Move On!

Faith McClung Kline O'Brien

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This true storybook recalls crucial events from 400 years of history featuring real-life characters living ordinary lives during some of America's most important periods.

Author Faith McClung Kline O’Brien’s paternal grandparents, Albert McClung and Mattie Fitzgerald, met at a small, country church in Oklahoma in 1907, the year that territory became a state. Albert’s ancestors included Revolutionary patriots “Saucy Jack” McClung, of Scotch-Irish descent, and Abraham Kuykendall, of Dutch lineage, who, around 1740, relocated from New York to North Carolina, where he settled and accumulated a fortune in gold coins. Mattie descended from two former sea captains who became merchants in Brooklyn, New York—Edward Card from Maine and Nathaniel Grafton from Newport, Rhode Island, whose seafaring ancestors had sailed the Atlantic Ocean since the mid-1600s.



In Move On! O’Brien chronicles her extended family’s history, with each chapter focusing on one of Albert’s or Mattie’s seventeen ancestral branches—the Fitzgerald and McClung Clans and their allied lines: the Anthony, Barry, Card, Dods, Forman, Grafton, Kuykendall, Longstreet, Miller, Reid, Thompson, Tidwell, Trigg, Wilbore, and Wyckoff families. Ten of these lines include Revolutionary patriots, and ten have roots in America extending as far back as the 1600s. Move On! tells how descendants of these disparate families met, united in marriage, and eventually became pioneers on the Southwestern prairies.



Glimpses of religion in the lives of everyday Americans appear throughout Move On!, which combines genealogical details with personal stories, many taking place during pivotal events in US history.



Stories from the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries told firsthand by O’Brien’s late grandparents help bring Move On! to life through the eyes of real-life characters, her ancestors.

Sujets

• Religion
• Christianisme
• Historical
• Lettres et linguistique
• Biography
• Saline County
• Wise County
• Soddy-Daisy, Tennessee
• Cherokee County
• Searcy
• Autobiography
• Monmouth
• Providence

Informations

• Publié par: WestBow Press
• Date de parution: 20 octobre 2022
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781664270220
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 7 Mo

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MOVE ON!
One Family’s Odyssey through 400 Years of United States History
FAITH M c CLUNG KLINE O’BRIEN


Copyright © 2022 Faith McClung Kline O’Brien.
 
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ISBN: 978-1-6642-7021-3 (sc)
ISBN: 978-1-6642-7022-0 (e)
 
Library of Congress Control Number: 2022911582
 
 
 
WestBow Press rev. date: 10/20/2022
CONTENTS
Dedication
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Section 1: THE FAMILY OF MATTIE MAY FITZGERALD
Letter #1 to My Grandchildren
Mattie May Fitzgerald’s Lineage by Family
I. Maternal Ancestors of Mattie May Fitzgerald,
A. A. Maternal Ancestors of Mattie Fitzgerald’s Mother, Emily Elizabeth Grafto n,
Chapter 1: The Card Family
Chapter 2: The Reid Family
Chapter 3: The Stoffelsz/Langestraet (Longstreet) Family
Chapter 4: The Forman Family
Chapter 5: The Wilbore Family
Chapter 6: The Claesen/Wyckoff Family
B. B. Paternal Ancestors of Mattie Fitzgerald’s Mother, Emily Elizabeth Grafto n,
Chapter 7: The Miller Family
Chapter 8: The Dods Family
Chapter 9: The Grafton Family
II. Paternal Ancestors of Mattie May Fitzgerald,
Letter #2 to My Grandchildren
A. A . Maternal Ancestors of Mattie Fitzgerald’s Father, Abner Trigg Fitzgerald,
Chapter 10: The Anthony Family
Chapter 11: The Trigg Family
B. B. Paternal Ancestors of Mattie Fitzgerald’s Father, Abner Trigg Fitzgeral d,
Chapter 12: The Fitzgerald Family
Section 2:THE FAMILY OF ALBERT POSEY McCLUNG
Albert Posey McClung’s Lineage by Family
I. Maternal Ancestors of Albert Posey McClung,
A. A. Maternal Ancestors of Albert McClung’s Mother, Narcissa Kuykendal l,
Chapter 13: The Thompson Family
B. B. Paternal Ancestors of Albert McClung’s Mother, Narcissa Kuykendal l,
Letter #3 to My Grandchildren
Chapter 14: The Leursen/Kuykendall Family
II. Paternal Ancestors of Albert Posey McClung
A. A. Maternal Ancestors of Albert’s Father, James Washington McClun g,
Chapter 15: The Barry Family
B. B. Paternal Ancestors of Albert’s Father, James Washington McClun g,
Chapter 16: The Tidwell Family
Chapter 17: The McClung Family
Letter #4 to My Grandchildren
Section 3:ALBERT POSEY McCLUNG AND MATTIE MAY FITZGERALD McCLUNG— LIVES FOREVER INTERTWINED
Marriage Certificate of Albert Posey McClung and Mattie May Fitzgerald
Letter #5 to My Grandchildren
Chapter 18: Albert Posey McClung and Mattie May Fitzgerald
Letter #6 to My Grandchildren
Section 4:APPENDICES
Appendix A: Countries of Origin for Our Ancestors
Appendix B: Clergymen in Our Extended Family
Appendix C: Military Service of Our Ancestors During Times of War
Appendix D: Where Branches of Our Family Lived
Appendix E: Index of Ancestors
Information about the Author

