Acknowledgements

I wish to acknowledge the many contributions of Edna Zornes Cabler to this history; a genealogist and Pardue descendant, she obtained and transcribed wills, deeds, court records, and various other materials from which, in absence of the actual record, available abstracts will suffice on this site for parts of the Pardue history. Her ability to ferret out pertinent information was without parallel and her accuracy in transcription had no equal. RIP! We miss you, still!


Thank you, too, to Elizabethe Pardue-Simmons, with whom I much corresponded in the mid 1970s, who contributed the information contained herein on Bevel Pardue’s line, as researched by her and Allen Poe, a professional genealogist, she commissioned to pull all the lines of  the Bevel Pardue family of Wilkes and Surry Counties of North Carolina together and which she shared with me and asked only if the Pardue family history were ever published that she receive credit and acknowledgement for her contribution. It is an honor for me to do so. 


I wish to thank Gregory G. Poole, also a Pardue descendant, for his contribution for much of the lines of descendants of the family of John W. Pardue who married first, Martha Pace, and second, Emma Wall, from whose line he descends and for his work as a long time archivist in oversight of records in the Tennessee State Library and Archives.


A thank you, also, to the Pardue/Perdue/Purdue Family Historical Association for the contribution of hosting in odd calendar years a bi-annual surname reunion for all variations of the surname and for publishing a surname newsletter for all those interested in information for all the variants of the surname, and especially for its generous funding to a number participants of the Pardue DNA Project to determine the DNA profile of the male descendants of the Appomattox River P*rdue families.


An especial thanks goes to Thelma (Pardue) Glover, who spent much time, effort, and research finding participants from among descendants of the Appomattox River families to participate in that DNA Project, especially descendants with documented paper trails, to determine the DNA profile of  John Pardue, who died in 1769 in Bute County, North Carolina, as well as descendants of the other families with a variation of the name who appeared in the area of the lower Appomattox River  at about the same time as did John.

The results of her efforts cannot be overstated. The DNA testing confirmed that John Pardue who died in Bute County in 1769 shared a common ancestor of an indeterminate degree within several generations of others holding a variation of the surname in the Appomattox River area during the early eighteenth century. Further it was learned from the DNA project that the Perdue families from the Eastern Shore of Maryland and the Pardue/Perdue families from the watersheds of the Appomattox River shared no common ancestor with any variation of the name within the past thousand years, laying to rest, at last, any possibility a connection existed.


Thank you, also, to Dr. Charles L. "Chuck" Perdue, professor emeritus of anthropology and English, at the University Of Virginia.  A descendant of the Eastern Shore of Maryland Perdue family, he generously shared the records of the many years of research he spent in the attempt to sort the questions that have now been settled by the Perdue-Pardue DNA Project. His scholarly concentration was oral history and he was forever willing to share his knowledge and research findings for which all of us who descend from the Appomattox River families owe a tremendous debt of gratitude. 


A hearty thank you to all the archivists, librarians, and various clerks and keepers of the various county and state public records, for their guidance and patience in pointing direction to the right sources in their various areas of public records expertise. Without you the family historians' efforts would be seriously impeded and we all owe you a great debt of gratitude.


Further, I would like to thank all other of those family members and other relatives and collateral kinfolk, and friends not so kin, who shared their recollections and stories and other information with me through the years, for their generosity and desire to participate in this story of the Pardue family, without which the greater part of it could not have been realized. To all who visit this site a thank you and who by that visit provide encouragement to continuously seek out records and information to  move forward in advancing knowledge of the Pardue family. To everyone, in great appreciation, thank you!

All errors, opinions, suppositions, and conjectures are solely my own and should not reflect on any source from which I obtained the information contained in this book. Any corrections, additions, and comments will be appreciated.