The book is out today:
http://www.amazon.com/dp/0923891072
Note that this is a new edition of a book originally published in
1990. I have added 108 pages of data, consisting mostly of family
trees submitted by other branches of the Graham Family.
Whereas the original book had 610 pages, this new edition has 718
pages.
I must thank Philip James Graham for giving me permission to reprint
this book and also thank Pam McCallum of Scituate, Massachusetts for
reformating the book for me so that it is available in the more
convenient size of 6 x 9 rather than the original size of 8 3/8 x 11.
Although this book contains the names and family trees of 6,897
descendants, this is a drop in the bucket compared to the actual
number, which must be around 20,000 to 30,000 descendants of David
Graham living in the United States today.
Sam Sloan
On Wed, 26 Mar 2008 18:03:11 GMT, sloan@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
(Sam Sloan)
wrote:
>Publisher's Foreword
>
>This book is a genealogical database and family history of 6,897
>members of the Graham Family, consisting of David Graham and his three
>children who arrived in Charleston South Carolina on the ****p
>Pennsylvania Farmer in 1772, and their descendants.
>
>The Graham Family was no slouch in the area of reproduction and the
>6,897 descendants listed in this book are a drop in the bucket
>compared to the actual number, because the main typist and compiler,
>Katharine Kell, stopped typing in most cases when the daughters
>married and had children who did not carry the Graham name.
>
>Katharine Kell died on October 23, 1992 at age 69. She was my Fourth
>Cousin. Her co-author, Philip James Graham, is my Fourth Cousin One
>Generation Removed, which means that he is one-half generation further
>away.
>
>I know this because I have my own genealogical database in my computer
>which calculates these things. I am a newcomer to this field, having
>only started in 1991, but my family tree database in my computer has
>13,589 names in it, and most of the names in this book are not
>included.
>
>This book was originally self-published in 1990. Although the cost of
>printing was more than $2,000, the book was distributed free of charge
>or in some cases sold to family members. I did not find out about the
>existence of this book until about 1998. By then, there were no more
>available.
>
>Since I mention this book several times in my genealogical database
>online, I constantly receive requests from distant relatives for
>copies of this book, and I have to inform them that there are none
>available.
>
>In 2006, I asked the surviving author, Philip James Graham, my Fourth
>Cousin, for permission to reprint this book. He readily agreed and
>sent me the original camera-ready copy. However, the size and weight
>of the original book is too big for easy distribution, so I wanted to
>reduce it to a manageable size. I could not figure out how to do it.
>Fortunately, Pamela McCallum of Scituate, Massachusetts came to the
>rescue and agreed to scan the entire book for me and to reduce the
>margins so that it would fit in a 6 x 9 book, which is the preferred
>size for many books. Pamela McCallum did a wonderful job. I could
>never have done it myself or, if I had tried to do it, it would have
>taken me several months. As you will see, she even made the gutter
>margins wider than the outside margins, which are vitally im****tant to
>open and read a soft-cover book of 630 pages.
>
>As the introduction states, this book is the result of more than 15
>years of research by the two authors. They originally started their
>research independently of each other, and eventually they found each
>other, and decided to collaborate.
>
>The book was published in 1990. It was self published through the
>services of a local bookbinder in Birmingham, Michigan, where
>Katharine Kell, who had typed the manuscript, lived.
>
>It was self published on 8 3/8 x 11 paper, which seems to be a
>standard size for Family History Books of this nature. The bill from
>the printer came to more than $2,000 which, I believe, was probably
>paid by Mrs. Kell.
>
>Mrs. Kell died on October 23, 1992 at age 69. Her husband, Joseph Cass
>Kell, died on January 24, 1993 at age 80.
>
>Thus, it fell to the co-author, Philip James Graham, who was born
>December 4, 1954, to become the guardian of this manuscript.
>
>In 1991, I started my own independent research, not into my own family
>but into the family of President Thomas Jefferson because I was
>writing a book called “The Slave Children of Thomas Jefferson”.
>Although I am not a member of the LDS, in 1991 I traveled to Salt Lake
>City to learn their techniques for gathering genealogical data. I
>bought the first edition of their Personal Ancestral File or “PAF”
>program that had just come out and I started gathering and entering
>data on the family tree of Thomas Jefferson. As an aside I put my own
>very limited Family Tree on disk. I knew little about my own family
>history. I only knew the names of three of my grandparents, one of
>whom was Mary Graham (1879-1956).
>
>I sent a floppy disk with my data on it to the LDS in Salt Lake City,
>Utah, with about 1200 names on it of relatives of Thomas Jefferson and
>about 12 names on it of my own relatives. As a result, everybody in my
>database was assigned an Ancestral File Number by the LDS.
>
>Required reading for anybody interested in this book is “Scotch-Irish
>migration to South Carolina, 1772: (Rev. William Martin and his five
>****ploads of settlers)” by Jean Stephenson ISBN 0806348321 . That book
>provides passenger lists for five boatloads of settlers led by Rev.
>William Martin. There were approximately 1,100 members of the group,
>all of whom attended Rev. Martin's Church in Atrium, Northern Ireland.
