I’m building this website to commemorate my parent’s and ancestor’s lives.  My mother, Emily Brown Mewhirter Nabut, did extensive work on the Brown/Scott/Wisdom/Mills genealogy and my cousin Robert Gibbs researched the Mewhirter/ McCarty/Dillon/ heritage.    

           Emily was a remarkable person.  Her desire to research our family tree spanned over fifteen years of her life.  She did not have the computer and only very seldom used a typewriter.  In fact when she did her work it was during the 1970’s and 1980’s when nearly all research was done by mail correspondence.  She wrote hundreds of letters to people all over the country, libraries, historical groups, state and county records, cemeteries, and individuals.  She and her sister, Orrice Brown Adler, traveled to Salt Lake to research records there.  She created huge genealogy books for herself, me and my two children – all hand written! 

            This website is my attempt to contribute to the preservation of our family history.  I am not skilled at website construction and I’m relying on templates and my minimal computer skills to accomplish this task.  Someone else will need to take on the responsibility of converting mother’s genealogy records into a standard file system.  If you are interested in contributing something to this site or have questions please feel free to contact me.

       My intention is to start with my parents and work backward.  They were pioneers in Lincoln County Oregon.  Mother's family, John and Ida Hamilton Brown move there during the early 1900's.  My father's family, Frederick N and Harriet L McCarty Mewhirter,  were also early settlers there.  They lived a couple of miles north of  Otis on the Salmon River. 

        My late husband, Donald Beckwith and I owned a home (1975-2000) we called, "Whalepoint" at Miroco,on the north end Otter Crest Loop.  My children and grandchildren have wonderful memories of our coastal life.  Mother is now buried in the Pioneer cemetary in Lincoln City next to her father, John L. Brown, and sister, Margaret Brown Cain. 

       So, my connections to Lincoln County run very deep... I hope that is site will contribute to the history of that area. 

       Actually, this website, when finished, will be a  chronical of our family's westward migration which began with the arrival of Susanna and William White on the Mayflower in 1620.