Vardy Community History Museum

Resources

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Featured Titles

  • Branham and Eliza Louisa Collins Williams and Children
  • Shelby and Louella Collins Williams and Children
  • Alfred and Elizabeth Betsy Mullins and Children
  • Vardy and Margaret Peggy Gibson and Children
  • Alfred Goins, 1st wife Hannah Gibson, 2nd wife Malvina Viney Johnson, and children
  • William Simeon Bell, Caroline Gibson Lawson, Anthony Moore & the Bell and Moore Bell Children
  • The ANCESTORS – (Gibson Families) In Colonial Virginia By: Jim Hall
  • Tribute to: Mormon Lawson Jr. – Written by: John Richard Mitchell Davis
  • The Moore Family – All Other Free Persons. By: Jim Hall
  • Tennessee Melungeons Migrated to Floyd Co. Kentucky – Article published in the Kentucky Explorer in 2008. By: Carl David Collins
  • William Will Kell Collins 1873-1937 Family and documents
  • The Gibson Spurlock Feud and info on Patton Gibson and his lines. Included in booklet is an article by Pat Spurlock, and newspaper articles.
  • William Henry Barner’s Civil War Diary
  • Benjamin “Old Ben” Collins and Children
  • James Trent Alder, 1868 – 1944, and Descendants.
  • Patriot Andrew and Matilda Collins Gibson and children.
  • Rw Solomon Collins 1760 – 1838 of Co. VA/WV. NOT the father of Solomon D Collins 1793
  • Benjamin Collins, aka Old Ben, Lawsuit, naming his children. Paperwork prepared by: Pat Spurlock 2015
  • History of the Mullins family of Newman’s Ridge – Descendancy of “Irish” Jim Mullins, of Newman’s Ridge, Hancock Co., TN By: Kevin Mullins
  • John Mullins Sr. and Mahala Collins Mullins and children
  • Lawsuit over Benjamin “Old Ben” Collins land. By: Pat Spurlock Old Ben’s children were named in the TN SC docket
  • Solomon D & Virginia Jane Gincy Goins Collins, and their children and families.
  • Alexander Goins Family tree
  • Vardy Collins and other families of Newman’s Ridge, By: Kevin Mullins (Kevin’s research is ongoing and he would like to hear from anyone with Newman’s Ridge Connections) klmullins_2000@yahoo.com Updated July 3, 2009.
  • Alexander Goins Family of Newman’s Ridge Hancock County, Tennessee – Compiled by: Johnnie Clyde (Gibson) Rhea Sneedville, Tennessee, 1999
  • Seale Family Tree – William and Nanny Seale 1730 – 1965, Researched By: Alton Lee Greene (Books 1-4)

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