Joseph Vernelle Phillips
THE STORY OF THE FAMILIES
By Joseph Vernelle Phillips
(Mr. Phillips is really a Gentry, the son of Arzetta Slane and Ralph Ogle Gentry, also known as Charles McKinney. He was born Joy Vernelle McKinney and he legally changed his name to Phillips from his stepfather Darrell Austin Phillips. Unfortunately, he died on December 24, 2005, before he was able to complete this family history.)
Joseph Vernelle Phillips
Please Note: This book must not be used for commercial purposes of any kind whatsoever since it contains many copyrighted pictures. It can, however, be used for personal family purposes, discussions and education. The pictures are used only as a means to make the stories more interesting.
This is the story of more than 200 families connected to the Slane, Elliott, Souther, Clark, Gentry, Taylor, Allison, Carr and many other related families whom I have researched over the past 50 years. It will be a story of the human side of these hardy, heroic, sometimes saintly, sometimes devilish folks, our grandparents, who have come down through history since Adam and Eve. We’ll spin true yarns about some of these ancestors. It’s a pity we can’t tell the stories of them all.
This book will be illustrated with many photographs of places and people directly involved with our genealogy, including tombstones, farms, ranches, castles, fortresses, rivers, multiple great grandfathers and grandmothers, and maps charting their march through history.
We present the Stories of the Families in PDF format due to the enormous size of the book. If you do not have Adobe Acrobat reader installed on your computer, you can download it here.
Chapter 1: The Wyandotte (Huron) Indians