Grooms Corners is located in the township of Clifton Park. Name of church was changed from Old Clifton Park Methodist Episcopal Church to Grooms Methodist Episcopal Church.

R. David Grooms was born in 1948 probably in North Carolina. He married Rhoda Kathryn Haney and they had two children. Information on many of their ancestral lines which go back to the colonial south is given in this volume. Stories of the Revolutionary and Civil War experiences of several family members are included. Several lines run back to the Cherokee nation. Today descendants live in North Carolinam, and elsewhere in the south. Includes Grooms,...

Louis and Eva (Leah?) Wolfe and their family emigrated in 1831 from Germany to Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, later moving to Butler County, Pennsylvania. William Parkes (b.1732), whose older brother inherited the family title of nobility, emigrated about 1635 from England to Parksley Manor, Accomac County, Virginia--and later returned to England as a Loyalist about 1775/1776. His son, John Parkes (1756-1841), served with the Revolutionary Army,...

Joseph Braddy was born about 1790 in Tennessee. He married Elizabeth Anderson and they had seven children. Later the family moved to Illinois. Information on many of their descendants are included in this volume. Presently descendants now live in Colorado, Iowa, Kansas, and elsewhere. Includes Braddy, Newton, Davison, Ingalsby, Ecker, Grooms, Umstead, Lee, Puntney, Majors, and related families.

James and Eleanor Cunningham McClenahen emigrated from County Donegal, Ireland, in 1762 and were living in Mahoning Township, Northumberland County, Pennsylvania, by 1779. They were the parents of nine children born ca. 1758-ca. 1774. Their sons, Charles McClenahen (1760-1836) and John McClenahen (1772-1830), settled in Mifflin County, Pennsylvania, ca. 1785. Most children and grandchildren lived in Pennsylvania. George Dorman, a Revoltionary War...

Thomas Leon Parrish was born 21 May 1885 in Emanuel, Georgia. His parents were Alexander Parrish and Kearon Eveline Hendrix Waters. He married Melissa Bell RIchardson (1896-1979), daughter of George Wesley Richardson and Racheal Cornelia Driggers, in 1911. They had seven children. Their daughter, Helen Margaret Parrish, married Willie Isaac (Jack) Davis (1913-1986), son of David Isaac Davis (1886-1944) and Maude Mae McKee (1885-1980), in 1946...

Hugh Bedwell (1815-1881) lived in Marshall County, Tennessee in 1839 and later moved to Calloway County, Kentucky. William Armstrong Smith Jr. was born in 1790 in Chatham County, North Carolina and married Nancy Brinkley. He later moved to Tennessee and Kentucky. Caleb Davis Williams (1820-1880) was born in Caldwell County, Kentucky. James Wesley Brown (1811-1879) married Sophia Bandy in 1836 in Davidson County, Tennessee. They later moved to Kentucky....

Michael Wolff was born in 1616 in Schatzlar, Silesia. Descendant, Johann Heinrich Wolf, was born 31 March 1799 in Brensbach, Germany. He married twice and had seven children. He died in 1876 in Zelienople, Pennsylvania. Ancestors, descendants and relatives lived mainly in Germany, Pennsylvania, Ohio and Missouri.