Notable Southern Families. Volume I

The Southern States were settled by three great waves of emigration -Cavalier Scotch-Irish and Huguenot. - These types retain their characteristics to this day perhaps largely because groups of relatives friends or neighbors settled in one section and gave a dominant tinge in creed and church and custom. The sons and daughters of these families married and creed and custom grew stronger from year to year. Thus the Scotch-Irish a people of Scotch origin though living in Ireland for many years before the American emigration settled in certain parts of Virginia North and South Carolina and what is now East Tennessee in great numbers and impressed their Presbyterian faith upon their posterity. In the chapters of this book examples will be given of each of these groups-Cavalier Scotch-Irish and Huguenot. The early history of these well-known Southern families is here presented being published at least in collected form for the first time. The compiler takes no credit for authorship as genealogy is not a science of invention. The facts however are clearly stated and in the case of each family each line may be brought down to the present day from the earliest settler in America. The Colonial Revolutionary War of 1812 and War Between the States record of each family is set forth succinctly. No space has been given to tradition though many traditions in the families mentioned are interesting and doubtless could be followed up and proved. Many histories have been consulted and many family documents studied only reliable records being used. Though the chief endeavor of these chapters is to show the Colonial or Revolutionary settler and his posterity a brief line of his progenitors is given in some cases as the origin of name and family is always interesting. Hundreds of histories court records and family documents have been examined in the preparation of this volume and the following family authorities have been consulted: Robert A. J. Armstrong Mrs. Martha Turnley Armstrong Mrs. Penelope J. Allen (who prepared the Deadrick and VanDyke data) Pearson Banning (who prepared the Banning data) Mrs. Virginia E. McNaught (who prepared the Gaines data) Mrs. Louise Sevier Giddings Mrs. J. F. Alexander S. G. Heiskell Calvin M. McClung (who prepared the McGhee data) John A. Kelly the late Parmenas Taylor Turnley John Bell Brownlow (who prepared the Brownlow data) the late Oscar K. Lyle and many others. This volume Volume I includes genealogies of the following families: Armstrong Banning Blount Brownlow Calhoun Deaderick Gaines Howard Key Luttrell Lyle McAdoo McGhee McMillan Phinizy Polk Sevier Shields Stone Turnley and VanDyke.