Ancestors Of Ruth Barr McDaniel & Raymond Allen McDaniel; published by Ruth McDaniel in 1977, ties together many of the Mitchell families of Edgefield, SC. John Mitchell, progenitor of the Mitchell family, emigrated from Chesterfield County, Virginia to Edgefield District, South Carolina in 1786. Most of his children were born in Virginia and some of them remained, but the ones who moved to South Carolina were traced in the book. Joyce's Mitchell ancestor, Henrietta Elouisa Mitchell, wife of Abraham Powell, moved to Bienville Parish Louisiana about 1858, leaving most of her family behind except for her mother and a sister, who accompanied her to Louisiana.