Grant, Harrison, and Pendleton Counties ... a place in time and an area unto itself
The following definition(s) of family is taken from the online resource of Wikipedia.com ... and has been modified slightly to fit our needs here.
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Family is a group of people affiliated by consanguinity, affinity or co-residence. Although the concept of consanguinity originally referred to relations by "blood", anthropologists have argued that one must understand the idea of "blood" metaphorically and that many societies understand family through other concepts rather than through genetic distance.
One of the primary functions of the family is to produce and reproduce persons, biologically and socially. Thus, one's experience of one's family shifts over time.
From the perspective of children, the family is a family of orientation: the family serves to locate children socially and plays a major role in their enculturation and socialization.
From the point of view of the parent(s), the family is a family of procreation, the goal of which is to produce and enculturate and socialize children.
However, producing children is not the only function of the family; in societies with a sexual division of labor, marriage, and the resulting relationship between two people, it is necessary for the formation of an economically productive household.
A conjugal family includes only the husband, the wife, and unmarried children who are not of age. The most common form of this family is regularly referred to in sociology as a nuclear family.
A consanguineal family consists of a parent and his or her children, and other people.
A matriarchal family consists of a mother and her children. Generally, these children are her biological offspring, although adoption of children is a practice in nearly every society. This kind of family is common where women have the resources to rear their children by themselves, or where men are more mobile than women.
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Family is a group of people affiliated by consanguinity, affinity or co-residence. Although the concept of consanguinity originally referred to relations by "blood", anthropologists have argued that one must understand the idea of "blood" metaphorically and that many societies understand family through other concepts rather than through genetic distance.
One of the primary functions of the family is to produce and reproduce persons, biologically and socially. Thus, one's experience of one's family shifts over time.
From the perspective of children, the family is a family of orientation: the family serves to locate children socially and plays a major role in their enculturation and socialization.
From the point of view of the parent(s), the family is a family of procreation, the goal of which is to produce and enculturate and socialize children.
However, producing children is not the only function of the family; in societies with a sexual division of labor, marriage, and the resulting relationship between two people, it is necessary for the formation of an economically productive household.
A conjugal family includes only the husband, the wife, and unmarried children who are not of age. The most common form of this family is regularly referred to in sociology as a nuclear family.
A consanguineal family consists of a parent and his or her children, and other people.
A matriarchal family consists of a mother and her children. Generally, these children are her biological offspring, although adoption of children is a practice in nearly every society. This kind of family is common where women have the resources to rear their children by themselves, or where men are more mobile than women.
Clearly in the Crooked Creek area in the time period encompassing the early 1700’s into the mid-to-late 1800’s, the concept of family was far better defined by the concept of “consanguineal” family. More often than not, multiple generations lived together and relatives & others beyond grandparents, or grandchildren are found to be a routine part of a Crooked Creek household.
In most cases this was of necessity and was considered a way of life in those times in this place, as well as others.
Throughout our research we have found many different families inter-marrying and often brothers in one family married sisters in another family, but seldom do we find the occurrence of first cousins marrying and have never encountered a marriage between siblings.
But the family links are so intertwining in Crooked Creek history, that an amazing number of relationships exist within and between various family surnames. It is almost not a matter of “if” someone is related, but of what number of generations in the past and how remotely located to either side of the direct-line descent.
The following pages are “stories” written from documented sources, created in a manner to be easy to read and understand, but most important created to help you understand and appreciate your ancestors.
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Gary Miller ... Email to glm1937@gemlink.com
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