Posts by Sam Cromartie
Cromartie Reunion 2016
The Cromartie Reunion is scheduled for Sunday October 9, 2016 at the South River Presbyterian Church in Bladen County, North Carolina with registration beginning at 10:15 in the morning and the program at 11:00 followed by a catered lunch. RSVP for the lunch to Ann Butler at 910 395 0326 or to Sara Honeycutt at…
Read MoreDNA results
I just received my DNA results from Ancestry.com. The results are as follows:Europe West 36%Ireland 34%Great Britain 22%Scandinavia 4%Iberian Peninsula 3%Finland/NW Russia <1% Great Britain and Ireland overlap with Scotland.
Read MoreWilliam Cromartie home
William Cromartie built his house near the bank of the South River in Bladen County, North Carolina about 1760. The frame structure contained seven rooms, two of which were upstairs. There was also a kitchen made from logs, a spinning house, milk house, smoke house, log barn, and potato house. William’s son John inherited the…
Read MoreHiroshima Anniversary
August 6, 2016 Today is the seventy-first anniversary of the atomic explosion that led to the end of WWII. The Enola Gay, a Boeing B-29 bomber, released the Uranium-235 bomb nicknamed “Little Boy” over Hiroshima on August 6, 1945. It detonated at 2,000 feet above the ground, destroying most of the city and leading to…
Read MoreHenry Howland
Most of the Cromarties in the United States are descended from William Cromartie and Ruhamah Doane. Ruhamah Doane was descended from Henry Howland (born in England 1565 and died 1635 in England). They had three sons who came to the colonies: Arthur, John and Henry. According to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints,…
Read MoreThe Trinity Nuclear Test
Nine days ago, the world celebrated the seventy-first anniversary of the first explosion of an atomic bomb. This plutonium device was the product of years of research by the scientists recruited into the Manhattan Project. They gave the test the code name Trinity. Detonation took place on July 16, 1945 at the top of a…
Read More86th Cromartie Reunion
The 86th Cromartie Reunion is being held Sunday October 11, 2015 at South River Presbyterian Church, Bladen County, N.C. Registration is from 10:15 until the program begins at 11:00. A catered lunch follows at noon. James Reed Campbell will discuss our ancestor, “Mayflower Passenger Stephen Hopkins.” RSVP by Oct 8 to Sara Honeycutt at 910…
Read MoreCDC Report on West Africa Ebola Outbreak
The CDC reports 1975 cases of Ebola with 1069 suspected deaths in the West Africa outbreak as of August 13. Guinea accounted for 510 of the patients with 670 in Liberia, 783 in Sierra Leone, and 12 in Nigeria. Although this is the world’s largest Ebola outbreak, the CDC predicts no significant risk to the…
Read MoreZMapp treatment for Ebola
The Ebola Virus epidemic that began in March in West Africa now involves patients in Sierra Leone, Liberia, Guinea, and Nigeria. Of the 1,603 cases, there have been 887 deaths, giving a mortality rate of 55 percent. The two Americans who acquired the infection in Liberia are showing remarkable response to ZMapp, a new experimental…
Read MoreStephen Hopkins, ancestor of Ruhamah Doane
Stephen Hopkins was an ancestor of Ruhamah Doane, wife of the William Cromartie who came to Bladen County, North Carolina from the Orkney Islands of Scotland in the eighteenth century. Hopkins was a Jamestown settler who returned to England and then traveled back to the New World on the Mayflower in 1620. Research indicates that…
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