Cataloochee

Cataloochee
Author: Wayne Caldwell
Publisher: Random House
Total Pages: 370
Release: 2009-03-25
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0307516911

“A brilliant portrait of a community and a way of life long gone, a lost America.” –Charles Frazier Against the breathtaking backdrop of Appalachia comes a rich, multilayered post—Civil War saga of three generations of families–their dreams, their downfalls, and their faith. Cataloochee is a slice of southern Americana told in the classic tradition of Flannery O’Connor and William Faulkner. Nestled in the mountains of North Carolina sits Cataloochee. In a time when “where you was born was where God wanted you,” the Wrights and the Carters, both farming families, travel to the valley to escape the rapid growth of neighboring towns and to have a few hundred acres all to themselves. But progress eventually winds its way to Cataloochee, too, and year after year the population swells as more people come to the valley to stake their fortune. Never one to pass on opportunity, Ezra Banks, an ambitious young man seeking some land of his own, arrives in Cataloochee in the 1880s. His first order of business is to marry a Carter girl, Hannah, the daughter of the valley’s largest landowner. From there Ezra’s brood grows, as do those of the Carters and the Wrights. With hard work and determination, the burgeouning community transforms wilderness into home, to be passed on through generations. But the idyll is not to last, nor to be inherited: The government takes steps to relocate folks to make room for the Great Smoky Mountain National Park, and tragedy will touch one of the clans in a single, unimaginable act. Wayne Caldwell brings to life the community’s historic struggles and close kinships over a span of six decades. Full of humor, darkness, beauty, and wisdom, Cataloochee is a classic novel of place and family.

The Whitaker Family of Buncombe County, North Carolina and Genealogies of the Reed, Harper, and Wright Families

The Whitaker Family of Buncombe County, North Carolina and Genealogies of the Reed, Harper, and Wright Families
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 562
Release: 1989
Genre: North Carolina
ISBN:

Joshua Whitaker (ca.1676-ca.1715/19), a Quaker, married Jane Parker about 1696 and after his death, she and the family immigrated to Ireland. Two sons, William Whitaker (b.1701) and Peter Whitaker (1703-1758), immigrated by 1721 to Chester County, Pennsylvania, and the rest of the family followed about three years later. Descendants and relatives lived in North Carolina, Georgia, Tennessee, Indiana, Missouri, Kansas, Texas and elsewhere. Some descendants became Mormons and lived in Utah and elsewhere. Includes some generations of probable ancestors in England, the Isle of Man and elsewhere.

Our Last Best Act: Planning for the End of Our Lives to Protect the Peop

Our Last Best Act: Planning for the End of Our Lives to Protect the Peop
Author: Mallory McDuff
Publisher: Augsburg Fortress Publishers
Total Pages: 224
Release: 2021-12-07
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN: 1506464467

How do we align our end-of-life choices with our values? In a world experiencing a climate crisis and a culture that avoids discussions about death and dying, environmentalist and educator Mallory McDuff takes readers on a journey to discover new, sustainable practices around death and dying.

Red Book

Red Book
Author: Alice Eichholz
Publisher: Ancestry Publishing
Total Pages: 812
Release: 2004
Genre: Reference
ISBN: 9781593311667

" ... provides updated county and town listings within the same overall state-by-state organization ... information on records and holdings for every county in the United States, as well as excellent maps from renowned mapmaker William Dollarhide ... The availability of census records such as federal, state, and territorial census reports is covered in detail ... Vital records are also discussed, including when and where they were kept and how"--Publisher decription.

Dillinghams of Big Ivy, Buncombe County, N.C. and Related Families

Dillinghams of Big Ivy, Buncombe County, N.C. and Related Families
Author: Margaret Wallis Haile
Publisher:
Total Pages: 896
Release: 1979
Genre: Buncombe County (N.C.)
ISBN:

Robert Dillingham married twice and lived in Anne Arundel County, Maryland betweeb 1708 and 1714, and probably longer. Descendants lived in Maryland, North Carolina, Kansas, California, Oregon and elsewhere.

Pushing the Indians Out

Pushing the Indians Out
Author: Charles R. Haller
Publisher: Money Tree Imprints
Total Pages: 296
Release: 2014-08-13
Genre: Cemeteries
ISBN: 9780970374820

Pushing The Indians Out by migrating immigrants covers the major facets of occupying land legally and illegally at the expense of a wide variety of Native Americans. For several decades, Charles Haller has been a researcher, writer, and editor. He has written several technical and non-fiction books, all listed in WorldCat, and he has contributed numerous articles to a variety of genealogical journals. In 1993, the author wrote the popular and still in print Across The Atlantic And Beyond. Charles Haller now resides in Charlotte, North Carolina, after a 17-year stay in Asheville, deep in the Appalachians.