Hello! I am researching the genealogy of my grandparents, Dr. Charles Catlett Johnson and Cecelia Elizabeth Ladeveze. My cousin, Judge C. Ellen Connally of Cleveland, Ohio, and I are working together on this project.
Dr. Johnson (b. 1860, d. 1928) was born in Orange County, Virginia. He graduated from Howard University Medical School in Washington, D.C. in 1888, and opened a medical practice soon afterward in Columbia, South Carolina. After his wife Harriet Elizabeth (Hattie) Pearson died in 1902, he married my grandmother and moved to Aiken, South Carolina where he purchased a local pharmacy. He continued to practice medicine in an office in his drug store. He was also prominent in the Masonic Lodge, Prince Hall Affiliation, and was Grand Master of the State of South Carolina for 27 years.
I suspect from my grandfather's middle name that we may be related to the Orange County and Culpeper County, Virginia Catletts, but I have found no definite connection so far.
We do know that his mother, Mary Jane Reed (b. 1836, d. 1916), was born in Orange County of Scottish parents, and we also know that his father, Lewis (or Louis) Johnson (d. 1865), was Irish. We know little else about him. When Lewis died, Mary Jane married Nicholas Poindexter and lived in Washington, DC for a number of years. She died in Norwich, Connecticut. We believe there could have been as many as five children by Poindexter, but we can't be certain at this point.
My grandmother, Cecelia Ladeveze (b. 1874, d. 1968), was born in Augusta, Georgia, but we have traced her paternal roots to Raymond Ladeveze (b. ca. 1782, d. 1838) of France and Caroline Bouyer (b. 1807, d. 1852) of Santo Domingo.
We have followed her grandfather Raymond Ladeveze's journey from France at the time of the French Revolution to Haiti,and from there, in 1794 (with the worsening of conditions during the Haitian Slave Rebellion), to Charleston, South Carolina, and finally to Augusta, Georgia in about 1803.
We traced the migration of her grandmother, Caroline Bouyer, from Cape Christopher, Santo Domingo in what is now the Dominican Republic, to Savannah, Georgia, then finally to Augusta, Georgia where she resided until her death.
Raymond and Caroline had two children, Laura Frances Ladeveze (b. 1827, d. 1898) and Charles Augustus Ladeveze (b. ca. 1829, d. 1881), my grandmother Cecelia's father. Laura married Robert Augustus Harper (b. 1822, d. 1876) of Augusta and they had 11 children, 8 of whom survived. Charles married Mary Jane Wilson (d. 1926) of Augusta, and they also had 11 children, of whom 5 survived.
There are over 400 names in my expanded tree so far, including the surnames Ladeveze (Ladevez, Veze), Carre (Carrie), Reed, Hope, Holmes, Harper, Cooke, Cherry, Butts, Bouyer, Birnie, McGhee, Wilson, Connally, Johnson, Poindexter, Stokes, Work, Nelson, Osborne, Newton, Pearson, Davis, Perry, Jones, Kuter and more.
I would appreciate hearing from anyone with information on any of these relatives or who feels we share a common ancestry.
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