The earliest known ancestor, Thomas Christian (ca. 1636-aft. 1694), patented land in Charles City County, Virginia in 1687. He had four sons: Thomas (b. ca. 1684); Charles; James (b. ca. 1692-bef. 1752); and John. Samuel Preston Christian (b. ca. 1844), son of Abner Early Christian and his wife and cousin, Martha Early Preston, was born in Wilson Co., Tennessee. He married 1865 Mary E. Estes, daughter of Mathew Estes and Fanny Lasater. He inherited...

History of the Gaddis (Geddes) families of Scotland, and their allied families of Monts, Ervin, Mitchell, and Strange (including variant spellings of each). Focus is on (but not limited to) the ancestors and descendants of author, Luman Lynn Gaddis (b. 1916) who married Mary Lou Haffa. His immigrant ancestor, James Archibald Geddes left Scotland in 1737, settled in Georgia, then moved to North Carolina in 1752. James died in 1812. In the 1600-1700's,...

William James Cartee (ca. 1823-1889) of Spartanburg Co., South Carolina, married Missouri Gilbert (1824-1861), daughter of George G. and Lucinda Cooley Gilbert. They had six children. Descendants lived in South Carolina and elsewhere.

History of the Urquhart family originally of Scotland and later in North Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, South Carolina, Texas and elsewhere. John Urquhart (1802-1849) was believed to have been born in Cumber- land Co., N.C., and died in Talbot or Marion Co., Georgia. He was married (1) ca. 1830 in Butts Co., Ga. to a widow, Ruth Mitchel Rhodes (1786-1835). She had seven children with her first husband William Rhodes. She and John Urquhart had no children....

Biographical sketch of Edward Thomas Hopfinger (1910-1984), son of Phillip Hopfinger and Bernardine Fonke. "Hoppy" married Dorothy May Strange in 1930 at Sandpoint, Idaho, and settled in Blanchard, Idaho. Upon retirement in 1972, they moved to Post Falls, Idaho. Includes genealogical data about ancestors in Idaho, Missouri, Illinois and elsewhere.

A pioneer emigrant and sea captain by the name of Strange emigrated about 1750 from England to Charles County, Maryland. He was an English Presbyterian and married an Irish Catholic woman in Maryland. They had five children: Mary, Ignatius, Philip, Charles and James. Descendants and relatives lived in Maryland, Kentucky, Indiana and elsewhere.

Clara and Timothy Bowen were the children of David Brian Bowen and Ann Atwell Huegelmeyer. David, son of Robert James Bowen and Leslie Lee Lang, was born September 20, 1984 in Rochester, New York. He married Ann September 10, 2011 in Hammondsport, New York. Ann, daughter of John J. Huegelmeyer and Mary Louise Natoli, was born December 11, 1980 in Frederick, Maryland.

John Fairman (d.1684), the progenitor of the families traced in this genealogy, moved from Salem, Massachusetts to Enfield, Connecticut in 1682/1683, and was probably a son of English immigrant John Firmin of Watertown, Massachusetts. His wife, Elizabeth, and their five children, survived his death. Descendants and relatives lived in New England, New York, Illinois, Missouri and elsewhere.