Family History

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I am interested in my family history, and wrote these pages in hopes of sharing information. My Lewis (paternal) line has it’s own separate section, as does the Bernreuther (my wife’s paternal) line.

• Crank Family (my paternal grandmother)
• Fitz Randolph Family (my Mother’s maiden name)
  • Recent Photos of Fitz Randolph Family Members
  • Deep Roots – Norwegian, French and English Ancestors 860 – 1500 AD
  • Documented Roots – English Fitz Randolph Family 1500 – 1630
  • Edward Fitz Randolph – My Emigrant Ancestor
  • President Barak Obama and Edward Fitz Randolph
  • Thomas Fitz Randolph
  • Jonathan and David Fitz Randolph
  • Samuel Fitz Randolph
  • Jesse Fitz Randolph
  • John LaForge Fitz Randolph
  • Asa Fitz Randolph
  • Alois Preston “Pressy” Fitz Randolph
  • Autobiography Of Alois Preston Fitz Randolph
    • Chapter 1 – Family Connections
    • Chapter 2 – My Early Childhood
    • Chapter 3 – Memories of Schooling
    • Chapter 4 – Other Childhood Memories
    • Chapter 5 – More About Parents and Home Life
    • Chapter 6 – Seventh Day Churches Around Berea
    • Chapter 7 – Mother Died, Father Remarried
    • Chapter 8 – Young Adulthood Memories
    • Chapter 9 – Marriage
    • Chapter 10 – Some Young People Who Grew Up With Me
    • Chapter 11 – Our Children
    • Chapter 12 – More Teaching Experiences in Ritchie County
    • Chapter 13 – Elmo Born, Moving to Salem
    • Chapter 14 – The Salem Years — 1914-1925
    • Chapter 15 – We Move To Braxton County
    • Chapter 16 – Our Farm on Bug Ridge
    • Chapter 17 – More Schools & Bug Ridge Life
    • Chapter 18 – Teaching Experiences, 1936-1945
    • Chapter 19 – Synopsis of My Teaching Career
    • Chapter 20 – Farm and Friends on Bug Ridge
    • Chapter 21 – My Retirement Years And A Look Back on My Life
    • Supplement Giving Descendants of Alois Preston Fitz Randolph, written by Ashby Fitz Randolph in November, 1963
  • Ashby Fitz Randolph and Ruth Content Bond Randolph
    • Chapter 1: Ashby’s Childhood Memories
    • Chapter 2: Ruth’s Childhood Memories
    • Chapter 3: Young Adults–Education, Work, and Early Teaching
    • Chapter 4: Our Wedding and Early Married Years
    • Chapter 5: Ashby’s Illness–1938-39
    • Chapter 6: More Memories of Teaching Years
    • Chapter 7: Memories of Retirement Years
    • Appendix A — Memories from Family Members
    • Appendix B — Descendants of Ashby F. Randolph and Ruth Content Bond Randolph
    • Appendix C — Mom’s Poem and Dad’s Song
  • Rev Elmo Fitz Randolph
    • Childhood Remembrances of Elmo Fitz Randolph
      • Cover Poem
      • Childhood Remerberances
      • Summer in Berea
      • Brother Brady
      • Schooling in Berea
      • Christmas
      • Boy Scouting
      • Games
      • More Salem Remberances
      • Memories of Chestnuting in West Virginia
    • Adult Remembrances of Elmo Fitz Randolph
      • Foreward
      • The Teen and Early Twenty Years of Elmo Fitz Randolph
      • Happiness is a boy with his dog
      • Summers with Dad on our Bug Ridge Farm
      • William “Bill” Price, A Special Man in my Life
      • My Model T– An Automobile to Remember
      • Early “Teen” Experiences
      • High School Years: 1928-1931
      • Basketball Crowns High School’s Senior Year Exeperience
      • The Salem College Years–An Adventure in Higher Education
      • The Transition–Leaving Home and Entering Graduate Study
      • Boy Scouts to the Rescue
      • A Christmas Beyond Compare
      • “So Long as We Both Shall Live”
      • Honeymoon
      • Training to Become a Boy Scout Executive
      • The Gothic “Home is Where the Heart is”
      • Ordination to the Gospel Ministry
      • Beginnings in Ministry
      • Alfred Station “Happenings” to Remember
      • An Agricultural Adventure
      • Camps and Youth Retreats
      • With Boy Scouts at “World of Tomorrow”
      • Happy Experiences with Our Church Men
      • Ecumenical Experiences
      • Family “Happenings”
      • World War II Brings Change
      • To Maine with the Boy Scouts and Percy Dunn
      • Finis
  • Avis Fitz Randolph Swiger Autobiography
    • Chapter 1 – Country Life In The Early Twentieth Century (A Child’s View)
    • Chapter 2 – Memories
    • Chapter 3 – Our Church Life
    • Chapter 4 – Childhood Fancies
    • Chapter 5 – Sobering Experiences
    • Chapter 6 – High School Years
    • Chapter 7 – A Country School Teacher
• Bond (my maternal grandmother) Family History
• Platt (my mother-in-law’s family)