The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1920-10-23

ter, the famous Priscilla. tsss'
has descended through Priseiik h.
John Alden, who was . Maysss
tie.
Descent from the other * =
se9gers has never been ~,
Some OF the IS are known a ~.
died without leaving any fs.S.
to carry on the line. Descep1ss..
Of others went back to EnelanS
few disappeared into an oAI1
from which they have vt ~
rescued. MIR. Bowman ia vs,.s: ]
on some Of these mysterioua ~. I
and hopes soon to announce ~.
one Of the lines is completed
1t 10 curious fact that the -.
names Of nine of the famou, ~
sengers are unknown. n
records and Bradford's h,stcs,
the expedition refer TO then =.
as the wife or son Of lame. ~
ton or John Turner, as ths -,
might be.
Some Pilgrims Unknowa
Proving fitness to become a. !.
the Mayflower elect ia not mr.
q simple procedure, even II ~.
family tree has been carefully -.
served Genealogolists, profeasi.s
al as well as amateur, are n.
times led astray by incorrect =.
ords, or else they take the vo,a !,
an unknown historian vith.s
verifying it by consulting An 4.
thority. This sort of careless -.
leads to such remarkable ~.
ments as that Mary Chiffon =.
horn on the Mayflower. vhey5s.
she is known to have reached p
mouth as a young woman.
1t would seem that the Names ;
the Mayfower passengers would s
we'll known to genealogista =
Mr.. Bowman often receives appli,.'
tons for Mayflower member,ah
from people who claim de-,
from some one who is not On r.
list OF passengers. Sometimes n i
the name Of a colonist who car.
on the Sparrowhawk or the Al,
which sailed a few years after, NJ
Mayflower, and again some recoa
seeker has gotten hold of nan,
similar to a Pilgrims and mixed 4
into his geneafogy. Mr.. Bownau
has no easy task detecting such q
rors, though he says that he i,
sometimes amused by ridiculosI
mistakes he finds. =
The latest bull" which he hs
discovered caused him, as he saw
to use language in the presence d
a lady, for which he aftervs,d
| apologized, but she said she didn'
blame him for his remarks. q
took his friend to the old Sale
/ burying ground to see the onl
tombstone Of a Mayflower passsa
ger in existence. He walked Nd
1t, expecting to find the familia
inscription-"Here lyeth buried J
body Of Captain Richard More, sse
"a years" The inscription =,
/ there, but below it had been cartel
in a'good imitation Of the origin
style Of lettering, "A Mayfows
Pilgrim" and a date. =
| improving Tombstones.
In 4 few years." said Mr.. Bow
man, that lettering will look d
| like the rest, and people will thin
| those words were put there origil
ally. And worst of all, the date
wrong, for while we do not hc
exactly when Richard More died,
have proof that he was alive
least two years after the d
carved on his stone"
This Richard More came over
a boy in the care of Elder Willia
Brewster. and finally settled
Salem. He is one Of the IS passe
gers from whom descent has d
been proved, but the vandalism
his tombstone-for which no O
has assumed the responsibility
a good instance Of the sort Of thil
that misleads family historians.
Many an. American in all 20
faith has presented his record
the Society Of Mayfower Descen
ants, only to find that his FAM
line has been twisted somevhel
and that he is not real son
the Pilgrims.
Such disillusioned ones som
times find comfort in the rrinciT
of heredity. According to uaitUs
law, each parent contributes o.
fourth of a child's heritage, 20
grandparent one-sixteenth, and
on. Continuing backward, soE
mathematician reaches the concl
sion that the Pilgrim descend
can boast of only Lea, 536th pi
of his Mayflower ancestors blot