{"id":1785,"date":"2021-09-13T21:14:41","date_gmt":"2021-09-14T01:14:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cvga.avenue.org\/?p=1785"},"modified":"2021-09-13T21:17:47","modified_gmt":"2021-09-14T01:17:47","slug":"central-virginia-heritage-fall-2021-available-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cvga.avenue.org\/?p=1785","title":{"rendered":"Central Virginia Heritage, Fall 2021 \u2014 Available Now!"},"content":{"rendered":"<header class=\"entry-header\">\n<div class=\"entry-meta\">Early\u00a0Western Augusta Pioneers Revisited, by Steve Bast&#8230;<\/div>\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p>&#8220;George W. Cleek\u2019s Early Western Augusta Pioneers, which was originally published in 1957, has been the source of many of the genealogies of the early pioneers of the Highland region. These include the Lightner, Cleek, Harper, Hull and numerous other families. As a Lightner descendant I thought a worthwhile project would be to update Cleek\u2019s book regarding the section on the Lightner family. What I thought to be a relatively straightforward task turned into a yearslong effort culminating in 2006 with the publication of my book, The Lightner Heritage. With the advent of the Internet which opened up new research opportunities, the publication of new material and the discovery of new sources, Cleek\u2019s premise that John Michel Lochtner is the progenitor of the Virginia Lightners may not be accurate&#8230;.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>To see the rest of this article,\u00a0CVGA members should go to\u00a0\u201cMembers Only\u201d\u00a0on the menu bar above, and choose\u00a0\u201cCentral Virginia Heritage \u2014 Current Issue.\u201d\u00a0(Note: You have to be logged in to this website in order to see \u201cMembers Only.\u201d)<\/p>\n<p>If you have trouble logging in to the site to download your copy, please contact me at the webmaster link at the bottom of this page.<\/p>\n<p>For those who are not members of CVGA, we offer the opportunity to purchase a printed copy of each issue. The Fall 2021 issue is available from Amazon.com at <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/B09FS589Q6?ref_=pe_3052080_397514860\">https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/B09FS589Q6?ref_=pe_3052080_397514860<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0for $6.50. Click on the Amazon.com link above or search for \u201cCentral Virginia Heritage\u201d on Amazon.com.<\/p>\n<p>Contents of the Fall 2021 issue:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Early Western Augusta Pioneers Revisited<\/li>\n<li>Will of Captain John Warwick, Amherst County, VA<\/li>\n<li>Will of James Callaway the Elder, Bedford County, VA<\/li>\n<li>Will of Henry Bell, of Buckingham County, VA<\/li>\n<li>Obituary of Horace E. Fidler, Jr.<\/li>\n<li>Company F, The Fluvanna Hornets, and Company K, The Fluvanna Guards, at the Battle of Fredericksburg, December, 1862<\/li>\n<li>List of Cumberland County Sheriffs, 1753-Present<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>If you have any articles you\u2019d like to share with CVGA members, please send an email to the editor,\u00a0eleanordew at gmail dot com\u00a0\u2014 The Editor.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Early\u00a0Western Augusta Pioneers Revisited, by Steve Bast&#8230; &#8220;George W. Cleek\u2019s Early Western Augusta Pioneers, which was originally published in 1957, has been the source of many of the genealogies of the early pioneers of the Highland region. These include the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cvga.avenue.org\/?p=1785\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,103],"tags":[106,107,46,30,42],"class_list":["post-1785","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newsletter","category-research-2","tag-augusta-county","tag-bedford-county","tag-buckingham-county","tag-central-virginia-heritage","tag-virginia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cvga.avenue.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1785","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cvga.avenue.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cvga.avenue.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cvga.avenue.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cvga.avenue.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1785"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/cvga.avenue.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1785\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1790,"href":"https:\/\/cvga.avenue.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1785\/revisions\/1790"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cvga.avenue.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cvga.avenue.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cvga.avenue.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}