Talk:Spencer Myrick

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There has been extensive research done on the family lineage of former Louisiana State Senator W. Spencer Myrick and his family and that will be included in various connecting links in the not too distant future. In addition, there are several very important political events of which Senator Myrick was a part of that will be added to the information shortly.

W. Spencer Myrick was a very influential man in the Louisiana State Senate despite the fact that he had a 3rd grade education having dropped out of school at a very early age to help his family on their farm during the Great Depression. He grew up the oldest son of James Martin "Jim" Myrick, born in 1892 near Magee in Simpson County, Mississippi, and Allie Artimissa Parker, born in 1892 near Braxton in Simpson County, Mississippi, who made their way into West Carroll Parish, Louisiana shortly before the Great Depression looking for a more stable life for their family that eventually was made up of 10 children. After migrating, this Parker-Myrick family began working as tenant farmers but soon bought the 100 acre farm they lived on and became substantial members of the community surrounding the town of Oak Grove in West Carroll Parish where W. Spencer Myrick would begin his political career. He later would become a close confidant and friend of Governor Earl Kemp Long, Governor of Louisiana from neighboring Winn Parish, Louisiana.

The Myrick and Parker families are very distinguished as being descended from the earliest colonists of Virginia arriving among those of the First Charter of the Virginia Companies of London as well as an ancestral grandfather, Owen Myrick/Merrick, who took part in Bacon's Rebellion and ancestors who were from the royal and noble lineage of the Tudors and numerous other royal houses of Europe and who immigrated to Virginia in the early 1600's in the area in and surrounding Jamestown, Virginia to save family fortunes as well as escaping the onslaught of rival monarchies with most of those that immigrated being supporters of Queen Elizabeth I and Kings Charles I and II but with some of the cousins of the immigrant Meurig/Meyrick lineage out of Wales descended from the ancient Welsh kings and becoming Merrick/Myrick in name in England and into Virginia having been opponents of Queen Elizabeth I who was also, as the daughter of King Henry VIII, a cousin of the Meurig/Meyrick/Merrick/Myrick lineage from their ancestral grandfather, Captain Meurig ap Llewelyn, Sheriff of Anglesey, Wales, who was also the Captain of the Guard for the coronation of his cousin Henry VIII as King.

The Parker descendants of the Earle/De E(h)rleigh, De Brienne, Spencer, Symons, Hale, Bennett, Berry, Jennings, Payne, Robinson, Tucker, Willoughby, More, Holcomb, Williams families out of 1600's Virginia with the Williams lineage also being that of the brother of Reverend Roger Williams of New England and the Meurig/Meyrick/Merrick/Myrick families also descended from Harrington/Herrington, Stuckey, Cary, Dickens, Graves families out of 1600's Virginia would become the plantation families of Virginia into the Carolinas and continuing to migrate further south eventually into Mississippi before the time of the Civil War when their lives, as they knew it, fell apart with severity and their families became, in many instances, tenant farmers to survive.

W. Spencer Myrick's mother, Allie Artimissa Parker, born in 1892 near Braxton in Simpson County, Mississippi was the great granddaughter of Samuel Earle, IV, (RS,) a Sergeant in the Revolutionary War, who was born in January of 1760 on the "Town Run" plantation in Fauquier County, Virginia as the 2nd son of his name born to his father, (Major) Samuel Earle, III, born: abt. 1690 in Westmoreland County, Virginia, (formerly part of Northumberland County,) (who was one of the earliest graduates of William & Mary College, (1st wife was Anna Sorrell,) and who became a lawyer and was the 1st Member of the Virginia House of Burgesses ever elected from Frederick County, Virginia holding the seat that would later be held by then (General) and (future President) George Washington,) and the 2nd son named Samuel Earle, IV, (RS,) born: 1760, was the son of (Major) Samuel Earle, III and his 2nd much younger wife, Elizabeth Holbrook, who was born in abt. 1733 in Prince William County, Virginia.

(Major) Samuel Earle, III owned land adjoining that of Augustine Washington, father of George Washington. The Washington and Ball families of (President) George Washington, along with other related families, attended the small Yeocomico Episcopal Church, (Church of England,) which was built, (and still stands,) on the land of the plantation of (Major) Samuel Earle, III.

