596 pages, 8 1/2 x 11" hardcover, indexed.
This one-of-a-kind study of the migrational history of more than 600 immigrant families who pioneered the settlement of present day North Carolina Counties of Burke, Catawba, Cleveland, Gaston, Lincoln, and Rutherford, and the Cape Girardeau District of Southeast Missouri. Many have origins documented in VA, MD, PA, and a surprising number with origins in Alsace, The Netherlands, Switzerland, and the Germanic Provinces of Europe for as many as five generations.
Emphasis is upon the immigrant's time of arrival, his spouse, his children, who they married and where they moved to. Although most participated in the settlement of the South and West, the greatest concentration of them can be found in Southeast Missouri after 1800.
Families with extensive sketches include Anthony, Best, Bess, Baker, Carpenter, Cline, Cloninger, Clubb, Costner, Crites, Deck, Dellinger, Eaker (Ecker in Alsace and Egger in Switzerland), Freitag, Friday, Froneberger, Fulbright, Goodbread, Hahn, Hawn, Hambright, Hartle, Hildebrand, Hoyle, Huffstutler, Killian, Kinder, Kiser, Kuykendall, Lineberger, Mauney, Mooney, (Mani in PA, Alsace and Switzerland), Miller, Mosteller, Moyer, Myers, Mull, Propst, Roth, Rhodes, Rhyne, Rudisill, Seitz, Shell, Slinkard, Stroup, Warlick, Whisenant, Whittenburg, Wise, Yount, and Zimmerman. Shorter, definitive studies on the other families.
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