Excerpt from McCall-Tidwell and Allied Families The establishment Of some of the lines have been extremely difficult. Owing to the destruction by fire during the Revolutionary War and the War Between the States, it has been impossible to collect many names and dates, especially in the Southern States, that would have been of untold value to. This history. In those early days in the South (except in Virginia) there Were few records kept Of the family movements as the country was new and travel very difficult and family association was easily severed on account of the distances apart. And remote facts can only be found in Family Bibles and in the traditions handed down to each succeeding generation. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.