Because of the interest in this family and it connects to so many Wyoming County families I am going to post some of the book. Hope you find it of interest and that it helps somebody. The book is not indexed and makes it difficult to do lookups. Clines of WV and connecting Families.....authored by Marlin Cline (w/ permission) The author remembers his grandparents and two of his uncles who had been teenagers when they left WV talking about families and individuals they had left behind. The names had little meaning to so small a boy at that time, names like Blankenship,Collins, Mounts, Sanson,Trent, Charles and Carey. Jacob Cline ,Sr,and his older two sons evidently remembered their old home by Alum Creek and the people they had known with nostalgia,though it was some 45 years after they left for Minnesota. It was not the names themselves that impressed themselves on the memory of so young a boy, but the stories that were told about the people...stories of wild battles among the young men and big boys using over-ripe-pawpaws as ammunition, and stories about the men of various families hiding in the hills when bands of maurauding raiders came ravaging the homes and stealing cattle durning the Civil War. The author was never sure whether Jacob Cline sympathized with the Union or the Confederacy durning these times. The Jacob Cline family was noncommital on the subject. Most of the hill people on the Virginia(WV) border with kentucky were Confederate sympathizers even though WV separated from Virginia on the side of the Union in 1863. It is likely that Jacob Cline favored the Confedercy with his friends of the Hatfield clan, tho this small boy was convienced that he was on the winning side. It probably made little difference for his family and possessions because the guerilla bandsa that raided through the Valley were there mainly for plunder. We do know that "grandpa" hid in the wooded hills more than once when word was passed that raiders were comming. Apparently they did not molest women and children, but "grandpa" lost much property.Still, it was such stories as these that left memories of the family names which the author would recall when he began his research into his family history many years later. continued