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Descendants of Sir Matthew Arundel-Howard

Generation No. 17

58. TEMPIE LEAH¹⁷ BROWDER (JOHNIE MAE¹⁶ GOMILLION, IRENE¹⁵ LEE, BETHEL LUNSFORD¹⁴, WILLIAM LUNSFORD¹³, WILLIAM GREENBERRY¹², WILLIAM (G.?)¹¹, COL. GREENBERRY¹⁰, MARGARET⁹ HOWARD, GIDEON⁸, JOHN⁷, MATTHEW HOWARD⁶ JR., MATTHEW⁵ HOWARD, MATTHEW⁴, SIR THOMAS³ ARUNDEL-BARONAOFWARDOUR, SIR MATTHEW² HOWARD-ARUNDELL, THOMAS¹ ARUNDEL) was born 24 Apr 1953. She married RON MUTSCHLER.

Child of TEMPIE BROWDER and RON MUTSCHLER is:

SHAUN LEAH¹⁸ MUTSCHLER, b. 1 Jul 1984.

59. SANDRA JOY¹⁷ JOHNSON (EVA LOIS¹⁶ GOMILLION, IRENE¹⁵ LEE, BETHEL LUNSFORD¹⁴, WILLIAM LUNSFORD¹³, WILLIAM GREENBERRY¹², WILLIAM (G.?)¹¹, COL. GREENBERRY¹⁰, MARGARET⁹ HOWARD, GIDEON⁸, JOHN⁷, MATTHEW HOWARD⁶ JR., MATTHEW⁵ HOWARD, MATTHEW⁴, SIR THOMAS³ ARUNDEL-BARONAOFWARDOUR, SIR MATTHEW² HOWARD-ARUNDELL, THOMAS¹ ARUNDEL) was born 15 Jan 1946. She married (1) RONALD NEVILLE BAXLEY. She married (2) THOMAS ALEXANDER TAYLORIII 17 Jan 1976 in Trinity Episcopal Church-Mobile, Al., son of THOMAS TAYLOR and MARY MCKEE.

Notes for THOMAS ALEXANDER TAYLORIII:
The following is written by Thomas A. Taylor III after completing a book on family memories:
                      A POSTSCRIPT


