Periodical for the interchange of genealogical data and history of the Towry (and variant spellings) families who came mainly from England and Ireland. Some allied families came from England and Scotland, and immigrated to Connecticut and Massachusetts in the 1600s. Some focus is on (but not limited to) descendants of John Edward Towry and his wife, Elizabeth "Betsy" Cannon, and of John's brother, George Towery who married Lide or Lydia Ledford....

Amos McCurry (1794-1885), son of William McCurry and Elizabeth Ledford, was born in North Carolina, and died in Mountain City, Rabun Co., Ga. He married Rachel Webb (1800-1883), daughter of Jeremiah Webb and Hannah Sweezy, 1820 in Rutherford Co., N.C. She was also born in North Carolina. They were parents of ten children. Family migrated from Rutherford Co., N.C. to Rabun Co., Georgia ca. 1837. The earliest known ancestor, William McCurry (ca. 1718-1790),...

Malcolm McCurry was born in Scotland in 1742. He came to America and settled in New Jersey where he left one family before moving to North Carolina where he started another family. Information on some of his descendants who lived in North Carolina, Tennessee, and later Oklahoma is given in this material. Includes McCourry, McCurry, and related families.

Photograph of headstone for Rachel W. McCurry (1800-1883) and her husband Amos McCurry (1788-188-?). The headstone is located "on the Talmadge Trail to top of Black Rock Mountain, Clayton, Rabun County, Georgia".

Samuel Gettys was born in Ireland. He married Isabella Ramsey, daughter of William Ramsey and Mary in about 1750 in Pennsylvania. They had eight children. He died 15 March 1790 in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. Descendants and relatives lived mainly in Pennsylvania, North Carolina, North Dakota and Missouri.

John Langford Taylor (1822-1880) was born in North Carolina to Joseph and Elizabeth Hunt Taylor. He married Elizabeth Martha Ann Esther McCurry (1831-1919), a daughter of Smith and Jane McCurry 1849. He died in Texas County, Missouri. This book includes the descendants of all eleven children of Joseph and Elizabeth Taylor. Descendants live in North Carolina, Missouri, Tennessee, Arkansas and elsewhere. Includes related families of Hunt, McCurry,...

Robert Brown was probably born ca. 1755 in the state of Virginia. He married Catherine (surname unknown) ca. 1768 in Virginia. By the year 1790, he moved with his family to Elbert Co., Georgia. Robert was the father of eight children and received many land grants in Georgia. He died in or before July 1801 in Elbert Co., Georgia. Descendants lived primarily in Georgia, South Carolina, Tennessee, Ohio and elsewhere.