Show ) MEET A Comer in Ancestors By ELEANOR LEXINGTON fflOTIMIIM! Shannon Family (Copyright ll— by McClure Syndicate) is said to have been fuse us to mention O’Seanchaln that Shan or Shann is an ancient word meaning a the first form of the surname Shanmountain range Shannan is one form non From O’Seanchaln to Shanahan anothei is considered an easy feat of the name and Schannlng Shanason is usually to accomplish by those who are skilled In Scotland the orthography “The king of the Irish com Then from Shrana-ha- Shannan in such matters to Shanon or Shannon is as easy mons” was Henry Boyle earl of Shan non born 1682 at Castlemartyr Ireas roiling ofT the proverbial log or Seanchan is composed of two land Celtic words “seancha” meaning an From the north of Ireland (the an and “an” clent Scotland if the historians say or genealogist antiquarian Seanchan is then one who true) the Scots went in 503 one who To the was north of Ireland So renowned is an antiquarian in returned many one In this line that in time his friends and to America their descend called him "Mr Seanand neighbors ants began to emigrate in 1719 and chan” and possibly some earlier They constituted ones added “the crank" His son or or more of the patriots who fought fot O showing American grandson was O’Seanchan liberty descent The immigrant or pilgrim fathei Is it not a cause for gratitude that Nathaniel Shannon born 1655 in Lon was of ScoUlsb donderry ancestry When 32 years old he 'ame to this country and nade his home at Boston where in 1701 he was a member of the Old South church Twenty-twyears later he died and the stone marking his grave in the old Granary burying ground Tremont street Boston is still standing Nathaniel’s brother Robert was mayor of Londonderry 1689 and Nathaniel was also a man of affairs He was holding many town offices the first naval officer of the port ol Boston and a merchant of prominence The papers now preserved in tht Massachusetts state archives show that he was a man of good education His wife was Elizabeth and their children were Nathaniel Jr Robert who to have died unmarried is supposed and Samuel who married Ann Miller Nathaniel the second married Abigail whose father was one of the Vaughan and also chief Justroyal councillors ice of New Hampshire Nathaniel and and Abigail had two sons Nathaniel Cutts The four children of Nathaniel were his namesake and George Marand Abigail garet Nathaniel and his wifd Abigail the name now appears as the easily Vaughan lived at Portsmouth N H where he was a ship merchant He also and one of Shanspelled pronounced lived at Ipswich non? The coat of arms illustrated is blaOld records the frequently give name as Shanon or with one “n” The zoned gules a bend or sable Crest a O'Seanchains have a long pedigree Arms for the earl of Shannon is per as they do to that branch belonging of the Celtic race which alone of all bend crenellee argent and gules races of the period anteCrest out of a ducal coronet or a European dating the Christian era has main- lion’s head erased per pale crenellee tained its identity to the present time argent and gules From Ireland the clan went to Supporters two lions per pale creand we find among ancestors of nellee the dexter lion gules and arthe race such pleasing names as gent the sinister argent and gules Two mottoes are given: Vivit Post Flarthbeartach and Donchadh Dnbh Real without Funera Virtus — Virtue lives after aristocrats doubt! and Spectemur Agendo — Let us Aodh a chieftain of Ulster death was of this line Perhaps it will con be judged by our actions Booth Family de Boothe la Boothe Bothe Boothes de la Boothe Bouthe are old “The disforms of the name Booth referis Booth the family” tinguished ence in one record The name Booth was assumed by those who possessed the “lordship of Boothes” in Lancashire Adam de Boothes of the county palatine Lancaster thirteenth century is perhaps the first of the name of whom any records exist He was descended of a Norman family of rank that went over The people who with the Conqueror didn’t go over with William the Norman or came over in the Mayflower have much to answer for However we need not give pause to this matter but leave it to descendants who feel aggrieved by lack of foresight upon their ancestors’ part The derivation bowes is from of the name Booth buildmeaning a house or temporary ing — a booth In low Latin the word is botha The county original palatines of were It may be mentioned England and three only — Lancaster Cheshire Durham We find that the Booths were Into and “married Important people the best circles” William de Boothes married Sibill or Sybil daughter of Gilbert de Brereton of the ancient the capital of of Chester family Cheshire Of Sir John Booth the sixth in descent from Adam de we know Boothes that he had 19 A brave children and two wives man! It was Sir Felix Booth who fitand ted out the Ross arctic expedition in whose honor Capt Sir James Ross named a peninsula of the North Amerlean coast “Felix Boothia” A choice of several pilgrim fathers The Stratford (Conn) setis offered tler 1640 was Richard Booth from the Southold Cheshire Bowden (L 1640 and from Cheshalso pilgrim I) Six years later ire was John Booth wre find Robert Booth helping to found town of Exeter N II He too the was of the Cheshire branch and we are told that Richard John and Robert were brothers and 6ons or was it grandsons of Sir William Booth W knight? The southern branch of the family dates back to Thomas Booth related In some way to Sir George Booth earl Thomas made a home of Warrington at Ware Gloucester county Va Or if he cannot be counted upon for a progenitor there is Edwin Thomas Booth of Belair Maryland of Connecticut Richard the immiElizabeth sister of grant married the first town Joseph Hawley Capt clerk of Stratford Richard too was an officeholder