Genealogy of Some Early Families in Grant and Pleasant Districts, Preston County, West Virginia

Grant and Pleasant Districts, in Preston County, West Virginia, were formed in 1852. The early families of Grant and Pleasant Districts, like their Maryland and Pennsylvania neighbors, were among the first to endure the rigors of mountain life. The genealogy of some of these families--Christopher, Connor, Cunningham, King, Metheny, Ryan, Street, Thorpe, Walls, Wheeler, and Wolf, those mostly of early 19th-century provenance--is the basis of this book.King, Edward T. is the author of 'Genealogy of Some Early Families in Grant and Pleasant Districts, Preston County, West Virginia ', published 1977 under ISBN 9780806307619 and ISBN 0806307617.