The Appleby Family Tree

My mother took exception to my poem "Thee Familee Tree" on the 'Poems For Fun Page'.  She said her lineage didn't come from a monkey; but Adam and Eve.  So to be fair, here is what the Bible teaches us about the original seed of all our family trees.  It might be helpful to remember that 'Appleby' is pronounced 'Applebee', and that it is my mother's maiden name.

  The Appleby Family Tree

It would perhaps be quite presumptuous

To think their last names were Appleby

But they did gain knowledge (both good and bad)

From the oft portrayed, legendary, apple tree.

So bear with me now, as we consider,

the roots and trunk of our family tree.

The Genesis of our beginnings.

For without them, where would we be?

If not as early as in the garden.

- Wouldn't it be delightful -

If our name came from one of Noah’s sons.

For, they were told - go and be fruitful.

                         - Dan Turner 10/8/00

In the Beginning

Adam (lived to be 930 years old) and Eve (I guess women didn’t tell their age then either)

  Sons: (after Seth there was also born more sons and daughters)

    1.  Cain  (keeper of the ground, “Am I my brother’s keeper?”)

         Son:

          E-noch & (wife?)

           Son:

            I-rad & (wife?)

           Son:

            Me-hu-ja-el & (wife?)

            Son:

             Me-thu-sa-el & (wife?)

             Son:

              La-mech & (2 wives:  A-dah & Zillah)

               Sons to La-mech and A-dah:

                Ja-bal (had cattle)

                Ju-bal (father of all such as handle the harp and organ)

               Children to La-mech and Zillah:

                Tu-bal-cain (son) (instructor in brass and iron)

                Na-a-mah (daughter)

   2. Abel (keeper of sheep, killed by brother Cain)

   3. Seth (born when Adam was 130 years old to replace Abel, lived 912 years) &  (wife?)

         Son: (there were also other sons and daughters)

          Enos (born when Seth was 105 years old, lived 905 years) & (wife?)

           Son:   (also other sons and daughters)                   

            Ca-i-nan (father was 90 years old, lived 910 years) & (wife?)

             Son:  (also other sons and daughters)

              Ma-hal-a-leel (father was 70 years old, lived 895 years) & (wife?)

              Son: (also other sons and daughters)

               Jar-ed (father was 65 years old, lived 962 years) & (wife?)

               Son: (also other sons and daughters)

                E-noch (father: 162 years old, lived 365 years and he was not, God took him) & (wife?)

                Son: (also other sons and daughters)

                 Me-thu-se-lah (father was 65 years old, lived 969 years) & (wife?)

                  Son: (also other sons and daughters)

                   La-mech (father was 187 years old, lived 777 years) & (wife?)

                   Son: (also other sons and daughters)

                    Noah (father was 182 years old when born, lived 950 years) &  (wife?)

                      (Ark builder- when 600 years old, and planted vineyard after flood)

                     Sons: (born when Noah was 500 years old)

                              (“These are the three sons of Noah: that went forth of the

                                       Ark and of them was the whole earth overspread.”)

                       Shem

                       Ham (father of Canaan)

                       Ja-pheth

The course from here is as yet uncharted (at least by me).  But I think it might be interesting to wade thru the begets one winter day.  To see if I can determine, if it was Shem, Ham or Ja-pheth, who was responsible for me.