Our Family Genealogy
in America
from c1630 England
to the Eastern Shore of
Virginia . . . from
c1755 Northern Ireland
to Albemarle in Virginia


by Iris Teta Eubank Wagner
William Arleigh Eubank
                                                                                                                                               
Bonnie Kathryne Jones
1900 -1987
                                                                                                                                                                                     1907 - 1996

 

Eubank
Variations of Surname Eubank in Seventeenth Century Virginia
A Reference Histor
Michael Ewbank  - Westmorland,  England
Henry Eubancke - Accomack, Eastern Shore 

   
 Henry Eubancke - Claiborne's Kent Island  
Mary Eubank - Accomack, Eastern Shore
Wm Eubank - Accomack, Eastern Shore
Wm Eubank - New Kent County
George Ubank - York County
Jane Ubank  -  York County 
Stapleton Ubank - Henrico County
Thomas Eubank - Maryland
Richard Eubank - Maryland


Eubank Entries in the
Caroline County,Virginia,
Court Order Books  1732 - 1799


4th Generation Ê
. . . from immigrant 
Henry Eubancke
or William Ubank

John Eubank c1720 - 1778
Mary Bullard c1720 - 1795 (?)
Caroline County, Virginia

5th  Generation
Ê
(1)  Nancy  Eubank
 Mr. Gatewood
T
his family is reported to have lived in
King and Queen County

(2) Ambrose Eubank c1744
Caroline, Amherst, Bedford
Counties, Virginia

(3) George Eubank 1746 - 1828
Delilah Williams c1750 - c1830
Caroline, Amherst Counties,Virginia

Thomas Eubank
 
unmarried 
Elizabeth Eubank
Lucy Eubank
Capt. James Ware
Ann Eubank

 -
unmarried
James Eubank
- unmarried
William Eubank
 
Patsy Martin
Richard Bullard  Eubank
    
Margaret LaFiew Pryor
George W. Eubank
 
- unmarried
Ambrose Bullard Eubank
-unmarried
John M. Eubank 
 
m ?

(4)  Mary "Molly" Eubank

 
George Saunderson
This family moved to Kentucky

(5)  John Eubank c1750
Margaret Newman c1755
18th Century Virginia
Caroline and Amherst Counties

 
6th  Generation Ê
Thomas Newman Eubank
  (1) Jane Shelton Ellis
(2) Ann E. Nelson

Lucy Eubank
John Ware

Elias Newman Eubank
 Elizabeth Thompson
John Eubank, Jr.
  Catherine Rose
Ann Newman "Nancy"Eubank
   
 (1) Wm Taliaferro
(2) John Ellis
Margaret Newman Eubank

 
 Joshua Shelton Ellis
George Eubank
  Pam Brown (?)
Richard Newman Eubank
 
Mary Camden Ware
Mary Eubank - did not marry
Robert Moseley Eubank 
  Amanda Turk
Edmund V. Eubank  m  ?
William E.J. "Jett"
 Elizabeth Watson
 
John Eubank, Sr. 

  
later m Edith Haynes, nee Irma Louise Ellis
no children
 

Richard N. Eubank 1792 - 1871
Mary Camden Ware1803 - 1879
Amherst County, Virginia

Jackson, Mississippi
    7th  GenerationÊ
Frances Marie Ann Eubank
William H. Garland
 
Selina Jane Eubank
Peter Rivinac
Margaret Newman Eubank
William H. Stewart
John James Eubank
Mary Dudley Eubank
Orlando C. Phelps
Richard Newman Eubank II
Jane Catherine Hunter
Virginia Eubank
d age 37 unmarried
Cornelia Sale Eubank
 Caleb Worley Dortch
William Ware Eubank
died 1858, age 20
Ellen Eubank
 
died at three years
Ada Eubank
died age 23, unmarried

Richard N. Eubank 1832 - 1910
Jane C. Hunter 1838 - 1884 
Jackson, Mississippi :
Years of Civil War

8th
Generation
Ê
James Rucks Eubank
Thompson WareEubank

        
 twins -  died as infants
Mary Camden Eubank
 
died at five years
L.ivingston Mims Eubank 
 Fanny D.  Swagerty
Richard  Newman  Eubank  III
(1) Jennie Moore
     (2) Lucy M. Moore
Margaret A. Eubank
 
