Hello everyone, I want to thank each and everyone of you who answered my emails about the Elijah Runnion/Mahan connection. I really appreciate it. I have checked the archives in Charleston, I spent a whole day there myself and I have also spent alot of money on research. However, I have yet to come up with a birth date and parent for my great grandfather Elijah Runnion. Mama is 81 and she says this is what she can remember of great grandfather. 1. Elijah Runnion was a descendant of the Elijah Runnion who served in the Revolutinary War. 2. He was a bound boy for the Hiram Cummings family in the early 1880's. 3. He married Mary Catherine Moore, daughter of James Moore and Mahala Shafer. 4. Her grandfather Jacob Shafer signed the papers for Elijah and Mary to get married. They married in 1889 in Roane County. 5. They lived on Rock Creek and had 3 children, Effa May Runnion born 1890, Lydia Jane Runnion born 1891-1894, William Matthew Runnion, born 1895. 6. Mary Catherine Moore killed herself in ???? We have no date of death nor do we have her burial site. 7. Elijah married Ida Schoolcraft. 8. Mama seems to remember a woman named McClaskey??? Mama said she was German. 9. Ida is shown as deceased on grandpa's death certificate. 10. Elijah Runnion played the fiddle and continued to live in the Rock Creek area and/or Big Sandy. 11. Mama did say that Elijah Runnion lived in Elkview and that he possibly had a small farm there. My great grandfather continues to be elusive, and we have yet to find out who his parents are, and this has been the one big hinderence in our research on the Runnion family. I have raided Roane county, Jackson County and also other surrounding counties. It is my thoughts that Elijah Runnion may have lived with some kinfolks in his later years. The names I have run across my grandfather being connected with are: 1. Smith 2. Mahan's 3. Schoolcrafts 4. Cummings 5. Larch 6. McCormick 7. Blackwell 8. Snodgrass 9. Moore I am sorry this is so long, but I have about got myself believing that my great grandfather was beamed to earth from some unknown planet. :o) I am providing as much information as I can in hopes it will jog someones memory or that someone has kin who can help me. ANY and ALL information would be deeply appreciated. Thank you for the wonderful information you wonderful folks have provided so far. I am going over them with a fine tooth comb. Juanita