E. Compton

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E. Compton is a member of the Appalachia Project (South Central Appalachia Team).

E. helped improve some profiles in the GEDI Challenge.

E. Compton had the shortest path to Pat Garrett in the Connection Combat.

Collaboration

I welcome collaboration with WikiTree-ers: Sourcerers, Connectors, Data Doctors, Profile Builders, Categorizers, and all. Communication before editing is NOT necessary on profiles that I manage. Please be bold and edit profiles I manage.

If you prefer to collaborate off-WikiTree, please note: I have no offline records to share. I have adopted profile management of 100s of profiles I am not related to, probably including the one you are thinking about PMing me about.

I am happy to share or hand off management of profiles to other researchers; Make a trusted list request and/or drop a comment on the profile. I am willing to do light source-checking to fix profiles you're interested in. I am unlikely to make requested edits to profiles unless I see sources.

Please note that I am not an Ancestry.com subscriber and can't see sources behind the Ancestry.com subscription paywall.

Biography

I remember connecting with my relatives when I was twelve years old compiling genealogy information together.

Favorite Ancestors and Connections

• Miss Telie (Knight) Davis from Kershaw, South Carolina, was a lay midwife and made a family project of sending all of her children to college.

E. is related to Miss Telie (Knight) Davis.

• Margaret Jane (Raley) Knight from Chesterfield Co, S.C., owned a mill, which family lore says she protected from Gen. Sherman's troops.

• Susanna Young from Kershaw, S.C., according to family tradition, was already the mother of my direct ancestor, by another man, when she married Dr. Archibald Young. She went on to raise her firstborn and her children with Dr. Young all together. But the question of who her paramour was has baffled four generations of her Davis offspring.

• Hesentine (Cudd) Greene from Cherokee Springs, S.C., has a story waiting to be discovered.

• Rev. Aaron Knight of Fork Creek Methodist Church in Chesterfield Co., S.C., wrote an important chronicle of events in his community including genealogical data.

• Huey Long, Governor of Louisiana, is, by family tradition, a distant cousin, through our Horton cousins.

• Joseph Echols from Lynchburg, Va., wrote to Thomas Jefferson for advice, and received a response.

E. is related to O. Henry.

• O. Henry, the humorist, is a cousin I never knew I had before WikiTree.

• Carrie Fisher (1956-2016), actor famous for Star Wars, was my 9th cousin, if the DAR and published genealogies have the Brent family of Virginia in the 17th-18th century right.

• T. W. Higginson, author and abolitionist, is a distant cousin.

• "Bunny" Breckinridge Jr. would have been an interesting cousin to get to know.

• Submit Eastman is a gateway ancestor with much of her PGM immigrant ancestry worked out (with the help of just a bit of pedigree collapse).

• Jonathan Edwards is an ancestor claimed by my family, perhaps meritoriously.

• Gov. William Bradford from the Mayflower is another claimed ancestor but it seems to be a missed connection.

• Alexander Hamilton Sands from Richmond, Va, was a lawyer, preacher, and author. He wrote slavery apologia on the eve of the Civil War. Not so much a "favorite" as "well-documented".

• Dannett Abney is a possible gateway ancestor to Europe, if his granddaughter Elizabeth Spraggins's marriage to the Scates-Cudd line can be proved.

Dynamic Tree links

• https://apps.wikitree.com/apps/beacall6/templates.php

• G2G thread for Profile Overview

• G2G thread for Topola

• Great-grandmother Sands

• Great-grandmother Haynes

How I Use WikiTree

E. Compton reached the Blue Skies milestone by sourcing 50 profiles in the December 2021 Sourcerers' Challenge

E. Compton participated with Team 811 during the 2017 Clean-a-Thon.

E. Compton participated with Team Virginia during the 2017 Source-a-Thon, adding sources to 74 previously unsourced profiles.

E. Compton participated with Southern Sourcerers during the 2018 Source-a-Thon, adding sources to 25 previously unsourced profiles.

E. Compton participated with Team Tennessee Volunteers during the 2019 Source-a-Thon, adding sources to 98 previously unsourced profiles.

