(Updated: Feb. 2, 2013 because I missed a generation. I forgot about the awesome preacher man named Samuel W. Anthony.)
So here you have a
Mark Anthony.
Check out the information on this guy. Thanks to Dana Huff for her blog (inspired me to do this one!). I really like the story about the murder of his pirate captor and his stowaway trip to the US. Yay! I hope it's not total bunk.
Mark Anthony is my 7th great grandfather.
Mark Anthony married Isabella Hester Hart and had
Joseph Anthony, who married Elizabeth Clark. According to some notes I made on my tree (and it could be incorrect, but someone tell me what source I got this from), Joseph and Elizabeth were
Quakers. That's weird to me because they apparently owned 21 slaves (will, September 24, 1785) and I thought all Quakers were against slavery. Hmmm...
(More on Elizabeth Clark...my notes show that she was the daughter of Christopher Clark and Penelope Johnson and she MIGHT be related to Elijah Clark (1733--1799). He was a hero of the American Revolution. He also attacked Creek villages. Okay, then.)
Joseph Anthony is my 6th great grandfather.
So
Joseph and Elizabeth Anthony (they of the 21 slaves and Quakerism) had a son named
Lewis Anthony around 1774 in South Carolina.
Lewis Anthony, I is my 5th great grandfather.
Lewis married another Elizabeth (no idea last name, anyone know?) and had Lewis Junior in 1810 in Pendleton, South Carolina.
Lewis Jr is my 4th great grandfather.
Lewis Jr also had a brother named Samuel Wesley Anthony, who was a preacher. Check out what I found here:
{ REV. SAMUEL ANTHONY
Samuel Anthony, b. 1808, d. Mar 3, 1880, son of Lewis Anthony, I, and his wife, Elizabeth, md. (1) Mar 2, 1826, Gwinnett Co., GA, Elizbeth Blalock, b. Feb 18, 1805, d. Nov 19, 1851. Both were born in SC. She is buried in Talbotton, GA He is buried in Oak Park Cemetery,(HE IS ACTUALLY BURIED IN OAK GROVE CEMETERY by jsparish1) Americus, GA, on the same lot with his daughter, Martha, and at least one granddaughter. The Methodist church placed a bronze tablet on his monument, in honor of his memorable life and service.
He, and perhaps his wife, was converted in Gwinnett Co., GA Level Creek Church was orgainzed in a log building built by Phillip Lamar for a school house in 1822 or early 1823. One of those listed as licensed to exhort and then to preach was Rev. Samuel Anthony. The Presiding Elder expressed doubts that young Anthony would succeed as an itinerant preacher. He became one of Georgia's best loved ministers, affectionately called Uncle Sam. He drew land in the land Lottery of 1827 and thus he and his family came to Muscogee Co. He was admitted to the conference in 1832. His first assignment was to Okmulgee Circuit. During his second assignment it was said that the churches on his circuit received 1500 members. The statement is made that he was appointed by his conference to all the best places in the state at one time or other.
He was a delegate to the General Conference in 1845, out of which came the separation of the Methodist Episcopal Church and the beginning of the Methodist Episcopal Church South. He served on the board of directors of one or more colleges, also was one of those who helped to establish the South Georgia Methodist Orphanage, was Presiding Elder several times, (and) served Mulberry Church in Macon three times. (Ref: History of Gwinnett Co., GA, by J. C. Flannigan; History of Gwinnett Churches; Memo on the Death of Rev. Samuel Anthony, Mar 5, 1880, published in the Christian Advocate of that year; Life of Joseph Rucker, by Clarinda P. LaMar
Rev. Samuel Anthony was enumerated in the census of 1830 in Muscogee Co., GA p. 289; census of 1850, Talbot Co., GA; census of 1860, Randolph Co., GA
He was often referred to as the "Old Roman" because of his uncompromising opinions. He allowed no worldly element in the church, and for this e rebuked Mulberry's congregation because of the organ, saying "If that whimmer-jimmy in the left (loft?) will please keep quiet, Brother Danforth will raise the tune." On one occation, when (in) the act of performing a marriage ceremony, he was shot and grievously wounded by an enraged relative of the bride. He proceeded with the wedding despite his sufferings.
Rev. Samuel Anthony, md. (2) Sep 11, 1854, Sarah Rakestraw.}
Lewis Anthony JR married Margaret (or Martha) Taylor. They begat Samuel Wesley Anthony.
Samuel W Anthony had Warren T. Anthony.
Samuel (not the preacher one--that's this Sam's uncle) is my 3rd great grandfather.
Samuel Anthony had Warren T. Anthony.
Warren T Anthony is my 2nd great grandfather.
Warren T. Anthony married
Mary Virginia Short and had a son named
William Sterling Anthony on May 29, 1882.
William is my great grandfather on my father's mother's side.
William Sterling Anthony married Pearle Mae Ford in Georgia and had my grandmother,
Prudence Olivia Anthony around 1918 in Georgia.
Olivia was my grandmother.
Are you Jay Leslie? J.Leslie? John Leslie? SPEAK UP! I'm listening!
