July 2011

The Stuttmeister monument on the grounds of the Dorotheenstadt cemetery is made of ROSE GRANITE as is the columns next to it. This cemetery was given by Frederick the Great for the purpose of burying .members of two Evangelical churches which I believe are the Church of Jerusalem and Saint Paul where the Stuttmeisters were…

What is puzzling, is why would the Stuttmeisters conceal their past having such a grand monument to their dead in Berlin? They were evangelical Luhterans, members of the Jerusalem Church that was favored by Freidrich Wilhelm, the Rosicrucian King of Prussia. We were told that the Stuttmeisters were Prussians descended from Teutonic Knights. I suspect…

The family photographs in this blog are Copyrighted and presented by my newspaper, Royal Rosamond Press Co. They were taken when we lived at 4659 San Sebastian Avenue Oakland California. Jon Presco President: Royal Rosamond Press “The Child plays. The toy boat sails across the pond. The work has now just begun. Oh child look…

Two months ago my younger sister called me out of the blue and told me our older brother Mark Presco had severed all ties with my estranged family and had disappeared. “We are the only ones left!” Vicki informed me, I having very little to do with my family since our falling out in 2004,…

Two days ago I talked to my cousin, Dayrl Bulkley who is going to Berlin today to visit her daughter, Kimberly, who is residing there. Six days ago, I found the splendid monument where our Stuttmeister kinfolk are buried at the Dorotheenstadt cemetery in Germany’s capital. What are the odds that I would find this…

The great grandmother of John Witherspoon Owen Breckenridge, is the Ann Witherspoon, the daughter of Signer, John Witherspoon. His great grandfather, was John Breckenridge, Attorney General of the United States in the Cabinet of President Thomas Jefferson. I lived with Dottie Witherspoon in Boston, and met many Witherspoons in South Carolina who are kin to…

“Dorothy (Hodges) being a young, tall, attractive woman was taken by an Indian Chief before the cabin was torched. She was gone for ten years. When she returned she brought her Indian son with her.” With warfare all around them, the Rosamond and Hodge family conducted weddings, and from their unions sprang a Nation. Samuel…

Aunt Lillian told me that in a copy of her father’s book ‘Bound In Clay’ Royal Rosamond claims he descends from Sir Issac Hull, a Captain of the U.S.S. Constitution, the oldest commissioned vessel in the United States Navy. The problem with this claim, Isaac never had children by Ann Hart. However, there is a…

Samuel Roseman was a member of the South Carolina Militia and a Scout for Francis Marion the “Swamp Fox” who Mel Gibson’s character was based on in the movie `The Patriot’. Samuel was the brother of my great, great, great grandfather, James Rosamond, who was also in the South Carolina Militia, and more then likely…

According to my aunt Lillian, her father, Royal Rosamond, taught Earle Stanley Gardener the rudiments of writing. In a taped interview Lillian told me she would fall asleep in the Rosamond home in Ventura to the sound of Roy and Earl pecking away on the Royal typewriter. Gardener is the creator of Perry Mason, an…