This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/gAB.2ACI/846.852.1 Message Board Post: William Riley Huff was my grandfather's Uncle Bill (actually his great uncle). Uncle Bill was one of the Huff family members that my grandfather often told my father about. Bill used to keep bees out on the old place then worked by Bill's brother Robert (Uncle Bob) on the ridge near Butler, Pendleton Co., KY. That place had been settled originally about 1865 by their father Enoch, after he lost his first place in Campbell County, Kentucky, because he had been cheated on his deed after he had worked for years to pay it off. That happened a lot in early Kentucky, even to Daniel Boone. Uncle Bill had been a stone mason, and was still a powerful man, even in his old age when my grandfather Rudy Berger knew him. He said that Bill would take a five gallon lard can of honey and walk with it three miles to Butler. It probably weighed a good 40 pounds. Another story (very probably a tall tale, based on his very real strength) about Uncle Bill tells how, when he was younger, he was unloading anvils from a boat down on the river. Other men also unloading them took one at a time, but Uncle Bill carried one in each hand. He slipped off the gangplank leading from ship to shore, and fell in the river. The men working with him rushed to the edge and looked down, where Bill had gone in. Suddenly his head popped out of the water, and he yelled, "If you don't take these anvils I'm gonna drop em." I have other family stories, and would be happy to share them with you. If any other Huff descendents have family tales to swap and share, that would be wonderful. Unfortunately, although he remembers a number of family stories, and he knew Uncle Bob and Aunt Maud (very well) as well as Mose and Hattie Huff, my father doesn't remember or never knew many of the family names and family relationships, and doesn't know anything at all about the parents of my grandfather's mother, Sadie Huff. Her parents were named Isaac Shelton Huff, and Virginia "Jennie" Johnson. Isaac was another brother of Uncle Bill and Uncle Bob, all sons of Enoch and Patience Jane Huff. I have found out quite a lot about many of these family members from available records, but have hit a dead end with my research into Isaac and Jennie, and their children, after the 1880 Pendleton Co. KY census. I do have information on Sadie after she married (as a young widow) her second husband Bernard Hermes. If you or anyone else out there happen to know anything about her parents and/or siblings, I would love to get that information. I am also happy to share what I have found ab! out the more extended Huff family. If you e-mail me please direct it to my current e-mail address: [email protected] Best, Marilyn Chap