A new branch is connected to the family tree
Submitted by Anni Cotman
Thanks for posting your family tree at http://daviesofpebbleton.org/index.htm. I think I finally figured out where mine fits into it.
Your Henry Davies (1858), son of Landon Nicholas Davies who married Susan Todd is my great grandfather. My family has him listed as Henry Landon Davies and his dates as 1854-1922. He is buried in the Chestertown Maryland Cemetery and I believe those are the dates on his tombstone. My Uncle John says "Henry Landon Davies, my grandfather, was in the creamery business in his early life in Kennedyville, MD. Later he was a clerk in Baltimore for either Railway Express or some other express company. The Levelgreen location Gloucester county, VA was where he was born. To my knowledge it was and is still owned by the Robbins family. You will note that Landon Nicholas Davies was a brother in-law of Maria Todd who married Augustus Robbins. This may explain why Henry Landon was born at Levelgreen." Uncle John took my mother to visit the Levelgreen plantation in 1990. She says they went on route 17, turned right on 614 N and found the plantation at 614 Featherbed Lane. According to her notes from speaking to the residents during that visit, the plantation was originally a land grant of 2000 acres to a John Robins and in 1991 was owned by E. Claybourne Robbins Jr. It had 1400 feet frontage on the Ware River and was about 1300 acres in 1978.
Henry Landon Davies married Mary Naomi Blackiston (~1872-1895 when she died of TB) and had one daughter, my grandmother, born in Kennedyville in 1893 - Mary Naomi Davies (died in 1961 and is buried in the Russell lot in Chestertown).
Mary Naomi Blackiston was the daughter of Julia Christina Leary and John Joseph Blackiston. John Joseph Blackiston was her second husband. Her first was a Mr. Adkinson who died at age 26. Their daughter Ella married a Mr Jump and I can follow that line down to those living. Julia Christina was known by her middle name as Christina and was of Irish descent. Her brother was a well known captain on the Chesapeake Bay. MNB is buried in Rock Hall with the Blackiston family.
Henry Landon's second wife functioned as step mother to Mary Naomi Davies and step grandmother to my mother. She knew her only as "Bom Bom". However, my Uncle John says her name was Mary (Mollie) Parsons (b 3-13-1860). She is also buried in the Chestertown Cemetary.
H L Davies' sister Emmeline was called Emma or Emmy Davies in Mom's notes. She married a Dr. Temple Walker in King and Queen Co VA and had 3 kids as follows: #1 Dr Landon Walker who married Josephine in Charlotte North Carolina #2 Richard (Dick) Walker was shell shocked in WWI and lived in Charlotte North Carolina when my mother remembers visiting him as a child. #3 Bernard Walker - moved to Florida
H L Davies' sister Mamie (Mary) married a Mr. Broaddus, a Baptist minister in Berryville Virginia
I do not know what happened to the other brother.
Mary Naomi Davies married John Waters Russell (1879-1930) in 1916 and they lived in Chestertown, Kent Co, Maryland. She was known as Naomi and as Omah or Gram to us grandkids. She taught school before she was married and again taught school, mostly 4th grade and music after her husband died. I remember her giving me a flute (plastic recorder) like the ones her class used when I was a child.
Their children were a stillborn son in 1918, Charlotte Redue Russell (1920), Mary Landon Russell (1921-1985), Naomi Waters Russell, my mother (1923) married Walter Rowland Taylor) and John Waters Russell (1925).
My aunt Charlotte Russell married Ed McCalley and moved to California. She taught mathematics in Downey and he also taught and sold cars. She is now a widow living in California. They had two boys, Rusty and John.
Rusty (Laurence Edwin III) McCalley lives in Blythe and is an insurance agent. He is step dad to his third wife's kids. No kids of his own.
John William McCalley lives in Riverside with his family. He worked for Disneyland, taught kindergarten, sold tires and now works in real estate. He's been married 4 times. No kids by either of the first two. The third wife Lisa had a daughter Amy who is now married to Ryan Fulton and has a daughter, Regan. His fourth wife Betty, came from the Philippines. They have a daughter Alex Lauren who is now 2 years old.
Mary Landon Russell was known as Lanny to her family. Her husband's name is Marcus (Mark) Ingram - they had 7 children, lived in the Lake Tahoe area after WWII, and eventually divorced. Aunt Lanny died of heart problems which seem to run in her children as well. Of seven kids, 3 of the boys died fairly young of heart attacks. The kids are Scott, Dave, Becky, John, Dean, Beth and Ted.
Scott Marcus Ingram married Carolyn Neal - has 3 sons - lives in northern Idaho in Moyie Springs. He’s the Ingram family historian.
William Davies Ingram (called Dave) married to ? had one son, divorced, died at about age 29.
Mary Rebecca Ingram (called Becky, born 1947) married Ron Souza - 2 children - Mary Ann and Paul
John Russell Ingram 1949-1998 m ? - 2 sons Delmas and Jeff
Dean Alexander Ingram (died May 1997) m Katie - 2 children Andrew and Andrea.
