to all,

First off, I wish to note that I owe many thanks to others as I took on the family research from my Mother Dorthey Lee Calvert last October. It took no time at all to be hooked on the task. I was a history major in college now 30 some years ago and it was a "fit".

I wish to first give credit to Dorthey for starting this.

Secondly, other family members who I will not name and who
seem as we all do, do migrate in and out of the ether -net.

But first and foremost, two particular people whom I know you have seen post here: Laree McDaniel Lee who has shown me the ropes of things and Sylvia Whitaker who has contributed so much to my family research(An honorary Calvert).

The story:

Mom and all others had my family firmly fixed to Albert Gallatin Calvert with secondary references to his father, Thomas c AND his Grandfather Thomas Calvert. I believe they both are
Thomas Clare Calvert, Sr and Jr but have no demonstrable proof.

Isaac Calvert is the father of Thomas C. Sr. He was in Greene Co PA apparently, married to Fanny. SInce I started this I placed this Isaac in Greene, found the Calvert/Dye researchers who are writing about this or looking at it.

These notes are a summary of what I know or am looking to prove.

In Old Blacksville Cemetery, on the last day I was in the area, I was, using Sylvia as a guide trying to find the Cem as it got dark and it was raining. No luck. We missed it by 100 yards. In this cem are many family members, namely an Fanny Bullett Calvert with an "ancient" apparent footstone cut from another stone which says, Faney Bulet.

This all came about because I knew there was a Greene Co. PA
relationship of Calverts who now live in Wetzel and then Augusta Co Ga.

On my vacation this past July, I went to 10 courthouses and a similar number of libraries or Gen. Societies. My Mother had been to Greene Co in 1979 and found nothing. The reason is they have an archive section in a location different than where they keep so called current records.

From the discoveries after I left and returned to TX, I have
primary documentation on Thomas Sr and much of his family, his brothers, John D and Hugh Ewing etc. Sylvia has dug this out piece by piece in my behalf. She jokingly says she is a Calvert Research asst. I think it the other way round.

Before Greene County, I found about 90 pages of Calvert Documents related to my family, proving much of what was written but not documented. Thomas Jr and many others.

Here are the courthouses I visited on this trip:

Wetzel, Tyler, Marshall Monongalia WV. Greene Co PA and
Fairfax and Loudoun A Co VA. I probably did none of them
fair justice but it reaped material that I have yet to deal with.
In addition to this, I visited Barry and McDonald Co Mo courthouses, attended a sort of reunion in Oklahoma and a Lemasters family reunion july 6 in Moundsville.

To summarize what this accomplished:

I have documented with secondary sources the father of
Thomas SR., his children for the most part but particularly,
Thomas Jr, John D, Hugh Ewing and so on. Thomas Sr was b 1769. He married first Anna Ewing. Second, late in life, J. Margaret as in the will. There was an old tombstone in Old Blacksville in 1921 upon which was inscribed, Johann Margaret Calvert, found by the niece, Ida Calvert, of Dr Thomas Miller Calvert who was one of the sons of Hugh Ewuing Calvert, brother to my Thomas Jr. In this letter, Ida describes the finding of TC sr's tombstone on his farm, the apparent base stone of Isaac and Fanny, which led me to Blacksville on the 8th day of my travels when I couldn't find the cemetery. But in this cemetery are many of the Children of Thomas Clare Calvert with an inscription on the stone TC Which was his peculiar signiture when signing documents. This exploded to massive amounts of material, tombstone photos, documents, family photographs because when Sylvia found the cemetery, she talked to Mr. Headlee who is the caretaker of the Cem. He provided much information but key to this was Truman Calverts widow, Florence Calvert of Blacksville who had data, photos etc that essentially document much of the family down the line from John Calvert, brother of Thomas and Hugh.

One thing led to another in other words.

I wanted to tell this story and get it started and will post more. Needless to say I am a bit overwhelmed with the task of just transcirbing and managing data. So let us call this the Calverts of Dunkard Creek. The family story of the Calverts of my line, the related Carney family, Ewing Family and Lemasters is these Calverts came from Maryland. as did the Ewings and Carneys.

They were Protestant, not Quaker, but there is a Catholic thread in the stories... but the common thesis is these are not of the Quakers who came from Ireland but Calverts of Maryland who came from england.

I will write more later...have much to handle but I wanted to get this started so the story could be there and then I might pass once again the list of those born between say 1720 to 1830 that might make a connection with others who are looking for their Calverts in VA/PA/WV and OH and elsewhere. My Regards,
David Bell