Other Books by Faith:
The Klines of Evanston—1848 to 1968
Sketches from the Western Frontier:
The Level Family – The Gilbert Family
(The story of the ancestors of the author’s maternal grandparents)
Fishing Tales and Boat Sails:
Family Lore from Southern Waterways
(An eBook with stories from members of the McClung Family)

 
FITZGERALD and McCLUNG CLANS
 
AND
 
THEIR ALLIED FAMILIES:
 
 
 
Anthony, Barry, Card, Dods, Forman,
Grafton, Kuykendall, Longstreet, Miller,
Reid, Thompson, Tidwell, Trigg,
Wilbore, and Wyckoff
 
 
 
SKETCHES FROM THE WESTERN FRONTIER
SERIES
 
 
 
Copyright © 2022
Faith McClung Kline O’Brien Publications
Midland, Michigan 48640
DEDICATION
This book is lovingly dedicated to my grandchildren —
Ethan Strodtbeck, Jacob Metricarti, George Kline, Isaac Strodtbeck,
Ellie Kline, Dominic Metricarti, and Gillian Strodtbeck —
who inspired me to undertake this fascinating journey through time.
It is also dedicated to the following cadre of family members from various eras and locales
who provided information and assistance that made this book possible:
Florence Lou Flowers (Mrs. Daniel Carr Settle) (1912-1993) , a great granddaughter of Martha Jane Card and Douglas R. Grafton, who helped kick off this entire project by sending me, in 1976, unsolicited copies of letters and family memorabilia, including a brief family history written in 1877 by Louise Grafton Dormer (1824-1904), a sister of my great great grandfather Douglas Russell Grafton, who, understanding the importance of passing along family lore and traditions, took time to record with pen and ink the stories of the Dods, Miller, and Grafton families passed down to her, which I share with you now.
John “Edward” Hughes Fitzgerald (1891-1965) , Mattie May Fitzgerald’s brother, who spent a significant portion of his retirement years researching the life of his father, Abner T. Fitzgerald, with the expectation of writing his biography. Until his years ran out, he wrote many letters highlighting the results of his research to his niece, Francis Marie Cummings (1916-2011) , daughter of Edward’s sister Lela Fitzgerald Cummings and meticulous researcher who, long before the Internet simplified the genealogist’s efforts, spent countless hours studying the families of her parents (that is, the Fitzgeralds, Cards, Graftons, Formans, Triggs, and others), recording by hand numerous facts she found in censuses, family trees, and books.
And when Francis also ran out of years, her sister, Mary Jeanne Cummings Miller (1923-2021) , daughter of Lela Fitzgerald Cummings, carefully preserved her sister’s boxes of documentation, photos, and memorabilia, and shares with us now her priceless accumulation of information about our family.
In addition, Dale McClung (1908 to 1997) , oldest son of Albert and Mattie, recorded what it was like to be part of his family and to live in Carter and Mangum, Oklahoma, during the first quarter of the twentieth century by writing a detailed autobiography, sections of which appear in this book through the generosity of his daughter-in-law , Donna Neufeld McClung .
Jimmy Wayne McClung ( whose 1981 book, The McClung Family of Wise County, Texas, has for many years been a primary source of nineteenth and twentieth century McClung family history) now generously continues to share his new findings and encourage research by others in order to expand our knowledge of the McClung clan.
Without the contribution of any one of these family members, this book would not be complete.
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
I am grateful to these generous family members who gave of their time to enable me to visit sites related to the lives of our ancestors:
Mary Kathryn McClung , who mastered the maze of the New York subway system that took us to the Brooklyn home of the Wyckoff family ;
Barbie McClung , who drove us from Louisiana to Woodward, Oklahoma, to meet
Mary Jeanne Miller and her family — Bobbie Gale and Wade Ralston , and Patsy Jean
Parker — who opened for us boxes of treasures saved by Francis Cummings and Edward Fitzgerald and who even brought us lunch so we could continue to scan and photograph documents an entire day without interruption;
William T. O’Brien , who drove us to the Chattanooga-area farm site of Edward Card; the Providence, Rhode Island, neighborhood of the Dods family; and Jamestown, Virginia, where John Johns Trigg commanded an artillery battalion under General George Washington at nearby Yorktown;
Alexandra Kline Metricarti , who gave me a beautiful sunny fall day in Monmouth, New Jersey, where, together, we explored cemeteries, monuments, Old Tennent Church, and the historical society’s records related to the Reid, Longstreet, and Forman families;
David Kent Kline , who enabled me to visit the Newport, Rhode Island, Historical Society’s collection of papers and to see Grafton Street.

I am extremely grateful for the editorial and organizational suggestions provided by Ken neth W yatt , who understood my purpose and my perspective in writing this book as I believe no other editor could have. I could not have dared ask for such a labor-intensive favor of anyone but a good and generous friend, a lover of history, and a Christian man of letters.
I am also grateful to my three children— Alexandra Kline Metricarti, George (“Lee”) Kline, and Elizabeth Ann Kline Strodtbeck , three gifted writers—who for a long decade, whenever I called, day or night, freely offered advice and helped me create the phrase I sought.
And, finally, I am indebted to my husband, William T. O’Brien , who throughout our first years of marriage— our “honeymoon years”—seldom became impatient with the many hours I spent hunched over my laptop computer, but instead brought me numerous