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Kith and Kin of Boone County, West Virginia

Note: Each volume also listed Contributors, Membership, Foreword, Contents, and Additions and Corrections to the Previous Volumes (except volume I). These books may be purchased online or ordered by mail from BCGS, P O Box 306, Madison, WV 25130. The price for Kith and Kin is $19 including the postage.
 
 
Volume
Number
Article Name Contributors
I
The Stollings Family in Boone County Mrs. Janet Hager
Boone County Marriages, 1854-1861 Sigfus Olafson
The Daniel Javins Family Edith E. Javins
Boone County 1850 Census (1st Half) Sigfus Olafson
The Comers of Shenandoah James E. Richardson
Descendants of Samuel & Patsey Pauley Sigfus Olafson
II
The Allen Family of Boone County, WV William H. Allen
Brooks Descendants in Boone County Charles Brooks, Sigfus Olafson, Janet Hager
Boone County 1850 Census (2nd half) Sigfus Olafson
The Spencer Family of Boone County Lenore Ferrell
The Asburys Mrs. Claude Fowler
The Copley Family in Boone County Nina Ball Barker
The White Families in Boone County, WV Agnes B. Pearlman & David A. Turner
III
The Smoot Family of Boone County, WV Sigfus Olafson
Boone County, Virginia Death Records, 1853-1860 Janet B. Hager
Brooks, Bias, Perry, Wm. Van Buren Bias and Descendants Virginia Hayes, Ruth Horan &, Mary Williams
More About William Perry Timothy Buckland
Letter from Richard Brooks to His Children Sigfus Olafson
Place Names in Boone County Jean O. Harman
The Story of Chloe Flynn Sigfus Olafson
The Jeffreys James Jeffrey & Lenore Ferrell
The Genealogy of Counties (with maps) The Editor
The Jarrell Family of (West) Virginia (Part 1) David A. Turner
IV
The Scragg Family Phyllis Withrow Harmon
Additions to this family (perhaps the Scragg family??) Dr. Dana Dorsey
Early Coal Miners in Boone County Sigfus Olafson
The George Ferrell Family Lenore Ferrell
Family Bible Records Sigfus Olafson
More About Chloe Flynn Sigfus Olafson
V
More on the George Ferrell Family Lenore Ferrell
Our Brown Family David A. Turner & Bramwell B. Brown
More about the Samuel Scragg Family Lenore Ferrell
Descendants of Jacob Miller thru Oliver Miller Hettie Pauley Holestin
The Cook Family of Boone County Janet E. Hager
Mitchell Lines in Boone County Agnes Branch Pearlman
Joshua Mitchell Cemetery James E. Richardson
John and Betsy Hill and Their Descendants Delores James, Nellie Groves & Jean Harmon
VI
The Jarrell Family of West Virginia (Part II) David A. Turner
A Search in West Virginia Laura Lake Jones
The Ballard Family of Boone County, WV Sigfus Olafson, Helen Kirby & Laura Pauley
The Roberts Family, Lincoln, Boone and Adjoining Cos. WV Glenn C. Roberts
The Sutphin Family of Boone County, WV Sigfus Olafson
Our Hall and Osborne Family of Boone County Hazel Hall Riley
More on Joshua Mitchell James E. Richardson
More on the Descendants of Jacob Miller thru Dryden Miller Sybil Miller Kidd
The Virginia Gazeteer The Editor
The Adkins Family Darius E. (Tom) White & Vernie Faye (Adkins) White
VII
Descendants of Henry Sr. & Athalia (Mullins) Pauley Through their son, Henry Pauley Jr. Hettie Holestin
Landowners in 1847 Boone County Sigfus Olafson
Petition to Form A New County Janet E. Hager
More About Families The Editor
More Descendants of John Hill Thru His Granddaughter, Sarah Hill McCormick Reba McCormick Bolden
More About Mitchells of French Descent Ruth Williams Cornell
More on the Sutphin Family Lenore Ferrell
More About the Ballard Family Janet Barker Hager
More on the Mitchell Lines of Boone County Kathryn McCormick
VIII
The Kinders in West Virginia Joetta McCallister & Nellie Groves
An Early Land Owner on Turtle Creek Sigfus Olafson
Photographs W. H. Allen
The Abraham Workman Family Janet Barker Hager
The Thompson Family of Boone Col, WV Ida Mae Thompson & Sigfus Olafson
The 1890 Census of the Union Soldiers, Sailors, Marines and Widows of Civil War, Boone Co. James Richardson
IX
Land Grants in Boone County, WV Sigfus Olafson
Spurlock Descendants of Jacob Miller, Thru His Grnadson Daniel Mabel "Mae" Snezek
The Allen Miller Cemetery Harvey C. Walker
The DeJournette Family Sigfus Olafson, Editor
The Benjamin Price Family of Boone County Jean Olafson Harmon
