It was not until the author visted his "Uncle Moses"Cline at his home by Gilbert Creek in 1938 that the family names mentioned above were brought to his attention again. "Uncle Moses"knew the families, somewhat later than "grandpa's"days in West Virginia to be sure, but knowing their descendants or the individuals themselves in later years, he had heard of the people of the 1860'sand 1870's. He knew about Jacob Cline's departure by raft from the mouth of the Alum Creek down the Tug Fork of the Big Sandy River in 1871. "Uncle Mose"was three years old at that time, but the departure evidently was an event talked about for many years afterward. He knew that "grandpa's" sisters had married Mounts,Trent, Sanson,Carey, and French men. He knew that "grnadma" had been a Collins from the family of William"Bill" Collins on the Kentucky side of Tug Fork. As we drove up the Gilbert Creek Valley from the village of Gilbert, we were impressed by the fact that one out of every two or three mailboxes was Cline, and the others were mainly Hatfield, Mounts, Trent, etc."Uncle Mose"said that times were changing, but up to a few years before our conversation, children tendedto marry and live in the valley where they were born;employment in the coal industry had made that possible. When "UncleMose" took us over the ridges on barley passable roads to "grandpa's"old home site in Alum Creek Valley, it was so easy to understand why young people tended to marry spouces from families of their adjacent valleys. Travel beyound the local valleys was difficult in 1938 and must have been very much more difficult in the earlier years. As PART1 of this book was being developed, it seemed that the interrelationships among the families that became affiliated with the Clines in that relativly closed society of the pages that followed, focusing on families whose members intermarried with the Clines and including marriages between members of different Cline families.