{"id":99672,"date":"2024-07-19T10:34:52","date_gmt":"2024-07-19T14:34:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.genealogybank.com\/?p=99672"},"modified":"2024-07-19T10:37:43","modified_gmt":"2024-07-19T14:37:43","slug":"photo-album-howland-and-gorham-descendants-part-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/photo-album-howland-and-gorham-descendants-part-2.html","title":{"rendered":"Photo Album: Howland and Gorham Descendants (part 2)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>Introduction:<\/em><\/strong><em> In this article, Melissa Davenport Berry continues her series about the founders of Nantucket, Massachusetts, and their descendants, focusing on Walter Weston Folger. Melissa is a genealogist who has a website, <\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/americana-archives.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>americana-archives.com<\/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><\/p>\n<p>The vast collections of the <a href=\"https:\/\/nha.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Nantucket Historical Association<\/a> (NHA) contain a plethora of old photographs and relics which link to the ancestral lines of Desire (Howland) Gorham, daughter of <em>Mayflower<\/em> passengers <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/3H83vAd\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">John Howland<\/a> and Elizabeth Tilley, who married <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.genealogybank.com\/mayflower-descendants-whos-who-part-35-part-4.html\">John Gorham<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>To recap: My first story covered the Howland-Gorham-Paddock-Hussey line. Read: <a href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/3xQKh0c\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Photo Album: Howland and Gorham Descendants (part 1)<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The subject covered in today\u2019s story, Walter Weston Folger (1903-1993), does not have any family albums housed at the NHA \u2013 but there are several manuscripts, maps, and records of his ancestors, who include Nantucket settlers Folger, Bunker, Severance, Coffin, Morrill, Gardner, Hussey, and more.<\/p>\n<p>Many of those ancestors are listed on the two early monuments dedicated to the island\u2019s founders. Below is a photo of the monument to the male lines. The monument to the female lines can be viewed here: <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.genealogybank.com\/scions-of-nantucket-founders-part-2.html\">Scions of Nantucket Founders (part 2)<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_99674\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-99674\" style=\"width: 916px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-99674\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.genealogybank.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/photo-0719-2024-nantucket-male-settlers-monument.jpg\" alt=\"Photo: Nantucket male settlers memorial. Credit: Nantucket Historical Association.\" width=\"916\" height=\"692\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/photo-0719-2024-nantucket-male-settlers-monument.jpg 916w, https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/photo-0719-2024-nantucket-male-settlers-monument-300x227.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/photo-0719-2024-nantucket-male-settlers-monument-768x580.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 916px) 100vw, 916px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-99674\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: Nantucket male settlers memorial. Credit: Nantucket Historical Association.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>Howland-Gorham-Hussey-Worth-Starbuck-Folger Line<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Here is the lineage of Walter Weston Folger, former deputy governor, historian, and genealogist of the Tennessee Society of Mayflower Descendants:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>John Howland and Elizabeth Tilley<\/li>\n<li>Desire Howland and Captain John Gorham<\/li>\n<li>Shubael Gorham and Puella Hussey<\/li>\n<li>Lydia Gorham and Joseph Worth<\/li>\n<li>Joseph Worth and Judith Starbuck<\/li>\n<li>Matilda Worth and Latham Folger (<a href=\"https:\/\/nantuckethistory.org:443\/permalink\/?key=6000_m2217\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Folger Family Papers<\/a> NHA)<\/li>\n<li>Reuben Washington Folger and Lydia Wilson<\/li>\n<li>Alfred Moore Folger and Mary \u201cPolly\u201d Pegram<\/li>\n<li>Orlando Cyrus Folger and Lucy Camilla Breazeale<\/li>\n<li>Walter Newton Folger and Margaret Isabelle Hill, daughter of Tandy Walker and Delilah Ann \u201cDillie\u201d (Hurt) Hill<\/li>\n<li>Walter Weston Folger married Glennie Corpening Anthony (1903\u20131987), daughter of George Corpening \u201cCope\u201d and Minnie Matilda (Gibbs) Anthony, and left descendants<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Here is a photo of Walter Weston Folger and his fellow Mayflower Society officers from 1963.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_99676\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-99676\" style=\"width: 1074px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/doc\/newspapers\/image\/v2%3A142CF7CD0C7E8618%40GB3NEWS-16E6B491DF336E44%402438370-16E5A9DD9C04F465%4013-16E5A9DD9C04F465\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-99676\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.genealogybank.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/chattanooga-news-free-press-newspaper-1206-1963-mayflower-society.jpg\" alt=\"An article about the Tennessee Society of Mayflower Descendants, Chattanooga News-Free Press newspaper 6 December 1963\" width=\"1074\" height=\"776\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/chattanooga-news-free-press-newspaper-1206-1963-mayflower-society.jpg 1074w, https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/chattanooga-news-free-press-newspaper-1206-1963-mayflower-society-300x217.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/chattanooga-news-free-press-newspaper-1206-1963-mayflower-society-1024x740.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/chattanooga-news-free-press-newspaper-1206-1963-mayflower-society-768x555.