Thank you, Cousin Shelby. Some of the Toneys changed their name to Tawney. My grand-aunt Romie Stewart married a Tawney. His family was Toney a generation or so back. A man was bit by a timber rattler while gathering moss up that way last week. I saw it in the Charleston Gazette. Rick > > From: BurgessWV@aol.com > Date: 2006/05/09 Tue PM 05:53:20 EDT > To: WVLOGAN-L@rootsweb.com > Subject: Re: [WVLOGAN] Map Site / Sue > > Rick; > The first settler in Logan county was probably John Dempsey;who bulit a cabin > at the Guyandotte Islands. he later moved to Mud Fork after the floods ran > him out. > The first settlers in Boone county were the Toneys,at Whitesville. They were > the "sengers", or root diggers. > cuz > Shelby > > > ============================== > Census images 1901, 1891, 1881 and 1871, plus so much more. > Ancestry.com's United Kingdom & Ireland Collection. Learn more: http://www.ancestry.com/s13968/rd.ashx > >