DONHAM Family History by Scott T.S. Trimble
printed book © August 1995 /// online version © August 2000

APPENDIX A
COOL CHARTS

The name Rose has
been in the family    Rosine LONG
for at least seven    + Thomas HEIM                    Elizabeth has been in the family
generations,             |                             for a long time also.  Here are
appearing every       Louis HEIM                       fourteen generations of its
other one.  It        + Josephine LORANG               direct ancestry:
may go even further      |
back in France,       Rose Marie HEIM
but the names of      + Melvin Roy DONHAM                        Elizabeth WEAVER
Rosine LONG's            |                                       + Thomas DUNGAN
parents are           Genevieve Mignon DONHAM                       |
currently unknown.    + Alfred William DeLUCCHI                  Elizabeth DUNGAN
                         |                                       + Nathaniel WEST Jr.
                      Sharon Rose DeLUCCHI                          |
                      + Kenneth Edmund HARRISON                  Nathaniel WEST III
                         |                                       + Elizabeth
Elizabeth LEE         Timothy Bryan HARRISON                        |
+ Thomas FERGUSON     + Hazel Marie McGUIRE                      Martha WEST
   |                     |                                       + Thomas JONES
James FERGUSON        Kellie Rose HARRISON                          |
+ Margaret                                                       Letitia JONES
   |                                                             + John LEEDOM
Isaac FERGUSON                                                      |
+ Eliz. LEEDOM                                                   Elizabeth LEEDOM
   |              Nathaniel DONHAM Jr. + Mary SUTTON             + Isaac FERGUSON
Eliz. FERGUSON        _________________|______                      |
Abel DONHAM          |                        |                  Elizabeth FERGUSON
   |              John DONHAM              Mary DONHAM           + Abel DONHAM
Abel DONHAM Jr.   + Elizabeth BROWN        + Henry LEE             |
+ Matilda REECE      |                        |                  Abel DONHAM Jr.
   |              Margaret DONHAM          Henry D. LEE          + Matilda REECE
Elizabeth DONHAM  + Abijah DONHAM          + Harriet E. GORDON      |
+ Enoch RECTOR       |                        |                  Elizabeth DONHAM
   |            + Ferdinand Lee DONHAM     Ferdinand LEE         + Enoch Mabury RECTOR
Florella Jane RECTOR                                                |
                |                                                Florella Jane RECTOR
             Melvin Roy DONHAM + Rose Marie HEIM                 + Ferdinand Lee DONHAM
                       ________|_____________                       |
Lee is also a         |                      |                   G. Elizabeth DONHAM
prominent family   Eugene Melvin DONHAM   Roy Lee DONHAM         + Lot Dean LOCKWOOD
name.  It first       |                      |                      |
appeared in the    Dana Marie DONHAM      Lee Ronald DONHAM      M. Elizabeth LOCKWOOD
1790s when Mary       |                      |                   + Norman E.LAEDERICH
DONHAM, the        Robin Lee WATERS       Ryan Lee DONHAM           |
daughter of                                                      Thomas Dean LAEDERICH
Nathaniel DONHAM Jr. and Mary SUTTON, married Henry LEE, son     + Neva AKER
of William LEE and Cathren LEE.  Coincidentally, the surname        |
LEE is also a part of the DONHAM ancestry through the            Elizabeth M. LAEDERICH
FERGUSON line.



