Hello list, I've been "lurking" here for a few months, but decided it is time to come out of the woodwork for roll call. My Clay County names are listed above. My ancestors didn't stay long in Clay, less than 10 years, but that seems to have been a decisive and important time in their lives, and they left many kinfolks back in Kentucky, (who had apparently come from NC with them) when they moved on to Illinois in about 1825. They were: Bartlett Rogers, b. 1771, Buncombe Co., NC, and wife Elizabeth Robertson, b. ?. She descends from that Julius, Charles, Nicholas etc. Robertson/Robinson line. That's where the Sheltons come in. Bartlett is son of George Rogers, b. abt. 1740, VA, and wife Elizabeth Lawson. Elizabeth moved to Clay Co. with some of her children sometime between 1810 and 1818. She died there, at age 103, in about 1843. I would love to know where she is buried! I believe Bartlett's wife died there too, 14 Sep. 1825, just before Bartlett went to IL. His children followed him there. I think he might have left under some cloud of scandal, which I shall address later, when I get the information organized into a document. Bartlett had a sister, Christenor, who married Philip Wilson. Were they Jess Wilson's ancestors? In subsequent generations, I'm told, the Wilson descendants married into the Baker, Begly, Eversole, Hacker, Hall, Herd, Hyden, Hurst, Maggard, Marcum, Oxford, Strong, Webb, and other families. So, I know some of you on the list are my distant cousins, and many others are some sort of kin, with whom I share common ancestors in the Rogers, Robertson, Lawson and Shelton lines. Most of my other maternal ancestors, who married into the Rogers, were NC Ulster Irish Browns, and a bunch of Shinn-related Quakers from early New Jersey. I will try to put together some info from Clay Co.court records to share soon. Meanwhile, Si Begly, please contact me. I tried to send you some Lawson stuff, but aol bounced my mail! Also, I play dulcimer, not very well. Penny, I'm glad to hear that you finally got yourself a dulcimer! BTW, my Rogers family kept moving west, Virginia to North Carolina, Kentucky, through Indiana, to Illinois, Iowa, South Dakota, and now I'm in New Mexico. Some branches ended up in AL, MO, AR, TX, etc. Konnie