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Author
Publisher
Jesse Stuart Foundation
Pub. Date
c2003
Physical Desc
256 p. : ill., ports.
Language
English
Description
The author recalled many incidents from the history of the town. Van Lear was created by the Consolidation Coal Company to serve its new mines along Millers Creek in Johnson County, Kentucky. From 1910 to 1940, Van Lear was a prosperous community of 3,000 people. The Bankmules athletic teams, so-called from the mules that hauled coal from the coal seams or "banks", were the pride of the town. The author tells of the games and amusements enjoyed...
Author
Publisher
Sunshine Press
Pub. Date
1964
Physical Desc
Miami, Florida : Cole, 1964 (Miami : Sunshine Press) iv, 44 leaves [i.e. 88 leaves] : illustrations, coat of arms, genealogical tables, portrait.
Language
English
Description
William Cole was born in Warwick County, Virginia, in 1638. He was an attorney and held important government positions in colonial Virginia. He married 1) before 1674, name unknown; 2) Ann Digges (1658-1686), daughter of Governor Edward Digges, in 1681; and 3) Marthat Lear (1668-1704), daughter of Col. John Lear, in 1687. He had seven children. He died at "Boldrup", Warwick County, in 1694.
Captain Armistead Beresford Cole, a descendant of William...
Author
Publisher
W. Logsdon
Pub. Date
[1993]
Physical Desc
325 p.
Language
English
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Description
Family history and genealogical information about the descendants of William Logsdon who was born 13 September 1663 in Bedfordshire, England. He immigrated to America and married Honora Flynn ca. 1702 in Maryland. They lived in Baltimore, Maryland and were the parents of four sons and three daughters. Descendants lived in Maryland, Kentucky, Illinois and elsewhere.
Author
Publisher
K.H. Campbell
Pub. Date
1983
Physical Desc
385 p. : coat of arms, facsims., geneal. tables, ports.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Absalem Adams (ca.1725-1790) immigrated from England to Fauquier County, Virginia before 1755, moved to Culpeper County, Virginia in 1775, and to Jackson County, Kentucky in 1790. Descendants lived in Virginia, Kentucky, Missouri, Oklahoma, Texas and elsewhere.
Author
Publisher
J.H. Stutesman, Jr
Pub. Date
c1982
Physical Desc
308 p. : ill., maps
Language
English
Formats
Description
Jacob Stŭtzman (d.1773/1775) came to land in Lancaster (later York) County, Pennsylvania between 1742 and 1754, moved to land in Frederick County, Maryland before 1761, and died in Cumberland County, Pennsylvania. Descendants lived in Maryland, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana and elsewhere.
Author
Publisher
J.P. Schmal
Pub. Date
199-?]
Physical Desc
50 leaves, [1] leaf of plates : geneal. table.
Language
English
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Description
Robert Pink Williams (1882-1968) was born in Mississippi and married Sweetie Brown in 1905. Both were the children of former slaves. They were the parents of Marcus Brown Williams (1906- ) who's son, Wendell Marcus Williams (1932- ) married Evelyn Mary Lear (1931- ). Eveleyn was the daughter of James Joseph Lear (1905- 1981) and Thelma Cecile Fortune (1907- ), both of whom came from Louisiana Mulatto background. Descendants lived in Mississippi, Louisiana...
Author
Publisher
s.n.]
Pub. Date
1981
Physical Desc
29, [10] leaves (some folded) : geneal. table, maps.
Language
English
Formats
Description
John Hedden (1795-1868) married Elizabeth Bowman (1795-1869). They were both born in New Jersey and both died in New Columbus, Pennsylvania. The first of their six children was born in 1827. Descendants remained in Pennsylvania for a while, but eventually migrated south and west.
Author
Publisher
M.E.L. Terrell
Pub. Date
1995
Physical Desc
xi, 241 p.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Ancestors of Donald Leon Terrell (b. 1925), son of Leon Keeling Terrell and Clara Genevieve LeRoy. He was born in Cortland, N.Y. He married Margaret Ellen Lear (b. 1925), daughter of George Andrew Lear and Daisy May Ward, in 1943 in Virgil, N.Y. She was born in Cortland, N.Y. They are parents of four children born in Ithaca, N.Y. The early Terrell/Terrill ancestor, Roger Terrill, was born in England and died 1682 at Milford, Connecticut. He was married...
Author
Publisher
P.M.H. Roscoe
Pub. Date
c2015
Edition
1st edition
Physical Desc
x, 365 p. : ill., geneal. tables, map, ports. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Formats
Description
John Heard (1681-1757) , son of John Heard and Alice, married Sarah Allen. They had three children. He married Mary Thornell, daughter of Israel Thornell, in about 1729. They had two children. He died in Woodbridge, New Jersey.
