Georgia Courthouse Disasters

Georgia Courthouse Disasters
Author: Paul K. Graham
Publisher:
Total Pages: 74
Release: 2013-04-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780975531297

Few places in the United States feel the impact of courthouse disasters like the state of Georgia. Over its history, 75 of the state's counties have suffered 109 events resulting in the loss or severe damage of their courthouse or court offices. This book documents those destructive events, including the date, time, circumstance, and impact on records. Each county narrative is supported by historical accounts from witnesses, newspapers, and legal documents. Maps show the geographic extent of major courthouse fires. Record losses are described in general terms, helping researchers understand which events are most likely to affect their work.

Magazine

Magazine
Author: Huxford Genealogical Society
Publisher:
Total Pages: 420
Release: 2004
Genre: Florida
ISBN:

Fourteenth Census of the United States, 1920

Fourteenth Census of the United States, 1920
Author: United States. Bureau of the Census
Publisher:
Total Pages: 694
Release: 1923
Genre: Agriculture
ISBN:

Includes reports on population, housing, agriculture, industry,commerce, geography, territories and possessions, vital statistics and life tables.

The Washingtons. Volume 6, Part 1

The Washingtons. Volume 6, Part 1
Author: Justin Glenn
Publisher: Savas Publishing
Total Pages: 587
Release: 2014-09-05
Genre: Reference
ISBN: 1940669316

Part of a series filled with “gratifying detail” about the ancestry of the first US President, this volume contains the tenth-generation descendants. (Robert K. Krick, author of The Smoothbore Volley that Doomed the Confederacy, Stonewall Jackson at Cedar Mountain, and Lee’s Colonels) This is the sixth volume of Dr. Justin Glenn’s comprehensive history that traces the “Presidential line” of the Washingtons, the vast family originated by the immigrant John Washington, who settled in Westmoreland Co., Va., in 1657, married Anne Pope, and became the great-grandfather of President George Washington. This volume contains the late nineteenth and twentieth century born descendants of John Washington’s daughter, Anne (Washington) Wright and as such transports the reader through many of the major historical events of those eras by providing the stories of the family members who lived through them. Although structured in a genealogical format for the sake of clarity, this is no bare bones genealogy but a true family history with over 1,200 detailed biographical narratives. These in turn strive to convey the greatness of the family that produced not only The Father of His Country but many others, great and humble, who struggled to build that country. “It is surprising that no comprehensive family history has been published. Justin M. Glenn’s The Washingtons: A Family History finally fills this void for the branch to which General and President George Washington belonged, identifying some 63,000 descendants.” —John Frederick Dorman, editor of The Virginia Genealogist (1957–2006) and author of Adventurers of Purse and Person

Good People Beget Good People

Good People Beget Good People
Author: William H. Frist
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 474
Release: 2003
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780742533363

The beautifully and expensively produced volume is a painstaking record of the family of Frist, the U.S. Senate's majority leader and a heart surgeon from Tennessee. Clearly a labor of love for Frist and his co-author, a longtime genealogist, the work is not in any sense a biography or political memoir, but rather is a straightforward tracing of Fr

Descendants of William Cromartie and Ruhamah Doane and Related Families

Descendants of William Cromartie and Ruhamah Doane and Related Families
Author: Amanda Cook Gilbert
Publisher: WestBowPress
Total Pages: 668
Release: 2013-10-08
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN: 1490807713

This ambitious work chronicles 250 years of the Cromartie family genealogical history. Included in the index of nearly fifty thousand names are the current generations, and all of those preceding, which trace ancestry to our family patriarch, William Cromartie, who was born in 1731 in Orkney, Scotland, and his second wife, Ruhamah Doane, who was born in 1745. Arriving in America in 1758, William Cromartie settled and developed a plantation on South River, a tributary of the Cape Fear near Wilmington, North Carolina. On April 2, 1766, William married Ruhamah Doane, a fifth-generation descendant of a Mayflower passenger to Plymouth, Stephen Hopkins. If Cromartie is your last name or that of one of your blood relatives, it is almost certain that you can trace your ancestry to one of the thirteen children of William Cromartie , his first wife, and Ruhamah Doane, who became the founding ancestors of our Cromartie family in America: William Jr., James, Thankful, Elizabeth, Hannah Ruhamah, Alexander, John, Margaret Nancy, Mary, Catherine, Jean, Peter Patrick, and Ann E. Cromartie. These four volumes hold an account of the descent of each of these first-generation Cromarties in America, including personal anecdotes, photographs, copies of family bibles, wills, and other historical documents. Their pages hold a personal record of our ancestors and where you belong in the Cromartie family tree.

Legal Executions in Georgia

Legal Executions in Georgia
Author: Daniel Allen Hearn
Publisher: McFarland
Total Pages: 229
Release: 2015-12-31
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0786498692

In the state of Georgia, 1025 men and women are known to have been hanged or electrocuted for capital crimes in the century after the Civil War. Based on more than twenty years of investigative research, this chronological record of these legal executions was pieced together from diverse sources in and outside of the state, with many details never before made public. The author documents the facts as they occurred without delving into the politics of capital punishment.