Frank Laughlin Wilson (1880-1979) was born in Oakland, Tennessee, the son of David S. Wilson and Emma Atkinson (Allen) Wilson. In 1903 he married Lottie Gaither (1884-1956), the daughter of Samuel Elam Gaither and Martha Ammonette Roberts. They were of English and French Huguenot descent and their ancestors originally sttled in Virginia, North Carolina, and Maryland. The families eventually settled in Tennessee. Descendants lived in Tennessee, Louisiana,...

Traces the descendants of Michael Judd, who married Mary Wolfe in 1781 in Shenandoah county, Virginia. His descendants lived mostly in Virginia.

Matthias Sheetz was born in 1698 and immigrated to Pennsylvania in 1732 from Germany. Some of the family moved to Shenandoah County, Virginia after 1754. Descendants lived in Pennsylvania, Virginia, Ohio, and elsewhere.

Descendancy of Solomon Sparks who was born 15 November 1767 in Union Town, Pennsylvania and died 19 March 1838 in Winchester, Ohio. His wife was Catherine Hillegas (d. 1859).

Asa Battles was born in Massachusetts in 1786. He fought in the War of 1812. He married Elizabeth Brown and they settled in New York. They had six children. They settled in Eire county where Asa became a financial and social leader. Information on their life and their deescendants who remained in Girard is given in this volume. Some descendants may have moved further west but no information is included on them. Volume includes large amounts of historical...

Arthur Cleland (b.ca.1750) married Eleanor McMilland. They and their children emigrated form County Down, Ireland to Northumberland County, Pennsylvania after 1773. They moved to Butler County, Pennsylvania in 1791, and purchased a homestead near Portersville in Butler County. Descendants (some spelled the surname Cleeland) and relatives lived in Pennsylvania, New York, Kentucky, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Minnesota, California and elsewhere. Some descendants...

Robert Dearing (1700-1758) married Elizabeth, They had seven children. Descendants and relatives lived mainly in Virginia, Georgia, Alabama Mississippi and Missouri. Their name is also spelled Deering.

Johan Jacob Folk was born 12 July 1724 in Germany. His parents were Jakob Volk (1682-1732) and Johanna Mayer (1686-1741). He emigrated in 1737 and settled in Pennsylvania. He moved to South Carolina in 1740. He married Pomona Coon and they had two sons. He married Catherine Epting and they had five children. Ancestors, descendants and relatives lived mainly in Germany and South Carolina.

Henry Dominick was born in about 1757 in South Carolina. He fought in the American Revolution. He married Agnes Fellers in about 1784 and they had a daughter, Catherine and a son, Henry, Jr. He married Margaret Fellers in about 1788 and they had nine children. He died in about 1835. Descendants and relatives lived mainly in South Carolina.

Peter Ruffner emigrated from Germany or Switzerland in about 1732. He married Mary Steinman, daughter of Joseph Steinman, in 1739 in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. They had eight children. He died in 1778 in Virginia.