The Tunis Hood Family

This is the biography of the Tunis Family a more or less typical very early American Family; its ancestry, national origin and far flung branches of thousands of known descendants and allied connections.

Vol 1 905p Vol 2 961p.

Ancestral and related families of the author Ailcy Dora Dean Smith. She was born in 1930 in Cullman County Alabama. The daughter of Adolphus Smith (b. 1911) and Flora Gladys Moon Smith (b. 1913). She married Luther Allen Cress in 1948. Ancestors lived in Alabama, Georgia, Virginia, South Caroline and elsewhere.

"The boundaries of old Frederick County today encompass 12 counties: Frederick, Clarke, Warren, Shenandoah and Page counties in Virginia; and Jefferson, Berkeley, Morgan, Hampshire, Mineral, Hardy and Grant counties in West Virginia."--P. viii.

William Coats, Sr. (d.1753) was the son of Thomas Coats of England. He emigrated to the Colonies in 1719 and settled at Charles Town, SC. He was the father of five children. His son William Coats, Jr. (d.1784) was the father of six children. Twenty-six generations of ancestors and descendants are given.