The Gavelyte, April 1911

.James Mitchell Hugh McMillan I I I I Pamuel Kyle= Ruth Elizabeth= Davicl Laughead John David I I I- l I I I David .John Bradfute= Eliza .John Stormont= Esther Jeannette=John Orr I A_t ', w, Hugh i hJ. F erguson= Lydia I I - I -=--r ~ I .Jane James James Rosa:Qna=J. W. Stewart ijannie=David Williamson I .J essie= Chas. Turn bull I I JohnH I -~ ._..... .,.,.- ~ r - - - J- I I I JOSEPHINE ORR John 0. Martha=J. w. Ustick FLORENCE WM'~O;\ I I LYDIA 'TURNBULL l BERTHA STORMONT ",_JOHN 0. STEWART J-R. R. W. USTICK . The Senior's Fainily Tree. BY PROF. F. A. JURKAT. Do not speak ill of anybody, around Cedarville at least, for the chance£ are nine out of ten that your auditor will he a relative of the party whose char– acter is undergoing dissection. Of course we all claim descent from Father Adam, and even from such a compara– tive modern as Noah, but seldom do we Ree a whole graduating class so nearly related as that of Cedarville College 1911. Six generations back allows the six members of the class to concentrate upon two great-great-great-grand– fathns, while the marriage of James Stormont and Jane Bradfute forms the tie that binds the House of Mitchell with the Clan McMillan. The persecu– tion of the Scotch Covenanters two centuries ago was the impetus that drove these ancestors to America, the Mitchells to Pennsylvania, and the Mc– Millans to South Carolina. The Mitchell family reached Greene County by way of Kentucky, while the McMillans mi– grated from South Carolina because of a lack of sympathy with their neigh– bors on the slavery question. That their frequent migrations were not due to timidity is proved by the fact that many members of both families have been found in every war in which our nation has engaged. Now, two cen– turies after Airmoss, five thousand miles from Scotland, the descendants of the Covenanters are getting together again in peace and prosperity. What would Claverhouse say if he knew it! Mr. Ustick entered college in 1904, Mr. Stewart and Miss Williamson in 1905, Misses Turnbull and Orr in 1906, and Miss Stormont in 1907. Mr. Us– tick and Miss Williamson, howeve r , have not attended continuously. To give the ages of the various member:-; would be invidious and possibly impo– lite. Suffice it to say that their aver– age age is 22 years, and that at least half of them are younger than the av– erage. While their scholarship ha~ bern goo<l, we want to reserve the praise on this score for commencement week. As t0 their future, that is not the province of the historian.