Solomon Summitt Bible circa 1850

Received email from Paul Alvin Summitt (yep, another Paul Summitt, wow ). He has in his possession a bible from the 1850's with the following information listed:

Solomon Summitt married Elizabeth D. Clayton May 19, 1851 (according to family tales her father was a civil war general)
Children were:
Minerva L. 4-8-1852
Laura C. 6-15-1854
Sarah E. 1/18/1856 died 8/30/1886
Alvin J. (Paul's grandfather) 4/1/1858 died 12/2/1945
Evangaline 2/24/1860
William J. 3/1/1862 died 8/8/1896
Charles L. 5/7/1864 died 8/7/1868
Joseph O. 7/16/1866 died 9/4/1899
George W. 12/5/1871

Changes

I've started the redesign of the entire Summitt Family Quarterly site so things will be changing around here. First off, I bought some new software for the site and will be changing the way we're presenting the family history information. The current method is cumbersome and difficult to make changes to. I'm also adding some content management software for the other information so that we can provide a better display of information.

I'll also be placing audio and video files on the site soon as my oral history program I want to put into place will be added to this site. So stick around. I plan on blogging a lot more also.

later

paul

Missouri Bollingers in the Civil War

Have recently finished reading Bartels' Civil War Stories of Missouri and found a few references to Bollingers within those pages. While the book doesn't provide any references to it source materials, I'll list the individuals and what information can be gleaned from the pages here for those interested in extending their research on this sur-name.

George Bollinger - slave of Del (or Dal) Bollinger and his wife (Aunt Polly or Mary Bollinger) Interview with George was conducted around 1935
Kate Bollinger - daughter of Del (or Dal) Bollinger and his wife (Aunt Polly or Mary Bollinger)
Del (or Dal) Bollinger killed during Civil War by men trying to steal from him.

Olive Bollinger (daugher of a slave owner from around Sabula, Missouri) married John Higdon (from Colorado) Higdon fought for the South at the battle of Fredericktown and was injured in the arm. Olive died in Rockport, AR leaving a small 2 year old child Little John.

John Francis Summitt and sons

Well I finally got around to posting the pictures that Jack sent me. Sorry it took so long. You can find the pictures at http://www.summittfamilyquarterly.org/SpecialPages/JohnFrancisSummittandsons.php.

Swank

Information today from Rich Swank:


1) Jacob Scwenk-1640 born in Germany
2) Jacob Jr.-1673 born in Germany
m. Catherina Mueller
3) Son Balthsar Scwenk 12-23-1716 born in Germany
Died 1763 Pennsylania
m. Anna Elizabeth Durst
4) Johannes/ John Swank born 1750
Died in 1794 in Kentucky
m. Rosannah Summit
born 1754 died 1843
5) Jacob Swank

PRIVETT

Donna Walters has provided us a copy of an article from Yank Magazine dated August 17, 1945 that talks about Pfc. J.C. (Jake) Privett. She sent this to the Quarterly because of the information in our online family tree listed below:


[NI00041] Francis says J.C. Privett was the first person to die in WWII, widow was living in Blytheville, AR Killed in auto accident[Summitt_Oct2002.GED] Francis says J.C. Privett was the first person to die in WWII, widow was living in Blytheville, AR Killed in auto accident

Found on internet at url http://www.summittfamilyquarterly.org/FamHist/notes.html

The article she found has been placed at http://www.summittfamilyquarterly.org/SpecialPages/JCPrivett.htm for your reading.

Leon Foster

Just received word last night from my mother that Leon Foster died yesterday morning in Paragould, Arkansas. He'll be buried Monday in Corning, Arkansas.

Leon was married to my Aunt Bonnie. Aunt Bonnie was married to my mother's brother, Ray Frie. He died in the mid '90's while Mary and I were in Nevada. If I get more information I will post it. I will post a obit to the SFQ site as soon as I can find one.

Leon, to my knowledge, is only connected to the Summit(t)s through marriage and a distant and tenuous connection at best through the Frie connection to the Summit(t)s but as my intention with part of this site is to cover not only the Summit(t)s and the Spotswoods but also the Fries and the Loves, I hope you will bear with my inclusion of someone like Leon. Besides, someone tracing the Foster line may be able to use this information.

La Rue Summit Williford

Received this email yesterday from Paul C. Summitt. As per Paul's request, as soon as the obit is found we are going to post it here on the SFQ site.

I just reviewed the latest rootsweb social security death index and found La Rue Williford, born August 30, 1908, died November 23, 2005, last residence Houston, Harris Co., TX, SS # 467-05-0339, issued in TX. As you know, she was a Summit descendant of Francis Summit (1826-1892) who ultimately settled in Sims, Montgomery County, Arkansas with his large family. Her grandfather was William Haskell Summit, son of Francis and Emaline Shaffer, and the only son who did not make the trek to Arkansas with the rest of the family and stayed in Texas. I do not have to remind any of you about the importance of this wonderful lady to Summit(t)(Sammet) family history research. I would like to have her obit placed on the Summitt Family Research website if someone can find it. I may write a piece on her for posting, but I have to review my extensive file on her--no one knew it, but she refused to give me permission a number of years ago to write an article about her for the Summitt Family Quarterly, but I collected the information, including pictures, anyway.I thought all of you might wish to know.

Paul SummittNiceville, FL