Rena Belle Walker was born on 8 Jun 1911.
(1554) She died on 26 Jun 1975.(1555)
She was buried in Centerpoint, Webster, Georgia.
(1556)She was married to James Conyers Smith
on 11 Nov 1944 in Webster, Georgia.(1557)
(1558)
Anne
Wallis was born about 1647 in Bedford.(1559)
(1560)
(1561) She died on 28 Oct 1703.(1562)
(1563) The Alstons and Allstons
of North and South Carolina, page 19: His daughter, Anne, married John Alston
(4th son of John Alston and Dorothy Temple), whose eldest son, John, was baptized
at Felmersham 5th December, 1673. As with Thomasin Brooke, so likewise with Anne
Wallis. Being mentioned as the daughter of Wallis, carries with it the assumption
that he was prominent before the public and well known, which would apply to
none other of the name at that time but this John Wallis.
Robert Miller says abt 1643 Parents: John Wallis
and Susanna Glyde.She was married to
John Alston II.(1564)
(1565)(1566) Children were:
Col. John Alston III.
John
Wallis was born on 23 Nov 1616 in Ashford, Kent.
(1567) He died on 28 Oct 1703.(1568)
(1569) The Alstons and Allstons
of North and South Carolina, pages 17-19: National Cyclopedia of Useful Knowledge.
London, 1851, Vol. xii, Charles Knight, 90 Fleet Street. Page 731.
John Wallis was the oldest son of the Rev, John Wallis, incumbent of Ashford
in Kent, where he was born Nov. 23d, 1616. The father of Wallis died when he
was six years old, leaving five children to the care of his widow. He was fifteen
years old when his curiosity was excited by seeing a book of arithmetic in the
hands of his younger brother, who was preparing for trade. On his showing some
curiosity to know what it meant, his brother went through the rules with him,
and in a fortnight he had mastered the whole. He was entered at Emanuel College,
Cambridge, where he soon obtained reputation. Among his other studies, anatomy
found a place; and he is said to have been the first student who maintained,
in a public disputation, the doctrine of the circulation of the blood, which
had been promuglated by Harvey four or five years before. After taking the degree
of Master of Arts, he was chosen Fellow of Queens, and took orders in 1640. He
was then chaplain in one and another private family, residing partly in London,
till the breaking out of the civil war, in which he took the side of the Parliament.
He made himself useful to his party by deciphering intercepted letters, an act
in which he was eminent. In 1643, the sequestrated living of St. Gabriel, Fenchurch
street, was given to him, and in the same year he published "Truth Tried,
or Animadversions on the Lord Brooks Treatise on the Nature of Truth." In
this year also he came into a handsome fortune by the death of his mother. In
1644 he was appointed one of the secretaries of the Assembly of Divines at Westminster.
In this year also he married. In 1645 be was among the first who joined those
meetings, which afterwards gave rise to the Royal Society. When the Independents
began to prevail, Wallis joined with others of the clergy in opposing them, and
in 1648 subscribed a remonstrance against the execution of Charles I. In 1649
he was appointed Savilian Professor of Geometry at Oxford by the Parliamentary
visitors. He now moved to Oxford and applied himself diligently to mathematics.
At the end of 1650 be first met with the method of indivisibles in the writings
of Torricelli, and from this time his celebrated researches begin. In 1658 Wallis,
who with others desired the restoration of the kingly power, employed his art
of deciphering on the side of the Royalists, so that at the Restoration he was
received with favor by Charles IT., confirmed in his professorship and in the
place of keeper of the archives at Oxford, and was made one of the royal chaplains.
In 1661 he was one of the clergy appointed to review the Book of Common Prayer.
He was of course one of the first members of the Royal Society, and from this
to his death his life is little more than the list of his works. The collections
of his works by the Curator of the Oxford University Press began to be made in
1692. The three volumes bear the disordered dates of 1695, 1693 and 1699. In
1692 he was consulted upon the adoption of the Gregorian calendar, or new style,
against which he gave a strong opinion, and the design was abandoned. In 1696
when the first two volumes of his works appeared he was the remote occasion of
beginning the controversy between the followers of Newton and Leibnitz. Some
remarks were made on his assertions as to the origin of the differential calculus
in the Leipzig Acts, which produced a correspondence, and this correspondence
was published in the 3d volume. He died Oct. 28tb, 1703, in his 88th year. Wallis
in his literary character is to be considered as a theologian, a scholar and
a mathematician. As a divine he would probably not have been remembered but for
his eminence in the other characters. His discourses on the Trinity are still
quoted in the histories of opinions on that subject. If the character of Wallis
has been elevated as a divine by his celebrity as a philosopher, his services
as a scholar have for the same reason been, if not underrated, at least thrown
into a shade. He was the first editor of the "Harmonies" of Ptolemeus,
of the commentary on it by Porphyrius, and of the later work of Brennius; as
also of Aristarchus of Samoa. As a mathematician Wallis is the most immediate
predecessor of Newton, both in the time at which he lived and the subjects at
which he worked. Those who incline to the opinion that scientific discoveries
are not the work of the man, but of the man and the hour, that is, who regard
each particular conquest as the necessary consequences of the actual state of
things, and as certain to come from one quarter or another when the time arrives,
will probably say that if Wallis had not lived, Newton would but have filled
his place as far as the pure mathematics are concerned.
