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Recusant
(Hardcover)
Alfred J. Dillon
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R896
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Gone, but not Forgotten refers to the author's maternal lineage:
the Ankrom family. She traveled far and wide to courthouses,
cemeteries, and libraries, gathering family information. This book
goes through the tenth generation of the Ankrom family, going back
into the 1700's, when Richard and Elizabeth Ankrom were living in
Frederick County, Maryland.
Riding the white horse her father gave her as a wedding present,
Priscilla and her husband, Samuel Rugg, came to the Turkeyfoot
Valley in Somerset County, PA. The year is 1789 and she immediately
becomes a person of suspicion to the early German settlers. They
tag her as Hex Berge, or witch of the hills. The legend lives on.
Move ahead one hundred years to the times of Mary Wyno, the witch
from Slovenia whom most of the people in the area held with
suspicion. She appears and disappears at will, she can silence
horses and her spells become reality. Here in Hexie her spirit
lives on.
The narrative of Uriah Barber is full of one cliff hanger after
another as Barber, veteran of the Revolutionary War, and his
younger step-brother Isaac Bonser lead five families across the new
nation from Northumberland County in Pennsylvania to the Ohio River
Valley.
Dashing Uriah, his wife Barbara, blond, intelligent and
pregnant, head south with their six children and nanny, lovely
Rachael Baird. Heading down the Susquehanna River with Isaac, wife
Abigail their four children, the Wards, Beattys and McAdams, who
were newlyweds. Two keelboats were constructed to float them down
the long and twisting Susquehanna to Paxtang, present day
Harrisburg, where they exchanged their boats for Conestoga wagons
and horses. Needing another man to pole the second boat, dark
handsome Shawnee scout Jacob Early was hired in Sunbury. When they
reached Paxtang he returned home taking with him the heart of
Rachael Baird.
Crossing the breadth of Pennsylvania on what is now Pennsylvania
Turnpike, they encounter everything from broken axles, tornadoes,
critically ill children, another pregnancy and a wagon tumbling
over the mountainside taking everything.
They finish their journey aboard an amazing three-story high
majestic keelboat named the Floating Palace. Just when they need
him most Early shows up to help them finish their journey on the
Monongahela, then the Ohio where they encounter sandbars,
underwater trees and river pirates.
The rest of the story tells how Major Barber settled in southern
Ohio and carved his name forever in the history of Scioto County.
The tale is full of passion, love, hope, humor and tragedy enough
for a Shakespearean play.
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