Archive for December 2017
Brantley
I have recently been corresponding with Ken Brantley (of the Brantley Association) concerning my DNA having what appears to be overwhelming similarities to that family name. This means of course, that a female in my Anderson line mothered a child from a Brantley male… the particular circumstances unknown other than the fact the child retained the Anderson name.
I suspect that that woman was Elizabeth (Anderson) Pitman just prior to 1733 at The Meherrin River area.
But reality being all fussy about facts and such, any event in the last 300 years or so could have affected my personal DNA. Therefore it would be nice to compare my DNA results with any and all that may be associated with the William Anderson d1789 clan of Edgecombe County, NC.
Just sayin’
But then (not to go down without a fight)…
And since slings and arrows are being thrown about…
A mystery Francis Anderson was wandering around Isle of Wight Virginia at about the same time as Edward Brantley…
So there… now you Brantleys can sweat a bit also… (smiling)
Are there any descendants of Micajah Anderson of Edgecombe who have done a DNA sample?
Also… if any Pit(t)mans have a “suspect” DNA match to the BRANTLEY clan… both myself and Ken Brantley will be interested… we can compare notes as it were…
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Update: I have gotten in touch with a cousin in Texas. Each of our different grandfathers were sons of Moses Brock Anderson b.1849 d.1931 (he had 14 children). We are waiting for his DNA results. If we match then I assume that traces to 1849 and by inference to George Anderson, Jr of Edgecombe, County, NC (who was born 1798).
Now I would REALLY like to see a DNA result from any Anderson that traces to Edgecombe County and specifically to another son of William Anderson d.1789. I think a descendant of Micajah Anderson would be the ideal test.
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Here is a new (to me) DNA mystery:
Andrew Jackson Hart of Henderson County, TN. (This is a blood match to me… genetic distance of 1)
His father hailed from North Carolina. (I have ran across numerous HARTs in Edgecombe County references)
So the question is- how are any ANDERSONs (or Brantleys) related to any HARTS? (and the implication, since this is a yDNA match, is that this particular HART was fathered by an ANDERSON)
Here is a clue:
Update: I have it on good authority that a male descendant of Micajah Anderson of Edgecombe (Civil War Era) has just submitted his DNA test. I am beside myself with anticipation. This whole ANDERSON DNA stuff is about to take off.
As an aside (speaking of my, what is it, 4th or 5th Great GrandUncle) Micajah…
And might I compare 1873 “journalism” to todays “journalism” whereby an author with what seems to be an axe to grind… and a barrel of ink, takes aim at a man running for State office…
As a modern 2018ish sort of Anderson…. I have to admit… I would hunt this Sombitch down and whip his ass royally. But then, I am moderately civil. Before my time I suspect this would have been grounds for duel.
Assclowns were about the same in 1873 as 2018. Read the book folks… the only mistake old man Micajah made was marrying a woman 40 years old when he was 60. I too can understand him sitting by the old tree with a shotgun waiting for her sorry ass to come wandering home with her boyfriend.
Did I mention the boyfriend “smelled”…
https://archive.org/details/lifeofmicajahand00ande
Note that in the “review” above… the author mentions the paid author Ben Johnson as “a dardey” (I think he meant Darkey)
And why, pray tell, was Micajah referred to as “Cagie” in this article? Where, I ask myself, was this “journalists “objectivity”?
Democrats… spouting the same bullsh*t since 1873.
And what is his problem with Figi Islanders…
And Micajah’s daughters were as ignorant as what?
Figi Islanders? … this is one weird journalist…
I could go on…
But then, I can be a nit-picker…