You are looking at· your father's side · 294 named ancestors· your mother's side · 84 named ancestors· the children descend from both · 294 on one side and 84 on the other, counted separately
Chloye Ann West 1931–2002Eugene Lloyd Catchings 1931–1972Josephine Bond 1918–1988Thomas Lewis Latané Temple III 1914–1997Dolores Grace Carpenter 1911–1960Hugh Othal West, Sr. 1903–1945Ada Mae Johnson 1892–1976James Thomas Catchings 1882–1944Alice Plunkett 1893–1980John Barnitz Bond, Jr. 1868–1922Hal Christine Crouch 1891–1980Thomas Lewis Latané Temple, Jr. 1887–1947Margaret Elizabeth Cavins 1875–1960Major Lindsey Carpenter 1870–1948Hanna Bessie Elizabeth Alexander 1870–1939George Washington West 1866–1938Flora Ann Morgan 1873–1919Joseph "Joe" Johnson 1863–1938Mary Alice Craig 1863–1929Benjamin Franklin Catchings, Jr. 1856–1924Eliza (Lila) Boyd 1861–1942William Benjamin Plunkett 1859–1948Julia Sterling 1843–1936Dr John Barnitz Bond 1836–1915Harriet 'Hallie' Edwards 1859–1935William Benedict Crouch 1856–1936Georgia Derrick Fowlkes 1859–1900Thomas Lewis Latané Temple 1859–1935Lucy Ann (Lou) Quisenberry 1847–1915Thomas William Cavins 1844–1883Margaret Carpenter 1841–1908Lindsey Powell Carpenter 1825–1875Haddie Elizabeth Kunkel 1842–1936Rev. Hugh Paden Alexander 1836–1911Jane Ann Smith 1839–1931Wilbur Dennis West 1832–1918Cornelia Cynthia Pamela Carter 1848–1937John Thomas Morgan 1847–1932Martha Mary Pattison 1835–1902John Joseph Johnson 1831–1915Lydia Ann "Annie" Porter 1844–1890Thomas Craig 1827–1865Malissa Ann "Ethel" Rose c. 1825–1897Benjamin Franklin Catchings c. 1819–c. 1858Frances Maurous "Fannie" O'Bannon 1842–1862Abraham "Abram" Harrison BOYD 1830–1900Martha Elizabeth Hayley 1840–1873William Achille Plunkett 1834–1922Sarah W. Willett 1825–1849Joseph W. Sterling 1817–1846Eliza Ann Thompson 1806–1868Richard Bond, MD 1800–1853Hellen Mar Cully c. 1833–1886Thomas Jefferson Edwards 1826–1877Josephine Allen 1834–1909William T. Crouch 1830–1902Josephine Derrick 1834–1901Abner D Fowlkes 1833–1867Susan Jones 1825–1864Rev. Henry Waring Latane Temple 1812–1871Chloe Jane Bush 1825–1900Stephen C Quisenberry 1821–1903Mary Frances Mansfield 1818–1892James Edwards Cavins 1819–1860Mary Ann Jones 1818–1897Adam Carpenter 1804–1877Sarah Sallie Powell 1805–1898George Franklin Carpenter 1801–1875ElizabethRudolph GunklePhebe Ann Bowen 1792–1847Matthew West c. 1793–1852Mary Ann Dunkin c. 1817–1870Hampton Morgan c. 1820–1880Mary c. 1795–William Pattison c. 1786–Mary Ann Fairbrother 1793–1856George Johnson 1791–c. 1846Lucinda 1826–1853William L. Porter 1821–Sarah Crownover 1800–c. 1850George Washington Rose, Sr. 1795–1855Nancy J (Sally) Burford c. 1790–1852Meredith Catchings (Kitchens), Jr. 1773–1867Maria Leonard Halstead 1820–1883James O'BANNON c. 1821–1844Lucy Amis HARRISON 1806–1847Alfred John BOYD 1802–1874Adeline Martha White 1817–1835Achilles Nivison Plunkett 1810–1884Julia Gillam 1796–1864Simeon Pratt Willett 1787–1843Sarah 'Sallie' Yeatman 1779–1868Richard Thompson 1776–1844'Patsy' Martha Harpole Props 1809–1881Meredith Walton Edwards, Sr. 