The Varn Family
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• Roots Web Database  This is the link to the Varns in my "Cathcart Family Tree (jcath)" genealogy file submitted to RootsWeb.  This GEDCOM database is frequently updated and includes many Varn ancestors not directly in my line.

My Line

• My Varn Ancestors

  • 1913 Senior Year, Winthrop College

    My Varn Pedigree Chart
  • Daisy Bennett Varn (1893-1975) my grandmother
  • 12/22/1917: marries  Thomas Madden Cathcart
  • John Wingard Varn (1863-1940) my great grandfather
    • 8/48/1892: marries Jane Vardel Lawton
    • Their children:
      • Daisy Bennett Varn (see above)
      • Irene Elizabeth Varn (1895-1897)
      • Rivers Lawton Varn (1898-1981)
      • Mary Lise Varn (1901-1979)
      • Frances Hazel Varn (1905-1991)
  • Aaron Elisha Varn, Jr. (1824-1885) my 2nd great grandfather
• Genealogy Report: Descendants of Jacob Varn.  My original tree seems solid back until Jacob Varn (b. C. 1748).  At this point there are two Jacob & Mary Varns listed in various documents and the record gets a bit "shaky."  (updated: 1/30/2003, size: 49K)

Pictures/Misc

Photos from Varn Family Get-Together, Circa 1931

Children (left to right): Jean Elizabeth Cathcart (1930-2009), Eleanor Frances Varn (born c1929), James Foster Cathcart (1928-2009), Jane Walpole (1927-2002), James Lawton Walpole (1926-1988), Anna Lawton Varn (born c1925-2006), John Varn Cathcart (1923-2005)	Top Left (framed by door) Eleanor Hook Varn?, below her Eleanor Frances Varn. I believe the couple in the middle are Leroy and Frances Hazel Walpole?  To the right, Thomas Madden Cathcart (in glasses) and his daughter, Jean. Jane Lawton and John Wingard Varn (the eldest couple), and Rivers Lawton Varn on far right.  See photo on left to see which children are which.

Janie, Hazel, Jane, LeRoy, ?
Photo provided by cousin John Scherer (click for more details)

• Journal (Diary) of Janie Lawton Varn: Transcribed by John V. Cathcart from six volumes of a journal kept throughout the life of Jane "Janie" Lawton Varn.  From the first entry on March 19, 1886 to her last entry May 2, 1955, you get a wonderful insight into the life and times of this incredible woman.  
• In 1995 my aunt Jean wrote reminiscences about her grandparents. Click here for more details about John and Jane Lawton Varn.
• 1940 census for Rivers Lawton Varn and family
  
• Varn Website: This link brings you to another website (by Edward Breland) that traces the Varn family back through the early 1600s.  This is the source of most of my Varn data above.
• Muller/Geiger Page
• Fran Varn Bass remembers her childhood in "Stories, Songs and Moonlight Swims, in the book, Remembering the Way it Was at Beaufort, Sheldon and the Sea Islands, by Fran Heyward Marsher; pp 75-79.
• Descendants of Jacob Varn (online family tree with lots of information on early Varn family members).