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Agatha Christie                                                                 Agatha Mary Clarissa Miller Born: 15 September 1890, Torquay, Devon, England Died: 12 January 1976, Oxfordshire, England Writer   Agatha Christie was an English crime writer of novels, short stories and plays. She also wrote romances under the name Mary Westmacott, but is best remembered for her 80 detective novels and her successful West End theatre plays. Her works, particularly those featuring detectives Hercule Poirot and Miss Jane Marple, have given her the title the 'Queen of Crime' and made her one of the most important and innovative writers in the development of the genre.  Agatha has been referred to by the Guinness Book of World Records as the best-selling writer of books of all time and the best-selling writer of any kind, along with William Shakespeare. Only the Bible is known to have outsold her collected sales of roughly four billion copies of novels.   Agatha Mary Clarissa Miller was born in Torquay, Devon, England. Her mother, Clarissa Margaret Boehmer, was the daughter of a British army captain, but had been sent, as a child, to live with her own mother's sister, who was the second wife of a wealthy American. Eventually Margaret married her stepfather's son from his first marriage, Frederick Alvah Miller, an American stockbroker. Thus the two women Agatha called "Grannie" were sisters. Despite her father's nationality as a "New Yorker" and her aunt's relation to the Pierpont Morgans, Agatha never claimed United States citizenship or connection.     Despite a turbulent courtship, on Christmas Eve 1914 Agatha married Archibald Christie, an aviator in the Royal Flying Corps. The couple had one daughter, Rosalind Hicks. They divorced in 1928, two years after Christie discovered her husband was having an affair. It was during this marriage that she published her first novel in 1920, The Mysterious Affair at Styles.   n late 1926, Agatha's husband Archie revealed that he was in love with another woman, Nancy Neele, and wanted a divorce. On 8 December 1926, the couple quarrelled, and Archie Christie left their house in Sunningdale, Berkshire, to spend the weekend with his mistress at Godalming, Surrey. That same evening Agatha disappeared from her home, leaving behind a letter for her secretary saying that she was going to Yorkshire. Her disappearance caused an outcry from the public, many of whom were admirers of Agatha Christie's novels. Despite a massive manhunt, there were no results until eleven days later.  Eleven days after her disappearance, Christie was identified as a guest at the Swan Hydropathic Hotel (now the Old Swan Hotel) in Harrogate, Yorkshire where she was registered as 'Mrs Teresa Neele' from Cape Town. Christie gave no account of her disappearance. Although two doctors had diagnosed her as suffering from amnesia, opinion remains divided as to the reasons for her disappearance. One suggestion is that she had suffered a nervous breakdown brought about by a natural propensity for depression, exacerbated by her mother's death earlier that year, and the discovery of her husband's infidelity. Public reaction at the time was largely negative with many believing it was all just a publicity stunt, whilst others speculated she was trying to make the police think her husband killed her as revenge for his affair.   In 1930, Agatha married archaeologist Max Mallowan after joining him in an archaeological dig. Their marriage was especially happy in the early years and remained so until Christie's death in 1976.   Max Mallowan & Agatha Christie           Movie & TV Adaptations of Agatha Christie Stories   Year Story 1957 Witness For the Prosecution 1964 Murder Most Foul 1965 Ten Little Indains 1974 Murder on the Orient Express 1974 And Then There Were None 1978 Death on the Nile 1985 Murder With Mirrors 1986 Dead Man's Folly 1989 The Man in the Brown Suit     The Loftins connect to Agatha Christie through the Sherrill family lineage.  Alonzo Lester Loftin & Agatha Christie would have been 13th cousins.  Since the Johnson family also connect to the Sherrills, there would be a family connection there also.         Richard Strode Agnes Milliton 14?? - 1560 1482 - 1553                               John Crocker Elizabeth Strode 1500 - 1560   Siblings William Strode Elizabeth Courtenay 1504 - 1579 1513 - 1581   (Unknown) Stidston Joan Crocker     1st Cousins George Whyte Katherine Strode 15?? - 1??? 1530 - 1579   Adami Stidston Elinorae (Unknown) 1548 - 1630   2nd Cousins Richard White Mary Plowden 1554 - 1614 1554 - 1???   William Sherrill Johane Stisson/Stidston 1585 - 1638 1607 - ???? 3rd Cousins Thomas Leonard Lydia White 1577 - 1638 1587 - 1???   Adam Sherrill Marye (Unknown) 1610 - 1668   4th Cousins John Leonard Sarah (Unknown) 1615 - 1676     William Sherrill Margery Upright 1635 - 1719 1635 - 1693 5th Cousins John Keep Sarah Leonard 16?? - 1??? 1645 1676   William Sherrill Margarette Reutzel 1666 - 1747 1675 - 1705 6th Cousins Ebenezer Miller Hannah Keep 1667 -1754 1673 - 1744   Adam Sherrill Elizabeth Corzine 1697 - 1774 1701 - 1769 7th Cousins Jacob Miller   1704 - 1748     Adam Sherrill Sina Corzine 1731 - 1787 1731 - 1834 8th Cousins John Miller Hannah Bush 1736 - 1811 1737 - 1???   James Loftin Susannah Sherrill 1768 - 1836 1780 - 18?? 9th Cousins Jacob Miller Mercy Johnson 1762 - 1834     Thomas Loftin Sally Lavinia Beatty 1798 - 1842 1798 - 1829 10th Cousins Alva Miller Martha Hillman   1857 - 1896   James Franklin Loftin Frances Elizabeth Fisher 1827 - 1864 1816 - 1918 11th Cousins Nathaniel Frary Miller Martha Messerney       William Alexander Loftin Laura Rossie Cranford 1851 - 1939 1855 - 1909 12th Cousins Frederick Alva Miller Clariss Margaret Boehmer 1846 - 1901     Alonzo Lester Loftin Ida Lillian Setzer 1876 - 1937 1884 - 1964 13th Cousins 1. Archibald Christie 2. Max Mallowan Agatha Christie   1890 - 1976                                                                                                                                                         Sources:   Dave Utzinger's Database (for Richard Strode & Agnes Milliton) http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=michelotti&id=I048940   John Keep of Longmeadow  http://www.keepfamilysociety.org/JohnKeep.htm   Some Beedles, Conner, Jenne, and Ralph Ancestors http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=bralph&id=I11054   Agatha Christie  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agatha_Christie