1797–1865Rebecca Wallace c. 1808–1848Benedict Crouch 1800–1882Anna Patterson Lyons 1807–1892William Sharpless Derrick 1802–1852Elizabeth Ann Bruce 1798–1858Edward Bass Fowlkes 1785–1853Keturah –c. 1837Thomas M. Jones c. 1800–c. 1834Mary Latane 1785–1848John Temple c. 1770–1812Jeanette "Jane" QUISENBERRY 1782–1859James Ambrose BUSH, Jr. 1779–1873Mary Polly EUBANK(S)* 1795–1866Roger QUISENBERRY* 1792–1877Salina Eddings 1799–1888William Herndon Mansfield 1790–1880Margaret E Gorham 1796–1856William Cavins 1795–1846Catherine Spears 1760–1848Adam Carpenter 1760–1806Leah Frye 1778–1820Jacob Young Carpenter 1779–c. 1828Tryphena Rood 1770–1857George West 1769–1853Cynthia Mackey 1798–1860William Stuart Morgan, Jr. 1794–1876Eleanor Ella Crabb 1767–1850John Thomas Rose 1770–1830Anastasia –c. 1807Meredith Catchings, Sr. c. 1740–c. 1798Lila SaundersPhilip Maurous –c. 1851Nancy Linn 1773–c. 1839Abraham Boyd 1765–c. 1839Matilda J. Buford 1793–1876Jacob Washington White 1792–1829Renée Rose Adélaïde Gentillot 1770–c. 1811François Achilles Plunkett 1769–1824Thomas YeatmanAnne Walton 1758–1836William E Edwards 1752–1836Sarah Sharpless 1774–1832Philip Derrick 1772–1819Agnes Bass Bruce 1765–1817Lemuel Bruce –c. 1816Tabitha Bass I 1763–1825Henry Bass Fowlkes I 1750–1808Nancy Scott c. 1792–John T Jones 1760–1842Anne Waring 1747–1820William I Latane 1750–1811Mary Molly Hill 1732–1820Col. Joseph Temple 1730–1819Jane Burris-Quisenberry 1759–1811Rev. James Quisenberry, Sr. 1759–1830Lucy Gholson 1746–1814James Ambrose BUSH 1748–1815Mary Polly Bush 1755–1830Achilles Jackson Eubank, Sr. 1758–1844Jane Burris-Quisenberry 1759–1811Rev. James Quisenberry, Sr. 1759–1830Mourning Clark Mansfield 1763–1831Robert J Mansfield (Rev War) 1762–1833Margaret Craig 1759–c. 1810Edward Cavins 1755–1814Anna Sophia Schulteli 1735–1783George Zimmerman\Carpenter, Sr. 1725–1778Catherine Spears 1760–1848John Frye –1782ELIZABETH BOYER 1751–1818George Zimmerman\Carpenter, Jr. 1746–1819Mary Lawton 1738–1812Francis West 1735–1803Nancy Osburn 1790–1868William Stuart Morgan, Sr. 1764–1825Elizabeth Douglas 1735–1793George Rose 1734–1777Catherine SaundersAlexander SaundersJames BoydMarguerite Geneviève Lefebvre des Hayes c. 1745–c. 1791Jean Désiré Gentillot 1744–Marie Louise Eutrope Boyer de la Gautraie 1751–1830Francois Plunkett* 1722–1771Ann Hunt 1755–1820William Sharples 1752–1817Maria Rosina Gartenmeyer 1747–1798Christian Derrick 1732–1798Tabitha Hatcher 1742–c. 1800John Bass, Sr. 1738–c. 1808Tabitha Hatcher 1742–c. 1800John Bass, Sr. 1738–c. 1808Sarah Elizabeth Jennings Fowlkes 1730–1782Senator John Anthony Fowlkes\Foulks 1722–1799Massy CrowBenjamin Jones c. 1740–c. 1795Lucy Cocke 1717–1755Colonel Francis Gouldman Waring 1717–c. 1771Mary Allen 1724–1767John Latane 1722–1773Frances Baylor 1708–Colonel Humphrey Hill 1706–c. 1775Ann Arnold c. 1705–c. 1781Col. Joseph Temple 1699–1749Joyce c. 1722–c. 1797Aaron Quisenberry c. 1725–c. 1795Sarah Mary Carlton 1727–Richard Eubank 1730–1813Joyce c. 1722–c. 1797Aaron Quisenberry c. 1725–c. 1795Mary Prewitts c. 1725–1793John