Bonnie Just read your note and the name Mcllwee rings a bell with me. When I was in school in Lexington, Va., we used to go to church out in Rockbridge Co. and the name of the church was Mcllwee Chapel. I know this isn't much to go on, but if you have some contacts in Rockbridge County Va. , I would contact them or maybe you could post a query on the Va-Roots listserver . That always draws some sort of response. But anyway, there's a possibility that the Mcllwees that you're looking for moved down the valley from Frederick County to Rockbridge. Tracy Hunter