Family
Histories
Billings Families
of North Carolina and Virginia. by Naomi B. Gordon. The Anundsen
Publishing Company, Decoah, Iowa, 1991.
Carpenters A Plenty. by Robert C. Carpenter. Gateway Press Inc, 1982.
The Colonel Frederick Hambright Family. by Bonnie Mauney Summers, 1969.
Descendants of Lt. Col. Frederick Hambright. by W. A. Hambright June 1948.
The Family Tree: Brooks History and Memories. by Sharon Dennison and Kathy Dennison. 2002.
Gladden: Ancestors and Descendants of William McKinley Gladden, Sr. by Wayne Kent Gladden.
Gladden. by Irene Gladden McAbee, 1988.
The Ironmasters Kin: The Genealogy of William and Mark Bird 1621-1985. by Vera N. Hardin. reprinted by Broad River Genealogical Society, July 2000.
Lipscomb Genealogy: Joel Lipscomb's Descendants. by James Wilkes Lipscomb (Vol 1 and 2). DeCamp Publishing Co, 1959.
The Mauney-Mooney Collection. by Neal H. Caskey, Jr. Lincoln Press, Vale NC, 2001.
My Beams and Carpenters. by Harry L. Beam.
My Bird and Kester Family Tree. by Grier Smith Kester, Jr. July 1976.
Scruggs Family Tree. by Doris Scruggs Turner. printed Sept 2001.
Shoe Cobbler's Kin (Vol. 1 and 2)
Stewart Family History.
by Louise Stewart Carpenter
Other
Print Sources
Bulletin of the
Genealogical Society of Old Tryon Co, Inc. (misc)
Cleveland County, NC Land Grants. by Broad River Genealogical Society.
Cleveland and Rutherford Co, NC Confederate Soldiers 1861-1865. by Virginia Greene DePriest 1981.
Deed Abstracts of Tryon, Lincoln, and Rutherford Counties, NC: 1709-1786 and Tryon County, NC Wills and Estates. by Brent Holcomb. Southern Historical Press 1977.
Eswau Huppeday, bulletin of the Broad River Genealogical Society, Inc. (misc)
Minta Ellen Goad Family Bible.
North Carolina Land Grants in South Carolina. by Brent H. Holcomb. Genealogical Publishing Co, Inc. 1986 Baltimore.
Spartanburg County
South Carolina Will Abstracts 1787-1840. by Brent H. Holcomb, 1983.
People
A big thanks to
all the people who were willing to share. A list of some are as follows:
my parents and grandparents
Sharon Dennison
Ethel Shumate
Thelma Spivey
Ed Turner
Audrey Vogel
Online
Sources/Helpful Websites
Cemeteries
of Old Tryon Co. NC and Upper SC also has marriage, census records
**highly
recommended
New
River Notes - Upper New River Valley of NC and VA **highly
recommended
The Social Security
Death Index
The
WIlkey-Wilkie Book