L Cavin 1720–1787Anna Barbara Kercher Leupolden 1705–1787Johannes (John) Zimmerman Carpenter 1700–1782George Zimmerman\Carpenter, Sr. 1725–1778Sarah Lawton –c. 1788Joseph Lawton –c. 1765Jane Tanner 1685–c. 1742William West 1681–c. 1742Renee Rose Le Pays c. 1705–1760Jean Baptiste Lefebvre des Hayes c. 1689–1765Françoise Genevieve Ollive 1710–1768Jean Noël Gentillot 1707–1753Marguerite Lefebvre des Hayes c. 1728–1788Etienne René Georges Xavier BOYER de la GAUTRAYE 1720–1764Cecilia Margaret Devenish c. 1690–c. 1749Richard Plunkett 1688–1747Martha Clay 1713–1745William Bass 1707–1775Martha Clay 1713–1745William Bass 1707–1775Elizabeth c. 1700–1730(Lt. Col.) Gabriel Fowlkes\Foulks (the immigrant) 1696–1775Elizabeth Catesby 1680–1755Dr. William Cocke 1672–1720Elizabeth Gouldman 1698–1748Col. Thomas Waring II 1673–c. 1754Joanna Newell 1707–Mary Deane 1673–1732Reverend Louis Lewis Latane 1672–1732Hannah GregoryRobert BaylorEdith Bell 1683–1710Major Thomas (Virginia Militia) Hill 1634–1720AnnBenjamin Arnold 1661–1723Hannah Liston 1650–c. 1705Joseph Temple 1666–c. 1699Thomas Quisenberry 1698–1795Thomas Quisenberry 1698–1795Anna Barbara Kercher Leupolden 1705–1787Johannes (John) Zimmerman Carpenter 1700–1782Susanna Soule c. 1642–c. 1684Francis West c. 1632–c. 1696Renee Rose Rossignol, de LaChicotte 1683–1705Jean Le Pays 1672–1707Geneviève VignonHenry LefebvreMarie Magdelaine RossignolEtienne OlliveRenee Rose Le Pays c. 1705–1760Jean Baptiste Lefebvre des Hayes c. 1689–1765Perrine Louise Sirceuil 1691–1754Gabriel Sebastien Boyer de la Gauderay –1722Frances Sarsfield 1650–1696Richard Plunkett 1648–MaryHenry Clay c. 1672–c. 1760Mary –1717William Bass c. 1684–c. 1748MaryHenry Clay c. 1672–c. 1760Mary –1717William Bass c. 1684–c. 1748Mary Fowlkes Cheatham 1665–1720Gabriel Fowlkes\Foulks I 1665–1740Mary MEADOR 1683–1800Thomas Gouldman c. 1670–1716Susanna DeBarrau 1652–1700Henri Latane 1648–1700Anne Merrifield 1628–John I Baylor 1619–1657Joanna 1628–1677Anthony Arnold 1635–1677Mary ListonMarye Grund 1640–1690William Temple c. 1614–c. 1685Humphrey Quisenberry 1674–1723Humphrey Quisenberry 1674–1723Mary Bucket –1676George SouleRenee Rose Rossignol, de LaChicotte 1683–1705Jean Le Pays 1672–1707Geneviève VignonHenry LefebvreLady Anna\Anne O'Moore (Sarsfield) 1625–1701Sir Patrick Sarsfield, 1st Earl of Lucan 1620–1693Mary McDermott PlunkettPatrick Plunkett c. 1618–1679Sier DeFournir DeBarrauSusanna de BarrauPierre Latane 1590–Anne Bower 1603–1637John Baylor 1600–1632Mary Seaman 1577–1642John Temple 1571–1637Anne PopeJohn Quisenberry, Sr. 1627–1717Anne PopeJohn Quisenberry, Sr. 1627–1717Marguerite (Marie) de LA PLACE 1553–1601Guillaume de Barraud 1544–1615William Seaman 1550–Thomas Temple –c. 1594Ann Fallowell 1611–1683Thomas Pope 1608–1683Joane (Jesse) Johnson 1607–1672Thomas Johnson (Questenbury) Quesenberry 1608–1672Ann Fallowell 1611–1683Thomas Pope 1608–1683Joane (Jesse) Johnson 1607–1672Thomas Johnson (Questenbury) Quesenberry 1608–1672Jeanne Batard 1520–c. 1571Poncet de LA PLACE c. 1515–c. 1570Jacquette Saint Pierre 1520–1593

