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Bird from Virginia to Kentucky

A brief family history of the Bird family from Shenandoah County, Virginia to Kentucky is available to members of Kentucky Pioneers

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A brief family history of the Funk family from Shenandoah County, Virginia to Clark County, Kentucky is available to members of Kentucky Pioneers

Calmes

A genealogy of the Calmes family including General Marquis Calmes is available to members of Kentucky Pioneers

Bowman

A brief family history of the Bowman family from Shenandoah County, Virginia to Kentucky is available to members of Kentucky Pioneers

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For Sale: 1892 Book of Benjamin Harrison, President of USA

Life and Public Services of Hon. Benjamin Harrison, President of the United States by Gen. Lew Wallace and Hon. Murat Halstead, published in 1892 by Edgewood Publishing Co.; richly illustrated with photographs.  Hardbound, 5x7,  422 pp.  This book is quite fragile due to its age; the spine somewhat loose. A very interesting account of the Harrison lineage which includes personal information. - $15.00

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Callaway of Boonesboro

Richard Callaway of Virginia helped Daniel Boone to settle the fort at Boonesboro. Unfortunately while erecting a ferry, he was scalped by Indians; his body was taken to the fort where it was buried.  Left: The Peaks of Otter in the Blue Ridge Mountains. Richard Callaway's home was near the bottom.

A genealogy is available to members of Kentucky Pioneers and includes photographs and a movie of the old reconstructed Boonesboro Fort.

Used History Books for Sale

Economic History of Virginia in the Seventeenth Century by Philip Alexander Bruce Volume II (1935), hardbound, 647 pp., good condition - $30.00

199 Years of Augusta's Library (Georgia), A Chronology by Berry Fleming (1949, University of Georgia Press, hardbound, 85 pp. - $9.00

The Army of the Potomac: A Stillness at Appomattox by Bruce Catton, Doubleday and Company (1953), hardbound, jacket, 438 pp. - $20.00

Antebellum Athens and Clarke County Georgia by Ernest Hynds, hardbound, jacket, 196 pp., University of Georgia Press (1974) - 18.00

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Used Genealogy Books for Sale

The following genealogy and history books (used) are for sale: (Price includes S/H in USA)
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The Diary of Emma LeConte, hardbound, 5x7, 124 pp., kept during the last months of the Confederacy.  Exciting - $10.00

War So Terrible. Sherman and Atlanta by James Lee McDonough and James Pickett Jones, hardbound, jacket, like new. (1987), 385 pp. - $22.00

Post of Honor. The Pryor Letters, 1861-63 by Charles R. Adams (signed by the author). A story of the Pryor family and Capt. S. G. Pryor, commander of the 1st Battn. of Sharpshooters (1863, near Fredericksburg), hardbound, 456 pp.  - $15.00

Cherokee Removal, 7x9, paperbound, by William L. Anderson, 157 pp., like new. - $15.00

1833 Land Lottery of Georgia and Other Missing Names of Winners, paperbound, 5x7, 67 pp., indexed. - $8.00

Historical Account of Meriwether County (Georgia) 1827-1924 by Regina Pinkston, hardbound, indexed, 448 pages - $30.00

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