ThruLines™ for Martha Patsy Grizzard ThruLines uses Ancestry® trees to suggest that I may be related to 156 DNA matches through Martha Patsy Grizzard. Patsey Mercer, 1830 – Kentucky, Muhlenberg County (United States. Bureau of the Census. Fifth Census), Ancestry.com, Roll: 40; Page: 101; FHL Film: 0007819.
Category: Mercer
Rhoda “Rhoday” Price
In part, Mercer Family Research by Don Mercer, 1985: About 1800 the widow and children of Shadrach Mercer moved from Greene County, North Carolina to Madison County, Kentucky. Source of information-D.A.R. Magazine Vol. #70 page 878. She was married three times. Her second husband was John W. Folks and her third husband was Jephania Harrison.… Continue reading Rhoda “Rhoday” Price
Anne Mariah Loney
Descendants of Anne Mariah Loney Generation 2 1. ANNE MARIAH2 LONEY1, 2, 3 was born on August 22, 1858 in Muhlenberg County, Kentucky. She died on October 15, 1895 in Muhlenberg County, Kentucky (Mercer Cemetery, Earles, Muhlenberg County, Kentucky4). She married William Eli Matheny, son of Ansel Matheny and Elizabeth Gill on October 19, 1882… Continue reading Anne Mariah Loney
William Cornelius Tyson Sr.
Descendants of William Cornelius Tyson Sr. Generation 2 1. WILLIAM CORNELIUS2 TYSON SR.1, 2, 3, 4 (Ezekiel1) was born on February 20, 1824 in Muhlenberg County, Kentucky. He died in August 1898 in Muhlenberg County, Kentucky (Mercer Cemetery, Earles, Muhlenberg County, Kentucky5). He married Elizabeth “Bett” Mercer, daughter of Thomas Gillis Mercer and Elizabeth Bennett on July 15,… Continue reading William Cornelius Tyson Sr.
Ezekiel Tyson
Descendants of Ezekiel Tyson Generation 1 1. EZEKIEL1 TYSON1, 2, 3, 4, 5 was born in 1800 in North Carolina. He died between 1840-1850 in Muhlenberg County, Kentucky. He married Nancy Anne Mercer, daughter of Thomas Martin Mercer and Martha Patsy Grizzard on January 07, 1819 in Muhlenberg County, Kentucky6, 7. She was born on… Continue reading Ezekiel Tyson
Martin Mercer
AKA: Thomas Martin Mercer, son of Shadrach and Ronda Price Mercer. Descendants of Martin Mercer MARTIN1 MERCER1-2 was born on February 07, 1779 in Dobbs County, North Carolina. He died in November 1821 in Muhlenberg County, Kentucky. He married MARTHA PATSY GRIZZARD. She was born before 1800 in North Carolina. She died between 1830-1840 in Muhlenberg County, Kentucky. Martin Mercer… Continue reading Martin Mercer
Shadrach Mercer
Shadrach \sh(a)-dra-ch, shad-rach\ Babylonian origin, and the meaning of Shadrach is “command of Aku”. Aku was the Babylonian moon god. In the Old Testament, one of the three Hebrew men thrown into a fiery furnace by King Nebuchadnezzar and rescued by an angel. Used steadily in the 16th-19th centuries. 1 William Mercer (1590 – )……2 Christopher… Continue reading Shadrach Mercer
Thomas Mercer – Will, 1718
Thomas Mercer Will – Norfolk County, VirginiaDeed Book 9, Pages 125-126 To all to whom these presents shall come – Know ye that I Thomas Mercer of the County of Norfolk in Virginia, for diverse considerations, not hereunto incurring, but more especially for and in consideration of paternal love and affection that I bear unto… Continue reading Thomas Mercer – Will, 1718
Thomas Mercer I
In 1670, a royal decree directed the “building of storehouses to receive imported merchandise … and tobacco for export” for each of the colony’s 20 counties. This marked the beginning of Norfolk’s importance as a port city, due to its natural deepwater channels. Soon after 1673, the “Half Moone” fort at the site of what… Continue reading Thomas Mercer I
Christopher Mercer I
Barbados, English Settlement:When Spain and Portugal came through the Caribbean, they either overlooked the flat island of Barbados or they bypassed it. But in 1625, Captain John Powell landed near modern-day Holetown to claim Barbados for England in the name of King James I. The settlement started in earnest on Feb. 17, 1627 when 80… Continue reading Christopher Mercer I