These posts are the clues of the red thread left behind so my grandson, Tyler Hunt, can know what became of his grandfather.
The funeral reception of Christine Rosamond Benton was held in her gallery in Carmel. The photo above may have been taken at the reception because there are black balloons floating in the background, which is utterly tasteless. That is Lawrence Chazen, a CEO of Noble Oil he put in the Cayman Islands.
While outside the gallery seated next to my mother, a well-dressed gentleman said hello to Rosemary, and took her hand. He then gave me a real hard look, which prompted Rosemary to say;
“Did you see the look he gave you?”
“I did!” was my reply.
“He’s a very wealthy and powerful man.”
I wondered if this was Lawrence Chazen a friend of the Getty family, and business partner of the Pelosis. I would later wonder why I was given such a look, I not knowing any of Christine’s friends, for we hardly spoke, and had not lay eyes on each other in twelve years. Was he warned about me?
When I talked to the executor, Sydney Morris, on the phone, I told him people were not telling the truth about how my sister died. He brought up a book he read ‘Murder By Suicide’ a true story about a man who lures his wife to the coast, shoves he in the sea, and claims it was a suicide. What rumors had Morris heard.
Chazen was a partner in the first Rosamond Gallery in Carmel and filed a claim for $90,000 dollars. My father was angry to learn his lender had formed a secret partnership with his daughter. Vic was convicted of loan sharking four months after Christine Rosamond drowned.
In 1997 Stacey Pierrot posted this on her Rosamond Gallery webpage;
“It was a idyllic picture. At Rocky Point, on the Big Sur coast, on
March 26 1994, the afternoon sun hovered low in the sky. On a outcrop
of tumbled rocks, silhoutted against the calm, burnished surface of
the ocean, a 46-year-old woman and her 8-year-old-daughter knelt over
a tidal pool. Dipping into the water, the child’s fingers sent tiny
crabs scuttling, sea anenomes spitting salt water.”
I had gone out to the place where Christine was swept off the rocks, and wondered how she got the nerve to be in this place – least bring her eight year old child there. For wondering this my family excommunicated me, and my daguther, Heather Hanson, chose to believe I am insane. Her and her mother couldn’t believe they had found the Real Big Money People, and this hippie SOB is telling them to stay away!
I suspect Heather’s mother saw my sixteen year old daughter I had yet to meet as Rosamond risen from the grave – like black balloons rperesenting the holy trinity – and large sums of money will soon fall into her hands – for what reason? And my daughter calls me “insane”!
I have bloggd on Denne Sweeney and Rick Perry, who would be debating Obama tonight, but, Romeny got the nod. No one knows who Romey is – still! Does Mitt know Lawrence Chazen who may have contributd to the mortgage meltdown that is on the verge of destroying the European Union co-founded by Denis de Rougemont who may be our kin?
On the wall in back of Chazen is Rosamond’s painting ‘Lena and Her Sister’. Lena was our black maid. Pierrot said she had nothing to do with this and three other works that were part of a family partnership. Mark played football with Mattie Aiken’s grandson. Consider our black president. This is uncanny!
Here is the great split in our democracy that divides us today. The South has risen again!
Here is the account of the discovery of Rosamond graves amongst ivy and thorns. I commented this was a Sleeping Beauty story. I had not seen Pan’s Labyrinth. Like I said, this post is a clue put down in time for him to find me, and his Rose ofthe World kindred. This is the real thing – folks!
Wake up! This is bigger the Gone With the Wind. Who is the true author?
Jon Presco
I couldn’t hardly leave there without looking at each stone, but the poison oak was to bad. Mark and I are highly allergic to these plants. I knew though, that we are all going to be there next year, or whenever and we can be better prepared to tackle this adventure. As soon as David left, Mark and I changed jeans, socks and shoes right there by the car on the side of the road. Pretty picture! That poison oak and ivy will go through your clothes if you give it time. We were very lucky, we were o’k the next morning. Only one car passed on that road the whole time we were at the cemetery, so it isn’t a busy one.
When we go there next year, or whenever, those of us allergic to these plants, will need to wear at least knee high rubber boots. We will also need to do some tombstone rubbings to be able to read the stones. Does anyone in this group know how to do tombstone rubbings?
Yes, I would very much like to know where these graves were located and if there
are any other Rosamond graves there. The fact that this cemetery is overgrown
indicates it may be one of those we missed when several of my cousins and I were
touring SC cemeteries several years ago.