E. Compton participated with Toddlin' Tortoises during the 2022 Connect-a-Thon, and added 83 connections.

1. I prefer to work with publicly available records pre-dating the Depression (c. 1928 and earlier). I have no desire to post family information about living people online under any level of privacy protection without their explicit and on-going permission.
2. I usually only write brief profile biographies, or sometimes just outlines. I welcome collaboration on these bare bones bios, if you want to fill them out with more complete details.
3. I populate the date and location fields of thinly-sourced profiles with educated guesses, to aid in identifying and eliminating possible matches in database searches.
4. In spite of the location name suggested by the drop-down menu, I prefer to designate the United States of America as "USA" in location fields in my profiles, and not "United States", which is ambiguous.
5. In addition to working on my family tree, I enjoy developing the profiles of people in the communities of my ancestors. To that end I have adopted and contributed to 100s of profiles I'm not related to.
6. I am also interested in developing profiles of notables including Black american cultural and political leaders, entertainers from the mid-20th Century, and ministers ordained and memorialized by evangelical American churches.

Bibliography

(a work in progress)

BEARDSLEY

• Holt, Nellie. Beardsley Genealogy, The Family of William Beardsley One of the First Settlers of Connecticut (1951); corrects some errors which appear in Beardsley, Isaac. Genealogical History of the Beardsley-lee Family in America (John Dove, Denver, Colorado, 1902).

BELDING

• Some Belding gen, des. of Rich. Belding one of the earliest settlers of Wethersfield, Ct. By Chas. Carroll Whitney. New York 1896. (22p.): 5-6

BRENT

• Nelson County Historical Society Genealogy and Family Records Index

• Brent, Chester Horton. The Descendants of Hugh Brent, immigrant to Isle of Wight county, Virginia, 1642 (Rutland, Vt. : Tuttle Pub. Co., Inc., 1936)

• Grose, S. Nelson County Virginia Heritage 1807-2000 (n.d.). (n.p.)

BURKS

• (Wishlist) Burks, Pauline Englehart, Roots, Shoots and Runners, (Studley, Va. : P.E. Burks, 1995.) See also notes on the Pauline E. Burks Family Papers Collection housed at Virginia Tech.

• (Wishlist) Johnson, Patricia Givens. Irish Burks of Colonial Virginia and New River. Blacksburg, Va.: Walpa Publishing, 1992. (https://familysearch.org/search/catalog/699771 : 9 March 2017)

• Morton, Oren Frederic, A History of Rockbridge (Staunton, Va. : McClure Co. : 1920)

• Botetourt County death register transcripts 1853-1870, available at Rootsweb VaGenWeb

• Lexington Gazette, Available online: 5 January 1898 - 25 December 1912.

• The World News at vachronicle.com, in Roanoke, covers Bedford, VA.

• Portraits by Michael Miley of the Burks family, 19th c., available in Washington and Lee University Library Digital Archives

• Paxton, W. M. The Paxtons: Their Origin in Scotland, and their migrations through England and Ireland, to the colony of Pennsylvania, whence they moved South and West, and found homes in many states and territories (Landmark Print, Platte City, Missouri, 1903); Burks Index p. 4.

• Cabell et al. Cabell, Margaret Couch, Sketches and recollections of Lynchburg, (Richmond, C. H. Wynne : 1858).

• M. D. Ackerly & L. E. J. Parker, OUR KIN: GENEALOGIES OF SOME OF THE EARLY FAMILIES OF BEDFORD COUNTY .(Virginia), 812pp. (1930); also POD at Janaway.

• Ackerly, Mary Denham & Parker, Lula Eastman Jeter, Our kin : the genealogies of some of the early families who made history in the founding and development of Bedford County, Virginia, Lynchburg, Virginia : J.P. Bell Co., c1930; Chapter "Spinner-Burks" pp. 107ff (genealogy of Martin P. Burks family); pp. 123 Bedford County Burks marriages list.

CAPERTON

• https://www.capertonsociety.org/

CECIL

• Ball, Walter. The Cecil family of Maryland; a genealogy and history of some descendants of William Cecil, ca. 1665-1749, with some allied Ball families, (Chevy Chase, Md. 1963.)

• Jourdan, Elise Greenup, Greenup, Witten, Cecil, (Baltimore : Gateway Press ; Knoxville, Tennessee : E.G. Jourdan, 1989.)

