
Pathway: A Family History
A Pleasant Places Project from biographiks
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Preface
1: Rulers of Ireland 2: Publicans to Preachers
3: Gone to Texas
4: West Virginia Home
5: The Swedish Connection
6: Next Stop: Katy, Texas
7: Ruth and Rex
8: Sinners in Salem 9: Yankees Go South
10: Wandering Irish 11: Among the Cajuns 12: Pennsylvania Scotch 13: End of Plantations 14: From Dukes to Doctors
15: Lutherans on the Farm 16: Elva Meets Alpheus
Pathway: Family History Maps
These topographic maps show you where each branch of the family once lived. Most are scaled to 1:100,000. At TopoZone, you can zoom in to 1:25,000 (recommended), reposition the map, view a larger area, or search for another location as you please. Clicking on the links below will open a new browser window.
Other mapping resources: MapQuest Terraserver
- Stephens City, VA: home of the first 18th century McGinnis immigrants
- Guyandotte, Huntington, WV: settled by McGinnises about 1810, birthplace of David Allen McGinnis
- Mole Hill/Mountain, WV: home of David Allen McGinnis and the Marshes
- Marietta OH/Williamstown, WV
birthplace of Polly Houghland across the river from her school
- Boggy Branch, Fayette County, TX: the McGinnis families came to this county from West Virginia
- McGinnis Cemetery, Liberty County, TX: Polly McGinnis and her sons later moved to Liberty County
- Antioch Cemetery, Fairburn, GA: founded by John Kidd
- Warrior Creek Cemetery, Laurens, SC, where Edward Garrett is buried
- Rico, Fulton County, GA, where Isaac Garrett is buried
- Palmetto, Fulton County, GA, birthplace of Alexander Stephens Garrett
- Springtown, Parker County, TX: home of Dr. Alexander Stephens Garrett
- Weatherford, TX: birthplace of James Alpheus Garrett
- New Ulm & Frelsburg, TX: home of Christoph Ashorn
- Wesley, TX: closest town to Edmund Ashorn's farm
- Welcome & Bleiberville, TX: other important Ashorn locations
- Nourse Homestead, Danvers, MA, owned by Francis and Rebecca Nourse
- Andover, MA: home of Francis Dane and Abigail Faulkner
- Merrimack, NH: home of Cornelius Tarbell
- Perry, LA: founded by Robert Perry, home of O'Bryans
- Opelousas, LA, associated with Christopher O'Bryan and Robert Perry
- Abbeville, LA: birthplace of Ruth O'Bryan McGinnis
- Bayou Chicot, LA, where Robert Perry owned a tavern and store
- Grand Coteau, LA: location of the Catholic school which Daniel O'Bryan's children attended
- New Iberia, LA, laid out by Thomas Berwick
- Berwick, LA: named after Thomas Berwick
- Morgan City, LA: founded by Christopher O'Bryan, home of Thomas Berwick
- Apalachicola, FL: home of Hiram Langdon Nourse, Sr.
- Port Bolivar, TX: home of George O'Bryan
- Cobleskill, NY, home of Bartholomew Anthony after the American Revolution
- Site of White Hall Coffee House, New Orleans, LA, owned by Jacob Haner and site of his death
- Widow Perry's Ferry, Newport, KY, operated by Mary McGrew
- Dillsburg, PA, home of the McGrews
- Huntingdon Township, PA, where John McGrew once owned land
- Rattlesnake Hill, Adams County, PA, also owned by John McGrew
- Red Clay Creek, New Castle, DE, site of William Bracken's land grant
- Barlow, OH: home of Cornelius Hoagland
- "Fort Christina"/Wilmington, Delaware, New Sweden home of Johan Stalcop
- Caudy's Castle, Hampshire County, WV, named for James Caudy
- Tollgate, Ritchie County, WV: home of the Marshes
- White Oak, Ritchie County, WV
, a Seventh Day Baptist center
- Berea, Ritchie County, WV, home of the Amoses and other Seventh Day Baptists
- Indian Creek, Monongalia County, WV, site of Henry Amos's blockhouse
- Cow Marsh Creek, Kent, DE, home of the Merediths
- Little Paw Paw Creek, now Marion County, WV, where David Meredith and Nancy Pritchard farmed
- Katy, TX, home of McGinnises
- Seven Oaks, Katy, TX, built by Rex McGinnis
- Clodine, TX, where E.M. McGinnis once farmed
- Bear Lake, CO, where James Alpheus Garret served as a camp counselor
- Houston, TX, home of James and Gloria Garrett and children
- Memorial Elementary School, Houston, TX, where the older Garrett children attended
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Narratives are taken from Pathway: A Family History, and may be freely distributed for non-commercial purposes.
© 1996-2004, Michael McGinnis, Bryan, TX