Temple–Catchings · your father's side

Mozelle Coe 1913–2006Thomas Landon Ramsay 1904–1998Hazel Elizabeth Jarrell 1918–2006William Miles Woodall, Jr. 1915–2006Willie Myrtle Barrett 1880–1967James Thomas "Tommie" Coe 1879–1920Emma Holder 1878–1982Henry Fisher Ramsay 1873–1953Annie Belle Watkins 1889–1978James Franklin Jarrell 1888–1972Sudie Mattie Pace 1886–1976William Miles Woodall 1885–1961Elizabeth LongKeneth M Barrett 1841–Prudence Mae Weatherford 1846–1883John P. Coe 1840–1911Mary E. BarrettThomas A. Holder 1856–1934Sallie Fisher DAVIS 1843–1899Thomas Samuel RAMSAY 1839–1906Annie HammEben Tarver WatkinsCassie Lumpkin 1863–1901Wiley Green Jarrell 1866–1916Lenora Walker Dent 1852–Isaac Frankin Jr Pace 1852–Laura Texanna (Teck) Miles 1858–1918James Dollahite Woodall 1853–1922Frances "Fanny" Dozier 1827–1883Seaborn J Weatherford 1826–1863Permillia Hastings 1815–1892William A. Coe 1803–1890Eliza ParkerD. J. HolderMary Elizabeth Spiers 1822–1887William Jarrell c. 1813–1868Nancy Ann Kuykendall 1825–1893William Asbury (Bill) Miles 1828–c. 1910Mary Ann Dollahite 1826–1899Ryal (Royal) Barber Woodall 1828–1865Elizabeth Ann Spiers 1789–1870Jones Weatherford 1786–Rebecca Champion 1788–1859Isaac Monroe Coe 1787–1838Mary Anderson 1798–1860Henry Jarrell 1780–1853Mary (Polly) Key c. 1803–John W Kuykendall c. 1797–c. 1881MarySamuel Miles –c. 1880Sarah Sally BarberJames Gower Woodall 1800–1865LucyEdward CoeNancy Johnson 1765–1825Matthew Kuykendall 1758–1841Lucy Phereby Gower 1768–Jacob Woodall 1767–1849Rebecca JohnsonColonel William JohnsonAbraham Kuykendall 1719–c. 1778Agnes Hicks Hancock 1739–1773Jacob Woodall 1735–1774Marretjen WestphalCornelius (Van) Kuykendall c. 1686–Judith Sampson 1733–1757John Woodall 1710–1808Maritji KoolJohanes WestphalSarah Stanley 1680–1747John Woodall 1678–1750Jacob CoolMaritje HansenJurian WestphalSarah Henchpole 1630–William Woodall 1627–Sara Stauelie 1643–John Woodall 1569–1643Mary Ithell 1558–Richard Woodall 1545–1598Laurence Woodall 1520–

Woodall–Ramsay · your mother's side

for my children, their children, and every cousin who finds a door

Behind you stand 294 people we can name.

— and behind them, millions we can't. A cousin's door lights the wedges we share and counts the ancestors we have in common. This is who they were, where they stood, and how we know. 13 generations · 2,340 people in the published tree · 409 sources cited. Half of these children is not on the fan above: behind their mother stand 84 more people we can name. See her side, or both at once — the switch at the top of this page changes every view on the site. Every wedge above is a person — click one.

Behind your mother stand 84 people we can name.

