Our Multi-National Heritage to Adam: Ancestors of Merlene Hutto Byars - Volume 2

By Merlene Hutto Byars

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• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris US
• Release date: Sep 22, 2010
• ISBN: 9781453577394

Merlene Hutto Byars

Merlene received her education in Accounting and Journalism. She is known through Marquis Whose Who in the World, and through the pages of various Who’s Who publications by the International Biographical Centre where she is Deputy Director to its Director General from the Headquarters in Cambridge, in England. She exhibited her artwork, history books and genealogy at Oxford University and Cambridge University, England, New Orleans, La, and Lisbon, Portugal, in addition to South Carolina. She has traced her genealogy to Adam and Eve through royal families from the heritage of both her mother and father. Kiwanis International selected her as a distinguised member for the 2004-2005.

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Contents

DEDICATION

PREFACE

FOREWORD

ANCESTORS OF ROBERT E. LIVINGSTON, JR.

ROBERT BOB ELFORD LIVINGSTON, JR.,

MAJOR GENERAL FROM A JOURNAL KEPT BY MERLENE HUTTO BYARS SINCE THE AGE OF TWELVE DESCENDANTS OF ADAM

A FAMILY AFFAIR

FAMILY NAME HISTORY

(Sketch of Coat of Arms by F. W. Klutzow, MD)

THE PURPOSE OF THE STORY FATE,

FAITH AND FORTITUDE

ABOUT THE AUTHOR—MERLENE HUTTO BYARS

DEDICATION

This book was researched and written for my family and all descendants of Adam and Eve.

It is in memory of my parents, Nettie Eugenia Fail and Gideon Thomas Hutto. For my brothers, sisters and their families, and in honor of my late husband, Alvin Byars.

It is dedicated to my present husband, Friedrich Wilhelm Klutzow, MD, FCAP., and to my children—Alvin Gregg Byars, Robin Mark Byars, Jay C. Byars and Blaine Derrick Byars and their families.

PREFACE

This book is the result of information about the five generations of ancestry of the families of Esther Ray McClintock, Frank Pickens Williams and Merlene Faye Hutto Byars (Klutzow), being handed down to each of us by our parents. Esther, Pickens and I have explored cemeteries in many states and in Europe. We carried our screwdriver to dig out the engravings on tombstones and then by tracing the information onto rice paper with a special crayon. Sometimes it was just written onto to paper. I traveled Europe three times and Esther traveled there many times while she was film editor for the movies—The Three Stooges. While there we traveled to places such as St. John’s Church cemetery at Cambridge University, Althorp, many castles in England, Wales, France, Germany, The Netherlands and other countries.

Pickens has traveled many times to Virginia and Maryland to search our ancestors such as those who served in The War Between The States.

We found that our ancestors came from Denmark, Greece, Holland, France, Egypt, England, Scotland, Turkey, Eastern Asia and even Palestine, Israel, Persia, and other countries. They came from Northern Ireland ancestors to the West Indies and to our present America because of the British controversies with the citizens of Scotland who became Presbyterians and for other reasons that led to fighting between them. We have been looking for Freedom for many years. We also researched the Manning papers at the University of South Caroliniana Library and Barnwell County Museum. We researched the writings and had personal contact with our ancestry connected to A.S. Salley, South Carolina State Historian and William Gilmore Simms, Sr., who was the most prolific historian in the United States.

William Gilmore Simms, Sr. had children born with club feet and I, Merlene, also had two sons born with club feet. Simms was married to my cousins, Roach and Chevilette. Therefore, we learned much about health and other problems that are inherited in our families. We became so fascinated with our findings that we probably became addicted to our work and so we went on to discover our ancestry to Adam and Eve. Much of our history was researched from the Holy Bible. We are so thankful for our ancestors who handed down information in writing that gets us back to our beginnings.

With all the intermarriage that has gone on in our families since the beginning of time it is truly amazing to me that any of us survive without inheriting too many bad genes.

Merlene Hutto Byars

FOREWORD

I have traced my ancestry back to Adam and Eve through more than four different ancestry lines on both sides of my parents. My ancestry goes back through ancient history and when King Otto I, Emperor of Germany, born November 23, 912 in Saxony, Germany and died May 7, 973. He married Eadgyth, born about 910 and died January 21, 946, to the Royal family in England, and was the first wife of Otto I, we discover that Edith is my mother’s cousin and the wife of my father’s ancestors. My mother descended from William I the Conqueror and King of England and my father descended from Otto I. My mother was a descendant of Hedwig, King Otto I’s sister. Both my parents descend from Henry I of Denmark who was the father of Otto I and Hedwig. The name Otto was changed to Hutto, Huttow by the English who wrote what they heard when the name was given to them when Isaac Otto came from Sobernheim, Germany to Charleston, S.C. in 1737. It is my understanding the British language in England does not come from the Latin as it does in the United States.

There are so many names in my family, first and surnames, that come from ancient history as well as the Holy Bible. My father was a twin and his name was Gideon Thomas Hutto while his twin brother was named Thomas Gideon Hutto. Thomas in the Bible means twin. Also, my father’s oldest brother was named James Gideon. My brother was named Henry Tarleton Hutto for the Henry’s in the royal families that we come from and the Tarleton for Tarlton Brown my fifth great uncle from Wales’s heritage. Tarlton Brown took the e out of his name because of the British Tory from England who constantly harassed our people before and after the Revolutionary War.

As far as we know the Tory Banastre Tarleton was not related to our family. On my mother’s side of the family her folks came to South Carolina from Maine, Massachusetts (May Flower) and Jamestown, Virginia (First Settlers at Jamestown). Jamestown was first settled in 1607. Our folks were in Virginia trading with the Indians and taking back from the Pirate’s from the West Indies, the goods they had stolen from the British long before Jamestown was settled in 1607. They traveled up and down the eastern coast long before they settled in Virginia.

During the time before and after the Revolutionary War, there were many officers and Royal families in Jamestown who carried the titles of King, Major and Duke, etc. They also used Sir as titles. Therefore, they took many of these titles as their Sir names. There are still many grave sites in Barnwell County with Sir on my ancestor’s tomb stonres. There are also, many Iron Crosses on these grave sites.

I was born on November 9, 1931, in New Brookland, now West Columbia, Lexington County, South Carolina, to Nettie Eugenia Fail Hutto and Gideon Thomas Hutto. Nettie came here from Bamberg County and my father came from Barnwell County, South Carolina

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PICTURES: In her journal Merlene Byars has written about growing up in New Brookland (now West Columbia), Lexington County, South Carolina. Pictured here is the building mentioned in the Park that was our back yard. It is what we called The Hall where the Barbershop was located and the men could get their showers; the Eastern Star and Masons would hold their meetings there. 2. Across the street was the home where her brother, Tarleton Hutto, who was Overseer of the Weave Room, lived. It was one of the houses built for Boss men working for the Columbia Duct Mill. 3. The Street car that was in operation in the area the year Merlene was born in 1931.

ANCESTORS OF ROBERT E. LIVINGSTON, JR.

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