By: James E. & Vivian Wooley, Pub. 1984, Reprinted 2015, 184 pages, Index, ISBN #0-89308-413-1.

This book containing Books A-E includes not only the wills of Rutherford County, but also powers of attorney, apprenticeships, some estate settlements and some bills of sale, etc. Rutherford was formed in 1779 from Tryon County. It is surrounded by Polk, McDowell, Buncombe, and Lincoln counties and South Carolina state line.

By: James & Vivian Wooley, Pub. 1979, Reprinted 2015, 324 pages, Index, ISBN #0-89308-107-8.

These two Western North Carolina counties are important migration paths for early settlers moving into Tennessee, Georgia, and South Carolina. Haywood County was formed in 1808 from Buncombe, while Jackson was formed in 1853 from the middle portions of both Haywood and Macon counties. At one time Jackson County reached from Tennessee boarder south to the South Carolina.