The Woodall, Jarrell, Ramsay and Coe lines. This side came into the tree in August 2026 and is the youngest research here: 25 of its 81 people carry a source so far. It reaches back to about 1520 — but read that date the way you would read a rumour: it is a thin line of inherited claims that no record has yet tested, and the fan above shows which links are actually proven. Every wedge above is a person — click one.

Behind you stand two families we can name: 294 on your father's side, 84 on your mother's.

And behind the two of them, millions we can't. Two skies, drawn separately, because they are two different people's ancestry — the counts are never added together. Only you and your brothers and sisters descend from both. A cousin's door lights the wedges we share and counts the ancestors we have in common. This is who they were, where they stood, and how we know. 13 generations · 2,340 people in the published tree · 409 sources cited.

Every person named on these pages survived childhood in centuries when many children didn't, crossed an ocean or stayed put through a war, buried children of their own, and raised at least one who lived to do it all again. Remove any one of them and this family is a different family — or no family at all.

This side of the house is a beginning, not a finished wing. The names are here; most of the proving has not been done. It gets the same house style as everything else on this site — say what is known, say how it is known, and never smooth over the difference.

Every person named on these pages survived childhood in centuries when many children didn't, crossed an ocean or stayed put through a war, buried children of their own, and raised at least one who lived to do it all again. Remove any one of them and this family is a different family — or no family at all.

They were nonconformists who wouldn't sit in the pew. A widow who raised a posthumous son and sent him across an ocean. A hanged rebel whose land came back to his granddaughter. Refugee parsons from Gascony. Planters who lost everything to a revolution that was juster than they were. A long hunter, a circuit rider, coal-country Catholics, country doctors, timber men. These pages are for getting acquainted.

And if you are my cousin — first, second, or further out — part of this wing is not my family being shown to you; it is your family. Find your door and it hands you your rooms.

the eight directions · your father's side

You come from eight families

The eight great-grandparent lines of the tree — hold that frame and everything else here makes sense. Each family now has a room: the story, the people worth meeting, the records that anchor it, and what is proven and open. The colors below are the same eight used in the fan above and throughout the atlas.

Temple

Bishopstrow, Wiltshire → Bristol → tidewater Virginia → Texarkana & the piney woods

A manor family cited in 1662 for refusing to sit in the pew; a Bristol mercer's posthumous son who crossed to Virginia and married a hanged rebel's granddaughter; the Huguenot name Latané handed down for three centuries, all the way to East Texas timber.

The best-documented line in the tree — four 17th-century wills read in the original hand.

Read: Henry Waring Latané Temple and Susan Jones · How I Met My Great-Great-Great Grandparents

Step into the Temple room →

Crouch

Southwestern Pennsylvania → Wise County, Texas → Arkansas → Texarkana

A farmer in Pennsylvania's southwestern corner whose own parents are unknown; the long move to Wise County, Texas; and a wedding across the state line that runs down the middle of Texarkana.

Four generations and then a wall — the Maryland line drawn above Benedict Crouch is refuted by the court filing that named all seven of Nathan Crouch's children.

Step into the Crouch room →

Plunkett

Killummod, Roscommon → Saint-Domingue → Williamsburg → Des Arc, Arkansas

An Irish Catholic with no future under the Penal Laws, a Paris-born commandant, a buccaneer's daughter — and a family that ran for the boats when Haiti rose, refugees twice over, four generations from Torbeck to the Grand Prairie.

The Saint-Domingue core is proven on original French parish registers; the American chain is not.

Read: Renée Rose Adélaïde Gentillot and Achilles … · W.B. Plunkett and Lila Boyd Plunkett

Step into the Plunkett room →

Catchings

Wilkes County, Georgia → Crow Creek, Tennessee → Travis County, Texas → Taft, in South Texas

The oldest American claim in the family — a Virginia courtroom in 1638 — and a documented line from Georgia bounty land through a Tennessee valley where the railroad stop bore the family's name, to farms outside Austin and on to Taft in South Texas.

The 1638 courtroom is tradition; the line as it can actually be shown begins in Georgia.

Read: Correspondence between Eugene Catchings and…

Step into the Catchings room →

Johnson

Lanchester, County Durham → Liverpool → Austin

Coalfield Catholics, married at a recusant chapel and invisible in the Anglican registers everyone had searched — by way of six years in Liverpool to Austin in the early 1870s.

