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Chloye Ann West 1931–2002Eugene Lloyd Catchings 1931–1972Dolores Grace Carpenter 1911–1960Hugh Othal West, Sr. 1903–1945Ada Mae Johnson 1892–1976James Thomas Catchings 1882–1944Margaret 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. 1856–1924Lucy 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 1853–1937John 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. 1858Chloe 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 1800–1843George Washington Rose, Sr. 1795–1855Nancy J (Sally) Burford c. 1790–1852Meredith Catchings (Kitchens), Jr. 1773–1867Jeanette "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. 1798Jane 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 1734–1777Joyce 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. 1742Thomas 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. 1696Humphrey Quisenberry 1674–1723Humphrey Quisenberry 1674–1723Mary Bucket –1676George SouleAnne PopeJohn Quisenberry, Sr. 1627–1717Anne PopeJohn Quisenberry, Sr. 1627–1717Ann 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 1608–1672

a door into the family wing

You and I share 119 of these people.

This is the family-history wing of owentemple.com, built standing where I stand — every wedge above is a named ancestor. If you descend from Eugene Lloyd Catchings (1931–1972) & Chloye Ann West (1931–2002), every lit wedge is a direct ancestor of yours exactly as it is mine: 119 named people across 12 generations, back to the 1600s. The dim grey is the rest of my sky — lines you and I don't share. Click any lit wedge to meet the person.

How to read this place

Everything here is labeled from where I stand — ✦ direct ancestor, "my 3×-great-grandfather." Here is the useful accident of cousinhood: if you are my first cousin, we stand the same number of steps from everyone we share, so within your rooms my labels are literally yours, unchanged. One generation off — an aunt or uncle, or a cousin's child — and every person page has an "I am:" picker that relabels the whole site for your generation and remembers your choice.

One honest caveat: outside the Catchings, Johnson, West & Carpenter rooms, a person marked ✦ is my direct ancestor but not yours — the fan above shows exactly where the boundary runs.

Your rooms

Of the eight family rooms in this wing, these are the ones that are your direct ancestry:

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.

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.

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.

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.

Step into the Carpenter room →

Stories already written about your people

The family albums

The albums live on Google Photos, shared by link. Unlike the tree, they may include living family — they are photographs, not records.

Start with these people

✦ Eugene Lloyd Catchings (1931–1972) & Chloye Ann West (1931–2002)
Our shared grandparents — the couple every reader of this page descends from. Their two pages are the place to start walking.
Meredith Catchings, Sr.
c. 1740–c. 1798 · Catchings room
Grants on Little River and Kettle Creek; deeded nine slaves and died within days.
George Johnson
1791–c. 1846 · Johnson room
Born at Brancepeth in the Durham coalfield; never left England.
George Soule
West room
Crossed on the Mayflower in 1620, a servant in another man's household.
George Zimmerman\Carpenter, Sr.
1725–1778 · Carpenter room
Out of Hallau to the Shenandoah; enlisted in 1777 and vanished from the rolls.

The rest of the wing

Wrong door? The picker lists them all. And if you hold a piece of this story — a letter, a photograph, a correction — that is exactly what publishing it is for.