Thomas took the ancestral information that had been gathered by other members of this Association, in addition to countless hours he spent combing through information, researching specifics and compiling the vast collection into a readable account of our family.

 

Published in February of 2012, The Minters of Pine Forest is a story about a line of people who have traces going back to Wales, England. It follows the families from the early 1600's in the Colony of Virginia, when they were still under British rule, to Chatham County, North Carolina, in 1752, where they put down roots and created plantations, and later supported materially and fought with the Rebels during the American Revolution.

 

 By 1817, most of the family members had either died in Chatham County or moved to other states. John Morgan Minter, the patriarch of the Pine Forest Minters, moved to Georgia, as did his brother Abner Hill Minter, where in Putnam County he married Dolly Mathis, the daughter of a Revolutionary soldier and plantation owner, and settled down to raise his own family of four boys and one girl. In addition to farming, he served in the Georgia Legislature both as a Representative and as a Senator. Later, the family moved to Marion County, Georgia, where Dolly died and was buried in Buena Vista, Georgia city cemetery.