My Brother & Me

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The author's lineage includes his mother's Taylor family, which originated in England and Ireland and settled first in Pennsylvania and later in West Virginia, and his father's Carpenter family, whose early members originated in England and settled in Rhode Island, Virginia, and then West Virginia. The two families converged in Putnam County, W.Va. This book follows the author's maternal ancestors in many families, including Johnston, Stephens, Baldwin, Acord, Lafferty, and Lucas. It also recaps some of the genealogy presented in the earlier book, "The Way to Mt. Moriah." The book contains numerous family stories of earlier times, photographs from the 19th century, and also the author's accounts of growing up with his brother in the 1940s and 1950s.