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Daniel Matheny, son of William Matheney, was born in 1829 in White Rock Gap, Alleghany County, Virginia. He married Salina Henry in 1844 in Gallia County, Ohio.

Jean Claude Carlat (1805-1845) married Jeanne Boichet in France. They immigrated to Texas.

Brontes to America: The Ettore Bronte Story, 1901 - 1978 recounts the incredible journey of the son of a Sicilian customs official who gave up privilege on the northwest coast of Sicily for new life in America at the age of 15. From a world marked by violence and power, Ettore Bronte flees the old country to become his own man on his own terms, in America. He encounters too soon the raw existence of survival in the tenements of Brooklyn, New York and New Brunswick, New Jersey. Swept up by patriotic fervor over U. S. entry into World War I, Ettore joins the U. S. Army in 1917 to fight for his new homeland at age 16. Through five bloodied battles and trench warfare of the most inhuman sort as part of the 23rd Infantry Regiment in France, he loses one eye to shrapnel and miraculously survives. Not to be encumbered by physical or emotional scars, Ettore returns to his new country determined to resume the new life he had initially set out upon. Brontes to America weaves the story of the immigrant experience of one Italian-American and his unique contribution to the fabric of our country. His is the story of endurance, survival, tremendous courage, and bravery. Follow Ettore and by extension follow the survival of the Bronte family on a uniquely American journey.

"Haworth Harvest" breaks new ground in the rich field that is the lives of the Brontës. Their lives were spent, for the most part, at a lonely parsonage standing on the edge of the wild moors in a moat of gravestones. To it came the handsome, impetuous Irishman, Patrick Brontë, with his diminutive wife and six tiny children. Soon, the mother and two elder daughters were to be among those gravestones, leaving the father with three daughters and a son. Their inner worlds teemed with the fantastic characters of their imaginations, playing roles written by these four children in painstakingly small script. They were all touched with vision. To create, to write -- this was the driving purpose of living. In "Haworth Harvest", Miss Morrison adds to our knowledge of their daily lives together, of their feelings for one another, of the sisters' concern for their high-strung, addicted brother and for the father outlived them all, and of those turbulent and passionate forces that worked within them to give us "Jane Eyre", "Villette", "The Tenant of Wildfell Hall", and "Wuthering Heights". -- From publisher's description.