1. Legacy of Homes and Families Princeton-Athens Area, West Virginia A history of the towns through its prominent early families and the homes they built. 1985, 132 pages, indexed, with maps, photos and illustrations. Walsworth Publishing, Marceline, MO. Reprint.
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2. Lilly on the Bluestone (Third Edition, Enlarged) The story of the first two generations of the Lilly-Meador(ows) family settlement on the Bluestone-Pack, Farley and Neely connections in Flat Top-Bluestone hill country. 1989, 100 pages, indexed, with illustrations, photos and cemetery map. (Revised 1997.) McClain Printing Company, Parsons, WV.
Price: $15.90 ($15 plus .90 tax)3. A New River Heritage, Volume I. Exploration and first settlements along the River from George Pearis' settlement at Pearisburg to Island Creek, with accounts of Indians, families, slaves, marriages and cemeteries. 1992, 298 pages, with index of family cemeteries, maps, photos and illustrations. McClain Printing Company, Parsons, WV.
Price: $31.80 ($30 plus $1.80 tax)4. A New River Heritage, Volume II. The story of River settlement continued from Island Creek and Lick Creek and Crumps Bottom through the Pipestem area, Old Farley community and related families and cemeteries. 1992, 400 pages, with index of family cemeteries, maps, photos and illustrations. McClain Printing Company, Parsons, WV
Price: $37.10 ($35 plus $2.10 tax)5. A New River Heritage, Volume III. Details settlement along the River at Hinton, Madam's Creek and Jumping Branch, including Pack's Ferry and the creation of Summers County. Lists all cemeteries of the first 200 families which were moved when the Bluestone Dam was constructed. Also contains name index for the first three A New River Heritage volumes. 1994, 332 pages, with index of cemeteries, maps, photos and illustrations. McClain Printing Company, Parsons, WV
Price: $31.80 ($30 plus $1.80 tax)6. A New River Heritage, Volume IV. Flat Top, Camp Creek and Bluestone settlements off the New River, including selected stories of the late Barty Wyatt, with an account of the early life of U.S. Senator Robert C. Byrd, as well as the Bailey-Davidson Bluestone headwater settlement. 1994, 429 pages, with name index, maps, photos and illustrations. McClain Printing Company, Parsons, WV.
Price: $37.10 ($35.00 plus $2.10 tax)7. Early Princeton and the Episcopal Church Early Princeton and the political battles with Athens and Bluefield over the seat of Mercer County Courthouse, and the origin of first churches. 1993, 87 pages, indexed, with maps, photos and reproduced original records. McClain Printing Company, Parsons, WV.
Price: $15.90 ($15 plus .90 tax)
8. On the Skirmish Line Autobiography, from 1917 to present. Early childhood in Princeton, college years, Marine Corps World War II service fighting the Japanese in the South Pacific, General Staff service of the Occupation Government in Berlin, early Law practice in West Virginia, family life, Civil Rights, environmental concerns, as well as accounts of interesting cases and reflections upon the practice of Law based upon a life in court litigation of both criminal and civil cases throughout southern West Virginia and Virginia. A story of Kind Providence prevailing throughout. 1997, 300 pages, with maps, photos and illustrations. McClain Printing Company, Parsons, WV.
Price: $26.50 ($25.00 plus $1.50 tax)9. A Fairfax County Hard Times Heritage 1872 Story of the author's line of descent from 1706 in Fairfax County, Virginia with emphasis on the year 1872 farming the Potomac River Bottom, and the organization of several Methodist churches in Fairfax County, Virginia. 1998, 100 pages (private, limited edition) Sandrine Publishing Company, Princeton, WV. NOT IN PRINT AS OF YET.
10. Pioneer Church in Mercer County, West Virginia 1840-1915 Story of the Baptist Church from England to Philadelphia, eastern Virginia and over the mountains to West Virginia. This includes the splitting of churches and their associations with gradual evolution to paying preachers and missions in all forms. Pastors, leaders and their hardships described, together with the background story of the first founding member families in the Bluestone-Flat Top Mountain area congregating at Princeton, West Virginia. 1998, 133 pages with photos and early membership lists. McClain Printing Company, Parsons, WV
Price: $15.90 ($15.00 plus .90 tax)11. Clay Family Settlement On the Bluestone River Story of the first White settlement of the Bluestone River Valley in southern West Virginia, showing the migration of the eastern Virginia families of Clay, Farley, Shrewsbury, Belcher and Bailey to claim this area from both the British and the Shawnee Indians. Descendants of these intermarried families constituted the majority of the citizenry of southern West Virginia today. The Clay-Pearis and related family original settlement site and hillside cemetery where three of the children were massacred in 1783 is being preserved as a historic memorial park overlooking the Bluestone Clover Bottom settlement tract. The book researches the persistent burial of Clay-Pearls descendants at this site where the murdered Clay children were buried. 1999, 175 pages, with index, maps, photos and illustrations. McClain Printing Company, Parsons, WV
Price: $19.08 ($18.00 plus $1.08 tax)
