Sources Sources
(listings in progress)
Sources specific to a few individuals will be listed with the family the source concerns.
 

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)

Genealogical Abstracts of Revolutionary War Pension File.  Abtracted by Virgil D. White.  The National Historical  Publishing Company.  Waynesboro, TN 1991.
Marriage Bonds of Tryon and Lincoln Counties North Carolina.  by Curtis Bynum.  Southern Historical Press, Easley, SC 1982.

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
 
 

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