Daniel McNeill Parker, M.D: His Ancestry and a Memoir of His Life; Daniel McNeill and His Descendants (Classic Reprint) - Tapa blanda

Excerpt from Daniel McNeill Parker, M.D: His Ancestry and a Memoir of His Life; Daniel McNeill and His Descendants

It appears to have been about the year 1800 that the Captain lost his wife. Hers was a tragic end. Delirious in fever on a winter's night, she escaped from her nurse. Her naked footprints in the snow were traced to the brink of a bluff overhanging the waters of Minas Basin, near the house. The Fundy tide, which there rapidly ebbs and flows a full fifty feet, beat against the cliff. Search was unavailing. Her body was never recovered.

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Excerpt from Daniel McNeill Parker, M.D: His Ancestry and a Memoir of His Life; Daniel McNeill and His Descendants

"Scribere jussit amor." - Ovid.

For the instruction and benefit of the children, grandchildren and future descendants of my father, I desire to leave some record of his ancestry and his life.

In this ancestry, humble though it be, they will discover no cause for shame; while in the imperfect narrative of my father's life they will find that to which they may ever point with pride. From him they derive the heritage of a noble name - clarum et venerabile nomen; of a character and career which should ever be to them a memory and example of an exalting and inspiring nature.

My narrative is necessarily imperfect. Apart altogether from my own limitations as a narrator, I am embarrassed by the scant measure of material at my disposal. After he had relinquished the practice of his profession in the year 1895, many times did I press upon my father a suggestion that he should employ some of his leisure in writing something of a biographical or reminiscent nature. But I was always checked in this by that innate spirit of humility which characterized him, and which relentlessly forbade any such thing. Great has been our loss as a family in consequence; irreparable the loss to one who would attempt my task.

For the ancestral record materials are not altogether wanting. William Parker, senior, left a brief chronicle of family names and dates, with some other slight information. Since my father's death I discovered the original of this in the possession of Mrs. Sarah Dimock, of South Rawdon, Hants County, who derives descent from William through his daughter Mary, with whom he left these family notes. The chronicle appears to have been continued by Mary after her father's death. Through the kind offices of a kinsman, Mr. Lewis Parker, of the Assistant Receiver-General's Office at Halifax, I have procured a copy of it.

Material concerning the McNeill family I have derived from my father himself, from my personal investigations in North Carolina in 1898, as well as by correspondence with members of the family in Georgia, New York and Washington. I have thus been enabled to prepare a fairly accurate family chart or "tree" of the McNeills, which I have in my possession.

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