I am interested in sending a query to Wilmer L. Kerns about an article he wrote for The West Virginia Advocate. Does anyone know how I might get in touch with him? For anyone else's interest, I am trying to learn whether research has been done on the descendants of Rebecca Stump married to John Carder. Rebecca would have been born circa 1828 in Hampshire County, Va., daughter of Joseph and Elizabeth (Boggess) Stump, who had the following siblings: John B., Wm. B., Sarah, Benjamin, Elizabeth, Joseph, Jane, Jacob, and Malinda. I would really like to know whether John and Rebecca (Stump) Carder had a daughter also named Rebecca and a son also named John. I ask because in my Nicely line, I am missing the maiden name of Abram Nicely's wife who was named Rebecca? This Abram Nicely had a sister named Julia who married a John Carder. I thought possibly both Nicely siblings married into the Carder family. Abram and Rebecca Nicely named one of their children, Sarah, possibly after Rebecca (Stump) Nicely's sister, Sarah. This Nicely family lived in Allegany County, Md. in 1850, but seemed to have ties in Hampshire County, VA. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thank you, [email protected] Barbara - Nicely/Knisely, etc. were in Head of Household census for Shenandoah County Virginia 1785. My Turney family was also there. Eve Turney married a John Teeter (they were in same area) and moved to Washington Co VA around 1774. their daughter Mary married a Nicely/Knisely who had also moved from Shenandoah Co Va.....it was Frederick Co, then Dunmore, finally Shenandoah. I have a little info on the family if you are interested. From where the Turneys were located near Woodstock, Va - it was not that far to Hampshire Co Va. So probably before the Rev War the Nicely family was in VA, and even for a while after. So I am sure the family in Maryland in 1850 - that the ties you see to Hampshire Co Va, it probably is the same general family. Mary Turney Miller [email protected]