John Pruett was born in about 1755 in Bedford County, Virginia. His parents were Henry Pruett and Rebecca. He married Eady Spencer in 1778. They had seven children. John served in the Revolutionary War. He died in 1837 in Rutherford County, North Carolina. Descendants and relatives lived in North Carolina, Texas, Arkansas, Georgia, Florida, Nebraska, Virginia, Tennessee, Missouri, Washington, Oregon, Oklahoma, California and elsewhere.

William Diehl immigrated from Germany (via Rotterdam) to Philadelphia in 1738, and settled in Doylestown, Pennsylvania. He moved later to Lincoln (now Catawba) County, North Carolina, and married twice. Descendant "Enoch M. Rogers first settled in Ellendale township, Alexander county, North Carolina. About the year 1890 he joined The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and with his entire family removed to Manassa, Colorado, a Mormon community,...