Books by "John Edward Powell"
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Biographical and Historical Souvenir for the Counties of Clark, Crawford, Harrison, Floyd, Jefferson, Jennings, Scott and Washington, Indiana by John M. Gresham Company, first published in 1889, is a rare manuscript, the original residing in one of the great libraries of the world. This book is a reproduction of that original, which has been scanned and cleaned by state-of-the-art publishing tools for better readability and enhanced appreciation. Restoration Editors' mission is to bring long out of print manuscripts back to life. Some smudges, annotations or unclear text may still exist, due to permanent damage to the original work. We believe the literary significance of the text justifies offering this reproduction, allowing a new generation to appreciate it.
Andreas Garr (born 1685), son of John and Elizabeth Gar, married Eve Seidelmann in 1711, and emigrated from Bavaria, Germany to Orange County, Virginia in 1732. Descendants (chiefly spelling the surname Garr, with some spelling it Gaar) lived in Virginia, Mississippi, Kentucky, Indiana, Illinois, Iowa, Missouri, Kansas, Texas, and elsewhere. Includes some genealogy of ancestry in Germany.