Chiefly ancestral families, relatives and descendants of the author, Violet L. Houts Jordan, and her husband. Charles Alden Jordan (1906-1974) was born at Daisy, Tennessee, the son of Azariah Jordan (1886-1957) and Gwenilian Thomas Jordan (1884-1962). He married Violet Lucille Houts in 1927 at Daisy. She was born at Adger, Tennessee, in 1906, the daughter of George Washington Houts (1883-1955) and Ethel Mae Waldrop Houts (1888-1909). They had two...

Otis Eugene Long, son of David M. Long and Sonora Jane Ross, was born in 1881 in Calloway County, Kentucky. He married Lula Evaline Faith.

John Brown Waldrop (1868-1903) married Cora Ellen D'Spain (1868-1943). They had five children. One son, Leon Gossett Waldrop (1896-1978), married Maude Wyatt (1900-1976) in 1919. They had one son, J. B. Waldrop (born 1922), who married Wanda Virginia Carr (1925-1981), a daughter of Howard Lee Carr and Stella Virginia Murray, whose mother was a Collins. All of these families moved from other southern states to Texas in the middle or late nineteenth...

Robert Duke of Kershaw County, South Carolina, and his wife, Ann, had eleven children, ca. 1762-ca. 1782. His will was written in 1784. Record lists children and some grandchildren for each generation but chiefly follows line of descent to the author's father, Columbus Welcome Duke, Sr. (1849-1931). He was born in Coosa County, Alabama, the son of Allen Morgan Duke (1825-1872). He maigrated to Smith County, Texas, with his parents ca. 1868. He married...

Ancestors and descendants of George Washington Snider, Jr. (1813-1849), who was born in Belmont County, Ohio, married Eleanor Parkinson in 1837 in Perry County, Ohio, and settled in Monroe County, Ohio. Ancestors lived in Ohio, Pennsylvania, Virginia and elsewhere. Descendants lived in Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Missouri and elsewhere.

Ezekiel Waldrop was born in about 1755 in Granville County, North Carolina. His parents were John Waldrop and Tabitha Parrish. He married a daughter of the Kuykendall family and they had seven children. He died in 1823 in Henderson, North Carolina. Descendants and relatives lived in North Carolina, Georgia, Tennessee, Texas, Washington and elsewhere. .

Mabel Gilbert was born 4 March 1797-1870 in Tennessee. His parents were William Gilbert and Nancy Morris. He married Charity Morris (1801-1854) in about 1819. They had twelve children. He married Rachel Gibbs Albright Freeman in 1855. They had eight children. He died in 1870 in Wichita County, Texas.

Jean Baptiste Bossier (1676-1745) was born in France. He married Marie Anne Chagneau ca. 1728 in Natchitoches Post, Louisiana.