This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Adkins/Estep/ Rayder Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/AJ.2ADIB/2489.1.1.1.1 Message Board Post: I am sure ours our connected. It is just so hard to get information. My ggg grandfather was Francis "Frank" Adkins b abt 1797 and his wife was Lucinda "Winny" Stanley. They married in 1830 in Cabell Co., WV. They resided and died in Clay Co., WV. I belive Frank had a brother Morris b abt 1804 who married a sister to Lucinda, Dorothy "Olly" Stanley. He also resided and died in Clay Co. I believe other sibs were: Isom Adkins b abt 1798 married Mary "Polly" Miller Henderson Adkins b abt 1813, married Isabel Adkins Harmon Adkins b abt 1814 married Lucy Estep (believe she was also a dau of Wesley and Virginia Green Estep) Nathan Adkins b abt 1819 married Ruth Estep (I have her dau of Shadrach Estep and Elizabeth Hunt) Jackson Adkins (went by Charley or Champ) b November 17, 1822 and married Matilda McNeely, Benjamin Adkins b abt 1825 married Druzilla. William "Snuffling Billy" Adkins b 1827 married Isabel? Druzilla b abt 1831 married Jacob Keffer Believe their parents were William b abt 1779 & Hannah Rayder Adkins b abt 1783. I found information about William Adkins and his sons in an article written by a man in Clay County a long time ago and reprinted in the genealogy newsletter in Clay. This was the best information I could find. If I can find it I will put it out here for you to see. You you give me anymore information on the Adkins children and Ben & Druzilla about the Bailey's. Debbie