This originally was posted to the COMBS-L List on Rootsweb. The follow paragraphs (not connected) were part of a family group record concerning the COMBS family of Shenandoah Co., VA. (Combs is a line in my wife's family.) I post this to the list because of the references to Neville, Bayless, Catlett, Calmes, Blakemore Richardson & other related families. There are other references to the Calmes family, etc. if anyone is interested, but the Neville & Blakemore are what really caught my eye. This information was posted by Birdie McNutt <[email protected]> The information is abstracted from: "A HISTORY of Shenandoah County Virginia" by John W. Wayland, PH. D. Author of A History of Rockingham County, Virginia, Scenic and Historical Guide to the Shenandoah Valley, Art Folio of the Shenandoah Valley, Historic Landmarks of the Shenandoah Valley, The Fairfax Line, Etc. Second Edition, Regional Publishing Company, Originally published by Shenandoah Publishing House, Inc. Strasburg, Virginia 1927 Second Edition: Strasburg, 1969 Pages 631 through 634 RICHARDSON, BUCK, HALL and COMBS Families If anyone wants the whole abstraction of pages 631-634, contact me privately & I can forward that information to you. Glenn Gohr (Neville List Manager) [email protected] ___________________________________________________ (4) Charles BUCK and Mary RICHARDSON were pioneers of Woodford county, Ky., which county he represented in the Kentucky house of representatives, 1809-1809. They had: Letitia, married George CATLETT; Rev. Thomas, married Amelia DAWSON; Samuel married Mary BAYLEY; John, married Sarah CATLETT; Charles L., Married Lucy BAYLESS, among their descendants being Charles William BUCK, U.S. minister to Peru, 1885-1889, and writer, and his son, Charles Neville BUCK, novelist; Rev. William C., founder of the Baptist Recorder (first Baptist newspaper west ot the Alleghanies and said to be the leading Baptist newspaper in America), married (1) Miss Fenright and (2) Marian BUCK; Mary, married Dr. William BAYLEY. (6) Capt. Thomas BUCK and Ann RICHARDSON had: William Richardson, married Lucy Neville BLAKEMORE; Marcus Calmes, married Elizabeth DRAKE; Dr. Isaac Newton; Heneritta Chew, married Spencer N. CALMES; Isabella Richardson, married Hezekiah CONN; Mary Ann, married George BAYLEY; Rebecca Richardson, married William Richardson ASHBY; Elizabeth Richardson, married George Neville BLAKEMORE; Letitia Richardson, married John M. BLAKEMORE.