Our Kin - The Genealogies of Some of the Early Families Who Made History in the Founding and Development of Bedford County, Virginia

By: Mary D. Ackerly and Lula Eastman J Parker, Pub. 1930, reprinted 2023, 840 pages, soft cover, Index, ISBN #978-1-63914-147-0. This book begins with a short history of Bedford County, Virginia, which was created from Lunenburg County in 1753. This is followed by a section on Revolutionary Soldiers of Bedford County. The next 780 pages are genealogies of the following surnames: Ackerly, Bell, Beverley, Board, Bolling, Bond, Boone, Buford, Callaway, Chilton, Clark, Clayton, Davis (2), Dickerson, Douglas, Ficklen, Finley, Gilmer, Gist, Goggin, Gwatkin, Hamilton, Hatcher, Hawkins, Hobson, Jennings, Jetters (12), Johnson, Jopling, Jordan, Key, Lavell, Longwood, Lowrey, Martin, Mays, Meade, Moorman, Moulton, Otey, Parker, Penn, Phelps, Phillippe, Pocahontas-Wigginton, Poindexter, Reese, Robertson, Robinson, Rolfe, Rucker, Sagendorf, Slaughter, Sledd, Smith, Snead, Snow, Spinner-Burks, Stone, Talbot, Thompson, Turpin, Vaughan, Walker, Wharton, White, and Wright.