Abraham Furney, Jr. was born in Frederick County, Maryland, in 1779, son of Abraham and Mary Furney. He and his wife, Mary Curtis, were the parents of nine children. They moved to Wheeling Township, Guernsy County, Ohio in 1811. He died in 1856. Descendants lived in Ohio, Texas, and elsewhere. Many descendants spelled their name "Forney.". Includes the Hammersley, McAllister, and other related families.

Supplements 1-2 (tempbound separately) are to work entitled: A history of the Otstot(t) family in America : also being a guide to the descendants of Jost and Katherine Otstadt / by Charles Mathieson Otstot. Arlington, Va. : C.M. Otstot, c1973 (Baltimore, Md. : Gateway Press). Supplement 1 is chiefly additions, with a few corrections, discovered during 1974 to the above work. Supplement 2 contains chiefly major new material related to the family lines...

David Miskimins (1732-1827) married Rachel Ferree and emigrated from Ireland to Lancaster County, Pennsylvania and Washington County, Maryland. Descendants and relatives lived in Pennsylvania, Maryland, Ohio and elsewhere.

Rosa Lee Hook, daughter of William Bernard Hook and Sarah Ann Bole, was born in 1874 in Reeder, Kansas. She married James William Furney, son of Solomon Ritz Furney (1842-1919) and Sarah Catherine Darner, in 1895 in Central City, Kansas. They had eight children. She died in 1911.