_________________ ___________________|_________________ _Ebenezer CLEAVES _____| | | _________________ | |___________________|_________________ _Aaron CLEAVES __| | | _________________ | | ___________________|_________________ | |_Jane POTTINGILL ______| | | _________________ | |___________________|_________________ _Ruben CLEAVES _| | | _John HAMILTON __ | | _Ambrose HAMILTON _|_Betty CHANDLER _ | | _James Soule HAMILTON _| | | | | _Jedediah SOULE _ | | | |_Deborah SOULE ____|_Tabitha BISHOP _ | |_Eliza HAMILTON _| | | _________________ | | ___________________|_________________ | |_Mary "Polly" WEBBER __| | | _________________ | |___________________|_________________ | |--Ruben H CLEAVES | | _________________ | ___________________|_________________ | _______________________| | | | _________________ | | |___________________|_________________ | _________________| | | | _________________ | | | ___________________|_________________ | | |_______________________| | | | _________________ | | |___________________|_________________ |________________| | _________________ | ___________________|_________________ | _______________________| | | | _________________ | | |___________________|_________________ |_________________| | _________________ | ___________________|_________________ |_______________________| | _________________ |___________________|_________________
that "He was a cook on stone sloops when a boy in his teens and rose to
mate on the Sloops Twilight and Riverside."
"Stone Sloops" lists 3 children for Ruben & Helen - Lizzie, Clinton, & Warren,
but their great granddaughter, Vicki Thompson Odom, knows for certain
that their children were Lizzie, Clinton, & Margery (no Warren). Concerning
Warren, she speculates:
. "I wonder if the Warren came from Warren Hamilton. My gr grandfather,
Ruben, had a stepfather named Henry Warren Hamilton and a half brother,
Lincoln, who named his son Warren."