Consists of application and supporting documentation for membership to the National Society of the Daughters of the American Revoloution for Joan Arline Caine Hoelaars, a descendant of Josiah Burge. Josiah Burge (b. 1723), fifth generation descendant from English emigrant John Burge (d. 1678), married Tabitha Warren in 1751 at Chelmsford, Massachusetts. Descendants lived in Massachusetts, Michigan and elsewhere.

Sylvester Harold Honsaker was born 1 August 1919 in New Salem, Fayette, Pennsylvania. His parents were Joseph S. Honsaker and Dillie Charity Burge. Traces his ancestors for seven generations. Ancestors and relatives lived mainly in Pennsylvania and Illinois. Includes Arison, Beery, Franks, Hunsaker, Riffle and related families.

Roger Clap (1609-1690) emigrated in 1630 from England to Dorchester, Massachusetts, married Johanna Ford in 1633, and moved to Boston in 1686. His brother, Edward, emigrated in 1633; both were sons of William. Nicholas Clap, son of Nicholas, emigrated from England to Dorchester, Massachusetts in 1633. Lists the actual immigrant ancestors of the Clapp and Cheney families, arranged in alphabetical order by surname. Includes some ancestry in England,...

Chiefly ancestral families of John Davis and Sarah Cornelia Burge Gray. John Davis Gray (1852-1887) was born in Monroe County, Georgia, the son of Joseph Gray (1821-1899) and Eliza Amelia Howard Gray (1831-1889). He married Sarah Cornelia Burge (1855-1892). She was born in Newton County, Georgia, the daughter of Thomas Burge (1806-1858) and Dolly Sumner Lunt Burge (1817-1891). John Davis and Sarah Cornelia Burge Gray died at Hawhorne, Florida. Ancestors...

William Seale (b.ca.1636) immigrated in 1655 from England to Charles City County, Virginia. Descendants and relatives lived in Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Kansas and elsewhere. Includes other Seale immigrants and some of their descendants.

Harris Leander Pearson (1828-1896) was born in Tennessee. He is said to have left Tennessee at age thirteen because he didn't get along with his step mother. He migrated to Louisiana then on to Hancock County, Mississippi, where he married Rosans Essy Breland (1838-1910) in 1858. They had ten children, 1859-1879. Harris and Rosana are buried in the Breland Cemetery, northeast of Picayune, Mississippi. Descendants lived in Mississippi, Louisiana...

James Pascal Smith was born 10 July 1811 in Louisiana. His parents were Andrew Smith and Nancy Robards. He married Nancy Ann Wheat (1819-1836), daughter of Joseph Wheat and Elizabeth Bagley, in about 1834. They had one son. He married Mary Jane Strahan (1822-1892), daughter of Cornelius Strahan and Nancy, in 1837 in Hancock County, Mississippi. They had twelve children. James died in New Orleans, Louisiana in 1891. Ancestors, descendants and relatives...

Hiram Prentis Smith was born 26 January 1826. His parents were Andrew Smith (1780-1858) and Nancy Ann Kennedy. He married Emaline Strahan (1828-1880), daughter of Cornelius Strahan (1796-1887) and Nancy Alderman (1799-1833), in 1847 in Marion County, Mississippi. They had twelve children. He married Nancy Elizabeth Strahan (1859-1941), daughter of Lemuel Strahan (1821-1864) and Amelia Weldy (1820-1917), 7 October 1880 in Hancock County, Mississippi....

Donald Lee Carlisle was born in 1919 in Hoisington, Kansas. His parents were Clarence Carlisle and Helen Irene Bussin. He married Nola Pauline Parker, daughter of Ora Alberti Parker and Josephine Ratchell Pritchett, in 1941. Ancestors, descendants and relatives lived mainly in England, Virginia, Massachusetts, Illinois, Kansas, Oklahoma and California.