Early Settlers of Alabama

by James Edmonds Saunders

1899

By: James E. Saunders, Pub. 1899, Reprinted 2015, 556 pages, Index, ISBN #0-89308-061-6. This excellent book on the history of northern Alabama and most especially of Lawrence County is a MUST. The volume is in two parts, part one being "Recollections of the Early Settlers of North Alabama ", written by Col. Saunders. This part contains a brief history of Lawrence County, AL. and the Tennessee River Valley, sketches of many early families and personalities of the area and their origins as well as Col. Saunders writings on the Civil War. Part two, "Notes and Genealogies", was compilied by Mrs. Elizabeth Saunders Blair Stubbs, a granddaughter of Col. Saunders. The genealogies cover not only families in Northern Alabama but in other areas of the state, and also other states as well, giving much detail and family origins in this country and abroud. Among the families covered are: Banks, Bankhead, Bibbs, Billups, Blair, Cantzon, Clark, Clay, Coleman, Cox, DuBose, Dudley, Dunn, Eliott, Flint, Foster, Fry, Gholson, Goode, Gray, Harris, Hill, Hopkins, Kennedy, Lanier, Ligon, Lowe, Maclin, Manning, Maury, McCarthy, McGehee, Moore, Oliver, O'Neal, Phelan, Poellnitz, Ray, Richardson, Saunders, Shelton, Sherrod, Shorter, Speed, Swoope, Tait, Taliaferro, Thompson, Tillman, Urquhart, Walthall, Waykins, Webb, Weeden, Wells, White, Withers, Yates, and Young

Genealogy of the Moyer Family

by Abraham James Fretz

1909

Christian Meyer, a Mennonite, was probably born in Switzerland. He immigrated, via Amsterdam, about 1700 or later to Philadelphia, and settled on Indian Creek, Montogmery County, Pennsylvania. Descendants and relatives lived in Pennsylvania, North Dakota, Michigan, Oregon, Virginia, Missouri, Kansas, Iowa, Wisconsin, Illinois, Nebraska, Canada and elsewhere.

Genealogy of the Greenleaf Family

by James Edward Greenleaf

1896

Edmund Greenleaf was born in Ipswich, Suffolk, England, in 1574, the son of John and Margaret Greenleaf. He and his wife, Sarah Dole, had nine children, ca. 1613-1631, all born in England. He was one of the first settlers at Newbury, Massachusetts, in 1635. He moved to Boston ca. 1650 and died there in 1671. Descendants listed lived in Massachusetts, New York, Illinois, and elsewhere throughout the United States. Record chiefly follows the lines of those who have the Greenleaf surname.