Vampire legend Mercy Brown is my 13th cousin twice removed.

 

Mercy Brown's story is the legendary inspiration for Bram Stroker, HG Lovecraft and many other authors. It's surmised that she is the mother of the entire vampire genre in fact. Was she a vampire? Probably not. But I'm also related to a lot of extraordinary women with supposed supernatural abilities so that must be taken into consideration. 

A quick google search will give you lots of information about what happened to Mercy Brown in New England in 1892. Here is a 6 minute video overview if you don't have time to go down a rabbit hole right now:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VTvYlWJPWtw




Vampire legend Mercy Brown is my 13th cousin twice removed.

Angela Jossy  → Carl Jossy

your father → Inez Isadora Imus

his mother → Jiles Herbert Imus

her father → Hiram M. Imus

his father → Charles Lemuel Imus

his father → Lucy Imus

his mother → Ann Buck

her mother → Abigail Gould

her mother → Thomas Disbrow

her father → Margaret Walton

his mother → Elizabeth Lynne Cromwell

her mother → Catherine (Payne) Steward

her mother → Sir Thomas Payne, II

her father → Sir Thomas De Paine, I

his father → John Paine

his father → Edmund Paine

his brother → William Paine, of Newton Bury

his son → John Paine

his son → Elizabeth Payne Niles

his daughter → John Niles

her son → John Niles, II

his son → Capt. Nathaniel Niles

his son → Nathaniel Niles

his son → Hannah Rodman

his daughter → Ann Carpenter

her daughter → Ruth H. Hazard

her daughter → Mercy Ann Arnold

her daughter → Mary E. Brown

her daughter → Vampire legend Mercy Brown

her daughter

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

What's in a name? Who are the Jossy's and where did they come from?

Image
I decided to research my Jossy Patriarchal line as far back as I could. I made it all the way back to the 1300s and along the way I learned some things. For one thing my last name has evolved over time. My father spelled his last name Jossy but a few generations back they spelled it Jossi. Go back a few more and it becomes von Jossa. This journey took me from Washington State to Oregon to Switzerland and eventually Germany. I also learned that the "von" represents nobility.  I also noticed that they repeated the same first names a lot. There were a lot of Peter's for example. Peter is a very old name. The people of ancient Greece used it and its said to mean "rock." Of course Peter was also one of the disciples of Jesus which is probably where most people know it from but Peter the disciple was nick-named that by Jesus. He was born with the name Simon and I found that name in my Patriarchal line too.  Simon is also an ancient name. It means " hearkening or
Read more

All that Jasz

Image
While following my Patriarchal line, I noticed that my last name evolved over time - the last change I can't yet find but I found some hints. As I explained in my last blog seemed that around 1100 AD we may have been named after a river. Or the river may have been named after us. All I know is that we were both there with the name Jossa around that time. I can't trace the name beyond that point. They were obviously wealthy because they built castles and had "von" in front of the name which indicated Lordship.  I read also that German last names can mean their original occupation but it can also indicate the place where they are from. Several times while reading about the von Jossa's, they also called them "von Jasza" and this confused me.  I also learned that they used to name rivers after their Gods. Was the Jossa river named after an old Pagan God? Probably not. I see no evidence of this. Then I ran across a old map of Europe that had a place named Jas
Read more

Elon Musk isn't the only one interested in the underground

Image
I've always been fascinated with tunnels. As a young girl I went spelunking on a school field trip through several caves in the Ozark Mountains. I couldn't tell you where exactly but I vividly remember one cave that we had to go down through a small opening down into a huge cavern where we camped inside for the night. It was as big as a football field. Another cave we had to wade through red clay almost knee deep. As an adult I visited Montana and we went into a small narrow cave just tall enough to walk upright and narrow enough to be able to touch both sides of the cave with my hands. Probably to the annoyance of my companions, I couldn't help but to sing as we walked because the sound was so amazing in there. Cave resonance I learned recently is a real thing and can be very powerful at healing and accessing our third eye spirituality. If you study religion at all, you know that many mystics and spiritual leaders received inspiration and messages from beyond while spendin
Read more