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Here are my genealogical gleanings from a quick read of One Writer’s Beginnings and Eudora. I have one more place to check this weekend.
from One Writer’s Beginnings. (Cambridge: Harvard, 1984). Page numbers refer to Warner Books edition, 1985.
p 4 . . . my father’s Ohio family, in having been Swiss back in the 1700s before the first three Welty brothers came to America . . .
p18. . . I had had a little brother who had come before I did, and who had died as a baby before I was born .
p 38When my brother Edward came along after I was three, we both became comics, making each other laugh
p 51 Grandma in West Virginia
p 52 Ned Andrews
p 53 Eudora Carden
p 54-55 The Andrews branch my mother came from represents the mix most usual in the Southeast—English, Scottish, Irish, with a dash of French Huguenot. The first American one, Isham, who fought in the Revolutionary War, was born in Virginia and moved to Georgia, where succeeding generations lived. . . . one cousin of Ned’s (Walter Hines Page) was an ambassador to England. . . . By the time my mother’s father, Edward Raboteau Andrews (Ned) was born in 1862, the family had returned to Virginia. He broke from the mold and at eighteen ran away from a home of parents, grandparents, sisters, brothers, and aunts in Norfolk to become the first West Virginian.
p 57-58 Mother’s brothers . . . “the boys” . . .Carl and Mose . . . Gus
p 59 [Christian Webb Welty] was older than . . . the brothers—four years older than Chessie, their older sister—and he was a Yankee. . . .
p 59 [CAW and CWW married at Andrews home in WV, Oct 1904]
p 59 Moses, the youngest
p 61 John
PlatesJohn, Moses, Carl, Edward Columbus, in Clay, West Virginia
p 64-65 The Cardens had been in West Virginia for a while—I believe were therebefore West Virginia was a state. Eudora Carden’s own mother had been Eudora Ayres, of an Orange County, Virginia, family, the daughter of a Huguenot mother and an English father. . . . Eudora Ayers married another young Virginian, William Carden . . . .[D]uring the Civil War Great-Grandfather Carden was taken prisoner. . . . Their son, Mother’s Grandpa Carden, was a Baptist preacher. Enon-near-Gilboa was the name of his church. . . . This was where Eudora Carden and four brothers were born. . . . when his wife died . . . he married her [sister].
p 66 John [Andrews] died in 1918. Carl became mayor of Charleston
p 68 Grandpa Welty and Grandma lived . . . in southern Ohio in the rolling hills of Hocking County, near the small town of Logan
p 69 Grandpa, Jefferson Welty, had been the youngest of thirteen children . . . his parents were Christian and Salome Welty, early settlers in Marion Township, Hocking County. The Weltys were originally German Swiss; the first ones to come to this country, back before the Revolutionary War here, were three brothers, and the whole family is descended from them, I understand—it seems to hark back to German fairy-tale tradition.
p 70 the three brothers set forth to the New World from German Switzerland and settled from Virginia westward over Pennsylvania, Ohio, and Indiana before the Revolutionary War. . . . one unfortunate Welty fell at Saratoga.
p 71 my father’s real mother . . . died when he was a little boy. Allie stood not for Alice but for Almira
from Patti Carr Black, ed., Eudora. (Jackson: Mississippi Dept. of Archives and Hostory, 1984.)
Fifth brother of Chestina Andrews Welty was William Augustus
Grace, dau. Of Jefferson Welty’s second wife
Mother’s Aunt Stella Andrews Upshur
Aunt Maude, Uncle Carl Andrews’ wife
Aunt Grace Welty
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