The Charles E. Roseberry-Betty Jean Keister Family of Montgomery and Pulaski Counties, Virginia

About the Book

This is the story of the ancestors of Charles E. Roseberry and Betty Jean Keister. Charles Roseberry's parents were Charles Wesley Roseberry (1893-1984) who married Elizabeth Clancy Sutton (1892-1973) in Radford, VA where they lived the rest of their lives. Charles Wesley Roseberry was born in Newbern in Pulaski Co., VA where his ancestors had lived since 1872 when his grandfather, Samuel Roseberry moved from Carroll Co., VA. The Sutton family was also from Pulaski Co., VA. Elizabeth's great-grandfather, John C. Sutton was born in Montgomery Co., VA in an area that would later become Pulaski County.

Betty Jean Keister's grandparents were Walter Henderson Keister (1870-1938) who married Ida May Foster (1877-1944) in Radford, VA where they lived the rest of their lives. Walter was born in Montgomery Co., VA where his ancestors had lived since 1800. The Foster family was from Prince William Co., VA but Ida May's line had lived in Monroe Co., VA since before 1795 when it was Greenbrier Co., VA.

Related families include the Angstadt, Beck, Burk, Carper, Daux, Filenger, Foster, Glasgow, Godbey, Gunn, Keister, King, Long, Patterson, Patton, Rankin, Roseberry, Shell, Shufflebarger, Songer, Sutton, Whitt and Wysor families.

About the Author

Greg Roseberry lives in southwest Virginia where he works at a local college.