{"id":82855,"date":"2022-02-08T11:41:41","date_gmt":"2022-02-08T16:41:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.genealogybank.com\/?p=82855"},"modified":"2022-03-03T10:10:53","modified_gmt":"2022-03-03T15:10:53","slug":"mayflower-descendants-whos-who-part-11","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/mayflower-descendants-whos-who-part-11.html","title":{"rendered":"Mayflower Descendants: Who\u2019s Who, Part 11"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>Introduction<\/em><\/strong><em>: In this article, Melissa Davenport Berry continues her series profiling descendants of the Mayflower settlers, focusing on Illinois families. Melissa is a genealogist who has a blog, <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ancestoryarchives.com\/\" class=\"broken_link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><em>AnceStory Archives<\/em><\/a><em>, and a Facebook group, <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/groups\/HistoryGenNEFamilies\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>New England Family Genealogy and History<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Today I dish up some more in my series \u201cMayflower Descendants: Who\u2019s Who.\u201d According to the <em>Daily Illinois State Register<\/em>, Mrs. Grace Heaton Leaverton was admitted into the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.illinoismayflower.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Society of Mayflower Descendants of Illinois<\/a> at a meeting of the Illinois Board of Assistance in Chicago on 19 June 1922.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_82859\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-82859\" style=\"width: 334px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/doc\/newspapers\/image\/v2%3A13D09CDA6F396332%40GB3NEWS-13F3E0DBF28A77D0%402423233-13EB583098FF0540%405-13EB583098FF0540\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-82859\" src=\"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/daily-illinois-state-register-newspaper-0627-1922-grace-leaverton-photo.jpg\" alt=\"An article about Grave Leaverton, Daily Illinois State Register newspaper article 27 June 1922\" width=\"334\" height=\"675\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/daily-illinois-state-register-newspaper-0627-1922-grace-leaverton-photo.jpg 334w, https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/daily-illinois-state-register-newspaper-0627-1922-grace-leaverton-photo-148x300.jpg 148w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 334px) 100vw, 334px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-82859\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Daily Illinois State Register (Springfield, Illinois), 27 June 1922, page 6<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Grace spent many years in genealogical work and traced her ancestry back to Stephen Hopkins and his daughter Constance Hopkins, who were both passengers on the <em>Mayflower<\/em> which landed in Plymouth, Massachusetts, in 1620.<\/p>\n<p><em>Mayflower<\/em> passenger Stephen Hopkins was one of the 41 men who signed the Mayflower Compact on board the vessel just before landing.<\/p>\n<p>Grace\u2019s Pilgrim lineage came through her maternal line, which she traced as follows:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Stephen Hopkins\u2019 daughter from his first marriage, Constance, married Nicholas Snow.<\/li>\n<li>Their third child, Sarah Snow, married William Walker.<\/li>\n<li>To them were born six children; the youngest, Jabez, married Elizabeth Taylor.<\/li>\n<li>Their first child, Richard Walker, married Joanna Tomlin.<\/li>\n<li>Their son, Mathew Walker, married Milly Bowen in Thompson, Connecticut.<\/li>\n<li>Their second child, Nancy Walker, married Colonel Jonathan Holton.<\/li>\n<li>Their son, George Washington Holton, married Sarah Hosford in 1821.<\/li>\n<li>Their daughter, Olivia Jeanette Holton, married William Johnson Conkling.<\/li>\n<li>Their daughter, Grace Heaton Conkling, born in 1864 in Springfield, Illinois, married George Wilson Leaverton, son of John Alexander Leaverton and Mary Ellen Smith, on 18 June 1885.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<figure id=\"attachment_82863\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-82863\" style=\"width: 297px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/photo-0208-2022-grace-leaverton.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-82863\" src=\"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/photo-0208-2022-grace-leaverton.jpg\" alt=\"Photo: Grace Heaton Conkling Leaverton (1864-1923), daughter of William Johnson Conkling and Olivia Jennette Holton. Credit: \u201cThe Conklings in America,\u201d Emily Broadwell Conkling, Washington, D.C., Chas. H. Potter &amp; Co., Inc., 1913.\" width=\"297\" height=\"393\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/photo-0208-2022-grace-leaverton.jpg 297w, https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/photo-0208-2022-grace-leaverton-227x300.jpg 227w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 297px) 100vw, 297px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-82863\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: Grace Heaton Conkling Leaverton (1864-1923), daughter of William Johnson Conkling and Olivia Jennette Holton. Credit: \u201cThe Conklings in America,\u201d Emily Broadwell Conkling, Washington, D.C., Chas. H. Potter &amp; Co., Inc., 1913.