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Blue Ridge Heritage: An Informal History of Three Generations of the Family of John Nicholson Idol
Blue Ridge Heritage An Informal History of Three Generations of the Family of John Nicholson Idol Author:John L. Idol A native of the Piedmont area of North Carolina, John Nicholson Idol, a Confederate Sharpshooter, looking for a way to make a life for himself in the Reconstruction South, comes to Deep Gap, meets and marries a daughter of pioneer settler Solomon Greene, and begins to adapt to Blue Ridge ways of working and living. How he and two generations of ... more »his descendents became absorbed into Blue Ridge culture is the story told in this book. It is a story drawing on family letters, oral history, and personal experience.« less