Notable Southern Families. Volume I

This is a collection of family histories touching upon many thousands of individuals of Cavalier Scotch-Irish and Huguenot stock the one common denominator being the milieu of the South. In almost every instance family lines are brought down to the present day from the earliest settler in America the lines convincingly developed after careful consideration of court records histories family bibles and miscellaneous family documents. The Colonial Revolutionary War of 1812 and Civil War record of each family is set forth succinctly. Although the primary aim of the work is to show the Colonial or Revolutionary settler and his posterity treatment is given in some cases to the progenitors of the original settler. Each genealogy is meticulously developed giving all names in both collateral and direct lines of descent dates and places of birth marriage and death places of residence and all other particulars of genealogical significance. This volume includes genealogies of the families of Armstrong Banning Blount Brownlow Calhoun Deaderick Gaines Howard Key Luttrell Lyle McAdoo McMillan Phinizy Polk Sevier Shields Stone Turnley and Van Dyke.