Wallingford/Jarlov Family Trees

Notes from Nick Wallingford, December 2008:

In the back of my mind, but not written down with any of my genealogy notes, I had it that "Virgil was named after a local doctor". Joan says she got that, having asked about the origins of the names Virgil and Roland, neither of which she thought would have been 'common' in Texas at that time...

Virgil H. McMillin was a physician, married to Maud R. Both had been born in Mississippi. In 1910, the year of Virgil's birth, Dr. McMillin was 39, his wife 29. They did not have any children of their own.

By 1920, Dr. McMillin and his wife were living in San Patricio County, near Aransas Pass. They had a 2 1/2 year old son by then...

Virgil's (our Virgil's) birth record in Waller County was reported by Z.H. McMillan, M.D. Joan wrote down those details when we were at the courthouse a year ago - whether it was wrong in the records, or (more likely) bad handwriting, I'd be confident this was the "Virgil" he was named after.

We don't know whether Virgil as a doctor was present at the birth, or whether (as was probably the norm) the birth was just at home, maybe with mother-in-law Annie or some of Edna's own Hegar family assisting.

Old Thomas Ginn Wallingford never got to see his first grandchild from his family with Annie (he had other grandchildren from children with Evaline). He died in May 1909, and Virgil wasn't born until March 1910. John and Edna had married only about 6 weeks after T.G.'s death - Virgil was born 9 months and 2 days after that!

Virgil's middle name is 'Edwin'.

John Pinkney's first cousin Edwin Day was about six years older than him. That would be my first guess for where the "Edwin" came from - John would have been raised all his life around Edwin in the Fields Store community...

And John had another first cousin, Thomas Edwin Boulware, who was a bit younger than him, and also in that same community for all of John's growing up.

My guess? The Edwin came from Edwin Lee Day...