History
Culver Family Tradition - Yale Ancestors
The following note has been circulating in our family for several years, although its origin is unknown to us.
It may have been based in part upon the R.H. Yale book, "Yale Genealogy And The History Of Wales", although at least some of the genealogy (and possibly the entire text of the note), apparently came from the July, 1924 issue of the New Haven Genealogy Magazine, published by D. L. Jacobus, New Haven, Connecticut. However, it is clear from the dated references and the inclusion of later descendants that some of the genealogy came from other sources, possibly the records of Phyllis Melissa Culver (Raymer) or those of Edwin (Ned) Culver (See also, Ned's Family History, "The Golden Years from 1908" on this Website).
The names of Millard Everett Culver and his children (displayed in red) were not included in the original, but have been added by us.
Although we do not yet possess primary source documentation of this lineage, the confidence we have in connecting our immediate family (the descendants of Millard Everett Culver) to the line of Ambrose Culver and Eliza Yale rests in the fact that Millard's brother, Lawrence Culver and his sister, Phyllis Melissa Culver are listed in this genealogy, along with Phyllis' children (who, as our cousins, have contributed to this website), and her parents are the parents of our grandfather, Millard Everett Culver.
CULVER
BACKGROUND:
The name CULVER is derived from the Anglo-Saxon "culver," meaning a pigeon, dove or gentle, and the word culverhouse is still found in some parts of England where it is used to indicate a dovecote. It probably originated as a surname with some person who kept doves or pigeons.
According to the documentation accompanying the CULVER family arms, there are two possible explanations for the origin of the English surname Culver. In the first case, it may be of local origin, being one of those names derived from the place where a man once lived or where he once held land. The source of the name can be traced to the Old English word "culfre" which denotes "a dove." Thus, the bearer of the surname was one who lived at or near the sign of the culver or dove.
Alternatively, the surname may be of nickname origin, being one of those names based on a personal or physical characteristic of the original bearer. In this case, the name was probably given to a person as a term of endearment. However, it may also have been applied to a mild and peaceful person.
The surname is recorded in English documents in 1273. In that year one William Culvere of Hertfordshire is listed in the Hundred Rolls. John Culvard of Oxford and William Culverd are also mentioned in that document.
ARMS:
BRAZON OF ARMS: Argent, a chevron between three culverin gules.
Translation: Argent (white) denotes Peace and Sincerity. The chevron signifies Protection and is granted to those who have accomplished some notable service. Gules (red) represents Military Fortitude and Magnanimity.
CREST: A pelican vulning herself proper.
Translation: The pelican symbolizes Filial Devotion
ORIGIN: ENGLAND
CULVER in America
Edward Culver, the English progenitor of the American family, came from one of the southern counties of England, emigrating to this country in the company of John Wentworth, of Massachusetts, and arrived in the autumn of 1635. He was quite a young man at that time, belonged to the guild of Millwrights, and was often designated in the old records as "Edward Culver, Millwright:. He was a member of the Massachusetts Bay Colony at Boston, in 1636, and was an energetic and enterprising spirit, for we hear of him shortly after his arrival taking part in the court in Boston, called for the purpose of forming a company willing to push into the wilderness and start a new settlement. This settlement was at first called Contentment but later Dedham. The name of Edward Culver was sixty-eight on the list of one hundred and twenty-four who signed the covenant.
On November 24, 1647, the following grant of land is recorded: "Edward Coulver-10-Ordered that Edward Coulver, whealright, shal have twoe akers layed out for implymen of his trade, and afterward to have an addician, also where it shal be found needful…in the meantyme to have free liberty of taking Timber for his trade."
His name is mentioned frequently in the town records, and he was a man of affairs. He took part in the Pequot War in 1637, and from that time on, was noted as an Indian Scout, being on terms of friendship with several Indian tribes who accompanied him on scouting expeditions.