                         Richard SINGLETARY + Susanna COOKE
                             _______________|_______________
                            |                               |
       Mary BLOOMFIELD + Jonathan SINGLETARY      Nathaniel SINGLETARY
                       | (alias DONHAM)           + Sarah BELKNAP
             __________|_______
            |                  |
   Nathaniel DONHAM   Nathaniel DONHAM Sr. + Joannah
     (died young)       _______|________     THORNELL
                       |                |
                  John DONHAM    Nathaniel DONHAM Sr.
                  + (unknown)    + Elizabeth WILSON
     Mary            |
   SUTTON + Nathaniel DONHAM Jr. + Keziah CROSLEY
  ________|_                  ___|______________________________
 |          |     Eliz.      |                                  |
 |  John DONHAM + BROWN   William DONHAM + Sarah ARTHUR       Robert DONHAM
 |         _____|___________             |_________________   + Ruth FERGUSON
 |        |                 |                   |          |  |______________
 |        |                 |                   |          |                 |
 | Nathaniel DONHAM     Margaret DONHAM + Abijah DONHAM   Ira DONHAM         |
 |          + Mary SWEM                 |                 + Cynthia TOWSLEY  |
Mary DONHAM |________________     Nathaniel DONHAM        |                  |
+ Henry LEE                  |    + Alena ARMSTRONG   Nathaniel M. DONHAM    |
|___________________________ | ____________________                          |
      |                      |                     |                         |
   Nathaniel LEE             |               Mary Maria LEE + Nathaniel DONHAM
   + Elizabeth HAWLEY        |                              |
      |                  Elizabeth DONHAM + Isaac Ferguson DONHAM
   Jasper Newton LEE                      |
   + Alice SINGHURSE          Nathaniel "Bud" DONHAM + Alma (unknown)
      |
   Arthur Nathaniel LEE

      Nathaniel, of course, is a very common name in the DONHAM family.  There
      are many more Nathaniels (surnames EATON, PAGE, SINGLETARY...) among the
      SINGLETARY families, though they are not included in the above chart.



                      John DONHAM
                           |
    Mary SUTTON + Nathaniel DONHAM Jr. + Keziah CROSSLEY
                |                      |________________
     ___________|        Thomas BROWN                 __|_________
    |                 + Mary Osborn BALL             |            |
    |                     ______|_____               |    Abel DONHAM
    |                    |            |              |   + Elizabeth FERGUSON
    |           George BROWN      Rachel BROWN       |            |
    |  + Margaret Rebecca CONRAD  + James ARTHUR Jr. |     Abel M. DONHAM
    |               |                 |              |         + Matilda REECE
   John DONHAM + Eliz. BROWN  Sarah ARTHUR + William DONHAM         |
               |                           |                 Elizabeth DONHAM
             Margaret DONHAM + Abijah DONHAM           + Enoch Mabury RECTOR
                             |                             |
          Ferdinand Lee DONHAM + Florella Jane "Jenna" RECTOR
                               |
                            Melvin Roy DONHAM + Rose Marie HEIM
                                              |
                 Walter Graham SUGGS Jr. + Genevieve Mignon DONHAM
                                         |
               Thomas Erwin TRIMBLE + Gail Mignon SUGGS
                                    |
                                 Scott Thomas Suggs TRIMBLE

And here's why the name Nathaniel is so common. We are descended from Nathaniel DONHAM Jr. three times (and also, as the chart shows, twice from Thomas BROWN). There are many other families that descend twice from Nathaniel DONHAM Jr., but I only know of one other where they descend three times. That was the family of Isaac Ferguson DONHAM and Elizabeth DONHAM. The children were Cyrus Clayton DONHAM, Edgar Benton DONHAM, Hallie DONHAM, Nathaniel "Bud" DONHAM, and Berlin DONHAM....

                                                                     _N DONHAM Jr.____
                                                  /-Robert DONHAM---|_Keziah CROSLEY__
                              /-Nathaniel DONHAM--|                  _Isaac FERGUSON__
                              |                   \-Ruth FERGUSON---|_E LEEDOM________
          /-Isaac F DONHAM----|                                      _William LEE ____
          |                   |                   /-Henry LEE-------|_Cathren LEE_____
          |                   \-Mary Maria LEE----|                  _N DONHAM Jr.____
          |                                       \-Mary DONHAM-----|_Mary SUTTON_____
Cyrus C DONHAM                                                       _N DONHAM Jr.____
   Oakey S. SIMONS                                /-John DONHAM-----|_Mary SUTTON_____
          |                   /-Nathaniel DONHAM--|                  _George BROWN____
          |                   |                   \-Elizabeth BROWN-|_Margaret CONRAD_
          \-Elizabeth DONHAM--|                                      _________________
                              |                   /-John SWEM-------|_________________
                              \-Mary SWEM---------|                  _________________
                                                  \-Bathia CORD-----|_________________