It was (Major) Samuel Earle, III's grandfather, Samuel Earle, I, who was a land grant partner of (Major) John Stith whose descendants number among those descended from Pocohontas and her father Powhatan, as well. The Stith family's descendants would later marry into the Myrick family of W. Spencer Myrick with the marriage of his younger brother, Bill Myrick, to LaVerne Slaughter, a Stith-Hardaway descendant also descended from John Hatton and John Slaughter who both immigrated from England into Jamestown in the very early 1600's with John Hatton having missed the Massacre of 1622 that took place over breakfast in Jamestown because he had returned to England for a brief visit on business and who would return and have many descendants in America beginning with his sons who followed in his footsteps as ship owners and ship builders in Norfolk County, Virginia.

The aforementioned Samuel Earle, I was the son of Mary Symons, (1st wife,)(immigrant in 1652 from Gloucestershire, England to Northumberland County, Virginia,) and (Sir) John Earle, Sr, born: 1614 at Somerton Estate in Nye, Somersetshire, England who immigrated into St. Mary's County, Maryland in 1649 after two or three previous visits to America and would quickly move into Northumberland County, Virginia after having acquired Yeocomico Plantation, (it also has different spellings of the name,) from the Yeocomico Native Americans/Indians, along with his partner Thomas Ha(y)le(s,) whom is believed to have been the father of Bridget Hale who married Samuel Earle, I, previously mentioned as having been a land grant partner of (Major) John Stith.

(Sir) John Earle, Sr. built the first of his manor houses, Spring Creek, there on Earle's Creek in Yeocomico Plantation in Northumberland County, Virginia which would be the first of many Earle family plantations in Virginia and South Carolina and further into the South.

The aforementioned Samuel Earle, IV, (RS,) 2nd great grandfather of Louisiana State Senator W. Spencer Myrick, also settled the area of Kentucky that became known as Christian and Caldwell Counties along with his wife, Tabitha Williams, and John Jennings, Sr., (RS,) and his wife, Rachel Tucker, who also, as with the Williams-Earle's, migrated into Kentucky after being in South Carolina where they went from Virginia during the Revolutionary War.

Samuel Earle, IV and Tabitha Williams were the parents of Kitty Earle, born: abt. 1795, who married in December 1811 in Christian County, Kentucky as the 1st wife of Bailey Jennings, born: abt. 1695 either in Richmond County, Virginia or South Carolina, who was the son of Rachel Tucker and John Jennings, Sr., (RS,) whose family descends from John Payne and John Jennings both who immigrated from England in Old Rappahannock County, Virginia in the 1630's and who were prominent in that county and elsewhere in Virginia and Maryland as well as Richard Robinson who immigrated in the very early 1600's from England to Virginia.

The aforementioned (Sir) John Earle, Sr., (and his descendants,) is descended from the illustrious lineage from the Earle/De E(h)rleigh "White Knights" family that married into the family of (Sir) Guy De Brienne with the marriage of his daughter Margaret De Brienne to (Sir) John de Ehrleigh that also count among their descendants, Princess Diana Spencer and her sons Prince William and Prince Harry. Other lineage of the Myrick and Parker descendants is, also, from the bloodlines of other ancestors of both Princess Diana and her former husband, Prince Charles through his mother, Queen Elizabeth II.

The effigy of the tombs of the aforementioned (Sir) John de E(h)rleigh and his wife, Margaret De Brienne, are located at St. Gregory's Church in Beckington, England and can be seen in photos on the internet along with the De Erleigh, aka Earle, coat of arms on the right side in the picture of a window made of medieval glass at St. Michael's Church in Somersethire, England which also features a bronze plaque to the Earle family ancestry and was the home church of the Earle family of the aforementioned (Sir) John Earle, Sr. who immigrated to America in 1649. The De Erleigh coat of arms was placed in the St. Michael's Church window by ancestors of this (Sir) John Earle, Sr., W. Spencer Myrick, and Princess Diana Spencer and her sons, William and Harry.

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