Richard  M. Thornton
Sallie Ware Eubank
 
Joseph J. Boyd
Jessie Lee Eubank
 
Alonzo G. Moore
Jennie Yerger Eubank
Elzie A. Nash
 

L. Mims Eubank 1865 - 1917
Fanny Dale Swagerty 1869 - 1948

9th Generation Ê
Richard Newman Eubank
 
- died infancy
Oliver Mims Eubank
-
died five yrs
Josephine Marie Eubank
- died infancy
Clara Louise "Trilby"
m George B. Hoblitzell
William Arleigh Eubank
Bonnie Kathryne Jones
James Saxon Eubank
m Intha Laney
Robert "Buster"  Eubank
died at age 14 

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Friedrich Schweickhart Lineage through
James Swagerty, Sr.
James Swagerty, Jr.
and William R. Swagerty,
East Tennessee

  Friedrich Schweickhart 1726
Niederingelheim, Rheinhessen,

Rheinland Pfalz, Germany

Frederick Swagerty 1726 - 1803
Lancaster and Cumberland Counties,Pennsylvania


(?)  Peter, John, and Christian Swagerty
Abraham Swagerty
Elizabeth Schweigerty
Maria Schweigerty
Sarah Swagerty
Joseph O'Haver
Catherine Swagerty
Matthew Nail
John Swagerty
Phoebe Potter
James Swagerty
Delilah Meek
Thomas Swagerty
Anna Manning
(?) Benjamin Ailor Swagerty
Isabel Jones
(?) Claiborne Swagerty

h

1783 -
The Over Mountain Country of North Carolina

"The Old Swagerty Log House
1783 - 1960
's

Frederick Swagerty
and son Abraham Swagerty :
Among First Settlers
in Early Tennessee

Abraham Swagerty:1755 - 1822
 Revolutionary Soldier :
the Pennsylvania Riflemen -
 Quebec -
Surveyor of Early East Tennessee

James Swagerty, Sr. 1773 - 1868
Clear Creek,Cocke County, Tennessee

James Swagerty, Jr. 1800 - 1885
Newport, Cocke County,
Tennessee

William R. Swagerty 1841 - 1916
The Civil War
Newport, Tennessee 

Fanny D. Swagerty Eubank
1869 - 1948

William A. Eubank
1900 - 1987

 

 

 
He had biked across town from our apartment on East 10th Street and met friends at Washington Square who were down to visit from upstate New York.  It was Fall 1970, and we had married in September.  George was a beautiful person, and I have loved him from the moment he walked into the room at the
New School Poetry
Workshop in
1967.
 
               
 

 

                             George Francis Wagner                 
          January 22, 1946 -  January 16, 2010         

__________

My sister Betty Jean . . . 1947                         
Betty had just entered her freshman year at Lincoln Memorial University when this photo was taken.  She was with high school friends, and had a great time this first year.  Though she enjoyed her second year with friends and served as sorority president, by the end of this second year in 1950, she was ready to move on to the world of work, and to buy that first car, a two-tone blue 1952 Ford sedan.  She later splurged big-time and bought a white T-Bird convertible, which she drove very fast. Most of her years of  working life were spent as an administrative assistant to a division director at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory.  She
 quit work in the mid-1970's.  She has been an avid supporter and student of the Arts Center of Oak Ridge.  She was a founding member of the associated Arts Guild of Oak Ridge, which helped fund and supported local artists and art education groups.  She traveled to Europe with her husband, and with her friends for many years.  She has three good friends from college days who are still her best  friends.  They meet and talk of old times quite often.


 My brother William Mims . .1952. . later called "Bill"
Mims in his first office in Knoxville.  He was age twenty-two, and was manager of a vacuum cleaner retail business. He was always the businessman. At age nine, our Uncle George set him up in his first business selling candy, chips, and drinks from a little snack booth at the plant.  During lunch and breaks, Mims would pull his cart among the workers who would easily pay a nickel for a candy bar. With the help of Grandmother Eubank, about this time too he started a stamp and coin collection, which eventually grew into his coin investment business.  He bought a store in a small town and lived for chances to speed away in the boat from his dock on the lake and have a day of fishing with Daddy or Uncle Jim, or any of his numerous friends.  But his fishing days were numbered.  As the investment business prospered, he opened an office in Knoxville, married, and had a beautiful daughter, Jennifer, a graduate of the Webb School and the University of Tennessee.  On June 6, 2000, he was at work in his office on an estate appraisal when he collapsed and died within the hour.

