_Eobba ASGARD _______+
|
_Ida BERNICIANS _____|
| |
| |_____________________
|
|
|--Sogethere BERNICIANS
|
| _____________________
| |
|_Concubines (?) _____|
|
|_____________________
_____________________
|
_J.A.D. CHILDRESS ___|
| m 1860 |
| |_____________________
|
|
|--Will CHILDRESS
|
| _William BRYANT _____+
| | (1810 - 1888) m 1836
|_Sarah E BRYANT _____|
(1842 - 1872) m 1860|
|_Rebecca CHAMBLESS __
(1818 - 1896) m 1836
__
|
_Chlodio FRANKS _____|
| |
| |__
|
|
|--Merovaeus "Merovech" FRANKS
| (0415 - 0458)
| __
| |
|_ ___________________|
|
|__
[294]
King of the Salian Franks and founder of the Merovingian Dynasty.
The Catholic Encyclopaedia states: The Franks were a confederation
fromed in Western Germany of a certain number of ancient tribes who
occupied the right shore of the Rhine from Mainz to the sea. Their
name is first mentioned by Roman historians in connection with a battle
fought against this people about the year 241.
In the third century, some of them crossed the Rhine and settled in
Belgic Gaul on the banks of the Meuse and the Scheldt, and the Romans
had endeavored to expel them from the territory. Constantius Chlorus
and his descendants continued the struggle, and, although Julian the
Apostate inflicted a serious defeat on them in 359, he did not succeed
in exterminating them. Eventually, Rome was satisfied to make them her
more or less faithful allies.
When they first attracted attention in history, the Franks were well
established in the northern part of Belgic Gaul, in the districts where
their Germanic dialect is still spoken. Gregory of Tours tells us that
their chief town was Dispargum, which is perhaps Tongres, and that they
were under a family of kings distinguished by their long hair, which
they allowed to flow over their shoulders, while the other Frankish
warriors had the back of the head shaved. This family was known as the
Merovingians, from the name of one of its members, to whom national
tradition had ascribed a sea-god as an ancestor.
Merovaeus fought with the Romans against Attila on the Mauriac plains
_James PEARCE _______+
| (1691 - 1755) m 1712
_Giles PEARCE _______|
| (1721 - 1792) m 1744|
| |_Martha WILBORE _____+
| (1690 - 1760) m 1712
|
|--Martha PEARCE
| (1747 - ....)
| _____________________
| |
|_Mary SCHREECH ______|
m 1744 |
|_____________________
_George PEARCE ______+
| (1696 - 1764) m 1716
_Giles PEIRCE _______|
| (1765 - 1835) m 1785|
| |_Deborah SEARLE _____
| m 1716
|
|--Oliver S. PEIRCE
|
| _____________________
| |
|_Hannah ARNOLD ______|
m 1785 |
|_____________________
_Samuel WIMBISH _____+
| (.... - 1790) m 1763
_William WIMBISH ____|
| (1776 - ....) |
| |_Mildred MARTIN _____+
| m 1763
|
|--William M. WIMBISH
| (1801 - 1857)
| _____________________
| |
|_Lucy CARTER ________|
|
|_____________________
[259]
William married early in life to Elizabeth Green, and moved to sumter
County, Georgia, where he became a well-to-do farmer and reared a
family of ten children, three boys and seven gir