Describes in detail the life of Charles Snodgrass, a pioneer on the Monongahela River Valley frontier, from 1774 when he served in Lord Dunmore's War until he died in 1808 on Pharoah's Run in Monongalia County, Virginia (now Marion County, West Virginia). Charles had seven children with his first wife: William, James, Jane, Susannah, John, Mary, and Charles, Jr. He married his second wife, Barbara ...
I have wanted to be able to pass along the tales of my family for a long time, as they were first told to me by my grandmother. She used to tell me these stories many times, and I sat mesmerized in adoration at the life she put into retelling them. Both of her parents came from large families composed of musicians, dancers, actors, and entertainers. There are stories that include vaudeville, ...
This newly-released narrative is a 264-page written and pictorial history of the Parsonses who came from England and immigrated to what eventually became known as Tucker County, West Virginia. It begins with Thomas Parsons, Sr. and progresses to Worley Parsons who descended from two of Parsons' sons, Thomas and James. In 1762, Captain James Parsons was captured by Indians and carried to Ohio ...
The land was called "Virginia" by Sir Walter Raleigh. A region of natural beauty, governed by temperamental weather, the western slopes of the Alleghenies beckoned a sturdy stock of early hunters, explorers, and settlers. This is the story of how those early residents forged a home, a nation, and finally, a state, along these rocky slopes.
The Family Album is a valuable pictorial and genealogical resource for the Dry Fork District of West Virginia. It covers the period of the late 1700¿s to the present and the offspring of the families of White, Summerfield, Lambert, Elza, Nelson, Teter, Calhoun, Carr and many more
The minute books of the old Virginia courts herein transcribed cover the District of West Augusta and Yohogania and Ohio counties during the period when Virginia claimed and exercised jurisdiction over what are now the Pennsylvania counties of Washington, Greene, Fayette, Westmoreland, and Allegheny. The minute books contain, in addition to land titles, transcripts of legal instruments of ...