By: James Morton Callahan, Pub. 1912, Reprinted 2019, 500 pages, Index, ISBN #0-89308-954-0. Monongahela Valley lies in the northern portion of the state of West Virginia boarding Pennsylvania. The counties of: Marion and Monongalia lie with in its boundaries. Monongalia County was created in 1776 from Augusta County, VA. From it the following counties were created: Barbour, Harrison, Lewis, Marion, Preston, Randolph, Taylor, Tucker and Upshur and they too are represented in these three volumes with Genealogical Skethes of its early settlers: Abbaticchio, Alexander, Alford, Allen, Anthony, Arnet, Arnold, Ashcraft, Baker, Barnes, Barrickman, Batten, Bennett, Bevington, Bico, Bland, Bond, Bowcock, Boydston, Britten, Brock, Buchanan, Burnside, Burton, Butcher, Campbell, Casey, Clayton, Cole, Conway, Cordray, Costello, Cox, Crile, Currey, Danser, Davidson, Dean, Defrost, Dent, Devison, Dille, Douthitt, Downs, Durrin, Eddy, Elliott, Evans, Faris, Ferguson, Fife, Findley (2), Fisher, Fisk, Fletcher, Ford, Francis, Francois, Furbee, Gandy, Garlow, Garrett, Gaskin, Glasscock, Goff (2), Goodwin (2), Gore, Grant, Greene, Griffin, Hall (4), Hanes, Hardesty, Hardy, Harrison (2), Hart, Hartley, Haught, Haymond (2), Heavner, Hennen, Hess, Hiner, Hogg, Holt, Hood, Hornor, Huey, Huston, Hutton, Ice, Jarrett, Jarvis (2), Keener, King, Krebs, Law, Layton, Lazzelle, Leahy, Lewis (2), Lodge, Long, Lorentz, Lowe, Loyd, Lucas, Malloy, Martin (4), Mason, Maxwell (3), McCray, McGraw, McIntire, McKinley, McKone, McLane, McNeil, McReynolds, Miller, Mills, Morfit, Morgan (4), Morris, Morrison, Moore, Neely, Ogden (2), Orr, Parsons, Parrish, Patterson, Pepper, Phillips, Pigott, Pratt, Price, Proudfit, Purinton, Randall, Randolph, Reay, Reed (2), Reeder, Rice, Riedy, Rightmire, Roane, Robinson, Rogers, Ross (2), Rudeheaver, Satterfield, Scott (2), Shaver, Shields, Shinn, Showalter, Shriver, Shuman, Simmons, Simpson, Slater, Sloan, Smalley, Smith (2), Snider, Snyder (2), Sommers, Sperry, Spindler, Stewart (2), Syout, Strother, Sturgiss, Sutherland, Sutton (2), Swager, Swartz, Taylor (3), Tetrick, Trach, Vance, Van Voorhis, Wade, Warder (2), Weaver, Whetsell, White (3), Wiedebusch, Willis, Wilt, Wilson, Withers, Wood, Woodley, Worley, and Yost.