History of the Rucker Family and Their Descendants: Sketches of Carter, Barton, Early, Johns, Lee, Martin, Pendleton, Reade, Seldon, Taliaferro, Witt and Wyatt Families

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Hermitage printing Company, 1927 - 308 pages

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