This is interesting, Carol. There were Koiners in Roanoke, but this is getting into late history. It is easy to lose contact with these families by 1900 when the families got so huge and scattered. I wish you had some first names or family make-up. Plaine is not an allied name I'm familiar with. It is surprising to see Koiner with a K used so late. There is a huge family in TX who still spell the name that way, and there is the MD family who still use that spelling. I've never run across it in VA this late, but as we know nothing is cast in stone. I appreciate this quote though, I'll add it my question file, may come across something some day. Thanks. Norma Carol Moser wrote: > > Recently I have been working thru the typed memoirs of my > GreatGrandmother Elizabeth Via Gochenour and came upon the following > references to Koiners which might be of interest. > > "A stave mill moved into the Hollow [Sugar Hollow along Moormans River > Albemarle County VA in the 1890s], bringing young men and married men > with their wives....The stave mill brought many changes to the Hollow. > So many people moved in that we needed a store. Plaine and Koiner put > up a big store with living quarters upstairs. They sold most everything > you could call for....Plaine and Koiner had a farm 5 miles north of > Roanoke, and they asked Luther [Gochenour] to go out there and take it > over [about Summer 1900]....We had a great big farmhouse with eight > rooms....We had lovely neighbors: the Thrashers, the Carneys, the Woods > and the Paces....Luther got only $20 a month in cash, but we could have > all the garden we wanted and we almost always had a cow....In December > 1902 we packed up and moved." > > ==== VAAUGUST Mailing List ==== > **************************************************************** > Visit the Augusta County VAGenWeb Site at: > http://www.rootsweb.com/~vaaugust/ > ****************************************************************