Descendants of Lewis Throckmorton (1769/70-ca. 1857), son of Lewis Throckmorton and Rachel Dumas. He was born in Hampshire, Virginia, and died in Ohio. He married Drusilla Hartley (1774-1870) in about 1794. She was born in Hampshire, Maryland, and died in Sunfish, Pike County, Ohio. They had thirteen children born in Virginia, Ohio, New York, Pennsylvania and Kentucky. Descendants live in Ohio, Nebraska, Arkansas, Utah and elsewhere. Contains descendancy chart and family group records. Includes Crabtree and related families.
(From the introduction) The material for Vinton County and Its Families was compiled over a period of many years. The information included is principally from 1850, the date of the establishment of the county, to the near present time (1996).
The beautifully and expensively produced volume is a painstaking record of the family of Frist, the U.S. Senate's majority leader and a heart surgeon from Tennessee. Clearly a labor of love for Frist and his co-author, a longtime genealogist, the work is not in any sense a biography or political memoir, but rather is a straightforward tracing of Fr