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Gregg Bonner's APPERSON Family
This is a picture of Anna Jutson (Apperson) Smotherman, with her husband, Lewis Smotherman, and their family.

APPERSON DNA TYPE
(unconfirmed)
DYS
3
9
3
3
9
0
3
9
4
3
9
1
3
8
5
a
3
8
5
b
4
2
6
3
8
8
4
3
9
3
8
9
i
3
9
2
3
8
9
ii
4
5
8
4
5
9
a
4
5
9
b
4
5
5
4
5
4
4
4
7
4
3
7
4
4
8
4
4
9
4
6
4
a
4
6
4
b
4
6
4
c
4
6
4
d
Value
12
24
13
10
17
18
11
12
12
14
11
31
15
09
09
11
11
26
14
20
32
14
16
16
16
Please see also the BIBLE section of this site. I have added a transcription and images of an old family Bible which mentions several APPERSONs, and related persons.
My Appersons came to America very early - at least as early as the late 1600s. I believe I am descended from the John Apperson who was baptized at St. Peter's Parish Church, New Kent and James City Counties, VA in 1713. He was called in the Parish Register and Vestry Book, "John Apperson, son of John Apperson, Jr." So clearly there were some earlier John Appersons in that direct line. It is asserted that John Apperson Jr. was born 1678, and his father was John d'Epernon De La VALETTE, born 1638. This line then extends to Bernard Nogaret De La VALETTE, 2nd Duke d'Epernon, and thence back to Archambaud De VALETTE, Sg de Cuzoul, b. Abt. 1115. I think this assertion is hogwash.

The 1925 Apperson-Chaney Letter describes the origins of the family as being "Dutch", but I believe this mention is an example of the all-too-common mistake of substituting "Dutch" for "Danish". The common Danish name of Jesper lends to the creation of the patronymic name of JESPERSEN (pronounce the "J" like a "Y"). It is this "JESPERSEN" that is derivatized into the surnames we now know as APPERSON, and also EPPERSON.

Thanks to Jim for providing the original. To contact Jim, e-mail him using the following address:

My most recent Apperson was Anna Jutson (Apperson) Smotherman, who is known within living memory of my close family members. She can be found in the census records with her father Jacob Aurelious Apperson and mother Rachel Frances (Jones) Apperson. Jacob Aurelious Apperson is the son of John R. Apperson and Eleanor Wilson "Milly" Coleman. This is proved by the death certificate of Jacob Aurelious Apperson. His death certificate states that his parents were "J. A. Apperson" and "Elmar Colman". I am a little surprised at that middle initial of Jacob's father, but I am quite confident that these are the same people. The Coleman line is known back to Mobjack Bay, circa 1630 or so. I think it is the Coleman records which will show John R. Apperson's father to be Jacob Apperson and Elizabeth, said to have been a BEVERLY. So now I am trying to prove that link. Maybe there I will discover why Jacob Aurelious Apperson's death certificate says "J. A. Apperson" as father instead of "J. R. Apperson". My Apperson family appears to have been in New Kent Co., VA, and then later in Cumberland and Buckingham Counties, VA., and then in Tennessee, and then Logan County, KY, and finally in Oklahoma.
This is a picture of the death certificate of my g3-grandpa, Jacob Apperson (see notes, above).

Here is a picture of the headstone of Jacob Aurelious Apperson.

This picture appears to show the following, left to right:
Charlie Smothermon, Clyde Smothermon, Ruby Smothermon, Anna J. Smothermon, and Lewis Smothermon.
The picture bears the footing, "Home in Oklahoma".
Last update: 15 May 2006