In the first Pequot War he was sent by Colonel John Mason who commanded the band of ninety whites to enlist help of the Mohicans with result that King Uncas brought one hundred and fifty warriors to take part in the battle. At daybreak, June 4, 1637(?), they separated and utterly exterminated the Pequots. King Uncas held Edward Culver in great esteem and named a son after Culver's second son, Joshua. For the service mentioned above, Culver received two grants of land, one of two hundred acres, and the other of four hundred acres. These grants of land were situated about four miles north of the scene of the battle, at New London.
In 1676, when King Philip made war against the New England Colony, Edward Culver, then an old man of 75, went out with his four sons, Edward, Ephraim, Joshua, and Samuel, to fight against the noted chief. They took part in the Swamp Fight near Tiverton, Rhode Island, December 19, 1675, where the tribes met defeat and heavy losses of historic note.
Edward Culver the only soldier in that engagement who had taken part in the previous Pequot War, and as the tactics were the same, it is thought that the old soldier aided Captain Dennison who commanded the Connecticutt men at the Swamp Fight. The "Colonial Records of Connecticutt" mentions the service of Edward Culver as follows: "The Council order John Steadman and Edwrd Culver, with some Indians to goe forth upon Scout betwixt this and Springfield to make what discoveries they could upon the enemie to the west of the river…"
Culver or Colver:
Edward Culver founder of the Culver family in America, came in 1635 with Governor Winthrop of Connecticut. He was a native of Southeast England. He settled near Boston at a place called "Contentment." He fought in King Philip's War. He married Ann Ellis, daughter of John Ellis, at the First Church of Dedham (first marriage performed there).
Children of Edward and Ann Culver
1. John (b. 4/15/1640 - married Mary, daughter of Governor Winthrop)
2. Joshua (b. 1/12/1642, - married Elizabeth Ford)
3. Samuel (no further information available)
4. Joseph (b. 9/20/1644 - married John's widow, Mary)
5. Gershom (b. 12/3/1645, no further information)
6. Infant daughter died.
7. Hannah (b. 4/11/ 1652, married John Burrows)
8. Edward (b. 1654, no further information)
9. Ephraim (b. 1656, no further information)
Children of Joshua Culver and Elizabeth Ford Culver
1. Elizabeth
2. Ann
3. Elizabeth (first must have died, no further information)
4. Joshua (born in Wallingford, Connecticut in 1684)
5. Samuel
6. Abigail
7. Sarah
8. Ephraim
Children of Joshua Culver and Katherine Street (daughter of Samuel Street, the first pastor of Wallingford married April 1713)
1. Benjamin, born September 1716
2. Stephan
3. Samuel
4. Stephan (first must have died)
5. Daniel
6. Titus
7. Joshua
8. Joshua (first must have died)
Children of Benjamin Culver and Lydia Tuttle
1. Joshua
2. Benjamin, born at Wallingford March 25, 1757, died March 8, 1860 (103 yrs old?), married Martha Howd in 1782. Minuteman and volunteer in Captain James Peck's Company, and Colonel Roger Enos' Battalion, September 17, 1777, as a private (20 years old).
Children of Benjamin Culver and Martha Howd Culver (all born in Wallingford)
1. Ambrose (b. November 27, 1782, (sea captain))
2. Orrin
3. William Howd
4. Benjamin (b. 1798, married Harriet Allen, 1819, had a daughter Harriet who died February 12, at age of 18)
5. Lavinia (married Samuel Cook, who became U.S. Senator)
6. Harriet (married George Cook, brother of Samuel Cook)
(From Vital Records of Wallingford)
Ambrose Culver married Lucy Peck (b. December 6, 1781, daughter of Abner and Sarah Peck, they were married in the First Congregational Society, Wallingford, Connecticut. Ambrose Culver died before 1810, and Lucy Peck Culver married William of New Haven, Connecticut, December 1, 1818. (This information was taken from the New Haven Geneology Magazine, July 1924, published by D. L. Jacobeus, New Haven, Connecticut.)
