I am descended from Martha Gay of Pocahontas County, VA, now WV. She married Jesse Smith and the marriage bond was signed by Tacy (who is female) Smith's 'x' and also two men who were Ewings. Since this area was also, I believe, once part of Augusta County (certainly was Bath County, VA once). I may have some Gay ancestry in common with you. I don't know ANYTHING about Martha Gay at all or any other Gays. I'd love to get started on that line. Their daughter, Alice Smith, married Abraham Hill, son of Richard Hill and Nancy McNeel. They are all buried there in Pocahontas County which I visited last month. I was born and reared in Charleston, Kanawha County, WV, where my great-grandmother, Elizabeth Ellen Hill Hume moved in 1917 after her husband died at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, following the arson destruction of their Valley View Hotel in Marlinton, Pocahontas County. Her daughter, Madeleine Hume, married my grandfather LeRoy Madison Gates. Sincerely, Sharon Lee Gates Apopka, FL 32712-2046 407-814-9644 phone