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This edition of Gateway to the West has been excerpted from the original numbers, consolidated, and reprinted in two volumes, with added Publisher's Note, Tables of Contents, and indexes, by Genealogical Publishing Co., SInc., Baltimore, MD.
Rohrer families of Maryland, Kentucky, Pennsylvania and elsewhere. Jacob Rohrer died 1758 in Hagerstown, Maryland. His wife's name was Feronica. They had two children: Jacob (b. 1744) and Barbary. Jacob's brother, Frederick Rohrer (b. ca. 1705), immigrated to Ameri- ca from Alsace ca. 1729. He settled in Pennsylvania in later years. He had one son, Samuel, who was born ca. 1730-1740 in Pleasant Valley, Md. He died in 1788.
Lively and interesting bios of some of the founding fathers and mothers of the town of Weston, Mo., who were buried in Laurel Hill Cemetery.
During the 1600s and 1700s, many settlers immigrated to the Valley of Virginia. These people settled in the Rockbridge and Augusta counties of Virginia. Many were English, Irish, Scots, Germans and others. This book contains 16 of the lines that settled the area. These lines consist of; Patterson, Brooks, Moran, Fitzgerald, Humphries, Drawbond, Cash, Lunsford and many, many more. So, if you are searching for lost ancestors in the Valley of Virginia, they may be here. Happy researching.
Covers receipts and expenditures of appropriations and other funds.
They came from city and countryside and many walks of life. Some were drafted, many enlisted, but the 47 veterans who are profiled in this book, wherever they served and whatever they went on to after their military service, have one noteworthy element in common: they were patriots who put their lives on the line when needed and gave their support in World War II, the Korean War and the Vietnam War. They helped make history, and a future for us all.