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The Bottom Line
Thomas Bottom, son of John Bottom and Elizabeth, was born in about 1708 in Henrico County, Virginia. He married Rebecca Wilkerson and Unity Alford. He was the father of eleven children. He died in 1789. Descendants and relatives lived mainly in Virginia and Kentucky.
Searching for God
The authors of Searching for God: Study Partners Explore Contemporary Jewish Texts introduce “self-directed hevruta,” a novel twist on the traditional Jewish path of in-depth learning with a study partner. Together, they choose the most challenging topic of all, searching for God, and explore five contemporary Jewish texts that present several approaches: mysticism, rationalism, nontraditional Judaism, metaphors from science, and character development. These spiritual seekers are lay-people. Joan Burstyn is an historian and poet; Gershon Vincow is a scientist and community leader. They study, discuss, teach each other, and draw conclusions. The result of this study partnership is a trans...
Taking Flight
In October 1944 Nadine Ramsey was thirty-three and she was flying the cutting-edge P-51 Mustang to New Jersey, its last stop before heading to the war in Europe. The irrepressible young woman from Wichita had long been determined to fly and the gathering storm clouds of World War II had provided an unexpected opportunity. Taking Flight is the inspiring story of a girl from Depression-era Kansas who overcame tremendous challenges and defied convention to become an elite pilot—one of the few American women to fly fighter aircraft during World War II. Taking Flight follows Nadine as she became one of 1,102 women to join the Women’s Airforce Service Pilots and one of only 303 WASPs to take t...
The Ramseys at Swan Pond
The Ramsey House was built in 1797 for Col. Francis Alexander Ramsey, a prominent early settler of East Tennessee who, along with his two sons J. G. M. Ramsey and William B. A. Ramsey, shaped the physical and cultural landscape of what would become Knox county and Knoxville, Tennessee. The one-hundred-acre homestead, referred to by Colonel Ramsey as Swan Pond, contained the Ramsey home as well as other outbuildings and slave quarters. In 1952, the Association for the Preservation of Tennessee purchased the tract of land, and the Ramsey House is now listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Charles H. Faulkner began archaeological investigations at the Ramsey House in 1985 and concl...
Pioneer Profiles
Thomas Powell was probably born in England in about 1600. He emigrated and settled in Virginia. His son, Nathaniel, married Lucretia and they had six known children. Descendant, Samuel Powell (1791-1870), married Jane Sargent, daughter of Abraham Sarjeant and Elizabeth Dove, in about 1817 in Greene County, Tennessee. They had seven children. Descendants and relatives lived mainly in Virginia, Kentucky, Tennessee, Arkansas, Missouri and Oklahoma.
Powell History
John A. Powell (1807-1880), Noah Powell (1808-1875) and Alfred Powell (1810-1881), brothers, three of the sons of Joseph Powell and Sarah Alkire, moved from Ohio to Illinois in 1825, and in 1851 they moved to the Willamette Valley of Oregon. Descendants lived in Oregon, California, Washington, Idaho and elsewhere. Ancestors lived in Ohio, Virginia and elsewhere.
Lineage Book
Includes inclusive "Errata for the Linage book."
