A History of Middle New River Settlements and Contiguous Territory

This volume is a rich and engaging history of the vast territory from the Alleghenies westward to the Mississippi River detailing the early settlements along the New River and encompassing the present-day counties of Mercer and Monroe West Virginia and Tazewell and Giles counties Virginia. Covering the period 1654-1905 the narrative is replete with descriptive accounts of historical occurrences and incidents as well as the individuals who participated in these events many of whom are well-known to historians and genealogists of the region. The book roughly consists of three parts: A detailed history of the area prior to the Civil War; the Civil War era; and appendices which provide genealogies and biographies of early settler families lists of governmental officials judges chancellors magistrates justices of the peace court clerks sheriffs state representatives attorneys Civil War rosters and numerous other lists. Following are the genealogical and biographical summaries contained in Appendix C: Bailey Bane Belcher Black Barnes Bowen Burke Calfee Caperton Chapman Christian Cecil Clay Cloyd Davidson Emmons French Gillespie Hale Hare Hoge Howe Johnston Kirk Lybrook McClaugherty McComas McDonald Meadows Napier Pack Peck Pearis Peters Shannon Smith Snidow Straley and Witten. Paperback (1906) repr. 2011 Illus. Index 563 pp.