Help needed from fellow gravers! Sharlotte is compiling a list of deceased anthropologists. So far she has a growing list of more than 1,550 anthropologists at https://www.findagrave.com/virtual-cemetery/1525149. With some editing the goal is to have a photo, short bio (or some other info), and grave location (or confirmation of cremation) for each individual. There are hundreds of anthropologists' existing graves/cremations yet to be located on Find a Grave and hundreds more anthropologists' graves/cremations yet to be created for Find a Grave. Please, the help of fellow gravers is needed to expand this list. Many of these missing hundreds are famous, such as James F. Downs, June Helm, Jesse D. Jennings, Wilfred Le Gros Clark, John Napier, etc. To gain "famous" status for anyone on the list who does not already have famous status, you may email Find a Grave at [email protected] to make a case for famous status. To add material (like adding a burial place) or make a correction on any particular site, contact the individual site manager. If you run across an anthropologist on Find a Grave who is not on Sharlotte's list, please let her know as soon as possible. Sharlotte can be reached at [email protected]. Thanks.

Find a Grave is a wonderful resource with many sincere, generous, and hard working volunteers weaving a tapestry of humanity's genealogy by memorializing individual lives. Sharlotte Donnelly's information and photos on Find a Grave are free to be used by other researchers.

Sharlotte Kathleen Bridgette "Sharkey" Neely Donnelly is an award-winning Professor Emerita of Anthropology at Northern Kentucky University and is the author of Snowbird Cherokees: People of Persistence and Native Nations: The Survival of Fourth World Peoples , co-author of This Land Was Theirs and Native Nations: The Survival of Indigenous Peoples, and author of the science fiction novel Kasker, among dozens of other publications.

Sharlotte's ancestry is Irish, Scots, Scots-Irish, Welsh, English, French, German, Viking, Italian, southwest Asian, west African, and Native American (mostly Lumbee). It should be noted that while proud of her African and American Indian ancestry, she is not an African American nor an American Indian since her family has identified as white for generations and she has never personally suffered the racism directed at blacks and Indians. She also does not meet the criteria for any tribal membership. Sharlotte is happy to be a Heinz 57 American mutt.

The best documented (by the late John Wise) of Sharlotte's Native American lines goes back through her maternal grandmother to the Coree Indians who lived on the Atlantic coast along the Virginia/North Carolina border. By the late 17th century, the Coree population had declined due to disease and war. During the Tuscarora War, some of the surviving Coree fled south seeking refuge among the Cheraw Indians. Later some surviving Cheraws, remnants of other Indian groups, whites, and African Americans became the basis of the contemporary Lumbee Indians.

Sharlotte also has a small amount of Neanderthal and Denisovan ancestry, although she is neither a Neanderthal nor a Denisovan.

She is also a direct descendant of famous 18th century artist, Joseph Badger, Sr., her seventh great-grandfather. Being descended from Joseph Badger, however, has sadly not made her an artist.

Through the Cone and other branches of the family, Sharlotte is descended from Conn of the Hundred Battles, the first high king of Ireland. Her Cone ancestors worked as guides for famous 18th century naturalist John Abbot.

Sharlotte and all her direct female descendants and ancestors are of the matrilineal clan of Katrine (mtDNA haplogroup K). DNA matriline testing reveals that is the same matrilineal clan from which the 5,000-year-old Ice Man found in the Alps comes. Katrine was one of seven women from whom almost everyone of European ancestry is descended. Katrine lived about 15,000 years ago on the southern slopes of the Alps in northern Italy near present-day Venice.

Sharlotte is the great-niece of famous Savannah educator Romana Riley, who was her father's stepfather's half sister. (Sharlotte's contemporary family by blood is small in numbers, and thus tracing kinship is often quite circuitous—she is an only child, an only grandchild, an only niece, and even an only first cousin.).

Many of Sharlotte's direct ancestors were veterans of America's wars, including the French and Indian War (at least one of her fifth great-grandfathers: William H. Cone), the Revolutionay War (including at least two of her fourth great-grandfathers, four of her fifth great-grandfathers, and one of her sixth great-grandfathers: William H. Cone, Aaron Cone, Sr., Onesimus Futch, James Martin, John Martin, William S. Downs, Sr., and William S. Downs, Jr.), War of 1812 (including at least one of her third great-grandfathers: Samuel J. Sarvis, Jr.), Civil War (including at least one of her third great-grandfathers and five of her second great-grandfathers: Edmund Nealy, John R. Sarvis, Elijah Strickland, Joseph Glisson, William H. McClelland, and Emmett T. Downs), and World War II (her father: Joseph B. Neely, Jr.). Collateral relatives (uncles and cousins) were veterans of the French and Indian War, the Revolutionary War, War of 1812, First Seminole War, Second Seminole War, Third Seminole War, Mexican War, Civil War, Spanish American War, World War I, World War II, Korean War, Vietnam War, Gulf War, and others. (While all of Sharlotte's Civil War ancestors fought for the Confederacy, her husband Tom's second great-grandfather, John C. Albrecht, fought for the Union, as did his third great-uncle, John Donnelly, and his second great-uncle, James Donnelly.)