• Rootsweb.com CECIL-L Archives.

CHEATWOOD

• Tombaugh, Jean (Cragun), Chitwood Family (and Related Lines) Tombaugh House (Rochester, Indiana : 1965). Available at http://www.fulco.lib.in.us/genealogy-files/family-histories/chitwood.htm (accessed 9 September 2017).

• (Wishlist!) Chitwood, H., Descendants of Matthias Chitwood (1986). Available at Google Books and Family Search.

• Stutesman, John Hale. "Sorting Out Some Moseleys," The Virginia Genealogist, Vol. 33, No. 1 (Jan.-Mar. 1989):65-70. Digital version at American Ancestors by NEHGS ($). FS Library Book 975.5 B2vg v. 33 (1989)

• Rivers, Flournoy. "The Flournoy Family". The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, Vol. 2, No. 1 (Jul., 1894), pp. 81-90 (10 pages); available online at JSTOR; cont'd at Vol. 2, No. 2 (Oct., 1894), pp. 190-213 (24 pages); available online at JSTOR; cont'd at Vol. 2, No. 3 (Jan., 1895), pp. 318-327 (10 pages); available online at JSTOR; cont'd at Vol. 2, No. 4 (Apr., 1895), pp. 437-447 (11 pages); available online at JSTOR.

• Wiencek, Henry. The Hairstons: An American Family in Black and White. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1999. NOT relations. This book is a readable account of the black and white genealogy of a wealthy tobacco plantation family from Danville, VA. The Cheatwoods and related families may have been pursuing a similar economic model.

CLAYPOOL

• Bracken and Hurst, Vol I, Vol II, Vol III, criticized here.

COMPTON

• Llamas, Judith King, John and Rebecca Compton, pioneer settlers of Tazewell County, Virginia, (Mt. Dora, Florida : J.K. Llamas, 1993)

• The Early Compton Family of Russell County, Virginia blog

• http://freepages.rootsweb.com/~comptongenealogy/genealogy/

• Comptonology vols 1-5 on Hathitrust.

• 1977-1978 issues of Comptonology

• Buchanan County Independent blog, https://buchanancountyindependent.wordpress.com/2011/12/23/looking-back-one-hundred-years/, Looking Back One Hundred Years, 23 December 2011.

• Archives of Princeton Times (Princeton WV) Newspaper 1965-1974.

• Oxford Dictionary of Family Names, entry for Compton

CUDD

• Rootsweb.com, SCSPARTA-L Archives, search for discussions about "Cudd"

• (Wishlist) Siler, David W., The eastern Cherokees; a census of the Cherokee nation in North Carolina, Tennessee, Alabama, and Georgia in 1851. (Cottonport [La.] Polyanthos, 1972.)

DOLD

• Brent, Chester Horton. The Descendants of Hugh Brent, immigrant to Isle of Wight county, Virginia, 1642 (Rutland, Vt. : Tuttle Pub. Co., Inc., 1936), pp. 90-92.

• Lexington Gazette 5 January 1898 - 25 December 1912 (777 issues).

ECHOLS

• HISTORY OF ECHOLS FAMILY by MILNER ECHOLS 1850, annotated by Terry Echols, on Blogspot.com.

• Rootsweb.com, "Echols Genealogy & Connected Families", Terry Echols, Updated: 2017-08-20.

• Janet's Genealogy: Echols, undated

• Baber, Lucy H. M, Louise A. Blunt, and Marion A. L. Collins. Marriages and Deaths from Lynchburg, Virginia Newspapers, 1794-1836. Baltimore: Genealogical Pub. Co, 1980.

• Reeves, Emma Cornelia Barrett ed., The Echols Family History by Milner Echols 1850, (ms) 1984; available online at familysearch.org.

• Caperton, Bernard M., 1926-. The Caperton Family. Charlottesville, Va., 1973; Table of Contents available from Library of Congress; snippet view with login at hathitrust.org; available at FHL at familysearch.org.

• Zopp, Albert Mitchell, Descendants of Patrick Crawford PDF, 15 August 2009 (many McClungs) (broken rootsweb link : 25 August 2018)

• Ballard, Margaret Byrnside. William Ballard; a genealogical record of his descendants in Monroe County, [Baltimore? 1957].