       So there we have it. Most of the material is documented. Three family trees are not proven beyond a certain point, and we have duly noted those on the pages in question. One is the Taylor line before John W. Taylor; another is the Brewer line before George B. Brewer Sr. and Burrell Brewer, and the other is the Martely line. I would put the odds of correctness about 60 percent on the Taylors, and 90 percent or more on the Brewer and Martely trees.
       Of the rest, there is no question as to accuracy. Archives contain many writings on the Alexander, Springs and Staples families; the rest comes from family recollections and records.
       We will update this booklet as more information is learned.
       Perhaps I should leave this with some background on myself.
       I was born April 9, 1930, in Mobile. For my first 10 years, we lived at 133 Florence Place in Mobile in a house built new by my parents. I attended Old Shell Road School in grades 1 through 4.
       On June 4, 1940, we packed our things and moved to Biloxi, where my father's business had moved. They sold the house in Mobile; it remains there today.
       In Biloxi we lived at 1600 Father Ryan Avenue, behind the White House Hotel and a block from the beach. The site of the house is today the middle of a street.
       I attended Lopez Elementary School in grades 5 through 7; Biloxi Junior High School in grades 8 and 9, and Biloxi High School in grades 10 through 12.
       I graduated in 1948 as class valedictorian.
       During my high school years I learned what I wanted to do with my career. In my junior year, the school started a high school newspaper, the Biloxi Hi Tide, and I became sports editor. In my senior year I was editor. I was by then hooked on journalism.
       I also participated in high school sports. In my sophomore and junior years I was the starting left fielder on the baseball team; we went to the state semifinals one year and the quarterfinals the next.
       Entering my senior year, the newspaper's faculty advisor gave me a choice: Be editor of the paper or play baseball, but not both. The choice was easy; I wanted to be a newspaperman, and an outfielder with a .214 batting average didn't have much future in baseball.
       I was also on the golf team and track team my sophomore year only; in track I ran the mile in several meets, finishing second twice but never winning. The school dropped golf the next year; I opted out of track that same year because of the time involved in the newspaper.
       (I also played third base for several years on city league fast-pitch softball teams. I continued to play golf for fun and still do; in my 20s and 30s, I shot pretty consistently in the low to middle 80s; today -- 1997 -- I'm happy to break 95.)
       In the fall of 1948 I went to the University of Alabama and enrolled in the Department of Journalism. I immediately went to work as a reporter for the school newspaper, The Crimson-White, which operated separately from the journalism department.
       In the following years I was news editor and then managing editor of the paper; at the end of my junior year I ran for editor (that position was by student election) and won with "machine" backing. The "machine" was an non-sanctioned organization which relied on fraternity and sorority support for its candidates.
       I had joined Alpha Tau Omega fraternity in my freshman year; my father's membership had guaranteed me a bid.
       Just weeks after my election win, I was tapped for Jasons, a campus honorary. At the time the Jasons tapped their new members by tackling them at a gathering on the Quadrangle. The guy who tackled me broke my leg; I was in a cast for five and a half months and on crutches for seven months.
       (That same day one of the other tappers dislocated his shoulder. The university banned tackling from that day forward.)
       In the summers during my college days, I worked for The Daily Herald in Biloxi as a reporter. I graduated from the university in June 1952 with a B.A. in journalism, and went to work again in Biloxi while I waited my call-up from the Air Force. The Korean War was in full swing, and all ROTC graduates were called to active duty.
       That call came in September 1952. As a 2nd lieutenant, I first went to Lackland Air Force Base in San Antonio, and then, in November, to Robins AFB in Warner Robins, Ga. I was assigned to the information field, and in July 1953 was transferred to Ellington AFB in Houston.
       In August I got orders to go to the Far East, arriving there two months after the truce was signed. There I was assigned to the American Forces Korea Network -- part of the Armed Forces Radio Service -- an Army unit made up of people from all branches of the service. I spent my entire year assigned to the headquarters in Taegu, South Korea, where I was officer in charge of Kilroy, the headquarters radio station. Staff visits took me to all 10 network stations, so I got a good look at just about all of South Korea.
       I came back to the states in September 1954, and was separated with the rank of 1st lieutenant. I stayed active in the Air Force Reserve for 25 more years, with assignments at Brookley AFB in Mobile, West Palm Beach AFB in Florida, Maxwell AFB in Montgomery, and finally Keesler AFB in Biloxi. I retired from the Reserve in 1979 with the rank of colonel, receiving a Legion of Merit upon my retirement.
       Immediately after my separation in 1954, I went to work for The Mobile Press Register as a reporter. I went to Columbus, Ohio, as a reporter for The Columbus Dispatch in parts of 1956 and 1957, returning to Mobile in February 1957. There I stayed, becoming assistant news editor in 1960, news editor in 1964, and executive editor in 1983. I retired at the end of October 1994, and in January 1995 we moved to our farmhouse and seven acres in Cohassett, in Conecuh County, Ala.
       During my working years I became a charter member of the Mobile chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists, served one year as president of the Mobile SPJ chapter and another year as president of the Alabama Associated Press Association.
       I was also one of the founders of SPJ's annual Gridiron show, a political satire which raises funds for journalism scholarships.
       While in Columbus, in December 1956, I married Nadine Lose of Mobile. We had two children: Julia Marie, born Oct. 21, 1957, and Stephen Alexander, born Dec. 8, 1959. I also adopted Nadine's son, Sean, who had been born in 1953.
       We divorced early in 1975.
       In January 1976, I married Sandra Joy Johnson McCarter Baxley. (Johnson was her maiden name; McCarter her stepfather's name, and Baxley her first husband and by-line).
       I have two stepchildren: Steven and Samantha Baxley.
       Thomas Alexander Taylor IV was born May 10, 1980.
       My grandchildren are Randi Lolley and Taylor Lolley, daughters of Melvin and Julie Lolley; Stephanie Taylor, daughter of Steve and Denise Taylor, and Ashley and Joseph Taylor, children of Sean and Anne Taylor.
       My wife Sandy also is a journalist, having worked as a reporter in Tuscaloosa, Charleston, S.C., Mobile and for The Birmingham News covering southern Alabama and state government. She was state editor of The Mobile Press Register from 1983 to 1986, leaving to become a campaign coordinator for U.S. Sen. Jeremiah Denton of Alabama. When he lost, she turned to writing, eventually authoring three books on Alabama political figures: businessman and former gubernatorial candidate Jimmy Faulkner, Wallace crony Oscar Harper, and the current governor, Fob James. She also is spokesperson for the University of South Alabama Foundation.
       She also is the main reason this genealogy was written. For years she has diligently done research on both my family and hers; a similar dissertation by her on her ancestors will be forthcoming.
       Thanks also go to Ronnie McGinnis of Jackson, Miss., a Monet descendant; Margaret Rogers of Natchez, Miss., a Hafner descendant; and the late "Mary Buff" Bancroft of Mobile, a Staples descendant.
       The names herein are only part of the picture. Figure that each person has two parents, four grandparents, eight great-grandparents, 16 great-great-grandparents, 32 great-great-great-grandparents, then 64, then 128, then 256.... The beat goes on.
       (This is, of course, unless you're an Alexander or Brewer, where family trees sometimes are shaped like diamonds.)
       Lest we look at this as just names, remember the changes that have taken place during the years involved. For example, when my parents were born there were no automobiles and no airplanes. When I was born there was no television and no home air conditioning. In my lifetime we have seen the advent of the atomic age and the jet age, and men have walked on the moon. What's next?
       We have seen that this nation is truly a melting pot. Anyone whose family has been in this country any appreciable length of time has an assortment of bloodlines. From my family the dominant lines are Scottish, French and English. But there are also Welsh, Irish, Dutch and probably German.
       Nadine Lose is of Irish, German and native American background; a grandmother was full-blood Cherokee.
       Sandra's Johnsons were Swedish. Her Gomillion ancestors were French; her Lees were English; others were English, Irish and "Black Dutch." (The "Black Dutch" were descendants of the Spanish who came ashore in Holland after the Spanish Armada defeat of 1588 and intermarried with the native Dutch.)
       A political comment: Don't fall for revisionist history that has become more prevalent these days. The United States was founded and built by European immigrants and their descendants, and we should be proud of that fact. If our history is called "Eurocentrist," that's just the way it is.
       Whatever faults our system may have, nobody anywhere has come up with anything better. And they won't.

