Beckham Reunion (1919)
Our Clontz family, melded with members of the Long, Beckham, and White families, came from Europe to North America and settled, ultimately, in the Carolinas.
It's not quite that simple, of course—some migrated to the Shenandoah Valley and from there came further south. Many subsequently moved westward into the frontier that was Tennessee, Kentucky, Ohio, and states formed from the Louisiana Purchase. For me and my mother, we hold firm to the red clay of south-central North Carolina and north-central South Carolina, even though Virginia is home today.
Our Family is wide-spread and melded with many other families, as are all American families.
My particular branch emigrated to the British colonies in North American from the German Palatinate through Holland and Northern Ireland to Virginia and North Carolina.
I dedicate the content of this website to my mother, Dorothy Lee Clontz White, who most certainly knew and loved Joe and Dora Clontz in Union County, North Carolina.
Today, even asking the question, “What’s a Patriot?”, can touch off an explosive verbal conflagration and significantly reduce one’s contingent of friends (and increasing the group of former friends…)
Can you publish your stories here on this Website? If so, do you have to pay to publish? Do you just want to comment on an article published here?
