Posted on: Jackson County, WV Bios Reply Here: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/WV/JacksonBios/166 Surname: TOLLEY, CARNEY, MILLER, ADAMS, LITTON, DUFF, STAATS, THORNE, CASTO, CARDER ------------------------- This sketch taken from "Pioneers of Jackson County", by John House, it appears in the section "Heart of Mill Creek" Tolley Family The Tolleys came from Rockbridge County in the 30's. There were two brothers, William and Joseph Tolley, among the pioneers of the middle Mill creek country. William Tolley (familiarly called "Old Billy") came about 1832, and settled on the creek at the Chase bend, back next the other hill. He built the first house for Jesse Carney on his farm. He leased of Carney, moved to Turkey Camp Flats about 1835, later to Tug Fork, about Staats Mill. He married Elizabeth (maiden name not learned), and their children were: Jordan, Eliza, Sally and a grandson was Lewis Tolley. A Tolley had a mill on Spring Creek near Spencer. Jerry Miller's wife was a Tolley. Dr. Adams's wife on Sandy was a Tolley. Martha Tolley married John Litton. Sam Tolley lived on Laurel Run in 1904, aged eighty three years. He married Letha Duff, thought to be the cousin of Staats wife. Alfred S. Tolley. Fanny Tolley married Lem, son of George Thorne. A Tolley married Isaac Staats (?). Gran Tolley, who died on Elk, was a cousin of Staats wife. A Tolley married Jim E. Casto. There was a Tolley from Rockbridge, whose wife crossed the ocean in seven days and nights. She knit seven pairs of stockings. O'd Tommy Tolley lived in 1840 with his daughter, Widow Adams, widow of Phil Adams, on the Carder place on Joe's Run.