                                                       Edward FULLER
                                                       + Ann
                                                          |
                                Christopher MARTIN     Samuel FULLER
          Thomas ROGERS         + Mrs. Marie PROWER    + Jane LATHROP
             |                     |                      |
          Joseph ROGERS         Alice MARTIN           Hannah FULLER
          + Hannah              + Richard BISHOP       + Nicholas BONHAM
             |                     |                      |
          Elizabeth ROGERS      Damaris BISHOP         Mary BONHAM
          + Jonathan HIGGINS    + William SUTTON       + Edmond DUNHAM
               |                   |                      |
            Elizabeth HIGGINS + John SUTTON            Elizabeth DUNHAM
                                  + Elizabeth CONGER   + Jonathan MARTIN
                                  |                    |
                               John SUTTON + Mary MARTIN
                                           |
                Nathaniel DONHAM Jr. + Mary SUTTON
                                     |
                Elizabeth BROWN + John DONHAM
                                |
             Abijah DONHAM + Margaret DONHAM
                           |
                        Ferdinand Lee DONHAM + Florella Jane RECTOR
                                             |
                        Rose Marie HEIM + Melvin Roy DONHAM

The chart above shows our Mayflower lines. The boldfaced people were passengers on the 1620 voyage. We definitely descend from Christopher MARTIN, though the SUTTON connection up to him might be slightly different. John SUTTON had two wives named Elizabeth, so we are only descended from Thomas ROGERS if it was Elizabeth HIGGINS who was John SUTTON Jr.'s mother. Most sources, though, say that it was Elizabeth CONGER. And we are only descended from the FULLERs as long as Mary MARTIN was indeed the mother of Mary SUTTON.




                                                                    Parker V. ADKINS  George FRY
                                                                       |                  |
                                      James McARTHUR  Thomas BROWN  Millitan ADKINS + Mary FRY
                                         |               |                          |
Joshua BUTLER   Nathaniel DONHAM Jr.  James ARTHUR    George BROWN         Nancy ATKINS
   |               |                     |               |                     |
William BUTLER  William DONHAM + Sarah ARTHUR   Elizabeth BROWN  John Preston RECTOR
   |                           |                   |                 |
Lucy BUTLER            Abijah DONHAM + Margaret DONHAM           Enoch Mabury RECTOR
   |                                 |                               |
Martha M. ALLEN        Ferdinand Lee DONHAM + Florella Jane "Jenna" RECTOR
   |                                        |
Walter Graham SUGGS Sr.        Melvin Roy DONHAM
   |                              |
Walter Graham SUGGS Jr. + Genevieve Mignon DONHAM
                        |
                     Gail Mignon SUGGS
                        |
                     Scott Thomas Suggs TRIMBLE
Ancestors Who Served in the
American Revolution



