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Compilation Information
About the Book
My mother and father is Betty Mae Bynum Eley and Richard Lee McDow. The names of my grandparents, Vera Bynum Faison, Roger Gary, Gladys Mungo, and Gonzalo McDow has lead to the total family compilation of all their families. Discussed in this book are these four families:
The Bracy family were the family members I knew the most so I feel that they should get the distinction of being the first discussed family. My mother, Betty, my grandmother, Vera, and all my siblings were the only known family in my life until I turned fourteen years old and began to explore the possibility of tracing my family history. The Demaree Family of Nigeria came to the United States, a slave family, who became a free black family. From the many years of their heritage, the family came to be known as the Demory Family of the same background in the Yoruba tribe of Nigeria. This is my grandfather, Roger Gary's family. The Mungo Family has a history of people living to a ripe old age. Take Easter Mungo for example. She lived to be 113 years old. While my grandmother has reached her 89th birthday, Gladys Mungo McDow, shines on after 25 years since her husband, Gonzalo McDow's death. The McDow Family stems for many branches which includes the Hueys, Massey, James, Hood, and Johnson.
About the Families
My Ancestry and its people
This book gives an extensive view into the lives of the people who has populated one of the largest African American families in the United States. This book is about the many generations of these four people, my grandparents.
Jessie Vera Bynum Faison, Roger Gary, Gladys Mungo, and Gonzielo McDow
This book is a full collection of information about the descendants of Adam and Eve as it connects to my family history-The History of the Bracy-Demaree-Mungo-McDow Family. The information is a broad view of genealogical information about the family history of some of the most influential families of early and modern times-African-European-Native American-Jewish Family History. It contains history that connects to all the families of the world, from the Garden of Eden and to the streets and cities of the United States in Virginia, North Carolina, and South Carolina, Connecticut, and Massachusetts. The iunformation is completed with 19 backgrounds, nationalities, colors, and creeds are included in the research collection.
The information cannot be described in deeper detail because the information could possible changed the relationship of so many people who must understand the validity of our origin and our present genetic state. We make the statement that "we all originate from Adam" and that "we are all related" but through Shem, Ham, and Japheth and the era of Peleg , the history of my family prevailed to create the family that is discussed in this family genealogical record, which divides the world into the many colors, cultures, and ethnics groups throughout the world. Not by common standard that changed but the actual path that need to return to the current owner of destiny. As part of that vast amount of people, I have researched the people are part of my family.
The following information contains the histories of the families of Bracy-Davis-Ungerhart-Bynum, Demaree/Demory-Mitchell-Lockhart-Rawls-Parker-Moody-Rival-Askew-Gary, Clyburn-Mungo, and the James-Hood-Huey-Massey-McDow. They are my four ancestral lines coming from my four grandparents. They are the family history of my grandparents: Jessie Vera Bynum Faison, Roger Gary, Gladys Mungo, and Gonzalo McDow. The history will be detailed with the history of each family and the ancestral lines and genealogical reports of each individual family. The book is divided and discussed by these grandparents. The family comes from the parents, Richard Lee McDow and Betty Mae Bynum Eley.
My parents are Richard Lee McDow and Betty Mae Bynum Eley, the two half to the whole. I am the only shared child that they have in the world. They are the beginning of the research. In their prospective families, you shall be guided through the lives of the ancestors of Richard Lee McDow and Betty Mae Bynum.
The four grandparents, Roger Gary, Jessie Vera Bynum Faison, Gonzalo McDow, and Gladys Mungo, shall be the focus of most of this family compilation. My grandparents come from eight great grandparents. In the unions of Emma Elizabeth Parker and Dorphus Gary, Sarah Jane Davis and Silas Bynum, Daisey Mae Huey and James Thomas McDow, and Ellen Clyburn and Joseph Mungo came the many, many descendants of a generation back, in my long ago past with 134 generations of the entire family .
You shall see the connections of the ancestors as you are introduced to all the members of my family in my ancestral lines.. Because of the extent of my research, I will only discussed the first six generations of my family, the first two sections of my family ancestry tree so that you can understand the genealogical reports, and other parts of this book.
The first part of the book will be the my ancestral lines-The Ancestors of Darryl Eley. Two types of pedigree charts will be used to unfolded this history. The Ancestral Tree gives you information about ancestors of Darryl Eley as it unfolds in the book. The Ancestral Tree allows you to breeze through the genealogical reports so that you can find the names of people who make up my modern ancestry. From my parents to the third great grandparents, you get a short look at the people who make up the main ancestry at a glance.
