Family Gems

Family Gems
Author: Regina Lynch-Hudson
Publisher:
Total Pages: 420
Release: 2009-08-08
Genre:
ISBN: 9780692073223

Family Gems: A Pictorial Treasury of Western North Carolina Ancestors features beautifully designed ancestral trees, museum-quality montages, genealogical DNA charts and over 200 restored vintage photographs encased in bejeweled ruby frames.The historical pictorial coffee table book gives long overdue homage to five family lineages in Western North Carolina--the Lynchs, Burnettes,Freemans, Paynes and Stepps,families that reigned in the early settlements of Black Mountain, Lake Lure, Rutherfordton, Edneyville, Hendersonville, Shiloh and Cherokee, North Carolina. The book is filled with distinctive stories and biographical sketches, many depicting tri-racial ancestors that were born in the early to mid-eighteen hundreds. Due to the inaccuracy of the period¿s census records in documentation of race, often ancestors who were tri-racial (White, Cherokee Indian and African American) were listed as ¿colored¿ or ¿mulatto.¿The well-crafted heirloom comprises a fascinating glimpse at hard-working multi-cultural mountain kinfolks--including midwives, furniture craftsmen, blacksmiths, farmers, moonshiners, coal miners, and herbalists. Reflecting over a decade of work, the 420-page hardbound volume is a well-crafted tribute to the families depicted, and some of their most memorable family gems. The sacred volume celebrates the lives of dozens of Western North Carolina family icons, such as George Washington Richard Henry Lee Payne (1838-1927),one of the original blacksmiths at Biltmore Estate in the late 1800s. His original handwritten letters from the 1890s are depicted. You will find strength, humility and inspiration in Black Mountain legend John Myra Stepp (1850 ¿1955), a former slave who rose to become a major property owner and ¿the first black man of means in the valley.¿We¿re introduced to prolific midwife and herbalist Mary Stepp Burnette Hayden (1858-1956).Had Mary been born in 1958 instead of 1858, her legacy could have very well been that of a physician, pharmacist or president of her own holistic nutrition company. The heartwarming portrayals show a hardworking, proud and resourceful band of families who through times good and bad, shaped by their circumstances, managed to carve out modest livelihoods in a fascinating multicultural mountain region. Historical sites and landmarks of relevance to families depicted are also featured.

Family Lineage of Thomas Gould and Descendants of Carteret County, North Carolina

Family Lineage of Thomas Gould and Descendants of Carteret County, North Carolina
Author: Dawn Boyer
Publisher:
Total Pages: 68
Release: 2018-07-05
Genre:
ISBN: 9781722359980

The Family Lineage of Thomas Gould and Descendants of Carteret County, North Carolina provides a lineage of Thomas Gould who was born about 1859, down through history to more modern-day descendants who were born as recently as the 1900's and living predominately in Carteret County, North Carolina. This book provides at least six (6) generations of direct descendants and their spouses. If you are a serious or hobby genealogist, and researching the Gould lineage, this book could provide you some lineage data and vital statistics information you have been seeking to link your family or surname to this line of Goulds. THIS BOOK IS A MUST HAVE IN YOUR GENEALOGY COLLECTION! The family lineage published here are compilations of years of transcriptions from multiple resources, personal family interviews, ancestor's compilations, county history books, online and Internet genealogy groups, and other library database or book resources. The author spent over 20 years compiling the information in this publication for this specific family surname, as well as hundreds of other surnames that interlinked and intertwined to the author's own family and ancestry surnames. Do enjoy the fruits of the research to expand the reader's knowledge of this family surname. As noted on the copyright page, any errors may result from human transcription mistakes, original data having errors or omissions, or even some 'software burps' or data entry errors (e.g., a husband may have been entered as a spouse twice, thus shows up as a duplicate). The author suggests that genealogy researchers take the information in this book and use it as a 'with a grain of salt' baseline to further research on their own to confirm all the data in this publication against their own. Key Search Words for The Author/Artist's Books: Adult Coloring, Animals, animals, Architectural Illustrations, Artist's renderings, artwork, balance, Barns, Big Kids Coloring Books, body, brain, bugs, butterflies, calming, celebration, City of Williamsburg Virginia, co-artist, color, coloring books, colors, colour, colourful, colouring, colouring book, composition, crab, creation, de-stress, designs, dolphin, doodle, Drawing, fae, fairies, fairy, fairy doors, fairy houses, family history, family lineage, family surnames, fauna, feathers a'flying, fish, flora, forest, forgotten places, genealogy research, gratitude, Hearts A'Fire, illustration, imagination, jellyfish, joy, Kaleidoscope, lobster, love, magical, Mandala, meditate, meditation, mermaids, motivation, mystical, mystical creatures, nature, ocean, Old Barns, Old Houses, pattern, peace, pen and ink, photo-bombing, photobomb, relax, relaxation, sea, self, shading, shark, shipwreck, space, spirits, spiritual, state-of-being, sub-conscious, sugar skulls, tangles, tantalizing, therapy, tropical, undersea, universe, valentine, well-being, Williamsburg Virginia Geographic Area, wisdom, Zen, Zendala, Zentangles

The Wike Family

The Wike Family
Author: Monte Wike
Publisher:
Total Pages: 788
Release: 2002
Genre: Reference
ISBN:

Jacob M. Weik married Susannah Moir in 1783 in Rowan County, North Carolina. Descendants and relatives lived mainly in North Carolina, Arkansas, Louisiana and Missouri.

As a Tree Grows

As a Tree Grows
Author:
Publisher: iUniverse
Total Pages: 610
Release: 2008-12
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN: 1440101892

Research on the Cox family genealogy was begun by Rev. Simeon O. Coxe (1877-1955). Verl F. Weight (one of the many descendants of the Cox family) and Mrs. Charles W. Cox (Willie Miller) further researched, compiled and published the information into the first edition in mimeographed copies in 1962. When time took its toll on these copies and years of work began to fade away, Mary Carol Cox volunteered to retype and publish As A Tree Grows into a paperback book.