TCH6535@aol.com wrote: > > I am researching the HAYES, HAYS families in Barbour and and Randloph Counties > which have ties to the following surnames: > > COBERLY, COFFMAN, CORRICK, GALL, HEWITT, PROUDFOOT, RIGHT, ROW, SHOMO, > SHURTLEFF, VANSCOY > > I would like to exchange information on the descendants of the HAYES and HAYES > families of Barbour and Randolph Counties. These HAYS are decendants of Moses > HAYS who died in Augusta County, VA in 1796. > > Regards, > Terry Howard > Seattle, WA hello Terry, Your post made me sit up straight and shake the cobwebs off my brain. We just last week got a right-of-way from Westvaco to property inherited from the family on a mountain above Junior, WV. It's been in the family since the mid 1800's when Junior was called Row Town. I'm not sure where the connection is but I'm searching the ROW line. Benjamin ROW married to Sarah (RINEHART). He was born l808 and died l879. He lived in Luray, Page Co., Va. in the l830's. He had a grist mill, mill dam and home on the south branch of the Shenandoah River at Newport. A devistating flood in the mid 1840's wiped out everything and they sold the land. They settled along the Tygart River in newly formed Barbour County, Virgina (later West Va.) where he built a new mill and named the place Rowtown (renamed Junior in 1897). He had a son, Andrew J. B., b. 08, Aug. l834 /d.l905 (he had 11 children) dau, Mary Ann (Viquesney) dau, Julia Ann (Williams) dau, Polly Ann (Latham) Some of this was found in "The Inter-Mountain Family" newspaper Aug. 2nd l997 edition and some from family histories. I would like to know more about where Benjamin came from and who his parents were. I have a photo taken at a family gathering the summer of about 1920 at the Visquesney Roller Skating Rink in Junior, WV. There are 42 people on the porch with many ROWs, SHOMOs, and CORRICKs. There were also one or more RYDER, THORN, POWLEY, CROSS,DEAN, RIGHT(?),BURKE(?), HILLYARD,MCNEMAR (?), GOGERTY(?), MARTIN, SPAID,FOY, and a Pearl HAYES ROW. Is Pearl the connection? My regards, Cissy ST.CLAIR ROW