I suspect that Jane Westfield Rosamond was the wife of John Hodges Rosamond who
was married to a Jane or Jennie Westfield. I have her birthdate as about 1791
which would fit pretty well with the dates given here. John Hodges Rosamond was
the son of Captain Samuel Rosamond. I am very interested in locating his
gravesite and it’s possible that he was also buried here.
Many a long year afterwards there came a King’s son into that
country, and heard an old man tell how there should be a castle
standing behind the hedge of thorns, and that there a beautiful
enchanted Princess named Rosamond had slept for a hundred
years, and with her the King and Queen, and the whole court. The
old man had been told by his grandfather that many Kings’ sons
had sought to pass the thorn-hedge, but had been caught and
pierced by the thorns, and had died a miserable death. Then said
the young man, “Nevertheless, I do not fear to try; I shall win
through and see the lovely Rosamond.” The good old man tried to
dissuade him, but he would not listen to his words.
John was in the militia in Prince Georges County, MD in the 1730s (1734-37) as a
private serving under a CPT Beall.
The note regarding ‘other members of the Rosamond family’ probably refers to
Marion Francis Rosamond and/or his children.
1740 when John was 30, he married Sarah Wilson[1], W425, F, daughter of Thomas
Willson, M & Elizabeth Dinwiddie, F, in Augusta County, Virginia. Born ca 1726
in County Antrim, Ireland. Immigrated in 1740 to Virginia. Sarah died in South
Carolina aft 1790, she was 64.Sarah Wilson arrived in the English colonies in
1740 with her sisters and her mother. Her father, Thomas Wilson, was already in
Augusta County, Virginia. She married John Rosamond in Augusta County ca. 1747,
and their family relocated to the Abbeville District of South Carolina sometime
around 1765.They had the following children: 2 i. Margaret, F (ca1745-ca1823) 3
ii. Samuel Null, M (ca1751-1814) 4 iii. James, M (ca1754-<1806) iv. Jean, R255,
F. Born ca 1743 in Augusta County, Virginia. Jean died in Abbeville County, SC
aft 1793, she was 50.Jean's will in 1793 named her brother Samuel Rosamond and
his wife, her sister Sarah, her brother James, and sister Margaret Rosamond
Weems. Jean never married.
Samuel enlisted in the militia around 1776-77 and served as a Lieutenant under
Captain Adam Crain Jones and Colonel Robert Anderson (for whom Anderson County,
SC was named.) In 1782 he was appointed Captain and served at the Siege of
Ninety-Six and the Battle of Kettle Creek in Wilkes County, GA on Feb. 14, 1779
during the Revolutionary War. This battle enabled the revolutionists to halt the
British advance in Georgia after the capture of Savannah. According to Samuel's
great-grandson James Oliver Rosamond, Samuel served as a scout and spy under the
direction of Colonel Francis Mariion, the "Swamp Fox".A copy of Samuel's will is
contained in another web page on this site at
http://rosamond.ourfamily.com/samswill.htm.
Several women have joined the DAR based on the Revolutionary War record of Capt.
Samuel Rosamond: Mrs. Josie Dean Rosamond HILBUN (275253); Miss Nannie
SULLIVANT; Mrs. Molly Rosamond SULLIVANT; Mrs. Mary Rosamond RHYNE (251829);
Mrs. Allison Sullivant GUYTON (254893) – – – From 1965 DAR book.In Feb 1785 when
Samuel Null was 34, he married Sarah (Salley) Hodges, H322, F, daughter of
Richard Hodges, M & Elizabeth (Betty) Jones, F, in South Carolina. Born ca 1765
in South Carolina. Sarah (Salley) died in SC or MS on 24 Apr 1844, she was 79.
THE ROSAMOND GENEALOGY
Plus Related Families of the Web Page Owner
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AN UPCOMING TRIP TO SOUTH CAROLINA
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FALL 2000, Final Weekend of September
We are planning a trip to Abbeville, South Carolina the last weekend of September and all Rosamond and related cousins are invited. We haven’t yet decided on where we will be staying, or the exact itenerary for the visit, so all suggestions are welcome. One of the definites for the trip will be a cleanup of the cemetery described in the email below from Gwen Rosamond Forrester. If you plan to come contact me at jrosamond@prodigy.net, or any of the Rosamond researchers listed on the OTHER RESEARCHERS page. I will be posting details online as they become available.
