Hi to Fayette County; I'm back now, but actually I have been back since the 1st of Nov. I loved Fayette County, especially Lansing, WVA and Fayette Station. I am researching the TOWNSEND line and came across so much history of my family, that I am still in "awe" when I look back at my trip. The first day that I went to Lansing, I drove past the road to the cemetery 3 times before I found it. When I went up that little road and crested into the cemetery, I only found 1 headstone of my family. Morgan TOWNSEND and 3 foot stones. The names of the other families there did not mean anything to me. There were Masons, Rhodes, Colemans, a few Wood headstones, Shuff's, Fox's . . .etc. The next day I spent at the Fayetteville County Court House and the Genealogical room at the Library. The burial index for the Lansing Cemetery states that there are 25 unmarked graves. Well, I now know half of who they are. The following day, I drove to Charleston through Hico, Ansted, Mountain Cove, Victor . . ! . and met a 3rd cousin on my TOWNSEND line, that I never knew. I went to the State Archives and learned a great deal about my Great Grand Uncle Thomas C. TOWNSEND. As I drove back to Eastern TN where I was staying, I decided to go back the way that I came. I stopped in Lansing and went up to the Cemetery. I now know that just about everyone in the Lansing Cemetery . . . are "my" family. I know that in the very beginning when John TOWNSEND bought the land from Elijah Wood, that the Cemetery was orginally the TOWNSEND Cemetery. Half of those "unmarked" graves are of my TOWNSEND family. I wish that I had had more time to meet Celeste Arritt instead of just talking to her over the phone. I am equally sorry that I was not able to meet Becky Shuff . . . yes . . . we are cousins. I look forward to the day that I can return to Fayette County. So many good memories. But . . . I am still looking for family members of John TOWNSEND b. 1803 in Greenbriar, VA. Lynn WORRELL Hudson great granddaughter of Annie TOWNSEND Worrell, who was the daughter of Benjamin and Julia Rule TOWNSEND, who was the son of John and Eliza Darnell TOWNSEND.