More About The Stollings Family, Stollings-Estes Cousins in MO Janet Hager
The Gore Family of Boone County, WV Sigfus Olafson
The Abshires and Kin in Boone County Joetta McCallister
Sherriffs of Boone County, WV (with pictures) Jean O. Harmon & Janet E. Hager
Bais Beginnings Sigfus Olafson
X
The Barnabus Green Family Lenore K. Ferrell
The Will of John Green Elroy Green
Those Puzzling White Family Connections Agnes B. Pearlman & David A. Turner
Military Service of Boone Co. Whites Agnes B. Pearlman & David A. Turner
Seth, Settled in 1892, Making Progress as a Trading Center from The Coal Valley News - June 1974 Irving Sutphin
Healing Stream Baptist Church Alda Cook
The Bowne-Bone Family-A Short Story Alda Cook
Additions to the Samuel & Patsy Pauley Family Marguerite Pauley
Additions and Corrections to the George Ferrell Family Golda Biggs Absolom
More on the Jeffrey Family Sandra Dillon Ellis
Boone County Birth Records 1853-1859 Mrs. William Hager
Keffer-Kirfna-Kief Family Janet Barker Hager
Some Virginia Marriages Joy U. Berkley
The Martin Sanders Family Janet Barker Hager
Ballards of Rock Creek, Boone Co, WV George & Dorothy Shrader Adkins
XI
The Family History of Francis and Laurena McCormick Hill Joy U. Berkley
The Turley Families of the Coal River Area Reba McCormick Bolden
Ancestors and Descendants of Isaac Williams Geraldine Walker & Donald Williams
Linvills Past and Linvilles Present Vera L. Carte
XII
Descendants of Arris Preston & Martha Byrnside Meadows Esther Meadows
From KY to WV with the Daniel Boone Brown Family Mildred Miller
4H Club Work in Boone County, WV 1924-1952 Edith Javins
More on the Andrew Greene Family Betty Greene Pennington
More on the Williams Family Billie Redding Lewis
The Griffith Family Charles E. Talbert
Kessinger and Related Families in the Virginias William K. Hale
XIII
More on the Meadows Family Jewell Meadows & Trelma Curtis
Descendants of Joseph and Lucinda Meadows Richard Legg
The Stewart Family Marion A. Stewart
Rev. Rufus Workman of Boone County and Brownstown, WV Esther Meadows
More of Ezra Malone Miller Family Contributor Unknown
Memories of Highcoal--and Later Verna Ann Abston
Additions to Alexander Smoot Family Verna Ann Abston
Boone County Births 1865-1874 Lenore Ferrell
More on Chloe Flynn Sigfus Olafson
XIV
Another Son of Benjamin Price Discovered John Smoot and His Descendants Jay Price
Additions and Corrections to the Benjamin Price Family Jean O. Harmon
The Killing of Andrew Gunnoe James R. Pettry
Descendants of George Sanford Meadows John Meadows
Additional Information on Martha Burnside Meadows Esther M. Meadows
Martin Petry James R. Pettry
Early Mention of Caol River Sigfus Olafson
Our Walker Family Ruth Walker Scantlin & Pam Snodgrass Schwartz
History of the Wall/Walls Family of Boone-Logan-Lincoln Counties Judith Clary & Sigfus Olafson
Additional Information on John Henry Turley Family Boyd A. Turley
Lewis Family of Boone County E. Housten Halstead
XV
The Halsteads of Boone Cuonty, WV E. Housten Halstead
Still More on the Sutphins Robert Sutphin
Some History on the Sutphins Robert Sutphin
Centenarians Geraldine Canterbury Walker
Family of Thomas Linville Thru His Grandson, Clarke Linville Sue Roberts
XVI
History of Coal River by Dewey J. Bone Contributed by Jane Bone Donovan
The Pettry Feud (Well, Almost) James Pettry
Every Canterbury a Descendent of John Geraldine C. Walker
The Stevenson and Burgess Family Lois Jones
Will of Samuel Midkiff Submitted by Reba McCormick Bolden
Families of Samuel & Joseph Midkiff of Coal River Reba McCormick Bolden
Pioneering on Horseback by Emma Agnes Jackson Contributed by James R. Pettry
More on the Walls Family Robert W. Hager
Boone County Death Records 1885-1902 Benj. Workman, J. Hager & L. Ferrell
New Data on the Bias Family Pauline Bias Safford
XVII
James Hewett & Ruth (Halstead) Workman Family Benjamin Workman
Navigation On the Coal River Warren Moore
The Drums of War Hallie Dolin
Kenneth Kinder Paintings The Editor
John Holmes Dies at 92 Lahoma Warren
Martin Luther Jones Family Sandy Dickens Graley
Mueller-Miller Family From Germany Ruth Cornell, Marie Miller & Lenore Ferrell
The West Fork Miller Family Alice & Emil Wheatley
Cooper Family Ron Cooper