     Johann Georg CASTELHUN + Anna Barbara ROSTIN
          __________________|______________________________________________
         |                                                                 |
         |           Johann Christoph                                      |
         |                 SCHREINER + Anna Eva GLASER                     |
         |                 ___________|______________                      |
 Johann Philipp           |                          |                  Johann Konrad CASTELHUN
      CASTELHUN + Maria Barbara SCHREINER            |                  Johann F. CASTELHUN
                |                         Anna Maria SCHREINER          Johann Jakob CASTELHUN
Friedrich Karl CASTELHUN                  Jacob Wilhelm BIEBESHEIMER    Anna Maria CASTELHUN
Johannes CASTELHUN                        Maximiliana BIEBESHEIMER      Katharina NEUSCHAFER
Friedrich Karl CASTELHUN                  Johann Wilhelm BIEBESHEIMER + Wilhelmina Grace CORRELL
Paul ROETTER CASTELHUN                                                |
Frances Lydia CASTELHUN                                         Frederick Carl BIEBESHEIMER
         |                                                                  |_________________
         |           William DUNGAN + Frances LATHAM + Jeremiah CLARKE                        |
         |                 _________|_____________   |_________________________               |
         |                |                       |                            |              |
         |             Thomas DUNGAN           Frances DUNGAN               Jeremiah CLARKE   |
         |             Elizabeth DUNGAN        Elizabeth HOLDEN             Jeremiah CLARKE   |
         |             Nathaniel WEST III      John RICE                    Sarah CLARKE      |
         |             Martha WEST             Elizabeth RICE               Abigail GREENMAN  |
         |             Letitia JONES           Nathan SPENCER               Chloe MAXSON      |
         |             Elizabeth LEEDOM        William SPENCER              Catherine CLARKE  |
         |             Elizabeth FERGUSON      Jonathan SPENCER                 |             |
         |             Abel M. DONHAM          Nancy Baker SPENCER  + Samuel BURDICK          |
         |             Elizabeth DONHAM                             |                         |
         |             Florella Jane RECTOR           Mary Ann BURDICK                        |
         |             Melvin Roy DONHAN              Martha L. CROOKS                        |
         |             Genevieve Mignon DONHAM        Wilbur Robert NEWCOMER                  |
Thomas Erwin TRIMBLE + Gail Mignon SUGGS              Merlen NEWCOMER + Wm. Bernard BIEBESHEIMER
                     |                                                |
            Scott Thomas Suggs TRIMBLE                      William Hanson BIEBESHEIMER

This chart is interesting because it shows how two different people can share two totally unrelated ancestries. I met Bill BIEBESHEIMER through Prodigy when he answered one of my CASTELHUN bulletin board postings. So we traded information on that ancestry. In one of his mailings, though, he sent a chart of all of his ancestry, so I discovered that we're also related through the DUNGANs and LATHAMs. So he is related to both my father and my mother.

There's a similar connection through the SUTTON line. Bill ORMOND, of Lexington, KY, is descended from Nathaniel SUTTON, a brother of our ancestor William SUTTON. He is also descended from Aquilla SUGG, brother of our ancestors Thomas SUGG and Priscilla SUGG. So Bill ORMOND is related to both Genevieve DONHAM and Walter SUGGS.




