Furthermore, Charles T. Peavey of Chicago gave me some notes which Phoebe Ann Peavey (Mowe), his aunt, once compiled, and these notes say that there was a coat-of-arms or crest in their home in Eastport, Maine. The crest was a lion rampant gardant on a horizontal bar with the motto: "Deo, Non Fortuna". These same notes said that a friend of hers had shown her the same crest and motto, claimed to have been given to the Pavy family of France. I have seen the same crest shown in Fairbairn's "Book of Crests".

Mrs. Mowe's notes went on to say that "the name Peavey originated in Dorsetshire, England: the escutcheon or shield, emine, white and blue, with one band or bar of honor: motto, Virtus Tulissima Cassia (Virtue is the Safest Helmet). The band is a scarf, given to Sirs John Brown and Peavey in the time of Henry VIII, for their bravery over the Spaniards in the low Countries, and is shown attached to the top of the shield in a diagram submitted by Charles T. Peavey. Should "Virtus" be translated "Courage"?

The above description also mentions the name of Willis Peavey of Halsnead Park. There are, I think, two Halsnead Parks in England, one near Liverpool, and I ran across the recent Lord of the Manor, a Richard A. D'Anyers Willis, of Liverpool Halsnead Park. I correspond with his widow, Ethel Willis, but she could not throw any