A record of the family of Charles Reese. He married Sarah Griffith. They immigrated from Wales to the United States. They were the parents of four children, one died in infancy.

Thomas Jefferson Day (1847-1922) moved from Marion County, Illinois to Rushville, Schuyler County, Illinois, married Louisa Garrett in 1865, and moved to Colorado Springs, El Paso County, Colorado. Descendants and relatives lived in Illinois, Colorado, Kansas, Missouri, California and elsewhere.

Ancestry traced to the following families: John Reese Sr. of Southampton County Virginia married Mary Thrope and later died in 1792; William Johnson (1750-1830) was born in Virginia and died in Georgia and was married to Lucy Rosannah Reece; Thomas Hart was born in 1686 in Bucks County, Pennsylvania and died in North Carolina; and Isaac Low came from Lancashire County, England to Chester County, Pennsylvania and died in 1749. Family members lived...

Martin Seidner was born at Strusbergh, Germany, in 1733, the son of Christople Seidner. He and his wife, Margaret Mira Schotte, immigrated to America in 1754 and settled in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. They had fourteen children, 1754-1777. The family migrated to Frederick County, Maryland, ca. 1762, to Berkeley County, Virginia (now West Virginia), in 1791, and to Fayette County, Kentucky, in 1796. He died in Fayette County in 1806. Descendants...

Alexander Kincaid (b.ca1670) was a pharmacist of Edinburgh, Scotland and the father of several sons who emigrated to the colonies and settled in Pennsylvania and Virginia. Most Kincaids are the descendants of Samuel, John and James who were sons of John and Ann Graham Kincaid, who in their later years lived on Indian Creek in Greenbrier Co., VA (now Monroe Co., WV). James settled at Grassy Meadows and has numerous descendants in Fayette Co. Samuel,...

Martha Ann Massey (1834-1917) was born in Tennessee, She married Marcus Massey (abt 1832-abt 1858) in 1852 in Laclede County, Missouri. She married Lewis Thomas McBride (1838-1889) in 1859. She died in 1917 in Elk Creek Township, Wright County, Missouri. Ancestors, descendants and relatives lived mainly in Missouri.

Margaret Lawrence was born in England about 1710. She was charged with thievery in London and transported to the colonies bond as a bonds-woman for 14 years. Her contract was bought by Tobias Phillips and she worked as a domestic servant on one of his Virginia plantations. She also bore him two illegitimate sons. Her descendants from her son Thomas are traced in this volume. Currently, descendants live in Arkansas, Missouri, Georgia, and elsewhere. Includes...

John Allen Benson was born November 2, 1878 in Robertson County, Tennessee. His parents were Warren Jasper Benson and Susan Mildred Woodard. He married Drucilla Young Alexander, daughter of Milton Elbert Alexander and Charity Elizabeth Yokley, December 25, 1895 in Giles County, Tennessee. They had eight children. Drucilla was born February 18, 1875 in Giles County, Tennessee and died May 22, 1930. John died January 28, 1955 in Lawrence County, Tennessee....