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HAHA It's still that way for our line. It's a very small line though and at it's end. The last generation was all female and from a line of only sons for several generations back to even the Civil War where our ancestors brothers all either died young or in the war. One brother left and survived but he has a strange story. His name was also Jacob and was the son of Hiram (Gaspers son). He left for KY when he became an adult and only came back once. He had joined the Union army in KY as a railroad guard and his unit only left that state and fought one battle... The Battle of Marion which meant he fought in his hometown. We found Southern Claims Commission papers of where the son led the army to his fathers house and they stole (or was given perhaps too) all of his winter bacon, some blankets, a horse, etc and the father was trying to recoup his loses. It's a pretty sad thing to read but fascinating. It had information on his life, his kids, and the other son George that was killed and fought on the Confederate side. It was found by the gov't that Hiram actually helped the Confederates and voted for succession so they blocked his claim. There was something weird going on with all of this though because my grandmother and mom both swear the older family members refuse to talk about Hiram even though they knew about him and it's a huge taboo topic so we don't know the real story on our family other than what we can draw from gov't paperwork. One connecting side for us was they were all millers. All of the men for generations were millers and worked for Capt Preston and his descendants on their farms once William lost his own mill to George Oury in that poker game. I can tell you a lot of stuff about once they got to Wytheville but before that it's a big blank. It's stated William was a French and Indian War fighter but I haven't found records other than published books about Wythe Co Founders with him listed in it.
I do think we're all from the same group but if anyone has any clue at all at where William came from it would probably help us all do the puzzle much better. We know the migration of the other groups but I just can't figure ours out after all of the records searching, asking even a professional from that area, DNA results, and the books about the area and patterns. I'll get back in contact with the person in charge of the DNA project and see if they have any more insight into it. I've researched the other families hoping to connect ours and on paper I just can't find how ours fits in except for genetics and the coincidence of all of them ended up in that part of Virginia.
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