      THE RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN FOUR            ____________________________________
 MARIN COUNTY GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY MEMBERS     |                                    |
                                               |         John GREENE             Jeremiah CLARKE
        JOY LEHMANN, LAILA SUTER               |         + Joanne TATTERSHALL    + Anne AUDLEY
      SCOTT TRIMBLE, SUSAN TRUMBULL            |      ______|________               |
                                               |     |               |              |__
       Written for "The Kin Tracer"            |  Mary GREENE     James GREENE         |
    by Scott T.S. Trimble, 5 Jan 1995          |  + James SWEET   + Elizabeth ANTHONY  |
   ***********************************         |     |               |                 |
                                               |  Benoni SWEET    Elizabeth GREENE     |
                                     Jeremiah  |  + Elizabeth     + Francis REYNOLDS   |
   William DUNGAN + Frances LATHAM + CLARKE    |     |               |                 |
                  |                |___________|  James SWEET     Francis REYNOLDS     |
          ________|                               + (unknown)     + Mary GREENE        |
         |                        Clement WEAVER     |               |                 |
         |                        + Mary FREEBORN    |_________   James REYNOLDS       |
         |                ___________|_______                  |  + Elizabeth JONES    |
         |               |                   |                 |     |                 |
         |               |                Clement WEAVER       |  Amos REYNOLDS        |
      Thomas DUNGAN + Elizabeth WEAVER    + Rachel ANDREWS     |  + Hannah REYNOLDS    |
    ________________|______                  |______           |     |___      ________|
   |                       |                        |          |___      |    |       
Elizabeth DUNGAN        Thomas DUNGAN Jr.        Judith WEAVER     |     | James CLARKE
+ Nathaniel WEST Jr.    + Mary DRAKE             + Henry MATTESON  |     | + Mary BUCKLING
   |                       |                        |              |     |    |
Nathaniel WEST III      James L. DUNGAN          Hezekiah MATTESON |     | Cornelius CLARKE
+ Elizabeth             + Rebecca WELLS                  + Mary SWEET    | + Patience CARTER
   |                       |                             |               |    |
Martha WEST             Benjamin DUNGAN          George MATTESON         | Susanna (Ann) CLARKE
+ Thomas JONES          + Mary MORGAN            + Luranah MATTESON      | + Esek CARR
   |                       |                        |                    |    |
Letitia JONES           Matilda DUNGAN           Zilpha MATTESON         | Charles CARR
+ John LEEDOM           + William WILT           + Benajah BURGESS    + Dorcas REYNOLDS
   |                       |                        |                         |
Elizabeth LEEDOM        Alpheus WILT             Benjamin BURGESS          Bethel CARR
+ Isaac FERGUSON        + Anne Marie FULMER      + Rebecca CHASE           + Phebe O. HOLLOWAY
   |                       |                        |                         |
Elizabeth FERGUSON      John Frederick WILT      Nejemiah BURGESS          Sarah Eliza CARR
+ Abel DONHAM           + Isabella C. DAVIDSON   + Sophia H. WOODMAN       + William Henry STILL
   |                       |                        |                         |
Abel DONHAM Jr.         Maurice Davidson WILT    William J. BURGESS        Nellie STILL
+ Matilda REECE         + Alice Emily GIBBS      + Alice Almina KINZIE     + Harry H. LANDON
   |                       |                        |                         |
Elizabeth DONHAM        Marcia Davidson WILT     Cora Adella BURGESS       Viola Nellie LANDON
+ Enoch Mabury RECTOR   + Mervyn Clement STONE   + Eugene Frank BAILEY     + Earl Vernon JOHNSON
   |                       |                        |                         |
Florella Jane RECTOR    Marcia Susan STONE       Norris Bentley BAILEY     Zelma Mae JOHNSON
+ Ferdinand L. DONHAM   + John Albert TRUMBULL   + Mary Verl WALKER        + George Melvin DEAL
   |                                                |                         |
Melvin Roy DONHAM                                Laila Kay BAILEY          Joy Marie DEAL
+ Rose Marie HEIM                                + John L. SUTER           + Hermann J. LEHMANN
   |                            
Genevieve Mignon DONHAM         /-------------------------------------------------------\
+ Walter Graham SUGGS Jr.       |  Scott and Susan:  8th Cousins 4 Times Removed        |
   |                            |  Scott and Laila:  10th Cousins 3 Times Removed       |
Gail Mignon SUGGS               |  Scott and Joy:    Half 10th Cousins 3 Times Removed  |
+ Thomas Erwin TRIMBLE          |  Susan and Laila:  9th Cousins Once Removed           |
   |                            |  Susan and Joy:    Half 9th Cousins Once Removed      |
Scott Thomas Suggs TRIMBLE      |  Laila and Joy:    11th Cousins                       |
                                \-------------------------------------------------------/

In Fall 1994 at one of our board meetings, I was looking through Susan TRUMBULL's pedigree charts when I noticed that she's a DUNGAN descendent also, "Oh my God… We're cousins!" The board was amazed. In October I taught a PAF class at my home and Joy LEHMANN and I discovered we're related too, through the same lines. Joy found that Laila SUTER is also related. At the 1994 Christmas dinner we all posed for a photograph. When I put this chart in The Marin Kin Tracer, a member Richard LYMAN called to say that he descends from the same DUNGANs also.


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