children.
|  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  Gen08G-Lillian Corinne Herring (b.1921 Prescott, AZ)
|  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  married 1940 to Edmund Richard Long (b.1917 Minneapolis, MN-d.1997)
|  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |   Please refer to EXTENDED DETAILS OF LINEAGE: LONG / LONGBOTTOM for additional children.
|  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  Gen09-F-Ronald Richard Long (b.1942 Grand Canyon, AZ)
|  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  married 1961 Whittier, CA to Margery Ann Pawloski (b.1943 Hastings, NE)
|  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |   Please refer to EXTENDED DETAILS OF LINEAGE: LONG / LONGBOTTOM for additional children.
|  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  Gen10-S-Jeffrey Richard Long (b.1962 Norwalk, CA)
|  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  married 1993 Valinda, CA to Diane Marie Silvers (b.1957 South Bend, IN) no issue

Credits / Resources:

1. American Revolution Vet.

South Family Web Site, Scott Hampton 8.14.99

Edward Clay O’Rear III for corrections/additions to Boone, Offutt, Hume, Jett, South Families 7.28.99

Drake Family Genealogy & William C. Waggoner for additional Drake history 3.23.99

Elizabeth Harris & Donald L. Padget for additional Irvine et al 3.6.99

Leonard McCown for additional Martha McCown et al 3.28.99

Nancy McLean for additional Alney McLean et al 3.5.99

Kitty Smith for additional Herring, Bailey, Reed et al 3.19.99

David South & Shelli Gordon for additional South history 3.20.99

Lillian Corinne Herring Long for additional everything

Mary Wandah Elizabeth Mayben Alexander for additional everything

Marvin Earl Reed for additional everything
Note: Additional credits may appear elsewhere, such as biographical sketches/photos.
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