The Durham side is solid; the South Carolina Morgan half is a sketch of a route, not a proof.

Step into the Johnson room →

West

Plymouth Colony → Rhode Island → upstate New York → Bleeding Kansas → the Texas oil fields

The one New England line, and the one that reaches a Mayflower passenger. A man who went to Kansas Territory at twenty-two the year the fighting started, and a grandson who went to sea past Singapore and came home to the oil patch.

The Mayflower link is accepted in print by the Soule scholars; the weak joint is nearer — upstate New York, early 1800s.

Step into the West room →

Carpenter

Hallau, Schaffhausen → the Shenandoah → Carpenter's Station, Kentucky → Missouri → Texas

Swiss Zimmermanns who turned the name into English; a long hunter who proved a Kentucky claim with a crop of corn in 1776; a widow of twenty-two who administered an estate, bought land in her own name, and lived to eighty-seven.

Anchored by a family Bible of 1773 that still exists, at the Kentucky Historical Society.

Step into the Carpenter room →

the four directions, for now · your mother's side

Her four grandparent lines

Four branches instead of eight, because that is what the evidence can carry today — five of her eight great-grandparent lines hold three people or fewer. The colors below are this side's own, used in her fan above.

Woodall

the line of William Miles Woodall, Jr. (1915–2006)

44 named ancestors · earliest born 1520 · 8 carry a cited record · see the badges on each page

Meet William Woodall →

Jarrell

the line of Hazel Elizabeth Jarrell (1918–2006)

11 named ancestors · earliest born 1780 · 5 carry a cited record · see the badges on each page

Meet Hazel Jarrell →

Ramsay

the line of Thomas Landon Ramsay (1904–1998)

9 named ancestors · earliest born 1839 · 4 carry a cited record · see the badges on each page

Meet Thomas Ramsay →

Coe

the line of Mozelle Coe (1913–2006)

17 named ancestors · earliest born 1786 · 8 carry a cited record · see the badges on each page

Meet Mozelle Coe →

honesty first

What this side is — and isn't, yet

The numbers as of 13 September 2026: 81 named ancestors · 25 of them carry a cited record · 22 of 77 parent-to-child links verified against original records. The tree as a whole rests on 409 cited sources; here, much of it is still a family's say-so — names handed down and copied between trees, most of them probably right, many not yet proven. That is not a flaw to hide; it is the research frontier. As records get read, these numbers move on their own.

Every name on this side →

where & when

The instruments

The Moment Machine

Pick a date — the day Lincoln was shot, the morning Pearl Harbor was attacked, any year you like — and see which ancestors were alive, how old each was, and where each was born.

The Eight Directions Atlas

Four plates drawn from the tree: the migration map (Saint-Domingue to Austin, 29 ocean crossings), the Ring of Proof, an evidence case-file, and the lifespan stream. The map dots and the fan wedges click through to each person's page.

All Your Ancestors

The deep-time poster — 10,000 years of one person's ancestry, from 294 named ancestors back to nearly everyone who ever lived.

who

The people

Every name in the tree

All 2,340 people, grouped by family name — and every name is now a page: dates, places, parents and children to walk the tree by, the records behind each fact, and the research notes. The 294 direct ancestors are marked.

The places

Where they were born — every recorded birthplace in the tree, from Kingston Deverill to Torbeck to Hornsby Bend, with the people born there.

Take the tree with you

Download the family tree as a GEDCOM file — it opens in any genealogy program. No account, no subscription, no wall. Living family members are not in it.

About this file — what's in it, what's deliberately kept out, and the honest caveat. The living, working tree is on Ancestry (sign-in required).

the reading room

Stories already written

What you can trust here

Every page in this wing states what is proven (a record read on the original page), what is likely, and what is open. Where a record has not been read, these pages say so rather than smoothing it over — a tidier story would be a less useful one. Living family members appear nowhere on this site: the tree is published only for the deceased.

Built from the published tree snapshot of 13 September 2026 — see what's new. The research moves; if you spot an error, or you hold a piece of this story — a letter, a photograph, a name — that is exactly what publishing is for: write.