My brother George Swagerty . . . 1951
Influenced by the earlier Big-Band musicians, George played trumpet and drums in the high school marching band and orchestra.  He jazzed up weekends with a local dance band.  He was an honor student at Oak Ridge High School, a member of the National Honor Society.  He was proud to be a member of the University of Tennessee's Pride of the Southland Marching Band.  His senior year at UT he served as president of his fraternity, and was  an ROTC candidate. After earning a degree in Mechanical Engineering from UT, he was commissioned second Lieutenant, and did his military service in France.  His first job after military service was with Boeing Aircraft in Seattle.  After years of being away, he began to miss our family and home, and so he brought his family from the west back home to east Tennessee in 1962 to the country where his ancestral namesake had settled in 1783.  He had a great eye for good candid photos, and on the trip back home, took some excellent candid shots of his family and the landscapes. He managed a subsidiary manufacturing plant for a large furniture corporation located in Morristown, Tennessee.  George died in 2006. He is survived by his wife Beatrice, and two adult daughters, Lauren and Lisa.  Son Jeffrey died in 2001.

Fanny Swagerty Eubank  . . . 1890
William's mother, and our dear grandmother, at twenty-one.   During her young life she rode horses, read books, and reared children.  In her later years she wrote family histories, stories, and magazine features and was published under the name of "F.D.Eubank."  At the age of sixty  she learned to swim in a cold mountain spring-fed concrete swimming pool beneath giant hemlocks.  At her death  in  1948, she left behind many ways to know her : letters, manuscripts, journals.  She and Daddy named me from a favorite novel of theirs called The Bridge of Time, in which Teta  as  a  young  princess in Egypt travels through time  to arrive in the future of 1914 as Iris.  Grandmother's immigrant ancestor, who emigrated from Niederingelheim,  Germany in 1749 to  Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, was  Friedrich Schweickhart   and by 1769 he was known by the name Frederick Swagerty.  In 1783 Frederick settled in Greene County, North Carolina, in that area which became Cocke County, Tennessee, in 1797.


Great Aunt Frances Whisenhunt . . .1920
Bonnie's Aunt Frances who we called Opanny., from original Opah.  She is age thirty-one here, the year she and Mr. Whisenhunt were married.  After her husband's death in 1931, she worked as  a private nurse in Asheville, North Carolina. Until her retirement in the 1950's, I remember her visits.  She always came with a bottle of white Port packed neatly in her square black suitcase, which always smelled of Cashmere-Bouquet soap.  She lived near our parents the last few years of her life.  She was with us until 1966.   She was adventurous and daring, yet at the same time very responsible and reliable. She enjoyed the family's long trip west in 1951 to visit the National Parks  and spent evenings writing postcards back home to family and friends describing the glorious landscapes she was seeing. A family trip to New York City a couple years later  gave her no pause on a hot July day as she was ahead of all of us climbing the difficult spiral stairs to the crown of the Statue of Liberty.  On visits to our home through the years she and Bonnie would settle at the dining table, usually with a glass or two of  Port to talk of home in Black Mountain and news of our family. They would chuckle throughout their conversations - I listened, and learned the joy of good conversation.

Great Aunt Hat Swagerty. . . 1895
William's Aunt Hat, age nineteen, she and William were life-long correspondents.  Hat never married, though she had suitors in abundance. She lived with Grandmother's family until about 1917 when she began a working career at the Southern Railway freight office in Knoxville, Tennessee.  After her retirement from Southern Railway  in the late 1930's, she moved to Asheville where William's brother Jim lived and worked.  As a retired railway employee, she was entitled to free passage on the trains.  She used her entitlement well, visiting sisters Eunice and Fanny, and sister Lora's family in Memphis. She died at age eighty-seven in Jacksonville, Florida, where she had lived with William's brother Jim and wife for a number of years.

