Philip Jones - Family Notes

1  Edward Jones
   + Amanda Perdue
   2 Frank Martin Jones
     + Elizabeth Shearer
     3 William Herman Jones
       + Clara Rose McCarron
       4 John McCarron Jones
         + Daisy Mae Searcy
         5 Philip Joseph Jones

1  John Kemper
   + Ann Weaver
   2 Tillman Kemper
     + Dinah Hitt
     3 Nimrod H. Kemper
       + Lucy Anderson Searcy
       4 Susan Agnes Kemper
         + John James Searcy
         5 Robert Anderson Searcy
           + Sarah Jane Stafford
           6 Robert Taylor Searcy
             + Clara Marshall
             7 Daisy Mae Searcy 1921
               + John McCarron Jones 1918
                 8 Philip Joseph Jones 1962

1  Timothy McCarron
   + Isabella Drummond
   2 David McCarron
     + Margaret O'Neil
     3 John McCarron (md 1877 CAN)
       + Mary Rosalea Sullivan
       4 Clara Rose McCarron
         + William Herman Jones
         5 John McCarron Jones 1918
           + Daisy Mae Searcy 1921
           6 Philip Joseph Jones 1962

About the beginning of the 1800's, work and money were scarce in Ireland. Many young men went over to Scotland in search of employment, especially in the harvest season.

One of these was Timothy McCarron. While in Scotland, he met and married Isabella Drummond. Probably because he could find work there, they settled in Scotland.

Timothy did not do badly: two of the Drummond girls in past times had married kings of Scotland. Margaret married King David and Anabella married King Robert.

After some years had passed, they emigrated to Canada with eight sons and five daughters. They married as they grew up, and scattered. David married an O'Neill girl. They had four sons: David, Michael, John and Peter. Then tragedy struck: the mother had to be confined to a mental institution, where later she passed away.

David McCarron found a widow, Ellen Sullivan, to keep care for the house and his children. Ellen Sullivan had two small children of her own: Patrick J. and Rose. A short time before that, she (Ellen) had killed a wolf who [which] was attacking her husband. He had been in the stable putting the horses away for the night. He later died from the results of that attack.

Some years later, David and Ellen had three children of their own: James, William and Isabella.

About this time the Homestead Act was passed in Michigan (1862). A farm of 80 or 160 acres was to be given to any head of family, even though he be foreign born, provided he lived on the farm for five years and cultivated it.

David McCarron and his three older sons took up homesteads in Northern Michigan about 14 miles from Sault Ste. Marie. At first it was a settlement, but later, McCarron.

When James McCarron was 15 years old his father was stricken at work in the field one day, and died suddenly. James and William, with the help of some of their older brothers, worked the homestead taken up by their father. Later, James had the homestead made out to him. William secured a farm about a mile away.

Some time after, Michael moved to the Copper Country, where for years he was Chief of Police in Larium. Peter went to Alpena, where he also joined the police force. Later, David McCarron moved to Copper Country, but later came back to McCarron.

The first school was a log building, just west of James McCarron's farm. The first teacher was Miss Teresa Boyle. It opened in the fall of 1885. All the homes were log cabins and the roads were built of curduroy (logs). If one started out to visit a neighbor in summer, first one cut a branch of a tree to wave to and fro to disperse the mosquitos. The priest visited every few months, said Mass in one of the homes, baptized infants and administered other sacraments.

One of the early missionaries, Father Baxter, S.J., later posed for the statue of Father Marquette that stands on a hillside outside Marquette, Michigan.

Michael, the eldest son of David, Sr., had four children: David, Annie, Peter and Mary. Michael married Kitty McKenzie. David, the second son, married Christina McKenzie, a sister of Kitty's. David had six children. David, the eldest, a soldier in the U.S. Army, fought with Teddy Roosevelt's Rough Riders, and charged up San Juan Hill. He came home a Sergeant, very handsome in his blue uniform. Annabel, the second child, was crippled, but sweet, kind and loved by all. She died shortly before her mother. Margaret married and lived in the Copper country, later moved to Wisconsin. Mary married John Walsh, passed away during the flu epidemic. George married Ada Vandenberg.

Lillian married Fred Sullivan. Margaret had five children: Katherine, Mary, Leo, Peter and Phillip. Mary had four: Cecil, Isabel, Martin (living in the Soo) and Margaret. John McCarron, the third son of David Sr. married Rose Sullivan; there were ten children: Margaret, Ella, Abbie, Cassie, Raymond, Clara, Ruth, Frank, John Jr. and Fred.

Peter the fourth son of David Sr. married Frances Manion in Alpena, Michigan. There were three children: Grace (Mrs. Howard Chilson), John, who became a Franciscan Priest, Madeline (Mrs. Roger Meyer), a registered nurse.

Mary Quinlan was one of the first teachers of the McCarron School. She married William McCarron, and their children were: Joe, Mattie, Emmet, Will, Sylvia and Vera. Early in 1900, they moved to lower Michigan and settled on a farm in the "Thumb."

James McCarron married Katherine McKelvy, a Canadian teacher. They had five children: Marguerite, Charles, who died, Harriet, Edward, who also died in infancy, and Kate. Marguerite taught the McCarron School two years. Her cousin, Ella, also had taught there. Kate became a nurse and took post graduate work at St. Mary's in Rochester where she had the honor to assist Charles and William Mayo, who congratulated her when her course was complete.

Isabella McCarron married William Quinlan and their children are: Mary (Mrs. Dennis Donnelly, who lives in the Soo), William, married and living in California, Tom who sails on the Great Lakes, John, married and living in Ohio, Nellie (Mrs. Walter Logan), living in Flint, Isabelle, married and living in California. She has three children: Rosemary, Bonnie and David.

