This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Wells, Almon, Cox, Roberts, Finnell, Adams, Power Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/Zi.2ADE/1600.1.1 Message Board Post: The Elkins family (so far as I can determine from the various histories of the area) did migrate from NC through Muhlenberg Co. The Wells family of Gibson/Posey Co does not appear connected to the Wells family of Muhlenberg Co. The latter family are primarily descendants of one Francis Wells out of NC (there may be a connection several generations back, however). One or two of the children in this family appear to have married into the Drake and Crabtree families (migrated through Washington Co VA? don't know if it's the same family). BUT, the Wells of Gibson/Posey Co are out of Pennsylvania, and migrated primarily through Nelson and Shelby Co, so far as anyone has been able to determine. >From everything I can gather about early Posey Co there were two different groups who arrived early on -- the NC folk and the PA folk -- they all migrated through KY and most of the NC folk were also originally from the midAtlantic States, but the paucity of early records in the general WV area has made it difficult to trace their movements. BTW, I have no information beyond Peter Jones in that family. Do you? So many Jones-surname individuals I haven't been able to connect him with anyone.