Rallying the Clans,
Long’s Peak Scottish Festival, Estes Park, Colorado 2003.
Flowers of the Forest:
MSgt. John Carroll Buzhardt, USAF
(Ret.) born January 24, 1936 and died December 16, 2003 in
Warner Robins, Georgia. Carrol, 67, passed away at a local
hospital.
MSgt. Buzhardt was born in Greenwood,
SC to the late John Chalmers and Ruby Dilleshaw Buzhardt. A
20-year veteran of the United States Air Force, he was awarded
two Commendation Medals. He was also retired from Civil
Service after 15 years as an electronic specialist at Robins
Air Force Base. MSgt. Buzhardt was a member of the Middle
Georgia Genealogical Society, the Edgefield District and 96
District of South Carolina Genealogical Society and AARP. In
addition, he was a 32nd Degree Mason in Tyrian
Lodge 111. He was of the Baptist Faith and a member of the
Sons of Confederate Veterans.
Survivors include his wife, Dolores
Wise Buzhardt, Warner Robins; children Hans R. Buzhardt,
Warner Robins; John Christopher Buzhardt, Byron; Kurt A.
Buzhardt, Kathleen; Thomas E. Jester, Stuttgart, Germany; Mary
Joan Marshall, Warner Robins and Clyde Summer Jester, Warner
Robins. He is survived by eleven grandchildren – Jeffrey Paul
McGee, Legion Jester, Chris Braddy, Brittany Jester, Alex
Jester, Ariel Jester, Jonathan Paul Buzhardt, Chad Buzhardt,
Levi Joseph Buzhardt, Cassidy P. Buzhardt and Arai Brooke
Buzhardt; and two great grandchildren – Cassandra Jester and
Shyla Jester.
The Reverend Doctor Lonnie M.
Sibley, First Chief & Founding Member of The St. Andrew
Society of Baton Rouge, born December 21, 1923, died on April
19, 2004. He was a patriot scholar, leader, shepherd,
founder, pastor, counselor, husband, father and friend. He
was married to Eleanor Yeargan in May of 1946 and father to
three sons.
Donald (Gregg) and Deborah Davidson of
Rockmart, Georgia, lost their 8-year-old daughter, Jessica
Davidson, on March 13, 2004, following a cerebral
cardio-vascular accident.
Anna Davidson wrote to inform us that
Roger Davidson of San Rafael, California, passed away
May 31, 2004 following a long battle with Parkinson’s
Disease. Roger was a member of the Clan Davidson Society-USA
since 1998.
A beautiful Scottish
lady…Huntsville, Alabama Scottish Festival 2004
What is your umbilical line?
The term “umbilical line” refers to a
single, very specific matrilineal line, that is, the mother’s
mother’s mother ad infinitum. In an ancestral table, it
comprises individuals numbered 1, 3, 7, 15, 31, 63, etc. It
is analogous to the sequentially numbered paternal line that
follows a specific surname over generations. Although
genealogists have long been obsessed with patrilineal-surname
research, since the early 1970s the importance of umbilical
lines has been stressed.
Source: Kinfolks, Southwest
Louisiana Genealogical Society, Inc., PO Box 5652, Lake
Charles, Louisiana 70606-5652.
A young Scot marching with the Gordons at
Grandfather Mountain
Highland Games 2004.
Did you know? More
kilted men march in the Parade of Tartans at Grandfather
Mountain Highland Games than marched with Bonnie Prince
Charlie to the Battle of Culloden Moor, 1745. It’s true.
Remember, next year is the 50th Anniversary of The
Grandfather Mountain Highland Games held the weekend after the
4th of July each year at MacRae Meadows near
Linville, North Carolina.
Early epidemics were bad news!!!
European epidemics were
introduced into the southeastern part of the United States by
the DeSoto expedition, and are estimated to have killed at
least 75% of the original native population. How much the
Cherokee suffered from this disaster is unknown, but their
population in 1674 was about 50,000. A series of smallpox
epidemics (1729, 1738 and 1753) halved this number. The
population remained fairly stable at about 25,000 until their
removal to Oklahoma on the famous Trail of Tears in the 1830s.
Source: Website
http://www.randolphcountyillinois.net/sub59.htm
Thanks for this article go to Kinfolks,
newsletter of the Southwest Louisiana Genealogical Society,
Inc., PO Box 5652, Lake Charles, Louisiana 70606-5652.
The
Parade of Tartans at the 2003 Culloden Highland Games &
Scottish Festival in Culloden, GA.
For most of the year
the population of Culloden is counted in triple digits…for the
weekend of the Games…some 10,000 visitors come to the tiny
middle Georgia town!
We are all proud of our Scottish heritage…but we are also very
proud Americans!
Veterans Day, a day to honor special Americans
Veterans Day was originally
known as Armistice Day and was celebrated on November 11, the
day the fighting was ended in World War I. In 1954 Armistice
Day was changed to Veterans Day and was made a national
holiday to honor Americans who had served their country in all
wars.
Source: Kinfolks, Southwest
Louisiana Genealogical Society, Inc., PO Box 5652, Lake
Charles, Louisiana 70606-5652.
