This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: BANDY, SMELSER, MCCOY, PAYNE, NICHOLS Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/YAB.2ACI/1020.1 Message Board Post: Hi Russel: I am researching my husband's MCCOY surname and I have a Matilda MCCOY, born abt. 1843 to Jubal MCCOY and his wife Tamsey SMELSER. I don't know where Matilda was born although Jubal and Tamsey were born in Bedford Co., VA.. Jubal's father and mother were William MCCOY and wife Joanna PAYNE. Tamsey's parents were Abraham SMELSER and wife Sally SMITH. I did not follow Jubal's line so I only have this info on his family.