Newsletter for the interchange of genealogical data and history of the Alvis (and variant spellings) families who came mainly from Austria, Belgium, Bermuda (West Indies), Chile, England, Germany, Italy, Portugal, Prussia, Scotland, and Spain. Some came to America on the Mayflower. Some settled in Kentucky, North Carolina, Tennessee, and Virginia in the 1600-1700s. Census reports show Alvis families living throughout all the United Sates of America...

"Benjamin Franklin Huggins, born June 1, 1826, in Tennessee, and died at the age of 68 years on April 10, 1895, in Olathe, Kansas, and died at the age of 68 years on April 10, 1895, of Consumption (Tuberculosis). Benjamin married on November 8, 1849 in Marshall Township, Platte County, Missouri, to Amanda Hundley,18 born February 19, 1830 in Lawrence County, Kentucky, and died at the age of 61 years on December 6, 1891, in Olathe, Kansas. Amanda was...

Patrick Frederick Nowland/Nowlin was born in about 1789 in Virginia. He was living in Pike County, Alabama by about 1825. He married Mariah and they had ten known children. Relatives also spell their name Noland.

John Nowlan immigrated from Ireland to Pittsylvania County, Virginia during or before 1740. Descendants changed the surname to Nowlin and lived in Virginia, Alabama, Arkansas, Oklahoma, Idaho and elsewhere.

Family history and genealogical information about the descendants of James Bolden Stevens and Emaline Jarvis. James was born 6 September 1866 in Glenwood, Mason Co., West Virginia. He was the son of Hooper B. Stevens, Jr. and Emily Cochran. Emaline was born 8 November 1867 in Gallia Co., Ohio. She was the daughter of Samuel Jarvis and Margaret Hymendinge. James Stevens married Emaline Jarvis sometime prior to the year 1892. They lived in West Virginia...

Abraham Estes Jr. (ca. 1697-1759), was the son of Abraham and Barbara Estes. He died in 1759 in Caroline County, Virginia. Also includes information on the families of the following brothers: Thomas, who died in 1744 in Caroline County, Virginia; Robert, who died in 1775 in Lunenburg County, Virginia, and Elisha, who died in 1782 in Henry County, Virginia. Descendants lived in Virginia, Missouri, Kentucky, Illinois, Texas, Arizona, and elsewhere.

Descendants of Jeremish Youngblood (1765-1814), who was born probably in Johnston County, North Carolina. When he was twenty-two his family left North Carolina and resettled in Edgefield Co., S.C. By 1790 he was married to Susannah Birgit and had two sons in Edgefield County. By 1809 his family had relocated in Jackson County, Tennessee. Jeremiah enlisted in the Regiment of West Tennessee Militia under command of Gen. Andrew Jackson in 1814. He died...

Pariss (Parish) Sims was born near Belfast, Ulster, Northern Ireland ca. 1740 and came to America with his brothers, Abraham and Robert ca. 1765. They settled in Pennsylvania and Pariss later moved near Salem, North Carolina. He married Keziah Royster of Granville County, North Carolina in 1782. They eventually settled in the Lynn Creek area of Tennessee. Descendants lived in Tennessee, Illinois, Alabama, Mississippi, South Carolina, Texas, and...

Family history and genealogical information about the descendants of John O'Gallaher (or Gallaher) and Margaret (surname unknown). They lived in County Donegal, Ireland. Three of their five children immigrated to America ca. 1758 and settled in Pennsylvania. Emphasis in given to their son James who immigrated to America and first lived in Mifflin Station, Pennsylvania. James later settled in the state of Tennessee. Descendants of John and Margaret...