Download or read book Genealogy of Some Early Families in Grant and Pleasant Districts, Preston County, West Virginia, Also the Thorpe Family of Fayette County, Pennsylvania, and the Cunningham Family of Somerset County, Pennsylvania written by Edward Thorp King and published by Genealogical Publishing Com. This book was released on 2009-06 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Grant and Pleasant Districts, in Preston County, West Virginia, were formed in 1852. The early families of Grant and Pleasant Districts, like their Maryland and Pennsylvania neighbors, were among the first to endure the rigors of mountain life. The genealogy of some of these families--Christopher, Connor, Cunningham, King, Metheny, Ryan, Street, Thorpe, Walls, Wheeler, and Wolf, those mostly of early 19th-century provenance--is the basis of this book.