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>In addition, Grace descended from distinguished Revolutionary War patriots and she, along with her mother Olivia Jennette Holton Conkling, and her grandmother Sarah Hosford Holton, held memberships with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dar.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Daughters of the American Revolution<\/a> (DAR).<\/p>\n<p>The applications were filed under patriots Captain Stephen Conkling, Abel Belknap, Aaron Hosford, Joseph Green, Benjamin Lindsey, and Mathew Walker \u2013 whose daughter, Nancy Walker, was the 2nd wife of Lieut. Jonathan Holton of Charleston, N. H., a Revolutionary soldier who was wounded in the Battle of Bennington.<\/p>\n<p>In 1911 the <em>Daily Illinois State Journal<\/em> mentioned Grace\u2019s activity in the DAR.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_82865\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-82865\" style=\"width: 854px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/doc\/newspapers\/image\/v2%3A13D09C142C972071%40GB3NEWS-13DC3942A356E4CA%402419057-13D9CE77D29096DF%406-13D9CE77D29096DF\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-82865\" src=\"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/daily-illinois-state-journal-newspaper-0120-1911-dar-delegates.jpg\" alt=\"An article about Grave Leaverton, Daily Illinois State Journal newspaper article 20 January 1911\" width=\"854\" height=\"379\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/daily-illinois-state-journal-newspaper-0120-1911-dar-delegates.jpg 854w, https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/daily-illinois-state-journal-newspaper-0120-1911-dar-delegates-300x133.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/daily-illinois-state-journal-newspaper-0120-1911-dar-delegates-768x341.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 854px) 100vw, 854px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-82865\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Daily Illinois State Journal (Springfield, Illinois), 20 January 1911, page 7<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Grace and her husband had two children: William John Leaverton married Agnes Jones; and Mary Jeannette Leaverton married Edward Eugene Malone. Both were members of the Mayflower Society and have descendants.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_82867\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-82867\" style=\"width: 760px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/photo-0208-2022-william-mary-leaverton.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-82867\" src=\"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/photo-0208-2022-william-mary-leaverton.jpg\" alt=\"Photo: William and Mary Leaverton. Credit: \u201cThe Conklings in America,\u201d Emily Broadwell Conkling, Washington, D.C., Chas. H. Potter &amp; Co., Inc., 1913.\" width=\"760\" height=\"585\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/photo-0208-2022-william-mary-leaverton.jpg 760w, https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/photo-0208-2022-william-mary-leaverton-300x231.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 760px) 100vw, 760px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-82867\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: William and Mary Leaverton. Credit: \u201cThe Conklings in America,\u201d Emily Broadwell Conkling, Washington, D.C., Chas. H. Potter &amp; Co., Inc., 1913.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I found an article in the <em>Daily Illinois State Journal<\/em> from 1974 entitled \u201cHer Genealogy Is Truly \u2018A Family Affair\u2019\u201d featuring Mary Grace Leaverton, daughter of William and Agnes, and wife of Curtis Luttrell. The apple does not fall far from the tree, and Mary credited her genealogy bug to her grandmother Grace.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_82869\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-82869\" style=\"width: 1166px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/doc\/newspapers\/image\/v2%3A13D09C142C972071%40GB3NEWS-152AFFF76FFED6DB%402442173-1526ADB82ED1F6E8%4028-1526ADB82ED1F6E8\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-82869\" src=\"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/daily-illinois-state-journal-newspaper-0505-1974-luttrell-genealogy.jpg\" alt=\"An article about Mary Leaverton Luttrell, Daily Illinois State Journal newspaper article 5 May 1974\" width=\"1166\" height=\"641\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/daily-illinois-state-journal-newspaper-0505-1974-luttrell-genealogy.jpg 1166w, https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/daily-illinois-state-journal-newspaper-0505-1974-luttrell-genealogy-300x165.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/daily-illinois-state-journal-newspaper-0505-1974-luttrell-genealogy-1024x563.