Great Aunt Eunice Swagerty Fine . . .1890 
From visits to Aunt Hat and Uncle Jim in Asheville, our family would cross the mountains north of Asheville in one of the first Lincolns the Ford Company made after World War II ended.  We would visit with Aunt Eunice in Newport, Tennessee, and later in the evening or the next morning drive on to Oak Ridge.  Born in 1879 Eunice was the youngest daughter of William R. and Lydia Swagerty.  Uncle Foster Fine and Eunice had married in 1903.  He was a businessman who managed and held stock in a milling company located in Newport.  Foster died in the summer of 1928 when daughter Marian was a student at Carson Newman College.  Eunice did not remarry and made her living by operating their large home as a boarding house for many years.  Eunice sold the house a few years prior to her death.  She died in 1967 at the home of her daughter Marian and son-in-law Bill Clark.

Aunt Clara "Trilby" Eubank Hoblitzell  . . 1915
On social occasions when young people gathered around the piano, Clara would play, and she and William would sing together a few of their favorites.  William began to call his sister "Trilby" for the DuMaurier character, and from that time on Clara was known by everyone as "Trilby."  In 1911 at age fifteen, she entered St. Katherine's Episcopal School for Young Ladies, which her  great Aunt Sallie Ware had begun in the 1880's in west Tennessee.  Sallie's son the Rev. Charles Scott Ware was one of the teachers.   Not long after graduation  Trilby was engaged to George B. Hoblitzell, whose family owned one of the two production plants in the small town based on the lumber industry.  Grandfather Eubank had his lumber company office in town, and portable sawmills in several locations in the mountains.   Aunt Trilby and Uncle George were married in 1919 in Knoxville.  They had two children, a son William Thomas and a daughter Fanny Sue, who died after a long illness in 1934 at age eleven. A student at Kentucky Military Institute as World War II broke out, Capt. William T. "Billy" Hoblitzell was wounded early in the war in the North Africa Campaign.  Later promoted to the rank of Major, he died in 1953, leaving a wife Ada, and two sons, William T. and Kenneth.

Uncle Jim Eubank . . . . 1953
Uncle Jim Eubank was often a visitor at our house.  He was four years younger than
William, with no children - he didn't marry until his late forties - he was close to Aunt Hat, our family, and to his sister Trilby and his mother. He was proud of his fine bird dogs and camped and hunted with his friends.  He worked as a supply purchaser at the Enka Rayon Company in Asheville.  He kept an apartment in Asheville, but considered his residence to be with Grandmother Eubank.  After the deaths of his mother and sister Trilby in 1948, he married in 1951.  Some time during the late 1950's he and his wife moved to Jacksonville, Florida, where they both retired as Federal employees.  He and Intha loved  to camp and always towed a boat with them for fishing and camping trips to the mountains.  Our family had been camping in cabins along Santeetlah Lake's shore since the lake had been created in the 1930's for power distribution to the Aluminum Company of America (ALCOA).   And the lake was a favorite of Uncle Jim and Intha.  So when the truck and boat pulled into the driveway, we couldn't have been happier to join them.  We ate fresh caught bass rolled in corn meal and fried up crispy.  During the 1960's and '70's Uncle Jim and Daddy would go together to the stock trading board in Knoxville and argue about stocks to go for and which to leave alone..  Before his death in 1994 at age ninety, Uncle Jim had become a ferocious chess player.

Original Narrative and Website copyright Iris Teta Eubank Wagner 2010

 

 

 

 Jones
Joshua Jones c1745
Eleanor Medley c1745
  County Down, Ireland (Ulster)
  Culpeper and Albemarle Counties, Virginia

É 2nd Generation
 Thomas Jones
 
Ann  ?
 Rachel, William, Patsy, Russel L., Jincy,  James, Nancy, Thomas, Anna, Polly, Nellie     
 
Stephen Jones
 
Jennie Hayes
 Jackson  Jones
 
Elizabeth   ?
 
Mary Jones
 
Jesse Israel
 
Russell Jones
 
Sarah Hayes     
 
Nancy  Jones
 
George W. Jones
      Wiley W. Jones, A. B. Jones, A.H. Jones,   daughter E. E. Osborn, daughter M. F. Page,   daughter R. M. Murray (son-in-law Robert   A. Murray),  daughter N. A. Hawkins,    daughter M.A. Thrash.
 
