In a message dated 1/20/2003 6:30:32 AM Pacific Standard Time, [email protected] writes: > Since William Sneed Via's mother was a Smith, then perhaps his one of his > grandmothers was a Sneed. His grandfather William Via was married to a > Sarah (I have no last name for her-do you?). William, No, I have never found anything that gives us Sarah's last name. As to Sarah's death date I don't know that either. The land left to her two sons was sold by them - Micajah's deed in 1799 and William's deed in 1801. Land tax records indicate - Sarah Via from 1782 through 1801 in Albemarle Co., Virginia Land Tax records as paying tax on 200 acres of land. What this seems to represent to me is that Micajah was of age by 1799 and William by 1801. Judy