The Water-Powered Mills of Floyd County, Virginia


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From the time of early settlement in Virginia, water-powered mills played a primary role in the state's economy. This work provides an overview of grain milling in Floyd County, Virginia, from 1770 to the present day. Topics covered include the difficulties involved in identifying early mills, the importance of mill site selection, water wheel types, laws regulating mills, the decline of milling and physical remains of abandoned mill sites. The main body of the book provides individual histories of 140 grist, flour, and feed mills, a few of which also processed wool. The histories are based primarily on oral histories, title deed records, and local newspapers. More than 100 photographs and maps supplement the text, and tables provide production figures for various mills from industrial censuses of 1850, 1870, and 1880.







Descendants of Jacob Leber


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Jacob Leber was born in Germany. He emigrated in 1749 and settled in Pennsylvania. He married Anna Maria in about 1751 and they had eleven children. He died in about 1786 in York County, Pennsylvania. Descendants and relatives lived mainly in Pennsylvania.




A Biographical History of York County, Pennsylvania


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This work embraces about 1,200 sketches of 19th-century York Countians. Most sketches include a variety of genealogical and biographical data.




Descendants of Joh Matthias and Susanna Barbara (Lauer) Theiss, Deiss, Tice, Dice


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This genealogy traces the family origins of the Theiss/Deiss/Tice/Dice family back to 1600 in Germany, their immigration to America in 1730, and the descendants of eight children. This two-volume set contains over 50,000 names, all indexed! Each family paragraph includes the following information when known: generation number, child number, name of the descendant, dates, name of spouse, parents of spouse, residence, burial, children, and biographical information. Some of the surnames in the index: Allen, Baeshore, Behney, Bennett, Bland, Bodkin, Bowers, Caplinger, Colaw, Dahmer, Dice, Dolly, Gerberich, Good, Hammer, Harman, Harper, Hedrick, Homa, Judy, Kile, Kilmer, Kimble, Kisamore, Lambert, Line, Lough, Mallowo, Miller, Nelson, Roberson, Ruddle, Sholly, Shuey, Sites, Smith, Thompson, Tice, Wagoner, Walmer, Warner, etc. There is a wealth of information in this massive genealogy!







Bishop_BischoffResearch: The Descendants of Jacob and Katherine (Elkins) Bishop


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This is a compilation of the descendants of Jacob Bishop and Katherine Elkins. Jacob was the son of Hans Johannes Bischoff and Margaretha Overmeyer. Many of their descendants settled in and remained in the Floyd and Montgomery County areas of Virginia. Includes photos.




Davis


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Charles Davies (b.ca. 1706) emigrated from England to Philadelphia, and married Hannah Matson in 1732/1733. Descendants (chiefly spelling the surname Davis) and relatives lived in Pennsylvania, North Carolina, Ohio, Indiana, Iowa, Nebraska, Kansas, Oklahoma, California and elsewhere.