ELSWICK

• Pike County Historical Society Pike County, Kentucky 1821-1983 Historical Papers Number Five (Pike County Historical Society, 2002) Elswick Genealogy begins Page 54.

• Rootsweb message board: http://boards.rootsweb.com/surnames.elswick/mb.ashx

GODDIN

• Vaughan, Arnetta Goddin and Goddin, Avery Howe, Genealogy of the Goddin family, (Del., A. H. Goddin, 1952)

• Tyler's Quarterly Historical and Genealogical Magazine Volume 1, July 1919, p. 172-73; "Records of the Goddin Family: Communicated by John H. Worsham, Richmond, Va," citing "an old Bible of Wellington Goddin, of Richmond, Va."

• Tyler’s Quarterly Historical and Genealogical Magazine Volume II, Genealogical publishing Co, Inc “Genealogies of Virginia Families” 1981.

• Henley Marriage/Obituary Index 1736-1982, compiled from Richmond and Virginia newspapers in 1967-1983, available as a searchable database http://www.lva.virginia.gov/public/guides/opac/henleyabout.htm (accessed 5 April 2017)

• VAHeritage.org, Guide to Manuscript and Archived Collections in Virginia.

• Winston tree: Kennedy, Mary Selden, Seldens of Virginia and allied families, (New York : Frank Allaben Genealogical Co. : 1911); Pages 374-375.

• Potterfield, T T. Nonesuch Place: A History of the Richmond Landscape. Charleston, SC: History Press, 2009. Reprints maps with Goddin property labelled on pages 42 and 80.

• Hamner: Hamner, Ruth, Hamner: Information Compiled by Miss Ruth Hamner of Talladega, Alabama, unpublished manuscript, written in 1939, Revised in 1968; Held by Alabama State Department of Archives and History; available at ancestry.com.

GREENE

• Holden, David, "Holdens, Rosses and Others in TN, NC, and elsewhere", Rootsweb database, updated 30 November 2017, https://wc.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=SHOW&db=dwh1951&recno=57143.

• Sheldon, Christine W. "The Ezell Family in America", http://freepages.rootsweb.com/~kithandkin2000/genealogy/ezell.htm.

• Gedcoms collected by Wendy Loveless Waldron, on rootsweb.com

HAMRICK

• Jones, S(tephen) C(olliis), The Hamrick Generations: being a genealogy of the Hamrick family, by Jones, S. C. Published 1920, Chapters 78 and 90. alternate copy

• (Wishlist!) Gold, Joe. The Descendants of Samuel and Mary Hamrick, (J. Gold, 2005)

HAYNES

• Rootsweb.com, posts by Jonnie in SC on >at<aol.com HAYNES-L and on >at<aol.com&subject=haynes NCRUTHER-L

• McEntire research trailhead: https://wc.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=mcintire&id=I29402; link to archive.

HORTON

• (Wishlist!) Outen, Lon D., The Hortons of Lynches Creek.

KEYES

• Keyes, Asa, Genealogy. Solomon Keyes of Newbury and Chelmsford, Mass., and his descendants, 1653-1880, Brattleboro: Geo. E Selleck, 1880. Contributed from the Boston Public Library on 14 March 2011.

LIPSCOMBE

• Holdings of the Library of Virginia from the Lipscombe family, link to catalog search at www.lva.virginia.com.

• Helmer, Dorothy Garr, Lipscomb, 300 years in America, 1679-1979, (Indiana IN : 1979).

• Sutton, T. Dix. The Suttons of Caroline County, Virginia (Richmond Press, Inc. Richmond Va., 1941)

• Cocke, William Ronald, Hanover County chancery wills and notes : a compendium of genealogical, biographical and historical material as contained in cases of the chancery suits of Hanover County, Virginia, Columbia, Virginia : W.R. Cocke, c1940 (available online at FHL)

LOONEY

• Descendants of Robert Looney by Don Norman (undated).

• Rootsweb.com LOONEY-L Archives.

