This book traces the Raburn family from John Raban to Audrey Docia Raburn in the states of Virginia, North Carolina, Tennessee, Georgia, and Texas. It contains a short biography of each direct Raburn ancestor including maps, Family Group Sheets, Timelines and Notes. The Notes Section contains transcriptions of all found documents and published information with sources.
This copiously documented volume sheds new light on one of the earliest families to settle in Virginia, that of Captain William Tucker of London, and on a number of allied families whose progenitors figured in the early history of the Virginia and Maryland colonies.
George Smith (ca. 1760-1839) moved about 1790 to ". . . the Cumberland Plateau area of Tennessee where he settled on land that was to become Overton County in 1806, Fentress County in 1823, and Pickett County in 1879."