Piedmont Branches

Welcome!

The information on this genealogy website organized into eight different groups based on the surnames of my 4 grandparents and my wife's 4 grandparents, all of which were born and raised in piedmont North Carolina.

Kepley	Simpson	Kimball	Morgan	Berrier	Sharpe	Thompson	Wood
Brandon	Adams	Binager	Coggin	Craver	Barrett	Benson	Beesom
Cathey	Billingsley	Binnicker	Cranford	Graber	Beck	Coggin	Brown
Gardiner	Caunt	Cress	Dennis	Everhart	Blackwelder	Coggins	Chamness
Gardner	Conrad	Harris	Hearne	Frank	Cline	Cranford	Cole
Horah	Conrath	Kendrick	Hopkins	Walk	Klutts	Elliott	Dunn
Layrle	Cook	Kimbold	Howard	Clore	Kluttz	Haltom	Hedgecock
Locke	Crabtree	Kress	Smart	Grimes	Krider	Harris	Hitchcock
Lyerly	Darr	Lundy	Stewart	Greim	Crider	Hopkins	Lamb
Parks	Dixon	Misenheimer	Wilson	Lopp	Misenheimer	Johnson	Mendenhall
Patton	Dow	Penninger		Shoaf	Murrier	Moore	Norton
Pinkston	Eddinger	Tomlin		Kepley	Spaugh	Pennington	Pickett
Shepard	Frank	Turner		Leonard	Swicegood	Watson	Piggott
Sheppard	Greim	Wood		Sowers	Schweissguth		Reynolds
Simison	Grimes			Sauer	Williams		Thomas
	Holstead			Wagner	Young
	Howerton			Waggner	Jung
	Kellam			Younts
	Long
	Lopp
	McCrary
	Michael
	Oakes
	Purnell
	Stinger
	Swain
	Swayne
	Walk

Access to the data related to living family members (descendant reports & photos) is restricted to living family members. If you are an Aunt, Uncle or Cousin, and do not have a password, please contact me.

I have worked on collecting family information since I was a teenager, spending many days at the court house and the library, searching records and taking notes. When Anna and I got married, I realized that we are both descendents of some of the earliest settlers to the piedmont region of North Carolina. I was fascinated that so many surnames appeared on both sides of the family. Through the internet, I have been able to expand the network of families to the current size. My daughter Sarah has recently joined the project and we currently have more than 10,000 names in the data base. This data is not guaranteed to be correct and is not sourced or cited. If perhaps your data was copied and included, I thank you very much for making it available, I truly appreciate the time that you have committed to research. Please send me additions, corrections and pictures.

Sincerely,


William Kimball Kepley