Bücher von David Riley

William Riley's story necessarily starts in the middle, since the first record about him was in 1830 which said he was married with two children. Born in Connecticut in 1798, William's town of origin and parents are not known. He was a poor shoemaker, belonged to a Dunkard church, and lived in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, where he died in 1873. His five children moved to nearby Philadelphia after the Civil War where they were employed as manual laborers. Several children later moved to Atlantic City, New Jersey, where they worked in jobs typical of a coastal resort. William Riley's later descendants had a modest degree of wealth and material comfort since, in the early twentieth century, blue-collar jobs afforded solidly middle-class incomes and lifestyles. This book describes the lives of ordinary, working-class men and women who left behind no letters or diaries.Covered are four generations of William's descendants spanning over one hundred and fifty years. The text is thoroughly referenced with a wide variety of sources, including dates and places of birth, marriage, death, and burial. Other information sources are occupations, military service, causes of death, and places lived. Maps, timelines, photographs, and an index to full names, places, and subjects add to the value of this book. Women are indexed by both birth surname and married surname.2022, 8¿x11, paper, index, 100 pp

David Joseph Riley became intrigued about the onomastics of Terriberry when he came across the names of Drs. Calvin and George Terriberry on several birth and death records of his wife's ancestors. He started to research that family and learned that the earlier surname Durrenberger began changing to Terriberry about 1840-50. A more pragmatic reason for choosing Terriberry was to expedite research on the family using a manageable search term. When the author began in the early 1990s, there were fewer than fifty "hits" for Terriberry on Google® - by 2017 there were over 133,000. A parallel explosion of information took place on genealogical websites. The wealth of information greatly enriched the narrative.This work describes the changing lifestyles of the descendants of Nathan Terriberry as they evolved from nineteenth-century rural Americans to middle class urban dwellers. The author has included as much information as possible about spouses who often affect ancestors' lives as much as direct ancestors.Family members in this genealogy are numbered using the National Genealogical Society Quarterly system. Appendices, a timeline of Nathan Terriberry and his children, and an index to full-names, places and subjects add to the value of this work. Appendices include: Map of Junction, New Jersey, and Nearby Communities in 1873; Nathan Terriberry Homestead, Branchburg, Somerset County, New Jersey; Terriberry Lots; and, Pictures of George Hitchings Terriberry and Mardi Gras Float.