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The following email was sent by one of the Rosamond cousins, Gwen Rosamond Forrester to the rest of the research cousins:
Hey Y’all,
Mark and I just got back from a trip to Halan Co., Ky., and Lee Co., Va., where his folks settled after leaving NC. We had a very successful trip with finding graves of his ancestors and meeting a relative. Since we were only about 200 miles from Abbeville, SC, we drove down there to look around, and guess what, we asked a couple of gentlemen, David Higgon’s and Mr. Richie (believe his name was Walter) in Ware Shoals, if they knew where the Walnut Grove Baptist Church was. (The church our Rosamond’s, Hill’s, Hodges, and Graham’s attended in the early 1800’s)
Sure enough, they both knew where it was. David lead us to it, and he lead us to the few graves on Mulberry Creek that mark the original site of the church that was organized in 1826. Talk about luck! This was so exciting!!! We were so lucky to have ran into these two gentleman.
These graves are right along a paved road in the woods (I mean, the stones are right along the road). This cemetery is in bad shape. No one is taking care of it. It is over grown in weeds, trees and with poison oak and ivy everywhere. David, Mark and I ventured out into the cemetery a little ways. Couldn’t go to each stone because the poison oak & ivy is soooo thick. There aren’t many stones. Some graves are marked with field stones and doesn’t have any writing on them, and some of the field stones looked as those they had been chiseled on but you couldn’t read it. There are Mays buried there and one stone was a Williams. Stones are in bad shape, you can hardly read them. They have black mildew, moss or what ever from the trees, all over them. There is one stone laying on the ground in perfect condition. No mildew or anything on it. You can read it clearly. It is the marker of Lucrete Mays born Dec 14, 1797 died Feb 14, 1845. Y’all, this is probably Sarah “Sally” Mays Rosamond’s mother. What do you think?
I couldn’t hardly leave there without looking at each stone, but the poison oak was to bad. Mark and I are highly allergic to these plants. I knew though, that we are all going to be there next year, or whenever and we can be better prepared to tackle this adventure. As soon as David left, Mark and I changed jeans, socks and shoes right there by the car on the side of the road. Pretty picture! That poison oak and ivy will go through your clothes if you give it time. We were very lucky, we were o’k the next morning. Only one car passed on that road the whole time we were at the cemetery, so it isn’t a busy one.
When we go there next year, or whenever, those of us allergic to these plants, will need to wear at least knee high rubber boots. We will also need to do some tombstone rubbings to be able to read the stones. Does anyone in this group know how to do tombstone rubbings? A lady in Lee Co., Va., showed me how by using paper and a pencil. She said you could also use colored chalk that children use at school. It wont hurt the stones at all. When it rains, it will wash the chalk off.
David told us the Walnut Grove Church has tried to put a book together about the History of the Church. He said this book is at the church. We were there on Monday, and no one was there. David said the original church (1826) on Mulberry Creek was a brush arbor, which was posts with brush on top to protect them from rain. They were having Church service when it stated to rain. Had a flash flood that swept the brush arbor away. Everyone was scramming to get to higher ground, scared the horses so bad they all ran away. That’s when they moved the Church to higher ground. It was built next to where the Walnut Grove Church stands today.
One of the leading contenders for being James' (Rosamond) wife is Dorothy
Hodges, the one who was captured by the Indians and later returned to live with
her family. She is supposed to be the sister of Richard Hodges and Sarah Hodges
listed above."www.batguano.com/bgma/couse.html
The Hodge and Rosamond family is entwined. The Hodges put many Rebel Soldeirs in
the field against the most powerful army in the world, a force that captured as
much of the world as the Roman empire. With hostile indians on one side, and Red
Coats on the other, there have been a thousand cliches that have attempted to
depict what life was like for our Founding Fathers. With warfare all around
them, the Rosamond and Hodge family conducted weddings, and from their unions
sprang a Nation. The city of Hodges South Carolina was built on what was called
"the Jews land". Then Dorothy Hodges was taken away by an Indian chief, and a
child was born in the wilderness.
Republican front-runner Perry, the Texas governor, denounced the president’s Israel policy as “misguided and dangerous,” speaking to supporters in New York as the Obama administration worked a few miles away to thwart a U.N. vote to grant formal recognition to the Palestinian Authority.
