With ancestral surnames that date to the first millennium A.D. in England and the Colonial era in the U.S.A., these Eads and Tipton families have been emigrating from the earliest times. Their tales of travel include a heroic knight in a Welsh forest, a kidnapped boy sold into servitude who became a plantation owner in Jamaica, farmers who emigrated from Maryland and North Carolina west to Ohio and Tennessee, and homesteaders in Illinois and Missouri with land grants from the government. Other interesting stories include a link to the Jesse James Gang and a U.S. President, and war veterans from the Civil War to WWII. Biographies of fifteen turn-of-the-century babies (born around 1900) and four Tipton siblings (born in the early 20th century just before the Great Depression) complete this saga of American life as it unfolded over the centuries.Photographs, maps, documents, and a Proper Name Index will aid the genealogical researcher in finding their own roots. Also included are Ancestors and Descendants charts with numerous surnames, including: Allen, Atnip, Barker, Barrett, Bennett, Bishop, Campbell, Canning, Chiles, Coffel, Collins, Croney, Dees, Eads, Gentry, Hache, Harden, Heath, Johnson, Jones, Leach, London, Long, Machen, Masters, Meador, Miller, Montgomery, Neece, Rainwater, Smith, Sutton, Tipton, Vannoy, Ward, White, Wright, and many others.
About the Author: Reared in St. Louis, Missouri, Mary Linda Miller graduated summa cum laude with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Maryville University in 1978; worked for twenty-five years doing design, drafting, and technical writing in the fields of civil engineering and architecture while living in St. Louis, Phoenix, and Kaneohe, Hawaii; and traveled extensively in the United States, Western Europe, and Japan. She currently resides in Orlando, Florida with her husband of over thirty years Carmelo L. Monti, AIA and works as an independent author and small press publisher. Her writing, a mix of technical and creative, includes a novel "Liminality: The Fox Woman's Child"; a children's early chapter book "Terry Trackhoe Goes Missing" that was illustrated by husband Carmelo Monti; poetry found in anthologies; a technical manual for interpreting American with Disabilities Act Design Standards for the Hawaiian State Commission on Persons with Disabilities; a technical manual for corporate civil engineering AutoCAD drafting standards written in Phoenix; and five other self-published books of genealogy and family history. She also participated with a group of online writers and poets in producing three anthologies of poetry and short stories. Works in progress include an unfinished sequel "Terry Trackhoe Goes Swimming"; an illustrated book of cartoons "Is Your Mind Like Your Hair" drawn by Carmelo L. Monti, AIA; and an unfinished novel that combines the Hawaiian mythological romance of Laieikawai with a modern event-Hurricane Iniki-that she experienced first-hand while living on Oahu. Hurricane Charley, which ripped through Orlando in 2004, reinforced that experience, and every hurricane season in Florida reminds her that she still has a story to tell.