Mrs. Dennis Donnelly's eldest girl, Lois (Mrs. Ralph Fabry) lives in the Soo with her family of seven. Mrs. Donnelly's eldest son, Paul, is a lawyer in insurance work, has three children. Mrs. Dennis Donnelly's third son, Dennis, lives in Virginia. He has three children. Pat, his sister, has three children. Her husband's name is John Harnes. Billy, the youngest of the Donnelly children, married Patricia Ranson, and they have four children. Marguerite McCarron Stewart has one daughter, Catherine, who married and has a son, Kevin Marker. Ruth McCarron moved to North Dakota after she married, and has raised a large family. Most of whom must be married by now. Her daughters, Eleanor and Jean, were very pretty.

Ellen, John's daughter, (also) married Bob Bowder and moved to Alberta. Abbie married out there and passed away soon after. Cassie also passed away, but she left a family. Clara has a family, now grown, in Indianapolis. Raymond lives in the Soo; his family are all married. Fred lives near the Soo, and has one son, Pat. Jack has adopted a daughter, but Frank never married. Margaret, the eldest, has a large family, and lives in Flint (now deceased).

Walter Scott McCarron became a Major and fought in the Spanish American War, embarking from Tampa. Later he accepted a position as commandant at Kemper Military Academy, where he passed away.

Sheerons - Mary McCarron. A cousin, children: Winifred, Haley, Mamie, Agnes, Patrick.

Pete McCarron married and had three children.

All the McCarrons were tall men: James, six feet, and Mike 6' 6-1/2" (he had to have his shoes made to order). Mike was a fine-looking man when I last saw him, with a head of white curly hair. Uncle John had a smile where his eyes twinkled. Uncle Dave was a quiet man of few words. May they all rest in peace.

Rose, Mrs. John McCarron, was kind, sympathetic and friendly. She was a good neighbor, when neighbors are needed.

Belle, Mrs. Will Quinlan, was a very pretty girl and a good wife and mother. She had lots of personality and was kind and lovable.

The story could end thus:

This is a story of one emigrant family of Scottish and Irish descent who came to America as pioneers. Their sons fought in the Spanish American War, First World War, and Second World War.

(Doesn't Frank McCarron sail on the Lakes too?)

Author: Unknown

(Above handwritten account found in Bible of Clara Rose McCarron Jones)

The family name, SEARCY, has many spellings, some of which are: SEARCEY, SEARCY, SEARCIE, SEARCE, SCEARCE, SCEARCIE, SARCE and SCARCE. The most prevalent form seems to have been and is today SEARCY. The name originated from a place in France. According to Harper's Dictionary of Family Names, the name SEARCY means "one who came from Cercy or Cerisy in France."

The SEARCY ancestors were Huguenots and the Huguenots were the French Protestants. They were much involved in the Religious Wars of France (Civil War) during the last half of the 16th Century.

The Edict of Nantes was issued the year 1598 by Henry IV, the King of France. It gave to the French Protestants or the Huguenots freedom of religion, granting them liberty of conscience, the right to privage worship and the freedom of public worship wherever it had been previously granted. The Edict of Nantes was later revoked, in 1685, during the reign of Louis XIV. It was the revocation of this document and its ensuing religious persecution which forced the Huguenots to leave France. They fled in large numbers, going to England, Holland, Switzerland, Germany and America. They were a people who had constituted many of France's most intelligent, skilled and industrious people, also some of her most wealthy people. This fact was well borne out in their newly adopted homes or countries, where they contributed substantially toward and became a benefit to a way of life there.

The original United States SEARCYS came over from England. It seems logical to assume that they must have gone from France into England, coming later to America. Evidence of this is in the numbers of old SEARCY tombstones found in England today, especially in Nottingham, with inscriptions dating from 1733 to 1785.

The first SEARCY to come here, along with two or three of his brothers, was John SEARCY, who was born in Nottingham, England in 1654, and died in Granville County, North Carolina in 1784.

b. 1694 in England, thought to be Notthingham
d. 1784 in Granville County, North Carolina
m. ante 1723 Phoebe Hargrave in England, b. 1698/1702 in England, probably Nottingham; d. 1790 in Granville Co., NC.

John and Phoebe ar said to have come to Granville County, North Carolina about 1727. This has been disproved, first by the fact that Granville County, North Carolina did not come into existence until the year 1746; second, records show that land was deeded to John SEARCY of St. Martin's Parish in Hanover County, Virginia, June 6, 1734. One source says they "emigrated to this country in 1733, settling in North Carolina."

John had two brothers, Robert and Richard SEARCY, who lived in Virginia; presumably, both in Hanover County, Virginia. According to an early family historian, neither Robert nor Richard left heirs. However, we now know that Robert left a daughter, Susan, named in his will, which also names his wife, Susan. A third source says that a third brother, Charles, came to this country with John SEARCY.

1  John Searcy, Sr. 1694
   + Phoebe Hargrave 1698
   2  Bartlett Searcy ca 1750
      + Lucy Anderson
      3  Richard Anderson Searcy 1764
         + Susan Alcorn
         4 Robert William Searcy 1802
           + Elenor Berry Wayland
           5 John James Searcy 1831
             + Susan Agnes Kemper 1838
               6 Robert Anderson Searcy 1856
                 + Sarah Jane Stafford 1861
                 7 Robert Taylor Searcy 1899
                   + Clara Marshall 1903
                   8 Daisy Mae Searcy 1921
                     + John McCarron Jones 1918
                     9 Philip Joseph Jones 1962