and he seems to have been married twice for in 1689 he speaks of “my now wife” a phrase in dicative as then used of a second Elizabeth was the mother marriage of his eight children of whom a Elizabeth married John Minor married Mary Clark Ephraim Ebenezer married Elizabeth Jones for and Joseph second wife surpassed them all for he had three wives all told There was another marriage with the Hawleys connection Sergt John son of Richard the first married Dorothy daughter of Thomas Hawley was in the Tequot war Sergt John and his hat pierced by a bullet was a relic treasured by descendprecious ants for fifty years or more when it from mortal ken no one disappeared Of the Booths knowB where or how who valiantly bore their part in the revolution Nathanmay be mentioned iel of Connecticut sergeant major The illustrated is blazoned: argent three boars’ heads erect and erased sable Crest a lion passant argent The motto Motto Quod Ero Spero I “What may be translated freely I shall accomhope to accomplish plish” or “Hope Perseverance Suc- daughter cess” This dates back 700 years or more and was perhaps that borne by Adam de Boothes It beto Sir George Booth third Lord longed Delamere and second earl of Warrington born about the middle of the eighteenth Lady century Mary countess dowager of Stamford was Sir George’s daughter V"4ryy f- "vf it'' C l?J CONGRESS AT ' IN THE ROME International Gathering of Foes of berculosia to Be Held Late In September SAME Bo ' Official announcement of the Seventh International on Tuberculo-jiCongress which will Include representatives from every civilized in the country world has been made bythe National Association for the Study and Prevention of Tuberculosis The congress will be held in Rome from September 24 to 30 1911 and will be similar in man respects to that held in Washington in the fall of 1908 The congress which meets every three years will be under the direcj patronage of the king and queen of Italy An American committee of 100 will be appointed as the official represenJones — After preparing a long tatives of the United States Meanfor the dinner the other night while the National Association for the speech I couldn’t remember a word of it Study and Prevention of Tuberculosis Jaggsby —I couldn’t remember any Is acting in that capacity and its office of mine the morning after In New York will be the headquarters for the United States delegation The Music lends expression to that for is which the speech has no words — Carsecretary general of the congress Prof Vittorio Ascoli of Rome men Sylva As a direct result of the stimulus of the last international congress held In this country the American committee will be able to report that the number of tuberculosis agencies in this country have been tripled in the three Jears More than twice as much money is being spent in the fight against tuberculosis by private societies and institutions and the appropriations of federal state municipal and I want any person who suffers with bll county have increased nearly lounness constipation indigestion or any It is estimated that nearly liver or blood ailment to try my Liver Pills I guarantee they will purify tha will be spent in blood and put the liver and stomach into a work in 1910 healthful condition and will positively cure biliousness and constipation or I will refund Horn money - Munyon’i Homeopathlo Sour A Handicapped Co Phlla 63rd and Jefferson Sts Pa Official “You let some of the swiftest auto scorchers get by without a word?” RY MURINE EYE REMED “I know it” replied the village conFor Red Weak Weary Watery Eye and stable “My glasses don’t suit my GRANULATED EYELIDS eyes like they used to and I can’t do Murine Doesn’t Eye Pain anything with an auto that ain’t goin’ Dratrub Sell Meriae Ere Beady Liquid 25c 50c $100 slow enough fur me to read the num- Murine Eye In Anptie Tubes 25c $100 EYE BOOKS AND ADVICE FREE BY MAH ber’ fry? ROAD AVCW ONDURAS TrClCOJJLAA TO Trtf COAST Is a particularly ap- 30000 inhabitants and is built along the lines laid down by th Spanish ocpropriate name for that of hills and valleys It is cupants — narrow streets adobe houses windows said that Las Honduras (The with thick walls embrasured doors The Rio Depths) is the name given the and Grande de Tegucigalpa flows through :ountry by the Spanish Conqulstadores the secand In their march northward during two divides into it city their tions the — and :on quest of Central America capital proper probathe poorer section On the high enbly so named for the difficulties countered in making trail over the bank of the capital side and at one end of the large concrete bridge which mountains the is spans the palace river situated Entering the republic on the Pacific of the frame president a or south side we landed at Amapala at building entrance to which a port situated on El is stationed anevery armed sentry solemnly TIgre island in the Bay of Fonseca pacing back and forth in the “goose There is only a short wharf at Amaof the German On the army vessels of light step” pala to accommodate west side of the plaza is the American so we were hustled into a draught a frame building canoe and rowed to the wharf by a na- legation tive boatman Here we were set upon the finest edifice in Honduras From the capital we set out for the by a throng of natives ranging from small boys to men every department of Olancho and the placer gold country After leaving the city one of whom wished to carry our bagwe followed narrow trails the only After much bickergage to the hotel roads All travel and transportation is ing one youth agreed to carry all our bundles fifteen in number from the by beast In Olancho the attitude of the peowharf to the custom house and thence is as listless as elsewhere in the to the hotel for 2 pesos the equiva- ple except that the women are lent of one dollar