"This series of four books is a comprehensive family history of many lines - all of them related to either the Blois family descended from Abraham Bloyce born 1747 in England or the Smith family descended from Joshua Smith born in 1655 in Ireland."--(Preface). "Volume 5 relates to all of the other Blois lines throughout the world and incorporates all of the remaining information in mu genealogical files."--(leaf just after t.p. of v. 5). Abraham...

Newsletter for the interchange of genealogical data and history of the various Flory (and variant spellings) families who came mainly from England, France, Germany, the United Netherlands, and Switzerland. Many were Palatinate immigrants such as Joseph Fleury "the Senn" and Anton Fluri. Some were Huguenots such as Claude Fleury (1640-1723) and Andre De Fleury (1653-1743). From the 1600-1800s, Fluris (and variant spellings) families settled in Ontario...

John Ashworth was born 25 February 1734/35 in Virginia. He married Nancy Ann Wood, daughter of James Wood and Margaret, in Old Tryon County, North Carolina. They had seven children. Descendants and relatives lived mainly in North Carolina and South Carolina.

Robert Murray, of Scottish ancestry, his wife, Margaret, and their oldest son, immigrated to America in 1797 and settled in Tennessee. They had ten children, 1797-1813. Robert purchased land in Knox County, Tennessee, in 1802 and received a land grant in 1814. He died in Knox County. Descendants listed lived in Tennessee and elsewhere. Includes the Hysinger, Lacey, Seaborn, Withrow, Wolbach and other allied families.

William David Lutz was born 5 September 1884 in Muncie, Indiana. His parents were Michael Lutz and Jane Burgess. He married Ruth Straisinger, daughter of John Frank Straisinger and Alice Suits, 26 December 1915 in Greensburg, Indiana. They had two daughters. Ancestors, descendants and relatives lived mainly in Germany, New Jersey, North Carolina, Pennsylvania and West Virginia.

Newsletter for the interchange of genealogical data and history of the ancestors of Barbara J. Epps Henry, daughter of William Harold Epps (b. 1917) and Ethel Maple, who married in June 1937. Some ancestors came from Ireland, England, Germany, France, Holland and elsewhere. They settled in the New Netherlands (New York) and Virginia during the early 1600's. Other ancestors also lived in Delaware, Kentucky, North and South Carolina, Pennsylvania, and...

James Withrow was born in Rowan County, North Carolina in 1764, and was probably the son of John Withrow. He was married about 1788 and died in DeKalb County, Alabama, on 4 September 1848.

This is the second revision of v. 1 of a 5-v. set entitled: Blois - Smith family history / by Ralph S. Blois. Beaverton, Ore. : R.S. Blois, 1986-1988. Instructions with this revision #2 indicate it should be inserted just after p. 6 in the original v. 1 of the set. The instructions further state that p. 7-80 and p. 175-283 of the original v. 1 be discarded, since the new material in revision #2 replaces the genealogical data on those pages. Instead,...

Walter LaFayette Bell (1889-1976) was born in Butterfield, Missouri, son of Jonas Bradley Bell (1843-1931) and Martha Ann Cooper (1865-1890). He married Ruth Rankin (1900-1975), born in Jonesboro, Arkansas, daughter of James Lewis Rankin (1854-1928) and Mary Elizabeth Dawson (1860-1912). Ancestry traced to John Bell (1668-1713) who died in Surry County, Virginia and Robert Rankin (1749-1816) of the Carolinas and Kentucky, as well as many other ancestors....

Percival Lowell was born in 1571 in England. He married Rebecca and they had three children. He died in 1664 in Newbury, Massachusetts. Ancestors, descendants and relatives lived mainly in Massachusetts and New York.