Surrounded by mystery and beauty, Sharlotte was born on a Friday the 13th in the celestique city of Savannah, Georgia. Her parents and paternal grandparents are buried in Savannah's Spanish moss-draped Bonaventure Cemetery. She is the only child of Joseph Bowden Neely and Kathleen Bell Neely, all three born and raised in Savannah. Sharlotte is married to anthropologist, attorney, and retired high school athletic director Thomas Christian Christopher Donnelly. They have one daughter, Mary Kathleen Bridgette Elisabeth Donnelly; one granddaughter, Mary Kathleen Quinn Cecilia Donnelly; and several foster grandchildren. The family is Catholic. They live with their dogs and cats in Cincinnati, Ohio, Tom's hometown, in a Queen Anne Victorian house built in 1896. (The house has a very Savannah celestique feel to it.) They plan to be buried in Cincinnati's Spring Grove Cemetery that feels somewhat like Savannah's Bonaventure Cemetery. Sharlotte's name is the Irish-American version of Charlotte/Searlait. She especially loves her roles as daughter, granddaughter, wife, mother, grandmother, and friend to animals. Over the years her best friends have been dogs and cats.

Sharlotte got her love of genealogy as a small child working on family histories with her maternal grandmother, Nevada McClelland Bell. She got her love of visiting cemeteries from her paternal grandmother, Nettie King Neely Riley.

Adequate preparation is the justification most often used by cowards reluctant to do the right thing. Problems are not solved by standing on the riverbank and preparing. Often one must wade into the river to discover the currents and whirlpools. Injustice is never defeated by preparation alone. One must decide to oppose evil even if a solution is not at first obvious. We find ways to defeat evil by engaging it in battle.
Sharlotte Neely, Anthropologist

And remember, Never a parry without a riposte.

Help needed from fellow gravers! Sharlotte is compiling a list of deceased anthropologists. So far she has a growing list of more than 1,550 anthropologists at https://www.findagrave.com/virtual-cemetery/1525149. With some editing the goal is to have a photo, short bio (or some other info), and grave location (or confirmation of cremation) for each individual. There are hundreds of anthropologists' existing graves/cremations yet to be located on Find a Grave and hundreds more anthropologists' graves/cremations yet to be created for Find a Grave. Please, the help of fellow gravers is needed to expand this list. Many of these missing hundreds are famous, such as James F. Downs, June Helm, Jesse D. Jennings, Wilfred Le Gros Clark, John Napier, etc. To gain "famous" status for anyone on the list who does not already have famous status, you may email Find a Grave at [email protected] to make a case for famous status. To add material (like adding a burial place) or make a correction on any particular site, contact the individual site manager. If you run across an anthropologist on Find a Grave who is not on Sharlotte's list, please let her know as soon as possible. Sharlotte can be reached at [email protected]. Thanks.

Find a Grave is a wonderful resource with many sincere, generous, and hard working volunteers weaving a tapestry of humanity's genealogy by memorializing individual lives. Sharlotte Donnelly's information and photos on Find a Grave are free to be used by other researchers.

Sharlotte Kathleen Bridgette "Sharkey" Neely Donnelly is an award-winning Professor Emerita of Anthropology at Northern Kentucky University and is the author of Snowbird Cherokees: People of Persistence and Native Nations: The Survival of Fourth World Peoples , co-author of This Land Was Theirs and Native Nations: The Survival of Indigenous Peoples, and author of the science fiction novel Kasker, among dozens of other publications.

Sharlotte's ancestry is Irish, Scots, Scots-Irish, Welsh, English, French, German, Viking, Italian, southwest Asian, west African, and Native American (mostly Lumbee). It should be noted that while proud of her African and American Indian ancestry, she is not an African American nor an American Indian since her family has identified as white for generations and she has never personally suffered the racism directed at blacks and Indians. She also does not meet the criteria for any tribal membership. Sharlotte is happy to be a Heinz 57 American mutt.

