Blog 5
June 2, 2010
There is sunshine all over Southern Alberta! What a joy, after so many days of gray – rain –and snow! What a joy!
“We all grow up with the weight of history on us. Our ancestors dwell in the attics of our brains as they do in the spiraling chains of knowledge hidden in every cell of our bodies.” ~Shirley Abbott
Who is lingering in your DNA?
Major John Bolling was a colonist, farmer and politician in the Virginia Colony. He was born at Kippax Plantation, in Charles City County. He made his home at the Bolling family plantation call “Cobbs”, just west of Point of Rocks on the north shore of the Appomattox River downstream from present-day Petersburg, Virginia.
John married Mary Kennon, daughter of Richard Kennon and Elizabeth Worsham, on December 29, 1697 at St. John’s Church in Richmond, Virginia. The had at least six children: Jane, John Bolling Jr., Elizabeth, Mary (1711-1744) married John Fleming,
Martha and Anne.
We are descendants of Mary Bolling and John Fleming, part of the immense posterity of Major John Bolling and Mary Kennon Bolling; we are part of the American posterity of Pocahontas and John Rolfe. We share this lineage with such characters as Woodrow Wilson’s wife, Edith. Astronomer Percival Lowell, Harry Byrd (50th governor of Virginia) and his brother, Richard Byrd (aviator, polar explorer), and Nancy Reagan.
Any of these names can be explored in greater detail via the internet.
Enjoy finding out who really are! Aunt Linda
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