Data concerning the Kilmer, Howe, Case, Howard, Sams, Slyter, Rasler, Miller and Pease families were collected when preparation was being made to publish "Across the Prairie." Members of these families intermarried as did their descendants.

Robert Sams immigrated in 1720 to Port Royal, South Carolina from Cardiff, Wales. He married twice and died after 1750.

Work files for the supplement to "Across the Prairie" including information on the Kilmer, Slyter, Howe, Ripley, Pease, Chambers, and Moad descendants and the Churches of God.

James Sams, Sr. (1686/1694-1726) married Kathryn Allyn Tolbut about 1715, and acquired land in Essex County, Virginiainm 1721. Descendants lived in Virginia, North Carolina, Tennessee, Kentucky, Illinois and elsewhere. Includes other Sams immigrants to the United States, and some Sams ancestry in England.

James Houston (d.1820) was in Augusta County, Virginia soon after 1745 and there he married Agnes Wilson in 1749. They moved to what is now Greene County, Tennessee in 1778/1779, and lived in what is now known as "Houston Valley." James Houston, his son William and other relatives served in the Revolutionary War. Descendants and relatives lived in Virginia, Tennessee, North Carolina and elsewhere.

Gary Horlacher gives a lot of biographical and genealogical information on his ancestors' families who settled throughout the midwest. The majority of his information was gathered during a genealogical trip taken to collect materials in 1984.

Ancestry of the author, Alice Roberts Fobister born Alice B. Roberts (1916), and some descendants of those ancestors. Many family members were in Kentucky and Virginia. Includes Baker, Baldwin, Church, Clark, Hockensmith, Newton, Sams, and other related families.

Pleasant Cobbs (1760-1840) was born in Virginia, the son of Robert and Mary Terrell Cobbs. He married Amy Ann Terrell (1766-1838), daughter of Thomas and Rebecca Peatross Terrell and his double second cousin, in 1785. They had fourteen children, 1786-1811. The family migrated to Ohio, shortly after 1800 with other Quakers who objected to slavery in Virginia and settled near Damascus, Ohio. Descendants and relatives lived in Ohio, Indiana, Nebraska,...

George Patton may have been born in Scotland. He immigrated to America before the American Revolution. He served in the military for seven years. He married a Miss Hughes. They had at least two, sons, George and Charles. Charles was born in about 1775. He married Ann McCoy in about 1795 in Hagerstown, Maryland. They had twelve known children. Descendants and relatives lived mainly in Kentucky, Ohio, Illinois, Indiana and Oklahoma.