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Dear "SHORT KIN'
1 am aware that this is short notice but please try and come to the gathering of'THE SHORT FAMILY." This will be a good chance for us to get to know one another and maybe make plans to do this again. The invitation list is attached ...so the next time it can be planned further in advance. As far as I know "THE SHORT FAMILY" has never had such an event!
We are to meet at James Elisha Short Jr.'s home around 11 00 a m. on August 14, 1999. His gracious daughter has extended her home as well if it gets too crowded (hopefully this will be the case). The Camden Inn & Suites is available if you would like to spend a night or two (their number is 770-982-5250).
Also Brandon David Short will be celebrating his graduation from Georgia Tech the day before. (CONGRATULATIONS BRANDON)!
We want to feature the other allied families as well as SHORT, such as GOULD, ALDEN, DONALD, ALDRIDGE, SWIFT. KING. TOPP, HAMBLEN, DAVIS, WHITE, SANDERFORD, COVINGTON, MITCHELL. MOORE, R1CKOLL, OVERBEY, SHANK, WOODRICH, ZIMMER, DICKSON, STAPP, SCHMIDT, TRUSTY, DELANO, and other FRIENDS and KIN.
A short story of THE SHORT FAMILY"
The first short we know of is Marcum Short bom about 1756 probably Martin County North Carolina.
His son William was bom in 1778 and died Nov. 1849. William's son Marcum Short bom in Martin County NC lived in Greene County when he married Mary Lowe...Marcum, Mary and dad William moved to Hardeman County Tennessee before the treaty with the Indians at Noxapater, Mississippi known as the Dancing Rabbit Creek Treaty...September 27, 1830...Noxubee County was created on December 23, 1833...then the family moved to Pickens County, Alabama in the vicinity of Nashville Landing & Fern' on the Tombigee River. When the white folks were allowed in Mississippi after the treaty, the family migrated west to Cliftonville and Brooksville, in the meantime Marcum goes to Bladon Springs, Alabama and established a wood yard to furnish wood for the steamboats going up and down the Tombigee River. The other children remain in the Nashville Landing area.. .James Henry- short born 1858 becomes the family leader because he was the eldest son.. .he enrolled at Mississippi State University in the Preparatory Division for three years when MSU was first opened.
The SHORT FAMILY, as most of us know, descend from him. James Henry Short married Lora Rebecca Gould whose father was Brainard Elisha Gould from Dixmont, Maine. Brainard?s mother was Rebecca Weston Aiden who was married to Elisha Gould of Dixmont, Maine.
Looking forward to seeing all of you.
From one "SHORT KIN" to another "SHORT KIN",
James Aldridge Short (born 1920)