A McCulloh History

<p><strong>Around the year 1740 22-year-old Archibald M<sup>c</sup>Collogh left his home in Northern Ireland boarded a ship and sailed to a new life in America.</strong></p><p> </p><p>In these pages we follow the lives of seven generations of M<sup>c</sup>Cullohs starting with Archibald’s 4000-mile life-long journey across the ocean through devastating Indian attacks in Pennsylvania’s frontier down the Shenandoah Valley on the Great Wagon Road to his final home in Lexington Kentucky. His son George works as a tanner and then a Ranger leading pack trains through the wilderness of western Pennsylvania. George’s son John a shoemaker lives his entire life in a mountain valley called Little Cove. John’s daughter Mary Ann lives a mysterious life in this valley giving birth to two children out of wed-lock and eventually marrying a successful ironmaster who may yet prove to be the father of these children. Her son Amos becomes a successful farmer lives through the turmoil of the confederate invasion of southern Pennsylvania and makes a supernatural appearance upon his early death. Amos’s son William makes an extraordinary 700-mile journey on foot from Pennsylvania to western Illinois loses a wife and six children helps start an orphanage becomes a minister raises ten children with his second wife loses everything he owns and finally near the end of his life returns to Pennsylvania not far from where he first began.</p><p> </p><p>The author has spent hundreds of hours and has traveled thousands of miles to gather the facts photos and details presented here. Fully indexed and filled with photos maps and illustrations this book brings this M<sup>c</sup>Culloh line’s story together like no other.</p>