Hi Joyce: I am really curious about this Robert Means that you are talking about with the Thompson family. I have Robert Means as a direct ancestor and none of this sounds familiar to me. If it is the same one. I know that there was another Robert Means who evidently was a land spectulator in the VA/WV area. Our Robert came here from Co.Tyrone, Ireland about 1782 and he married/1 Jane Neeley, m/2 Mary Henry and m/3 Margaret ? He d.ca 1835 in Lewis Co.,WV. Does any of this ring a bell to you? Bette