Publisher's Synopsis
By: James Morton Callahan, Pub. 1912, Reprinted 2019, 618 pages, ISBN #0-89308-953-2.
Monongahela Valley lies in the northern portion of the state of West Virginia boarding Pennsylvania. The counties of: Marion and Monoogalia lie with in its boundaries. Monongalia County was created in 1776 from Augusta County, VA. From it the following counties were ceated: Barbour, Harrison, Lewis, Marion, Preston, Randolph, Taylor and Upshur and they too are represented in these Genealogical Skethes of its early settlers: Alexander, Allen (3), Allender, Amos, Anderson, Armstrong, Arnett (3), Atchison, Avis, Bailey (3), Bardett, Barncord, Bartlett, Beaty, Bentley, Black (2), Blackshere, Bland, Boso, Bovers (2), Bowman, Brand (3), Brandon, Brown, Brownfield, Bumgardner, Callahan, Carder, Carpenter, Carr, Carter (2), Casselberry, Church, Clark (2), Clifford, Coffman (3), Cole, Conaway, Conley, Conrad, Corley, Cox, Cunningham, Cure, Davis (11), DeBolt, Demain (2), Despard, Doheny, Douthat, Dudley, Duff, Duncan, Dunnington, Durrett, Dye, Edmondson, Elder, Ernst, Evans, Ferry, Flanagan, Fleming (2), Finly, Finnell, Fisher (2), Fitch, Gaston, Glancy, Gordon (2), Grant (2), Green, Gregg (2), Hale, Hall, Halterman, Harmer, Harr, Hatfield, Hartley, Hawkins, Hayden, Hayes, Haymond, (3), Haynes, Hefner, Heinze, Hennen (2), Henry, Highland, Higinbotham (2), Hite, Hodges, Holden, Holland, Hough, Howard (2), Huffman, Hughes, Hursley, Irvin, Jackson, Jacobs, Jenkins, Johnson, Johnston, Jones (3), Kelley, Keller, Kessler, Kincaid, King, Koblegard, Langfitt, Latham, Lazear, Lazier, Leps, Lewis, Lightburn, Lilley, Lane, Leonard, Lockwood, Lough, Loving, Lowe, Lucas, Lyon, Madeira, Maloy, Manown, Martin, Mathers, Maxwell, McClelland, McDaniel, McDonald, McGregor, McGrew, McGuire, McIntire, McNeely, McVicker, Meredith (2), Miller, Mitchell, Moore (3), Moreland, Morgan (2), Morrison, Mumford, Musgrave, Newcomb, Newlon, Nichols, Nutter, Offner, Ogden (2), Orr, Parkes, Payne, Peck, Perine, Phillips, Pickenpaugh, Post, Potter (2), Powell, Price (2), Race, Rainey, Reed (2), Robinson, Rogers (2), Rohrbough, Rosier, Ruhl, Rumbaugh, Schwaner, Schwenck, Shaw, Shinn, Short, Sivey, Skidmore, Smith (5), Smoot, Snider, Snyder, Southern, Steel, Steele, Stewart, Stockert, Stockton, Strosnider, Stuart, Supler, Swiger (3), Swisher, Tate, Thorn, Thomas, Vandervort, Vance, Walker, Ward, Warman, Washington, Watson, Wendel, Wiedebusch, White (3), Whitehill, Whiteman, Whitescarver, Williams (3), Wood, Yeager, and Young.