Perry also accused Obama of appeasement, as did Minnesota Rep. Michele Bachmann, who assailed the president from the Midwest.
Perry’s chief rival for the nomination, former Massachusetts Gov. Romney, issued a statement accusing Obama of “throwing Israel under the bus.”
The Republican campaigns have similar goals: establish contrasts with Obama on an issue where he’s struggled; chip away at American Jews’ support for Democrats and prove their conservative, pro-Israel bona fides with the evangelical voters who will play a significant role in the GOP presidential primaries.
A 1998 voting guide published by a leading neo-Confederate group and obtained by Salon not only endorses Perry for lieutenant governor but also describes him as “a member of the Sons of Confederate Veterans.”
Visitors to the Sons of Confederate Veterans website are confronted by a video of a man in a grayuniform who proclaims, “One hundred and fifty years ago the men of the South left our homes and families to protect them from an illegal invasion and to fight for the rights our states held under the Constitution.” He continues: “Too many in your time want to tell lies about us and the reasons we went to war. We fought for you. It is now your turn to stand up to the South.”
The U.S. federal government is described by the group as “an empire”, but not for adventures and misadventures abroad; but for their presence in the south. The League of the South was also strongly-behind him and in fact have endorsed Perry in yeaes past.
Its core beliefs include the abolition of the income tax and central banking, a Southern republic that “revives the use of State Militias in place of maintaining large, standing
Perry’s flirtations with neo-Confederate organizations and symbols — ably documented by Justin Elliott– are so extraordinarily reprehensible that it should immediately and permanently disqualify him from being taken seriously for national office. [Amen!] The Confederacy was not a bunch of generally well-meaning dudes who went a little too far, it was a gang of racist traitors who launched a bloody war to defend a monstrously unjust institution. Having neo-Confederate sympathies in America should be equivalent to supporting the reconstituted Fascist party in Italy, or worse. It should not be considered something that 50 percent of the nation should be willing to look past, or even embrace.
And if that embracing happens it’ll be in part because of a press that won’t explicitly describe a disgusting sentimental attachment to a racist, brutal regime of oppression as anything other than an acceptable ploy to pick up Southern white support.
armies,” and a society that “perpetuates the chivalric ideal of manhood.” The group rejects “the American Empire that now occupies the South.”
This shouldn’t be surprising, but really, is this the guy so many in the GOP are pinning their hopes on? And I’m not getting into that recent-execution bit…
My Mortal Enemy – Denne Sweeney
Denne Sweeny took over the leadership of the Sons of Confederate Veterans from
my kinfolk, Anthoney Hodges. Above we see Sweeney ‘The Neo-Confederate Swine’
parading around with grown men in Confederate uniforms carrying Confederate
flags. He is the big guy in gueenish-grey coat. Here are some of the captions
that go with these photos. It sounds like Sweeney is commanding a imaginary army
standing up for “their ancestors” who have risen from the dead, risen from their
graves! Is this Judgment Day, or, Lord of the Rings?
http://the-bohemian-register.blogspot.com/
“Our Texas Division leaders were there standing up for their ancestors. (l-r)
Steve von Roeder, 2nd Lt. Commander; Denne Sweeney, Division Commander; Steve
Lucas, 1st Lt. Commander.
Commander Manning (and George Ballentine) get an audience with Representative
Suzanna Gratia Hupp representing District 54.
Texas Division Commander, Denne Sweeney, gives us our marching orders.”
One could say that when Joe Wilson called our President a liar, and when the
Speaker of the House and President Obama shot Wilson a hard stare, the
make-believe world of Denne Sweeney came alive because that shout is going to
play a big role in American History. Once again, the Confederate Traitors are –
up to bat! But, are they for real? How can they own real credibility if they are
coming out of the Republican Party founded by Radical Republicans who hated
everthing Sweeney stands for, and indeed, wanted to put his kind behind bars and
give their land to their Black Slaves!
No doubt Sweeney and his Swine are Republicans and Evangelicals who have
compromised their alleged Family Moral Traditions by being members of the
Republican party founded by Freethinkers, Ahteists, and Socialists. This has
tainted their make-believe religion founded by John Darby.