Our Fork Creek Ancestry-Fowler and Gillispie Janet Hager
Boone County Marriages 1900-1911 Benjamin Workman
XVIII
The Hunter Family of Boone County Danny W. Yeomans
The Other Hunter Family of Boone Co. Danny W. Yeomans
The Jarrell Family of (West) VA, Additions and Corrections Wynona Jarrell
My Great Grandmother Petry Carolyn Starkey Hunter
Uncle Jim Jarrell Carolyn Starkey Hunter
A New Tombstone for Daniel Jarrell Pauline Sharpe
Benjamin Harrison Gibson Wertie B. Gibson
My Higginbotham/Totten Family Lois Higginbotham Cox
The Ancestors and Descendants of Bernard E. Graley Sandy & Frank Graley
Additions to the Fowler Family  Carol Graley
The Bullio Family Sandy Graley
More Descendants of Joshua Mitchell Kathy Brown
XIX
The Gore Family Danny W. Yeomans
The Stallings/Stollins Family from Maryland to Virginia Janet Hager
From the Mayflower to Martin Luther Jones Sandy Graley
Additoinal Information on The Thompson Family of Boone County, WV Norma J. Payne & Glen T. Jones
Nathan Basham Family Barbara Archer
James & Elizabeth Ferrell Family Written by Bernie Ferrell Basil Ferrell
Boone County Birth Records 1875-1881 Lenore Ferrell
XX
Chloe Ballard (Daughter of Chapman & Nancy (Price) Ballard) Leroy Caudill
The Belcher Family History Margaret Belcher Bing
The Bias Family Danny Yeomans & Lenore Ferrell
James Whitten and His Children Sandy Graley
Benealogical Pencil Records by Rosa Massey Petry Contributed by Carol Graley
XXI
In Memoriam   
1994 Membership  
Additions and Corrections to Previous Volumes Contents  
David Crockett Sutphin Barbara Sutphin Witwer
Our Mayflower Connection Vera Linville Carte
Another Limb on the Jacob Miller Tree Arthur D. Miller
More on the Jeffrey Family Beulah Wallace, Kathy Tackett and Herma Ellis
Surname Index Lenore Ferrell 
XXII
In Memoriam  
1995 Membership  
Additions & Corrections  
Boone County's Little Johnny Hager Brandon Kirk
Additions and Corrections Amos Workman Family Susie Eckerson
Memories of My Family Cecil Morgan
Memories of Left Hand Fork of Lens Creek Louise Hudnall
More on the Smoot Family Andrea Flora
Descendants of Ephraim Dickens Sr Sandy Graley
Boone County Marriages 1865-1874 Lenore Ferrell
Toneys Yesterday and Today Maude Toney Prater
XXIII
In Memoriam  
1997 Membership List  
Additions and Corrections
Some Ancestors of Barnabus Green of Fields & Joes Creek Charles Green & Fran Daniels
The Chambers Family James K. Jeffrey
The Ulbrich Family Pamela Lasher & Tom Harless
XXIV
In Memoriam  
1998 Membership List   
Additions and Corrections to Previous Volumes  
The Epling Families of Boone Co., WV Deb Cyprych & Robert Massard
Descendants of Arris Preston & Martha Meadows Thru Their Great Grandson Francis Millard Meadows Mildred Hammond
Descendants of Jacob Douglas Glen T. Jones
The Family of Milton Meadows Barton Meadows
The Miller Family of Rock Creek, Boone County, WV Charles Miller
XXV
In Memoriam  
1999 Membership List  
Additions and Corrections  
Descendants of John Scott Dorothy Ayers Buckley
Thompsons of Boone & Lincoln Counties Linda Dotson
Memoirs Jeff Lewis
XXVI
This volume of Kith and Kin is devoted to the Dolin Family As this family touches many of the families in Boone County, we felt the diversity of surnames in this family would make this volume worthwhile to any Boone County surname researcher. This volume is dedicated to the memory of one of our past presidents, Loretta Petry, who did much of the work on this family.  
The book includes information on the family of John "Jacky" Dolin Sr b.@ 1775 Buckingham Co. Va, d.between 1850 and 1860 s/o George & Jude (Dolin ?) Dolin m. circa 1800-1804 Mary Barker b. @ 1783 in Buckingham Co. Va d. circa 1850-1860 d/o Jacob & Frances Susan (Garner) Barker Both are probably buried at Camp Creek Boone Co. W.Va. They had 8 known children.  
XXVII
Bell Family of Southern West Virginia Martha Yvonne Bell Booz
Descendants of John Jackson Harris Marilyn and Woodrow Harris
Descendants of William Toney Dorothy Ayers Buckley
Our Family Religious Order, Are Many Nora Ellison Osburn
Additions and Corrections to the Scraggs Family Enos and Betty Scraggs
Boone County Marriages 1870-1880 Lenore Ferrell
XXVIII
Descendents of Coopers Forest E. Long
Boone County Marriages 1881-1885 Lenore Ferrell

