My Direct Lines

This section covers seven generations of my direct ancestral lines, from about 1730 to about 1920, as they moved from VA to TN, then to Barren / Hart Co., KY, and into Knox and Henry Co., IL, and finally into western KS & central MO. Although many of my father's generation, born 1920s to 1940s, remain in MO or KS, as with nearly all families in this century, the age of train and air travel has caused later generations to be spread across the USA, and as far as the Philippines.

This section also includes information about many related families of those times. The information in this section has been determined to be solidly documented fact. It is drawn primarily from early land, military and other Colonial America records, US Census records from 1800 to date, court records, church records, family letters and from the earlier primary research done by Josephine Goodman Routh and others.