• Guild of One-Name Studies "Looney One-Name Study", including Tilton, Leroy W. Early Looneys in America (Manuscript : c.1963); updated link: http://looney.one-name.net/browsemedia.php?mediatypeID=documents

• (Wishlist!) Then Along Came Joe Volume 2, Tree Art Publishers 1995, Descendants of Elizabeth Walker and John Looney, Jr., Wilma Walker Dunlap, Saint Louis, Missouri.

MCSWAIN

• (Wishlist!) Directory of Scots in the Carolinas, 1680-1830 Genealogical Publishing Co, 322p; Location: Baltimore;Date: 1986.

• McSwain, Jean; Morgan, Robert, Beaver Dam Baptist Church; historical sketch, 1850-1950, 1950.

• Jenkins, Orville Boyd ("OBJ"), David MCSWAIN, about 1700-1770, summarizing available sources on this line

MOORE

• https://freepages.rootsweb.com/~guinevere60/genealogy/moore/pafx3m.htm

PORTER

• Andrews, Henry Porter The Descendants of John Porter of Windsor, Conn. 1635-9 (Saratoga Springs, New York, G.W. Ball, printer, 1893)

• Tuttle, George Frederick, The Descendants of William and Elizabeth Tuttle, Who Came from Old to New England in 1635, and Settled in New Haven in 1639, with Numerous Biographical Notes and Sketches.... Tuttle & Co., Rutland VT, 1883. (pp. 383-84, 424).

• Boltwood, Lucius, Genealogies of Hadley Families: Embracing the Early Settlers of the Towns of Hatfield, South Hadley, Amherst, and Granby Metcalf, MA, 1862. p 113ff.

RALEY

• (Wishlist!) Raley, William Lindsay. The Fabric of a Family: Some Ancestors and Descendants of William Charlie Raley, Julius Goodrich Hollister, John Lindsay Lowry and Michael Miller. Winter Haven, Fla.: W.L. Raley, 1995.

REEVES

• Wyatt, Lillian (Reeves). The Reeves, Mercer, Newkirk families; a compilation. Jacksonville? Fla., 1956.

• Watson, Beverly. William Reeves: Wake County, North Carolina to Madison County, Kentucky genealogy website, 2011.

• Watson, Beverly. Reeves, Reaves, and More Rives: A genealogy blog for researchers of the surname Reeves in all of its flavors. On-going.

SANDS

• Encyclopedia of Virginia Biography, Vol 4. New York: Lewis historical Publishing Company, 1915

• Social register, Richmond, Charleston, Savannah, Atlanta, New York City, Social Register Association; 1915.

• Website by family historian Neil WW Gilliat, undated

SCATES

• Descendants of Elizabeth Spraggins and John Hayne Scates of Halifax Virginia

WINSTON

• Torrence, Clayton. Winston of Virginia, And Allied Families. Richmond: Whittet & Shepperson, 1927; Pages 18ff.

• Unproven immigrant ancestor: William Winston. See http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?db=kmcmahan&id=I10148&op=GET

• Transcription from Raleigh Travers Green's Genealogical and historical notes on Culpeper County, Virginia (1900): http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/VACULPEP/2006-07/1153356462

• Brock, R. A. Documents, chiefly unpublished, relating to the Huguenot emigration to Virginia and to the settlement at Manakin-Town, with an appendix of genealogies, presenting data of the Fontaine, Maury, Dupuy, Trabue, Marye, Chastain, Cocke, and other families, Baltimore, Genealogical Pub. Co. 1962. Also available at Rootsweb City of Fredericksburg (pdf download)

• Roberts, Harry D. Some Winston families of Virginia and North Carolina, MSS, Malibu CA: 1975 (18 pp).

• (Wishlist!) Winston, Alfred Sumner. The Winstons of Hanover County, Virginia and Related Families, 1666-1992. United States, Gateway Press, 1992.

• Hanover County VA Genealogical Research info page

• A Patrick Henry Pedigree publ. c. 1870

WHITING

• Case, Lafayette Wallace. The Goodrich Family in America. A Genealogy of the Descendants of John and William Goodrich of Wethersfield, Conn., Richard Goodrich of Guilford, Conn., and William Goodridge of Watertown, Mass. Fergus Printing Company, Chicago, Illinois, 1889, Second Date, 1984.

