Download or read book The Williams Family Bulletin written by and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Raccoon John Smith written by Elder Sparks and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2005-12-23 with total page 506 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Disciples of Christ, one of the first Christian faiths to have originated in America, was established in 1832 in Lexington, Kentucky, by the union of two groups led by Alexander Campbell and Barton W. Stone. The modern churches resulting from the union are known collectively to religious scholars as part of the Stone-Campbell movement. If Stone and Campbell are considered the architects of the Disciples of Christ and America’s first nondenominational movement, then Kentucky’s Raccoon John Smith is their builder and mason. Raccoon John Smith: Frontier Kentucky’s Most Famous Preacher is the biography of a man whose work among the early settlers of Kentucky carries an important legacy that continues in our own time. The son of a Revolutionary War soldier, Smith spent his childhood and adolescence in the untamed frontier country of Tennessee and southern Kentucky. A quick-witted, thoughtful, and humorous youth, Smith was shaped by the unlikely combination of his dangerous, feral surroundings and his Calvinist religious indoctrination. The dangers of frontier life made an even greater impression on John Smith as a young man, when several instances of personal tragedy forced him to question the philosophy of predeterminism that pervaded his religious upbringing. From these crises of faith, Smith emerged a changed man with a new vocation: to spread a Christian faith wherein salvation was available to all people. Thus began the long, ecclesiastical career of Raccoon John Smith and the germination of a religious revolution. Exhaustively researched, engagingly written, Raccoon John Smith is the first objective and painstakingly accurate treatment of the legendary frontier preacher. The intricacies behind the development of both Smith’s personal religious beliefs and the founding of the Christian Church are treated with equal care. Raccoon John Smith is the story of a single man, but in carefully examining the events and people that influenced Elder Smith, this book also serves as a formative history for several Christian denominations, as well as an account of the wild, early years of the Commonwealth of Kentucky.
Download or read book Christian Co KY written by and published by Turner Publishing Company. This book was released on 1991-06-15 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Christian County had published a county history in 1841 by Perin and again another by Charles Meachem in 1930. Both of these histories had a limited biography section in them. Under the leadership of president Lon Bostick, the Genealogical Society of Christian County and the many devoted people of the county at large, gave untiringly of their time and knowledge to compile and have published a third history of Christian County in 1986 which is primarily a family history with much social history. The people responded well with material and the book was getting so large that we had to stop receiving family histories. This left many without the opportunity to get their families recorded. Late in 1990, Lon had a job started and was not complete therefore the Odd Fellows of Green River Lodge #54 of Hopkinsville and Jewel Rebekah Lodge #14 (the auxiliary of the Odd Fellows) met and voted to compile and have published a continuation of Volume I of the Family Histories to be titled Edition I of Family Histories of Christian County.
Download or read book Kentucky Ancestors written by and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Johnson Co KY written by and published by Turner Publishing Company. This book was released on 2001 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A project of the Johnson County Historical and Genealogical Society.
Download or read book The Boone Family written by Hazel Atterbury Spraker and published by Genealogical Publishing Com. This book was released on 1974 with total page 766 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: George Boone IV (1690-1753), a Quaker, emigrated from England to Abington, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania, married Deborah Howell in 1713, and moved to Berks County, Pennsylvania. Descendants lived in Pennsylvania, Ohio, Kentucky, Tennessee, Texas, New Mexico, Colorado, California and elsewhere.
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Download or read book Raccoon John Smith written by John Sparks and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2005-12-23 with total page 508 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lexington, Kentucky, has the honor of being the birthplace of one of the first genuinely homegrown American Christian faiths: the Disciples of Christ. Established in 1832 by the union of two Christian groups led by Alexander Campbell and Barton W. Stone, their descendent churches are now referred to by religious scholars as the Stone-Campbell movement. In the state’s best tradition, this historic movement soon acquired its own larger-than-life legend: Raccoon John Smith, the flamboyant frontier preacher of the southern Kentucky mountains. Smith moved to the lowland Bluegrass and braved considerable odds to preach and establish the self-described “pure, nondenominational” Christianity of Stone and Campbell throughout the state and beyond. The 1832 union of Stone and Campbell’s churches was in fact formalized not by Stone and Campbell, but by Stone together with Smith, who represented Campbell’s constituency in Kentucky. Raccoon John Smith occupies a well-deserved place both in Kentucky and Stone-Campbell history. All previous biographical studies have been colored by the religious faith he embraced and the legends that evolved around him, however, rather than giving an accurate account of Smith’s life. In Raccoon John Smith, Elder John Sparks fills this void in the literature about Smith, using historical sources to present a faithful portrait of a seminal frontier preacher and colorful figure in early Kentucky history.
Download or read book Hamilton Families of Eastern Kentucky written by and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thomas Hamilton (1758-1847) was a resident of Bedford Co., Virginia, in 1776, when he enlisted in the service of his country. He married 1) Elizabeth Wright, daughter of John and Elizabeth Wright, in 1783. They had three children. After Elizabeth's death, he married 2) Ann Martin in Sullivan County, Tennessee, in 1795. They had six children. He died in Johnson County, Kentucky. Several generations of descendants are given.
Download or read book The Picklesimers of Eastern Kentucky written by John Wayne Picklesimer and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The genealogy of the Picklesimer family from Eastern Kentucky in Floyd County.
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Download or read book The Blakemore Family and Allied Lines written by Maurice Neville Blakemore and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Record of the Blakemore begins c1700 in Va.
Download or read book Genealogies Cataloged by the Library of Congress Since 1986 written by Library of Congress and published by Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress, Cataloging Distribution Service. This book was released on 1991 with total page 1368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The bibliographic holdings of family histories at the Library of Congress. Entries are arranged alphabetically of the works of those involved in Genealogy and also items available through the Library of Congress.
Download or read book A Family History of Williams Eaton McBroom Whiteley and Related Lines written by Elmer Derl Williams and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: William Williams immigrated to Virginia and settled in Grayson County. He was the father of three children, one of whom was Thomas (b. ca. 1732-1790). He was the father of six children. One of his descendants was John Williams (1866-1927) who married Mittie Eaton and they eventually moved form Tennessee to Oklahoma. They were the parents of 12 children. Descendants married into the McBroom and Whiteley families. Descendants live in Oklahoma, Texas and other parts of the United States.
Download or read book The Helm Family of Virginia written by Samuel King Helms and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 738 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Leonard Helm, Sr. (1660-1745) immigrated from England (possibly via Barbados) to Virginia by 1700, and died in Winchester, Frederick County, Virginia. Descendants and relatives lived in Virginia, Maryland, Illinois, Missouri, Washington, California and elsewhere.
Download or read book Descendants of John Moore Revolutionary War Veteran Floyd County Kentucky written by Cheryl Moore McCloskey and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 788 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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