May 18, 1997

Children of SANDRA JOHNSON and RONALD BAXLEY are:

STEVEN ROLAND¹⁸ BAXLEY, b. 26 Jul 1969.

ii.

SAMANTHA LEE BAXLEY, b. 25 Sep 1971.

Child of SANDRA JOHNSON and THOMAS TAYLOR is:

iii.

THOMAS ALEXANDER¹⁸ TAYLORIV, b. 10 May 1980.

60. JEROME CHEYNEY¹⁷ MCCARTER (EVA LOIS¹⁶ GOMILLION, IRENE¹⁵ LEE, BETHEL LUNSFORD¹⁴, WILLIAM LUNSFORD¹³, WILLIAM GREENBERRY¹², WILLIAM (G.?)¹¹, COL. GREENBERRY¹⁰, MARGARET⁹ HOWARD, GIDEON⁸, JOHN⁷, MATTHEW HOWARD⁶ JR., MATTHEW⁵ HOWARD, MATTHEW⁴, SIR THOMAS³ ARUNDEL-BARONAOFWARDOUR, SIR MATTHEW² HOWARD-ARUNDELL, THOMAS¹ ARUNDEL) was born 22 Sep 1952. He married (1) CHERYL GOLSON. He married (2) JIMMI CANNON.

Child of JEROME MCCARTER and CHERYL GOLSON is:

DARLA MARIE¹⁸ MCCARTER, b. 1976.

Child of JEROME MCCARTER and JIMMI CANNON is:

ii.

ZACH¹⁸ MCCARTER, b. 25 Feb 1986.

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