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This book is an accounting of activities of 47 surname families with common backgrounds and community interests, who lived as closely integrated neighbors from the late 1700s. Over the period 1858-98, descendants of these families participated in coordinated westward migrations from Rockingham County, Virginia to Ray and Carroll Counties, Missouri, some with interim stops in Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois. Limited information is presented on 19 other surname families that associated with the 47 basic families.

The 47 family surnames are as follows: Armentrout, Baker, Beery, Bowman-Brethren, Bowman-Lutheran, Brock, Brown, Brunk, Clemens, Dove, Early, Fifer, Fitzwater, Halterman, Harper, Hawkins, Heavner, Hogan, Hoover, Horn, Huffman, Kirkpatrick, Koontz, Kratzer, Layman, Mason, Miller, Minnick, Myers/Moyers, Neff, Newham, Rader, Rhodes, Roadcap, Rust, Sandy, Shank, Shirkey, Showalter, Spitzer, Sprinkle, Stratton, Summers, Trissell, Van Pelt, Van Trump, and Zigler. The names of the 19 other surname families are Branner, Brenneman, Cunningham, Loker, Mayden, Mitchell, Turner, Walker, Weaver, Welch, Bright, Coffman, Fry, Good, Lindamood, Painter, Rife, Ritchie, and Yount.