Here goes. Let's begin with old Samuel Egner. According to my father Edgar M. Egner (and this may be anecdotal rather than verifiable), Samuel was born in Germany in 1793. He came to North Carolina about 1803. Did he come with family? I do not know. He married Mary Grubb (called Polly) before he came to Whitley Co., KY, where he settled on land in what is now called Faber. He built a log cabin where my father was born.They had only one child Jacob born between 1814 and 1816. Jacob married Elizabeth (Betsy) Bishop 7 Nov 1833. I have information supposedly giving Elizabeth as the daughter of William Bishop who was a prominent settler in Whitley Co., but I think it misses a generation because Elizabeth was too young. I think she must have been William's granddaughter. Someday I may make that connection. Jacob and Betsy had the following children: Samuel Junior b. abt 1835, Mary b. 1837, John b 15 Jan 1839, William H., b. 1841, Elizabeth (Lizzie), b 15 Feb 1846, and Roshannah (Rosie), b. 1848. Jacob died in 1848 and Elizabeth married William Taylor 25 Oct 1860. Elizabeth died in 1873. Samuel Junior married Mary Howell 5 Dec 1855. Mary married Jackson Sammons 25 Aug 1852. John (my great-grandfather) married Eveline Underwood in 1860, William H. married Eleanor (Ellen) Underwood 16 Dec 1861. Eveline and Ellen Underwood were sisters, making their children double first cousins. Elizabeth (Lizzie) Egner married Andrew Jackson (Jack) Grubb 13 Mar 1870. Roshannah (Rosie) married Hiram Steele. Again according to my father, Samuel Jr. was buried on the farm on the west side of the railroad. Mary, John, William, Elizabeth, and Roshannah were all buried in the Old Egner Cemetery. Samuel Junior and Mary had the following children: John R. (several people have him as either John H. or John B.) b. 1858, Sophia b. 11 Jun 1859, William H. b 10 Jun 1861, and Samuel Newberry, b 1862. For Jim Davis's benefit, Samuel Newberry who married Sarah (Sally) McKeehan also married Drusilla Poole. He and Sarah had Jane who married Columbus Barnett, Florence who married Jim Ben Reynolds and Ab Orick, Edward Lee who married ?? Smith, Bert (who died young), Mack who married Mallissie Harp, Omer who married Eva Blanche Perkins, and Harlen who maried Maude Lay. Samuel Newberry and Drusilla Poole had one son Elijah. They lived in Cairo, IL. Mary and Jackson Sammons had nine children and I have their names and many of their lines. If any of those on the list trace to this family, I can give more information. John and Eveline Egner had one son Andrew Thomas (my grandfather). They lived and farmed the old homestead. Andrew Thomas (A. T. or Tom) married Dora Salina Moore. Tom worked for the railroad and had no interest in the farm. Sometime after my father was born in 1903, he sold the place. My father who loved the land always regretted it, but it had been broken up into so many pieces that he could not buy it back. Tom and Dora had four children who lived to maturity: Irma Jane, Bessie Bryan, Edgar Mattison, and Iva Faye. All of them are deceased, but all left descendents except Irma. Edgar Mattison married Bertha Mae Mayfield and they had four children: Alvin Thomas (died at 6 mo. of age), Virginia Evelyn (me), Molly Eileen, and David Blaine (died of cancer in 1989). I married Earl Greene Watson of Whitley Co. and we have two adult children, a daughter and a son. Molly married Sidney Bruce Baker of Pineville, KY and they have two adult sons. David Blaine left two daughters and two sons. One son has a son and a daughter, the other son has two daughters. We are getting low on the Egner name. William H. Egner and Eleanor (Ellen) Underwood Egner had the largest family of all. Their children were: Elizabeth b. abt 1863, Nannie b. abt 1864, Polly, b abt 1866, Sarah b. abt 1868, William (called Windy Bill) b abt 1870, James, Nervia, Alphia, b abt 1875, Johnnie, Samuel, Grace (Dave's g-g-g-grandmother) b. 15 Jun 1884, and Calvin. I have a lot of information about these different families. (Dave, most of it is in the Underwood book.) William H. and Eleanor are buried in a vault at the Egner Cemetery, Faber, no marker. Elizabeth married Samuel Hugh Carr 1 Sep 1887, but died as a young woman from a strange accident. She was standing near the Laurel River when she was stung by a hornet, fell into the river, and drowned. Nannie never married. Polly married Boerguard Andrews, J. M. Owens, and a Jones. Sarah married a Noe. William married Sally Kelsey. James and Nervia never married. Johnny died young. Calvin who lived in Cincinnati, OH, married twice. His children were Woodrow, Clinton, and Glenn by his first marriage and Emlie, Nadine, James and Arthur by his second marriage. I am sure Dave has much more information than I about Grace who married James F. (Jim) Henson 19 Jan 1907 in Corbin, KY. Elizabeth (Aunt Lizzie as my father called her) Egner maried Andrew Jackson (Jack) Grubb. They had 7 children. I have information on them if anyone on he list traces to the Grubbs. Roshannah (called Aunt Rosie by my father) married Hiram Steele, but apparently there were no children. My father had the names, etc.of many of the descendents for the families tracing from Samuel Egner who came into Whitley Co. If anyone has questions about any of them, please let me know. Evelyn