These volumes (Volumes I and II) are companion works of the previously published Vonore: Yesterday and Today. This earlier work provided a continuing history of the Vonore area from the earliest explorations to the present era, As such; it presented a panorama of events shaping the area from a cultural, economic and business standpoint. But these events required actual living persons as participants. These later volumes, entitled Vonore Families: Yesterday and Today (A - Mc) and Vonore Families: Yesterday and Today (Mi - Z), provide a documentation of the persons and families living through these times. These later works stand on their own as individual genealogies of the families of the Vonore area throughout the years with many families traced back to their English, German, Scottish, Irish, French, or other ancestral roots. Some families are recorded as extending back to Native American or Cherokee heritage.

Each family, indeed each person, is worthy of a written history all of their own, but time and space preclude such a presentation. These books do attempt to record the individual genealogies, and in some cases, a history of the family names or short stories carried down through the years about the colorful personages who have graced the scene in this area often referred to as God's Country. When available, pictures of individuals and families are included. As such, this text with its rich pictorial documentation should be useful to genealogical and historical researchers. But primarily, it is hoped that these volumes will prove to be treasured family heirlooms of the individual families, and, as such, create a pride in family, which is fast fading from the nation's consciousness.

The list below provides families in alphabetical order as presented in this Volume II. In some cases, the given name of the oldest member of the family that we had in our research is provided. Volume II also contains family genealogies and articles submitted too late to be included in proper alphabetical order in Volume I and have, thus, been included in this Volume II.

These are Vonore Families of yesterday and living descendants of today.

McLendon, Medad
Miller, Lewis
Milligan, Jos Washington
Mills, Aaron
Millsaps, William
Moree, Henry
Morrow-Cunningham Family
Moser, Leonard
Mullins, Asa
Mullins, Zadock
Niles, John
Patterson, Littleberry
Patton, William
Peeler, Rev. Joseph
Rasar, John
Rasar, Peter
Reagan, Jeremiah
Reeds
Rhea, Thomas
Rogers-Giles
Schaffer, William
Self Family
Sharp, John
Shields Family
Shirk, James
Sloan, Archibald
Snider, George, Rev.
Snider, Michael
Starritt, David
Steed, Thomas
Steele, John
Stewart, Noah
Summey, Mike
Sutton Family
Swabe, Charles
Tallent, Thomas
Taylor, James
Thomas, Aaron
Thomas, John
Thompson, David C.
Tipton & Johnson Family
Toomey, Patrick
Torbett, William
Townsend, William
Vincil, John
Ward Family
Watson, Robert D.
Wayman, John
Webb, William
Welch, Thomas
Wells, Isaac
West, G.V.
West, Joseph
White, Berry
White, Issaac
White, James
Wiggins, Elizah
Williams, William
Wolfe, Jacob
Wooldridge, John

The list below provides those families and articles submitted too late to be included in proper alphabetical order in Volume I and have been included in this Volume II.

Bingham, Benjamin
Blackman, Luther
Cochran, Robert L.
Cook, Jacob
Cook, James
Donohoo, Captain Henry
French, Peter
Hall, James
Hicks, Zacheus
Howard, George
Howard, Matthew
Jones, Charles
Kennedy, Andrew
Kirkland, Madison
Steed Family
Lowery, John
Moser, Leonard
Donohoo, Charles
Summitt, Johanne Frantz
Chambers, Thomas
White, Richard Jasper
Barr, Adam

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