** All Text on these chapter pages has been copied verbatim – with permission – from this book: “Shurtleff Family Genealogy & History – Second Edition 2005” by William Roy Shurtleff & his dad, Lawton Lothrop Shurtleff **
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PART I
THE SHURTLEFF LINE: FROM WILLIAM SHURTLEFF (1619-1666) TO SAMUEL MATTHEW SHURTLEFF (1839-1890)
Chapter 1 Origin of the Shurtleff Family in England: The First Four Generations in America
Chapter 2 Our Shurtleffs Move from New England to Quebec, Canada:
Chapter 3 George J. Avery, Jr. (1815-1850), Maria Louisa Avann (1824-1912), and George Wickes Reanier (1819-1876?)
Chapter 4 Charlotte Louise Aseneth Avery (1849-1926) and John David Meek (1836-1883)
Chapter 5 Samuel Matthew Shurtleff (1839-1889), Varilla Marston (1841-1882), and Charlotte Avery Meek (1849-1926)
PART II
THE LAWTON LINE: FROM THOMAS LAWTON (1614-?) TO FRANK H. LAWTON (1852-1934)
Chapter 6 Origin of the Lawton Family in England: The First Six Generations in America
Chapter 7 Charles D. Lawton (1802-1877) and Susan A. Houghteling (1812-1886): The Seventh Generation
Baron de Zeng (1756-1838) and Mary Lawrence (1765-1835)
James Houghteling (1779-1849) and Ernestine de Zeng (1784-1859)
Chapter 8 Frank Houghteling Lawton (1852-1934) and Francis Marion “Fannie” Rogers (1859-1930)
Captain William P. Rogers (1810?-1862) and Frances Marion O’Donnell (1824/1825-1872)
PART III
ROY AND HAZLE SHURTLEFF, AND THEIR YOUNG CHILDREN
Chapter 9 Roy Shurtleff’s Childhood Years (1887-1908)
Chapter 10 Roy’s College Years (1908-1912)
Chapter 11 Founding Blyth, Witter & Co., and Marriage to Hazle Lawton (1912-1913)
Chapter 12 Hazle Clifton Lawton’s Early Years (1890-1913)
Chapter 13 Starting a Family and Early Years at Blyth (1913-1916)
Chapter 14 Life on the Peninsula (1917-1921)
Chapter 15 Oakland, Mt. Diablo, and Lake Tahoe (1921-1924)
Chapter 16 Piedmont, Homewood (Tahoe), and Early Years of Abundance (1925-1929)
Chapter 17 The Great Depression Begins (1929-1935)
Chapter 18 On the East Coast (1936-1937)
Chapter 19 The Ranch in the Alhambra Valley, California (1938-1945)
Chapter 20 Roy and Hazle’s Separation and Hazle’s Life Alone (1945-1948)
Chapter 21 Roy’s Life in San Francisco and His Remarriage (1945-1961)
Chapter 22 Roy’s Retirement and the Shurtleff Genealogy (1962-1976)
Chapter 23 Roy’s Later Years (1977-1985)
PART IV
DESCENDANTS OF ROY AND HAZLE SHURTLEFF
Chapter 24 Lawton Lothrop Shurtleff (1914-) and Barbara Anne Reinhardt (1918-1976)
Chapter 25 Eugene Avery Shurtleff (1917-1999) and Rose Maria Kerner (1918-1961)
Chapter 26 Nancy Lee Shurtleff (1919-) and George Willard Miller, Jr. (1919-2001)
PART V
DESCENDANTS OF MARIA LOUISA AVANN AND GEORGE W. REANIER
DESCENDANTS OF CHARLOTTE AVERY AND JOHN DAVID MEEK
Chapter 27 Frank Eugene Reanier (1856-1931) and Ida Sarah Elster (1868-1963)
Chapter 28 Charles Avann Meek (1868-1945) and Minna Lipp (1868-1931)
Chapter 29 Jesse Meek (1870-1963) and Herbert Sargent Martin (1869-1916)
Chapter 30 Nettie Meek (1880-1977)
PART VI
DESCENDANTS OF FRANK AND FANNIE LAWTON
Chapter 31 Winifred Marion Lawton (1885-1981) and Charles Birney Seymour (1866-1956)
Chapter 32 Harry Rogers Lawton (1889-1972) and Beatrice Joyce Birbeck (1892-1948)
Chapter 33 Helen Gladys Lawton (1892-1938) and Lemuel Edward Martin (1892-1961)
Chapter 34 Donald Carroll Lawton (1894-1997) and Willie May “Billie” Spaulding (1897-1990)
Chapter 35 Dorothy Burnett Lawton (1896-1981) and Harry Eldridge Peet (1893-1977)
PART VII – APPENDIXES
Appendix A – Pedigree Charts
Appendix B – Chronology of Roy & Hazel Shurtleff
Appendix C – Three Famous Shurtleffs: Benjamin Shurtleff (1774 – 1847) Nathaniel Bradstreet Shurtleff (1810 – 1874) & Ernest Warburton Shurtleff (1862 – 1917)
Appendix D – More on the Martins & Sornbergers
Appendix E – The Ancestors of Fannie Rogers & Her Relationship to Robert E. Lee
Bibliography of the Shurtleff & Lawton Shurtleff (Chronological)
About The Authors – Lawton Lothrop Shurtleff (and his son) William Roy Shurtleff
About the web designer – Robert Eugene Shurtleff (The Website Guy)
Shurtleff & Lawton Families Genealogy & History - Second Edition (2005) 