• Goodwin, Nathaniel. Genealogical Notes, or Contributions to the Family History of Some of the First Settlers of Connecticut and Massachusetts (F.A. Brown, Hartford, Conn., 1856), pages 329-337.

WYLLYS

• Willis, Pauline. Willis records : or, records of the Willis family of Haverhill, Portland, and Boston. (St. Vincent's Press, London: 1908).

• Porter, William. Historical Notices of Connecticut (Connecticut Historical Society, 1842), Issue 2, Page 23.

• Willis, Charles Ethelbert, and Willis, Frances Caroline. A history of the Willis family of New England and New Jersey and their ancestors, (Richmond, Va., Whitmore & Garrett, inc., printers, 1917) (New Jersey Willises)

• WikiTree Category: Ancient Burying Ground, Hartford, Connecticut

• Talcott, Mary K. The Wyllys Family of Connecticut. United States: M.E. Talcott, 1900. POD at Janaway.

YOUNG

• http://sc-families.org/tree/young.html

REGIONAL HISTORIES

Hadley, Massachusetts

• Judd, Sylvester & Boltwood, Lucius Manlius. History of Hadley (Metcalf, Amherst, Mass., 1863)

Rutherford County, North Carolina

• logan-family.org "Rutherford County" Bibliography, started 2007.

• Rootsweb.com NCRUTHER-L Archives; updated link here.

• Ties That Bind website, http://www.angelfire.com/tn/digginroots/index.html, Rhonda Jones, last updated: January 23, 2014.

• Bill Floyd's website on archive.org

• Remember Cliffside website

• Walker, John. "A Sampling of Folklore from Rutherford County," The North Carolina Folklore Journal, Vol 3.2 December 1955, pp. 6ff.

Cabarrus County, North Carolina

• The Samuel Rothrock diaries Salisbury, NC : Historical Committee, North Carolina Synod, Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, 1994.

• The Families of Samuel Rankin and James Rankin (PDF download), unpublished manuscript c. 2006.

• Cabarrus County Local History Resources provided by the Local History and Genealogy Collection at the Concord branch of the Cabarrus County Public Library.

Chesterfield County, South Carolina

• Old Darlington District Chapter, South Carolina Genealogical Society

Cleveland County, North Carolina

• WPA, Cleveland County Cemetery Survey Records, 1937-1939, "Boiling Springs Cemetery", pp. 14ff.

Kershaw County, South Carolina

• Jones, Hazel Parker, 1903-. The History of Sand Hill Baptist Church, Kershaw Baptist Association, 1814-1955. [Clinton, S.C.: Jacobs Brothers, 1955.

• Kirkland, Thomas J, and Robert M. M. Kennedy. Historic Camden, Part Two: Nineteenth Century. Columbia, S.C: The State Company, 1926. Print.

• Jones, H. Parker. (1961). The history of the Samuel Jones family: Kershaw County, S.C.. Kershaw, S.C.: H.P. Jones. (surnames Truesdel Truesdale)

Spartanburg, South Carolina

• History of Spartanburg County, John Belton O'Neall Landrum, Franklin Prtg. and Publishing Company, Geo. W. Harrison, Gen. Mgr., 1900.

• Slave Narratives from South Carolina, including interviews by an Annie R. Davis who is NOT my great-aunt Annie R. Davis.

• Spartanburg County, South Carolina, GenealogyTrails.com website, accessed 10 February 2017.

• Rootwseb.com, "Southern Roots of Pat Iverson", Updated: 2011-05-22.

• Family Connections of M. J. Settle (PDF download).

• South Carolina Genealogical Society, Pee Dee Chapter Links to family surname websites.

• Rootsweb.com SC-Genealogy-L Archives, discussions about "Spartanburg". See also Archives

• Regional gedcoms in circulation: John Robertson's 188K names gedcom; Herman Geschwin's 381K names gedcom

Richmond, Virginia

• Mordecai, Samuel, Virginia, Especially Richmond, in By-gone Days. West & Johnston, Richmond (Va.), 1860.

