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Tim Ely McHargue was directly descended from the distinguished indivuals 1). George W. Ely; 2). Rufus Easton and George Calvert, First Lord Baltimore among many other relatives. Born in July 20, 1951-June 16, 2025. I have been busy as a genealogist since 1982.
After cancer treatment at Stanford Tim gave me to post on website "A Box of Poems" at the first time he had been treated for cancer. I had a TAVR heart value installed at Stanford and he had finished up his treatment. Our great uncle Dr. Leonard Ely had married the daughter of the 2nd dean of Stanford Ray Lyman Wilbur. Wilbut died at Stanford in 1949 from heart complications. A great grandfather built one of the oldest homes in the US that stands today one John Alden of the Mayflower. Another distant cousin built the Biltmore in Ashville, N.C. his mother Maria Louisa Kissam aka. Mrs. Wm. Henry Vanderbilt was a cousin on the Kissam side of the family. Four of Tim's great grandfather's were trustee's of the Astor Estate.
Click to read Tim McHargue Ed.D-----} A Box of Poems
Tim was a real thinker, a great writer and teacher. It leaves one to wonder how many lives did Tim help or changed? For those who were at his wedding in Auburn, CA to his loving wife Lynnette Diem-McHargue, Tim was descended from ten or more soldiers of the American Revolution and from seven passengers of the Mayflower.
Let US not forget Timothy McHargue this Fourth of July when we celebrate the birth of this country. Three of Tim's great grandfathers gave up their lives while serving the idea of a new free country from the British, The United States of America way back during the American Revolution.
An example of one of Tim's ancestor's was Captain Aspah Whittlesey whom he placed his 18th month old daughter on a raft with her nurse and sent them down The Susquehanna River the day before Captain Aspah led his men into battle at The Wyoming Valley Massacre in PA.
It goes without saying had Whittlesey not done this Tim would never have been born to write A Box of Poems. For the following day an estimated 300 women and children were killed by the Mohawk Indians and the British Candian Butler's Rangers. The soldiers who gave up their lives for the what would soon become a new free country, the casualities were estimated at around 350. It was called a "Massacre" because women and children do not count in battle. This fight was on July 3, 1778 in Wyoming Valley, PA the day before the 4th of July. Captain Aspah Whittlesey was a member of the Connecticut Militia.
Captain George W. Ely must have thought of his great grandfather Aspah Whittlesey when as Captain of the "7th" led The NYC Seventh Regiment to Washington D.C. in April, 1861 and was the first Regiment mustered into service by President Abraham Lincoln. This is where Timothy Ely McHargue inherited his middle name in honor of George W. Ely. Tim also inherited his middle name from Ely's grandson Sargent George W. Ely II, [Tim's grandfather] who was cited in World War I on the Hidenburg Line. Ely II had also joined the same regiment which was renamed the 107th Regiment of NYC. More on Ely is listed on the button to left and further down on this page.
Click to see Tim's work as an artist with glass.D-----}
Tim,
I learned from the Sacramento Bee was educated at a Jesuit
college, I did not know this for we are descended to a great
grandmother who died while giving birth to a baby girl. Her name
has escape me, at this time. May have been Eleanor who was raised
on same plantation as a sister, even though she was a cousin
to the first Archbishop John Carroll whom was also a Jesuit.
Anne Digges-Darnall married Col. Henry Darnall. John Carroll
biography sheds much light on his duties as the first Archbishop
in the USA and an internet search would be in order. Chart has
the names and it was developed and published circa 1980.
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