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Send orders to: Bruce H. Cantrell, 46 Patton Drive, Newport News, VA 23606-1748. The price of the book includes postage and handling.

The book contains some history and origin of the name, the family's fore-fathers in America, and its ancestral line from Richard Cantrell (1689) to Henry. Henry was the father of James Talton. Chapter I starts with James Talton Cantrell and contains the lineage of 2,286 descendants in eight generations.

The major allied family names are as follows: Bishop, Blackwell, Bland, Carswell, Dedmond, Fowler, Greer, Hall, Henderson, Horton, Jones, Kimbrell, Marsh, McSwain, Miller, Mosley, Parris, Price, Putnan, Scruggs, Smith, Turner, Wall, and Whisenant.