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1074px) 100vw, 1074px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-99676\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Chattanooga News-Free Press (Chattanooga, Tennessee), 6 December 1963, page 14<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The photo caption reads:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Tennessee Society of Mayflower Descendants met yesterday for an annual luncheon meeting held at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Kinchen Exum on Lookout Mountain. Officers were elected for a 3-year term. Pictured, left to right, are: Mrs. Ashley Jewell of Lookout Mountain, treasurer; Mrs. Arthur H. Moser of Knoxville, secretary; Walter Weston Folger of Chattanooga, deputy governor general and historian; Mrs. Fleming Martin of Memphis, assistant deputy governor general and deputy governor; Mr. Exum, re-elected governor of the Tennessee Society of Mayflower Descendants; Col. William B. Foster of Cleveland, Tenn., of Mayflower ancestry and special guest at the meeting; and Mrs. J. M. Krechniak of Ozone, Tenn., who attended her first meeting of the society as a member. Some 16 members were present; Mrs. Sam Miles Jr., Mrs. John Grant Sr., and Mrs. J. H. McCall, all of Lookout Mountain, were voted into membership.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Here is Walter again with a feature photo from 1971.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_99678\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-99678\" style=\"width: 632px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/doc\/newspapers\/image\/v2%3A142CF7CD0C7E8618%40GB3NEWS-16EE91600290EDAF%402441281-16ED8ECE8C9407C8%4043-16ED8ECE8C9407C8\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-99678\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.genealogybank.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/chattanooga-news-free-press-newspaper-1125-1971-walter-folger.jpg\" alt=\"An article about Walter Folger, Chattanooga News-Free Press newspaper 25 November 1971\" width=\"632\" height=\"704\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/chattanooga-news-free-press-newspaper-1125-1971-walter-folger.jpg 632w, https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/chattanooga-news-free-press-newspaper-1125-1971-walter-folger-269x300.jpg 269w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 632px) 100vw, 632px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-99678\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Chattanooga News-Free Press (Chattanooga, Tennessee), 25 November 1971, page 44<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The photo caption reads:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Genealogist Looks at Historical Records \u2013 Walter Weston Folger, historian of the Tennessee Society of Mayflower Descendants and genealogist, examines records that run back \u201cuntil the mind of man goeth not to the contrary.\u201d One of his ancestors was the only passenger on \u201cThe Mayflower\u201d to fall overboard when it was crossing in 1620, but, luckily, [John] Howland was rescued.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Read all about this drama: <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/3H83vAd\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mayflower Descendants: \u201cWho\u2019s Who\u201d Part 31 (P. 2).<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Walter told the press his interest in genealogy really perked up when he met a kinfolk in line for a Shrine ceremonial at Wrightsville, North Carolina, on 30 September 1930. Walter is a North Carolina Folger, and the other fellow was from a South Carolina Folger branch, but they both were offshoots of the \u201cNantucket New England Folgers.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Here is a snippet from the newsclip.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_99679\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-99679\" style=\"width: 342px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/doc\/newspapers\/image\/v2%3A142CF7CD0C7E8618%40GB3NEWS-16EE91600290EDAF%402441281-16ED8ECE8C9407C8%4043-16ED8ECE8C9407C8\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-99679\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.genealogybank.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/chattanooga-news-free-press-newspaper-1125-1971-nantucket-folgers.jpg\" alt=\"An article about the Nantucket Folgers, Chattanooga News-Free Press newspaper 25 November 1971\" width=\"342\" height=\"571\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/chattanooga-news-free-press-newspaper-1125-1971-nantucket-folgers.jpg 342w, https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/chattanooga-news-free-press-newspaper-1125-1971-nantucket-folgers-180x300.jpg 180w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 342px) 100vw, 342px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-99679\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Chattanooga News-Free Press (Chattanooga, Tennessee), 25 November 1971, page 44<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>This snippet reports:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The \u201cNew England Folgers\u201d include 10 or 12 families in Nantucket, Mass., or, at least, the families had their beginnings there soon after 1630, the date usually given to what is called the \u201cgreat migration\u201d from England. Most of these family trees go back for 12 or more generations, and since the beginnings in America the families have \u201cmultiplied and replenished the earth.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The next part mentions Walter\u2019s collection of manuscripts and records. I tracked some of his research material, which includes \u201cFamily records, Bible records, letters, items \u2013 Barton, Breazeale, Field, Folger, Hill, Hurt, Pegram, Anthony, Gibbs.\u201d The material is available through <a href=\"http:\/\/www.familysearch.org\/library\/books\/idurl\/1\/60479\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">FamilySearch.