Child of Ambrose Culver, son of Ambrose Culver and Lucy Peck
Ambrose (b. July 18, 1806, Wallingford. Married Eliza Yale (b. June 4, 1806 -
See Yale Geneology).
Children of Ambrose and Eliza Yale Culver
1. Henry (b. February 4, 1829, married Elizabeth Duley Mead on June 25, 1852, died at New Haven , Indiana, 1893).
2. Harriet (b. December 4, 1833, married Eli Stratton, March 18, 1852, died January 5, 1859).
3. Mary Elizabeth (b. March 12, 1837, married Dr. Elwood P. Haines, September 25, 1861, died in Orwell (Ohio?) May 30, 1868, left a daughter Katherine).
4. Lucy Delight (b. in Atwater, Ohio, April 20, 1840, married Byron Hillyer November 17, 1858, died September 1, 1886).
*Known children of Lucy and Bryon Hillyer
- Emerson (b. 1860, died 1918 (maybe in Belliare (?) Michigan)
- Wells (m. Lela, had 3 children: Bert 1889 (Bronson, Michigan, had 2 sons), Ralph, had 2 adopted sons in Coldwater, Michigan.
- Minnie E. (b. 1865, died 1890
5. Ella Julia (b. September 28, 1850, died at Colorado Springs, Colorado, March 1921, married Jerome Carpenter, with 2 children: Roy Culver Carpenter and Lulu (b. 1881, died in Colorado Springs, CO, she was an artist and sculpter).
***Eliza Yale Culver died September 4, 1865. Ambrose C. married Mrs. Abby Merrick at Atwater, Ohio on September 5, 1866, married by Professor Hosford. Mrs. Merrick had one son, Will, who died 1930 at Youngstown, Ohio.
Children of Henry and Elizabeth Duley Mead or Meads
1. Frederick Ambrose (b. March 28, 1853, died February 1924).
Children:
*Rupert, died young.
*Frances (married William (Bill) Matson, who had William and JoAnn…their children - Harvey married Sally, and there were Gwendolyn and Chawncey Bruce (no further information))
2. Frances Moore Margretta (b. March 19, 1855, married Gilbert Miller June 26, 1880, , had a child, Roy, who married Mildred Carrington. Roy died in 1942 (age or cause unknown), Roy's child, Frances Margaret married a Hursh (a teacher at New Haven, Indiana), she died 1906).
3. John Mead or Meads, born April 27, 1857, married Celia Guilluame, they had 3 children: 1) Raymond, born 1889; 2) Clayton born March 23, 1892, married Velma Boyles, who had a child, Phyllis, who married Roy Fisher, who had a child, Sally; 3) Maurice, born July 15, 1900, and married Harriet (no additional data), he died August 1927).
4. Melville Mason (b. May 31, 1859), no additional information.
5. Della Eliza (b. March 23, 1866, Married Joshua Ruch 1888, had 3 children; 1) Hazel, married Orville B. Rinehart who died in 1932, no known children; 2) Bruce K. married Rachel Blume, and had 3 children: a) Philip C. born September 1937; b) Linda r. born December 1941; c) Robert B. born 1943, and 3) Glenn who died in 1900, no known children.).
6. William Mansfield (b. April 22, 1868), married Zella Zook, they had one child Ona, who married Ray Blessing, and they had 3 children a) Janette; b) Douglas; c) Beverly, no additional information
7. Bert Emerson (b. August 14, 1871), married Edna Ida Shaw of Texas, Bert and Edna both died and are interred in Haywood, California, 1960).
Children of Bert and Edna Ida Shaw
1. Laurence (no additional information) b. in Wisconsin.
2. Millard Everett (b. October 29, 1904, d. March 1949), married Jeannette Turner of Montford, Wisconsin (b. March 25, 1905, d. September 9, 1995).