• Henley Marriage/Obituary Index 1736-1982, compiled from Richmond and Virginia newspapers in 1967-1983, available as a searchable database http://www.lva.virginia.gov/public/guides/opac/henleyabout.htm (accessed 5 April 2017)

• Index to Obituary Notices in The Religious Herald Richmond, Virginia, 1828-1938, Virginia Works Progress Administration Publications.

• "Rarely Seen Richmond" postcard collection available at vcu.edu; hat tip to Shockoe Examiner Blog post dated 5 March 2024.

• Records from Richmond City, unindexed, on Familysearch.org

• Marshall Genealogy Bibliography, by John Marshall on rootsweb: https://homepages.rootsweb.com/~marshall/biblio.htm

Bedford County, Virginia

• Historical Sketch of Bedford County, Virginia: 1753. 1907. (Lynchburg, Va.: J. P. Bell co., inc., printers, 1907.)

• Mueller, Dale. The Tylers: A Family History, (mss) undated.

Lexington, Virginia

• McClung, William, The McClung genealogy. A genealogical and biographical record of the McClung family from the time of their emigration to the year 1904, Pittsburgh, McClung Print. Co, 1904. Google Books.

• Reynolds, William W. contr. "Death Notices and Obituaries from the Valley Star, Lexington Virginia", The Virginia Genealogist Washington, DC: J. F. Dorman, 1957 - 2006; starting Vol 40 (1996) p. 249, available at www.americanancestors.org (paid membership required)

• Washington & Lee University Digital Archive including the digital collections of the Rockbridge Historical Society (1939-present).

Louisa County, Virginia

• http://trevilians.com/ VAGenWeb: Louisa County

Lynchburg, Virginia

• Cabell, Margaret Couch, Sketches and recollections of Lynchburg, (Richmond, C. H. Wynne : 1858),

• Harrison, Francis Burton, Burton chronicles of colonial Virginia : being excerpts from the existing records, particularly relating to the Burtons of the valley of the James and Appomattox..., [Darmstadt : L. C. Wittich], 1933.

Rockbridge County, Virginia

• Morton, Oren Frederic, A History of Rockbridge (Staunton, Va. : McClure Co. : 1920)

• Paxton, W. M. The Paxtons: Their Origin in Scotland, and their migrations through England and Ireland, to the colony of Pennsylvania, whence they moved South and West, and found homes in many states and territories (Landmark Print, Platte City, Missouri, 1903), Page 27ff section on "Presbyterian Churches in Augusta County, Virginia".

• McIlhany, Hugh Milton, Some Virginia families : being genealogies of the Kinney, Stribling, Trout, McIlhany, Milton, Rogers, Tate, Snickers, Taylor, McCormick, and other families of Virginia, (Staunton, Va. : Stoneburner & Prufer, printers : 1903).

• Major, N.L. contr. "Rockbridge County Virginia Marriage Bonds and Ministers' Returns 1778-1805", from The Virginia Genealogist vols 21-24 (1977-1980), available with shared access at gdrive folder link.

Southwest Virginia

• Johnston, David E, A history of middle New River settlements and contiguous territory, Huntington, W. Va. : Standard Ptg. & Pub. Co. 1906. (html version)

• Bickley, George History of the Settlement and Indian Wars of Tazewell County, (Cincinatti : Morgan & Co. 1852)

• Pendleton, William Cecil, History of Tazewell County and Southwest Virginia, 1748-1920, (Richmond, Va. : W. C. Hill printing company, 1920).

• Clinch Valley News archive at http://virginiachronicle.com.

• Index of obituaries (1929-2016) from The Central Virginian of Louisa County, submitted by Nancy Agee, http://trevilians.com/cvobits/cvobit0.html.

• Summers, Lewis Preston, 1868-1943, Charles B Coale, and George W. L. Bickley. Annals of Southwest Virginia, 1769-1800. Abingdon, Va.: L. P. Summers, 1929. https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/101737744

• Application for National Register of Historic Places, Maiden Spring Farm, Tazewell Co., Virginia. Traces ownership of the farm through descendents of Rees and Levisa Bowen.

• (Wishlist!) Sutherland, Elihu Jasper and Sutherland, Hetty Swindall, Some descendants of John Counts of Glade Hollow, (southwest Virginia)... (1948); available on a limited basis at familysearch.org

• http://logantazewellgenealogy.com/index.htm, updated 1 December 2016.

