INTRODUCTION , DONALD FAMILIES OF WESTERN SCOTLAND, COASTAL VIRGINIA, NORTHEASTERN NORTH CAROLINA, UPSTATE SOUTH CAROLINA, EASTERN MISSISSIPPI, NORTHWEST ARKANSAS, AND OKLAHOMA.

This narrative focuses upon the ancestry of Charlotte Anne Donald Muffley, and is dedicated to her memory. Anne passed away in Sweden in 2002. Considerable information about her Donald, and other, ancestry is available online. The current narrative is meant merely to focus upon some interesting highlights.

Oral accounts of our particular Donald family history go back to Watson Augustus Donald (born 1844 in South Carolina), great-great grandfather of Anne Donald Muffley. Documentary evidence is solid back one more generation, to the parents of Watson Augustus Donald: Andrew J. Donald and Unity Amanda Morgan Donald.  Earlier than that, evidence is less certain, but our Andrew J. Donald (b. about 1815 in South Carolina) was reportedly a son of Alexander Donald (b. 1790).  A number of trees at Ancestry.com show Alexander’s father as James Donald, a son of Alexander and Margaret Dearest Clanton Donald.