Author: Eugene Thomas HaysPublisher:
ISBN:
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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.
The Southern Friend
Author: 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: 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.
Some Descendants of John Thomas of Jamestown, Rhode Island
Author: Hollis A. Thomas, MDPublisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 1475965710
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 441
Book Description
In 1636, Roger Williams, recently banished from the Massachusetts Bay Colony because of his religious beliefs, established a settlement at the head of Narragansett Bay that he named “Providence.” This small colony soon became a sanctuary for those seeking to escape religious persecution. Within a few years, a royal land patent and charter resulted in the formation of the “Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations,” which incorporated Williams’ original settlement and espoused his tenets of freedom of religion and separation of church and state. During the ensuing decades, thousands of Baptists, Quakers, Jews, and Huguenots relocated to Rhode Island from other New England colonies, the British Islands, and Europe in search of religious freedom. One such individual, John Thomas, an immigrant from Wales, made significant contributions to early settlements at Jamestown on Conanicut Island and at Wickford on the nearby mainland of Rhode Island. He was the first town constable of Jamestown in 1679, and later owned hundreds of acres of land in the towns of North and South Kingstown. This fully indexed work traces and sketches the lives of his descendants, many of whom were at the forefront of the great American westward migration, and represents the most comprehensive compilation of them to date. It is the result of twenty years of extensive research and includes detailed information from military pension archives, will and estate records, agricultural data, county histories, and migration patterns that far exceeds the standard for genealogical works of this scope and magnitude. It is important for us to remember those who helped shape our nation. This work provides valuable information for those who are interested in this family and its evolution in America.
The Genealogy of the Descendants of Henry Kingsbury, of Ipswich and Haverhill, Mass
Author: Frederick John KingsburyPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 894
Book Description
Forster, Foster, and Their Royal Descendants of England--823 A.D., Virginia--1635 A.D., U.S.A.--1990 A.D.
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
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.