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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.
William Renshaw emigrated in 1620 from England to Northampton County, Virginia, later moving to Norfolk County, Virginia. John Renshaw (probably a descendant) married Frances Clark about 1688, and lived in Somerset County, Maryland. Descendants lived in Maryland, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Tennessee, Kentucky, Indiana, Illinois, Kansas, Colorado, California and elsewhere.
This ten-year supplement lists 10,000 titles acquired by the Library of Congress since 1976--this extraordinary number reflecting the phenomenal growth of interest in genealogy since the publication of Roots. An index of secondary names contains about 8,500 entries, and a geographical index lists family locations when mentioned.
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Taken from the safety of her family out of the Fort Nashborough area of the western portion of the North Carolina territory by Native Americans looking for scalps for the British and for white slaves for themselves, Mary Neely never gives up on the idea of returning to her family. This story is based on the true history of Mary Neely, captured by Native Americans after having witnessed the murder of her father, and her courageous journey home.--Source other than Library of Congress.