The lives behind
the names.

Two hundred acres, an Everton family, and a Forehand husband whose first name remains missing: Sarah’s records reveal a life beyond the familiar pedigree and a naming trail worth following.

William Joy lived up in the Fork of the Pasquotank, beside land Cornelius Forehand bought in 1714. Deeds, a will and the surviving name Joyce Creek trace his neighborhood and Margery’s place in its history.

A Pasquotank family, a Revolutionary soldier’s name, and the estate Charity settled in 1788 help separate Jarvis Forehand’s Carolina life from a younger man’s western story.

An Irishman in the Pasquotank records, a wife entrusted with his estate, seven named children—and earlier Forehands whose connections remain to be found.

Two Hickman County deeds put a brother and sister on either side of a line at Lick Creek. Their exchange identifies Lambert Forehand as their father and carries the story back through the land he held, the places he lived, and the family connections still to be established.

From Indian Ridge, Joseph B. Morgan sent his son news of raids, illness, harvests and home. Read five complete letters from 1863–1864, reproduced with permission of the VMI Archives.