Dunkin-Reid and Garner-McGraw-Mobley Families of South Carolina, Georgia, and Alabama


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Ancestral and related families of the author Ailcy Dora Dean Smith. She was born in 1930 in Cullman County Alabama. The daughter of Adolphus Smith (b. 1911) and Flora Gladys Moon Smith (b. 1913). She married Luther Allen Cress in 1948. Ancestors lived in Alabama, Georgia, Virginia, South Caroline and elsewhere.




Family Puzzlers


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The Nathan Reids of Virginia in the March of Freedom


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The Reid family immigrated from Scotland about 1745 to Botetourt Co., Virginia and about 1787 to South Carolina.




Backcountry Revolutionary


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Biography of Col. James Williams, 1740-1780, the highest ranking officer who died from wounds suffered at the Battle of Kings Mountain (October 7, 1780) during the American Revolutionary War.




A Dowling Family of the South.


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New Dictionary of American Family Names


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Defines the meanings of American surnames and lists their geographical origins.




Mendelssohn in Performance


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Exploring many aspects of Felix Mendelssohn's multi-faceted career as musician and how it intersects with his work as composer, contributors discuss practical issues of music making such as performance space, instruments, tempo markings, dynamics, phrasings, articulations, fingerings, and instrument techniques. They present the conceptual and ideological underpinnings of Mendelssohn's approach to performance, interpretation, and composing through the contextualization of specific performance events and through the theoretic actualization of performances of specific works. Contributors rely on manuscripts, marked or edited scores, and performance parts to convey a deeper understanding of musical expression in 19th-century Germany. This study of Mendelssohn's work as conductor, pianist, organist, violist, accompanist, music director, and editor of old and new music offers valuable perspectives on 19th-century performance practice issues.