My Youngest Son Nuphet

This is my youngest son Nuphet. His name is pronounced New-pet. (The boy on the right) It means diamond in his fathers native language. He lives in Memphis TN with his dad and stepmom and attends Christian Brothers College Prepatory High School. He'll be a junior next year. This summer he's training for track and looking forward to the workouts and all the running. He's run cross country before and liked it so when the coach asked him to join up this summer he decided that it would be a good thing and he'd get back into shape. Writing classes, Ethics, English, and basketball are things he enjoys. He is a member of the Baptist Church and enjoys lots of youth events. Basketball has been a very big thing for him in the last few years and according to him his wingspan is really big so he should be about 6'3" when he quits growing. When he was little he liked to draw and create stories. He develeped other interests over time but now he says he's begun drawing again and remembers how much he liked it. He was very excited to find out some of his ancestry here on the Cousins site and will probably add comments now and again. Maybe some of you could connect him to some of your kids of similar age? He'd like getting to know other family members.

It's Birthday time again!

Blast from the Past

Patty with the Grands. What was the occasion?

Photos from Missouri

Debbie sent these this morning - taken over the weekend in Missouri at Uncle Bill's house. Bill & Sherry

Sherry with Bobby & Danny

Group photo: Stacey's daughter and granddaughter (sorry, I don't know their names), Danny, Bobby, Dawn, (Dawn's son?), Bill and Stacey

More Mayflower stuff

It's a rainy and gloomy morning here, perfect for putzing on the computer since I can't get outside and plant flowers. So I started researching the Mayflower Society and ended up joining a Yahoo group for Chilton descendants. Oh, and I found that Judy Weaver is a member, too, so I emailed her and invited her to take a look at our blog. I hope she joins us. :o)

Here are some web sites that might be of interest:

http://maflowerfamiliies.com/mayflower/james_chilton/htm

www.chiltonschildren.org

www.nebraskamayflower.org

http://www.themayflowersociety.com/index.htm

The picture today is of a painting depicting Mary Chilton stepping onto Plymouth Rock.

Blast from the Past

Kathy and DeeDee as a baby - is this Grandma Gifford or a different grandma?

Some family history

I know when I started this blog I promised some family history and geneology. The other day I ran across a postcard sent to me by Judy Weaver in the summer of 2003. Her mother was our parents' cousin, though they didn't know the family very well. I "met" Judy on the internet several years ago when we both registered at a Chenowith cousins web site (we had a grandmother several generations back who was a Chenowith). Judy contacted me to see if I knew any of the Adams's from the Bradshaw area and we discovered we share a Great Grandfather. I emailed her a photo of my mom, she emailed back a photo of her elder sister - could have been twins almost. I put her in contact with Uncle Bill and Aunt Sherry.

Anyway, Judy has done extensive genealogical research on the Adams family, and she sent information dating back to the Mayflower. According to her research, we are descendents of James Chilton, the eldest passenger on the ship. I just Googled "Mayflower Passenger List", and this is what they say about James Chilton:



James Chilton, a tailor by trade, was the oldest Mayflower passenger, and one of the first to die after reaching the New World. He was born and raised in Canterbury, Kent, England and around 1600 moved to Sandwich, Kent.
By July 1615, and probably as early as 1610, James, his wife, and at least some of his children were living in Leyden, Holland. On 28 April 1619, James Chilton and his daughter Isabella were caught in an anti-Arminian riot and James was hit in the head with a brick, and required the services of the town surgeon, Jacob Hey.
He came on the Mayflower with his wife and daughter Mary. James and his wife died the first winter, leaving their daughter orphaned; she probably joined with the household of Myles Standish.
Mary Chilton came on the Mayflower at the young age of 13, and popular legend gives her the distinction of being the first female to step ashore at Plymouth. She married John Winslow, who came in the ship Fortune in 1621, and was the brother of Mayflower passengers Edward Winslow and Gilbert Winslow.

Here's a link to a web page about him: http://members.aol.com/calebj/passenger.html



Since we have this proven tie to a Mayflower passenger, any of us can join the Mayflower Society if we want. I haven't even looked into it, but it may be a fun summer project!