In a message dated 12/1/99 10:10:07 PM Pacific Standard Time, dunk1432@swbell.net writes: << Hampshire County, Virginia (or was it West VA then?) >> I have no info on your Busbys--at least, not yet--but to answer this question--West Virginia did not exist until Virginia voted for secession. The western counties had voted to remain in the Union, so petitioned the Federal government to recognize them as a free state, & seceded from Virginia. Marian