Genealogy and History of Allen, Barrett, Baughman, Brewer, Corbett, Frederick, Hopson, Kuder, Miller, Stockton, Trowbridge, Tyler, Wall, Westfall, Whitsett and Other Related Families

Allen

Barrett

Baughman

Brewer

Corbett

Frederick

Hopson

Kuder

McGrew

Miller

Stockton

AUTHOR UNKNOWN

We are the chosen. My feelings are, in each family there is one who seems called to find the ancestors. To put flesh on their bones and make them live again, to tell the family story and to feel that somehow they know, and approve. To me, doing genealogy is not a cold gathering of facts but, instead, breathing life into all who have gone before. We are the story tellers of our tribe.

All Tribes have one. We have been called as it were, by our genes. Those who have gone before cry out to us: Tell our story. So, we do. In finding them, we somehow find oourselves. How many graves have I stood before now and cried? I have lost count. How many times have I told the ancestors you have a wonderful family, you would be proud of us? How many times have I walked up to a grave and felt somehow there was love there for me? I cannot say. It goes beyond just documenting facts. It goes to who am I and why do I do the things I do? It goes to seeing a cemetery about to be lost forever to weeds and indifference and saying I can't let this happen. The bones here are bones of my bone and flesh of my flesh. It goes to doing something about it. It goes to pride in what our ancestors were able to accomplish. How they contributed to what we are today. It goes to respecting their hardships and losses, their never giving in or giving up, their resoluteness to go on and build a life for their family. It goes to deep pride that they fought to make and keep us a nation. It goes to a deep and immense understanding that they were doing it for us. That we might be born who we are. That we might remember them. So we do. With love and caring and scribing each fact of their existence, because we are them and they are us.

So, as a scribe called, I tell the story of my family. It is up to that one called in the next generation to answer the call and take their place in the long line of family storytellers. That is why I do my family genealogy, and that is what calls those young and old to step up and put flesh on the bones.

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Below is a partial list of individuals related to our families. I have done very limited or no research on them. For a more complete list go to ALL SURNAMES

DAVID M. ADAMS - Tennessee and Arkansas (1825-) related to Allen family

DAVID ALBRIGHT (1785-1857) Virginia related to Westfall family

HANNAH ALBRIGHT Stark Co., Ohio (ca1825) related to Stanard and Tyler family

JAMES BECKETT, Cheshire, England (1825) related to Corbett family

EPHRIM BOOTH, Massachusetts (ca1790) related to Tyler family. I have done a limited amount of research on him.

WILLIAM BRANSON, Virginia, Missouri, Arkansas (1804-1882) related to Allen family in Arkansas

ABRAHAM BROWN of Vermont related to Tyler family in Medina County, Ohio

MARTHA GORDON (1827), Tenn. and Ark. (1827-) related to Adams, Brewer and Allen family

ANNA MARIE HOFFMAN, Germany, Northampton Co. Pa. related to Kuder family

MARY KIME, Columbia Co., Pa., related to Kuder family

PATRICK MCGREW, Scotland to Pennsylvania (1751-1829) West Virginia McGrew and Trowbridge families

ELIZABETH SHANK, Pennsylvania - related to Frederick family

GEORGE SNIDER (Ca1758) related to Trowbridge family

WILLIAM STANARD, Massachusetts (1803) related to Tyler family

ANN TIBBINS, Pennsylvania related to Frederick family

JOHN WILLIAMS, Stark Co., Ohio (ca1825) related to Tyler family

JAMES WILSON, Tenn., Ala. (ca1780) related to Whitsett family

Ronald N. Wall

Modified: 01 February 2023