Much has been written about him and in his literary character he is to be considered
as a Theologian, a Scholar and a Mathematician.He was married to
Susanna Glyde.(1570) Children were:
Anne Wallis.
Isolda
De WaltonShe was married to Lord John Le Strange
.(1571) Children were:
Lord Roger Le Strange.
William
De WarrenHe was married. Children were: Roger De
Mortimer.
Agnes
Woodville Parents: Richard Woodville and
Jacqueta.She was married to William Dormer.
(1572) Children were:
Sir Robert Dormer.
Richard
WoodvilleHe was married to Jacqueta.
(1573) Children were: Agnes Woodville.
Agnes
Wrothe was born in ?Enfield, Middlesex.(1574)
She was married to Sir Pain De Tibetot.
(1575) Children were:
Sir John De Tibetot.
Baroness
Jacquetta Wydvile(1576) Parents:
Earl Richard Wydvile and Jacqueline
Plantagenet.She was married to Lord John Strange
.(1577) Children were:
Baroness Joan Strange.
Earl
Richard Wydvile(1578)He was married
to Jacqueline Plantagenet.
(1579) Children were: Baroness Jacquetta Wydvile
.
Grizel
(Gilly) Yancey was born on 11 Apr 1752 in ?Orange, North Carolina.
(1580) She died on 8 Nov 1845 in Culloden, Monroe, Georgia.
(1581) Sometime after the death of James Alston, his widow, Grizel
(Gilly) moved to Monroe County, GA. and settled about two miles from Culloden,
Ga., where she died. Mrs. James Alston, in her character and widely spread influence,
was a most remarkable woman.
The following is an obituary notice, written soon after her death:
Mrs. Gilly (Yancey) Alston "Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord"
Died on the 8th of Nov. 1845, near Culloden, GA., Mrs. Gilly Alston, relict of
Mrs. James Alston, in the 94th year of her age. She became religious in early
life in North Carolina, and was some of the first fruits of the Medthodist ministry
in that State. She and here husband cast their lots with them at a chruch twenty
miles distant, but shortly afterwards their house became a place for preaching,
and a society was formed there. When they removed to Georgia, they brought their
religion with them, and were among the first Methodists in Elbert County. The
venerable Bishop Asbury in traveling through the South, used to find a home in
their hospital dwelling. About thirty years ago did this venerable matron become
a widow, but Providence seems to have kindly alleviated her bereavement by the
assiduity and warm affection of a maiden daughter, who took upon herself all
the burdens and cares of the household, and was a truly excellent nurse. Her
last affliction was of seven week's duration and extremely painful, yet she bore
it with fortitude, and died as she had lived --- a Christian. Some of here last
stammering accents were uttered in a sololoquy which bespoke the triumph of her
faith. Just before her departure she said: "O, the joy, the glory, the richness
of the inheritance of the saints!" She has gone to join the compaion of
her youth, and some of her children and grandchildren at God's right hand; and
leaving behind her upwards of a hundred of her descendants, dow to the fourth
generation, most of whom that are come to years of maturity, are members of the
Methodist Chruch, and are trying to follow the footsteps of this veteran of the
Cross. "Verily, the genteration of the upright shall be blessed." Her
daughter, Mrs. Banks, of Alabama, was permitted to visit her in her last illness,
and remained with her until she died. This visit she esteemed as a boon of kind
Providence toware her in her last affliction.
The above was written by John Joseph Groves from the Book, The Alstons and Allstons
of North and South Carolina, 1901.
The following is an obituary notice, written soon after her death:
Mrs. Gilly (Yancey) Alston "Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord"
Died on the 8th of Nov. 1845, near Culloden, GA., Mrs. Gilly Alston, relict of
Mrs. James Alston, in the 94th year of her age. She became religious in early
life in North Carolina, and was some of the first fruits of the Medthodist ministry
in that State. She and here husband cast their lots with them at a chruch twenty
miles distant, but shortly afterwards their house became a place for preaching,
and a society was formed there. When they removed to Georgia, they brought their
religion with them, and were among the first Methodists in Elbert County. The
venerable Bishop Asbury in traveling through the South, used to find a home in
their hospital dwelling. About thirty years ago did this venerable matron become
a widow, but Providence seems to have kindly alleviated her bereavement by the
assiduity and warm affection of a maiden daughter, who took upon herself all
the burdens and cares of the household, and was a truly excellent nurse. Her
last affliction was of seven week's duration and Parents:
Jeconais Yancey and Ann Kimbrough.She was married
to James Alston on 24 Mar 1774 in Orange, North Carolina.
(1582) Children were:
John Alston.
Jeconais
YanceyHe was married to Ann Kimbrough.
(1583) Children were:
Grizel (Gilly) Yancey.
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