>They were all fleeing the turmoil and fighting that had taken place
>between the Catholics and the Protestants in Northern Ireland (not
>unlike the fighting that is still taking place today) and they had
>been promised free land in South Carolina.
>
>Most of the Graham Family did not stay long in South Carolina. Being
>farmers, they started moving Westward. My own branch moved to
>Kentucky, then to Indiana, then to Iowa, where my Grandmother Graham
>was born.
>
>A question that often comes up concerns a number of famous people
>named Graham who remained the area and did not go West. These include
>The Reverend Billy Graham (born November 17, 1918) , United States
>Senator from Florida Robert Graham (born November 9, 1936), who was
>briefly a presidential candidate, and Editor and Owner of the
>Wa****ngton Post Philip L. Graham (1915-1963), among many others.
>
>I have never been able to prove that any of these people are our
>relatives. On the other hand, I cannot prove that they are not our
>relatives either. One person who has written me believes that there
>were two Graham Brothers in Ireland. One brother, David Graham, was
>the ancestor of all of us poor Grahams, whereas the other brother was
>the ancestor of all those rich Grahams. Due to the difficulties in
>obtaining any original family records from Northern Ireland, it has
>not proven possible to prove or disprove any of this. Numerous
>relatives have gone over there and searched, and none have found
>anything.
>
>This book by Katharine Kell also contains an im****tant article about
>the history of Scot Irish Immigration, explaining how the Scots
>arrived in Ireland in the first place. After King Henry VIII changed
>the official religion of the Church of England, so that he could
>divorce his wife rather than chopping her head off as had been his
>custom, Ireland remained Catholic. England had conquered but could not
>control Ireland, but they were able to push the Catholics out of
>Northern Ireland and settle Scots there to replace them. This resulted
>in wars which have continued to this day. However, the Scots
>eventually rebelled under English Rule, rebellions broke out and those
>who chose not to fight but quit moved to America. This explains the
>boatloads of 1100 settlers that arrived in Charleston South Carolina
>in 1772.
>
>This also explains how I got here, being one of those Scot-Irish.
>
>The five ****ps that came in 1772 were among the last to arrive in this
>way, because right after that the American Revolutionary War broke
>out. For many years thereafter, no more ****ps from Ireland were
>allowed to sail from Ireland to America, until the Titanic.
>
>The Graham Family joined with zest into the American Revolutionary War
>because they hated the British. A little remembered fact is that
>fighting continued in South Carolina even after Cornwallis had
>surrendered in Virginia. David Graham and his two sons joined in the
>fighting (on the American side).
>
>A problem has arisen for those descendants who want to join the
>“Daughters of the American Revolution”. The rosters of the names of
>the soldiers fighting include David Grimbs and Andrew Grimbs. Also,
>the rosters of the ****ps arriving in 1772 list David Grimbs and
>Andrew Grimbs. The problem has been to prove that David Grimbs and
>Andrew Grimbs are the same persons as David Graham and Andrew Graham
>who are our relatives. This book contains do***entary proof that these
>are the same persons and, as I understand it, the DAR will now accept
>us as members.
>
>Another problem is that Andrew Graham, son of David Graham, had the
>same bad habit as I have, which is getting married. Andrew Graham had
>either three or four marriages and either two or three of his wives
>were named Margaret. These include Margaret Coulter, Mary Chesnut,
>Margaret Phillips and another wife just named Margaret. Andrew Graham
>had many children and ever since researchers have been debating the
>subject of which child came from which wife. The stakes in this are
>high, because at stake here is the right TO CLAIM MEMBER****P IN THE
>BRITISH ROYAL FAMILY.
>
>This of course is very im****tant because everybody wants to be a
>member of the British Royal Family, of course, and this has led to
>endless debates on this subject.
>
>This issue arises because the mother of Margaret Coulter was Mary
>Stuart who, it is claimed, was a descendant of the Stuart Family, one
>of the Royal Families of England, through one of the concubines of
>either King James IV (1473-1513) or King James V (1512-1542) of
>Scotland.
>
>King James IV and King James V of Scotland had another bad habit,
>which is having lots of mistresses, numbering around twenty each, and
>having lots of bastard kids. Both of these kings had short lives and
>died in battle, but left things to remember them by. Mary Stuart is
>said to have been descended from one of them, but nobody has been able
>to establish which one, or even if the relation****p is true at all.
>
>This may explain why that infamous right-wing columnist Ann Coulter is
>such a bastard.
>
>Seriously, being the bastard child of a King of England or Scotland
>still makes one a member of the British Royal Family in spite of the
>illegitimacy. Whenever someone wants to claim descent from British
>Royalty they usually claim descent from King Edward I or King Edward
>III. Those are both safe claims to make because they are regarded as
>relatively good kings and they both had lots of kids. If the truth
>were known, probably all of England is descended from King Edward I
>(1272-1307), except for recent immigrants.
>
>However, if you want to know the real truth, we are all probably
>descended from King John (1164-1216). King John was the grand champion
>of them all when it came to having mistresses and bastard kids but,
>since he is regarded as a bad king, indeed the worst king England ever
>had, nobody wants to claim descent from him.
>
> Sam
>Sloan
>
> http://www.amazon.com/dp/0923891072
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