A Boggs/Garringer Family History

A Boggs/Garringer Family History
Author: David Vern Addington
Publisher:
Total Pages: 322
Release: 2001
Genre: Reference
ISBN:

Samuel Plummer Boggs was born 2 April 1893 in Greenbrier County, West Virginia. His parents were Noah Edward Boggs and Clora Jane Kincaid. He married Hilda Garringer, daughter of Isaac Luther Garringer and Bertha Achsah Hammers, 11 January 1919 in Indiana. They had five children. Ancestors, descendants and relatives lived mainly in Virginia, West Virginia, Ohio and Indiana.

The Garringer Family History

The Garringer Family History
Author: Peggy Garringer
Publisher:
Total Pages: 240
Release: 1987
Genre:
ISBN:

David Garringer was born in Germany. It is not known when he first came to America. He is recorded as being in Frederick County, Maryland with his wife Barbara (d. 1814) in 1769. They moved to Berkeley County, West Virginia after 1793 where David died in 1812. Traces some of their descendants. Places descendants lived include Ohio, Kansas, Indiana, Missouri and Oklahoma.

An Addington/Chalfant Family History

An Addington/Chalfant Family History
Author: David Vern Addington
Publisher:
Total Pages: 322
Release: 1992
Genre: Reference
ISBN:

Family history of Harry Vern Addington (1893-1930), son of Joseph Leander and Dora Elizabeth (Feagans) Addington, who was born in White River Twp., Randolph Co., Indiana. He married Alma Marguerite Chalfant (1905-1979) in 1922. The Addington and Feagans families were of English or Irish origin. Both families were very early settlers in Randolph County. The Addingtons arrived there about 1835 and the Feagans about 1838. The patriarch of this family, Henry Addington, was probably born in London in 1720, and immigrated to North America ca. 1740. He lived in Loudoun Co., Virginia in 1765, and moved his family between 1768 and 1774 to Union Co., South Carolina, where he received a land grant in 1774. Descendants and relatives lived in Pennsylvania, Ohio, Virginia, Indiana, North Carolina, South Carolina, Idaho, Utah, Iowa, Oklahoma, Kansas, Nebraska, Missouri, Maryland, Colorado, Oregon, California and elsewhere.

A Father's Dream

A Father's Dream
Author: Abraham Quintanilla
Publisher: Cafe Con Leche Books
Total Pages: 272
Release: 2021-05
Genre:
ISBN: 9781735041544

A Father's Dream: My Family's Journey in Music chronicles the life of a musician, performer, man of God, and successful Mexican American entrepreneur. This is the story of a man who has experienced great joy and even greater pain, but by holding onto the strength embedded in each of us, embracing the love of family, and leaning on his faith in God, he is able to move forward toward the future with a positive disposition. Abraham Quintanilla takes the reader on the journey of his life, a life that reflects the up and down experiences of a self-made success. With a raw emotion and honesty, he shares the twists and turns of a road many readers may have been forced to travel and a few others hope never to traverse. From the sublime joys of fatherhood, to the accomplishment of creating a musical empire and surviving its failures, he shares the unexpected life events that make up each of our lives. Every reader will gain a stronger sense of humanity and a deeper understanding of just how precious and fleeting life can be from reading this memoir. Readers will also be given a close and personal view into the behind-the-scenes intricacies of a successful family business. Share the joy a parent feels for their children's success. And most of all, readers will understand the human need to embrace one's own talents. Finally, anyone who picks up this book and reads it will come to know that unforeseen tragedy can and does happen, but with faith and family as our support system, we are able to pick up the pieces of our broken hearts and walk bravely into the future with our newfound hope lighting the way.