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>When he was a member of the NHA, Walter published \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/nha.org\/research\/nantucket-history\/historic-nantucket-magazine\/october-1979\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Coffin Family<\/a>,\u201d and added to the NHA collection the following:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/nantuckethistory.org:443\/permalink\/?key=1001_5993\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">A letter to Jethro Starbuck from William Gayer\u2019s widow, Elisabeth, written from London January 5, 1712-1713<\/a>.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>\u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/nantuckethistory.org:443\/permalink\/?key=1001_5641\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The European origin of the de Gorram\/de Gorham family<\/a>.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>\u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/nantuckethistory.org:443\/permalink\/?key=1001_5733\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Geneology of Hussey-Wood family 1569-1632<\/a>.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Walter\u2019s great grandfather, Dr. Alfred Moore Folger (1811-1880), was at one time a resident of Stokes County, North Carolina. His grave is located at West View Cemetery, Easley, Pickens County, South Carolina. Dr. Folger is buried there with his wife and children.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_99681\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-99681\" style=\"width: 351px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-99681\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.genealogybank.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/photo-0719-2024-alfred-folger-gravestone.jpg\" alt=\"Photo: gravestone for Dr. Alfred Moore Folger. Credit: Barbara Register Clark.\" width=\"351\" height=\"728\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/photo-0719-2024-alfred-folger-gravestone.jpg 351w, https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/photo-0719-2024-alfred-folger-gravestone-145x300.jpg 145w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 351px) 100vw, 351px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-99681\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: gravestone for Dr. Alfred Moore Folger. Credit: Barbara Register Clark.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Dr. Folger wrote a health care guide for the use of the public at a time when most medical books were aimed at professionals. The book was published in 1845 by Spartanburg, South Carolina, publisher Z. D. Cottrell.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_99682\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-99682\" style=\"width: 507px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-99682\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.genealogybank.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/photo-0719-2024-folgers-family-physician-book.jpg\" alt=\"Photo: Dr. Folger\u2019s book \u201cThe Family Physician; Being a Domestic Medical Work, Written in Plain Style, and Divided into Four Parts.\u201d Credit: Leland Auctions, Hillsborough, North Carolina.\" width=\"507\" height=\"709\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/photo-0719-2024-folgers-family-physician-book.jpg 507w, https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/photo-0719-2024-folgers-family-physician-book-215x300.jpg 215w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 507px) 100vw, 507px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-99682\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: Dr. Folger\u2019s book \u201cThe Family Physician; Being a Domestic Medical Work, Written in Plain Style, and Divided into Four Parts.\u201d Credit: Leland Auctions, Hillsborough, North Carolina.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>A copy of the rare book sold at auction for $1,600 in September 2018.<\/p>\n<p>Serving with the U.S. Army as a physician in the late 1830s, Dr. Folger accompanied the Cherokees on their forced relocation (the \u201cTrail of Tears\u201d) to what is now Oklahoma. That may be another story to follow up on!<\/p>\n<p>Explore over 330 years of newspapers and historical records in GenealogyBank. Discover your family story! <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.genealogybank.com\/sign-up\">Start a 7-Day Free Trial<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Note on the header image:<\/em><\/strong> flag of Nantucket, Massachusetts. Credit: NuclearVacuum; Wikimedia Commons.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Related Articles:<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.genealogybank.com\/photo-album-howland-and-gorham-descendants-part-1.html\">Photo Album: Howland and Gorham Descendants (part 1)<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.genealogybank.com\/photo-album-coffin-carlisle-and-allied-families.html\">Photo Album: Coffin-Carlisle and Allied Families (part 1)<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.genealogybank.com\/photo-album-coffin-carlisle-and-allied-families-part-2.html\">Photo Album: Coffin-Carlisle and Allied Families (part 2)<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Melissa Davenport Berry continues her series about the founders of Nantucket, Massachusetts, and their descendants, focusing on Walter Weston Folger.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":99628,"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":[58875,12,58865,5832,1624,58874],"class_list":["post-99672","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-genealogy-stories","tag-alfred-moore-folger","tag-genealogy","tag-gorham","tag-howland","tag-nantucket","tag-walter-weston-folger"],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/illustration-0221-2024-featured-graphic-nantucket-flag.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99672","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=99672"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99672\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":99686,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99672\/revisions\/99686"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/99628"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}