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This book follows the lives of three generations of the John Woodard family. John Woodard (1781-1866), was the owner of Woodard's Boot Shop on the town square in Wells, England. His family lived in the times of cholera outbreaks and workhouses. John's son, James Woodard (1810-1890), followed in his father's footsteps and became a shoe maker but the similarity ends there. James left the city of his youth, his father, his siblings, and all that ...

Job O'Dell was born around 1792 in what is now Tennessee. He migrated to the Missouri Ozark mountains around 1840. Twenty years after his arrival in Missouri, the state was embroiled in the Civil War. Some of his Job's sons fought in the civil war, while one son, Tompkins, was killed by guerrillas. During reconstruction after the war, Carter and Reynolds Counties where the family lived as farmers were still in turmoil. Women held tough during ...

Although family legend claims the Gair family came to Scotland with Mary, Queen of Scots, the recorded family history starts in the Scottish Highlands in 1770 with the birth of Hugh Gair. While Hugh died where he had always lived, all of his surviving descendants had immigrated to the United States by the mid 1800s. This book tells the stores of successes and struggles in the author's paternal line in Scotland and in the United States, includi...