They had ten children:
1) Richard Kingston (Dick)
2) Meredith June (Robin)
3) Geraldine Virginia (Jerry)
4) Vernon Edwin (Eddy)
5) Millard Duane (Buster)
6) Gary Allen
7) Carlyle Meade (Lyle)
8) Malcolm Bert (Mack)
9) Gregory Owen
10) Elaine Ardith.
Of the ten children of Millard and Jeanette; Jerry, Eddy, Buster, Gary, Lyle and Mack have all passed away. The remaining four, the two oldest and the two youngest, presently live in Houston and Dallas, Texas.
See Culver Descendant Tree for continuation of this line and other descendants of Edward Culver
3. Phyllis Melissa (b. January 23, 1904 or 1905, married Claude Clay Raymer (b. March 3, 1900); Hunter, Missouri, 1921).
4. Ardith (married Cecil Runkle, International Falls, MN, both passed away, no children, no additional information).
5. Floyd (b., married 2 times, has children from both marriages, Floyd and Mary both of Oregan; and John of Bethato, Illinois, and Susan of Leesburg, VA., Floyd died 198?, East Alton, Illinois.
6. Edwin (Ned) (b.1910, married Pauline Smith (deceased) of Wood River, Illinois, has one child, Gary, lives in Hayward, California).
Children of Claude Clay Raymer and Phyllis Melissa Culver Raymer
1. Burton (b. September 3, 1922, died 1 September 1925, Hunter, Missouri)
2. Della Elizabeth (b. February 1, 1925, Hunter, Missouri, married Marvin Hough of Council Bluffs, Iowa, had children 1) Stephen, of Wyoming; 2) Patricia; 3) Gary; and 4) Melissa and several grandchildren, all of Council Bluffs, Iowa. Della passed away 1987 in Council Bluffs, Iowa.
3. Clayton Bruce (b. September 18, 1927, Hunter, Missouri, married Dorothy Noe of Wood River, Illinois, has 4 children, 1) Claudia McGee of Indianapolis, Indiana; 2) Cynthia Reams of Moro, Illinois; 3) Margaret Brown of Mississippi; 4) Alicia of Moro, Illinois
4. Edna Viola (b. July 25, 1930, married Delbert Ray Hutchens, of East Alton, Illinois, 8 children, all of Dow, Illinois, Edna passed away in 1989, buried in Grafton, Illinois.
5. Kenneth Culver (b. June 1, 1938, Van Buren, Missouri; married [1] Mathilda Marie Julino of Heilesstat Germany and of Alton, Illinois, divorced 26 November 1979, 3 three children 1) Pamela Maria of Saint Louis, Missouri, married [1] Michael Heinemann of Godfrey, Illinois, divorced, no children; [2] Geofrey Ferguson of Saint Louis, Missouri; 2) Catherine Ann of Saint Petersburg, Florida, married Michael Patton of Wood River, Illinois, 1 child, Sarah Ann Meyer Patton; 3) Melissa Lynn, married [1] Steven Yocius of Alton, Illinois, divorced, 2 children; a) Mara Abigail; b) Kyle Edward, [2] Anyhony N. Darr, of Alton, Illinois. [2] married Maria Guiseppa of Rome, Italy, divorced 14March 1988, no children. Currently residing in Arlington, Virginia, ex-soldier (Viet nam era), and public servant).
6. Timothy Stephen (b. Aug 4, 1940, Wood River, Illinois; married Carolyn Scott Waterman of Hartford, Illinois, 2 children a) Kevin Scott, married to Mary , of Benld, Illinois; b) Jason unmarried of Hartford, Illinois).
7. James Lawrence (b. February 21, 1943, Alton, Illinois; married Shirley Haggele of Alton, Illinois, who passed away 1989, 4 children a) Julie married Lance , no children; b) Christopher not married; 3) Matthew, married Elizabeth , and Michael, not married. All of Wood River, Illinois).
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