Joshua Wilson and Benjamin Buckmaster immigrated about 1750/1755, with their father, from Scotland to America, and the father died en route. The two boys settled in Baltimore, Maryland. Descendants lived in Maryland, Virginia, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, Iowa, Minnesota, Arkansas, Washington and elsewhere.

Joan Catherine Onderdonk was born in New York in 1942. She joined The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in 1961. She first married Rodney Price and they had one daughter, afterward she married William Cooper and they were the parents of two sons. She lived in Nevada before settling in Georgia. Information on many of her ancestral lines is given in these volumes. Her ancestors lived in New York, New Jersey, and Canada after coming from England,...

Joan Onderdonk was born 8 September 1942 in Rockland, New York. Her parents were Garret Daniel Onderdonk (1919-2000) and (Peggy) Margaret Ferguson (1920-1994). Her grandparents were Garret Onderdonk (1896-1981), Muriel Buckmaster (1892-1994), James David Ferguson (1896-1920) and Margaret Jane Pollock (1897-1968). Ancestors lived mainly in New York, New Jersey, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, England, Ireland, and Switzerland.

Descendants of Charles (Carl) Hoeffel of Lutzelbourg, Lorraine France. Three of his sons emigrated to the United States from France about 1856, settling in Ohio. Descendants and relatives lived in Ohio, Illinois, New York, Michigan, Nevada and elsewhere.

Henry Pulke was born between 1752 -1756 in Devonshire, England. He married Susanna Rosetta Gunning between 1790-1793 in Parrsboro Township, Cumberland County, Nova Scotia. They had eight children. He died in 1843 in Charlotte County, Nova Scotia. Descendants and relatives lived mainly in Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Maine, Wisconsin and Minnesota.

Oral and family histories that have been transcribed by the Eureka History Association.

John Jewell was born 2 November 1811 in Waynesburg, Pennsylvania. He was the son of Samuel Jewell, Jr. and Sarah Blatchley. He married Nancy McCullough. They had ten children. John died 19 September 1863. Descendants and relatives lived mainly in Pennsylvania, Ohio, Michigan and Arizona. Proposed ancestry lived in New Jersey and New York.

Chiefly, a record of many generations of descendants of Francis Purdy, who was born in York, England in 1595. He left England in 1632, going to Concord, Massachusetts, and from there, after a few years residence, to Fairfield, Connecticut. His will was proved 14 Oct 1658. His wife, whom he married in England, was Mary Elizabeth ??? They had three sons, John, Joseph and Francis Purdy II.