Author
Publisher
J.W. Gorham Jr
Pub. Date
©2004
Physical Desc
xvi, 12, 377 p. 32 p. of plates in various pagings : ill., facsims., geneal. tables, maps, ports. ; 28 cm.
Language
English
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Description
Alexander Gorham (1770-1837), son of Thomas Gorham (ca. 1736-1814) and Margaret Taylor Cotton, was born in Loudon, Virginia. He married Sarah Tyler (1777-1863), daughter of William Tyler and Letitia George, in Fayette, Kentucky. He died in Putnam, Indiana.
Author
Publisher
T. Stewart
Pub. Date
c1988
Physical Desc
iv, 738 p. : ill., facsims., geneal. tables, maps, ports.
Language
English
Formats
Description
William Kerr (1775/1779-1850) married Margaret Jane Miller and moved from Pennsylvania to Owen County, Indiana. Eli Kerr (1813-1885), a son, changed the spelling of the surname to Carr, and moved from Pennsylvania (via Ohio and Iowa) to Keya Paha County, Nebraska. Descendants (chiefly spelling the surname Carr) and relatives lives in Pennsylvania, Indiana, Nebraska, Kansas, Montana, Oregon and elsewhere.
Includes Boyd, Durfee, Foreman, Hallock, Lear,...
Author
Publisher
L.M. Young
Pub. Date
1990
Physical Desc
[402] p. : ill., facsims., geneal. tables, maps, ports.
Language
English
Formats
Description
John Keith (b.1710) and his wife, Katherine, had four sons: John, William (b.ca.1750), Alexander, and Henry, all born in Hampshire County, Virginia (later West Virginia). Descendants and relatives lived in Virginia, West Virginia, North Carolina, Tennessee, Kentucky, Indiana, Missouri, Arkansas and elsewhere.
Includes Shuffield as a variant spelling of Sheffield.
Author
Language
English
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Description
Matthias Lehrer (1714-1787) immigrated in 1738 from the Palatinate of Germany to Philadelphia, and in 1744 married Catharine Margaretha Moyer, a fellow passenger. After 1750 they moved to Rockingham County, Virginia, and it was after Matthias died that his widow began to spell the surname as Lair. Descendants and relatives lived in Pennsylvania, Virginia, Kentucky, Ohio, Texas and elsewhere.
Includes index (listing Lear as another variant spelling).
Includes...
Author
Publisher
C. A. Hammond
Pub. Date
1986
Physical Desc
83 p. : ill., maps, ports.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Ausgustus Levake (Augustine Levaque) (1754-1822) was born at Riviere Quelle, Quebec, Canada to Jean-Baptists and Marie Marte (Michon) Levesque. At age 21, (Augustin Levesque) enlisted with the American Continental Army as a volunteer and was wounded twice before he was discharged in December 1782. Four of his sons volunteered in the War of 1812. He purchased property in Hanover, N. H. after the war as he could not return home to Canada because of...
Author
Publisher
Genealogical Research and Productions
Pub. Date
c1978
Physical Desc
vii, 246 p. : ill., facsims., geneal. tables, maps, ports.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Includes bibliography: p. 245-256; and "Magna Charta sureties and Charlemagne": p. 233-244. Interspersed pages left blank. "Errata": insert on p. v.
The Abney family immigrated to Virginia about 1685/1686.
Author
Publisher
[publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[201?]
Physical Desc
1 online resource (67 pages) ;
Language
English
Description
Eight generations of the descendants of Samuel McBride (ca. 1735-1789) who was born in Ireland and emigrated to Stillwater, New York. Includes the ancestors of Vivian Woodrow Mathews (b. 1942), a descendant.
Publisher
University Microfilms International
Pub. Date
1986
Edition
facsim. [ed.]
Physical Desc
110 leaves : ill., facsim., geneal. tables, map, ports.
Language
English
Formats
Description
William Powell Lear (1902-1978) was the son of Reuben Marion Lear (1878- 1955) and Gertrude Elizabeth Powell (1883/4-1934) of Hannibal, Marion, Missouri. His father Reuben, was the son of John William Lear and Mary Elizabeth Atkins (sometimes written as Adkins). They lived in both Macon and Marion counties, Missouri. John William Lear's parents were Jesse M. Lear and Nancy Fagan of Miller Twp., Marion County, Mo. Jesse (b.1817) was born in Bourbon...
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