May Folk Webb - Cary-Estes Genealogy

Compiled And Arranged By May Folk Webb And Patrick Mann Estes

Edited and updated in 1979 by Helen Estes Seltzer (1920-2010)

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Originally rinted by the Tuttle Publishing Co., Inc., Rutland, Vt., 1939.

Reprinted, 1979 by Helen Estes Seltzer

The companion book, The Cary-Estes-Moore Genealogy (from 1981) is available as an ebook and onlilne at http://www.seltzerbooks.com/moore.html

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Library of Congress Card Number 79-003, ISBN 0-931968-00-3.

Out of print for many years, the CARYESTES GENEALOGY has been treasured as an heirloom by the few family members fortunate to possess a copy. This volume carries the family history from Renaissance Italy and England and Colonial America up to 1939.

Several years ago I set out to carry on the work of the authors, May Folk Webb and Patrick Mann Estes, trying to gather information on all that has happened in the family since 1939 and uncovering new information. Many members of the family have been very generous and cooperative, supplying valuable data about present and past generations. I will be publishing the new material as a separate, matching volume, the CARYESTESMOORE GENEALOGY, very soon.

In the course of my research, as I followed up leads, contacting more and more family members, I discovered that the vast majority not only did not possess but did not even know about the existence of the CARYESTES GENEALOGY. They were unaware of their origins and of their ancestral ties with American and European history. I, therefore, felt that it was important to make this book available to the family and to interested libraries and researchers.

This reprint includes all of the text of the first edition, just as it originally appeared. The coats of arms are being printed as a dust jacket rather than bound in with the text so that those who wish can have them framed. Also, please note the brief errata section at the end. These are corrections to the original, based on my own research and information provided by family members. Some of these seemingly minor details are very important in establishing your eligibility for membership in such organizations as the National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution and the National Society of the Colonial Dames of America.

To make this edition possible it was necessary to borrow a pristine copy from the Virginia State Library, Richmond. Credit must be given to Lia Hemphill, Head of the Reference Department, and her assistant, Marian Erickson, of the Ludington Library, Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, who graciously handled the inter-library loan.

Even after the publication of this book and its companion volume, I will continue to gather information on the family. If you have corrections and/or new material you feel belongs in our family genealogy book, please send them to me. After I have gathered sufficient new material to warrant it, perhaps in about ten years, I may publish a third volume.

I welcome your suggestions, comments, and continued cooperation.

Helen Estes Seltzer, 1981

Good blood, descent from, the great and good, is a high honor and privilege. He that lives worthily of it is deserving of the highest esteem; he that does not, of the deeper disgrace.

C OLTON

Those only deserve to be remembered by posterity who treasure up a history of their ancestors. B URKE .

In 1907 we commenced a research for family history, necessary to join some American patriotic organization.

At that time it was not easy, for only a few persons, comparatively speaking, had considered the importance of gathering data or preserving family history, so our research extended through many volumes of books and magazines, and innumerable pages were turned before efforts were rewarded which enabled us to connect the past with the present.

During that period of extensive research a thought crystallized in our consciousness, that we could be of service to the family and the large connections by gathering this data and placing the records under one cover for future reference and for future generations to carry on what we had begun.

CARY-ESTES GENEALOGY is the result of that inspiration and of many years of work.

It is finished. Thank you for your help. We did our best. Unto your judgment we commit this work asking your kind consideration, for any errors in family history. We were only the clearing house for all material and accepted the information sent us, which we wove together to make this, your genealogy.

This is a labor of sacrifice and love. Cherish it for yourself and for your descendants.

M AY F OLK W EBB

August 21, 1938

People will not look forward to posterity who never look backward to their ancestors. E DMUND B URKE

We wish, first of all, to acknowledge with thanks and deep appreciation the inspiration and cooperation we have received from our cousin, Hon. Patrick Mann Estes, Attorney-at-Law, Nashville, Tennessee, for his keen interest in family history, and for his faithful and untiring research for records through the states of Virginia, Tennessee and into Kentucky and Missouri where the Cary and Estes descendants lived and died. He has been most generous in sending us full information obtained and many of his letters are herein published for permanent record.

In person he has visited many county seats and found valuable history; he has visited old homesteads and landmarks and crumbling tombs of ancestors, and has come in direct contact with members of families, which enabled him to obtain material that correspondence could not procure. In a material way he has aided by enabling us to pay genealogists and county clerks for important research for family history. He is the co-compiler of the CARY-ESTES GENEALOGY.

We give credit also to our cousin Miss Annebel Moore of Brownsville and Memphis, Tennessee, who perhaps was the first to recognize the importance of an accurate family history, and obtained Estes wills and data which we are permitted to use in this genealogy.

The writers sister, Mrs. Lucile Folk Cox, of Helena, Arkansas, has been of great help in gathering material of family records and has assisted in the financial part of construction, and has been our inspiration to continue the colossal work we had begun when the burden seemed too heavy to bear.

We absorbed much of the material that Dr. Edgar Estes Folk of Nashville, Tennessee, had gathered over a period of years, a rich legacy given us in his life and left at his death in 1917.

In fact, every member of our immediate family and relatives has taken a keen interest in this genealogy, their genealogy, and they are to be thanked for the inspiration, the cooperation and material encouragement to carry on this great work to its completion. The name of each is recorded under his or her family history as given in the body of this book. We feel grateful and wish all to know that without YOU this genealogy could not have been realized. In union of mind and heart there is strength.