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/daily-illinois-state-journal-newspaper-0505-1974-luttrell-genealogy-768x422.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1166px) 100vw, 1166px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-82869\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Daily Illinois State Journal (Springfield, Illinois), 5 May 1974, page 29<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Mary is a member of 33 genealogical and patriotic organizations and provides lots of family tree information. Most of her research is done at the Newberry Library in Chicago and the DAR Headquarters in Washington, D. C. She is a member of the Mayflower Society in Illinois, but also is in the Colonial Dames, Daughters of the American Revolution, and the Children of the Revolution. She has served in many official roles such as secretary, register, vice president, and regent. Her outstanding work and contributions earned her a place in <em>Who\u2019s Who<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Her family line can be traced back to several generations and includes royalty: Obadiah Brunen, an English immigrant; King John of England; Henry II; William the Conqueror; Charlemagne; and Frances, the first King of Franks. Her earliest known ancestor is said to be Antenor I, King of the Crimeans, who died in 443 B.C.<\/p>\n<p>Mary\u2019s two children, Grace and Allen, carry on the family tradition of genealogy, and are members of DAR and Sons of the American Revolution, respectively.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Note:<\/em><\/strong> An online collection of newspapers, such as GenealogyBank\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/explore\/newspapers\/all?utm_source=social&amp;utm_medium=blog&amp;utm_campaign=SM_Blog_txtlnk_2014_00&amp;s_referrer=social&amp;s_siteloc=blog&amp;s_trackval=SM_Blog_txtlnk_2014_00&amp;kbid=69919&amp;pq=1&amp;prebuy=no&amp;intver=&amp;CCPRODCODE=\">Historical Newspaper Archives<\/a>, is not only a great way to learn about the lives of your ancestors \u2013 the old newspaper articles also help you understand American history and the times your ancestors lived in, and the news they talked about and read in their local papers. Do you have a connection all the way back to the <em>Mayflower<\/em> Pilgrims?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Related Articles:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.genealogybank.com\/mayflower-descendants-whos-who-part-i.html\">Mayflower Descendants: Who\u2019s Who, Part I<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.genealogybank.com\/mayflower-descendants-whos-who-part-ii.html\">Mayflower Descendants: Who\u2019s Who, Part II<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.genealogybank.com\/mayflower-descendants-whos-who-part-iii.html\">Mayflower Descendants: Who\u2019s Who, Part III<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.genealogybank.com\/mayflower-descendants-whos-who-part-iv.html\">Mayflower Descendants: Who\u2019s Who, Part IV<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.genealogybank.com\/mayflower-descendants-whos-who-part-v.html\">Mayflower Descendants: Who\u2019s Who, Part V<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.genealogybank.com\/mayflower-descendants-whos-who-part-vi.html\">Mayflower Descendants: Who\u2019s Who, Part VI<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.genealogybank.com\/mayflower-descendants-whos-who-part-vii.html\">Mayflower Descendants: Who\u2019s Who, Part VII<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.genealogybank.com\/mayflower-descendants-whos-who-part-vii-conclusion.html\">Mayflower Descendants: Who\u2019s Who, Part VII (conclusion)<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.genealogybank.com\/mayflower-descendants-whos-who-part-8.html\">Mayflower Descendants: Who\u2019s Who, Part 8<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.genealogybank.com\/mayflower-descendants-whos-who-part-9.html\">Mayflower Descendants: Who\u2019s Who, Part 9<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.genealogybank.com\/mayflower-descendants-whos-who-part-10.html\">Mayflower Descendants: Who\u2019s Who, Part 10<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this article, Melissa Davenport Berry continues her series profiling descendants of the Mayflower settlers, focusing on Illinois families.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":82679,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12557],"tags":[12,58101,8263],"class_list":["post-82855","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-genealogy-stories","tag-genealogy","tag-leaverton","tag-mayflower-pilgrims"],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/illustration-0720-2016-mayflower.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82855","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82855"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82855\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":82877,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82855\/revisions\/82877"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/82679"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}