Genette & Bill: Did some checking this a.m. and find your Warren and Nancy J. enumerated in 1880 census as living in Center District. I knew of a place called Three Forks in Sherman district, but never heard of any Johnsons living there. I went by the Courthouse and inquired and the gal in the County Clerks office tells me that there is a place in Center District also referred to as Three Forks. The directions would be: Take Rt. 16 North out of Grantsville to Five Forks (that's where you start down off Pleasant Hill Ridge). At Five Forks turn left on Lavada (also called Broomstick) Rd. Travel about 1/2 mile and the road will fork. That is referred to as Three Forks. Probably was never a Post Office but is merely a descriptive location. Another person tells me that the oil & gas men in the county also refer to that place as Washboard. We have lots of those descriptive locations and sometimes they are hard to track down (have to find the old-timers). The other Three Forks is in Sherman district and accessed off U.S. 33/119 by going up a "holler" behind Harley Siers house on Bear Fork and after you go up until you are on the ridge that area is also known as Three Forks. I'm inclined to think that the one you are looking for is the one on Lavada Rd. since this couple is in Center District and that Three Forks would also be in Center District. Hope this helps - it's awfully difficult to give explicit directions to some of these places. Norma Knotts Shaffer Genette & Bill wrote: > Can anyone tell me the location of Three Forks, WV? That is the area that > my great grandparents lived in the 1880's. They were Warren and Nancy J. > (Holbert) JOHNSON. > Thank you, > > gator@ionia-mi.net > > ==== WVCALHOU Mailing List ==== > The address for the WVCALHOU Mailing List ARCHIVES is: > http://searches.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl