This is in extreme northern Virginia. ?ÿAnyone here familiar with this Shenandoah Valley community?
Was chatting this morning with a friend of many years whose last name is Stephens. ?ÿHe is a direct descendant of the founding family who arrived in that area in about 1730. ?ÿHe has spent some time there researching genealogy.
He added this fact into the conversation after I had mentioned some of my ancestors had spent 150 years living a few miles to the west of the West Virginia-Virginia border in Pendleton County, WV before relocating to St. Clair County, Missouri about 1880. He spent his youth in a county that borders St. Clair County. ?ÿIt turned out he knew one of my distant cousins from that neighborhood.
I grew up?ÿGainesboro, Virginia and am familiar with Stephens City as it is about 20 miles from my mother's home. As it is in Frederick County I went to school with kids from there. However it is not the same sleepy little town anymore as it has been invaded by useless damned communist northerners who turned their own home country into a cess pit so they come south and set about destroying their new home.
I wrecked my mother's car there. Took it airborne in a bit of offloading. Loads of fun until she discovered it the next day.
Looking at property around there (and further up the valley). ?ÿActually heading out to lunch in Winchester today. ?ÿ
Had some Scotch-Irish ancestors who settled there in the 1740's; but most of my Virginia ancestors were in the tidewater a century before that and had moved on to the Carolinas by start of the unpleasantness with the mother country. ?ÿ?ÿ
