Yes, I should have mentioned that Tootsie has been searching for the community named 'South Branch' for quite some time. Tootsie, click on this hyperlink: http://www.brightok.net/~lguthrie/Booktwo.htm and scroll liberally (about 80% down the page) to find information about Newton Brown GUTHRIE and William Newton GUTHRIE (note the latter was the South Branch Postmaster in 1884, re: the WV Gazetteer info you found.) You will find all of the available info on the TAYLOR family and other families of Romney, Springfield and South Branch within these writings. I have no personal files or known connections to these families. Neil McDonald -----Original Message----- From: Toots <thelma1@ameritech.net> To: OLD-FREDERICK-CO-VA-L@rootsweb.com <OLD-FREDERICK-CO-VA-L@rootsweb.com> Date: Wednesday, October 11, 2000 1:31 PM Subject: [OLD-FREDERICK-CO-VA] South Branch and Taylor's Neil, I am so glad we have at least determined there was a South Branch that three years of looking make it worth while. My learning of South Branch came from my ggrandfather's civil war papers where a friend of his wrote they grew up together and went to school in South Branch. Now to me in those times didn't mean they lived next door to school but he didn't say about or near he said at South Branch. Just noticed the surname Taylor.........Do you have a William S. Taylor ??? This is important and if the Taylor's were one of the first families it may be even more important to me and maybe you. James White d. 1846 and I got a copy of a deed after he died and Elizabeth was a relict but to know where this property was I have to find the deed from William S. Taylor to James White. I had thought maybe my ggrandmother was a first marriage for James but I don't believe that now although no proof. Just one of those things you learn after doing this for awhile. Hoping to hear you know a William S. Taylor and could that deed be in MD for some dumb reason...? Tootsie Shoemaker Tomlinson