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Cutliff Genealogy [note: This may be an appendage to a letter written to Julia Cutliff Shaffer by Amelia E. Cutliff. This typescript created by Judith Lanoux Smith March 2018. Fact-checking notes are added to avoid confusion.]

From old letters, Bible & Public Records & my Father’s knowledge

Our ancestor was Abram Cutliff, an Englishman who spoke with that accent & who went to Virginia prior to the Revolutionary War. He served in the Colonial Army five years being a prisoner the last two years. Being “exchanged” he went home with a friend & later married this friend’s sister, Mary Durham, just before the surrender of Cornwallis, (1781) in Hanover County, near Hanover Court House, Va. They went to Greenbriar & Danville, Va. but soon after the War they came to Ga. & spent the remainder of their lives in Putnam Co, Georgia where they died & were buried, also their son John, the father of John M. Cutliff.

	The children of Abram & Mary Cutliff were —

1st Benj: born Feb 7, 1783 2nd Nancy: born June 7, 1785 3rd John: born July 7, 1788

	(Bible Record)

I Benj married Miss Ray. Their children were: 1st William Emory [JLS note: his name is Richard Amory] 2nd John 3rd Talitha 4th James Shannon William Emory & John married sisters. Talitha married Wm Lockett & lived in Knoxville, Tenn. Their children; Mrs. Sarah Goodrich, William, etc James Shannon, M.D. married Fannie(?) Baxter. Their children —

      Julia married John D Shaffer
      Blandina married Charles B Stewart
      Baxter died
      William Emory, M.D. married – [JLS note: his name is William Ogburn]
      Annie Elizabeth married Egbert Rand

II Nancy, daughter of Abram& Mary Cutliff, married Jacob Kitchens in Putnam Co. Ga. 1809.

      She died Jan 12 – 1865

Children:

      Mrs Kelly,
       Euphania who married Honeycutt & their son: 
      J. T. Honeycutt was a West Point Cadet who afterwards became a Professor of 

Mathematics there & in 1886 was Professor of Military Science & Tactics at Rutgers College, New Brunswick, N. J. with rank of 1st Lieut

III John, son of Abram & Mary Cutliff, married Lucinda Ragan, Jan. 6th 1815.

      Died of Typhoid Fever July 22nd 1823	
      Their children were:
      	Jane
      	Mary
      	John M.
      The girls died in childhood. Their only son, John M. Cutliff, married Mary S. Jones (the 

daughter of Judge Wm Jones & his last wife Elcy) Dec 17th 1846. He died July 1st 1907, & his wife died Dec 6th 1907.

      Their children:
      	Susan Jane, William Emory, Ragan Jones, Joseph Holiday, Mary, Ellen Hanson (Nellie), 

John, Edwin Agustus, May Van, Amelia Evangeline (Mela), Jerre Griffin, Mariah Tift.

      Susan J. married Moody Burt Meriwether, M.D. Their children are Rosa Burt & William Gordon.
      Rosa  married Thos. W. O’Kelley D.D. & their children are Thos. W Jr. ,Mary Cutliff & Wm 

Meriwether O’Kelley. Wm Gordon Meriwether married Hattie Belle Wynn, their children are Gordon Jr. & John Cutliff Meriwether.

      Ragan Jones Cutliff married Pauline Seitz of St. Louis Mo.  No Children
      Joseph Holiday Cutliff married Johnnie Siles of Ala. He died Dec 31 – 1912. No children
      May Van Cutliff married Thos. Michelle Ticknor, she died leaving an only child, Michelle Cutliff 

Ticknor who married Wm Meriwether Furlow July 1st 1914.

      Jerre Griffin Cutliff, D.D.S. married Carrie Ida Turner. They have one child, John Milton Cutliff, 

born July 18- 1894.

      The Ga. Records show that Abram Cutliff received land grants in Appling & Carroll Cos for 

Revolutionary War service.

      The War Department at Washington D.C. has record of his service but the name is misspelled 

Cutlip. [JLS note: There is no evidence that this is a correct assumption. There is a Cutlip family in present-day West Virginia.]

      Amelia E Cutliff
       318 Society St., Albany, Ga.
      (over)

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There was a large estate for the Cutliff heirs in England which went to the Crown, not being called for after so many years. I have never tried to trace the name in England but I hope sometime to be financially able to do so & get a copy of the coat of arms — if there was one. We have a long record of my mother’s line — back to 1200A.D. Sir John Thornhill & Sir Dolphin de Tankersley — Coat of Arms represent the Crusades. I am anxious to know more of the Cutliff line.

Father loved the memory of his people and it was his habit to catecise his children by asking “Who was Uncle Ben so & so?” A wrong answer ever provoked him to say “Tut, you don’t care whether you have grandparents or not”! In his years of feeble health, by way of entertaining him, we talked much of the past & his people & my mother’s, so, at their dictation I wrote down quite a good deal of information besides the records. My father loved your father & uncles whom he knew from boyhood days & named my brothers Wm Emory for one whom he corresponded with in years gone by. So, it gives me double pleasure to pass this record on to you to keep.

  		Lovingly,
		A.E.C.