A genealogy and family history of the David Maggard family of Virginia. Beginning with his father Hans Maggard b.c. 1690 in Switzerland d. 1783 Rockingham County, Virginia and ending with his 4th great grandson Guy W. Holman b. 1873 Scotland County, Missouri d. 1957 Anaheim, California. Included are biographies of the ancestors in the direct family line and genealogies of the ancestor's siblings. Contains newspaper articles, document images and previously unpublished family photographs.
Heinrich Nagel (Henry Nail) (1771-1827), son of Gottlieb Nagel (Caleb Nail) and his wife Margaret of Döffingen, Germany, married 1798 in Rowan Co., North Carolina, Mary Keller (1776-1857), the daughter of Jacob and Barbara Keller. Henry Nail died in Addison Twp., Shelby Co., Indiana. They were parents of thirteen children. Gottlieb Nagel (Caleb Nail) arrived in Pennsylvania in 1754 where he spent the next twenty years. By about 1774 he had left Pennsylvania and moved with at least four of his children to North Carolina. Thomas Ray (1762-1829) was the son of William Ray of Wake Co., N.C. He was born in Granville Co., North Carolina. He married in Wake County Elizabeth Pearce (ca. 1764-1844) in 1783. She was the daughter of Nathan and Nance Weston? Pearce. Family members migrated to Shelby County, Ind. in the early 1820s.
Little did we know that a curiosity to find out more about the Marley family would lead to thousands of hours of research, many delightful journeys, and span more than a dozen years of effort. In 1986 my wife, Lynn (Marley) Coffey, and I started a family research effort that brought us to James Marley in Sampson County, North Carolina, in the year 1794. From there our journey revealed the presence of six Marley families in North Carolina: three families in Chatham County (several members of which moved to Wilkes County), with Randoph, Orange, and Edgecombe Counties each providing yet another family. Members of these original six families spread out across the South, West, and Mid-West (Tennesee, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Kentucky, Texas, Indiana, Iowa, Illinois, Missouri, and Kansas) and a few stayed in North Carolina. Descendants of all of the six families contributed genealogical information. Our research deepened with the assistance of the Marley Family Association, which has been established by Dr. Michael Frost, Mrs. Joyce Hensen, and Mrs Ruth Ray. Exchanges of information at the annual Association meetings and research trips each Spring generated even more Marley Family data. Our quest for the families' heritage was collaboration with these individuals and many, many others, including Kay Somerville, Ruth Ann Jones, and Eleanor Peak. Some other family names in this book are: Bray, Bruce, Caswell, Chapman, Drake, Elliott, Hall, Mabene, Marlow, Nettles, Peak, Shine, Sutton, Swaim, Teague, Underwood, White.