Kith And Kin Index Volume I through X

This is a surname index of the first ten volumes of Kith and Kin. It also contains a list of family histories that are printed in the first ten volumes of Kith and Kin. 

The Annotated 1860 Boone County Census

This census is unique in that the census taker made a mistake in asking for the county of birth instead of the country or state of birth. With this volume, Mr. Olafson started a trend that many others are following, adding genealogical information to the census. The Boone County Genealogical Society purchased the remaining copies of this fine work from Mr. Olafson shortly before his death on February 28, 1987. 

The 1870 Boone County Census

Compiled by Lenore Kingery Ferrell, this is a alphabetical list of households in the 1870 census with added information from other sources. Some of the sources used were birth, death and marriage records and family histories. There is also a list showing the order of visitation within each district. 

Cemeteries of Boone County, West Virginia

The publication of all the cemeteries of Boone County has been a goal of the Boone County Genealogical Society since our formation. We feel a necessity to preserve the knowledge of the final resting place of the citizens of our beautiful county. However we have taken this project one step further, we are annotating the tombstone readings with genealogical information, such as parents, spouse, marriage, children or other information.

Volume I

Name Location
Adkins-Marcum Cemetery Greenview on Spruce Fork 
Allen Cemetery  Low Gap on Spruce Fork
Allen Cemetery (1 grave) Walnut Gap Mtn. near Wyo. Co.
Asbury Cemetery Bailey Mtn./Raleigh Boone line
Atkins-Elkins Cemetery  Left Fork of Williams Fork
Atkins-Halstead Cemetery  Foot Drawdy Mtn./Hubbards Ck.
Atkins-Javins Cemetery  .1 mile from top Drawdy Dtn
Baldwin Cemetery  Bias' Branch of Spruce Fork
Ball Cemetery  Near old Turtle Ck postoffice
Ballard Cemetery  Ballard's Branch near Foster
Ball-Powell Cemetery  Powell Creek of Spruce Fork
Barker Cemetery  White Oak Branch below Ashford
Bell Cemetery  Big Ugly
Berthel Stollings Cemetery  Hubert Hill Rd. off Corridor G
Bowne Cemetery  Kirbytown on Big Coal River
Bradshaw Cemetery  Foot of Short Ck. Mtn.
Buck Snodgrass Cemetery  Foot of Short Ck. Mtn.
Burley Lucas Cemetery  Greenview on Spruce Fork
Coon Cemetery  Comfort on Big Coal River Gap
Danville Cemetery  Behind Danville Grade School
Dent Cemetery  Mikes Fk of Hewett Creek
Epling Cemetery  Main Hewett Creek
Fauber Cemetery  Toney's Branch on Big Coal River
Ferrell Cemetery  Comfort up Joe's Ck. Hollow
Foster Cemetery  White Oak Ck. below Whitesville
George Hager Cemetery  Mouth of Mike's Fk. at Hewett
Harvey-Toler Cemetery  Upper Pond Fork
Hendricks Cemetery  Upper end of Orgas
Hill Cemetery  Trace Fork of Big Creek
Jarrell Cemetery  Bald Knob on Pond Fork
Maroney Cemetery  Round Bottom Branch at Peytona
Mechanics-Miners Cemetery  Blooomingrose on Big Coal River
Miller & Brineger Cemetery (2)  Morrisvale (both together)
Montgomery Hager Cemetery  Six Mile Ck of Spruce Fork
Old Barrett Cemetery  Pond Fork
Old & New Stollings Cemetery (2)  Hollywood Branch off Corridor G
Old Workman Cemetery  Bald Knob on Pond Fork
Pauley Cemetery  Big Branch near Greenview
Reuben Conley Cemetery  Big Branch near Greenview
Rock Lick Cemetery  Greenwood on Pond Fork
