Author: Eugene Thomas HaysPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
Hays and Breeze Ancestors
Author: Eugene Thomas HaysThe Ancestors and Descendants of John Lewis Benson and His Sisters and Brother
Author: Ned Harold BensonPublisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1467024422
Category : Benson family
Languages : en
Pages : 500
Book Description
John Lewis Benson, born in Crawford County, Pennsylvania, was an 8th generation descendant of John Benson, who arrived in America at Plymouth Colony on 11 April 1638 on the ship "Confidence." After being reared in Chautauqua County, New York, John Lewis Benson's father, William, took him to Rock Island County, Illinois, following his daughters who had already made the migration. Shortly after reaching his majority, John Lewis Benson went to "Bleeding Kansas" as part of the wave of Abolitionists who sought to "keep Kansas free," which action reflected the devout Puritan Calvinism of his Benson forebears. He enlisted in the 5th Kansas Volunteer Cavalry two months after the first canon was fired on Fort Sumter, and served until the end of the War of Rebellion, being mustered out on 22 June 1865. He then returned to Kansas where he prospered, married, and fathered 5 children. He lost all his worldly possessions due to drought and the economic collapse following The Panic of 1873, and then moved about Kansas seeking a new start. During this difficult period, his wife died, leaving him a widower with 4 children ages 6 to 11. He soon married a divorcee who brought her 3 children, ages 1 to 3, to the marriage. In his second marriage, John Lewis fathered three more children. After the Unassigned Lands of Oklahoma Territory were opened for settlement in 1899, John Lewis and his blended family moved there and share-cropped 40 acres southeast of Guthrie, Oklahoma, which he eventually bought. He died on this farm on 23 March 1906. This book by one of his great-grandsons tells the story of his life, the lives of his five sisters and one brother, and their ancestry back to 16th century Oxfordshire, England.
Ancestors
Author: Alice LevinePublisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1483695999
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 116
Book Description
A family memoir
Everton's Genealogical Helper
Author: The Southern Friend
Author: Directory of Family Associations
Author: Elizabeth Petty BentleyPublisher: Baltimore, Md. : Genealogical Publishing Company
ISBN:
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
This directory of family associations, based largely on data received in response to questionnaires sent to family associations, reunion committees, and one-name societies, offers contact information on some 6,000 family associations in the US. The directory is useful for those engaging in genealogical research or planning family reunions. Annotation copyrighted by Book News Inc., Portland, OR
The Bite of an Ancestor
Author: Omene Sun OmenaPublisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1453535594
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 83
Book Description
“This funny and witty play by Omene suggests layers of deep conflict laced with intense wisecracks. Reminiscent of what the ‘Warri boys’ are known for—great humor”—Collective Writers’ Forum. Odafe is educated in western ways and feels that his mother and his father’s relations are not in sync with present realities. He defies them and marries Omazoba. What follows is a cocktail of betrayal, deceit, and intrigues that brings the whole society to the brink of catastrophy. Set in the deep traditions and culture of Urhobo cosmology, Odafe and Otakpobunor tackle the crucial discourse on the theme of marriage and tradition from a perspective that deals with man’s battle for understanding.
Alone in the Classroom
Author: Elizabeth HayPublisher: Hachette UK
ISBN: 0857386441
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 254
Book Description
In a small prairie school in 1929, Connie Flood helps a backward student, Michael Graves, learn how to read. Observing them and darkening their lives is the principal, Parley Burns, whose strange behaviour culminates in an attack so disturbing its repercussions continue to the present day. Connie's niece, Anne, tells the story. Impelled by curiosity about her dynamic, adventurous aunt and her more conventional mother, she revisits Connie's past and her mother's broken childhood. In the process she unravels the enigma of Parley Burns and the mysterious, and unrelated, deaths of two young girls.
Forster, Foster, and Their Royal Descendants of England--823 A.D., Virginia--1635 A.D., U.S.A.--1990 A.D.
Author: Publisher:
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Category : England
Languages : en
Pages : 390
Book Description
Richard Foster (b.ca. 1619/1620), a descendant of King Henry I of England, immigrated in 1635 from England to Elizabeth City County, Virginia, and married Sussan Garnett. They moved to land in Lower Norfolk County, Virginia in 1653, and in 1655 to land in Gloucester County, Virginia. Descendants and relatives lived in Virginia, Kentucky, Illinois, Missouri, Kansas, Texas, Arizona, California and elsewhere.
The Genealogy of the Descendants of Henry Kingsbury, of Ipswich and Haverhill, Mass
Author: Frederick John KingsburyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 894
Book Description