• Genealogy.com Forum Thread, "Wittens of Tazewell County", October-December 1998.

• Tripod.com "Southwest VA Family Ties: The Stiltner Family", undated (archived Jan 2020)

• Anderson, Judy Butler, Virginia connections : a genealogical history of the Thompson - Ward families from Tazewell County and Wythe County, Virginia, Salt Lake City, Utah : Filmed by the Genealogical Society of Utah, 1984.

• Ancestry.com "The Witten Fort" by Karen Salisbury, 1 April 2001.

• Alexander, Virginia Wood, Whitten and allied families, (Columbia, Tenn. : V.W. Alexander, 1966). (on WorldCat)

• Rootsweb.com Joel Hager's Southern West Virginia Research, Updated: 2015-03-01. No sources.

• Bell, Annie W. B. Virginia Genealogies and County Records (Washington D.C.) available at books.familysearch.org. Vol 2 (1941); Vol 6 (c. 1943).

• Litz: Lanz, Tom and Litz, Ron, The descendants of Johann Philip Litz, compiled 11 December 2014, published as PDF. Available at books.familysearch.org (https://dcms.lds.org/delivery/DeliveryManagerServlet?dps_pid=IE8659792 : 19 May 2017)

• Appalachian Aristocracy, Cheryl T. Duke, 2010-2017.

• Buchanan County VAGenWeb project (dead links, retrieved from archive.org)

• Hunter, Lula Hankins, GED2HTML Tree created 18 February 1997. No sources.

• Baber Family Tree

• Catron, Henry Hardy, Kettenring Family in America, (Springfield? Ill., 1956 or 7) available at https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/005770101.

• CoalExchange.com, "McDowell and Wyoming Co, WV Families and Individuals," Prepared by: Larry E. Smith, 25 Feb 2017.

• Russell County, Virginia in the Civil War, records of individual soldiers

• Cleek, George Washington, Early western Augusta pioneers, Staunton, Va., 1957.

• Records collection at http://www.ourbrickwalls.com/index.html

• Fritz, Arah Miller. The Crabtrees of Southwest Virginia (Hawks Printing Company Pecos, Texas 1965)

South Carolina

• Historical Newspapers of South Carolina image scans hosted by University of South Carolina Libraries

• Minutes of South Carolina Church Conferences image scans hosted by University of South Carolina Libraries

Virginia

• https://www.lva.virginia.gov/chancery/default.asp#res

West Virginia

United States

• Grumet Robert Steven. First Manhattans : A Brief History of the Munsee Indians. University of Oklahoma Press 2011. Chapter 4 "Dealings, 1630-1664" excellent discussion of Indian vs. colonial conceptions of property "rights" and how they could be transferred consistent with both traditions.

Other Projects

For my pre-1500 cert application: Was George Marchbanks who wrote a will in 1740 from which many descendants trace their ancestry, the same George Marjoribanks who was transported as a Jacobite Rebel in 1716? direct link to this edit

Several sources document the life of Oscar "Squire" Duff. direct link to this edit

The story of John G. Duff is more difficult to work out. direct link to this edit

The profile of Clarke Worsham is primary sources about her family supported by her appearance on the census with her relations and in-laws.

The profile of Rev. John Blair Ward (1857-1928) shows how newspaper accounts can supplement the official records for a more complete picture of the ancestor's life.

Cleaned up merges (DBE 811) on Benjamin Lampree and made linkified inline citations to support the data already present. No additional research, just wikifying the info that was there. direct link to this edit.

Example estate records transcription: Transcribed Will of Kendall C. Brent of Nelson Co, VA.

I occasionally participate in connection challenges, Sourcerer tracking, and 'Thons. :)

Digital Afterlife Instructions : This is my permission that upon my demise, or my constructive abandonment of WikiTree, whichever comes first, for my family firstly, then secondly, the Wikitree staff, to manage the profiles where I act as PM, in any way they see fit, as long as this is in line with the Honour Code and preserves the privacy of living people. (Compton-2184 12:25, 17 March 2017 (EDT))

Sources

• First-hand information. Entered by E. Compton 2017-present.