The Nowlin-Stone Genealogy; A Record of the Descendants of James Nowlin, Who Came to Pittsylvania County, Virginia, from Ireland about 1700; Of Bryan

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1916 edition. Excerpt: ... AUTHOR'S LETTER. My Very Dear Kindred: The delay in bringing forth this work is with deep regret, but many obstacles of a providential nature have interfered, too numerous in detail to relate. Trust you will pardon for keeping you in wait. v We now close our pleasant interview through the medium of the pen, which has been the means of an extensive acquaintance that might not have occurred otherwise. In this I have learned: How many noble lives are never known Save but to one who all their virtues own. Besides aiding me generously in the history, we have had a communion of spirits which has been a continual feast for some time, bringing about many fond recollections of the past events and furnishing them for farther investigation. With many of you I have been personally acquainted, the thought of which I cherish in memory; of others I have formed an estimate through our correspondence and have weighed the result often with an involuntary exclamation, God bless you! and I do thank each and every one of you for your liberal contribution, your responsive effort to sacredly regard the principal that it is based upon and to which this work has been devoted. At times all seemed at slow pace, but your encouraging words have urged me on to greater effort, to seek new avenues for more history, to glean from other sources. But my great aim has been to search out the line, then the family record, with a bit of their history, not only to restore the lost link, but to put forth their lives' work as it is, and while it may appear that I have been overzealous in portraying their lives, yet I felt that they richly deserved all I gave them. It has been the custom heretofore in some instances to drop out the daughters in the geneological history, but in...