CS 191 wrote: > > Yvonne James-Henderson <hen1@idt.net> wrote: > >this is the place for you to > [snip] > >5. Just say "Hi"! > > I have several families who ended up in what is now eastern West Virginia > (esp. Grant and Pendleton counties). > > Surnames include: COX, CUNNINGHAM, HARNESS, HUGHES, JEFFERS, KIMBLE, > KING, MOUSE/MAUS, SEE/ZEH, STUMP, WALDREN, WESTFALL, YOKUM > > Robert COX married Catherine WALDREN 1822 Pendleton county, VA > John KIMBLE married Hannah CUNNINGHAM 1820 Hardy county, VA > Michael HARNESS and Elizabeth Jephebe WESTFALL > built Fort Harness (near today's Moorefield, WV) in 1739 > James JEFFERS (Jeffries?) married Phebe KING 1819 Pendleton county, VA > Adam KIMBLE living in Hampshire county VA in 1784 > John CRITES and Phebe KING ages 26 and 27 in Hardy county, VA in 1860 > George YOKUM married Christina MOUSE 1836 prob. in Hardy county, VA > (I have three contradictory lines connecting George Yokum with > Phillip Powell/Paule Yokum (c 1700-1790) ) > Jury WESTFALL (bapt. 1696) and Blandina DE WITT > > Frances Van Scoy vanscoy@cs.wvu.edu fvanscoy@wvu.edu Frances: Have you run across the names of Wiley, William or Luke Kimbel in Tazewell Co., VA or Washington Co., VA in the 1780-1830 time period? Wiley was the father of William and Luke. Luke was born ca. 1806 VA, and moved on to MO. Barbara