Joshua Jones, Jr.
 
Lurana Stuart
 
Frances Jones
 Abraham Penland
 William Jones
 Ann Maloney (?) 

 William Jones bc1785
 Ann Maloney (?) bc 1790

É 3rd Generation
Clarinda Jones
 
William Cole
Joshua R.  Jones
Laura M. Garman
Nancy  Jones
James Jones
Elias Jones
 
Margaret E. Owenby
Harriet Jones
John Jones
Sophronia Jones
Pleasant Young
William Jones
 
Nelly Jones
Charity Jones

Joshua R. Jones b 1815
Laura M. Garman  b 1825

É4th Generation
Marcus Maloney  Jones
 Rachel Jane Stepp
Talitha A. Jones
 Louis Eldridge Wilson
     
Augusta Wilson m   ?  Joyner
 
Robert R. Jones
 
Eva Hawkins
 Henry Calvin Jones
 Millard Govan Jones
 Sarah Jane Jones
  Herschel Springfield Harkins

 Marcus Maloney Jones b 1846
 Rachel Jane Stepp b 1846

É5th Generation
Nora Isabella Jones
 (1)  C. L.  Stinnett
            Charles Roy Stinnette
             (1)  Grace Lee Graham
                      Nina Stinnette Diefenbach
                      Charles Roy
                             (2) Nannie Etta Poole
             (3)  Mannie Bishop
                       Betty Stinnette Hendrix
 (2)  William B. Grant
              Bessie Grant

 
Joshua Alexander Jones
 died infancy
 
Rosannah Jones
 
Frank Arthur Walton
   
 Kester Walton
 
Arthur Govan  Jones
 
Mary Gorman
      Millard Jones
      Selma Jones
      Dale Jones
      Oscar Jones
      Marie Jones

 
Hester  Isabella Jones
 
Samuel Fleming Turner
 
William Orlando Jones
 Bessie Belle Walling
    William Lee Jones

    Jennie Mae Jones
    Charles H. Jones
    Mark Maynard Jones
    Grace Jones
    Jess Willard Jones

Nancy Blankenship

 
Dock Calhoun Jones
 
Mary Etta Massey
 
Winfred Lee Jones
 
Martha Gibbs
    Winfred Lee Jones
     Ruby Katherine Jones Powell
    William C. Jones
     Jack D. Jones
     Morris R. Jones
     Clyde C. Jones
     Joshua M. Jones
     Charles L. Jones
     Dixie Jones Jordan

 
Robert Maloney Jones
 
Mary Eva Fuller
     Frances Lucile Jones
     Mary Edna Jones
     Irma Louise Jones
     A. Viola Jones
      Gladys Mildred Jones
      Robert M. Jones    
          

 
Frances Burroughs Jones
 
Daniel W. Whisenhunt

 Winfred Lee Jones b 1881
 
Sarah Lenora Foster b 1775
É6th Generation
 Bonnie Katheryne Jones
 
William A. Eubank
 Winfred Lee Foster 

 Foster
 Old Buncombe County
    Genealogical Society

 
 
"Revolutionary War Pensions" - Thomas Forster - by Albert Stevens McLean

 William Forrester b c 1725   Ireland
 (1) Mary  ?
 
Jane Forster
   John Burton
   William Forster
   Thomas Forster
   
Mary Rafferty
   Mary Forster
   Margaret Forster
  
(1) James Barnes
   (2) Henry Stevens
   Ann Forster
   Dorcas Forster
   David Forster
(2) Margaret - Mary, John , and Samuel

 William Forster b 1748 Ireland
 Elizabeth Heath b 1753
 
Capt. Thomas Foster
  Orra Sams
  William Forster
 
Frances "Fanny" Ballew
  Rebecca Forster
 
Absalom Dillingham
  Elizabeth Forster
 
John Wilson

 
 Capt. Thomas Foster b 1774
 Orra Sams b c 1780
  Nancy Foster
 
James Mitchell Alexander
  Elizabeth Foster
 
George C. Alexander
  John W. Foster
 
Demaris Ratcliff
  William C. Foster
 
Sarah Lucinda Forster
  Mary Ann Foster
  Thomas H. Foster
 
Mary H.
  Sarah Foster
 
Joseph Cruser Davidson
  Benjamin Franklin Foster
 
Elizabeth Caroline Wolfe
  Edmund Sams Foster
  Sarah Lucinda Forster
  Rachel R. Foster
 
