Thanks Velma, that is very interesting about that William Asbury in Illinois, and who knows, our Asbury's came from somewhere else before they came to W.Va., I don't know from where as yet. I do know that my William lived in Kanawha county and very near the Putnum County line, and he married Mary Ann Derrick, and I have their children. But I do not know who Williams parents and siblings were. My aunt has some old notes she wrote when she was still in high school, that said his father was Adam Asbury. The only Adam Asbury that I have found was in Putnum county, but he was too young to be William's father, and he also had a son named William, younger than mine, but I think it is possible that this might have been a brother to our William, or a cousin or something. Not able to connect them as yet. Jan