Source:Starnes and Starnes, 2006

Bibliographic Citation

Starnes, H. Gerald and Herman Starnes, 2006. Of Them That Left a Name Behind: A History of the Starnes Family

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From:Heritage Books

Of Them That Left a Name Behind: A History of the Starnes Family - H. Gerald Starnes and Herman Starnes. This volume traces the family immigration route from Alzey (a small village in Germany), to Holland, to London, to New York; from upstate NY to VA, then to NC, SC, KY, TN and LA. It encompasses their participation in the making of American Frontier history on several fronts: early wilderness settlement; Indian fighting; and militia service in the French & Indian, Revolutionary, and 1812 wars. Were they fiction, the true documented adventures of some of our ancestors would make them heroes in any early American historical novel. Over 200 maps and photographs show where our Starnes/Starns ancestors lived, farmed, fought, died and are buried from the Hudson valleys in NY to the Holston and Clinch in VA; the Kentucky River, Cane Creek in NC; Lee and Nolichucky valleys in TN; and the Tickfaw in LA. Numerous lines and branches are presented in the extensive genealogical listings. This writing makes available an enlightening, entertaining narrative with supporting genetic lineages of this extremely colorful old family in the annals of American history. The detailed historical account and genealogical data contained in this compilation will allow most Stanes/Starns descendents to trace their individual line of ancestry. Appendices address the unrelated English Stearns/Starns line and the apparently related early family of Charles Starnes in SC. The probabilities of direct immigration to VA and NC from Europe are also discussed, as is that via PA. Unable to make the NY Palatine connection, earlier searchers surmised that the old Virginia Starnes family of German descent must have come directly from Germany or Penn. (2002), 2006, 5½x8½, cloth, index, 814 pp. $75.00 S2141 ISBN: 0788421417