Sara Elizabeth Ingram (called Beth) married David Miller - 2 daughters Rachael and Bernadette - has gone to West Africa a couple times as a missionary
Theodore Todd Ingram – (Ted) never married
My mother, Naomi Waters Russell, was called Nonie to distinguish her from her mother Naomi. She grew up in Chestertown and went to Washington college there as a day student where she met my father. My memories of Chestertown include seeing Ike waving in a motorcade from one of the great Aunt's lawns, visiting my grandmother and two of the great aunts there, and so on. My mother owns the Davies lot in the cemetary and is planning on being buried there. She taught high school biology before she was married and later worked in the medical school at John Hopkins University - first in the polio lab developing the vaccine and then as an electron microscopist and assistant to Dr Bodian in the anatomy dept.
My father, Dr. Walter Rowland Taylor, is from Baltimore and got his degree in biochemistry after serving in the navy during the war. His family can be traced back to the revolutionary war in western Maryland and Baltimore. He is buried in the Davies plot in Chestertown as will my mother be when the time comes. I was born in Wisconsin while my father was in graduate school and my brother was born in Illinois where Dad did his postdoc. He took a position at Johns Hopkins after that and we returned to Baltimore where I was raised from kindergarten through high school. He was a marine biologist and eventually became the head of the Johns Hopkins Oceanographic Institute in Shadyside. My parents moved to Annapolis after I left home.
I, Ann (Anni with no "e" is my nickname) Elizabeth Taylor (11/13/1946) married Dr. Carl Wayne Cotman (4/5/1940) Sept 11, 1965 in Baltimore. We met in Woods Hole Massachusetts where my father taught at the Marine Biological Laboratories during the summers. Carl’s family is from Cleveland Ohio, his grandparents having immigrated from Austria and Hungary in the early 1900s. We moved to California in 1968 for him to take a position at UC Irvine and have four children all living in California. We were divorced earlier this year. The kids are:
#1 Adrian Kay Cotman (8/25/66) was born in Indiana and married Mark Ayers in Jan 1990 - 2 children Candice Kay (5/31/1994) and Hunter Dennis (12/15/1995). They live in Los Osos. He works in construction. She is a pediatric nurse.
#2 Danna Jenine Cotman (12/1/68) married Joe Mayo in June of 1998, but kept her name. She is a lawyer in San Diego and he is a patent agent. They live in La Jolla. No kids. Both she and her two younger siblings were born in Newport Beach.
#3 Daniel Charles Cotman (7/24/72) married Carolina (Maria Carolina) Jimenez from Venezuela in May 10 1998. They have a three year old daughter Sophia Gabriella (12/22/2002) and another one on the way. He is a patent attorney in Pasadena.
#4 Cheryl Ann Cotman (12/20/74), an artist, lives in Corona del Mar.
I have one younger brother, Dr. Lawrence Russell Taylor (2/11/1951) who is a pastor and has married twice. First to Betty (Elizabeth) Skillman of Baltimore. They had four children and lived in Baltimore, Minnesota, and Colorado before getting divorced. The kids are:
#1 Elliott Lowell Taylor (4/22/71-2/11/86) died at age 14
#2 Becky (Rebecca Marie) Taylor (6/23/72) m Richard Reese. They are living in Maryland with 2 sons - Mitchell and Mickey Walter. She teaches elementary school.
#3 Rachel Christa Taylor (5/7/74) m Derek Neider from the San Francisco area, now living in New Hampshire with my mother. They have three children - Alex (Alexander - 12/10/1998), Hannah Grace (July 2001), and Levi Josiah (2/22/2006). Derekis the founding pastor of Lighthouse Christian Fellowship in Manchester, NH and works part time electrician.
#4 Joshua Lawrence Taylor (7/18/77) m Aiyana Chandler - has two daughters, Elly (3/2002) and Lucy (4/2004)and now lives in Las Vegas. He's the associate pastor at CC Las Vegas and leading a team to plant the Citi Church of Chicago on Chicago's north side Wicker park area in a few weeks.
Larry's second marriage was to Kathy Nesmith from Elkhart Indiana. They have lived in Colorado, Twin Peaks California, Hawaii, Oceanside Califrornia, Lowell Massachusetts, and currently are in Vincennes Indiana. They have a daughter Emily Rose (b 4/16/1992 in CA)
My Uncle John (John Waters Russell) worked for General Electric until he retired. His wife is Flora May Barrett. She comes from a big family on the eastern shore of Maryland. They live in Solomons Maryland now where she came from. They had twin girls Joan and Doris (born 1/11/1951), who were not at all identical, and one son - Arthur (Art) born 11/3/1952.
Joan Russell married Russell Leon Slate in North Carolina – her 2 kids are Russell's from a previous marriage.
Doris Russell married Steve Horr and they have one son Michael. They still live in Maryland.
Art Russell went to U of VA and now lives in Virginia. He married Laura, had two children and divorced. The kids are John Arthur Jr 8/2/90 and Casey Christine 7/29/95
It’s nice to know how we fit into the family. Thanks.
Sincerely, Ann Elizabeth Taylor Cotman, Lake Arrowhead, California