This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Glover Glovier Alexander Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/VUB.2ACE/27.56.1.2 Message Board Post: This is a revised text as of 12/02. My great-great grandfather was Benjamin Glov(i)er, born somewhere in Virginia, about 1792, perhaps in the Culpeper or (old) Frederick County area. About 1810 to 1823, he lived for a while in Shenandoah County (Pine Forge, Smith Creek, north of New Market. He went to Hardy County (now West Virginia) briefly in the 1820's, but returned to an area east of Melrose and to Simmers Hollow, Linville, (both in Rockingham County, an offshoot of Augusta County) by about 1830, where he remained. The names of his parents are unknown. The name may have originally been Glovier, but many soon used the name Glover. Apparently, none of the family could read or write in the early decades of the 19th century. Benjamin married Dorcas Alexander in Shenandoah County in 1815. Dorcas was said to be a first cousin, and her brother, Washington, was born in or near Alexandria in about 1802. This suggests that both families may have been in that area in the 179! 0's. Their parents were Thomas and Sarah Alexander, and Thomas came to Pine Forge to work as some kind of forgeman by about 1815 at the latest. I would appreciate any help anyone could give me in locating information about the genealogical roots of Benjamin Glover and these Alexanders.