The best documented (by the late John Wise) of Sharlotte's Native American lines goes back through her maternal grandmother to the Coree Indians who lived on the Atlantic coast along the Virginia/North Carolina border. By the late 17th century, the Coree population had declined due to disease and war. During the Tuscarora War, some of the surviving Coree fled south seeking refuge among the Cheraw Indians. Later some surviving Cheraws, remnants of other Indian groups, whites, and African Americans became the basis of the contemporary Lumbee Indians.

Sharlotte also has a small amount of Neanderthal and Denisovan ancestry, although she is neither a Neanderthal nor a Denisovan.

She is also a direct descendant of famous 18th century artist, Joseph Badger, Sr., her seventh great-grandfather. Being descended from Joseph Badger, however, has sadly not made her an artist.

Through the Cone and other branches of the family, Sharlotte is descended from Conn of the Hundred Battles, the first high king of Ireland. Her Cone ancestors worked as guides for famous 18th century naturalist John Abbot.

Sharlotte and all her direct female descendants and ancestors are of the matrilineal clan of Katrine (mtDNA haplogroup K). DNA matriline testing reveals that is the same matrilineal clan from which the 5,000-year-old Ice Man found in the Alps comes. Katrine was one of seven women from whom almost everyone of European ancestry is descended. Katrine lived about 15,000 years ago on the southern slopes of the Alps in northern Italy near present-day Venice.

Sharlotte is the great-niece of famous Savannah educator Romana Riley, who was her father's stepfather's half sister. (Sharlotte's contemporary family by blood is small in numbers, and thus tracing kinship is often quite circuitous—she is an only child, an only grandchild, an only niece, and even an only first cousin.).

Many of Sharlotte's direct ancestors were veterans of America's wars, including the French and Indian War (at least one of her fifth great-grandfathers: William H. Cone), the Revolutionay War (including at least two of her fourth great-grandfathers, four of her fifth great-grandfathers, and one of her sixth great-grandfathers: William H. Cone, Aaron Cone, Sr., Onesimus Futch, James Martin, John Martin, William S. Downs, Sr., and William S. Downs, Jr.), War of 1812 (including at least one of her third great-grandfathers: Samuel J. Sarvis, Jr.), Civil War (including at least one of her third great-grandfathers and five of her second great-grandfathers: Edmund Nealy, John R. Sarvis, Elijah Strickland, Joseph Glisson, William H. McClelland, and Emmett T. Downs), and World War II (her father: Joseph B. Neely, Jr.). Collateral relatives (uncles and cousins) were veterans of the French and Indian War, the Revolutionary War, War of 1812, First Seminole War, Second Seminole War, Third Seminole War, Mexican War, Civil War, Spanish American War, World War I, World War II, Korean War, Vietnam War, Gulf War, and others. (While all of Sharlotte's Civil War ancestors fought for the Confederacy, her husband Tom's second great-grandfather, John C. Albrecht, fought for the Union, as did his third great-uncle, John Donnelly, and his second great-uncle, James Donnelly.)

Surrounded by mystery and beauty, Sharlotte was born on a Friday the 13th in the celestique city of Savannah, Georgia. Her parents and paternal grandparents are buried in Savannah's Spanish moss-draped Bonaventure Cemetery. She is the only child of Joseph Bowden Neely and Kathleen Bell Neely, all three born and raised in Savannah. Sharlotte is married to anthropologist, attorney, and retired high school athletic director Thomas Christian Christopher Donnelly. They have one daughter, Mary Kathleen Bridgette Elisabeth Donnelly; one granddaughter, Mary Kathleen Quinn Cecilia Donnelly; and several foster grandchildren. The family is Catholic. They live with their dogs and cats in Cincinnati, Ohio, Tom's hometown, in a Queen Anne Victorian house built in 1896. (The house has a very Savannah celestique feel to it.) They plan to be buried in Cincinnati's Spring Grove Cemetery that feels somewhat like Savannah's Bonaventure Cemetery. Sharlotte's name is the Irish-American version of Charlotte/Searlait. She especially loves her roles as daughter, granddaughter, wife, mother, grandmother, and friend to animals. Over the years her best friends have been dogs and cats.

Sharlotte got her love of genealogy as a small child working on family histories with her maternal grandmother, Nevada McClelland Bell. She got her love of visiting cemeteries from her paternal grandmother, Nettie King Neely Riley.

Adequate preparation is the justification most often used by cowards reluctant to do the right thing. Problems are not solved by standing on the riverbank and preparing. Often one must wade into the river to discover the currents and whirlpools. Injustice is never defeated by preparation alone. One must decide to oppose evil even if a solution is not at first obvious. We find ways to defeat evil by engaging it in battle.
Sharlotte Neely, Anthropologist

And remember, Never a parry without a riposte.