in our coin and the republic more industrious than the men and In bargain was made fact they support the men and chilWe found the hotel to be a dren by their own efforts From May wooden structure old dirty and to December all the streams are lined infested with rats bedbugs and other with camps of native families engaged vermin In settling for our meals we in The women washing were obliged to change some of our are much more expert in this than the money for the coin of the country andf men and do practically all of the work eceived two and for one one in Honduras stream Nearly every 40 peso being worth approximately bears gold though seldom is it found cents United States coin in sufficiently heavy deposits to justify We next euterpd a gasoline launch in working it Americans for the trip to San Lorenzo the mainThere are legends of fabulously rich land port of Honduras in the Bay of in- - Mosquitla the placer deposits We wound our way through Fonseca farthest northeast of the channels between the heavy ever- of Honduras and I have departments seen many I until and glades turning twisting huggets weighing from four to fifteen wondered at our boatman’s being able ounces brought out by the Indians to find the way at all In places we ThiB region however is an unexentered lanes where the trees would plored jungle Impassable for beast and approach one another till only a few so tor man feet of water remained on either side nearly In the northwestern part of Hon of the boat only to emerge into open duras are some very rich placer mines water again and perhaps to be startled worked and a few ledge by Americans by the sudden rising of a flock of mines owned by foreigners At San cranes or aigrets east of the Juanclto seven leagues Lorenzo San found we at Arriving mine owned capital is the Rosario flatboat unloading provisions and and operated by New York and native merchandise for the San Rosario mine capitalists and this is the richest at San Juanclto 120 miles away These mine in the country supplies were loaded upon heavy bull There are no industries worth the ' the construction carts Jof crude the foreigners in Honduras mention wheels were of solid wood four inches are shy of investing fearing the un in thickness and about three feet in stableness of the government and the The oxen were hooked to natives lack the diameter capital wherewith to the pole of the cart by a curious develop- their natural resources wooden yoke which fits upon the heads have been recently let Concessions of the beasts and is lashed there with to American promoters for two rail It Is a very roads and work has been already begun buckskin thongs and rags crude method of yoking oxen but Is on the road from Iriona in the deInvariable throughout Central Ameri- partment of Mosquitla to tap the rich ca lands of the inrubber and mahogany After partaking of a breakfast of tor- terior When these roads are comtillas honey turtles’ egg and chicken and an outlet is had for rich pleted we were informed that our beasts were rubber deposits cattle and precious waiting to take us to the capital Te- woods there is no reason why HonWe found awaiting us the duras should not become a prosperous gucigalpa and a country poorest and scrawniest lot of stock republic that I have ever had the misfortune to for its agricultural and mineral prodand the saddles simply begencounter ucts some were discardREX gared description ed cavalry saddles of antique design some were old Spanish saddles and Pleasel Notice Take some were simply pieces of stiff cowfor hiccure An instantaneous hide stretched over wooden frames of is to take one teaspoonful we mounted and set out coughs However common vinegar The road northward our way upon For the earache put ten drops of hills of succession rolling lies over a warm over a of brandy into a teaspoon covered with a beautiful growth steaming hot then dip Cattle and hogs of candle until tropical verdure into it a small piece of cotton wool nferlor breeds were scattered through and place In the ear the country and paid no attention to Stained Hands — Raw tomatoes efus as we passed by remove fruit and vegetable fectually At irregular intervals we passed nastains from the hands They answer tive huts by the roadside some built as lemons set upright a few exactly the same purpose of vertical poles which are not always obtainable inches apart and thatched with palm When choosing a house four points sort a of thick eaves or “monkey tail’’ should be looked to particularly: (1) ungle grass others of adobe with red The soil on which it is built (2) the clay tile roofs These huts of the poorwhich one will be exposed (3) the earth for air to er people have only the water with which it is supplied floors and the furniture seldom comof the drains the condition (4) and a chair a table prises more than chilmuslin To draperies prevent The poorer ones seldom see or two from blazing are dren’s frocks etc md money and the commodoties should they accidentally catch fire by a system of barter exchanged dissolve a bit of alum in the water In Hence we see a few scattered which they are rinsed They will then or crops of corn or sugar cane smolder 'away The alum is not seldom exceeding a couple of acres in only underbred cattle and at all injurious to the muslin jixtent while stock graze over leagues of as rich agsoil as is found anywhere ricultural Says Uncle Eben We stopped at one or “A man may be sumpin’ of a crank” in the world two of the huts for a lunch but the said Uncle Eben "an’ not have much best to be had was a tortilla a piece trouble if he’s willin’ to go ’long wif ’stid o’ tryln’ of curd a banana or a plantain de general machinery The capital with its environs boasts to turn de other way” T Y Murine Eye Remedy CoChlcago How’s This? 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