Mercer family - Genealogy

Overview Photocopy of "We Cousins - Menefee - Mercer - Heard" by Florence Hudson. This is a fourteen-page genealogical chart of these related families, which were joined by the marriage of Stephen Rhodes Heard (1773-1829) of Pittsylvania County, Virginia, and Jemima Menefee (1782-1854) of Alabama. Stephen and Jemima Menefee Heard had ten children. In 1831, after Stephen Heard's death, Jemima Heard and her children settled in Texas. Genealogy chart traces the Heard descendants from the late eighteenth...

Overview A family history and genealogical record of the Mercer family of Monongalia County, WV with mention of the allied families of Brown and Campbell. Robert Mercer was the first of the family to settle in what is now West Virginia near Morgantown in 1766. He was the son of Gideon Mercer and the grandson of John Mercer, the earliest known family member in America. John Mercer was a Quaker merchant of New York City and an extensive landowner of Manhattan Island. Also noted is the movement and...