CLINE FAMILY ASSOCIATION

BOOKS ABOUT THE PETER CLINE FAMILY 

Cline, Cecil L.  Clines and Allied Families of the Tug River Region of Kentucky & West Virginia.  Gateway Press, MD (1998), in collaberation with Harry Dale Cline.  This book is the most authoratative book on the Peter Cline family.

Cline, Cecil L.  Peter Cline, Revolutionary Soldier.  (2003), in collaberation with Harry Dale Cline.  This second book by Cecil Cline focuses on Peter Cline's Revolutionary War experiences.  However, it also includes the descendants as in the first book.

Blankenship, Donald L. The Descendants of David Cecil Mounts and Margaret "Peggy" Cline. (2002).  This book details the descendants of Peter Cline's youngest daughter, Margaret.

Brown, Fola "Gene" Keith; Jones, Martha Mabel Robinson; Kullman, Linda Brown.  The Family of Henry "Tucker" Cline. (1997).  This book details the descendants of Peter Cline's oldest grandson Henry Tucker Cline, son of Peter Cline's oldest son, Michael.

Larson, Nadine W.  Hans Jacob Honegger, From Switzerland to America.  Stevenson's Genealogy Center, (1987).  This book involves the Honaker family, including Abram Honaker, who married Peter Cline's oldest daughter, Sarah. 

**Cline, Marlin G.  The Pioneer Clines of Minnesota, Their Convergent Ancestral Family Lines With Selected Divergent Branches & Their Descendants.  (1983).  This book details many of the descendants of Peter Cline's son, William "Alum Billy" Cline.

**Cline, Marlin G.  Descendants of Peter & Michael Cline of Virginia and Kentucky.  (1992).

**Cline, Marlin G.  An Addendum to the Descendants of Peter & Michael Cline of Virginia & Kentucky, Additions and Corrections from Various Sources.  (1995).

**[Note - Marlin Cline's books about the Cline family have at least two significant errors.  First, Marlin believed that Peter's son Michael was his brother.  Second, Marlin believed that both Peter and Michael were sons of Nicholas Cline of Wythe County, Virginia.  Marlin Cline relied at least in part on the research of Toney Cline.  However, these arguments have been thoroughly refuted by DNA evidence, as well as by an analysis of census and tax records.  While Nicholas Cline of Wythe did have sons named Peter and Michael, these two are different men from the Peter and Michael Cline of the Tug.  Moreover, further analysis of the ages, court records and migratory patterns makes clear that Michael was Peter's son, not his brother.  Regardless of these errors, Marlin Cline made an enormous contribution to the study of this family, especially his invaluable early research notes from the 1930's and 1940's].

Waller, Altina L.  Feud, Hatfields, McCoys, and Social Change in Appalachia, 1860-1900.  University of North Carolina Press, (1980).  This book contains numerous references to the Peter Cline family through Peter Cline's son Jacob "Rich Jake" Cline's branch.  However, the vast majority of the references concern Jacob Cline's youngest son Perry Cline, who was instrumental in continuing the feud.

Books about Appalachia culture in general:

Fischer, David Hackett.  Albion's Seed, Four British Folkways in America. Oxford University Press, (1989).

Webb, James.  Born Fighting, How the Scots-Irish Shaped America.  Broadway Books, (2004).