Smoot Cemetery  Washington Ave. Madison
Snodgrass Cemetery (2)  Right & Left of hwy at Short Ck. 
Tamplin Cemetery  Peytona on Big Coal River
Three Mile Cemetery  White Oak Ck. near Orgas
Wallen Cemetery Mike's Fk. of Hewett's Ck.
White Cemetery  Between Cazy and Bim on Pond Fk.
Williams Cemetery  Williams Mtn. btw Van & Prenter
Z.P. Ball Cemetery  Seacoal on Spruce Fork

Volume II

Name                                    Location
Pineview Cemetery                       Orgas on Big Coal River
        Kings Section
        Well & Hill Section
        Old Section

Volume III

Name                                    Location
Pineview Cemetery       (cont'd)        Orgas on Big Coal River
        Dogwood Section
        New People buried since 1990
Mid Ferrell Cemetery                    West Fk. of Pond Fork

Volume IV

Name                                    Location
Boone Memmorial Park - Part 1           between Madison & Haddleton

Volume V

Name                                    Location
Boone Memmorial Park - Part 2           between Madison & Haddleton

Volume VI

Name                                    Location
Memory Gardens - Section 1              Low Gap on Spruce Fork

Volume VII

Name                                    Location
Memory Gardens - Section 2              Low Gap on Spruce Fork

Volume VIII

Name                                    Location
Memory Gardens - New People             Low Gap on Spruce Fork
Family Gardens                          Low Gap on Spruce Fork


The History of Boone County, West Virginia 1990

This unique history of Boone County was published by the Boone County Genealogical Society in 1990. This volume contains historical material about Boone County from prehistorical times to the present. All aspects of the development and formation of Boone County are touched on. There are in depth sketches on the early settlers of Boone County. Detailed information is presented about the churches and schools of Boone County. Over two hundred pages are dedicated to Histories of past and present families of Boone County. This book is hard-backed and has a complete, every name index. Price $65.00 plus $5.00 postage. 

The Branches of Turtle Creek

A reprint of the book compiled by W. W. Nelson. Boone County Genealogical Society has added a surname index. There are pictures of some of the families covered by this book. This is our only publication in the 5 1/2 x 8 1/2 format. 

Jacob Miller And His Descendants

This is a reprint of the book compiled by Everett W. Miller in 1953. The Boone County Genealogical Society has added photographs of many of the people covered. The reprint has been indexed for easier use. 

Boone County West Virginia a Time Line and Source Book

This book is a compilation of all the information Mitch could find on Boone County, West Virginia. It begins with the Geological History and follows the events in the history of Boone County until 1996. The book contains information that is printed in bits and pieces in other publications, as well as personal interviews that Mitch conducted in this fact finding mission. It contains a complete bibliography of sources from which the information was derived. This is an excellent books for anyone interested in the history of Boone County at any given period of time.

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