Larry Chazen grew up in Iowa. He was educated at the University of Colorado where he earned a B.A. in Accounting and Law degree. His career focus has been as an investment manager and advisor. Larry is both a CPA and a member of the California Bar and, since 1994, has served on the Board of Noble Corporation – a Fortune 500 company. He is an owner of the Carmel Restaurant Group, which includes Grasing’s and Kurt’s Carmel Chop House restaurants. Larry and his wife Cece (who grew up in Pacific Grove) live in Carmel and have three children and two grandchildren. Larry enjoys hiking and travel.
OAKLAND — The lender and loan broker embroiled in controversy over the
threatened eviction of a 78-year-old Oakland widow denounced unscrupulous
lending practices, but insisted there was none in their case.
In separate interviews, broker Charles H. Oliver Jr. and San Francisco investor
Lawrence Chazen angrily objected to the cross-fire of publicity and politics
surrounding a 4-year-old loan to Mattie Aikens and her son Wilbert. Oliver and
Chazen said they’ve been the target of abusive telephone calls. Oliver operates
Homeowners Resources Corp. of Hayward along with his wife and partner, Cindy
Oliver. The Olivers said they are outraged that U.S. Department of Housing and
Urban Development officials publicly said, before investigating, that they
believed Aikens’ case was an example of predatory lending practices. He compared
himself to Richard Jewell, widely suspected of planting a bomb during the
Olympics in Atlanta until the Justice Department conceded it lacked sufficient
evidence.
“It is so akin to that situation, it is ridiculous,” said Oliver, sifting
through 2-inch-thick files of paperwork he reviewed with The Examiner on
Saturday.
Aikens borrowed $160,000 in 1993 to fix a leaking roof and aging foundation,
among other repairs. Wilbert Aikens, then 60, co-signed the loan, but both now
say they did not fully understand the terms. The 12-month loan, which Homeowners
Resources sold to Chazen a month after it was authorized, called for $1,800
monthly payments, including a $162,000 final balloon payment because of the
payment rate and interest. The Aikens say they did not expect the balloon
payment or that they might have to refinance at the end of the year, although
the loan document clearly stated the terms.
Tried to renegotiate loan
HUD began examining the loan papers last week after Aikens filed a fair housing
complaint alleging she was the victim of predatory lending because terms of the
loan were not sufficiently explained and because she was singled out as an
elderly widow and a minority. Aikens, who is African American, had almost paid
off the home when she took out the loan. She was scheduled to be evicted this
Thursday because she did not pay off or refinance the loan when the total amount
became due after one year.
Last Thursday, Chazen agreed to give her two more months to try to refinance the
loan or come up with $250,000 to buy back the house.”I think there’s a real
problem that (HUD) is trying to solve, but that this loan does not fall within
the problem,” Chazen said Friday.
“Media being misled’ “I think the media is being misled, and I think there are a
lot of political overtones from both local attorneys and politicians in
Washington,” he said. Chazen, 55, said he is uncomfortable evicting a
78-year-old grandmother, and said he knows “it’s not a flattering position to be
in.””How do I feel about it? I feel like I have to take this whole thing in
stride. I feel sorry for her,” he said Friday as he sat in the living room of
his Russian Hill home.
Chazen and Oliver say Aikens’ family made written promises to help make the
payments, which is why Oliver agreed to the loan. Only Wilbert Aikens co-signed
the loan, however.
Getting family members to help finance the loan is not uncommon and is even
encouraged by some HUD programs for low-income homeowners and seniors, Oliver
said.
Bankruptcy papers filed by Aikens show that she was receiving a total of $2,355
monthly from three of her children in addition to $1,000 income from Social
Security and her late husband’s pension – more than enough to make the $1,800
monthly payments, Oliver and Chazen contend.
Oliver said the balloon payment could have easily been refinanced if the family
had resolved a dispute with the contractor.
A beef that got out of control
Jamerson filed a lien against the house in 1994, preventing them from
refinancing the loan.”This whole thing is a beef with the contractor that got
way out of control,” said Cindy Oliver.
Chazen said he has allowed the family plenty of time to gather the money and is
only now forcing the eviction because he wants to recover what he can of his
investment. He said Aikens’ children should step forward with the cash as they
promised and pay off the loan or get another one. “If the children do not live
up to their responsibility and help her get a conventional loan, I will have to
evict her,” Chazen said. “That’s what I think is going to happen. I hope it
doesn’t come to that, but it probably will.”
Rosamond Press 
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