The Bracy Family
The Bracy family can be traced back to the dawn of time with Adam and Eve. Through the lines of two of Adam and Eve's children came to descendants of the first world before the Great Flood. Noah's three children: Shem. Ham, and Japheth became the earliest ancestors of the people of the modern world. The family later connected to many other families. The Bracey family of England, France, Nigeria, and many other West African Nations came a family whose past has reach back to the days of the Great Rollo the Dane, the first Duke of Normandy. He was the son of Rognvald I Eyssteinson of Norweigian background, the Bracy Family are his descendants, all earlier lines include from Rognvald's descendants lines came to daughter of William the Conqueror, Gundred, who married William De Warren. One of the De Warren grandchildren, Maude married Robert De Bracy and then came the De Braci family. They branched out into to many races and creeds throughout the world. The family lives and breathes in the cities and towns of the east coast and throughout all of the United States and all over the world.. The family has become one of the first family who stand proud of all their heritage.. Generation to generation, the family has lived in New York, Connecticut, North Carolina where a young lady by the name of Jane Esther Bracy was born in the year, 1839. With eight children, she has a lineage that has reached well over the normal numbers of an African American Family. She moved to Portsmouth, Virginia where she died but the main concentration of the family remains in Portsmouth, Virginia. Born in the Portsmouth Naval Hospital has been the truth about my roots in Portsmouth, Virginia.
The Demaree Family
The Demaree Family of Nigeria arrived in the United States as slaves to prosper as a people of content and happy lives to enjoy the life in American. On June 13, 1711, John Demaree was freed from slavery. Though their family was born in Nigeria, they immigrated to the United States through Massachusetts, Virginia, and North Carolina. When a young man by the man of Joseph married Sarah Mitchell, they had eight children who became the families of Jackson, North Carolina and every major city on the Eastern Seaboard of the United States. The life of a free family were they. They included the families of Mitchell, Hicks, Rawls, Lockhart, Parker, Philemon, Rival, Moody, and Gary. With the very diversified family that has become my mother's father's side of the family, the family has a rich history of African connection that has now been defined in its history.
The Clyburn-Mungo Family
A young lady of Flat Creek named Easter was blessed with a gift of memory, she never dreamed that her great great grandson would possess her molded gift of memory. Her gift was bestowed upon me through four generations that has given the ability to remember months, days, and years, with no problem, to prepare me to use that ability with my project. At the age of about 113, Easter Mungo and all the members of the Mungo family share the truth of having one of their original African surnames which became a part of American language. The matriarch was able to live to see the history of her family come alive. My grandmother, Gladys moved to Virginia to come closer to her grandchildren and enjoy the company of her two daughters, and see her history come alive.
The McDow Family
He was a young man with a will-of-steel and a loving heart. He would give you the shirt off his back. His name is Gonzalo "Mac" McDow. With the aggressiveness of his mother, Daisey Huey, and the kind-hearted ness of his father, James Thomas (Doc) McDow, Gonzalo was a member of the largest black family in the Charlotte and Lancaster, South Carolina. This story is the story of my grandfather, Gonzalo McDow. Though he is gone, his history shall live on.
The following information begins with a key explanation of my pedigree chart and ancestral lines. The pedigree charts begin with my name and the ancestral lines of my mother and father. The charts tell the names of my ancestry, births, marriages, deaths. Some people have notes which are included in the genealogical reports list in the table of contents. It gives the name of the spouse and the birth of the children involved in a particular union. The chart gives the name of the children and location of their birth, and order of birth. Some birth, marriage or death information may have errors because of some raw form of record collection. The information has been put together to the best of my ability. The information is information given in interviews, birth certificates, marriage licenses, death certificates, census records, and other miscellaneous information. Most information are actual verifiable information. In the event that a piece of information cannot be verified, the explanation shall be included footnotes or in the genealogical report notes..
The information shall be explained based on how the information unfolded in the since August 1979. The first family shall be the Bracy family. The Bracy family was the first family because of the closeness of the family to maternal grandmother, and mother. The Descendants of Jane Esther Bracy, with the eight generation of over 1,000 African American descendants. The Davis family, who also became the Bynum family, the family has branched out to a large family beginning with the upbringing of the six of eight children. They are discusssed in Chapter Two-The Modern Bracy Family.
The second family is the Demaree family who came to the America, and became a free black family . The last family shall be my father's family whom, I learned about much later in my life. The families shall be explained in detail. The family are descendats of ohn Demaree, who was born in Nasemond County, Virginia in 1685. The family enxtends int o13 generation of people there after. You shall recieve a short look at some of the major events of this family's history.
The third family to be discussed will be the family of Gladys Mungo McDow, who claim the distinction of having my members who live to get very old. You will be trated with a outline of the mebers of this family. From Wil Mungo to the yougest member of the Mungo Family shall be explained in an outline of the people, birth, marriages, and deaths.
The fourth family to be discussed will be the family of Gonzalo McDow. From the lives of John McDow and Price Huey came the descendats of these two men. The family shall be discussed by outline.
All the family hsitroies are included in their individual books with more extensive details. The Large and Short version of this series gives you a more detailed look at each family with pedigree charts, descendats outlines, and text inormation about each family.
There are over 6500 names included in this family compilation of the Bracy-Demaree-Mungo-McDow Families of South Carolina, North Carolina, and Virginia, but not all family lines are discussed because of the large number of family members. This is the condense version of the book. The entire family will be told in other volumes of my family history. Here is how it is laid out. This is your guide.
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Jane Esther Bracy, John Demaree, Wil Mungo, John McDow and Price Huey, Biblical Genealogy and European Genealogy, a unified collection of genalogy and history.
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