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Comment by Kay Dilley Nichols on July 25, 2011 at 10:30pm: Shawna, Jeanne ask you some good questions and gave you a good link. Have you tried all possible spellings of his last name. I have found some really strange spellings of names in the census. On the wvculture site searching with the * wildcard helps - when I search Gillispie in enter Gill*spie then I get as, es, and is, spellings. Either search with no first name or S* which will get you all of the names that start with S from Sam to Sylvia.

I just searched Liston at WVculture and got 235 death results starting in 1857

Marriage: grooms 122 brides 199

Give us more information and maybe we can help.

Comment by Kay Dilley Nichols on July 25, 2011 at 10:11pm: Hi John, Welcome to the group. I just tried your page and it would only let me look at the front page. I see you have some familiar names in your tree
Boggs, Brooks, Brown, Fast, Gillespie, Gillispie, Gorsuch, Hamilton, Jenkins, Lough, McCord, and you even have one Utt. Sounds like we might find a connection here someplace, and that's just the hits from my maternal grandmother's branch of the tree.

Comment by John J. Teets II on July 25, 2011 at 8:55pm: Hi, just joined this group....researching Teets, Wilfong, Booth, Gum, Ours, Clark, and many others. See my website at http://johnteets.com. 28,000 names from West Virginia, Counties Upshur, Lewis, Harrison, Hardy, Preston, and many others. Look forward to corresponding with the group!

Comment by Jeanne Williams on July 25, 2011 at 8:19pm: Shawna, do you know what county the family is from? Depending on what decade you're looking for, the county names may have changed. For instance, my family settled in what is now Raleigh, but it was part of Fayette for much of the time they were there.

Have you tried looking at the WV Archives site (http://www.wvculture.org/vrr/va_select.aspx)? You can find birth, marriage, and death records there?

Comment by Shawna Sines on July 25, 2011 at 7:39pm: Hello all, I am very new at Genealogy, and have hit a very hard and sturdy brick wall. In trying to find some of my family, it seems that they don't exist. I have looked in county records and the WV records. My grandfather tried to do research on his family, but also could not get very far and his papers he did have seemed to disapear. The Liston's it seems are here, but very hard to find any information about. I can not even get his grandparents right names from anything. An obituary has her name as one thing and the birth record has another, and I have no clue about his actual name. Does anyone know of any WV Liston's or have anyway to help with this problem?

Comment by Katie Heitert Wilkinson on May 13, 2011 at 6:33pm: New to the group and need some new "eyes" for a problem I have. My great great grandfather JAMES R. JONES (b. abt 1829 in County Leitrim, Ireland) died in August of 1863. He and his family were living in Wheeling at the time. I cannot find a place of burial for him. I've spoken to folks at the State Archives, the County Clerk's Office, and at the Wheeling Genealogical Society. There is no recorded death certificate to be found. A representative of the Genealogical Society search cemetery records and found nothing. James was an Irish immigrant and a railroader. Only two months before his death, he was court martialed out of the Union army. I realize that I may never locate his grave, but I don't want to go there until I've exhausted all other possibilities. Any ideas?

Comment by Roberta Baum on March 24, 2011 at 1:43pm: Paula: OK. Thanks...anyway. Roberta

Comment by Paula Curran on March 24, 2011 at 1:03pm: Hi Roberta: Doesn't look like your Isaac is related to my Locke line. My Locke line came out of Virginia via George Locke and Sarah Hiatt.

Good luck hunting! Paula

Comment by Roberta Baum on March 23, 2011 at 8:26pm: To Paula curran: Isaac Locke was born 3/11/1795 in NJ; d. 4/25/1873 in Belmont, Pleasants Co., WV. Nancy Gapen was b. 6/6/1804, near Dunkard Twp., Greene Co., PA, to Stephen Gapen and Sarah Scott. They married about 1824 in Greene Co., PA. Their children were: Marie, b. 6/13, 1825; d. 5/8/185?; Sarah A., b. 9/20/1826, f. 9/29/1862; Elizabeth, b. 7/12/1828, d. 4/14/1836.; Margaret b. 7/16/1830, d. 7/22/1851; Josephine b. 3/19/1832, d. 3/29/1838; Davis b. 9/5/1833, d. 1/19/1835; Anna M. b. 8/7/1835, d. 2/23/1917 m. Archimedes Gorrell in 1859 (my gggrandparents.), Mary Melvina b. 8/1837, d. 1899; Amanda b. 2/7/1840, d. 3/15/ 1908; William Tyndall b. 3/30/1841, , d. 6/7/1923 (middle name after Ruth Tindall b. 1740 wife of Zachariah Gapen b. 1733 who was father of Stephen Gapen, b. 1761; Nancy Jane b. 6/25/1843, d. 9/23/1845; Myrtelle E., b. 2/10/1846, d. 4/10/1922. (That's right: 10 girls, 2 boys. In actuality, 10 girls, 1 boy, since Davis died at two years. Hope this helps.

Comment by Paula Curran on March 23, 2011 at 3:09pm: For Roberta, what do you know about Isaac, for instance when born, where, etc. Do you know who his parents were? It would be very nice to find another cousin!