Living Letters of Those Chastain Cousins

After a lifetime of farming in East Tennessee, Elijah Leander Chastain retired to a small Chattanooga farm and began researching his Chastain ancestors. His book, Living Letters of Those Chastain Cousins, recounts, as he says, "the story as pieced together" from the remaining public records, family Bibles, and letters received from Chastain cousins. While describing the migration of the Huguenot and Baptist Chastains to escape religious persecution, his story is also one of discovery...
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After a lifetime of farming in East Tennessee, Elijah Leander Chastain retired to a small Chattanooga farm and began researching his Chastain ancestors. His book, Living Letters of Those Chastain Cousins, recounts, as he says, "the story as pieced together" from the remaining public records, family Bibles, and letters received from Chastain cousins. While describing the migration of the Huguenot and Baptist Chastains to escape religious persecution, his story is also one of discovery in which he learns his great-grandfather's identity.New in this Second Edition:? Bookshelf friendly format and binding? New illustrations from the family archives ? Reference notes, annotations, and textual index? Expanded genealogy of Royal Chastain with descendants' index of over one thousand six hundred people