Volume Two: THE WESTERN MIGRATION: TENNESSEE, ALABAMA & MISSISSIPPI
wherein Jesse and some of his sons and brothers head west in the 1830s.
By the 1850s, they are well staked in Franklin Co. Ala. and ltawamba Co. Miss.
Book One: Ruined by the Civil War, Henry’s family continue the migrate westward
to Arkansas, Oklahoma and Texas.
Book Two: James Gordon Woolbright frees his slaves prematurely and invoke the ire of his neighbors
which prompts the Family to move northward both physically and politically to Missouri and
Illinois.
@ Ala. Ark. Okla. Miss. Tenn. & Ill. Archives.
An Ozark Reunion: An expanded version of Chapter Four of Vol. Two. Book One: Henry
Woolbright which details the Family & Relatives of William Thomas Woolbright including the
descendants of Richard Cantrell, Jacob Keck and Rufus McCollum Families of Northwest
Arkansas.
@ Ark. Archives, Washington, Benton and Crawford Co. Historical Societies.
Volume Three: WOOLBRIGHT & JACKSON FAMILIES OF JACKSON Co. Tenn,
wherein Jesse’s sons, Samuel and Joseph, move to Jackson Co. Tenn. in the 1840s.
While the rest of Jesse’s family later continue the movement further south, Samuel and his
sister, Margaret, establish a dynasty with the Jackson family. Joseph’s sons decamp to Warren
Co. Kentucky when the Civil War starts. The families still get together annually at a large
reunion at Standing Stone State Park on the third Sat. in June.
@ Ky. & Tenn. State Archives
Volume Four: THE WOOLBRIGHTS OF PICKENS CO. ALABAMA, wherein
Barnabas’ son, Barnabas, goes to Pickens Co. in 1835 and starts himself a clan that still
accounts for numerous voters and taxpayers around Tusculoosa, Alabama and Columbus,
Mississippi as well as some western migration in more recent times.
@ Archives of State of Alabama and Mississippi
Volume Five: JACOB WOOLBRIGHT OF GEORGIA, 4th edition, where in
Jacob receives a land grant for Revolutionary War Service and moves from Fairfax Co. Va. to
Wilkes Co. Ga. in 1791. His descendants, for the most part, remain in Georgia but a few move
on to Yell Co. Arkansas and westward to Oklahoma City and central Texas.
Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 97-61532
@ State Archives of Georgia & Alabama
Also in selected local Genealogical Society Libraries