William Garner
  Mary Caroline Foster
   Jesse Hollingsworth Moody

 Benjamin Franklin Foster, Sr.
 Elizabeth Caroline Wolfe
    Thomas Foster
    James Foster
    John Foster
    Benjamin Franklin Foster, Jr.
    Orra Foster

 
Benjamin Franklin Foster, Jr.
(1) Henrietta White Wilfong
  
Sarah Lenora Foster
   Georgia A. Foster
   John B. Foster
   Jesse Foster
 
(2) Emmaline Embler Gorman
  
Robert C. Foster
   William Franklin Foster
   Chester Jefferson Foster
   David C. Foster
   Lloyd Foster

  Sarah Lenora Foster
   Blanche A. Foster
   
Robert Atwater Lord
          Infant Lord
          Nellie Fairy Lee Lord
          Eleoner Irene Lord
          Robert F.A. Lord
          Hattie Lucile Lord

 
Bonnie Kathryne Jones
  
 William A. Eubank
    Winfred Lee Foster
    (also written Winford)
  
 Claude Foster
   
Frances Lyda

 Stepp
 Joseph Stepp c1796
 Rachael Waters
  Buncombe County, North Carolina
Azor H. Stepp
 Selina Moffitt
Joshua P. Stepp 1824
 Isabella Anna Porter 1825

 
Fidellio M. Stepp
 Silas H. Stepp

  Eleanor Fortune
 
Jesse M.  Stepp
 
Joseph Montraville "Mont". Stepp
 
Elizabeth Stepp Cordell

Joshua P. Stepp
Isabella A. Porter
Buncombe County, North Carolina

Rachel Jane Stepp
Marcus Maloney Jones
Rosannah Celia Stepp
 (Second wife) Thomas Richmond  Randolph
Nancy Elizabeth "Lizzie" Stepp
 (First wife) Thomas Richmond Randolph
     Elizabeth  "Lizzie" Randolph
 

Joshua P. Stepp in the Civil War : Lost in the Records?
 A theory based on family information and
 references
from  published sources.
 
(Stepp family continued below)

Porter
Alexander Porter  1795
Jane Young

Young
John Young
Rosannah Hemphill

Hemphill
Capt.Thomas Hemphill


Garman
Isaac Garman  
(1) Elizabeth Woolf  
        
          Marcus D. L.  m  Mary    ?
           Laura M. m Joshua R. Jones
           Isaac M. m

Isaac Garman
 (2) Ann Maloney Jones,
widow of
            William Jones, son of Joshua
             and Eleanor

Woolf

Gottlieb Woolf  m ?
           daughter Elizabeth m Isaac Garman


(STEPP continued from above)
Thomas Stapp c1760
Sarah Brown 

Culpeper , Orange Counties,  Virginia
Wilkes County, North Carolina

Robert m Rachel
Achilles m Elizabeth Hagler
Thomas m Martha Robertson
Joseph m Rachel Waters


JamesStapp - c1733
 Lucy Gholston c1734

 Culpeper, Orange Counties, Virginia :
 Wilkes, North .Carolina
 
Madison County, Kentucky

James II m Mary Mills
Joseph  m Sarah  ?
Golson m Alice Pennington
                   Rachel Nelson
Katherine m Thom. Wisdom
Thomas m Sarah Brown
Moses  m Sally Jackson
John m Elizabeth  ?
Ruben m Magdaline Phelps
William  (?)


Anthony Golston
 m   ?

John Stapp - c1710
Ann Salmon

Virginia : Spotsylvania,
Caroline, Culpeper
James
Col. John m (1)Elizabeth Medley
                       (2) Patience Phelps

Joshua Stapp - c1688
Martha Coffey -c1690

Virginia - Culpeper
John m Ann Salmon
Eve, Anester, Elizabeth, Joshua, Thomas,
Joseph, James