At its 1991 annual meeting the American Society of Genealogists voted to honor the book, VALENTIN PFOST/POST, 1740-1800, OF HARDY COUNTY, (WEST) VIRGINIA AND SOME OF HIS DESCENDANTS by Doris Jean Post Poinsett, with the Donald Lines Jacobus Award.

Two children of Valentin Pfost settled in Jackson Co., WV:

GLORI PFOST (1788-1859) m. JOHN CRITES

ISAAC PFOST (1791-1853).

Some connecting Jackson Co., WV families: BACTEL, BOWLES, CASTO, CLEEK, CROW, ELLIOTT, FISHER, FOLGLESONG, GREER, GREENE, HARRISON, HOCKENBERRY, KOONTZ, LOCKNEY, MCCOY, MILLER, PEARSON, PRINGLE, RADER, RICKARD, ROUSH, SHAMBLIN, SHINN, STAATS, HARPOLD, WETHERHOLT, WHITING, WINTER, WOLFE. 1989, 500 pp., index, cloth, $50, includes shipping and handling.