Hello Sherry, First: Have you seen the 1995 McDowell County Heritage Book? If you need lookup on all these from that book, let me know. ================================================================== > Merriatt COLLINS b. 1812 in Greenbriar Co. Va. He married in Monroe > Co.Wv. Nancy Essie BASHAM b. abt 1856 in Twin Branch, Wv. Merriatt > died 1880-1890 of gangrene in arm wound received cutting wood. > > Nancy Essie BASHAM may also have been married to Micajah MCCORMICK > and an unknown husband. At the time of her death, Nancy may have been running a boarding house in Gary,Wv. May've been 1930-1940 era > > Samuel ( aka Rass, aka R.S.) COLLINS b. May 1876 in Pembroke,Va. Dec. > 1910 in Welch,Wv, he married Ailene MCCORMICK. They lived in > Hensley,Wv most of their lives. Samuel was crippled and died in 1954. > Ailene died in 1967 in Lashmeet,Wv. Their children were: Bessie > May COLLINS that m.Ernest DARBY, Paul COLLINS that m. Falla ENGLAND, > Earl COLLINS, Herman COLLINS that m. Sarah Belle TRACEY, Clyde > COLLINS that m. Carol BELCHER, Stella COLLINS, Raymond COLLINS that > m. Edna, James Herod COLLINS, and Margaret COLLINS that m. Sherman > DARBY and Albert DUNCAN. Children were all born McDowell Co.Wv area > > Ailene MCORMICK , dau. of James Madison MCCORMICK of Washington > Co.Va., may also have been married to John SHUFFLEBARGAR, son of > Jacob and Martha SHUFFLEBARGAR