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League & Buchanan Family Photographs & History |
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Buchanan Family Picture. Grandma Anie Elizabeth Buchanan League (front left) with Olive Marie (child). Great Grandpa John Buchanan is behind her to the left. I believe the woman in the middle is Arminta Treat Buchanan, John’s 3rd wife. (He was widowed 2x). The darker man is a Greek man who was a family friend and visiting missionary. Please let me know if you can identify the others. |
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These photos above are of Grandma Anie Elizabeth Buchanan (spoken with a hard A...not Annie). (1887-1975) |
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Alva Byron League Graduation Photo |
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Ella Winifred Pence & Alva Byron League Marriage Photo (I need the date!!) |
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Alva Byron League posing |
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These 4 photos to the right are metal tins taken in 1873. Above is Grandpa Joshua Huff Buchanan, who is John Andrew Buchanan’s father. To the right are his other sons and John Andrew’s brothers: James Cumberland Buchanan, Marion Joshua (MJ) Buchanan, and the youngest, Theodore Lafayette Buchanan. Below is Grandpa John Andrew Buchanan. |
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John Fowler was Joshua Huff Buchanan’s father in law, or Grandmother Nancy Adeline Fowler Buchanan’s father. |
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Grandpa Clark Johnson League 1863-1939 Alva Byron’s father |
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League Name Origination The origination of the name is not definitive. League is thought to be Scottish. One source states:
“League family name Origin: Scottish First found in Perthshire, where they were seated from early times and their first records appeared on the early census rolls taken by the early Kings of Britain to determine the rate of taxation of their subjects.“
I have spoken with other researchers who have found it spelled “Leage, Leagh, Leagh, Leigh” . Some say it originally had a throaty guttural sound to it, which in turn could explain the above reference. It is not French. The time period with which our relatives settled the colonies makes that abundantly clear. So that rumor should be put to rest. (For those of you unaware, the English and French were not friendly with one another and the French did not become friendly with the Colonists until the latter 1700s. )
Our League Family History
History is very well documented back through Reuben League ,who was born in Amelia County, Virginia in 1787. There were two settlements by two separate League families during the earliest Colonial times. Our settlement came and settled in what is now Baltimore, Maryland, originally and filtered into Virginia, then Missouri and onto California. It was begun by a William League who was born about 1660 . Other genealogists say he came from Kent County, England, but does they do not clarify if this is the land of his birth or the land with which he departed from. Records for that time period are difficult to put together, but the only other settlement was in upper New England and is (according to their descendants) not related to us.
Clark Johnson League left Missouri and never spoke much about the family that he had left behind. Research showed that his brother, Charles Pinkney League ,moved out West as well and lived in the next town over from him. There was some mystery as to why their sister Artemissa “Artie” was sent to Lincoln State School and Colony in Illinois after having 4 children. The two younger children were sent to a foster home where they were raised. Unfortunately, they had been told that their parents were dead and so they did not know their family existed at all. Eventually they did their own research and discovered Clark Johnson out in California. I know that at least one of them stayed in contact with Clark and moved out this way.
Alva Byron League preferred to be called Byron, and didn’t care much for Alva. He began his life as a barber, but ultimately answered the Lord’s calling and became a Minister. His brother, Eldon, unfortunately didn’t take this route and wound up murdered by his third wife during a quarrel. (newspaper article) Our League line leaves 2 League men to carry on the family name, Darrin and Todd. If you run into a League, your odds of being related however, are high. The original colony in Maryland is the largest. And I bet if we go back even further into the Moors of Scotland, we would find that the other Colonial colony is most likely related as well. |
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Buchanan Name Origination
The Buchanan family name is better explained by other websites who do it more justice than I can here. It is Scottish in origin, well established, and highly esteemed.
http://www15.pair.com/buchanan/clan.htm
http://www.buchanansociety.com/index.html
http://web.ukonline.co.uk/Members/tom.paterson/surnames/nbuchanan.htm |
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HERE ARE SOME FILES WIITH OUR FAMILY LINEAGE Information listed prior to our first relatives arrival into America has not been verified by me and was adopted from other genealogists. As with any genealogy project, there are bound to be a few errors. Please alert me to any. The tree itself will not post...yet. If I ever figure out a way to get it to post...it will be here!
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To the right we have Verna Reba League, below is Eldon with Loretta A. Glass League, and next to them is Olive Marie League. |
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This is Avery and Lois League, Charles P. League’s son and his wife. |
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This is Charles P. League, CJ’s brother and his wife Anna Christina Rodeman League. |
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Above we have Clark Johnson League with his brother Charles and their families. The far left is Byron and Winnie, next to Grandma Anie. On the far right is Charles with Anna next to him. The others are mostly Charles family but I can’t tell you who is who |