Dear Sherry Cunningham ( Marcum ) I am Columbus C. Marcum of Wayne County West Virginia , and the Josiah in question was married to Eady McDonald when he came , or before came to what is now Wayne County West Virginia, and his birth date is 1759 and died 1846 , Josiah enlisted in January 1780 as a Private in Virginia in a Company commanded by Captain bowyer and attached to a regiment commanded by a Colonel Campbell. He served with General Greene at Guilford Court House, North Carolina. He and his sons were granted large land holdings along the Tug Fork of the Big Sandy River as direct compensation for his service to this Nation , and his extended family number in the thousands and in most every state in the union now. There is another large Family of Marcums located in Wayne County Kentucky and one can easily be confused when researching the family names for there are all the same names used over and again and this makes me think that we will someday find out that they were all brothers of the same family when they all lived in Virginia before the American Revolution... Columbus Carl Marcum Wayne , WV. > Dear Sir Ken, > > Which Josiah Marcum is this? Josiah Markham(Marcum) and Mary Polly Bales > are my great great grandparents. My great grandfather was John Frank > Marcum. My grandfather was John Walter Marcum and my father was Frank John > Marcum. > > Please let me know. > > > Thanks, > > Sherry L. Cunningham (Marcum) http://members.citynet.net/wcghs/ "I believe in Christianity as I believe that the Sun has risen, not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else."